Our Ms. Honey (Ellen Valinski) and I attended an all-day
seminar over 5 years ago on starting a web based business. The two of us along
with Paul decided to create VALMARICH. We came up with the name by using parts
of each of our last names. So we became
Valmarich, LLC, a Florida based company. We purchased license for the website
and I became the web master.
Our first site was SurpriseArrivals.com; this was a Gift
basket and Unique gift site. We developed contracts with several suppliers and
did quite well our first two years. Honey and I developed a Blog to accompany
the site that featured articles on party planning, recipes and daily life
events. Then the economy took a turn and being a small business we could not
offer the free shipping that the larger sites could offer. Our great little
business started losing money and we decided to close SurpriseArrivals.com.
We then took our company name and revamped the site into
an Educational and information based website, Valmarichllc.com. We had links to
a vast array of educational sites for professionals to earn their continuing
education credits. We purchased licenses to eBooks and other educational
material for purchase through the site. We continued our Blog and incorporated
educational articles along with our weekly rants from recipes, party planning
and just everyday life.
The site has continued for the past 2.5 years making
just enough to offset some cost of operation but not a true money maker.
VALMARICH then developed a new site 2 years ago called LineDanceNews.com. This
site is an education/Information site for the dance community. We now host
Stella Cabeca's website and offers its own blog entries on entertainment,
dance, music and Stella's life story just to mention a few topics.
Ms. Honey passed away earlier this year and writing the
blog was just not the same for me. I floundered along most of this year but the
spark of building a web based business was not there. My friend Luke inspired
me to write again but I still was not able to focus on building the business.
After much reflection, Paul and I have decided to
dismantle VALMARICH, LLC as of December 31, 2013. Valmarichllc.com went off
line as of September 1, 2013. It has
been a great experience and I have learned a great deal about operating a web
based business. Unfortunately, we just have not hit upon our sweet target
product.
Although the dream, Ms. Honey and I had back 5 year plus
to build a web based business is being put to rest. I will always remember her
zeal for trying something new. Valmarich may be going away but LineDanceNews
is not. I will focus on further development of LINEDANCENEWS.COM and continue
being Stella's webmaster for her site.
Luke showed me how to live life and inspired me to write. I will
continue my weekly ranting on the blog which will now be LineDanceNews and
Larry B’s Blog. NEW ADDRESS www.linedancenews.blogspot.com
It is now time to follow Luke’s example and live life to
its fullest. Full steam ahead and first step accomplished for me by taking
dance classes.
So we say good bye to one dream and work toward the future.
Who knows our next great thing may just be around the corner but unless you are
willing to move forward you will never
know…
Keep dancin' Larry B.
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