Just A Little History
To me it feels like yesterday but the moment I get on the internet and see all that is happening, I know it was more like lifetimes ago. At least when it comes to how fast it has all grown.
I was working for a popular paging company at the time. I can disclose what they were doing since they aren’t in business anymore. We were in the process of building a huge technical center on the east coast that would house all the gear that handled the paging for 1/3 of the country. Yea it was a pretty big deal.
My job was a facilities technician. Basically that meant I ran miles of cable, bolted down cabinets and made sure everything had the right power it needed to run forever.
At the time I was partnered with a young man that in my opinion was way ahead of his time. He and his mom had this business. It was domain registration. Do you remember when you could register 1 word (real word) domains? This was around that time. It was actually the ‘first’ time I registered ResourceBlvd.com.
What he said to me one day… I will never forget.
“If I wasn’t doing this domain registration business with my Mom, I would be doing affiliate marketing.”
I had never heard those words before… but my ears perked right up.
The Dig
Honestly, it felt like I hit a gold mine. Commision Junction was called beFree at the time. I signed up to CJ and applied for every single affiliate program that I could find in the directory. Once I was approved… I took as many links as I could and created an online ‘super store’ called ‘Resource Blvd’… It was August of 2000 actually.
Sometimes I go back to the waybackmachine Internet Archive and I look at the old pages. Actually quite depressing.
I was on to something! I knew I was… I knew that affiliate marketing would be something big. My friend was right… I was right to put hours and hours of work into it.
So what went wrong?
I quit. That’s what…
If you were to ask me what is the one thing I regret the most… my answer would be that I didn’t follow through back when I first started doing internet marketing.
Looking Ahead
I will never allow that to happen again. Anthony Robbins says that when a person decides that they’ve had enough, that is the breaking point. That is when they make the decision to do no matter what it takes to design a better life for themselves. For their families… for those they care about. That is when things begin to change.
For the first time in my life… I can say that I have reached that point.
Have you?
