I'm Derek Jay. My good friend Adam Horwitz and I have put together Tycoon Cashflow to unveil the truth about making money online.I'm about to share with you my journey from being an 18 year old cell phone representative making $10 and hour to making hundreds of thousands of dollars online in just eight months.Chances are, you and I aren't very different from each other. When I tell people I make money online, they seem to think that I have some extraordinary ability or that I must be smarter than everybody else which couldn't be further from the truth. Let me tell you how this all started...I hail from a tiny town in northern Ohio. Not a whole lot happening in the town. Most that grow up there, live there, stay there, and die there. It's a town where people talk about how crumby it is but yet can't seem to find a way to leave.Before going into high school, I was a "good kid" that followed the rules, got good grades, and was active in sports. I then made a few bad choices and let my grades slide. To me, school was a joke and I didn't give it much thought until I was on the brink of failing high school.When I received my last report card I was on the edge of my seat as I opened it. It would have been so embarrassing to repeat senior year over. Luckily I graduated on time which made everybody happy, including myself.So I graduated and a new challenge presented itself... I had no idea what to do with my life. Most of my friends were going off to college but I knew college wasn't for me. Besides, even if I wanted to go, there would have been no way I could afford it. My parents weren't about to hand money to somebody that barely graduated high school (rightfully so).Well, I happen to find a job with a cell phone company that paid $10 an hour. That's not too bad for someone that just graduated high school except...I hated it. In six months time, I hated everything about having to go to work - the boss, the commute, dealing with customers - but I had no choice. I was broke with no real skills and needed the money.Looking around me, I noticed that people much older than me that were content about slaving away at the same dead-end job for years. That really frightened me!I couldn't help but wonder, was this my fate too? It had only been 6 months and I was already fed up! I remember feeling helpless and doomed. I knew I didn't want to waste years of my life commuting to a dead-end job everyday.But what could I do? Others around me were HAPPY making their $11-$15 an hour.Well, one day, my boss was upset with me and treating me like an insignificant piece of crap, I got a flat tire driving home, I had no money for lunch, and bad things just started compounding. It made me realize how miserable I truly was. I wondered how long I could keep this routine up before I finally snapped.At this point, I started to consider college as an option. I'd look at a few campuses but I didn't have the grades to even get in. I knew deep down that college wasn't for me and that I'd be wasting time and money - two things I did not have.I decided to give up and go home. At home, I started searching on the internet for a way out of my situation.I had no idea what I was searching for but just hoped I would find something legitimate and true.AND, THATS WHEN MY LIFE... began to change for the better. After about five months of work, I started to see some results. I didn't have a freakin CLUE what I was doing or why I was doing it. I just followed directions I was given and figured if other people can do it and it's working for them, then WHY WOULDN'T IT work for me?The one thing I had going for me was my familiarity with using the internet. I had used the internet for years but until then, I had never really considered trying to make money online. To me, the internet was for checking email and for social networking.Well, in just a couple of weeks, excitement struck and I had made my first sale! It floored me! Nothing compares to the feeling you get when you've made your first sale online. It's like al your hard work and all the time you've spent is starting to finally pay off. It's incredible.One week later, I saw $189 in my account!My Mom, my Dad, my Sister, my Co-workers - they ALL thought I was getting scammed!I even showed them a few of my affiliate accounts but like most people, they needed to see it to believe it.Skepticism is definitely a good thing when dealing with online ventures. Most of them are crap but I didn't know that at the time! I was very lucky to learn how to make money online the right way from the start.I knew the money was real because these companies have not missed a payment to an affiliate for a decade! Still, people doubted that the money was real. My co-workers even made fun of me: "Can I have a few hundred bucks... hey rich boy... receive any checks lately?!"Everyone around me was programmed to believe that you could only make money by having a regular 9 - 5 job and they mocked my efforts. Their concerns had me a little worried. Maybe I had been scammed and was the only one oblivious to it all...But then... checks started rolling in.Like clockwork, a new affiliate checks would arrive every week.$4,000.54...$6,700.72...$9,800.89...An avelanche of checks just kept coming in! Bigger each week...If you are interested in seeing how I generated this much money with affiliate marketing, then I invite you to just message me and I'll show you how to get started:)