From: "Judith Tramayne-Barth" <trabar@trabar.com>

Bogdan,

Here is my success story from that newbie you helped over a
year ago:

When I went on the Internet a year ago, my goal was to make
a living from my home. I live in a small rural city where
you have to go to the Post Office to pick up your mail and
the nearest large city (11,000) people is 23 miles away.
Jobs are not plentiful here especially if you are an
Author/Artist/Sculptor.

So for a 11 months, I built two websites. One for my art at
http://www.trabar.com and the other for my writing at
http://www.agoodread.com. I spent 12 and 16 hours a day
learning how to do this and also market. Has my goal been
reached? I am happy to say yes, but not quite in the way I
expected.

While my sites are building up a following, sales would
still give a new meaning to the words "starving artist."
No, my living is from what I call lateral opportunities from
the Internet. While marketing and surfing, I came across a
company asking for greeting card writers. I applied and was
accepted. Since December, 1999 I have been receiving checks
each month. In my travels, I also came across a company
where I developed original art greeting card packs on spec.
This also provides an income.

What I am trying to do is develop five or more streams of
income coming into my mail from different sources each
month. I have just started writing articles for another
site which pays me when people click on my article to read
it. This is also earning me money.

Since I am on the Internet for the long term, I am not real
concerned about my site's lack of income. In fact, I offer
my first murder mystery conspiracy with a touch of the
paranormal as a free download. Why? Because I am creating
a following for the second e-book in my trilogy. Is it
working? Yes. I will have a ready made customer base when
my next e-book is released. In fact, I have had two major
e-publishers contact me to use my free e-book on their
sites. One is http://www.hyperpedia.net and the other was
an online magazine called Whispers where my book was
serialized in four monthly installments.

So what I guess I am saying to people with sites that have
solid products to sell is, don't give up. The opportunities
are there but just maybe you should be thinking less
linearly and more laterally to enjoy the income
opportunities available on the web.

Judith Tramayne-Barth

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