Beginning back in September we began this process with Thrive Learning Institute and really thought that we would have GREAT support and information regarding setting up an internet site for us. It is now January 2009 and we have not sold the first thing off our internet site. My site is www.fountainretreat.com and if you want to see a great site go there and see ALL the very involved time I have put into this site... It is very in depth and put together very well but I did not have too much support from Thrive... The only time that I actually talked to them is if I ran into a tree stump that I could not figure out. I did it almost ultimately by myself...in fact I ran into quite a few technical things on their end that I had to go back and forth with that cost me about 3 weeks in getting my site up and running...Fin ally I got it all together in the end of November and like I said it is very technical...You have to set up a lot of things and then you have tons of people calling you on the phone wanting SOME MORE of your money to get it so you have enough hits on the internet to get you close to front page... I never did pay anybody any more money but My beginning expense was $19, 000.00 and I have earned ZERO in 3-4 months... I hope that everyone will think twice before going with this scam...Actually everyone that works for Thrive the Couselors as they are called actually have at least one maybe 2-4 sites of THEIR OWN that they have up and running and I would venture to say they did not have to pay $19000. for their sites... BUT anyway PLEASE Think twice before you actually let anyone talk you into this venture... I was definately talked into believing this even though I knew I would have to put a lot of work into it...I WAS VERY WILLING TO DO THE WORK...LOOK AT MY SIITE... Anyway It is MUCH MORE INVOLVED than anyone tells you on the phone...They told me are you willing to spend 10 hours a week to get this site going and I said yeah no problem... WELL I actually spent about twice that amount and a lot of my own foot work..Everytime I called someone it was up to me to tell them all the specifics and they would email me information to read and things to watch on their site to give me more info...BUT very little direct input from any one of them... Just a word of caution... You may not want to invest in this business as you will probably never get your money back unless you want to spend a lot on a lawyer. Just my words of wisom. Heed my warnings... Cindy Himmel