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Our family success online of 22 years can be your family success Greetings, I hope you enjoy reading this document, it is packed full of information that you should seriously consider if you want to get into online sales. As most everyone is social networking, reading quick and funny blurbs and pictures on Instagram and Snapchat, reading is, well - hard! If you are serious about making a phenomenal living online or in your own business, please read this entire document. It is informative, valuable and took me a lot of time! E-commerce was an explosive area to get into pre-Covid but now, more than ever - EVERYONE is migrating online in one sense or another. My advice is to get in now, with or without our help! WHO ARE WE? In 1998, we got into e-commerce full-time. We realized people would shop 24/7 from the comfort of their homes, we could earn money around the clock! We owned a brick-n-mortar store and an online store. We have made five figures a month working from home, just a couple of hours a day. We live an impressive, debt-free lifestyle, setting our own schedule and enjoying life on our terms. I served in the Marines and we raised five incredible children and we both wanted to be home with them. In our opinion, being chained down to a 9-5 seems like a form of modern day slavery. So we made decisions and did something to change that in our lives! Because of a tough upbringing by a disorganized and abusive step-father who spent his life looking and analyzing business ideas instead of taking action, I tried to really think through and organize our family’s life. Perhaps it was because he felt like he was doing something by looking. We found strength in taking strategic action, making procrastination and hesitation the enemy. I learned that lesson in the Marines :) Part of that process was and continues to be documenting what we learned in life to leave a legacy for our children! Where most people selling websites or services that have designed instructions for you to follow, ours were designed for our kids, in plain, simple to read English to encourage their success. You get access to over 4,000 custom pages of our online e-commerce experience as long as you don’t share or publish this proprietary information! Anyone can succeed online with our training and ambition. WHY ARE WE SELLING? Funny story actually. My wife and I have run our craft website for two decades. I never graduated from college but I have done well - made a great deal of mistakes, but have figured it out. I always tell the kids, figure it out! But as they neared the college age and showed interest in wanting a college degree, I pointed out that it was a “want”. Now many of you may disagree with this but I am okay with that. I told them wants have to be paid for and my money is not their money. So to avoid being a total jerk, I decided to create a couple of different websites, modeled after our very successful craft website. I tried to create a cool store, like a hunt/camp/fish store and healthy store and could not wait for the day they were completed where I could bless them with these amazing creations. The funny part is after I put countless hours into researching the market, finding the right distributor, creating the store, and hiring out expensive, professional, custom designed graphics, my boys said this. Dad, thanks but no thanks. You created independent, free-thinking kids - we will, figure it out. The more I pushed the bigger the no became. We did not see that coming and that is okay, they did figure it out. But I think they were less attracted to running a website having grown up around it. They had to sort material, help adding spreadsheet products and images if they wanted to earn money, so they did the boring stuff. Most of Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.

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Our family success online of 22 yearscan be your family success

Greetings, I hope you enjoy reading this document, it is packed full of information that you should seriously consider if you want to get into online sales. As most everyone is social networking, reading quick and funny blurbs and pictures on Instagram and Snapchat, reading is, well - hard! If you are serious about making a phenomenal living online or in your own business, please read this entire document. It is informative, valuable and took me a lot of time!

E-commerce was an explosive area to get into pre-Covid but now, more than ever - EVERYONE is migrating online in one sense or another. My advice is to get in now, with or without our help!

WHO ARE WE? In 1998, we got into e-commerce full-time. We realized people would shop 24/7 from the comfort of their homes, we could earn money around the clock! We owned a brick-n-mortar store and an online store. We have made five figures a month working from home, just a couple of hours a day. We live an impressive, debt-free lifestyle, setting our own schedule and enjoying life on our terms.

I served in the Marines and we raised five incredible children and we both wanted to be home with them. In our opinion, being chained down to a 9-5 seems like a form of modern day slavery. So we made decisions and did something to change that in our lives!

Because of a tough upbringing by a disorganized and abusive step-father who spent his life looking and analyzing business ideas instead of taking action, I tried to really think through and organize our family’s life. Perhaps it was because he felt like he was doing something by looking. We found strength in taking strategic

action, making procrastination and hesitation the enemy. I learned that lesson in the Marines :) Part of that process was and continues to be documenting what we learned in life to leave a legacy for our children! Where most people selling websites or services that have designed instructions for you to follow, ours were designed for our kids, in plain, simple to read English to encourage their success. You get access to over 4,000 custom pages of our online e-commerce experience as long as you don’t share or publish this proprietary information!

Anyone can succeed online with our training and ambition.

WHY ARE WE SELLING? Funny story actually. My wife and I have run our craft website for two decades. I never graduated from college but I have done well - made a great deal of mistakes, but have figured it out. I always tell the kids, figure it out! But as they neared the college age and showed interest in wanting a college degree, I pointed out that it was a “want”. Now many of you may disagree with this but I am okay with that. I told them wants have to be paid for and my money is not their money. So to avoid being a total jerk, I decided to create a couple of different websites, modeled after our very successful craft website. I tried to create a cool store, like a hunt/camp/fish store and healthy store and could not wait for the day they were completed where I could bless them with these amazing creations.

