The Online Sunshine Plan

Where I started didn’t predict where I ended up.

And, as I said above, I’ve taken what seemed too long to get this to you.

What you find here are the simple truth’s I’ve been able to eke out of studying all sorts and kinds of commerce – so that I could make a living out here in the middle of nowhere, with just my few nearby friends, relatives, and farm critters to share it with.

My story is that I got fed up with the West Coast rat-race and moved back to the family farm to help my aging parents. With a background in graphic arts and web design, I thought to make a living with those skills – but it would again take moving away from the farm and it’s peaceful surrounds.

So I worked to figure out an online presence which would help me earn the income I need to make my living costs – and maybe a fortune. This is the old trick of finding a legitimate work from home business so I could make money online. Lots searched for, but seldom successful.

Of course, the first ego-trap I fell into was that you aren’t a success unless you make a lot of money. So the first incarnation of this was “An Online Millionaire Plan” – which of course didn’t go anywhere.

But I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

And stumbling around in the dark ultimately led me out of it again.

So I bring you this site and this book.

Mainly so you don’t have to bark your shins on living room furniture on your way to the light switch – like I did.

Along this journey, I ran into several sets of Internet rip-off artists. It took those scams to show me exactly what was valuable in life, and what the real basis of ecommerce (and regular commerce) was.

I found out that I had no need for this stuff, as it wasn’t a passion of mine. I was only trying to figure out how to get from here to there – and these accumulated notes were just a description of the journey. More like a road-map so others could follow and not fall into the same potholes along the way that I did. (Saves a lot of repair costs and delays.)

I’ve got other blogs which have detailed my day-to-day work along this line. And you can peruse these if you want either the technical or personal aspects to my journey.

Right now, I’m just at the point of simply wrapping everything up so you can find this and use it to improve your own life (and online commerce).

It’s not perfect. There are some gaps. But I prefer not to travel backwards when there is so much to see ahead.

So this is a Creative Commons license – you can use whatever you want for whatever you want (except commercial applications without my permission).

And where you hear from me along this line, it will be to tell you something else I just discovered about this scene – and how you can use it to speed up your own travels.

Good Hunting!