Thanks for dropping by, a little bit about me.
I’m Barry Share now in my 74th summer of my life. In the internet marketing world I’m refereed to as a silver surfer, passed it or old fart, take your pick.
I’m married, and have been for 49 years this year I have three sons which have all left home and started their own families. So far they have presented me with eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
I now happily live in a detached bungalow in a small hamlet in East Yorkshire with my wife Mary.
Although classified as retired pensioners, Mary and I are still very active. Myself with my online business and Mary, after serving fifty years as a state registered nurse up to retirement, has taken it upon herself to go back in a voluntary capacity to help out with endoscopy training courses.
I’m not sure what endoscopy is but I think is it something to do with pushing a camera up and down people’s orifices but I’m sure she finds it interesting.
Most of my down time when I’m not in the office is spent in my garden.
I am very passionate about bonsai trees of which I have a small collection. Every year I grow chrysanthemums. I have done so for many years. I think it was because my grandfather did and he made a big impression on me when I was a boy.
An old next door neighbour of mine once told me “you can’t be any nearer to God than when you are in your garden“. I’m sure he was right as I find being in my garden is when I am most at ease, it’s the place I get my peace and serenity, much peace of heart and mind, a place away from this crazy world we live in now. What with the grandkids and family and friends we don’t seem to have a minute to spare, it sometimes seems I have to book a time slot to go to the toilet.
I’ve had a fruitful and very varied work life from deep sea fishing when I first left school followed by twenty years in deep sea salvage in tugs and supply boats all over the world.
In 1979 after spending some two years out in Saudi Arabia, captain of a tug at Ras Tanura and in the red sea at Yanbu, my time as a salvage tug man was coming to a close. The feeling of loneliness and being away from my wife and children became a major factor in my life, I was simply not happy.
So after joining one more salvage operation on a heavy lift crane the Hebelift 3 out in Port Haina in the Dominican Republic near Santo Domingo where a hurricane (Freddy)had hit causing extensive damage to the town and sunk seven ships in the harbour. I decided it was time to hang up my kitbag and come ashore where I tried a number of ways to make a living ranging from steal and concrete erecting, operating a polystyrene tile manufacturing machine, long distance and multi drop lorry driving to name a few, I did anything to earn a living.
The Wrong Time To Come Ashore.
At that time the UK economy was not doing so well, there were 3 million out of work and the average UK salary was £6000 with a bank interest rate at about 17%-19% if memory serves me well, and 30-year fixed mortgage rates hit their historical peak at 18.63%. This was not good for us as we had just got our first mortgage. I was beginning to wish I had never given up the sea as I was finding it hard to make ends meet and with the financial insecurity fear I have carried all my life I decided the only way to earn any money was make it myself, be my own boss and take control of my own financial situation.
Basically I thought I could make more money working for myself rather than working for somebody else in a job.
So I started and successfully ran a demolition company specialising in building material reclamation and heavy plant and crane contracting.
It was in the late 80s early 90s that the realisation heavy manual work had taken a great toll on my body, resulting in weakening of my spin from constant stress and injury with the loss of a finger end through mistakes and mishaps, it was obvious to me I would not be able to do this kind of work going forward in my working life.
So it was through this period I decided a change of career was needed.
At the time I had tons of reclaimed timber stored from the many buildings I had taken down, oak beams, pine 2x2s 4x2s and large amounts of floor boarding which we processed and made into small pine mantel clocks driven by a quartz movement.
We also made fire surrounds which we sent down to London as antiques which was all the rage at the time and was a very lucrative side line. It was to this large amount of timber and the knowledge that the pine furniture industry was booming that my decision to go to college and learn the skills to become a furniture maker was made.
Which I did, and I acquired my City and Guilds in furniture making and restoration, woodworking machinery and upholstery.
My furniture making business was slow to start, I was just making a living from making pine cabinets and Welch dressers and a few sales of my mantel clocks at fairs and markets. What kicked the business off was acquiring a contract to supply a pine furniture manufacturer for ten pine Longcase clocks (Grandfather Clocks) a week, which they instantly distressed the cases with hammer and rasps and sold them into Holland as antique cases.
Well I’m sure you can imagine what I thought of that, the bastards, butchering the work I had put so much effort into designing and making. I decided they would get no more of my clock cases; I would sell them into the retail market myself.
It was here I learnt a very valuable lesson which I pass on to you.
If your business is in anyway in the craft or small manufacturing industry do not take on trade work, meaning do not sell your product to another manufacture you will not make any money, very small profit yes possibly but unless you are capable of making and supplying large quantities you will not get enough profit to cover your production costs, but I diversify, sorry, back to about me.
In 1994 I changed from making pine furniture to bespoke clock case building, I know, that’s hell of a niche. I’ve always been a chancer.
On some valuable advice I received from an acquaintance Des Turner a self made millionaire with two industrial belt manufacturing factories one in South Africa the other in Leeds, this man knew what business was about, said…
“Barry if you are going to make this work you have to make the best Longcase clock case you can. No more mass produced cheap pine cases you have to become the number one clock case builder, make your cases in hardwood with the finest inlays and frets, finished to the highest standard. You must focus on quality not quantity, making less with a higher price value will give you a healthier profit”.
So that’s what I did. I specialised in making bespoke Longcase clock cases to house antique movements and dials. Cases that were constructed and styled in the same manner that the antique movement and dial would have been originally housed in.
As far as I know my business was the only one in the country that offered that service, if not the only one, definitely number one.
It was at this time I founded Riversdale Clocks, advertising us as quality clock case builders. I went on to qualify as an Horologist (Watch & Clock Maker) studying and training on a three years course at Sale college Manchester to receive a BHI certificate. With these new skills and experiences in place it allowed Riversdale Clocks to transform into the antique Longcase clock repair and restoration business it became, which I closed and retired from in 2014.
