Day after Day

Do you ever feel like success in one manner or another is waiting at your door? I've had this optimistic feeling for a year now and still success (in my mind) eludes me. I guess it's important to know what I'm talking about.

In this post I'm only talking about business success.

I've tried to help people by building websites this year. I've tried to start a ring of sites that are all connected. I've tried to work on my old established site. Nothing is really blowing me away. Just OK isn't good enough because my friends are succeeding in a big way.

A friend of mine, Chris Dibble, saw this old barn in Franklin, Indiana and decided to stop and look inside it. He found an old Porsche in that barn. He looked in the dash compartment and found the owners phone number. When he called them they told him that they would sell it for $1000. The car had been sitting in that garage for 26 years. He bought it and listed it on a Porsche only site. He sold it in 15 minutes for $10,000. There were other people interested but he took the money and ran. True story.

You might think that is an unusual story but it isn't. Chris found another barn and did the same thing. This barn had 4 Mustangs in it. There was a 68 California Special, a 66 Fastback, a 66 convertible and I don't remember the last car. He's currently in talks with the owner, who lives in Florida about buying them.

Another friend of mine, Jim Cockrum, posted an auction on eBay saying that he would write a book for someone. When the bidding was finished someone paid him $36,000 to write a book about internet marketing. Jim has a huge mailing list of over 100,000 subscribers so people were willing to pay for that kind of exposure.

Where is my break? When is my time? I keep trying and I keep staying positive but it hasn't happened yet.

Ron