letting life get in the way

OK so things haven't been going so good on the business front. Personal problems have prevented me from finishing rewriting my class and therefore teaching it. Too cold to do the trade shows and I lost the power cord and USB for my camera so I can't even put items on eBay. I am ordering a new charger and USB for the camera this week. Trying to resolve the personal issues so I can get back to writing. Hopefully I will be able to check on pricing for selling my stuff at other stores locally as well. I am still reading and studying up on business. This month I have been reading "Rich dad, poor dad" by Robert t. Kiyosaki which has been amazing. One coauthored by Robert and Donald Trump and then one by strictly Donald Trump. I have been asked by several people why I would read and suggest books by Trump and its simple. The man had millions. Ended up broke and owing millions in debt and then managed to pay off his debt and become a billionaire again. So he is definitely someone I want to learn from. It's easy to make money but to have to pay off extreme debt and rebound the way he did shows its more than possible. Any idea's or questions are more than welcome on any of my postings. I may still be struggling at the poverty level but I am fighting my way out starting with learning all I can on how others have done it and experimenting in entrepreneurship myself. Watch and see how it all goes.

Jewel's Stronger woman video

Test dummy for others to learn from

I will continue to test various methods for earning more and be brutally honest about how much work and money I put into each along with their respective results so you can make informed decisions and have a test case to check them with. You might get better or worse results but I hope my success's and failures can help you to learn and find your path.Let me know if you see a method I missed and I will research those I can. I am still running my house and being a mother so If I can succeed then so can you.I believe if we want it bad enough and put in the time and effort we can achieve most anything.

ok web store advertising break down

Ok my web store on Weebly has been up and running for a week. I tried out Google ad words and face book ads. I had two different ad campaigns on google totaling 37,262 page impressions or number of times ad was shown it had 73 click thru's for a click rate of .20%. total spent $47.08 plus a $5 one time fee.Facebook had 45,655 impressions. It had 20 click thru's for a click thru rate of .044%.Total spent on it$9.76. With all that None of my product sold. so at this point do I consider this product a flop? Do I invest in more advertising and see if things improve? Let me know what you think. site is http://rebeccasart.weebly.com/

My Dream

I want to create a place similar in set up to a small college. I want it to be a place where people can come to learn life skills. Budgeting, cooking, Computers, interview skills and much more. I want to have living quarters for those that need a place to stay in case of job loss or kicked out. A place to gain skills and pull your self up to have the best chance in life you can with dignity. I want to have individual rooms so a family can stay together through the process and a daycare on site to help. I also want a cafeteria to provide food so all the people attending need to worry about is learning and the next step. So far my best guess on how to achieve this is to model it on the Salvation Army by having fundraisers and a store to help fund the venture. I am still working out the details on getting this out of my dreams and into reality but I Will figure this out.That will be legacy to be proud of.I think it is needed everywhere.

Moving Forward

I completed my website creation with my husbands help on Saturday. I picked Art for my first web store attempt. I created an adword campaign with Google to increase my websites chances of being seen. I plan to go Monday or Tuesday to talk to the local college about teaching my class "Life Lessons" in there off campus location. They expressed interest in it before. I am also having a garage sale to start clearing the clutter out of my house and make a little money. I am also going to see about setting up my trade show booth near my grocery store on Saturday. I am pushing myself to break out of just planning and start doing. My web store is Rebeccasart.weebly.com
I am reading still on entrepreneurship looking for idea's on how to do this better. I will push myself as far as possible to create the life my family deserves. I don't want to be poverty level. I don't want to panic every time I see that my kids need money for school pictures of fundraisers. I want to be able to relax with my kids instead of scrambling to figure out how to make ends meet. Wish me luck here I go.

status update

I obviously have procrastinated in writing on here.I have been experiencing highs and lows in my life, somtimes drastic ones. I put off actually starting to teach my class locally. I plan to rectify that this week and get it scheduled. I will be posting more often. I will do my best to make sure I actually have something of value to write about as I do not want to waste your time reading useless information.I am looking into a way to link a webstore to this site. I am also looking for a way to record my class and link it onto here at least a summary version. I have been listening to Jewel's song "Stronger Woman" and Eminem's song "Not Afraid" and they are inspiring me to reach inside and believe in myself. I do not have all the answers and yes I doubt myself at times but I am walking down a path of self discovery and rediscovering my self worth and love.I hope my story and writings can help you as well.Feel free to email me with your comments and questions or leave me a comment on here.