So far you have read a couple pages and you have met my family. I need to take you back several years so you get a full understanding of what I have been through. Adversity is something I have learned and I have overcome many things. The old saying "what does not kill you makes you stronger" is true. On the same token it is not fun!
A brief overview of what has happened to me. When I was 22 I started a small business and by the time I was 26 I was running a million dollar company. Did I make mistakes? Of course I did. I was young cocky and thought I knew pretty much everything. I soaked myself in business books and self educated myself in all aspects of the business world. I conducted business with some of the wealthiest people in the US so I was able to learn much from them. I also was an idiot in other aspects of my business. For example I should not have bought that H-1 Hummer I should of put a good attorney on retainer! In business you will have issues come up, all companies do. At the age of 28 I shut down my company after having some major issues come up ( I will explain later). Long story short I had a couple customers out of the hundreds that year complain. I felt it was good business to shut down my operation until I had everything fixed. I was trying to be responsible. It turned out that some of these people took it as a sign of guilt or weakness. I was living a very high lifestyle so it took about 30k per month to pay my bills and keep everything up. So when I shut down I first thought it was just going to be for a few months but it turned out to be much longer. I ended up selling my ranch, trucks, SUV's, and I lost my Hummer to the bank :(. Everything I had worked for was gone. It was a huge blow and it hurt to watch my dreams and hard work go. What happened next was just shocking. A few people started posting on sites like Rip off report, blogs, etc that I shut down because I was a dishonest person. The things they wrote were lies and at first I thought no one in there right mind would believe it.
Then competitors chimed in using false names "jumping on the band wagon" After years of being out produced by the young kid they had there chance to take a shot. Then old "friends" jumped in saying "that's why they lived so well"???? Yeah idiots I lived in a million dollar home and drove 100k cars because I stole from these 3 people totaling 30k??? How does that add up? America, it does not add up. I lived well because I worked my butt off and ran a good business.
So now I was pretty broke and all of a sudden my name was mud. Family, friends and competitors all rubbed it in. One thing I learned quickly was when your on top there are many people waiting for you to fall.
I had 3 girls at this time and my wife. My girls were young and I was young even though I felt very old. Because I shut down the local law enforcement did an investigation mainly based on the these 3 people calling them daily and posting horrible things about me. A detective actually brought the postings to one of the interviews! After 6 months of investigations they said it was not criminal and I had done nothing wrong. But now my business was gone, my name was mud and I was broke. Just how these people wanted it!
Phase 11
I was homeless living in my RV 8 months after this happened! 3 kids and my wife, no money, no house and my good name was gone. I took the last little bit of cash I had about 3k and started another business. I served hot dogs at a local resort. Far from my high roller status I was now serving hot dogs off my little cart for 2 bucks a pop! I had no car so I had to ride my bike 18 miles round trip in order to provide for my family. I also had to be very careful since these people were now hunting me and they were posting about me daily. Where is he? What's he doing? He's wanted by the police? All lies but to people reading it, it looks real. People would read these lies and cast judgement about me. I could not hold my head up and everyone I knew seemed to be rubbing it in.
I had no money to hire a qualified law firm so I was screwed. In this country if you are being damaged and its civil you have to have deep pockets to take action. If you don't you are alone!
A customer I had and that knew what was going on said to me "Zach no one at my level will judge you for failing, that's part of business and we have all been there. However we will judge your come back so make it count". This came from a billionaire so I took that very serious.
My first come back was within a year. It actually had the ability to launch and take a 7 digit figure with it. However these cyber stalkers were now attacking it! WHY? They did not and do not want me to live. They attack everything I do. So they attacked a young company posting all sorts of bad things and shut it down. How does that happen? Well its like this. A company is strong and doing well. Then 2-4 people using 10 fake names each start attacking. So now it looks like there are 20-40 customers who have been "cheated or Ripped off" What happens? Sales decline and you go out of business!
It's tragic I have 12-15 employees and of course my family. Each employee has a wife and children and they all look to me to make good choices and to safe guard there jobs. It was another heart break and another struggle. Before long I was having real customers say things like " I feel cheated " "But a $1,000.00 cash would make me feel better and if you don't pay I will blog about you" That's extortion folks! But it happened. They never felt cheated they were just taking advantage of my position.
I lost everything again! second time in 2 years. At this point I had moved from Colorado back to my home state of Georgia. Being closer to family made all of us feel a little safer.
I then took about 5k and launched another business. Once again It is a very different style of business. I was by trade a dog trainer and owned and ran one of the largest protection dog kennels in the US. When I lost that I started selling hot dogs on the street and then I began building the very style cart I had been working. Selling carts all over the US. When that business "Mobile Business Solutions" was attacked I started over for a 3rd time in a different field.
