First time poster, nearly there

[IanDavid]

Hi Everyone.

I picked up 4HWW about eight months ago when I was in Barnes & Noble and flipped through a few pages because, like most others I'm sure, the title totally appealed to me! It wasn't until a couple of weeks later that I bought the book for real and read it cover to cover... which I've since done a few more times!

Creating my muse was pretty easy, because I have a strong interest in private aviation (I've been a licensed pilot since I was 17) and a lot of my career to date has been focused on SEM (until recently, I worked at a certain company whose name starts with Y!) So, I combined my vocation with my profession, and found a small number of high-margin pilot-oriented products from manufacturers on ThomasNet, which I first tested on eBay for interest, and then put my professional experience into action.

The results were almost instantaneous. Within a week of putting up my site and some strategic keyword purchases, I had grossed $9k and had built up an opt-in mailing list of over 800 people. I'm now grossing $30-50k a week (netting $15-25k) and have a mailing list of over 9,000 pilots around the world. I initially spent about five hours a day on the business, but with streamlining and outsourcing run of the mill tasks, and (like Tim says) putting trust in my network to solve decisions that really aren't that urgent, I'm down to about 12-15 hours a week and am putting in place additional plans to halve that number.

And now I'm planning my first mini-retirement! Four weeks in Japan, followed by another four in Australia!

IT CAN BE DONE! This book totally changed my life and I just want to let everyone else know that they can do it too, if they just apply the principles in the book, use the resources that Tim outlines (and find more of their own!), and stay positive!

Having worked in the internet world for some years, I was never one to go on forums or message boards, but I couldn't pass by the opportunity to share my story!