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TPW began as a mechanism to help non-writers promote their online businesses through the use of free-reprint articles. Between March of 2001 and September of 2003, Bill ghosted hundreds of articles for his clients. From the very beginning, Bill had been using a script he had written for the purpose of getting TPW articles delivered to thousands of publishers and webmasters. Along about October of 2002, Bill realized that other writers might be interested in using a spin-off article distribution service. So, he quickly adapted his scripts to be used for the promotion of free-reprint articles that had been written by other writers. By the early Summer of 2003, Bill had began to recognize that he was earning more steady income and more dollars per hour from the distribution side of the equation than he was from the ghost writing side of the equation. A decision was made in September of 2003 to do away with the ghost writing altogether and to focus all of his efforts on the distribution services. By January of 2004, it had become painfully obvious that the Phantom Writers site had outgrown its original design. The original design was meant to be simple and easy to follow. The truth is, it was great when the site only showcased ten, tweny or one hundred articles. But once the site began to showcase two and three hundred articles, it began to lose its easy-to-navigate heritage. January 2004 marks the date when we began to overhaul the layout and the programming behind the site. We seek to return to our simpler days with a site that provides better navigation and service to its users. Other key dates include: July 11, 1999 - Bill Platt began his first ezine which was designed to help teach people --- both newbies and experienced computer users --- how to use and troubleshoot their own computers. His first ezine is no longer in publication, but existed under the names "F5 Computing and Technical Support Newletter" and then "The Windstorm Computing and Technical Support Newsletter." The change in the name of his ezine was predicated by a Trademark issue. During the two years Bill's ezine was in regular publication, he had received many awards recognizing his ezine as a high-quality publication. From April of 2000 to early 2003, Bill also published "Bill Platt's Power Marketing Magazine". As the founder of the "American Icons - Best of the Web!" ezine, Bill received several more awards and recognitions from his peers in the two years that he published this ezine. March of 2000 - In January, Bill had written his very first article and submitted it to the now defunct "InternetDay" ezine. After having forgotten about the submission of this article, he was notified by the staff of InternetDay.com that his article had been chosen to be featured in the InternetDay ezine. Within a few days of the publication of Bill's article, he began to receive inquiries from other online companies asking about his services. Three weeks later, Bill had checked his server's traffic logs and realized that thousands of unique visitors had been to his website in the days and weeks following the publication of his article in InternetDay. April and May of 2000 - Based on the results that Bill received from the publication of one article in the InternetDay ezine, he made the decision that he should invest some time in generating new articles for release to other ezines. He launched his Internet writing career with six articles that were released between April and May of 2000. After six weeks, Bill stopped writing articles for a time... That is until he completed a tracking report of the six articles he did release. By examining his server logs, Bill realized that he had received tens of thousands of new visitors as a direct result of ezines and websites that had published his articles. Bill took the time to determine where his articles had been published and the estimated subscriber base of the ezines that had published his articles. The combined subscriber base of the ezines that had published his six articles was nearly 1.5 million people! This was the beginning of Bill's efforts to continually release articles to promote his businesses. Having spent more than four years online in the Summer of 2000, he had never generated as much traffic to his domain between 1995 and 2000 as he had in the summer of 2000! A Short Glimpse into the Past Born in 1965, Bill was born and raised in Oklahoma. Through the spring of 2003, all but eleven of his years were spent in his admitted hometown of Ponca City, Oklahoma, which is just south of the Kansas border in central Oklahoma. Since May of 2003, Bill and his family have resided in Enid, Oklahoma, 70 miles to the southwest of Ponca City. Bill has worked in restaurants, the computer industry and in sales. He has worked as a waiter, computer technician, computer programmer, substitute teacher, a radio dj, a salesperson and he has worked in management. Along the way, he had even done a couple of years under contract teaching visual basic programming in an adult continuing education vo-tech school. March of 2002 - For more than 3 years, Bill had been self-employed on a full-time basis --- one year of which he had worked as a computer programmer, another year had been spent running an import business, and the other year included his first year running thePhantomWriters. With the coming of his second child, Bill returned to work to supplement his income from thePhantomWriters and began working as a full-time consumer electronics retail sales person and is the store's assistant manager. As a commissioned sales person, he was constantly on alert to improve his overall skills as a salesman so that he can improve his overall financial condition. He was also on point to learn how to motivate his employees to be better sales people since part of his wages were bonus driven. As a work-a-holic, Bill spent 50+ hours per week at his day job, and more than 40 a week taking care of his online business. During the month of December, he trimmed his online time to meet the demands of the Christmas season in retail sales. