I just took a trip down memory lane with my photo albums.

I laughed and I cried as I looked at pictures of my Mom, my Dad, (both now gone) and my girls (now grown with babies of their own).

The travels that Jesse and I have experienced are all documented. Back 20 years or so ago we would buy souvenirs; only to have them end up in the next yard sale. I finally got smart and now just buy post cards. I write the days activities on the card, slap a postage stamp on it and mail it home. Funny, sometimes we beat the cards home–but it sure does take less space and they fit nicely in a photo album. Not to mention lighter luggage.

So as I’m writing this with those memories fresh in my mind; I reflect on the other half of my life, my business. I’ve been in this crazy industry since 1981–all the while dreaming, tasting, believing that one day I would be rich, quit my job, and never have to work again.

28 years later I did quit my job. OK I don’t want to discourage you–I didn’t work this industry in any serious manner until the fall of 2003. I piddled (showing my age with that term) or dabbled in the industry until 2003.

That is the year I got serious and decided to give it my all! I didn’t put a time-stamp on the day I would quit my job–I just plowed on! And kept at it…learning everything I could about the industry.

In 2007 I learned about the power of video–uploaded my first video in October of that year.

In 2008 I learned the power of blogging–and added my first blog post that  fall. Yes, I’ve only been blogging for a little over a year.

On October 13, 2009 I quit my full-time job of 17 years to work from home full-time! I said WORK! Come on people those of us who work from home still WORK!

The difference is I work for me now…and while I’m not stinking rich…we get by on my the income that I earn from my business. Is it still tight sometimes? Yep, I’m not going to lie to you…but since I quit in October 2009 we still manage to “make the bills”.

I’ve partnered with some incredible folks who well, they “sell my stuff”…and that makes it a whole lot easier for me.

I’m not going to list out goals here. I’m not going to list out resolutions for 2010–that doesn’t work for me. What am I going to do next year that will be different?

I’m going to be quite honest with you here! Probably a whole lot of what I’m doing now. Nurturing relationships, meeting new folks, earning their trust. Because that my friends is what brings partnerships and with partnerships–comes incredible income opportunities.

I have skills that they may need; they definitely have skills that I need and together we can conquer the world.

There is one more thing that I am planning to do!

Here is the biggie…

Many of you reading this have purchased courses that teach you how to reach out to offline business owners and bring them online. I am finding; however, that once you purchase those courses–and you “land” your first small business deal–you are realizing the unbelievable amount of work involved in fulfilling their “package”.

It might be a website, a social media package, a video package–whatever service you sold them–you are now obligated to either do all the work yourself–or outsource pieces-parts to one or more individuals.

Well, you no longer have to outsource to more than one individual. I have a trained team who are trained in the following:

• Blog Setup and Design
• Article, Press Release, and Blog Post Writing
• Video Creation and Distribution
• Social Bookmarking
• Forum Marketing
• Blog Commenting
• Search Engine Submission
• Directory Submission

And so much more…so if you’re struggling and know that you can make more money by making more sales–but there is only one of you to do all the work–fret no more…

Give me a call 1-910-315-0304 or complete the Contact Form and we can schedule a time to talk about your outsourcing needs! All of them!

If you look top right on my blog you’ll see something new there.

I am doing my best to be in FTC compliance. So I asked my graphic designer to create a small graphic that says:

Compensated Affiliate
If you purchase an endorsed product on this site I will be paid a commission. I only endorse products that I personally use or have used.

What steps are you taking to make sure your website is in compliance with the new FTC guidelines?

If you want this graphic for your site–just right click and “save image as” to add to your blog or website.

O.K. it’s unusual for me to write something like this–but because I have readers who opted in on my capture page for MLMSP, I feel that I owe it to those readers to explain.

I want to be real clear…

• I didn’t stop promoting mlmsp because it was a bad system
• I didn’t stop because it doesn’t work

I canceled my mlmsp account because I do not have the time to keep up all the campaigns, tasks, etc. involved with the system.

I canceled because I have a design team who can build my websites, social bookmark, and whatever else I assign them to do for me.

With that said I know some of you will opt out of newsletter–and that’s o.k.

I have to edit the autoresponders because some of the links will correspond to my mlmsp system. I know some of you will opt-out from that list–and that’s O.K. too.

If you still want to stay updated–you can subscribe by feed to this blog or optin on the top right here on my site.

So what have I been up to? Those of you who know me know that I LOVE network marketing–I love ALL aspects of it–except the “competition” that comes with the game. You also know that I refuse to compare comp plans, products, etc.

I have teamed up with a few key companies–that make sense to me. I’m not going to go into details here–

But if you’d like to listen in–you can read more about it on YourTeamLeaders.

While I will not go through the exact affiliate products that I have canceled. I will tell you that approx every 90 days I sit down and write out the products that I’m paying for on a monthly/quarterly basis. Then I analyze whether it is worth it to keep on paying for the service.

So many folks come to me and say I just don’t have the money for this or the money for that. Here is how you can overcome that.

Sit down today or at least before the year is up and analyze your finances–what can you get rid of? What can you stop paying monthly fees for? What can you “share” with your team?

There are some tools that I know I can not do without. I share those costs with my business partners or team members.

I did this today and now have a savings of $187.80 a month–and I’m not done. I have a few more things to go through–who knows maybe by the time I’m done I’ll be up to almost $300 a month.

Please share your stories here in my blog–of your experience with this exercise.