After signing up for Jimmy D. Brown’s affiliate program, I met, (actually just spoke through emails) Nicole Dean.
Nicole is Jimmy’s affiliate manager, so she handles all of his affiliates and helps them to succeed, by pointing them in the direction of articles or emails that Jimmy has written for his affiliates to use. But Nicole is much more than that.
Nicole is an affiliate marketer, but she is also a business woman. She has many blogs and ebooks that she has written. So as a result of Jimmy D. Brown, I have now come into contact with a woman I can learn from. Someone who is doing it all, has a husband, children, and all that goes with that, but also is making a full time living online. YIPEE!! Someone like me, except for the online successful business. 
So I started reading Nicole’s blog. Nicole gives away a lot of really useful information, along with her ebooks that are for sail. And she has an affiliate program also. I cannot wait to see what I can learn about affiliate marketing from her.
More later.
I’ve been doing some Google searches for home based business’s and came across Internet Marketing. A name that keeps coming up is Jimmy D. Brown.
Jimmy D. Brown is a guru’s guru for internet marketing. He has many of his own products. He also has an affiliate marketing program. So I signed up for that, and I’m on my way to affiliate marketing.
I got myself a domain name and I have started an affiliate blog. You can find it at Affiliate Business Trends dot com.
I think I may have hit on something here. If this pans out, I will be able to work from anywhere in the world that has internet service. Now this is what I was looking for in a home based business.
More later.
In February of 2008 I saw a magazine at the local bookstore called Empowering Women. It was a direct marketing magazine targeting women. I picked it up and flipped through it. That particular month their showcase company was Gold Canyon Candles. I decided to buy the magazine and after reading it almost cover to cover, I decided to try one more direct marketing company.
I purchased my demonstrator’s kit, with the understanding that if I made a certain amount of sales within my first month, my kit would be free.
Well needless to say I was able to sell my quota and got my kit for free. It was actually very easy, the candles once people smell them, pretty much sell themselves. The company touts their candles as “The Worlds Finest” and in my opinion they really are. Their scents are amazing and their throw, (company term for how well a candle scents a room), is very, very good.
After being with the company for five months and making a Squidoo Lens on Gold Canyon Candles, I began to develop a downline.
However, after a year, as much as I love the candles, this is still really not what I had in mind when thinking about a home based business. So my search for the perfect (for me) home based business continues, tomarrow.
I left Herbalife in March of 2007. I had a few regrets, one of which was leaving some of the people that I had met during my time with that company. I think that was why I hung on for that third year. I didn’t want to miss the comaraderie that I felt with my downline and one very special person in my upline, Rosey, my mentor. After I quit, I later learned that most of my downline also quit.
About a month later, Rosey called me and told me that she had started working with another direct marketing company, Meleleuca. She told me it was different than working with Herbalife.
So began my next venture into the home based business. Meleleuca was different. A much friendlier atmosphere, and the upline wasn’t so driving. I advanced to director in my first month and I have to say that 3 years later, I’m still with the company. I’m not really working it as a business anymore, but I am still using the products. I like them, they are quality products.
Tomarrow the journey continues.
I began thinking about starting a home based business in May of 2004. I had a brand new baby granddaughter and I wanted the freedom to spend time with her whenever I wanted. I also wanted the freedom to work from where ever I chose to.
So the first business I looked into and began working at was, Herbalife. I spent 3 years of working my tail feathers off, (working every holiday, weekend, and evening of those 3 years), and having nothing to show for it except, umm, no life. I decided that this was not why I started a home based business. I had wanted more time with my family and all I was doing was working constantly with more time away from my family.
Now I’m not usually a quitter, but after 3 years, I was having trouble sleeping. Mainly because I was worrying about the money my upline wanted me to spend each and every month on leads. I worried that I wasn’t going to hit my quota for each month and I would lose my downline and I started to have self confidence issues when my upline told me that “I wasn’t bringing in the right kind of people, that was why I wasn’t keeping customers or downline people, and that the people I brought in were a direct reflection of me. I really began to feel the stress and my health started to suffer. So after much thought, I finally quit Herbalife.
After I quit, it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders.
Tomarrow I will tell you about my next adventure into the home based business market.
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