Here is a new series of articles that I will be posting talking about the success that people have had with Internet businesses, and the companies or strategies that helped them get where they are today.
Last night I was at the gym playing basketball and someone asked me “How did you become an Internet business owner?” I haven’t been asked that question for quite a while so it took me a minute to formulate my answer. After some thought, I replied “I guess it was like anything else I knew somebody that showed me the ropes.” Back in 2000, I had just returned from a two-year church mission and was looking for a job, my new uncle (through marriage) gave me an opportunity to work on the hotline at his Internet business coaching floor. Within weeks I was hooked on the idea of becoming a true ecommerce entrepreneur. I started my first company that year and over the last eight years have gone on to start many others.
Although the hotline job was my start I think the experience, which probably helped me more than anything else in “getting from where I was to where I am today”, was my time working at Prosper Learning. Prosper Learning is a mentoring company in Provo, Utah. Our paths crossed at the right time. Prosper had just formed and was not big enough to know any better, and I knew just enough about ecommerce to convince them to allow me to write the company’s ecommerce curriculum. I was young, aggressive, and cocky enough to think that my eighteen months working with my Uncle and my BYU marketing degree qualified me to write an Internet marketing manual. Fortunately, the manual was a success and Prosper Learning hired me to be the first Internet Division Leader. Over the next two years I had the opportunity to help create jobs, businesses, and overall success for: myself, a few family members, several friends, and many complete strangers.
Of course, we had our fair share of failures and growing pains along the way. However, today Prosper Learning is arguably the leading mentoring company in Utah if not the USA and I work for myself at home as an ecommerce entrepreneur. Just in case I never told you before – Thanks Prosper Learning.
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