Worldwide Success Stories

Hi Friend

I am still in the process of developing my success story therefore have not reached the point in my internet career where I want to publish it.
But I Would Like this blog to be for everyone with Worldwide Success Stories From Around the World where people can come to get inspiration.
To learn and read other peoples success to learn and inspire each other and share their stories
Or where people come to post their own unique success story.
Please feel free to post Blogs videos and Your Personal Success Stories or people or other peoples success story please do not it into an advertising forum but feel free to add a couple of links with each story you publish
Many Thanks
To Our Success
Sotiris J Bassakaropoulos


Mike Hobbs is someone I met on the internet he is a Friendly genuine person who goes out of his way to help people succeed in their internet business, here is some of his story.

Mike Hobbs

Hey I wanted to share something with you today. I have been part of
different h0me based businesses since I turned 18 years old. And
for the past 9 years tried just about everything you can think of
from MLM, Direct Sales, Chain Letters, Gifting programs, High yield
Investment Programs, Auto Surfs, Affiliate programs & I also bought
almost every infomercial that came on TV like: Carlton Sheets, Don
Lapre, John Beck, and some others that I cant think of the names
right now. Not only did I not make money with any of them for 8 years
I spent over 30,000 dollars trying them all out. My worse case was
when I became a m0rtgage loan officer and decided to go to a seminar
and on how to become a millionaire originator. They had a bunch of
hype and promises and I paid 15k to join their program. Then the
mortgage industry took a dump and their training took a dump as well.
That was very devastating for me and I could have just quit right there
and stopped trying to be my own boss, and start looking for a job again.

Well I'm to stubborn to just quit like that. I'm sure someone reading
this feels the same way as I do. I kept going and going and failing
and failing. It didn't matter how much I failed it didn't matter how
much money it took me. All I knew was I would be successful and
I would never quit. Now out of that whole mess there is a light
cause I stopped buying into new programs, I stopped joining the next
best thing, and I started buying into training after training after
training. I learned every thing about the Internet from top marketers.
I bought every Mike Dillard course, Todd Falcone, Jeff Combs, and
through all that I met some really good top marketers in some forums
and all over the Internet. Plugged into their training and really
learned everything. One problem here. I was learning everything
but did nothing. That doesn't give you any results. So one of my
mentors told me one day a very valuable lesson. You need to implement
more then you learn. Then you are doing what it takes to be successful
and what the top 1% do instead of the bottom 99%.... That changed
my thinking and my life...

So why do I share this with you? I want you to know that every
successful person online or offline has to go though some sort of
struggle before they find the right mentor to finally teach them
what is the right thing to do. The faster you find this person
the faster you will have success.

Just to let you know my wife and I found our mentor back in October
of 2007, we quit our jobs and were making a good 4-8k per month working
from home the last year. We have hit our break through recently though.
The last 2 weeks we have pulled in over 10k from all our income sources.
I'm not telling you this to brag or say we are the best. But I just
wanted to let you know that even the worse of failures, someone who
failed at business for 8 years, spent over 30,000 dollars learning and
almost going bankrupt is now successful when he found the right person
to align himself with.

It is my goal to help anyone that has had trouble making money online
or who is experienced but want to align themselves with someone that
really works as a team and helps everyone succeed even if it takes you
a year to do it. I will always be here for you training and helping.

Anyway, Give me a call and I would love to connect with you and let
you in on my current project and team. We are exploding and would love
to have you as a part of our team.

Mike Hobbs
702-421-7212

Website to look over: http://home.doorstepatm.com
PS: Anyone gets in our program tonight at 500 level before midnight
deadline gets grandfathered in at 3,500. Just a little added bonus
for taking action.

If you don't make the deadline its no big deal, you still get the
same training and support. Just lower level.

How Twitter Was Born

Jan 30, 2009

Dom Sagolla

History

Twitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco. The company had just contributed a major chunk of code to Rails 1.0 and had just shipped Odeo Studio, but we were facing tremendous competition from Apple and other heavyweights. Our board was not feeling optimistic, and we were forced to reinvent ourselves.

“Rebooting” or reinventing the company started with a daylong brainstorming session where we broke up into teams to talk about our best ideas. I was lucky enough to be in @Jack’s group, where he first described a service that uses SMS to tell small groups what you are doing. We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park. It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us stop eating and start talking.

I remember that @Jack’s first use case was city-related: telling people that the club he’s at is happening. “I want to have a dispatch service that connects us on our phones using text.” His idea was to make it so simple that you don’t even think about what you’re doing, you just type something and send it. Typing something on your phone in those days meant you were probably messing with T9 text input, unless you were sporting a relatively rare smartphone. Even so, everyone in our group got the idea instantly and wanted it.

