About me - Clarke Duncan

Now...

I live in Glasgow, Scotland and am happily married to my wife Leona who gave me two wonderful sons. After my family, my interests are playing Photography, World of Warcraft, Music and laughing at the popular cartoon 'The Simpsons' (hence the image on my webpage and besides I doubt the wife would have been happy if it was the Family Guy LOL). One of my many passion is Affiliate Marketing which you will find out more about in my work & business section on this site. I have to admit to being a bit of a workaholic in my time and Leona is, or has been, the classic computer widow and I thank her for her tolerance. Since my kids were born I have made sure I make more time for my family, which is important.

Then...

I was born in 1976 into a world without computers (good ones anyway), mobile phones, PlayStations or iPads, god knows how people amused themselves in those days. They must have actually had to talk to each other face to face, you know Twitter but in real life! As I don't remember much about my toddler years I'll fast forward to School, AGGGGGHH! I attended Kelvindale Primary and later on Cleveden Secondary. My 1st computer was the Commodore 64 swiftly followed by the state of the art Commodore Amiga, I caught the computer bug from the off and never looked back. When I left school at 17 I got my first job working for Virgin Mega Stores. Looking back, I got on fairly well there moving in to management by the time I was 21 but, as time went by, I knew I was never really cut out working in a company and in my heart of hearts knew what I really wanted was to, someday, work for myself. But how that was going to be achieved I didn't yet know?

This internet thing

Just before the Internet became main stream I saw the possibilities right away. Website design was a whole new way of thinking and very few people knew where to begin. I saw the opportunity and began to teach myself how to do HTML by hand. One of the best investments of time I have ever made. After a short time I, kind of, knew what I was doing and built my first websites. One of which was a website for Glasgow based boy band 911 (I still own the URL 911.co.uk) I had the "prestige" of being able to say that I was the webmaster, *cough*, for a chart topping band. Another perk was that it used to go to things like Smash Hits After Parties, Virgin Record Parties, well it was bascially good for parties LOL ;-)

Adgrafix / Hosting.com

Around 1997 I found my 1st Affiliate Marketing gig via a spam email, when I clicked the link the "Affiliate" that sent it was removed from the program. At the time I had no idea Affiliate Marketing was going to be such a huge part of my life, I found that I was good at attracting customers who were looking for web hosting. As this took off I decided working from home in your own time, getting paid time and again for the same hour you worked over and over was the way forward. It was a huge turning point as I quickly learned about servers and the hosting side of the Internet. The company eventually sold making the owner Bo Bennet very wealthy in the process and he wasn't even in his 30's yet, I learned a lot from Bo he is one of the few people that I can honeslty say changed my life and showed me that it's not where you come from, it's where you are going that counts. After Hosting.com I set up my own company with a 'virtual' friend called Graeme Sandwell whom I had not yet actually met, very few people have, but he does exist. Graeme is a computer whiz-kid who is a self-taught perl programmer. With Graeme's programming skills and my business know-how and ideas, UK Internet Sites Ltd was born.

UK Internet Sites

It took about six months hard non-paid work (and running up hefty credit card bills) for us to develop some new revenue generating websites. Free UK Stuff, UK Competitions, Free UK Offers are just a few of the ones that we developed around that time. To date Graeme and I have over 20+ money making websites under our belt with more on the horizon.

Paid On Results

In 2003 Graeme and I after several years planning and saving the money needed to launched the UK Affiliate Network 'Paid On Results' along with fellow shareholders Brian and Colin.

The sky is the limit on what we do next! Check out the work & business section for more information.