So here I am, a mother to four great kids, I have a nice home and dreams bigger than the sky. All of my relationships including my marriage have failed. I think its not so much that I failed but simply out grew the people I chose. I really did try with my marriage.It turns out that the husband liked to drink more than he liked to participate in life. That was a bummer but life must continue. The other relationships were simply just being young and thinking I was in love when really I was not. So here I am, a mother to four wonderful children,single and still having dreams bigger than the sky.
I chose the internet as a portal to my dreams. What else is bigger than the sky? well, maybe not bigger but pretty close. My very first test of my abilities was Avon. I had a really great time doing it but never really made any money and I was actually one of my best customers. I figured out pretty quickly that it was not going to amount to the dream I had in mind. Later came MLM. For those who don't know, MLM is Multi level marketing. Because i did not have enough knowledge and back then people just did not want to share their secrets, I fell flat on my face.I did put a small number of my hard earned dollars on the line and lost. That venture was the tahitian noni juice back in 2003. I learned nothing it seamed but actually I gathered some knowledge,I just did not know it at the time. Next was Mary Kay.The concept was good but after I attended one of their meetings I was creeped out by the strange way everyone was so overly supportive of each other.In hindsite, it is a great company, I suppose I was just not ready for that kind of support. My most expensive and biggest failures was Home and garden party. Man, that stuff was so hard to unload. I did however manage to sell a few items online and offline but mostly dumped my stock for pennies at my rummage sale. I do not think those people truely understood the bargain they got. I spent well over $600.00 on stock. I consider it a failure because I did not have guidence and was fumbling through the process pretty bad. My own family lost faith in me at that point. But the show must go on, and it did.
At this point my belief is pretty low in myself and I fell into a negative failure mode. I went back to providing daycare in my home but never stopped getting on the internet and researching ways to reach for the sky. I often wondered what set some people so apart from others to the point of how successful they became. I followed a lot of people just watching and learning.I was truely fortunate to meet some pretty cool people who taught me so much about how this works, they were successful but I was not. Why I wondered.What makes them so much different than myself.
So I sat back for a moment and just put on my thinking cap and started learning A LOT about myself.Some of what i learned made me cry,some made me feel like a strong powerful women but most of my thinking clarified who I am. I am sitting on a goldmine of knowledge,more than even some of the most successful people I met.Because of the fact I am never fearful of taking a risk,loosing money,going hungry(but never the kids) being broke as can be, I managed to fill my head with knowledge and knowledge is the true power in life.
I always knew that having your own product was the best.But what product could i become so passioniate about to actually market it to other people and expect that they would buy it. One day I went to my local health food store and asked the women how i could cleanse my body so i could start fresh with exercise and fitness. She pointed me to a liver cleanse tincture. I went home, used this product for two weeks and then it was all gone. One ounce for fifteen bucks, it worked like a charm and then it was gone. This is when the light bulb began to flicker in my head. "If I bought this for a price and loved it, so will other people. But How do I create this product so others could afford it, would keep using it and I could help them with their needs.?"
Time for more research. I locked myself in the house for weeks while i was making this plan of action. I got the ingredients and experimented in the kitchen until I got it just right. It WAS the same product i bought, I made a billion times more for the same price and the greatest thing..IT WORKS!Now the marketing must begin.
I started joining as many social networks as I could that was related to what I was doing.Plus a few that were not. I opened a blog and began to blog about the facts I knew about the specific type of tincture I created. I made friends with thousands of people pretty quickly and learned as much as I could about social media. I use PING.fm to blast micro blog info to all my sites at once, then I would check each site daily for messages. I made sure ALL my contact info was EVERYWHERE. But the biggest piece of the puzzle came with making a video on youtube and went from an internet women to an actual women. This changed everything. I figured out how to use social networking to get the word out and brought that word to life through video.
So actually there is a lot more to it but I wanted to save some for later so you will come back and keep reading. The sky is the limit when it comes to dreams.Just never give up,never stop believing that indeed there is something better out there and ALWAYS come back and read this blog for more tips.
Jen Boone
260-330-0603
sunshineandherbs@yahoo.com
P.S
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