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Success stories abound on the Internet.Everywhere you turn someone is achieving their goals.Here are a few people who are enjoying their Internet experience.

• Rick and Ralph Fazio.These twin brothers had an idea for helping people celebrate special occasions by planting 50 three-foot pink plastic flamingos in their front lawns, along with a sign celebrating the occasion.Their business became a national phenomenon overnight when they launched a website. People around the country wanted to start their own Flamingo Surprise business. And where did they get the pink flamingos, cows, frogs, and other supplies?From Rick and Ralph's Web site: www.flamingosurprise.com.
  
  Rick Fazio says that it still blows him away, that he can wake up in the morning to 10 and even 20 thousand dollars in sales on the website.Best night's sleep he's ever had!

• Neil McKinnel and his two friends, Mark Horton and Tom Williams loved snowboarding, skateboarding and other extreme sports. Through the years, they came in contact with great wholesale sources for funky, Generation X and Y gear. And they saw a way to reach that marketplace much less expensively, exclusively through the Internet. So Neil and friends created www.fusion.com. They e-mailed everyone they knew to let them know they were going online. In the first hour after bringing up their site, they had a visitor and before the end of the day, they sold their first snowboard. In the next four months, sales were 87,000 dollars. Twelve months later, over 500,000 dollars. And in 1999, five million dollars.
  
  Williams said the company is projecting a 900% jump in sales by year's end. "The market for snowboarding and other extreme sports is a perfect candidate for an e-commerce venture," says Williams. According to a 1998 Transworld Media reader survey, 90% of all snowboarders use the Internet and 53% say they buy goods online.



• Matt Heaton owned a computer store and saw a way to free himself as well as make money with the Internet. So Matt sold the store and went online. The reason is simple. It took 16 employees to run the computer store and only two to run two Internet stores, www.hardwareplanet.com and www.compwarehouse.com. Here's the clincher. He averaged only $15,000 per employee/per month in sales in the retail store. With his e-commerce enabled web sites the average revenue per employee/per month was an astounding $150,000!

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