Later, each group presented their ideas, and a few of them were selected for prototyping. Demos ensued. @Jack’s idea rose to the top as a combination of status-type ideas. @Jack and @Noah were assigned to build version 0.1 while the rest of the company focused on maintaining Odeo.com, so that if this new thing flopped we’d have something to fall back upon.

The first version of @Jack’s idea was entirely web-based. It was created on March 31st, 2006. My first substantive message is #38:

oh this is going to be addictive

We struggled with a codename and a product name. “It’s FriendStalker!” joked @Crystal, our most prolific user. The userbase was limited entirely to the company and our immediate family. No one from a major company of any kind was allowed in. For months, we were in Top Secret Alpha because of competing products like the now-defunkt Dodgeball. We operated using a “long code”, or a full 10-digit phone number linked to a small-potatoes gateway. The original product name / codename “twttr” was inspired by Flickr and the fact that American SMS shortcodes are five characters. We prototyped with “89887″ as our shortcode. We later changed to “40404″ for ease of use and memorability. Twttr probably had about 50 users in the long code days.

I was following everyone on the system. We had an admin page where you could see every user. As Head of Quality for the company, it seemed like my duty to watch for opinions or issues from our users. This caused confusion, though, when family members of our team were suddenly being followed by a seemingly random person. Thus, Private Accounts were born. @Jack and @Florian created a means for users to mark themselves private, and we admins had the ability to tell who wanted to be private so we’d know not to follow them. Actual, real privacy with secure protection came a bit later. I’d say there were about 100 users when Private was invented.

The interaction model and the visual metaphor for the service were constantly in flux. The meaning of being someone’s “Friend” versus “Following” someone changed regularly. At that point, you could either get all SMS messages or get none. There was no Twictionary back then; data in the system were referred to as “posts” or just “messages”. The lack of clear terminology led to some pretty spirited debates leading up to the Spring of 2006.

We launched Twttr Beta on @Ev’s birthday. We could now invite a slightly larger circle of friends, but still excluding any large companies (with a few trusted exceptions within places like Google). I’ll never forget the family-friendly feeling of that day. We all knew that we were going to change the world with this thing that no one else understood. That day stands out in memory as the deep breath before a baby’s first cry.

Meanwhile, Odeo and the corporate board were at a tension point. Not only was the value of Twttr difficult to describe, the relevance of Odeo was declining monthly. Drastic cuts were recommended. One day in early May 2006, @Ev let four of us go: @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, me, and @Rabble. @Noah and @TimRoberts would later be asked to leave as well. It was a tough decision and huge shock to each of us. We all handled it differently. Looking back on it, I think Twitter allowed us to stay connected when we might not have otherwise been. After all, we weren’t even public with the site yet, so each of us continued to add value just by using it with each other.

During this transition, Twttr.com launched to the public. Still, very few people understood its value. At the time most people were paying per SMS message, and so wouldn’t Twttr run up our bills? Also, how were we supposed to use this thing and who cares what I’m doing? Each one of us original users became a kind of personal evangelist for Twttr, trying to get our coworkers and friends to use it. At this point, Obvious Corp was born as an incubator with Twttr as its sole project.

@Jack was still just an engineer, and the service was only a few months old when the group acquired Twitter.com and re-branded. Back then, we had no character limit on our system. Messages longer than 160 characters (the common SMS carrier limit) were split into multiple texts and delivered (somewhat) sequentially. There were other bugs, and a mounting SMS bill. The team decided to place a limit on the number of characters that would go out via SMS for each post. They settled on 140, in order to leave room for the username and the colon in front of the message. In February of 2007 @Jack wrote something which inspired me to get started on this project: “One could change the world with one hundred and forty characters.”

Just in time for SxSW, @RayReadyRay rigged a very sweet Flash-based visualizer that ended up on display on the halls of the conference. I wasn’t working there, but I used to visit regularly to see how our baby was doing. I happened to be at the office in SF when the visualizer went live on site in Austin. I remember finding a bug just before showtime, as @Biz and @Jeremy talked over the phone. Everything miraculously fell into place by the time people filtered out of the sessions to see their comments floating along the hallway screens. Boom #1: Twitter won an award in the Blog category, and @Jack thanked everyone in 140 characters.

MTV Music Awards: Boom #2.

Apple WWDC 2007, and then TV, and then print and pretty soon Cable news: Boom #3.

@Jack became the CEO of a newly spun-off Twitter, Inc. during the Boom Times. People still didn’t quite “get it” but at least some people had heard about it. The team created permalinks and RSS feeds. @Blaine pushed for IM integration. Each major feature added tremendous gains in users, and in usage per user. Still small by social networking standards, Twitter delivered something immediate and vital that no other service could attain.

For a lot of people, the entire API launch was really the time when Twitter first left the nest. But that is another story, for another time.

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