I am currently running a national company that was built 2 years ago with only 5k. Two years later our gross sales are nearly 3million dollars. Even with my name like mud! I also own several small businesses retail stores, .coms etc.. In this blog I have two main objectives. 1. Clear up my name with the help of my two attorneys of course and number 2. Show people how I made such epic come backs. If I could share my experiences and help someone else launch a business that would be very cool.
No one could argue I know how to start and run a business. Even the crazy people who attack my name on a daily basis are frustrated with how I manage to do it. Everyone has experiences in life the trick is to pull the wisdom out of those experiences and use it for good.
It does not take money to make money. I am proof of that. Every business I have started was on a very tight budget. in most cases less than five grand. What it takes is a good idea and lots of hard work. Even despite people trashing my name I have marched on. Its been painful at times but I never loose site of my goals.
God has been with me the entire time. Even when I felt lost or completely beat down I knew my God was there. I remember being homeless living down by a river in Colorado praying to God. I prayed " God, whatever the lesson here is. Please make me a good student because I never want to retake this class".
My wife stuck by me like a champ. She said to me " Don't let these people take away who you really are. I married you because I love you not for money. Heck you were 19 and broke! "Your smart and you have a gift so just fix this as fast as you can". I did the best I could. I don't understand why these people attacked me in the first place. They all signed contracts and they all broke them. I tried to reason with them and tried to make an honorable resolution. They wanted blood not peace. It broke my heart when they pulled photo's off my wife's facebook account and stuck my innocent children on hurtful websites. Saying " I abused my kids and they were going without". My kids have never gone without. Yes at times they had what they needed and not what they wanted, but my girls are 100% well cared for. And even now when I have money they still do not get everything they want. My girls are not worldly kids. They love Jesus and they love life.
One lady named Sharon "I'm sure you have read her post" Actually posted that I was a sex criminal? ARE YOU KIDDING ME. The crazy part is people have actually thrown that up? Do people not fact check anymore? It's very easy. If I was arrested for a sex crime I would be a registered sex offender. I'm NOT.
Further more the arresting document she posted was that of a 50 year old black man in SC. I'm 32 and white! But the effect she was looking for remains. People look down at me from time to time based on these lies. It's very hard but I get through it.
I introduce myself as Zach Singleton coupled with a firm hand shake.
Thank you for reading.
My next post I will dive into the current legal actions I am taking against these people and also show you how I build a business with little overhead. Or at least the first couple steps I take.
Thanks
UPDATED 6/8/13 Sat
This is sure to get the cyber stalkers mad. But O-well :)
I am asked often "how do you do it"? Do what? "Make money, deal with the internet, all of it"?
I actually get phone calls from this blog from people all over the US. Many are letting me know they are coming up to buy a trailer and want to shake my hand, I have had people pray for me and my family it's super cool.
I even get the call asking about business?
There is no secret to my life. I sleep great every night, I have a wonderful relationship with my wife and girls and I love everyday.
The first secret is really not a secret. I 100% Love my God. I surrender everything to him both my victories and my problems.
In business I always look for ANY opportunity to create a business. I do not look at the negative side, and work does not scare me. I work 18 hours most days and I own several businesses. From Ice cream to manufacturing.
America listen up. If I can go out and build a Million Dollar company with my name in the MUD think about what you could do?
Most people talk themselves out of doing something great. Even though I fully believe God created all of us to do greatness in one way or another. So if you were created for greatness how could you fail? Well several ways :) However its all based on your decisions on based on luck or otherwise.
I know people that rent out office space in bulk. They pay low fees based on the bulk them sub-lease the space to others. This one guy I met makes 5k per month doing this. That's not bad considering his up front expense was only 3k.
It's fairly easy- Look around your home or city and see what people use and need. If you opened up a toilet paper manufacturing business you would be a millionaire over night. Why- Everyone uses it!
Now if you opened it up in some jungle in south America you might go belly up. So you use common since and you study your markets.
That's basically what I do. I look around and then I build/create/or buy out that business.
I LOVE mobile based on the fact you can go to the customers. Food, bike repair, fishing shop, picture frame, car wash, etc. Its very profitable not being tied down to a location.
It's also important to me to do for my community. I don't care what it is, but giving back and helping folks is high on my list. Which is why the internet talk about me is so funny and hurtful at the same time. I would rather give you a car than steal or cheat you out of a dollar.
So that's the first step. Stop telling yourself you can't do it and channel your energy and thoughts and make it happen. If you fail who cares! Get up dust your self off and try again.
God Bless you America!
Zach Singleton.
