This is about me finding myself and the story of how I have changed my life, become self employed and how I developed the products which are now my livelihood. Its the story of all the trials and problems and wonders of life that happen. I cannot even think what it would be like to return to the me of 2008 now and altho I am very poor really financially I am so very much happier and quality of life is so much better. And I am closer to being free than ever before in my adult life.
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Monday, 10 November 2008
bsoaps on ooffoo
I have just been learning to upload files from Dreamweaver ( and other programs of similar types) in my website class only to discover - with considerable shock and also jubilation! that I have a web presence. Wow!! Or at least my soaps do. cant quite get over it. My soaps show up in a list of different addresses if you search for them. Its amazing. trouble is I still at the moment have no real website. I am on ooffoo tho. Here comes the soaps. I have to really knuckle down and do this website designing now since the web address doesnt point to anywhere right now which is a real pain. I could have hundreds of people looking to buy my products and no way to do so. Will they find ooffoo? will they buy from me. I have come to the conclusion the soap business is never going anywhere until I take the risk, chuck in my day job ( which pays the mortgage and bills!!) and go for it full time. Now other half is being laid off for a whole month tho I do not see how I can really do that. He working in the car industry ( what little we have left of it) and the company is shutting from 5th December to 5th january with no pay! How rubbish. No idea what we will do now and its right on christmas too. Well good thing we have no kids cos that would be even worse. We hopefully will get thru this. If its only a month we should be ok but if this goes on for longer I think we may well lose our house so not a time for me to be quitting my boring job. Thats not very secure either. Cant feel doom and gloom tho despite this. Seeing a list of links to Bsoaps was just so wild. Cant describe the happiness I feel right now or the fear cos what if it really takes off? Will I have enough soap to fill demands?? I suppose then it will be time to really go for it and quit the boring day job.............Bring it on............
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
again too lazy to blog! Am considering taking second ( third?) job. cannot live at all right now and we dont have a 101% mortgage so I really do not know how other people are managing. Good this is the company stuff is finally coming together altho teh florists shop have only managed to so far sell 3 soaps but then that is much better than none. M keeps getting orders from work and the xmas markets seem pretty sorted. I have even considered becoming a private tutor ( well have done teacher training) but have so far not managed to find anyone who knows me from last time teaching in any of the schools I have contacted. Without references it just aint going to happen. cant blame the agency for that either really. The third attempt at a website is slowing coming along but I am again learning a new program and its taking longer. Also this time I need a bit of HTML which is slowing me up. having said that the website course ( monday evenings ) is really pepping me up and I am finding I am very happy on a tuesday which is most unusual since its mid week and usually I just hate work so much I spend the whole day wishing the day away! Work is just a boring waste of time and I just cant wait to finish the day which is sad and a complete waste of being awake! have started blagging people for discounts and managed to get a 20% discount on essential oils for teh xmas markets by simply being cheeky and ringing the owner up. Excellent. I am now doing next years March Brighton Vegan Fair which should be good and may even get us established who knows. Trouble is everything we do costs so much its just killing us. Maybe we should just sell the house and go rented. Might sound mad but I am seriously thinking we could buy a shop in cornwall with a flat over it and move down there and get a better life. Well something has to work eventually surely. According to Charlie who I spoke to te oter day the hill I am currently half way up is the hard bit. After that its a great life. I just cant help wondering how much further till I get to the top of the hill?
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