I must say first off. It's flattering
that anyone would be reading this page. Who really cares who I am or
what I do? It's all kind of funny to me. But humor is a big part of
success as I take my business very serious. It's the key factor that
keeps a person form going crazy.
If you know me from the outside,
Maybe I'm your sponsor in a program or maybe on a forum or some where
else online. You may even know me at the local level and didn't even
know the kind of stuff I do online.( no I'm not a drug dealer! )
I have been marketing and earning
money online for over 14 years now. It has led to great success in life
style and financial freedom. But it has not come easy.
I think there's a common miss
conception in life. When you have tried and struggled and things just
never work out. You look at others that have had success and (money).
You think that what they do is just to complicated.
You may think Successful people
(wealthy people) have these little secrets and or more money to do or
start things that create there success.
As you read on, you will see that
this is far from how I have got to the point where I'm at in life.
I hope you find this inspirational
as well as educational
I will start off with my about me,
by stressing the fact about work ethic. For me it started at an early
age. See while most kids at the age of 12, were coming home from school
and playing with there friends. Me, well I went from school to a used
car lot. My dad worked there part time for years. I started helping out
doing everything from washing cars, to mechanical work and body and
paint. Yes at age 12!
I quickly fell in love! with the
extra money, wow this is great at this age. At this young age, I took work very
serious. So serious, that I quit school at age 15 and began doing this full
time.
Automotive paint and body became my
professional trade. I was very good at it and at the top of my trade. I worked
in this career field for more than 20 years. I did a lot of custom painting and
fabrication work And made about as much money as one could make.
This career field was enjoyable to a
point. I loved building my own cars and trucks. But before I got married and was
single. The money made from this was great, I really had plenty to do what ever
I wanted. I had fancy cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats and cash to have fun with
them.
In my early 20's my life style
consisted of having fun! I built a awesome new home on some land in the
mountains of West Virginia. This is were I came on the weekends with friends,
hunting, 4 wheeling etc.
Much time during the weeks I spent
at the marina on my 30 ft. sport fishing boat and blasting up and down the river
in my 18 ft. Hydrostream speed boat. I would also take my motor home and
bass boat on weekend fishing trips. See I had a lot of toys!
Then one Saturday night I met my now
wife while I was out having some fun at a local town party spot near my vacation
house in Wv. Well needless to say I was married 4 months later.
Getting married fast was a big
change for me. See my wife had two children 2 and 4, So that quickly became a
family to support. See I adopted my children right away, there wasn't no other
support. Although this all happened fast, it was something I have been ready to
do. There's always that next stage in life, I was 26 years old and ready to take
this on.
I soon than moved my family to Baltimore,
see this is where work is. I started selling all my toys and I mean all of them.
As we drove my big boat across the Chesapeake bay to deliver it to it's new
owner, my wife asked, do we have to sell this? Well it made a nice down payment
on the next house we purchased.
See, I've always been the type of person that
will do what ever it takes to get what I need accomplished.
So life progressed and bills got
bigger and bigger. I found my self working on cars all day long and coming home
and working on car for side money. Even doing this money was tight. Wasn't like
the single life!
Ok, so in 1993 I purchased my first
computer a Packard Bell 486 with windows 3.1. I knew about this things called
the internet, so I researched it and found the best way to get connected was
with a new company called AOL. They didn't even have a local number for my area.
My first bill was over $400 dollars, now that's some expensive surfing. The
local number came real fast though.
The online saga begins: Between my
busy work days, I stayed up late many hours trying to learn something about this
new computer. Ok, I can get around on it well, but really, what is there to do
with it. Hmmmmm... You know there's not much online to see or do for free in
1993. or anything for that fact.
I played with the computer and
learned a lot about it, but wasn't close to making any money yet. Than in 1997 a
guy I worked with was talking about selling some things from his collection. He
said he got some good money for this stuff by selling it on Ebay. I asked what's
Ebay? Imagine that, never heard of Ebay? We'll I checked it out. Registered and
life started to change.
I had a matchbox, Hotwheels
collection from when I was a kid. I seen these things selling for good money, so
I started listing them. I sold most all of them and ended up with a few thousand
bucks. Then the light bulb in my head went off. Maybe if I can buy some more at
the right price, I can resell them. I bigger lots from Ebay and resold
them piece by piece. This lead into other items and soon became my Ebay
business.
As Ebay developed into something big
and many people were doing this. Finding used items to buy and resell got much
tougher. So next it led into wholesaling. I started buying case and pallet lots
and reselling. This was all good but the profit was not that great with all the
Ebay cost. So the next level of business began.
I was looking for something to sell
that had a lot more profit and was easy to find or get. This is when I got into
vinyl decals and graphics. See these have a nice profit range, but there's a lot
of equipment cost. I started game planning this new business. I could now list
hundreds of auctions all I needed was the image and I could make the product
after it was sold and never run out. Yeh this is good.
See with Ebay most auctions only get
exposure on the last day as it appears on the category first page. So I made
approx 100 or so auctions up and relisted them every day. So one set would stop
every day. The success of this was awesome. But after about two years people
started to notice it and began copying what I was doing. Mean while I refered my
customers to come to my website for more products and custom work. Ebay
established my business for me.
So as I began building my graphics
business, I was doing all this while still working two jobs, so now I'm
working three jobs. About 90 hours a week. It didn't take long to figure out
that I could make more money online than working a job using hard labor.
Online marketing became my passion.
Finding ways to sell more of my products. And I do this many ways. It has paid
off for me and made my business very successful. I began to make as much money
part time online as I was working two jobs. But the hours were killing me. I
knew if I had more time to put into my online business it would make more money.
So I decided to do this full time. It
really hurt to knock off about $70,000 a year income from my other work.
So like I said above, I was willing
to do whatever it takes to make this work. See we had many bills, like most of
you do. A big mortgage payment, high taxes etc. We had a old house (shack) on
property in WV. that was paid for. So then we decided that since we work online,
we can live where ever we want. Another quick action was taken. We sold our
house and moved to the mountains.
It was a very well planned move to
keep the online business going. But all this cut out most of all our monthly
expense. Freeing up cash flow. We have lived roughing it for a few years while
sticking to the game plan. Building business and building cash flow.
This brings us to where I'm at today.
I have been working for myself from home for about 6 years now. The kids are
growing up setting there path of life. My wife and son work with me. We are
building many forms of multiple income streams and having a lot of fun, while
meeting some great friends online.
Currently were rewarding ourselves
with all this. We are building our dream home. 9000 sq. ft. of main house
attached to our shop to cover 12,000 sq ft. under roof. This will include many
high tech. things. Will also be installing a complete production studio for
sound and video, to keep up with the online marketing trends. Not to forget my
wife's dream kitchen. And plenty of garages to keep all my new toys.
Please remember one important thing. It's not
about the toy's and the nice things you can buy. It's more about the journey of
life and how you get there. It's about meeting great people and enjoying
friendships. Prosperity follows good deeds. The Physical things come to those
who earn them. I pay cash for these things now and if I couldn't I would not
need to have them that bad. The most satisfying part is what you can give to
others and sometimes education is more important than money. Teaching one to
share your success and to teach other the same, is worth more than any dollar
amount.
And still today many people in
my family, Think I don't have a real job. My monthly income is more than most of
them make per year or even in a few years. GO FIGURE!
To Your Health and Prosperity....You
Partner in Success
Rick
Colwell
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