The Chaos Of Running Your Own Business

You think you're going nuts because you're starting a business? I was in those footsteps almost six years ago when I started WorldWide Publications & Media.

I was all but pulling my hair out worrying about availability of work. In the first year of operation, WWPM fixed almost 200 computers, 40 servers and created and/or maintained 175 websites prior to moving my business to Canton, Missouri and Culver-Stockton College.

Within the almost four years in Missouri, I struggled to keep afloat until January 2007, where my work would range from the Quad Cities (Burlington & Bettendorf, IA, Rock Island & Moline, IL) to as far south as Cape Girardeau, MO. We have even gone as far west as Indianapolis and as far west as San Francisco. (Please keep in mind that 75% of the clients we work or worked with involved little to no travel!)

You're really thinking I'm nuts.....after what will be six years this March, we have accomplished this much outside of the normal work we do:

• We have ongoing business relationships with Synergy Technical Solutions Corporation, OnForce, Barrister Global Services and FieldSolutions.
• We operate four online-exclusive radio stations and one online-exclusive TV station.
• We run a $650,000 eBay auction operation and this division has only existed for a year!
• We launched the first phase of our five-phase plan involving the music industry by starting a musician management agency. This is all part of the five-phase, fifteen-year plan to launch a record label and recording studio in Central Illinois.

If you wanted to put a value on it (and I assure you, I'm not interested in going out of business anytime soon!), all of the combined businesses now collectively known as WWPM Holdings Corporation would be valued around $2.5 million.