Good food is happy freedom
Every day is the same day repeating itself, just as 1 second of now.
Inequality is having to get permission or give apology.
JOY is my force field.
On the way to the sushi restaurant...
Craig Grant in 1999
I no longer had the financial support of my girlfriend, and things slowed down for me with music. I had now admitted to myself that I had failed at becoming famous hip hop star and was ready to go back to school. I moved back to my mothers house and cut myself off from most of my music friends. I started night classes at Palm Beach Community college. I hated it. I continued to work with my rap group ACU to complete their album, but stopped with everything after that. Julie was working in a salon and would occasionally come to visit me. We talked allot on the phone at night while I worked delivering pizza. She had some cute girlfriends and I always asked her to hook me up. Our long phone conversations would often venture into sexual subjects. Julie(Yuliana's nick name) had a girlfriend that was bisexual, she often spent the night at Julie’s house and they would pretend to be messing with each other while I was on the phone. One night me and a friend named Mr. Menace picked up Julie and her bisexual friend to hang out. We went to my mothers house and all got drunk. They were scared to have sex with us, but we convinced them to let us watch them. They did a little bit, not much. I was pleased to see Julie in just her panties for the first time. I was so drunk and started talking about my childhood for a long time.
I was desperate to find a way out of my mothers house and out of school. I started thinking maybe now it’s time to find a rich old woman, my last resort to wealth. Early in the year I found a flier advertising Unlimited long distance for a flat rate of $59 per month. I could tell this was a new company and new technology, and I wanted to get involved. The company was International Communications Corporation from Boca Raton, Fl. I called them and asked if there was a away I could make $$ promoting their service. They signed me up as a reseller making $25 per new customer plus 10% of the recurring phone bill. I made fliers and advertised the service in the local news paper. I made a web site called LongDistanceFlat.com that was programmed to sign up new customers online. At first my web site collected the customer information, then I would print and fax the order. When I started the service was only available locally, but the company grew fast and then it was available nationwide. I started learning how to promote my web site online to get more customers. I started getting checks in the mail. I was happy to be making $$ this way. It took allot of work but I was working for myself without a boss on my back and making my own hours, I liked it. I spent all the $$ I made delivering pizza on promoting LongDistanceFlat.com.
In August my daily routine was to deliver pizza and get on the Internet, I quit school. My mother was concerned. One Saturday night she yelled at me to get out the house and go party, she was all dressed up to go out. She said I was spending too much time on that dam computer. I told her “This is going to pay off”. My only friends in this time was Lesmes and Julie. Me and Lesmes were doing music, and Julie would visit about 3 times per week. I started showing her all the cool stuff I am doing online and how I am making $$ with it. I also showed her a personal ad I had on excite.com to find a girlfriend. I had a few responses and went on a couple dates, but nothing good. Julie put a personal ad in excite.com just for the fun of it, she got hundreds of responses in just 2 days, it was overwhelming. She read the messages and laughed. She brought a very sexy friend to my house once, her name was Sophie. Julie started looking better now that she had been working in the salon, she also had a nice car, a red convertible Mustang.
While promoting LongDistanceFlat.com I started a promotion offering a free cordless phone to new customers. Free stuff offers got allot of attention online, and it was easy to get links on free stuff sites for my offer. I started surfing the Internet to find free stuff sites to place my offer. I noticed how well built these sites were and everything was free. I knew there was $$ being made and I wanted to know how to make it too. I dug deeper and after a month I figured out what affiliate programs were. Many of the free offers were companies collecting information and would pay me up to $1.00 for a name and address and send a free product to that customer.
In three months I taught myself how to use Front Page and launched my first free stuff site free4women.com in late 1999. I made the free4wmaon.com site with 2 pages, 1 page with the TOP 100 FREE STUFF offers online, all these offers I get paid $$. The other page was a collection of legitimate FREE beauty product offers for women. These offers were REAL free offers that I did not get paid for, but was a GREAT way to market the site to get traffic. I worked VERY HARD loooong hours to market my site with every tool available to me. I created a personality called “Janet” for posting in forums..ect, because free stuff surfers respond more to women online than men. I had spent about $500 of my own $$ and I made that $500 back before I was able to spend more, so the site was paying for itself and then some. One of my biggest offers was an online bank called x.com (now PayPal). They offered $20 free to open a bank account online, and $20 for very person your refer, deposited to your x.com online bank account. X.com also sent a visa debit card for the account. The online form to open the account was one page, and short. You would see the $20 instantly in your new online bank account. I promoted that offer and made $2000 per week. I spent most of the $$ I made on promoting the web site. My web site was making $5,000 per month. I had an account with LinkShare.com and made about $10,000 for my first big check, it was scheduled to arrive in January 2000. I was worried about Y2K.
longdistanceflat.com @ https://web.archive.org/web/19991128041952/http://www.longdistanceflat.com/
free4women.com @ https://web.archive.org/web/20000816005758/http://www.free4women.com/beauty.htm
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Guess it didnt worked out with the Boost payment.... I used it as well but i cant see any effects.... not worth it in my opinion.
guess boost payments is a steem dollar black hole, and that makes it a good thing for those vested in steem power, it's just like paying taxes
Nice post Craig! Gives us a lil more insight into your personal background story...Sounds like those days were wild man! Lol
Hey Craig, Youtube won't show that driving video because of the Mahogany sample. Sick shot doh.
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I've always admired a true entreprenuer that won't give up. Everyone's nitch is out there but many people are too lazy to find it. Keep it up and be Blessed.