We started in Business back in 1996, The Year After I Retired From The Navy.

I Saw The Internet as a Way to Have My Own Home-Based Internet Business and Get the Tax Deductions That Come With Owning a Small Business. Plus, I Really Like the Idea of Getting Out of Bed When I Want to. It's a Huge Selling Point and Master Motivator for Me!

We Had an Advantage Over Most Newbie Internet Small Business Owners, We Were Already Very Computer Literate and Were Very Internet Literate Also. When You're a Techie, You Tend to Work and Hang Out With Other Techies and Geeks. We Used That Advantage to Make Money Almost Immediately by Building Web Sites for People and Companies. We Started With Fairly Large or Medium Companies That Were Already Established Because We Knew They Could Afford Our Services. The Problem With That Thinking Was You Get All of the Politics That Comes With Big Companies Also. It Just Wasn't Worth it.

The Only Way We Made Any Money Was by Building Web Site After Web Site. There Was No Residual Income. It Wasn't Until Years Later After Experimenting With Different Web Hosting That We Discovered Different Ways of Web Hosts and Faster Ways of Web Building.

Several Years Ago, We Started Doing some Very Significant Internet Web Business Research Into the People That Were Actually Making Some Serious Money Off The Internet. We Also Found A ton of Hype. We Purchased a lot of Programs and Courses Off the Internet. Some Worked and Some did not. The Ones That Worked Seemed to Follow a Pattern. We Started Looking for That Success Pattern, the Ones That Were Actually Successful are Listed Here at The Honest Abe Trading Post because We're Still Using Them. You Won't See the Ones That Don't Work. Through the Use and Combinations of These Courses it Led us to Take a Serious Look at What We Brought to the Table.

We Already Knew We Were Great Adult Computer Trainers and We Also Knew We Were Very Computer Literate. We Found a Couple of Real Easy Ways to Make Some Decent Money and Decided to write 2 More Ebooks to Follow Our First One, The Job Ebook.

People Want Instant Gratification but People are Also Skeptical at The Same Time. The Newbie Web Builder Ebook and the Newbie Web Hosting Ebook Were Written to go Hand in Hand to Help Jump-Start Anybody's New Home-Based Internet Business. They Were Designed to Reduce the Amount of Money They Would Have to Invest and Also Get Them a Fairly Quick Return on Their Investment so That They Would see This Program Really Works. The We Add The Courses We Think They should be Ready for, One at a Time. This Time They're Investments Come From Their Profits off The Newbie Companion Ebook Set Instead of Their Own Savings. Big Difference. The Process is Not Really That Slow it Just Seems to be, it's Way to Easy to Overwhelm People With all of the Information on The Internet. We Believe Our process of the Step by Step Works Because They Invest a Little Money to Get Started and They Actually See a Return on Their Investment Within a Couple of Weeks. We're Not Promising They Will Make a Million Dollars in 30 Days But They Will Make very Good Money. Then We Lead Them Slowly Out of Their Comfort Zone More And More Into the Heart of Their New Internet Business. They Start Reading Some Very Good Material and Just By Following the Steps They Increase Their Business Some More. Listening to People Like Jim Rohn Will Increase Anybody's Business. Jim Rohn Make a Huge Change in Both My Personal and Business Life.

Sure, That's an Easy Question. They buy the Companion Ebooks and Then Don't Read the Ebooks and Obviously They Don't Follow The Blueprint for Success.

They Could Because There is Nothing Stopping Them From Doing Just That, Remember, We Already Did That and Sure Wasted A Lot of Money and Time on Things That Didn't Work. If You Were Going to Explore Africa or Some Other Foreign Country, Wouldn't You Take an Experience Guide With You? Sure You Would, if the Guide Said Just Stay on The Main Road and Don't Take any Side paths, Wouldn't You Take That Advice? Sure You Would Because The Guide Had Already Been Down all of Those Roads and Knew What was There. Simple as That. The Honest Abe Trading Post is Your Guide to Jump-Starting Your Brand New Home-Based Internet Business because We Want to See You Succeed, Simple as That!!!

For Us, That is Another Very Easy Question. We Thoroughly Enjoy Helping People. We Enjoy Helping People Learn How Computers Can Enrich Their Lives. We Enjoy Watching the Looks on Their Faces When They Get Their First Check Made Out to Them, or Get Paid in CASH  Because of Their Internet Home Business, For Us That's a Real Thrill. That is What Makes This Such a Wonderful Business.