So here is an odd and some may say seemingly unrelated story.

I went to a car auction last week. As I walked past the auctioneer he made an odd joke about not wanting to make the big guy upset or anything. My head spun around looking for the big guy that the auctioneer mentioned on his mic.

I blushed as I realized, gosh its me!

A while later, a late model GM Impala came up for auction and I heard from across the auction floor that it was going for 1600 dollars. I made my way around groups of unmoving people and several car lanes to get close.

By the time I got there, a lot of people had arrived there already and the bid started moving quickly upward from 1800 dollars.

I walked around it quickly and before I had done that, the price was 2000.

I looked in the window at the odometer and the price went to 2100.

Pausing 2 seconds in indecision allowed the price to move smoothly to 2200. I put up my hand and it - the price went to 2300.

Finally I was noticed and the fast talking auctioneer set the price at 2,350 dollars. Then the strangest thing happened, everyone looked at me and there was silence. The bidding simply stopped.

The funny auctioneer tried for the next 30 seconds but no one would place another bid on the car. Finally, he made some joke about big arms frightening off the competition and stopped the bid.

So, I bought this medium mileage 2004 Impala, worth about 5-7,000 for a just 2,350 dollars.

So size does matter sometimes.

And how is this related to Internet marketing

I was laughingly discussing this with a friend of mine and he said that would not have happened if the auction took place online. He sure was right. As an online marketer, seller or buyer, you can do nearly anything in your pajamas. Online you can’t be intimidated by someone’s physical presence, their bad perfume, aggressive stance or any of those other aspects.

You have the freedom of choice and that choice is yours. To succeed or not is entirely up to you. Picking up a niche market that you believe in, doing some research on it, getting a domain name and using a cms like joomla or wordpress to quickly put up a site ( No html skills required ) then actively marketing that in similar discussion boards and other blogs is — in one runaway sentence **all you need to do**

An online home business is like a dream job. Sometimes demanding, a little frustrating but definitely worth the reward for the 5% who figure out how to make it work.

Running an online business is like a dream home job. Demanding, sometimes frustrating but definitely worth the reward for the few who figure out how to really make it work.

And this is my favorite - Get yourself out on a comfortable beach chair somewhere warm, bring your business laptop and try not to let your Attention Deficit Syndrome get the better as the barely clad bodies get between you and your uhmmm, errhh computer screen.

P.S. I am strongly advocating that you attempt to grow a business that enables you to work online however please please never ever buy a car at an online auction. The cameras that are focused on the vehicles, do not allow one to smell the exhaust fumes, see the color of the blue exhaust fumes or see long dents that might run the entire length of the cars. I have stood there and watched peers stop bidding on a car while the online folks continued to run up the price several hundred of pounds past the point that where any reasonable person standing right beside the car would have done.

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