How To Build A Digital Empire
Came across this really interesting blog post from Tom Justin, one of the principals in First Step Internet Marking, one of the services I promote here. (Hint I promote them not just because they pay, but because they work, there’s a difference and that is my "value add" to you).
I thought it would be very appropriate to excerpt a few of Tom’s more important points, mainly because "building an empire" has always been a "pipe dream" of mine … which I have started to bring into reality from "dreamland" in the past few years. read the whole article of Tom’s on Building a Digital Empire here:
Digital empires have already been built and many of us are building new ones. The good news is that there is plenty more room. Especially for those who are willing to pay and pave their way with diligence, investment in their futures and follow-up.
Now I have been doing a little wondering here if I perhaps have gotten fixated on trains … I have been in the past … and I seem to have been writing about them a lot lately … but trains are infinitely better than politics and train stories so often illustrate the point I’m trying to make … so ..
(Empire Builder image courtesy of www.gngoat.org, used with permission and thanks)
Why talk about trains when we are mentioning a digital empire … a means for seniors and retirees with vision to make money online?
Isn’t this path fraught with danger and pitfalls? Aren’t all the "good choices" already spoken for?
I say they are not and that is one of the biggest problems any online entrepreneur faces today. It is not technical issues that will hold you back, It isn’t a lack of ‘real estate’ or ‘population’ for your "empire". If you fail it will usually be for one primary reason.
You didn’t start.!
Even those who are not interested in trains will likely remember that the single most important event in "nation building" since the Civil War happened in the late 1800’s when the first transcontinental railroad was completed. East and west were linked and the US was never the same since … even with oil prices, foreign competition issues, etc., the US is still the industrial "engine of the world".
Once the first railroad linked the coats (over what we known as the "central route" one would have thought that there was no future in railroad investments. After all the first railroad had taken many years and involved huge investments. many of the original investors and companies involved went broke. So build another railroad? Hardly. It’s been done, the good ground is taken.
Well some entrepreneurs didn’t listen and they built another coats to coast line over what was called the "Southern route". Enough already, no?
Even though the southern railroad wasn’t that profitable there were still others who wanted their share of the "empire". So they proposed a "Northern Route". in fact, to emphasize their difference they called the company the "Great Northern". It was planned to run from Minneapolis to Seattle across the sparsely populated US "Northern Tier". Impossible I can hear the experts saying. Too much competition. There are already two complete railroads. No one lives up there. It won’t get any customers. On and on. The one thing never in short supply is "nay sayers".
But build the Great Northern they did. And the even named the signature, flagship train the "Empire Builder".
Today the railroad scene in the US has changed. But there are still huge profits being made … by the successors of all three companies who did what "couldn’t be done". The route pioneered by the Great Northern is still there as well, carrying more cargo than the founders ever dreamed of. And the Empire Builder still runs daily across these still sparsely settled regions of our country that Washington politicians and "experts" so often ignore.
So when will you start building your empire? You can, right now you know. Do not listen to the know it alls who tell you it’s been done, the good ground is taken. The boom of Internet business hasn’t really started yet. There will never be a better time to jump in with both feet .. I can assure you of that. But:
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@Tom Justin: Thanks so much for visiting and commenting, Tom. I had no idea that you were a Nodak … when I lived in Colorado Midland country many of my freinds were NoDaks, they moved to Colorado for the warm winters 
Indeed it won’t come to us. Ido beleive the Great Northern story is important becuase most people today online or off get stopped in their path toward a gola by the ever-present ‘it’s been done’ folks. Their cautions are at times worth listening to, but never worthy of controlling one’s own life. You might like another trainpiece I wrote … What can we learn from a train?
Hi, Google Alert brought me to your blog. Thank you for the kind words.
But I really enjoyed the picture of “The Empire Builder.” It played an important part in my young life. I was born and raised in Williston, North Dakota. The Great Northern was our main transportation, even when we had air service in our little town.
The Empire Builder transported a small town boy of the Plains to the sky scrapers of the impossibly majestic city of Minneapolis.
The train ride itself would have been enough. The picture of that train brings it all back, those wondrous feelings of expanding in bigger world.
Maybe it’s a good analogy for your piece here. There is so much room “out there.” We just have to travel there because it won’t come to us.
All the best,
Tom Justin