The questions I get asked the most are how did I go about working from home and how did I set this all up.
Isn't it what the majority of us want! Financial freedom, being our own boss and having the time to do the things in life we want to.
Which to me was spending time with my family.
Well I didn't do it on my own. I got a lot of help from other people on the net and I also got burnt a lot.
I knew nothing about web sites, let alone building one myself, nor could I afford to pay someone to build and run one for me.
I decided therefore that if I was serious about changing my life then I would have to start learning again.
Now you might wonder what this has to do with a kids site but in reality it was my daughter that drove me to make the change in my life so what better place than this to put it.
There must be thousands of you out there who are searching for different ways to make an income and I am sure that working from home sounds very appealing, but trust me it has been incredibly hard work.
I went from zero knowledge to getting by over a period of months with lots of mistake along the way.
I have spent night after night sat on my PC until the early hours of the morning, learning and building and each time I wanted to add something to my website or learn how to get people to visit it etc I had to go and read again.
I did all this whilst working full time and looking after 3 children and a dog and a horse (my passions in life). As you can imagine I was totally exhausted most of the time, but I was also very driven as my end goal would be to free me from my normal job and bring in an income whilst being able to work from home to fit in with the children.
As I said I got scammed a lot and spent hours and hours searching for the right information. I didn't have a clue where to start building a website, knew even less about html (or gobbledygook as it was to me then) or what adwords were.
After searching the net once more and seeing astronomical prices for website building I came across Homestead Sitebuilder. Here I was able to This was fantastic for me as I didn't want to throw loads of money at something I wasn't sure was going to work. I did try to set myself a budget and stick to it.
From the information they supplied I managed to sign up with some reputable companies and I learnt alot about sending traffic (people) to my website, Although I did find this the hardest of all the processes. When I find the best way to do this I will add it here.
So by now I had started to build my site (yes this one is built on Homestead). I wanted good quality products to sell and also to supply regular information and tools to keep the kids amused. I have worked in sales in the "real world" for about 12 years now and I decided this was no different. I sold other people's products (I was a pharmaceutical rep) daily and reported to my boss every day. What if I sold other people's products and reported just to me every day. I wanted good quality products and things that would interest me. I also didn't have room for lots of stock or the time to post things out. I needed to work with people who already had a good product, plus the ability to offer great customer service and delivery terms so I looked to Clickbank (Great for digital products) and you can get your own clickbank. store here. Linkshare which has a whole array of products for Free and The Fortune $213997 Valued Gallery Program.
So now I had the basics of my webpage and I knew a little about advertising on the net but very little about how not to spend a fortune advertising. Here I learnt from a doctor in America Click here to get the info. He taught me an awful lot about setting up ad campaigns, marketing and offsetting costs. Well worth the cost of the book and I took it from there.
I hope this has answered some of your questions and the places I have directed you to will answer alot more.
There are lots of other programs out there to join. If you need any help with any of these programs or anything else to do with working from home just drop me an email at rachel@yourkidsshop.com Everyone of these programs I have listed I have joined and tried.
If you find any problems with any of the sites listed or feel you have been scammed please drop me a line at rachel@yourkidsshop.com as sites change and so does what they offer and I would like to keep this page as up to date as possible. Also remember there are no get rich quick schemes everything takes work.
Update's to this page. As I find new programs and gain experience you can grow with me.
I continue, as most people do who work on line, to find new sources of information to help me work. I have just come across and joined ProfitLance. This has to be the most comprehensive online marketing course I have come across. I did a lot of research before joining this one as I had been burnt many times before and couldn't find a bad word against it. It holds your hand through all the terminology, adwords,adsense,setting up campaings, building your own site,affiliate marketing and loads more.
Something brand new you will not believe -- I didn't, but at no cost you have nothing to lose.
I just submitted my web site using this new web site submission tool that guarantees to send your web site to the ‘number one’ result on Google, Yahoo and 100’s of other search engines before you pay a cent/dime/penny. I don't know how they can do this but it is free until you get there and then you bid to stay there.
Apparantly You actually see your web site at the 1st result for 5 keywords on Google, Yahoo plus 100’s of other search engines before you pay.
I would love to help you send your web site or web page to ‘number one’ too, as that is why I set up these work from home pages, I got sick of paying money out and getting scammed. Hopefully you can experience being 1st on Google without paying a cent/dime or penny.
I am getting hundreds of requests for this. It is unbelievable. So submit your site or affiliate link now, I don't want you to miss this one and lets see if it works together.