It's Amazing what you can learn from shovelling snow!

Thanks Dien!

After reading Thomas's reply below, I can see that the "Summer Project" has quickly grown in Scope!

I can see the concepts of leverage being utilized in Thomas's example! This is very encouraging!

Thanks for keeping me posted.

Duane

> Hi Duane,

> Your posts are true guides to success! I've
> enjoyed every one of them! :)

> Thanks.... Thomas reads the Sowpub forum
> regularly, though he only posts now and
> then....

> He decided to put the party idea on hold
> until later this year (we're in summer
> holiday time now in Australia for the school
> kids).

> He's currently doing very well with his new
> distribution company , distributing Pyrod
> brand CD-ROMs. He's in fact getting some
> office and warehouse space soon and won't
> have to work out of home any more.... :)

> He's a fast mover that young brother of
> mine.... :)

> He also applied what we've spoken about here
> on the forum, about leveraging other
> people's time -- by outsourcing or taking on
> employees. He employed two sales people to
> help convince the stores to carry their
> brand....

> He's a university student, but now it's
> summer holidays in Australia, and believe it
> or not this started out as his summer
> project! It looks like it will be bigger
> than that though....

> This isn't his first business (he wrote
> about his bulletin board business earlier
> on in the forum), so he already has some
> business experience under his belt.... :)

> Let me say, he's doing excellently for
> someone who's only 20!

> - Dien