Tooting my own horn...

[aptohosting]

Thought this article that was written about me and my company was interesting..
Secret To Success - Tom Cruz

 

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[ZDS]

Congrats on your success bud! I didn't realize you were so young!


By the way... Toot the hell out of your own horn! You've earned it.

 

[domular]

Very cool indeed.

 

[aptohosting]

Congrats on your success bud! I didn't realize you were so young!

Thanks man, this was written earlier this year (I am now 23). I figured it would never get published and then this morning I wake up to a Google Alert with this linked to it....

 

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[JDub07]

That is an awesome article. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I'm your age and it was very motivational!!

 

[aptohosting]

That is an awesome article. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I'm your age and it was very motivational!!

Glad you liked it man, thats why I posted it..I always get motivated reading similar stories (along with visits at the local exotic car dealershipi!!!:smx2)

 

[cilaes]

Great read, and good job =] +speed!

 

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[aptohosting]

Great read, and good job =] +speed!

Thanks, I appreciate it.

 

[Rickson9]

Very cool!

I personally loved your sales and marketing stories! So many ignore sales!

Well done!

 

[aptohosting]

Very cool!

I personally loved your sales and marketing stories! So many ignore sales!

Well done!

Man you have no idea, I help some people locally on starting their own business. 99.9% of them are all gung ho to get started, and they have their website/hosting/llc paperwork/legal stuff in order...but then they don't want to get out and sell lol. I guess people think that just because they have a business people will flock to it.

 

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[James Fake]

Nice!!

 

[DuPont]

Congrats Tom!!! A plan that was executed on Great Job!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[mtnman]

Nice job!

And you should charge a premium... local people that can call you or, **cough** stop by, can be a real pita.

 

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[wade1mil]

Great job! I have complete confidence you own your dream car before you're 30. Keep it up!

 

[aptohosting]

Thanks for the compliments!

 

[Danny]

Congrats Tom on your success. It's very inspiring!

I've thought about starting my own local web hosting business. I currently have a couple client sites I'm hosting but never pursued it as an actual business.

Thanks again!

 

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[heidiswan]

I would toot my own horn if I had a story like yours

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Congrats Tom, love the young success stories!!

 

[bernieshawn]

"The key is to add as much value to your services as possible and to offer the best tech/customer support you can."

Powerful quote there, nice!

 

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[speedyexe]

great story thx for sharing im ex shared hosting admin so i ike to hear that some hosting is in good shape
best regards
Daniel

 

[wallstreet]

Great story. Def passing it along to my friends.

 

[oddball]

Really liked that read. bookmarked it actually. I really like the part about selling paintball stuff. I did the same thing, not to your level because I never thought about doing drop shipping but I bought/sold used guns. Still made a lot, more than any of my friends who worked. Just curious what your site was for selling?

Congrats though.

 

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[aptohosting]

Really liked that read. bookmarked it actually. I really like the part about selling paintball stuff. I did the same thing, not to your level because I never thought about doing drop shipping but I bought/sold used guns. Still made a lot, more than any of my friends who worked. Just curious what your site was for selling?

Congrats though.

Yep, the site was selling just paintball markers (highest profit margins). I never dealt with the low margin stuff (paint/masks/tanks/etc).

 

[Lights]

Cool, awesome