Ask Me Why… Work From Home

Here’s why I love working from home… it’s called FLEXIBILITY.

Having spent more time relieving the folks at the Senior Center, and getting a very clear understanding of their position, I’ve been encouraged to plan for their retirement, and for me to take over the account.

The main question of whether my body will stand up to the work load has been answered with an affirmative, especially when I know I have to very able assistants.

That means I’ll be resigning from the BookWise opportunity. I’m doing this as I feel I can’t really juggle the farm, a network marketing business, and writing “our story”, as well as working three days a week.

I am continuing to maintain an online presence, mostly through blogging.

With all the changes in EntreCard, rather than try to completely update with “old stats”, I’ll comment more on the updates and changes… all for the betterment of blogworld.

Sorry about the absence. For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been “helping out” at our local Senior Center. The food service contractor had a “family emergency” so I’ve been filling in. After all, until I retired 12 years ago, I did cook for large groups.

I’m slowly catching up, and will post my results with Project Wonderful, BookWise, and my “traffic generation” results with EntreCard in future posts.

See y’all soon!

Shari

If there’s one thing that will sink your business like a rock, it’s the temptation to work your business in your spare time.

Hello!! There’s no such thing as spare time.

There’s wasted time… and there’s down time… but spare time is a myth.

What I’m going to do is share my schedule with you. Sure, I don’t commute to a job, but I do have things that could be considered a job… these are tasks I much do each day at a certain time (pretty much like your job, eh).

Beyond that, there are family commitments.  Just because you have a home-based business, that’s no excuse to isolate yourself from your family. You’re gonna need all the support you can get, so don’t alienate them.

There’s also “down time”. That’s when your brain has pretty much said “I quit for the day”. Don’t panic. We all have down time… in fact we need down time so our brains can recover. I use down time to watch my favorite TV programs, to sleep, to play with the dogs, etc.

So, what does my average day look like?

Wake up the first time is generally around 6 AM. I stay in bed (the dogs want morning love). I use this time to mentally reinforce my “to do” list for the day. I’m out of bed around 7 or 7:15 depending upon which one of us three who share a bathroom needs to be out of the house first.

By 8:30AM, I have had my coffee, talked with my roomies, confirmed any last minute schedule changes, played with the dogs, and maybe had breakfast. It’s time to hit the computer, where I spend the first hour and a half.

This is the time I check e-mail, and answer e-mail. I also check all my stats. I post to several forums, so I’ll often swing through quickly and post as necessary (typically only replying to my active threads). I also use this time to read the news (Yahoo and a local TV station news).

About 10AM, it’s time to feed our animals. If I’m by myself, this chore takes up to an hour, depending upon whether I have to haul hay, clean and refill water tanks, and maybe clean the horse corral and stable. If Cindy is here to help, we’re generally done in about 30 minutes or less. This job gets done seven days a week.

After chores is my most creative time. This is from about 10:30 or 11AM until about 2PM when another room mate returns home. I use this time to update blogs, write advertising (will post it later), and research.

In the late afternoon, from 2 until 4 I read, generally online… the stuff I gathered from research… this is that daily two hour block I use for learning new things.

By 4pm it’s time to feed again and then we have dinner. I’m generally away from work for up to 2.5 hours during that time.

In the evening, I return for another hour or two, generally attending conference calls, or taking time to do some “social interaction” at some online chat locations.

By 8pm, I’m ready to “surf” for an hour before calling it a night.

Weekends are generally reserved for family activities and work around the farm. I may take a weekday off once or twice a month to travel to the city to shop.

So there you have it… a schedule that fits my natural day.

Here’s why I knew I wanted to know more.

The products are things I love… and would love to purchase more regularly at a steep discount, and have them delivered directly to my house. In fact, I’ve been known to got out to eBay to find good deals on them.

I really liked the way the company is marketing the products. They have very carefully designed the web site to appeal to their target market.

If you’re female, college educated, with or without children and live in the US… then you’re likely to want more information. That doesn’t mean that men don’t care or aren’t interested, it just appears women are slightly more interested.

So, how would you know if you want more info?

Do you love to read? If so, you’ll want more info.

Would you love to purchase books, CD’s, DVD’s, and computer games at a decent discount, with no month-to-month obligation of any kind? If so, you’ll want more info.

Is it possible you’re looking for a home-based business? If so, you’ll want more info.

With that… you now know how you’ll know if you want more information. The thing to do is get on my list. I always include a “take me off your list” link that works… so you have zero obligation.

Just fill in the form in the sidebar, or go to the Contact Me page.

I knew you’d want to know… so here’s what it’s not about.

It’s not about pills, potions, lotions, or exotic drinks. In fact it’s not about any kind of product you rub on you or put into your mouth.

It’s not a game, or any kind of program designed for simply finding more people in your downline.

It’s not about selling some cheap report you purchase through PLR.

It’s not about twisting anyone’s arm to join you in a business. Heck, you’ll benefit greatly just by being a customer.

Ok, don’t forget now, to be the first to know what I’m up to… get on my list.

One last thing… if you want to become an associate, you’ll have to be a US Citizen, over the age of 18, and of course, have access to the Internet.

If you want to become a customer… get on the list and I’ll let you know when and how I’ll handle international orders.

As I was saying, I’ve walked away from working on line and have been enjoying life with “The Four Country Gals” as we build our little farm.

Well, it’s coming upon winter now, and other than daily chores, we don’t spend much time outside. That means more computer time.

A couple weeks ago, one of my old “mentors” sent me an e-mail that kind of caught my attention… so I went exploring.

What I found is really exciting.

I can’t reveal much yet, as I don’t have my structure in place. Translation… no, I can’t give you the name of the business.

What I can tell you is that I’m particularly impressed. I’ve dug around sufficiently to know they aren’t churning through the members. They’ve been in business just over a year, and I’ve only found a couple of folks who quit, and wrote about it.

I can tell you the management team has more pure business experience than I’ve seen for most start up companies. Between them there’s about 175 years experience with very large successful businesses.

I can tell you that in all my research, I find no evidence of slipped deadlines, something almost unheard of in today’s business climate, especially when it comes to things in Information Technology, like web design, programming, systems, etc.

So, when do I expect to reveal this great find?

I’m waiting on a commission check, which should arrive near the end of this week. Just as soon as I’ve ordered my start-up kit, and secured my membership, I’ll reveal the business.

My target date is Nov 20… plenty of time for you to do a significant portion of your Christmas shopping with me.

If you want to be the first to know… get on my list either by using the sidebar area, or by going to the Contact Me page.

After having gotten totally fed up and burned out in Internet Marketing and Network Marketing… I’ve found something.

You see, I still communicate with some folks from the industry, and read the best of the mail that crosses my screen.