Tuesday, December 7, 2010

So you want an online business?

How many emails have you received in the last day about some kind of online money making business?  What is your response to these emails?  Just last week I probably received over a hundred different emails about how to get rich online.  The problem is that I have tried out several different ideas that were touted as the best way to online money.  Now I'm several hundred dollars in the hole with little to show for all the time, money, and effort I put into these programs.  Then the other day I got an email about the best web site for online traffic and while I was still thinking it probably wouldn't pan out I decided to give it a try.  What do you know but it was about eBay.

The funny thing is that out of all the online business ideas I am the most familiar with eBay.  My wife sold kids toys on eBay extensively for a couple years and was making $400 to $500 a month sometimes on her sales.  And she was just going to garage sales and thrift stores looking for items should could sell.  So I had spent all this time and money exploring internet business options and ideas that I barely understood when all the while I had the best and most lucrative online business model right in front of me.

That reminds me of the story about a man that heard about how valuable diamonds were and how they could make you immensely wealthy if you found a diamond mine.  He sold his farm and all his possessions and spent his entire life looking for this diamond mine that would bring him his financial dream.  Then died penniless after years of futile searching.  After he died the person that bought his original farm found acres of diamonds on this poor man's farm.  So he had sold all his possessions and went off searching for what was right in front of him.  To get a more detailed version of this story click the link below:

http://www.123basics.com/success/acres_of_diamonds.htm

So I decided to put a stop to all my other experimenting online with various business models and get back to what I know and love: eBay.

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