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas day, he was in the store for nearly 90 hours per week, which left very little time for taking care of his home business. He had always told friends and family that one day "I may return to my online business as my only form of income, but not until my day job begins costs me more money than it earns for me." September of 2004 - Bill realized that his requirement for leaving his day job had been met. He was making more money from his online work than he was earning from his day job. Not only that, in order to keep his online business alive, he was having to push harder and harder to keep things running smoothly. The time had come when his day job was starting to limit the growth of his online business. Through May of 2004, his schedule was the same. He worked his day job from 9 in the morning until 9 in the evening. He then went home to work his home business until 1 a.m. In May of 2004, he began the slide of his schedule. He was now having to stay up until 2 a.m. to get his work done, and then back to the job at 9 a.m. Bill was seeing the kinds of results he wanted to see. The online money was good. If he were to quit his day job, he was earning enough online to pay all of his bills and still have money left over. His business had grown to the point where he did not need to have an external job, and the slow creep of growth was keeping him up later and later to keep up with the load. He made the decision to work through the 2004 Christmas season, and then to leave sometime after the first of the year, 2005. He just had to convince his wife of the wisdom of the move. In November of 2004, Bill's 2 a.m. nights gave way to 3 a.m. nights. And the Christmas season gave way to 4 a.m. nights, and back to work at 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. When the Christmas season was finally over, his daytime hours shrunk back to the 9 to 9 schedule, but his online time was firm at 4 a.m., sometimes 5 a.m. January of 2005 - Shortly past the first of the year, Bill approached his wife with the news. At first she freaked, but she slowly came around to Bill's point of view. By the end of January, Bill's wife was on board for the change. To ensure that his co-workers would be able to get their vacations as scheduled, Bill set his termination date for March 31st, 2005. April 15th of 2005 - Bill is now full-time online and working a schedule that is much friendlier to the needs of his family. After two weeks of flying solo, he says that he only has two real issues. First, he sometimes feels that he should be doing something other than his computer. He said, "It sometimes feels like I am suffering from work withdrawals. I know that I don't miss the job or the hours, but it is strange not having to go to a job for a change. I have spent the last 2-1/2 years of my life away from my family to provide for their needs, and now, I am at home all of the time. It just feels like I am not doing enough sometimes." Second, he is struggling with how to reset his schedule. For the past couple of years, he has not known what it was like to have a normal person's life. And now, it seems to be a bit of a struggle to find a schedule for him to fit into. The good news is that the plans Bill has had on the drawing board, for the last year or so, are now well on their way to coming to fruition. He has many improvements in mind for thePhantomWriters program, and Bill has finally found the time to get to work on making those improvements a reality at long last. March of 2006 - Since Bill has been self-employed once again, he realized that he and his family were no longer tied down to one city or another. And since Enid Oklahoma was not an attractive town for him or his wife, they decided to pull up stakes and move to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Stillwater offered several advantages. One, it was closer to Ponca City, his hometown, so when the wife got in the car to go visit her family and friends, the trip was not so distant. Two, it was not Ponca City. ;-) Bill just would not like living there again... too small. Three, Stillwater offered more activities for him and his family, since it is a college town. Bill likes the bigger towns, but cities like Oklahoma City and Tulsa are simply a bit too big. Besides, he felt he needed to choose residency based on where his kids could get a good education without the dangers that accompanies big city living. So, Stillwater was the destination of choice... Close to home, Safer and more Secure, with a little something for Bill and the family to do in their spare time. Between us, Bill would have preferred a coastal destination, but his wife would never agree to such a location. She is intimidated by hurricanes, and besides that, it is simply too far away from friends and family. 2007 - Bill is married and has two children --- one boy was born in February of 2000 and the other boy was born in September of 2002. And then the news that shook the world for Bill's wife. The child that they are expecting in October of 2007 will not be a girl, like she wanted. Instead, we are going to have another boy! People three rooms away could hear her shrill, "NO!!! You gotta be pulling my leg!" {actually a different euphemism, but this is a family website.} In March of 2006, no longer being held to a location by a job, Bill moved his family to Stillwater, Oklahoma, because it offered a better quality of life to him and his family. If you have any questions at all about our program, please feel free to review our Frequently Asked Questions or to drop Bill a personal note. Bill can also be reached by phone at: 405-780-7745 (office) 9am-6pm CST Mon-Fri 580-747-2000 (cell)  Get Customized Advertising Plates for Your Vehicle. Advertise Your Online Business While You are Travelling from Place to Place. 
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