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Good day everyone. It's another Tuesday.. time for another edition of MIBW. Well today is Part one of the "Help I'm Married to the Computer" Series designed to help you become a better work at home entrepreneur. No sorry if you were looking to read a series full of affiliate links, and no real help, you might as well leave now. This series is designed to let you know about the real deal of working at home and trying to balance your life at the same time. Many people have already told me some of their biggest problems online and its not about making money, its trying to focus on work while dealing with your spouse and your children is driving you up the wall. So have fun reading this series. As I said before this is a part of my upcoming ebook, I have no idea when I will be done with the book to be honest. Time will tell. My daughters go back to school Thursday so its back to our normal daily routine. But of course I will keep you updated so stay tuned for that. The new ad rates are available. You can see those new prices below. I will also now send a follow up message the next day to view the edition online. I debated on whether I should go back to text emails since it seems that my domain is having problems with aol, so that may still change. If it does change, then I will have an online html edition and a text mail out. With the increase of subscribers also comes an increase of bounces and sp^am filters so I have to take precautions to make sure the ezine is headed to everyone's inbox. Today is also part two of Virginia's Optimize Your Life series which is a perfect compliment to the Help I'm Married to the Computer series. After all balancing isn't the easiest thing in the world but the right help with work wonders. Have a great day everyone and see you on Friday for more MIBW.
Donesia
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Help, I'm Married To The
Computer! Part One
Note: This is a series designed to truly help the work at home entrepreneur prosper. No matter whether you are making a substantial income online or barely paying your hosting fees, learning to balance the fine line between work and home is essential to your business success. After all if your home life is chaos because of your business then who can prosper under those conditions. Hopefully this series can help business owners deal with the outside world, their spouses and children and can really grow the way they want to. This series is geared mostly towards women since it is a women writing the series but this also applies to both genders. You'll see...
Did you Mentally Prepare Your Family and Friends the Idea of Working At Home? One day everyone saw you using the computer to maybe balance your bills, or do some shopping online, or to just chat with your friends. No one had a problem with that, they probably do that themselves. Then all of a sudden, you are talking about paying hosting fees, and trying to find out why Paypal froze your account. Huh?? Now you have a lot of hostility in the household because they don't understand why you are doing this and why dinner isn't ready on time like before. Your spouse has no clue what you do online, all they hear is about how easy it is to get scammed online and how all these internet businesses are going out of business like crazy. They also see how many things that you used to do are not being done. The end results... arguments, plain and simple. Is it worth it? No. But it could have been avoided ( well most of the arguments) by simply starting off smart. How do you start off smart? You have to mentally prepare yourself and prepare your family. Have a Mental Business Plan Even if you don't have a huge professional business plan, you can still have a good outline of what you want to do and how you want to do it. You can't just tell your spouse that you want to start online without doing some research on it first. They won't take you seriously. You don't have to break the bank to start out or refinance your house just to get started. The quickest way to keep some sort of peace at home while accomplishing your goal is to have these questions already answered because this is what they will ask you. The Laymen's Terms to
Working at Home Who Who is going to handle this ? Can you do this
by yourself and from your house? Is this too much to handle for one person
or do you have a partner? Who will handle the marketing, promotion,
distribution of the product. Have you any clue as to how to even get your
product developed by yourself?
What What about the household? How will that be handled. Yes something will have to change. No one said you stop your daily duties, and you can give me all the feminist views in the world, everyone knows if you walk into someone's house and its a mess, you look at the Wife. Now if the lights got cut off then you look at the husband. Still true to this day, no matter how you try to slice it. No one is saying to switch roles and expect everyone to now do ALL your daily duties. Don't start a business just to get out of doing what you may not like.
When When will you find time to do this? If you have already committed yourself to tons of other duties, can you really do a full time business with part time hours? Can you adjust your schedule. What about the housework? The children? Can't let television raise your children forever.. Have you written out an hourly plan for your day so you know exactly how to organize yourself, and your family? Where? Do you even have the space for your business? Your business may be online but what if you handle the shipping and packaging yourself. Where are you going to put all that stuff? Do you have a separate room for your office? If not create a space that is just for you. In the corner somewhere. Keeping your office junk all over the house also creates unnecessary arguments due to frustration that the house may just look like one big clutter. Get some boxes, crates, and folders from your local office supply store and get organized. How How do you plan to finance everything? With someone else's credit card? This is one of the biggest problems. When you don't let your spouse know how much it is all going to cost upfront, monthly and in the long run. If not, then when the bills come to the house all ^&% breaks loose. So what you think you are supposed to start off with the most expensive products that you think YOU HAVE TO HAVE in order to be successful, Reality Check. You are going to be a real cheapo with your business until you can afford it. Get off the Internet Jones' Bandwagon and let's get real. Why Plain and simple, why did you start this? For lack of something to do? Were you just bored at home? Did it start out that way and now you have a drive to succeed or is it because you ran your mouth to everyone about how rich you were going to be from this business and when you realized that is wasn't what you thought Are You Just Trying To Save Face? Afraid to admit that something isn't working? Don't want to hear I told you so from your spouse. Better than hearing it from the credit card company who tells you that you are over your limit.... Now you decide what is best.
The Big Secret Okay now I have to let you in on a little secret. Many spouses have no clue as to why we have to do our business online. They think we are going to get scammed, and we just don't want to spend time with them. Or we just don't want to do any housework. Sometimes they even think we want to meet some internet Casanova and forget about our family. Nope that is not it. I will reveal to you the number one underlying reason, other than money, why we, especially women want to start our own business..
We Start Our Own
Business For A Sense Of Accomplishment No this is not about the "Never Satisfied Syndrome". We are happy as mothers, wives, girlfriends, co-workers BUT
For ourselves, we want this accomplishment. After all if a women isn't happy inside, we will never be happy on the outside.
You know who this series is designed to help? Those of you who can't read this ezine in one shot because the kids are crying. Those of you who are listening out to see if the school bus is coming as you are downloading a new script for your website. Those of you who are checking the pots to make sure dinner isn't burned, and making sure your newsletter was sent to all recipients at the same time. Those of you who have to go into an empty room at least once a day just to take a breath by yourself Those of you who just got home from the job you can't wait to quit, and you have to hurry up and send out your newsletter or update your site, check your email, and clean up all in time to tuck the kids in the bed, spend time with your hubby, and then do it all over again in the morning Those of you who know with the amount of children you have will make your day care costs more than your car payment so you have no choice but to work at home. Those of you who want to help with the bills, to make life better in the long run for everyone. Those of you who want to have the extra money just to say yes this is my money and I earned it. This is for you...............
Copyright ©2003 KDM Publishing Donesia Muhammad This series will be available for reprint in September 2003
Stay tuned for Part Two August 12th... Business and Soap Opera's Don't Mix
Next week, For those of you who are starting your business but you are doing it the lazy way, this is for you. No this wasn't going to be a series to just whine about how everyone doesn't understand. This series is designed to look at the good, bad and ugly. Maybe a reason people don't believe you are serious is because you are not acting that way. Get your mind set out of the consumer who uses a computer, but as a business person who uses their computer to succeed. How are you going to play the game, Like a sucker? OR Are you playing to win?
Stay tuned..........
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