The funny part is after I put countless hours into researching the market, finding the right distributor, creating the store, and hiring out expensive, professional, custom designed graphics, my boys said this. Dad, thanks but no thanks. You created independent, free-thinking kids - we will, figure it out.

The more I pushed the bigger the no became. We did not see that coming and that is okay, they did figure it out. But I think they were less attracted to running a website having grown up around it. They had to sort material, help adding spreadsheet products and images if they wanted to earn money, so they did the boring stuff. Most of

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that has been automated out of the process, but I get it. And Marine Corps father did not allow for many opportunities to say no…

Before we listed this store for sale, we researched other websites for sale and those garbage “gurus” that sell internet boxy companies, blogs and training material. Two words, gross incompetence! We were amazed to find people pretending to be pure experts who are not even online today making money! And we found NO EXCEPTION!

There is a strategy to success online. “Easy” store creators can give you a store, but not the strategy. Free site builders such as Shopify, Godaddy, Squarespace, and Wix appear to hype up the American Dream to sell subscriptions. Same with those books that call the reader a “dummy”. You want to learn and train from an expert, not a publisher that calls its readers names. And stores like Amazon or eBay offer very little in the way of profits - if you work in a “priced-based marketplace”, you suffer by competing on price. And don’t get me started on Doba Express or Alibaba international “drop-shippers”. We would rather make a good living.

IS MARKET GOOD? POTENTIAL? Per IBISWorld, a publisher of research done in the health and vitamin industry, the advent of healthcare reform and a growing and aging population will cause this industry to grow 4.5% annually. That is staggering growth in a field of interest that affects every human on earth. Getting involved in the healthy products industry is a safe bet as more people are choosing to live a healthier lifestyle overall. People are simply not comfortable with the up and down healthcare reform and they are opting to “self-healthicate”.

We made $30,000 a month with our site. Your goal should be to do the same (or more) by the second month of ownership. The family that purchased the hunt/camp/fish website has already delivered proof-of-concept making upwards of $25,000 a month NET income and they love our family and appreciate the help they received!

DROP-SHIPPING? You want to work with a U.S.-based distributor of products, not a company that just calls themselves a drop-shipper!

TURNKEY? Yes! The website is finished, operational and loaded with tens of thousands of vitamins and healthy products and live to the world. You take over and we will work with you to help your family reach your goals.

CARRY INVENTORY? No! Customer orders product, pays you via website, you place order with distributor, and they ship to the customer.

PROFIT MARGINS? A $500 order, you make right around $250.

COST TO RUN? Yearly domain renewal ($15), monthly hosting costs of $29. Monthly datafeed $75 to keep the products/images updated (optional). UPS store address ($15). Free phone number to use as well as free marketing to promote the site. Other than one-time company formation and credit card processing, the costs are very minimal.

WHAT MAKES IT BETTER? • Store loaded with thousands of products and images

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• Incredible easy-to-use U.S. based shopping cart software - no skill needed• Pages load faster than most competing sites, not bogged down by flash or videos. With an estimated 35% of shoppers online still using the

slow dial-up, speed is critical• Product descriptions are unique• Designed to follow eye-path of customer and customers like what they see - this is the proper web-design layout as studies show that a

person’s eyes move to certain points when shopping online

WHAT’S INCLUDED?- Unlimited training and support by expert that has succeeded online- Turn over everything so you have full control. (you get 100% profits/control)- Supplier/distributor contact- Access to our proprietary knowledgebase (4000+/- pages but critical 37 step focus)- Customer list, as it exists- Premium domain name (easy-to-say/remember)- Copyrights to images and design- Backups- SSL Certificate installed on cart- Full ability to edit, change, or add content and products

WILL YOU BUILD ME A SITE? Possibly, yes. But if we do, we can do it fairly quickly and efficiently. First class and not half built like some of those who offer this service. Call me!

TRAINING & COACHING? Yes! We will train you step by step. You become part of our family and family is well cared for. We plan on keeping up with the technology and all the changes so you should too and you can do that by keeping in touch with us (support) for as long as you own your website! You will not find this type of support anywhere else.

WHAT WILL I HAVE TO DO? Daily email orders to the supplier and answer occasional emails. The hard work of building, finding distributor, adding products, and creating help pages is all finished.

ARE YOU AN EXPERT? I have studied a great deal for over two decades. I have studied the colors that make people sick, colors that make people trust a site and make decisions, the eye-path of a customer and why people abandon shopping carts. It has been a study on what people are looking for in a website, the trust points and things that drive people away (banners, pop-ups and content that is irrelevant or slow). You will not find someone with my level of experience online to work directly with you, one on one. I have supported a family of seven for 22 years running an online store - I like to think of myself as an expert in making money online.

PRICING & FINANCING: The website is $7800 (cash/money order, cashiers check or bank transfer). Financing is available and it’s more expensive obviously (see purchase agreement).

