| It all starts with a dream, a DESIRE, if you will. | | | | event or once every couple of months, the wife and I |
| Let me tell you a story. This story is not so much | | | | get a night out to dinner. I can't remember the last time |
| about the internet, it is about a person. This journey | | | | we even went to the movies. Oh, I remember the |
| begins about 13 years ago when the internet was in its | | | | good old days, but, they are just memories now. Let |
| infancy, for the most part. | | | | me ask you a question. Does the person in this story |
| Let me take you back! It's the mid 1990's. Everywhere | | | | sound like YOU? Yah!, I thought so. |
| you look, people are down on their luck, looking for a | | | | So, this is what I did. I decided that I wanted a piece of |
| better way and taking a chance. They make it big and | | | | my dreams and if everyone was making money on |
| the next thing you know, they're selling you their IDEA | | | | the internet, so could I. I took ACTION, I was |
| and telling you how easy it is, and if they can do it, so | | | | determined to find a better way. Almost immediately, I |
| can you. All you have to do is pay the $10.00 and | | | | started seeing Free (let me say that again-Free) |
| they'll show you how. The problem is, if it's so easy, | | | | information all over the internet about starting a |
| why isn't everyone doing it, and if they're making so | | | | home-based business. Well I thought to myself, what |
| much money, why do they need my 10 bucks? This | | | | kind of product or service do I sell, with today's |
| can't work, "it's got to be a scam!". So, I buy into it, "hey, | | | | technology, hear today and gone tomorrow, where |
| for 10 bucks, maybe I'll catch a break". So, a couple of | | | | should I start. And then I start seeing things |
| weeks go by and I get the package in the mail. I take a | | | | everywhere about becoming an Affiliate (no product |
| quick look at it and put it down on the bookcase as I'm | | | | and no service to sell), just promoting other peoples |
| leaving the house for work. I haven't seen it since. I | | | | websites. Let them sell their products and give me a |
| don't know why, I guess it just wasn't that important to | | | | commission for sending the customers to them. That's |
| me. You laugh, huh?, I did this kind of thing all the time! | | | | exactly what I did. I even found a place to get my own |
| A few years go by, all the hype is about these | | | | website (so I didn't have to learn how to do my own), |
| DotCom Guys and how much money they made on | | | | all I had to do was sign up for 5 Affiliate programs |
| the internet. You know, "the overnight wonders", I don't | | | | (which I did, 3 of them where free, but the other 2 |
| know too much about them other then they were | | | | were a couple bucks but they pay commissions to me |
| gone just as quick as they got there. I hear rumors | | | | every month) and then I advertise (some of that is |
| they over spent? But now is about the time when | | | | even free). Pretty good deal! Well every month, I |
| every Corporation and Businesses were showing up | | | | spend a little more (out of my commissions) on |
| all over the internet. You know, expanding their | | | | advertising and oh-yah!, I quit my job. Now I'm enjoying |
| MARKET. Makes sense to me, now they could sell | | | | my life and so is my family. I have some other things |
| their products/service all over the world. | | | | going on with the internet now and I'm making money. |
| The next thing you know, everyone's doing business | | | | That's the bottom line! |
| on the internet. It just explodes! Ma & Pa's Smoke | | | | Did you see our Secret to Success in the story? No, |
| Shop down the corner has a website and they are | | | | Ok, scroll up the article and find the Bold typed words |
| selling cigars by the case to customers 100's or 1000's | | | | (never mind, I'll just tell you). The DESIRE, an IDEA, find |
| miles away, heck, they're probably even using a | | | | the MARKET, make a PLAN and most importantly, |
| Drop-ship company to send the products, and they're | | | | take ACTION! The moral of the story is you can sit |
| raking in the dough. Everyone's making money on the | | | | back and watch life pass you by and never change |
| internet and they all have a PLAN. | | | | anything, but when you're ready to follow your dreams, |
| Me, well things have changed in my life in the past 13 | | | | I mean when you want something better out of life, |
| years. I have a family now, more responsibility and it | | | | then it will be your time to TAKE ACTION. Then, the |
| seems I'm working all the time. I never have time for | | | | next step of your journey can begin. |
| myself. The only time I get to go out is to a family | | | | |