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He made it his specialty to market this program and instantly started helping other people market their software and programs on the BBS’s. This is the secret of how one man was making money online 10 years before the Internet!
For a time he even published a large trade journal for BBS operators as the BBS’s grew into an industry that was generating profits for people. Naturally, the Internet came along and literally swept the BBS industry clean.
At one time there were almost 100,000 bulletin boards operating across the country. It’s now diminished to probably less than 5,000. Most of those BBS’s, by the way, are operating as gateways to the Internet for their callers. The Internet has had a major impact on the industry.
Our friend promptly shifted his focus a bit and started helping his clients learn how to make money on the Internet. For example, many of the profitable techniques of the BBS’s turned out to also be very profitable when used over the Internet.
The Internet eliminates many of the boundaries that were weaknesses the BBS’s, so the Internet literally has all of the advantages of the BBS’s and none of the negative angles the BBS’s suffered from. There’s no long distance clock ticking, running
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