ONCE I BUY - WHAT’S NEXT: 1. Give you access to everything, key to store, login credentials for the online steps, and training, etc.2. We walk you through some questions to help me understand your desires/timelines/schedules. 3. Step-by-step we help you formulate the custom plan and timelines. 4. You are welcome to meet us as we want you 100% comfortable.

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FINANCIALS - WHAT TO EXPECTWe don’t maintain or study to death financials, that is for more complicated business structures. We have simple sales and simple expenses. People inquiring about the store have asked for financials - so I have created these attached WRONG WAY financial and RIGHT WAY sample financials. We learned a great deal. An example. If you have a healthy store, Google will tell you to market the terms health supply or healthy supplies. You can spend way too much a month doing that. That is an example of the type of costly lessons learned.

The above is a financial doing an e-commerce business the WRONG WAY, how we originally did things in the early days. Paying too much for PPC (Pay per click), exponential costs with social networking, and implementing the wrong and costly affiliate marketing. You can see though that there are still great profits so many people continue to do it the wrong way. See the RIGHT WAY financial sheet with same sample numbers outlined with the right expenses, more strategically optimized and focused.

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Above is a financial doing an e-commerce business the RIGHT WAY. Focusing on building key strategic focuses that cost less and receive the same amount of results. Less traffic but more concessions because you are getting higher qualified buyers not just shoppers.

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MYTHS YOU MUST AVOID: 1) Hard to compete. We have been “competing” online with our site for over two decades. 99% of your competition are tactical

executives, they work off of todo lists. 0.8% are strategic thinkers, great ideas, but hard for them to implement tactical part. 0.02% are strategic and tactical - big ideas and implements with piercing effectiveness. We are the 0.02% and will train you to think and execute like that. Competition is not a concern, I cannot overstate the importance of this paragraph!

2) Need money. We will show you how to generate a great deal of traffic for FREE. That is where you should start. Social networking also offers a great deal of traffic for free. We will walk you through all the various options to help you meet your specific monthly income goals.

3) Prices matter. If you compete based on price, you will fail. You cannot succeed racing to the bottom on prices. With our approach selling $500 in product, yields $250 in net profit. This policy has stood the test of time and still does even today!

4) Content/blog necessary. Fulfilling a need of people who want to buy product is your focus, that is how you make money. Content later. Most customers prefer a site without blogs, message-boards, chat, pop-up windows, etc. Content may be king, but it needs to be king outside of the pure shopping experience. Keep that clean and good-paying customers will return.

5) Need to be technical or thinking you can’t. No experience? Better than having years of bad or outdated experience! I will ez-teach and mentor you through all the necessary steps!

6) Wait and see. My abusive step-father looked at businesses all his life. He never made any decisions and remained unsuccessful and miserable. He allowed fear to keep him looking at businesses instead of actually taking action.

7) Learning phase. You can never learn everything you need to learn. You can waste a lifetime using this excuse, I grew up with it first hand.

8) More than one supplier is good. In all these years, we have learned that more than one supplier is a recipe for failure. You can easily incur multiple shipping charges and delays if you choose that path. While it is an option, we recommend against it.

9) Must be generating money now. A store making $20,000 a month profit will sell for around $720,000.00. You can generate that kind of money in 1-2 months of ownership with this website by following our instructions and following through!

10) Too good to be true. We live the too good to be true lifestyle and we created it! If you doubt us or our procedure, then perhaps it is not for your family.

11) Paid Facebook or social network is a must. We have been online before many social network were ever created. Ask yourself, why do they provide such wonderful free services? Because they harvest data. As private people, we protect our data. Social networking is chrome to add to an already powerful machine (you should never try to make it the machine). While you can use social networking, we have made most of our money with zero social networking.

12) Easier ways. There are a host of easy get-rich-quick schemes everywhere. There is nothing online that compares to a stable, retail storefront.

13) Niche market…That is a going theme out there right now and some people think that means you need only a handful of products. Having a great selection of products is key to lots of revenue. Picking a focus and marketing only that focus is what most people should mean as a niche!

14) Reports, analytics, conversion ratios, how many return customers…The only thing that matters is what our goals are, what am I making, and how do I reach those goals. The rest is clutter and we don’t waste time on clutter.

I WANT TO OWN THIS WEBSITE: ANYONE can run this operation despite skill level with computers or online selling experience. While we do reserve the right to who we actually sell it to, we want it to be a good fit for us as well. But this can be run from anywhere, kitchen table, boat, or basement! Fill out the Adobe Esign agreement and this will get your offer in to purchase.

SUMMARY: The largest movie company doesn’t own a single theater - Netflix. The largest transportation company owns no vehicles - Uber. Stores are closing in record numbers - because of online. You can earn a living while you sleep, you just have to decide to! With our family, you’ll have a coach with 22 years experience who offers the necessary training, support and security to succeed. We hope you join our family and succeed online - it has changed our life!

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