When I was a small kid, I remember going to my Uncle Barry's house and be amazed at his paintings. His paintings looked so real, it was hard to distinguish them from photographs. I thought he was on the road to being famous.

A few years later my uncle's wife passed away suddenly and he literally lost everything he owned. At the time, he owned the Gold's Gym in Huntington Beach, California. As it turned out, his wife had all the business sense and he just helped the customers. When she passed away, he sold the gym and was scammed by the new owners and never received anything beyond his down payment.

Anyway, I thought he would be fine because his paintings were so good, I figured he could always make a great living with his paintings. To this day, my uncle has not sold more than 2 or 3 of his paintings despite the quality of his work and creativity of his mind. He has 2 great kids, but he has spent the majority of his time with them living off various welfare programs.

A few weeks ago, I was in Barcelona, Spain and had a chance to visit the Picasso museum. I really enjoyed seeing Picasso's work but couldn't help thinking that my uncle's work was better than any of the paintings I saw at the museum. It was an absolute shame and waste of his talent that his artwork never sold. In the art world, along with most other things, you can have the greatest product ever created and unless you can market it properly, no one will ever know about it or take advantage of what you offer.

I can relate to this story because I have spent the majority of my adult life thinking of businesses to start. When I was in Desert Storm, I almost scooped out oil that Saddam had dumped into the Persian Gulf and tried to sell it as kind of a war souvenir but I was in the Persian Gulf on didn't have a way to get it to the U.S. In 1992, I almost started an on line dating website but my wife talked me out it thinking no one would ever use the Internet to find a date. I almost started a company that sold branded bracelets around this same time frame but didn't have the start-up money. I did start a business selling ice cream from a kiosk at a mall in Mankato, Minnesota and another business helping people get money back from overpaid taxes but they both failed.

My only point here is that I have spent a lot of thought trying to start the perfect business and until recently, none of them were all that perfect. Now, I have finally started the perfect business and I am having the same problems my uncle had and still has I have something that is absolutely perfect and need help getting the word out. The business is growing steadily I have signed up about 300 members to this kind of pseudo MLM shopping site but if people really understood how it worked, I should eventually have millions of members.

I do get a chuckle off some of the things that people do to become successful many people are making a ton of money off ideas that aren't that great but for some reason their idea takes off.

Let me know if you can relate.