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SECTION 4 - REINVENTION, LEGACY, AND THE FINAL TESTIMONY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: REINVENTION AS A WAY OF LIFE
As technology and markets changed, I continued developing new ideas. Over time, my online business portfolio would include ventures such as:
AmeriShop.biz - business advertising, directory exposure, and online promotion.
AmeriShopServices.com - marketing and services supporting businesses and the AmeriShop network.
RememberedLegacy.com - preserving people's stories, memories, and legacy through permanent profile pages and video.
Aimoble.com - another part of the broader digital-business portfolio.
DealBuz.net - marketplace and promotional activity, including vehicle listings.
LegendHires.com - employment and hiring-related services.
SEOReaper.com - search-engine optimization and digital visibility.
DependableBrokers.com - commercial insurance services.
DependableMissouriInsurance.com - Missouri-focused insurance services.
Towzilla.directory - a specialized towing-industry directory.
DealOutlaws.com - another later venture in the portfolio.
Some ideas grew out of previous businesses. Others were completely new experiments. But each one represented the same habit I developed a long time ago: Keep creating.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: REMEMBERED LEGACY
One project eventually became different from the rest. RememberedLegacy.com.
Remembered Legacy grew from the belief that a human life is worth preserving. Businesses eventually disappear. Websites eventually go offline. Buildings change hands. Cars rust. Money passes from one person to another. But a person's voice, memories, values, experiences, mistakes, accomplishments, and testimony can continue speaking after that person is gone.
A legacy can tell a grandchild who never had the opportunity to meet you: This is who I was.
That idea became increasingly meaningful to me. Because when everything else is stripped away, life is not ultimately measured by how many websites you owned, how many businesses you started, or how much money passed through your hands.
It is measured by what you learned and what you passed on. And perhaps this story itself is part of that legacy.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: WHAT BUSINESS REALLY TAUGHT ME
After decades in business, I learned plenty about selling, advertising, marketing, cash flow, customers, negotiation, technology, and competition. But the greatest business lessons were actually lessons about life.
Work matters. When I started Collections 1, I still worked nights because my dream did not yet pay the bills.
Cash flow matters. A company can appear successful and still fail if the money arrives at the wrong time.
Adaptability matters. When one road closes, you find another one.
People matter. Tony Halderman gave a young man an opportunity. B.J. Miller gave me an office. John and Penny Fisher showed kindness to a boy who remembered it decades later. A small group of loyal friends helped me endure difficult school years. Kathryn changed the direction and quality of my life. Again and again, God worked through people.
And perhaps the most painful lesson: Success does not excuse neglecting the people you love. I had to learn that one at great cost.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: CLOSER THAN A BROTHER
If somebody asked me to identify the common thread running through my entire life, I would not say business. I would say: God.
There were mountains I did not know how to climb. Somehow a road appeared.
Sometimes God changed the situation. Sometimes He changed me. Sometimes He sent a person. Sometimes He allowed me to struggle long enough to understand a lesson I would never have learned otherwise.
Looking backward, I can see things I could not see while I was living them. There were doors that needed to close. There were people I needed to meet. There were mistakes I needed to understand. There were versions of myself I needed to leave behind.
And there were times when God did not take me over the mountain. He simply found a way to move me around it.
God has been closer than a brother throughout my walk.
EPILOGUE: YOUR BEGINNING DOES NOT DETERMINE YOUR ENDING
I started as a little boy watching his family come apart. I was packed into a 1976 Scout II with five other children and taken halfway across the country. I lived in a trailer park. I found refuge in an elementary school. Then I lost the school and friends I loved. I was bullied. I fought back. I left home young. I lived underneath a salon. I worked job after job. I was judged because I did not graduate the way society expected.
Then, in 1992, I plugged a telephone into a little office. And Collections 1 was alive.
I built businesses. I worked nights to keep them alive. I became a minister without spending much time behind a pulpit. I married. I became the father of two boys.
I worked too much. I failed people I loved. I lost my marriage and my home. I was broken. I learned why. And I got up again.
God sent me Kathryn. I continued building.
In 2002, AllBounty.com went online, beginning a roughly twenty-year chapter of my early internet-business history. The internet would eventually become a major part of how I built businesses and reached customers.
I entered politics because I believed government had forgotten who it was supposed to serve. I lost elections. I kept going.
I built websites. I built insurance businesses. I created advertising ventures. I worked in telecommunications. I sold, negotiated, marketed, published, experimented, failed, adapted, and reinvented.
And after all those years, I came to understand something the little boy at the beginning of this story could never have understood:
YOUR BEGINNING DOES NOT DETERMINE YOUR ENDING.
I do not want anyone reading this story to believe that I did everything right. I didn't. That isn't the testimony.
The testimony is that failure does not have to be final.
Being poor does not have to be final.
Being rejected does not have to be final.
Being judged does not have to be final.
A broken marriage does not have to be the end of your life.
A failed business does not have to be your last business.
A closed door does not mean there isn't another road.
Keep your faith. Work hard. Treat people the way you would want them to treat you. Own your mistakes. Learn the lesson. Get back up.
And when somebody else is struggling, remember how badly you once needed somebody to give you a chance.
Because sometimes the person God sends to help them... is you.
Randy Dinwiddie The DealMaker
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