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Highest Education Completed: High school

Year Started Business: 2002

Type Of Business: Software

Target Market: People without programming experience who want to create software applications

Number Of Employees: Six

Best Month (Gross Revenues): $87,000, from selling the Mark Joyner Farewell Package as an affiliate

Hours Worked Per Week During Startup Phase: "Very few, as I was also going to school and holding down a job. About 15 or so, maybe."

Hours Worked Per Week Now: "75 hours + because I'm building a single-focus, long-term serious business now. I see myself as more of a business builder now, rather than an entrepreneur."

Favorite Business Magazines: Business 2.0, Wired, and Forbes

Favorite Business Books Or Authors: MindControlMarketing.com, by Mark Joyner—"Many will agree this is probably the best book ever written about buying psychology on or offline." Good to Great, by Jim Collins—"It's a perfect blueprint for how to build a successful company." Triggers, by Joe Sugarman—"Probably the 2nd best book ever written about buying psychology."

Relaxes By: Exercising, playing guitar, recording music, and hanging out with friends

Keeps In Shape By: Weight lifting and doing cardio workouts

Favorite Part Of The Job: "I love seeing people change their lives with the software I create. That's my greatest joy."

Least Favorite Part Of The Job: "Waiting for the results of marketing tests. I'm very impatient and I want to see results immediately."

Companies Admired: Mark Joyner's old Aesop.com, Google, and Toyota

Favorite Quotes:

Dream like you'll live forever, and live like you'll die tomorrow. -James Dean

Do or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

It is not possible to fail in this world. The only way you won't get to where you want to be is if you stop trying to get there. Until then, you're on your way. -Mike Chen

The Person Who Most Influenced His Life: "My parents had the greatest influence on my life. My father brought himself up out of extreme adversity in China to become one of the most popular musicians in the country, and my mother is one of the world's top Chinese language experts. Their examples are what inspires me the most."

Special Business Achievements/Honors: "I am known to have created the first 'fly-in ads,' and the site I launched them from received over 4 million hits in the first five days of its launch. I was also the biggest seller of the Mark Joyner Farewell Package, selling over 300 copies. I also created the first Web page locking software on the Internet: WebLock Pro.

Months Before Achieving A Profit: "I lost a lot of money in my first few months and then reached profitability once I started creating products for myself and getting involved in affiliate programs that weren't scams."

Books/Tapes/Reports Authored: "There are several included for free for customers of my "Make Your Own Software" product available at: http://www.MakeYourOwnSoftware.com/rbeckwith."