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How selling what we love lead to our success
It has been a while since writing my last post. Spring is here and I am finally out of the winter funk that has consumed me. I don’t know how many out there get the winter blues, but I get the blues pretty hard. Feeling the temperatures rise and seeing buds on the trees give me a sense of renewal and the want of finally doing things again. One of those things is dedicating myself back to my blog. I want to kind of pick up where I had left off from my last post. One of the things that I have been writing about in the past is the…
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The Birth of Bag Making
In my previous post I had told you how I came to be self-employed. In this post I will continue my story of how I went from having a shop to working from home. I had my alteration shop for about a year. I started to experience some health issues that made me driving an hour and half a day not safe. So it was a sad day when I had to make the decision to close my shop. I didn’t know what was going to happen and deep sadness set in. While I had my alteration shop I took in all kinds of work. One of the things that…
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A Life Altering Decision To Begin A Business
I have decided to tell you a bit about how I began my own business to became independent. I have always wanted to own my own business since I was in the third grade. I never really knew what it would be, however I knew it would happen someday. I was working as an Advertising Rep for a small newspaper back in 2007-2010. I went from business to business soliciting print ads from them. Most places I visited were small businesses. I had an area that covered about 350 miles so there was a lot of selling to be done. One thing that I discovered through all of the business…