"Take someone to other side of river and you will get there yourself."

Ron: How did that change you? Kiki: Simplicity. But many don't get it because they are so caught up in "me" that it goes above their heads...I was like that..so hell bent on making my riches I didn't see other guy!

Now, and for last 9 months I have concentrated on "the other person" and guess what... *I* am succeeding!

I can see light at end of tunnel...I am finally able to relax and enjoy Internet and it's abundance! Ron: You must have run into some people on line who have helped you turn your thinking around. Who might that have been?

Kiki: There are many people online willing to help others. Before I started my e-zine I met Cathy Bryant of Homebizjunction. Even though she was extremely busy with her own e-zine and work..at that time she even had a full time job outside her home. But Cathy took time to give me tips and guide me. That impressed me.

Dave Reno of Netriches is my all-time mentor..when Dave says I've got a good opportunity for you..I go for it. Dave has never steered me wrong. Since then I have met many people who are real, honest people willing to help others out. Most are e-zine owners like yourself, Terri Seymour, Dave Main, Dave Cole just to mention a few.

You have said in an article you wrote..there is help out here for those who need it and want it. We are very obvious in our respective e-zines by offering various free methods...people just need to take advantage of them. Although, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink!

Ron: That's what Zig Ziglar has been saying for years: "Help enough people get what they want and you'll get what you want." Kiki: It's people like Zig Ziglar and others who have made their living "teaching" MLM concept. You either get it or you don't. You either succeed or you don't.

I teach time and patience...we "want" to believe hype..that we can become rich overnight..but it just won't work. Spend your time scamming people and you might make a buck here and there, but spend your time learning, reading and planning for success and you may not make a fortune *now* but you will have a successful business that will last a lifetime. Your decision..;)

Ron: What do you see in future for cyber businesses? Especially with way our economy is going right now.

Kiki: I'm a down home, small town, Texas gal..I do not keep up with economy, government, Wall Street...or any of that stuff. I don't know what I could say about future of cyber business. The dot coms have been dropping like flies and that has stock market in a tizzy..I do know that much.

This new generation is very techie minded not business minded...they need to merge with Corporate America and work with them not against them.

Ron: This has been great communicating with you. I love your 'ramblings'. Do you have any final thoughts to leave us with?

Kiki: On news, we see people conducting experiments of isolating themselves in houses with nothing in them and seeing if they can live for a certain amount of time just off Internet...like *why*?

This is *not* healthy! I teach as part of a schedule you need to have *balance* in your life. You can't stay on Internet 24/7 and still be productive! This is addicting and I am probably worst one to preach this...but you need to get offline and interact with other people. Get out of house..exercise...move...be... do something else!

Is it my fault?

How about media? Oh, we hyped it all right. But we hype everything. Right now we're hyping crash. The dramatic rise of Internet bubble has been business story of my professional career. Of course we're going to cover it with raving enthusiasm. But remember, deep skepticism ran through business press simultaneously with gushing over New Economy. All told, I think business media did a balanced job reporting dot com raise and collapse.

Does all this mean I don't blame anybody? Yes, pretty much. The dot com phenomenon has included both successes and failures every step of way. Even now, with those dire statistics of Internet crashes, I can make a case for continued success of e-business transformation.

What about all this good news?

Did you know that virtually every large company is still hip-deep in process of re-making itself into a Internet-centric entity? More than 50 percent of corporate capital spending is going to information technology, up from 15 percent in 1990. Did you know growth in consumer spending over Internet will exceed 45 percent this year? Spending at travel sites alone will grow more than 50 percent. Did you know total spending over Internet will exceed half a trillion dollars this year, far beyond craziest dream of just three years ago? In Internet world, these are best of times and these are worst of times.