Who is Steve Males?

I’ve decided to interview myself.  Bizarre you may say but why not be a little different.

So Steve, tell me a little about yourself?
Well my name is Steve Males, I was born, raised and worked for most of my life in Manchester, I went to high school where I got a reasonable 5 B’s, 3 C’s, and a D in my GSCE’s (the D was in Art by the way – not a real subject if you ask me and I thought my exam picture was an A+!).

I then went to Technology College where I did a BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies (I had previously decided that messing with computers was the only subject that didn’t feel like real work, my dad worked with computers so me and my brother were not allowed a games console as young children, we had to have a proper PC and understand how it worked. We understood how to load the games but it probably did give me a bit of an edge)

At the end of my BTEC course I did a work placement at one of the large food retail companies within their Stores IT department. This turned in to a summer contract job and ultimately I became staff. So my trade for the bulk of my working life was tills and back office computers. It was more interesting than that actually sounds!

OK Steve so why the change?
Well I have to be thankful to that company, I worked with some great people, in particular 1 young lady that I fell head over heals for (It’s OK it is Donna my fiancee). We had worked together on some projects, then 1 Christmas party (and this is where our stories differ slightly) she decided to pull me. 3 years on we are very happy together and have a lovely Son – Joshua – who has just turned 1 year old. Which brings me nicely on to your question, why the change. Well Donna is from what the Mancunains call the wrong side of the hills (Yorkshire) and with me being from Manchester we have set-up home between the 2 grandparent’s houses pretty much on top of said hills. This meant that the journey to and from work, including dropping Joshua off at either of grandparents, meant that was 2 hours out of the day before even getting to the office. Something that didn’t bother me too much before Joshua was born but something I began to resent massively after he was. Leaving my new young boy everyday was not what I wanted to do, my extent of seeing him was getting him home, bathing him and putting him to bed and I wanted to be more involved as a dad.

So you Googled work from home, found YourNetBiz and this is where you are now?
Erm, not quite. Typing “work from home”in to Google is something I did many times but for some reason I didn’t come across YourNetBiz for quite some time. I am an avid watcher of Dragons Den (for those that don’t know it, it’s a program where anyone with an invention or business idea pitches to a panel of multi millionaires for an investment of capital for a % share of the business.) I watched this to see what others were doing hoping that I would have that lightbulb moment and find the next big thing that would take the world by storm, make me a shed load of cash and mean I could retire at 35 and enjoy family life with bucket loads of cash to splash.

Nice Idea, any luck with that?
Not yet but I still love the program and I’m always thinking! It did give me serious motivation though as one of the multi millionaire panel hadn’t started until he was 30 when he bought an Ice cream van and started a round. Hope for me!

Any other bright ideas to make money?
Of course! “Buy to let” was becoming big business a few years ago so I decided I was going to build up a nice property portfolio of rental houses to make my fortune. I got to 2 houses (my own plus a rental property) and then the market took a nose dive and put that great idea to bed!

You seem to have always been thinking about some way or another to make a extra buck then?
Yes, I’ve never been happy to plod along and always strived to be the best and to make as much money as possible. Ultimately having the view that if someone else can be filthy rich then there is no reason why I can’t. The filthy rich came in to this world the same way I did, with 2 arms, 2 legs and a head with a brain in it. So if they can apply themselves and make money then so can I!

So what brought you to finding YourNetBiz?
One day I was paging through the channels on my Sky+ and saw the entrepaneur channel, I tuned in and saw a guy called Andrew Reynolds, a self made millionaire that was promoting a home learning course that would teach you all his techniques to do the same. The first edition was free on a 30 day trial with some DVD’s and CD’s thrown in too. This would be a monthly course at just short of £30 a month (about $50 a month). I thought to myself, “I bet he is relying on people not cancelling the subscription and returning the package if they were not satisfied”, so I’d give it a go and try the first month but if it wasn’t any good I’d make sure I cancelled and returned, no money spent.

His first month opened my eyes to the possibilities of money to be made and gave me just enough to think, “Well OK, I’ll see what he says next month”. After the 4th month I was getting very keen to start something. Every month I’d been doing my own research around the things he was teaching to try and get that edge and get started. It was after the 4th months reading and me trawling the pages of Google yet again that I found a very cleverly place Google Adword that said “Andrew Reynolds Didn’t work for me”. This got me curious enough to take a look and when I did it was a YourNetBiz associate promoting the business. I cancelled my Andrew Reynolds subscription after month 5 and by the time the 6th month edition would have been dropping on my matt I has made my first $2000 with YourNetBiz.

So any regrets from signing up to YourNetBiz?
Only that I didn’t stumble across it 6 months earlier! Having forked out my cash on other things before that hadn’t made me any money I was sceptical to say the least even when I decided to give YourNetBiz a try. It’s exceeded my expectations, the training within the back office is incredible and having a mentor to ask questions of in the early days just gets you on track a hell of a lot quicker. The high ticket sales that YourNetBiz can give you means you can build your list as you go and still earn very good money as you do it. To earn the equivalent amount of money through affiliate sales would mean selling hundreds of products. Anyway we are getting off subject here; I’m just passionate about the thing that has improved my life so much.

So is it all about the money?
At the start Yes, until I found that it wasn’t the money I wanted ultimately. The free time I have is now far more important to me, I could work 40 hours a week at this and make a lot more cash but instead I make enough to live very comfortably but enjoy spending my days with Donna and Joshua, that’s what it’s all about.

I hope that gives you a better insight in to Steve Males