Who am I?  and why should you care what I have to write about anything?

Because I am… (select as many as you like):

A.)  more outrageous than Frank

B.) wrestle in a higher weight class than Russell

C.) am more intellectual than Eben

D.) have recently been in the position of a newcomer to internet marketing and better understand the questions a newcomer has than would one of the immortals in the field.

Earlier this year, I finally had all I could stand of working in the corporate world.  I quit when my employer kept reneging on promises made to me while simultaneously demanding more and more of my time.

Over the past few weeks and months, I have spent a great deal of time and money researching the internet marketing game and trying to plot a path through which I could earn a good living while also telling the bad bosses of the evil corporate world that I was their monkey no more.

Now, before I go any further in that vein, I do want to take you further back into “who I am”.

I grew up in an area of what many refer to as “flyover country”… southern Indiana.

I received a scholarship to Indiana University.  I originally planned to study astrophysics.  However, I was talked into thinking that a business degree would be more marketable.  I received my Bachelors in Business Administration degree from I.U. in… let’s just say several years ago.

I always thought having a degree from what is usually considered to be one of the top ten business schools would be an assurance of success in the corporate business world.

How wrong I was.

Who you know…

Who you are related to…

How your looks rate…

How Tall you are…

Whether you play golf…

Sycophantism…

Luck…

All of these mattered more than my “excellent” degree.

Luck matters more than a degree.

The diploma may as well have been used for toilet paper.

All I wanted was to be hired and to advance in my career based on how well I could do the job under consideration.

So now it is a few (ok… many) years later.  I am determined to become an internet entrepreneur (an “interpreneur” as I have coined it elsewhere).

One other note about me:

Despite my early desires to be an astrophysicist, I was also an accomplished poet and guitar player.  I wrote one long 50 page poem called “Convergent Universe” that mirrors the universe in its structure.  In a way it is a non-mathematical statement of the unified field of the universe.  You can find it on one of my other web sites. www.hopeforman.com

Thanks for listening… to your success!

Tom