Steve Ayling here with a little bit about me and the different parts and websites that make up my SteveAyling.com business network.

My Story

Born in Leicester (United Kingdom) and part of a Royal Air Force family (RAF) we moved about a bit from air base to air base. After dad retired from the RAF we settled down in Shawbury (Shropshire) where I attended Wem secondary school and college.

I started my working career based at Shawbury where I have done a whole host of jobs including working in a laundrette sorting clothes, bar work at a pub and then a bowling alley, fairground work, mobile catering trailer work for various caterers, kitchen work & receptionist at a bowling alley, duty manager and assistant manager for AMF Bowling as well as a relief manager looking after other bowling centres around the UK for a few days at a time. I have also worked putting up security fencing for Jooles Holland concerts, I was a market trader & ran a towel and bedding shop for a Bolton based textile company, I packaged food bags for prisons with my family in our spare time, delivered telephone directories and had a few more odd jobs through a temporary employment agency.

My own business adventures started in 1998 with a family run mobile catering business and then as a market trader and a children's ride operator (Yes, I even bought a small children's roundabout ride). I worked markets and events alongside the other part time jobs, but eventually constant promotion at the Bowling alley meant that working there with a nice full time salary resulted in those parts of my business being paused or sold.

Online I had dabbled in building websites and internet marketing during my spare time since 2002 when we first had the internet installed at home and started my first website in 2003. SteveAyling.com was born in 2006 until eventually in 2008 I decided I had gone as far as I wanted (and probably could) at the Bowling alley and that it was time to do what I always wanted to do and move to the seaside and work for myself full time again (I think that once you are a self employed business person and you like business, you always want to work for yourself). So, with that in May of 2008 I moved to the Seaside (Skegness) and went full time online.

I have built, run and sold many online businesses and websites since then including some big names in the Internet Marketing niche like MailOurlist, TrafficAtTheRaces, CarnivalClicks, CryptoAdProfits, EasyCashAdvertisingSystem & many many more. I have also built a lot of websites for other people too.

In 2018 after 10 full years online I decided it was time to start another offline business as sitting at a computer for hours a day had meant that I was looking a bit "bigger built" (fat). I also missed the dealing with the customer face to face part as online you seem to just email and message, so after a lot of training and setting up in 2019 I became a locksmith and narrowed down my online efforts. Online, I still promoted other peoples products and services as an affiliate via a variety of self built sites and I still worked for others doing bits of website development work on the sites I had originally built for them or sold to them.

In 2022 I built a new website called Totally Free TE which is a Traffic Exchange designed to be totally free to use (It eventually launched in March 2023 and was sold in May 2024).

Late 2023 working with a friend we bought a little donut trailer. Which we did up and opened for the 2024 and 2025 season attending events in the East Lincolnshire area of the UK serving freshly made American donuts with both hot and cold drinks.

In May 2024 I launched my new game stall business in a further move away from as much online work. The games trailer (Ring Toss Game) which was built by myself from an empty exhibition trailer was ready and available for events in the East Lincolnshire area starting July 2024.

In August 2024 I purchased another trailer (Churros catering trailer) to turn into a second game stall as one game does not generate enough income to cover the expensive fees that you have to pay to stand on events. The second game trailer was also built by myself using the frame of the Churros trailer.

In June 2025 I finished the build of the second trailer and its first venue was at the beginning of July and now I have 2 trailers attending most of the events that I trade at standing side by side.

As 2026 started we sold the Donut trailer, meaning Event Donuts has ceased trading and that allows me to concentrate more on the Carnival Games.

During early 2026 I moveed my Recommends site promotions over to this hub in the Internet marketing section as well as the money making and service sites that I promote so that I can discontinue the Recommends site and Earn Money On The Net site. This allowed me to streamline the internet / affiliate marketing activities into one place and return to promoting the programs / services directly.

That leaves me with the Locksmith part, the small Internet Marketing part and the Carnival Games, as I think it is time to slow down for a bit and investigate some new ideas :)

In August 2026 I commissioned the build of a new 16 foot games trailer which when ready will replace both the Ball Toss & the Ring Toss trailers which I will put up for sale. The new trailer will be one big game so more players can take part at the same time with inside displays which will work better in wet weather and it will include a built in store room and toilet allowing me to easily manage on my own without having to rely on dad to help out. It will also mean that I will only have to make one journey to and from the event allowing me to travel to bigger events that are further away as an increase in the Carnival Game side is my latest focus.

How My Time Is Spent On Each Part Of The Business

It may seem like I have a lot of parts to my business but they all fall in together really well as I like to keep busy. I am not one to sit and watch TV, I like to be working and doing something.

Basically, Most of my weekday daytimes are taken up working as a locksmith and I am on call 24 hours a day for emergencies when I am not out with my carnival games. The game stalls I do at weekend events during the summer months and a few Christmas events too. This is not every weekend and normally only one day out of the two. The Internet Marketing websites mainly work in the background and I do marketing for them for an hour or so the odd evening or two per week.

You could estimate my time spent on each one as follows:
Locksmith = 70%, Game Stalls = 15%, Internet Marketing 5% and the other 10% of my time is taken up developing each part of the business, making changes, learning new things and researching the next great business adventure.

Thanks for reading, keep checking back as the story continues...

Steve Ayling