I've mentioned before that I used to work on computers, built websites, and set up networks and sold hosting services for the Arena BBS to companies in the 90's prior to selling gear but as usual the peanut gallery jackasses like Qwert II simply talked a bunch of shit. Low and behold, I was unpacking some files from storage when I came across one of my old marketing packages for the Arena BBS along with an original business card. I've scanned everything in including my original business card and sales material. At the time, the internet was still a brand new venture so it was very difficult to convince businesses to get a website
Some Details:
-All the documents were made using ST Publish on my Atari Mega ST2 and printed on an Epson Action Printer 2250 9 pin printer which I then took to Kinkos.
-My office rent at the time was 125 dollars a month and pretty much the size of broom closet in downtown Asheville...enough for a desk and 2 seats Nowadays it would rent for about 1500 dollars. I only used this space to meet people and close deals. I mainly worked from home in my shitty ass studio apartment
-At any time, I carried about 20 of these marketing folders along with my Amway & Avon marketing material which included cassettes and videotapes in a briefcase and walked throughout town on the weekends when I wasn't working at Montgomery Ward practically all day. Not fun carrying around about 50lb of stuff. If you're why I didn't just give people my website address....well, its 1996 people.
-I offered a whooping 150 megabytes of web space for every customer along with a wide array of services that were well ahead of time such as a low cost ecommerce shopping cart which would normally cost a person about 3000 dollars to do. I was able to do so because I was able to locate an awesome piece of software from Malaysia that was the fraction of the price. I used the same software when I started Caliber Fitness Solutions
-I also used to scour the internet as well although it wasn't too organized at the time...its how I first found American Bodybuilding (Getbig). Tried to sell Ron a bulletin board setup which he politely declined. I'm sure he doesn't remember but oh well.
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