Hey wanna hear something odd?

I went to a car auction today. While walking past the auctioneer, he made this funny joke about wouldn't wanna make the big guy angry at me or anything. My head spun around looking for the big guy that the auctioneer was discussing publicly on his mic.

I did a double take as I realized, hey its me.

A while later, a late model GM Impala came up for auction and I heard from across the auction floor that it was going for 1600 dollars. I made my way around groups of unmoving people and several car lanes to get close.

By the time I got there, a lot of people had arrived there already and the bid started moving quickly upward from 1800 dollars.

I walked quickly around it and but that time the price was 2,000 dollars.

I looked at the odometer reading and the price popped to 2,100 dollars.

2 seconds of indecision later allowed the price to move smoothly to 2,200 dollars. In the time to put up my hand - the price popped to 2300.

Finally I was noticed and the fast talking auctioneer set the price at 2,350 dollars. Then the strangest thing happened, everyone looked at me and there was silence. The bidding simply stopped.

The funny auctioneer tried for the next 30 seconds but no one would place another bid on the car. Finally, he made some joke about big arms frightening off the competition and stopped the bid.

So, I bought this medium mileage 2004 Impala, worth about 5-7,000 for a just 2,350 dollars.

So size does matter sometimes.

So, what's the point of this?

I was laughingly discussing this with a friend of mine and he said that would not have happened if the auction took place online. He sure was right. As an online marketer, seller or buyer, you can do nearly anything in your pajamas. Online you can't be intimidated by someone's physical presence, their bad perfume, aggressive stance or any of those other aspects.

You have the freedom of choice and that choice is yours. To succeed or not is entirely up to you. Picking up a niche market that you believe in, doing some research on it, getting a domain name and using a cms like joomla or wordpress to quickly put up a site ( No html skills required ) then actively marketing that in similar discussion boards and other blogs is -- in one runaway sentence **all you need to do**

Running an online business from home is like a dream job. Demanding, sometimes frustrating but definitely worth the reward for the 5% who figure out how to make it work.

Running an online business is like a dream home job. Demanding, sometimes frustrating but definitely worth the reward for the few who figure out how to really make it work.

Or, and this is my favorite - Get yourself out on a beach somewhere warm, bring your laptop and try not to let your annoying Attention Deficit Syndrome get the better of you as the scantily clad bodies get between you and your view of the blue, blue water, ahhh I mean your computer screen.