Well I am working on my new web site. Well not really new, re-vamped would be a better word. Altascopy.com has been around for almost 15 years and has provided me with a wonderful living…..until a few years ago when I kind of lost interest and it went down hill. Well lately I came to realize that money doesn’t fall from trees and I have certain things that I want to do in this life, namely paying the bills.
So I started working on the web site again. I bought a new shopping cart and for the last 2 months I have been plugging in products. I used to have a crew of people working for me. They would put all the orders together and send them out. I was really flying. I had bookkeepers, ink pourers, refill kit builders, order takers you name it. Then the orders started to dwindle.
So I did what most starving entrepreneurs would do. I started letting people go. No amount of advertising seemed to help and I was getting behind on my Mortgage. So I began selling stuff on eBay to help make ends meet. That worked for a while until eBay started raising their fees and I went past the break even point. So what to do? I began buying cheap books and selling them on Amazon. Worked great until Amazon raised their fees and left me with no profit. Then I had the brilliant idea of selling other products on Amazon and drop shipping them to the customer. Well eventually between the Amazon fees, PayPal fees, drop shipping fees and incredibly high shipping fees from the vendors I went in the hole again.
Seemed like everybody was making money but me.
So here I am living in my little tin can of a trailer after living the good life. I had it all. Big house, SUV’s, boat, lots of money to living in squallier. It’s not so bed really because I don’t have that $1,600 mortgage looming over my head, and the $800 boat payment and the $1500/wk payroll. I came full circle and I am starting over again.
Hang around to see how I fuck this one up!
I hate to be negative, so enough of that. I am generally a positive person so I will only say nice things from here on out. I let my attitude slip which probably got me into this, so don’t be like me. When things are going your way find out how to make things better instead of sitting back. Keep things moving forward. Once you’ve made it keep on keeping on. Find a way every day to improve things. If you sit back and let things happen by default you will not like the outcome. Life has a way of sneaking up on you and kicking you in the ass if you don’t keep going forward.
Till next time,
Chins up!
Barry
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