Keeping It Together

July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This past week we took a road trip to Florida. Jesse is working at the power plant in Fort Pierce, FL and we took our daughter Tammie and GrandDaughter Addy to Universal Studio and SeaWorld while we were there.

Had a great time–as you can see by the pictures on Facebook–but I would not have been able to do this if I had no pursued my dream of working for ME!!!

When I first started on this journey back in 2003–I knew without a doubt that I would make my dream come true.

When I quit my job on October 13, 2009 I took a leap of faith with only one client!!! Since then I have not looked back.

I now have the privilege of having 4 full-time employees on my team and 10 full-time Filipinos on my team. Yes, I love outsourcing and learned everything I know from John Jonas.

So while I was in Florida enjoy SeaWorld and Universal Studios with my family–my business still thrived.

What are you doing to fulfill your dream? Have you quit?

Holly Powell


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Working Away

June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I've been working diligently this past month on moving all my sites over to another server. Had some trouble with the last one. We're almost finished.

I want to shoot a video for the method we used to make the move soon.

Other events going on with us?

Always adding to my team–we're at 13 now including me!!! So we're growing. Managing an army seems like sometimes–but I love it for sure.

I created a private team training site–just for my team. This has been a long time coming. It's a private site–so I won't share–because even if I did–you can't see anything.

I bought the domain ages ago and just now getting that updated for my team to be ready as we bring on more projects.

Let's see–finally finished the design work on my corporate site SoaringAway.com –if you go look now–there is NO content–but soon I will be adding it. But the design is pretty :-)

I'm going to change the header out soon on WhoIsHollyPowell.com soon as well–more updated/colorful I think.

I also launched a new service NonStopSocialMarketing.com so check it out when you have time.

As I was cleaning out my 4,000 plus emails this week and opting out of many, many lists (sorry just too distracting) I came across this one–I did NOT opt out of this list–esp after I looked at this. Do you see yourself pictured here?

How To Suck At Internet Marketing

If so…take a long look at how you're building your biz–and focus, focus, focus!

Holly Powell


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Stuck In Canada–Can’t Pay For Our Meal–Oh NO!!!

May 1, 2011 By 2 Comments

Jesse and I were able to knock one more place off our "Bucket List" this past week. I was in Toronto, Ontario for the SMX Expo (Search Marketing Expo). Learned a lot that I will share with you soon.

Our first day in Toronto we rented a car and drove over to Niagara Falls.

Niagara Falls was absolutely beautiful…you can take a look at our pictures that I loaded to Facebook or you can look at the pictures below.

Niagara Falls April 2011

So while we were in Toronto we walked to ChinaTown–and had dinner. It was a long walk from the Sheraton–but it would not have been so long had we not walked in the wrong direction for about 15-20 minutes and then had to turn around.

Anyway, some folks may not agree with this–but when we finished eating–I got a to-go box even tho our hotel didn't have a microwave or refrigerator–so I could give the food to a homeless person. Which I did–right or wrong? I don't care–it's what I do.

Anyway, on the way back from ChintaTown I stopped in to Starbucks for a cup of coffee and used $20 USD–the clerk gave me back $14 and change CAN (2 $5 and change) and not thinking I dropped all the change in the tip jar…anyway…

I said "oh well–you get what you give to Jesse and it always, always, always comes back to me!!!"

Before we fly out the next day Jesse and I found a breakfast place in an off the wall place. We ordered, ate, and then went to pay…and the owner says he only takes debit cards and cash. Our meal was a little over $14–so we tried every debit card we had–because well that's all we have but the guys machine kept saying "invalid card".

So the owner of the restaurant tells us that their is an ATM about 1/2 a mile away–so Jesse drove to the ATM to see if he can get funds out from the card–Nope, it wouldn't work–he kept getting invalid card as well…so now we're in a bind–

We have a total of $5 CAN–so I said o.k. I'll go to the ATM to see if I can use my debit cards–but as I got in the rental car to go to the ATM Jesse shouts out to me–to forget it.

There was one other customer in the restaurant and he saw our dilemma and paid for our meal!!! We tried to give the guy the $5 CAN we had–but he wouldn't take it…so we left it as a tip to the owner of the breakfast place.

See, it always, always, always comes back to you!

I've proved this time and time again–how many times have you given your last dollar in your pocket to your sister, friend, or kids because they needed it?

Then something happens? You get it back. I know, sometimes it's not always monetary–but it always comes back.

I've done it in the McDonald's line–randomly paid for the persons meal in the car behind me–I get a big kick out of it–and I'll come home, check my email and while out I made a sale!

Try it sometimes–it doesn't have to be a lot of money, hell it doesn't even have to be money–it could be a donation of clothes or furniture to your favorite charity…

Please tell me your experiences with this–I would love to hear them.

Holly Powell

Filed Under: Holly's Family, Pay It Forward

Can I Take The Day Off?

November 19, 2010 By 11 Comments

I had the pleasure of having dinner with a few of my friends from my previous job last evening.

The crabcake was yummy!

As we sat and talked one of my friends asked…if they had a job opening would I apply?

My reply? "Hell No!" I walked away on October 13, 2009 after 17 years with an I quit email and I have never, not once, regretted my decision.

It's an amazing feeling!

