I have a friend in New York who is older than I am who is still working for a living. His name is Ty Hicks and you may have some of his wealth-building stuff around. If you sell a book for Ty, he pays you 50 percent of the book. You have to join him at IWS for five years to sell his books.

I went to http://www.bizhosting.com/, opened a store for a small amount each month added one of their e-commerce options, entered my inventory (Ty's Inventory) and immediately started selling books. I don't have the slightest idea how Bizhosting brought customers to my store (domain). I was too dumb to even think about it. Thinking back, it was amazing.

I sold many thousands of books. I would probably still be selling therm except for one thing. He had no system for keeping tract of my customers. When the reordered, I was out of the picture. So I decided that my profit margin was too small and I shut down the site. I still have the domain and it is sitting there staring at me.

But I liked the business as being a dealer who never touched a book. I just sent the order by fax to Ty and he shipped the stuff. I was still selling a few of Ty's books and kits until recently. I must have had them up still on one or two of my sites.

You need resales.

I'm still in touch with Ty and his son, Dave. Dave has an Interest in WAU.

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