The Start Of My Internet Journey
It was in 1994 when my Internet Marketing journey started. I bought my first computer as the interest in the new technology soared and I was so excited of the possibilities of being able to sell my clocks on a new Riversdale Clocks website to a vast buying market. Saying that at the time I think there were only 100,000 websites globally, which to me was absolutely amazing. But by 1995 the internet and the World Wide Web were an established phenomena: Netscape browser, which was the most popular browser at the time, had around 10 million global users.
I would think many of today’s internet marketers, the gurus and social media influencers wouldn’t recognise the web as it was back then. This was the time of no Google, it was there but called BackRub. Its activity began to explode in 2000, when Google became the client search engine for one of the Web’s most popular sites, Yahoo!. By 2004, when Yahoo! dispensed with Google’s services, users were searching on Google 200 million times a day.
What About This…
Amazon was in its infancy, Amazon.co.uk was launched in the UK in 1998, with a very small market for ebooks until 2007 with the launch of Kindle. There was no Twitter or X as they call it today and no social media platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, WeChat, TikTok, Telegram, or Snapchat , they were all to come. Infact if you listened into The World Wide Web all you would hear were crickets.
Getting Riversdale’s web page up on the internet was no mean task for me. I had none of the skills needed to take on such a project a total lack of understanding of any of it, but with many hours working late into the night in my workshop office and with the help of people like Jim Edwards and his courses, I managed to make the pages up in a “wysiwyg” (what you see is what you get) software called Microsoft FrontPage, upload the pages with a file transfer program FileZilla onto my hosting account and got Riversdale Clocks live on the internet.
This was the beginning of what you would call a lifetime’s part time job something that created the extra income for a married man with three boys.
“Know what! I’ve had a side hustle well before the terminology and trend became cute”.
The internet side hustle and earning money from my computer has been with me from the day I bought the AIM pc tower. It stayed that way making an alternative income until I retired from Riversdale clocks in 2014 when I picked up Internet marketing full time and it becoming my main source of income.
It has been an incredible source of income over the years and I have been involved with and taken full advantage of the many make money on line trends and systems from Google adsense using article sites, affiliate marketing, email marketing, members sites, drop shipping, Newsletters, selling on eBay and Amazon and heavily into eBooks when the Kindle craze took off.
The spread betting and binary betting trends were very lucrative but I was not as enthusiastic with the Bit Coin buying frenzy as I couldn’t get my head around it. I just didn’t understand the wallet thing at the time; I now wish I had bought Bit Coin when it was at $100. Oh well we would all do better with hindsight.
Through most of my internet selling journey it has never been about making a million or becoming famous, I am far from the general consensus of an internet guru. My operation as always been low key working in the back ground, and there are many out there today, quietly making a very good living from an online business,
At this point I must make this statement for the record
I’m not a technical geek, fitness guru, professional gardener, medical professional; I have no trading qualifications although I do have trading experience as I was very heavily involved with stock trading and spread and binary betting around about the time of the 2008 crash. (I had a few good paydays selling my trading systems, ebooks and members site) and I could never be considered a lawyer or solicitor expert in any way,
I have always been an ordinary person, who wanted to make a very good part time online income, and has.
Running an online business from home for me has never been about speedboats, fast cars, gated mansion or material possessions or the perpetual whirlwind of five star hotels overlooking sun-drenched beaches surrounded by beautiful bronzed bikini clad women (In my dreams) as you will see in the scam ads, or the latest gurus volume size sales page selling their latest wiz bang pop program or system.
Online business for me is about increasing income allowing for a better lifestyle and reducing the dependence on working for somebody else in a job, so giving more freedom and your decision on what type of lifestyle you wish to live.
My lifestyle today, is very manageable thank you very much.
I still have Riversdaleclocks.com running but focusing on Horological education, watch and clock repair books and courses, information on Horological history and some specialist watch & clock repair tools. The main part of my business is this internet business income site netbizicome.com.
Basically the site is me putting my hand out to the little guy, the one just starting their internet business journey but doesn’t know where to start. Or those who have an online business up and running who are lost in the internet money making maze and need help with getting their web business up and running. Also those silver surfers, the old farts like me out there, wanting to use online business to make money in a side hustle to increase their income and have a better life style.
NetBiz Income is for all the little guys needing to Sort Internet Truth From HYPE.
A site to help as many people as it can to live their dreams, and reach their full potential and achieve the most successful lifestyle they can.
In all modesty with all the skills and knowledge I have acquired over my internet journey and the unbelievable amount of information saved, (I’m a content fanatic), I learnt very early in this game that the World Wide Web is about one thing and one thing only and that is content.
You won’t believe this or may be you would if you are like me with hard drives full of PDFs and files full of content. I have never thrown anything away from first starting. I even have content on floppy discs. My aim at NBI is to help as many people as I can achieve the lifestyle and income level they desire, motivate and inspire and help with honest commonsense tips and advice on all areas of Internet marketing. Give honest reviews on software and programming I have used and new ones coming onto the market.
Well that’s me, nobody special;
I am going through life putting one foot in front of the other. Yes people say I’m unique but what I always have to remember is that so is every body else.
I was inspired and motivated by a statement made by my mentor…
(Three billion people on the face of the earth go to bed hungry every night, but four billion people go to bed every night hungry for a simple word of encouragement and recognition.)
So I endeavour to bring as much help and encouragement to as many people as I can.
My personal Motto… “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow”
If you’d like to hear more from me just drop your email address in the contact form and I’ll add you to my regular mailings list: Contact Page
Stay Safe, Stay Lucky.
