This e-book was written by Erwee Coetzee, the founder and CEO of EC Business Solutions.
Bourne in Pretoria, South Africa, I enjoyed early childhood in a loving home with my Family, my father is a chemical engineer and mother a medical doctor (GP), they influenced my thinking quite significantly by dedicating quite a bit of effort towards teaching me what it takes to be a top performer as well as principles of positive leadership. In Primary school I enjoyed a wide range of sports including cricket, golf, tennis, chess and rugby. I was a top performer academically from the word go through hard work and focussed effort by my parents. At the age of 13 I represented the Mpumalanga Junior Chess team at the South African National Chess Championships, this was quite a nice pay-off after years of hard work and dedication behind chess boards.
I started high school at Afrikaans Hoërskool Seuns Pretoria, where I still performed well enough academically to receive the reward of studying in my room instead of in the study hall – a privilege that was only allowed for students with an average of 70% or higher from Grade 9. This is where the trouble started in my teenage years, all of a sudden I was no longer in a protected home environment, and left with the sudden sense of freedom by nobody checking up on me, which led me to experiment with Drugs and Alcohol. I was also involved with the wrong friends. By end of Grade 10 I was fully indulged in the night life activities of Pretoria, this led me to be expelled from boarding school. I moved to High School Evander in the beginning of grade 11 as a result. In High School Evander, I pulled my socks back up and started performing well in sport and academics again.
Then in Grade 12 my parents went through a heavy divorce process that shook my being to the core, this lead me on a journey of using more drugs including Heroin, Crack, Dagga, LSD, Ecstasy and Crystal Meth. Again my mother would just not give up on finding me the help I needed, but being the stubborn young man that I was, I decided to run away and seek refuge in my dad’s new family’s house in Brackenfell, Cape Town. Being an engineer that works worldwide, I was left with a lot of freedom again, with my only perceived responsibilities being working as a door to door salesman for Aura Water in Cape Town, and studying a BCOM Entrepreneurship at UNISA. I still continued using drugs and tried to balance it out by obsessing about my studies. This way I still achieved acceptable results, but the drugs took a heavy toll on my body and soul. I eventually ended on the streets of Cape Town with just a backpack on my back.
Well as you might guess, this was the lowest point of my life and it got so bad that I just prayed and asked God to get me out of the mess. A miracle then happened and I ended up at Limpopo Regeneration Centre, a faith based rehabilitation centre, where I learned the process of changing your mindset through faith and received a sober mind as a result.
After finishing my year at Limpopo Regeneration Centre I went back to studying a BCOM Intrapreneurship at the University Of Johannesburg, with regained focus and vigour I managed to complete my degree with an average of 70%.
After completion of my studies I joined Netsurit as a Business Analyst, where I gained some valuable experience in the world of SEO and Online Marketing amongst other things. While working at Netsurit I founded EC Business Solutions, an innovative Online Marketing Company in Cape Town with a fresh approach.
Make Money Online is based on years of research and experience with getting top rankings for our clients on search engines like Google.
What you will learn from this Make Money Online e-book
10% of proceeds from this book will be donated to Bright Lights Orphanage Home in Somerset West, Cape Town in an attempt to help give orphans and street kids a better chance of having a better future.