Who I am…
Still Crazy After All These Years
From the time I was a little kid I watched my dad build two successful businesses. Lacking a formal education, he worked extra hard to overcome that shortcoming and to achieve the success he worked so hard to attain. I really admired my dad for his drive. His tenacity and work ethic was the model for my own career.
Following high school and very headstrong, I decided to put college on hold and enter the work force instead. Hey, what did I know!? Guess what? It didn't take long to discover that working in a department store was not very fulfilling and the pay was lousy. After a year or so, I wised up, took a job with an electronics firm, and headed back to school at night.
The years that followed kept me busy raising a family, finishing my formal education, and climbing the proverbial corporate ladder. But one night as I drove home following a casual conversation with one of my colleagues, it suddenly dawned on me that despite an impressive title and a healthy paycheck… I hated working for someone else!
Waking up to the realization that I was wasting my life caused me to step back and take a long, hard look at everything I was doing. It was time to shake things up… step out of my comfort zone and do something different.
It didn't take me long to decide. I simply followed my heart… I wanted to start a business. So I shifted into high-gear and started brainstorming… learning… planning… and finally taking action.
That was 21 years ago. The shift from employee to entrepreneur opened the doors to a whole new life…
Today, because of the Internet, I work from home and enjoy the independence and freedom I always craved. The journey is still in progress, there have been many challenges along the way, but my focus and determination remains steadfast.
Do I ever feel like quitting? Sure… sometimes. Then I think about my daughter saying to me… "Mom, I'm SO proud of you!" … and all I can think of is how to do better.
I look forward to each and every day with anticipation and excitement that only comes from doing what you love. Would I trade my online business for the 'security' of a J.O.B.? Not on your life!
Becoming an Internet entrepreneur has given life to a vision that grew out of my imagination. From creation through the day-to-day doing it, I have undergone a life-changing transformation that could only have come about by taking the road less traveled.
Won't you join me — and others like me?
The Reason This Site Exists…
Small Biz Ideas exists to give you ideas and information for starting a home business and growing it into a profitable enterprise — if that's what you would like to do — by sharing my experiences with you. I hope to earn your trust and confidence by providing useful techniques, solutions and proven business-building strategies.
Why?… you may be wondering? We don't even know one another.
Because I have a passion for freedom and independence, and I've discovered how to have it… because of my small small business! I want you and anyone else who wants it to become successful and live life your way!
I also happen to believe in karma. I've benefited again and again from help others have given me — and it's time for me to pay it forward — to help others as I've been helped.
Trial and error has been a good teacher… and it has definitely taught me a thing or two about building and operating a business online.
Do you want to know the one single thing that changed everything for me? It was a then largely unknown yet very powerful product called Site Build It!. My little business went from zero money and total obscurity to a comfortably profitable home based business very quickly.
Thousands of entrepreneurs around the globe like me have built highly successful businesses with it… learn how Site Build It! can help you, too »
Nearly everything I recommend are products and services I use in my business. If they aren't useful, they don't get my stamp of approval. Period. I won't recommend anything simply for a buck.
Finally, try to remember that running a business should be fun. Choose to do for a living what you would do whether or not you were paid to do it, and you will be greatly rewarded.