Hey, it's Jim. Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio, your home of more success stories, more

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here today. Local. That's kind of the theme word for this episode, local. And if I had to put

people into two different categories, as far as who seems to make it long term and who doesn't

make it long term in this business. The people who find a

community, the people who are involved, especially locally, are just so more grounded and

prepared for the long term. This is a lesson that I've pounded in indirectly to the show at

several different points in the past. It's a biblical concept without question,

and I can explain that further, but local. And let me pose this question so we can get right to

the heart of the matter. When you consider an internet business in your brain, do you process it as,

oh, cool, a business I can run without having to deal with people. I just sit down, got my computer,

got my keyboard. It's me working away doing what I do and the money comes in if I do it well

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