Welcome to my blog!

This blog is oriented on developing  your own business online by creating the fundamentals of your business, building your presence and personal branding through social media.

One of the biggest questions that we have as online marketers is where to start, and how can we run this business part time. I must tell you before answering those questions, we should have a clear idea of our goals. This is the type of content you will find in here. Tips and secrets to inspire you to find your true purpose and internet marketing strategies and techniques that will help you tap into this industry from scratch allowing you to achieve a true freedom online and live your dreams.

But first I will tell you our story.

CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC NETWORK MARKETER (LOL)

BACKGROUND

I am originally from Mexico City.  After a happy life with my parents, brothers, and the rest of the family; I got the opportunity to move to Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

When I first came to Vancouver, I decided that I could start a brand new life without attachments and just do whatever I really love.

I’ve always been an entrepreneur at heart. While doing my thesis for my psychology degree in Mexico, I started a marketing research company with one of my friends from school making one of our dreams come true, have our own business. Although we were doing well, major corporations started to take over the market making it harder to compete. As a result, a few years later we shut the company down.

As a break for myself, I decided to take a trip for a few months to Canada, where by the way, I met Don, my husband, my best friend, my partner in life.

I went back to Mexico City and work in for a local marketing magazine. I was lucky to have the best of two worlds: the benefit of a corporation and the feeling and freedom of running my own business.

I got married and moved to Vancouver. I continued what I loved doing in Mexico. I started working for a small local, Newspaper, (this was as a volunteer while I was waiting to complete my immigration status). Once again I was living my dream, working in a place that, even though it wasn’t mine, it felt like it.

THE PROBLEM BEGINS

Finally my papers arrived and I was able to work in Canada, yeah! Trying to follow the same path, I started a position in an advertising company doing what they called “inside sales”, but it was really telemarketing. I hated it! I it was the pushing sale system they had. I am a strong believer in the right of the consumer or client to be well educated before investing in something.

Now, the time to have a baby arrived, so Don and I decided that it would be a good for me to join the hospitality industry with the idea of having flexibility and spend more time with the baby and get also maternity leave benefits. However, what started as a good plan became a nightmare; I ended up working mostly evenings and weekends and never saw Don.

I moved to Vancouver and had the idea to restart my life and do what I love, but for the first time, I was working just for money and even worst, I wasn’t following my passion, and that feeling was killing me. It was like if I had forgotten my real purpose.

Don on his end had been working as a Sales and Training Manager for over 10 years. We realized that financially we had no hope to create wealth and we don’t have enough time to see each other.

THE BREAKTHROUGH

That is when I said: “there should be a better way”. A few days later, something amazing happened. After work, about 2 am, I saw an infomercial where Robert Kiyosaki was giving a talk about the financial principles that he lives by and gave birth to in his famous book Rich Dad Poor Dad.

That commercial made me remember that trading my time for money in a job, especially if I don’t love it, will never allow me to be prosperous and happy. It was then that I knew what to do. I decided to start my own online business…and this is when my real nightmare started lol

I AM A SHOPAHOLIC NETWORK MARKETER (LOL)

At the beginning, I started spending hundreds of dollars in e-books and e-courses; I joined some affiliations and I started to get bombarded with information about the “Best Next Thing” to make money and promote my business. I was putting advertising here and there but I was lacking of the most important thing: A PLAN.

Things were not working out as I wanted. I really wanted to quit my job to follow my dream of starting my own online business, but I wasn’t doing too well in that department either. I was spending a lot more time and money than I expected, which is why I began to think that it would have been better just to work at my job.

I realized there were 2 main reasons why I was going all over the net spending time and money like crazy.

One, there is an overwhelming amount of information on the internet that you could swim in it. I was inexperienced and everything sounded amazing.

The second reason is that I was freaked out. I was getting buried in all this cyber clutter and bunch of e-books, courses, webinars and such. I was in a needy and obsessive mindset. I wanted to be perfect and have results fast at the same time. I was buying and trying all these courses, tools and resources. I was becoming a Network Marketing shopaholic.

After all those evenings and weekends of being apart from my family, I was desperate to find a solution, I wanted the nice house, the nice body, the time to be with my family, the freedom of doing what I wanted, but all I was doing was buying the dream, the promises, the ideal.

GLORY AND RESURRECTION

I knew I needed to stop and reevaluate my goals, values and the way I was doing things. I looked at what was good with my career at the time and then I started to refocus.

After a few years of struggling, I finally came back to my true path. I CHANGED my mindset. I discontinued the habit of surfing on the net and stop wasting my time in NO MONEY MAKING ACTIVITIES.

I sat back, took one step at the time, and started to apply what I have been learning. I stopped focusing on quick fix stuff and started working on my presence online. I changed my mindset from “what is there for me” to “how can I give value to you”. I started from the beginning (the best place to start lol).

I decided to learn one strategy, apply it and share it, and even better, I decided not to think about how much time that was going to cost me or how many things I have to do in order to learn, apply and share that strategy. I stopped thinking about the to-do-list and started to focus on my outcome.

I wanted to be a true network marketer and to show others how they can do this as a fulfilled career. This is my goal. This is my dream. That will be my outcome.

Once I understood my goal and the reason why I wanted it, my need of buying all these resources and e-books on impulse disappeared. These tools are very important, but only if you apply one strategy at a time.

I discovered how powerful the internet was and a way to fulfill my passion at the same time. Now, here I am, developing my online business with the goal of helping you to live your life to its full potential of achieving true freedom online.

Sometimes to understand how others have overcame their obstacles inspire us and help us to keep going. Share your main difficulties in your journey through your business and your way to overcome them.

We’d love to hear from you,

Carina & Don