 

I love that I:

can eat lunch when I'm hungry and not because the boss says it's lunch time

can take the day off without filling out a request for leave

can take off on a trip with my husband without wondering if I have enough leave time

don't have to hear about who is fooling around with who and who can't be trusted

can watch my grandbabies for my girls because they have to work or the babies are sick

can take a few hours off and go have lunch with Jesse without having to answer to anybody about why I was gone for so long (which is what we're getting ready to do)

can go to the restroom and not worry about being paged over the intercom for all to hear 2-3 times (yes this really happened)

can turn on the radio without being told to turn it off

can cruise the internet and connect with my friends and business associates on facebook

How about you?

What do you like most about working from home?

Holly Powell


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Damn, It’s Been Way Too Long

November 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

OK, I admit it…I suck :-)

I have been so busy working with my clients that I have neglected my blog and that's not good.

So I'm in the writing mode now and decided to update my blog. I also updated/deleted 80% of the Facebook groups that I belonged to today.

I mean I was a member of over 60 Facebook groups and that is 51 way too many. I'm down to 9 and think I'll set a limit to 10. The one's I stayed with are the ones I'm interested in and have a relationship with the creator. One group I recommend to everybody is my good friend Diane Hochman's. If you're not following Diane Hochman's blog updates and her FB updates you should be.

Anyway, what the heck have I been up to?

Well, hubby has been on the road since September with his job. I didn't travel with him in September because our middle daughter was getting married so Mumma stayed for moral support. Yes, he made it home for the wedding…and what a beautiful wedding it was.

I packed my good shoes for the wedding and wasn't going to put them on until just before the ceremony…1/2 way down the aisle I realized I was still in my black flip-flops. Too funny and no I didn't bother changing them.

Anyway we were on the road again the week after the wedding and stayed in Iowa for about 2 1/2 weeks and then we had to come home so hubby could start another position–this one permanent with another company. We've been in Columbia, SC for a week and will go home tomorrow for a week or so before we're on the road again.

Still working with my clients and my JV partners and that has kept me so busy. I still write my daily list and circle the 2-3 absolute tasks that I must finish the next day–it's the only way I can finish all the work.

As most of you know I take some time each quarter and de-clutter. It was high time on Facebook for sure.

Feel free to share this post and we'll talk again soon.

holly powell

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Tree Cutting

August 29, 2010 By 3 Comments

Oh the POWER of networking.

So you think you could never do this business called "network marketing" and I gotta say, "You're wrong."

You do it everyday–you just don't realize it. Two weeks ago we had a yard sale and well like Jesse says, "I've never met a stranger." I'll talk to anyone. And it's true.

Anyway, it was nearing the end of the yard sale and a guy comes up and bought a laptop case. He had a tattoo and I asked him about it and we just started talking. He told he that he cuts trees down…funny Jesse and were just talking about cutting down two trees in our yard.

I showed the trees to Jim and he said he could do it for $200. I don't know about where you live–but around here that's a hell of a deal.

I said that I had some business expenses to pay the next week and would not have the money until Friday. Jim said no problem–I'll come by Monday and you can pay me Friday.

Does that still happen today? How cool and trusting is that!!! He got in touch with us on Monday and said something came up–and said he'd be back Wednesday.

Sure enough he showed up Wednesday to cut the trees down–and we paid him Friday as promised. Here are just a few pics of him working. We thought for sure he was going to drop that tree right on the pool. But he didn't!

Rufus was nosey while all of this was going on. I think this picture is too funny. Jim also found a bird nest in the tree. We moved it to another tree; momma bird came back later.

So the power of networking–remember that you do this everyday. Why make it so difficult when you start networking for your business.

Jim got this job because he networked with me–a conversation–not forced–he shared with me his expertise. I hired him.

You've heard it before:

  • When you share a great movie with a friend–it's networking
  • When you share a great movie with a friend–it's networking
  • When you share you experience about a certain product–it's networking
  • When you share your experiences with a friend–it's networking
  • Why do you clam up about sharing your networking business?

Holly Powell

Filed Under: Holly's Family, Network Marketing

Damn I’m Tired

September 20, 2009 By 2 Comments

For the past two nights I have worked until 4:00 AM and 5:00 AM respectively. I just wasn’t tired and I had a lot of work to do. But then I slept until noon today and I hate to do that. I felt like I slept the day away.

I don’t stay up that late very often; usually I’m in bed by 2-3 AM I can’t help it. I’m nocturnal. Always have been. When the girls were in high school they had jobs or cheer leading for games and would get home around midnight or so and we would always be up. That’s when we had our family time. Jesse would either cook them something or we would just site around and chat.

To this day my daughter will come over and visit and we’ll all be in the office talking, working, laughing till about 1-2 AM. I’m afraid my 5 year old granddaughter is the same way. That girl hates to go to bed.

This is just a rambling post about nothing in particular. I just had to write something.

Last night I was watching some of my older YouTube videos and I laughed and cried. I lost my Mom last year so when I watched the video where she is saying I love you! Well I lost it. Yup, cried like a big old baby. I miss you Mom.

It’s a little dark; but it’s Mom saying, “I Love You”

Anyway, just felt the need to share. Do you and your family share late night chats?

hollypowell

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