My Story

Why I built this website

I'm an average, every-day work at home mom. I have a medium-sized house, a perfect-sized husband and a large-sized teenage son. Also a dog and a cat.

For years, my husband and I lived in Toronto, happily part of the big-city hustle and bustle. But when our son Chris was seven, we decided to move to a small town and raise him is a quieter (less polluted) environment.

So we moved to a small town in Prince Edward County, Ontario. We bought a little house with a white picket fence (for real!) and settled down. Chris started grade 1, and I looked for work. And looked for work... And looked for work.

After hopping from bad job to worse, I finally got lucky and ended up managing a tiny boutique where we made our own organic aromatherapy products and tea blends. I loved it! Not just the business, but aromatherapy: the smells... the way essential oils heal you... the creative process of developing new recipes... I could go on for hours!

As he got older, Chris' marks slowly started sliding from A's and B's down to C's because he was bored at school. He was developing a "don't-care" attitude towards learning and success. So at the start of grade 7, Rick and I enrolled him in a much more demanding school program. And I quit my job to stay home and help Chris adjust.

In practical terms, this meant engaging in a daily battle to force Chris to actually work at his homework and complete his assignments. It was the best choice we ever made - worth every tear (his and mine!)

After the first four horrible months, he settled right in. He made new friends, reconnected with us, and really started enjoying the challenge of his school work. Everything was great. But...

I was out of a job! One income is A LOT smaller than two, and I didn't feel like I was really contributing to our family's bottom line. So I started looking online at all the work from home opportunities. There's millions of them!

And lots of them are JUNK! I'm embarrassed to say that I actually bought some of them (luckily they had a money-back guarantee, which I used.)

First I got sucked into an MLM company... Then I spent $500 on a training product that taught me how to sell stuff to people by dominating them. (That's even more embarrassing!)

Finally, I found the answer - a training course that taught me how to build this website.

And with a little bit of learning, a handful of courage (I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to trying new things) and a whole lot of fun and hard work, I now have a website that:

... Reaches hundreds of people every day.

... Is listed in the all major search engines, optimized for my topic.

... Takes care of itself and keeps on growing once I've written it.

But most important of all, my website:

... Lets me be there for my family every day and

... Fills my need for meaningful, creative work.

The icing on the cake is, I only spend time on the fun part of building my site: trying out new aromatherapy recipes, posting them for everyone to share, keeping in touch with other aromatherapy lovers...

I'm not bogged down in all the technical stuff:

I don't write HTML code (okay, maybe a little - but only because I want to!)

I don't worry about SEO stuff (actually, I'm still not completely sure what it all is...)

I don't waste time researching the next great traffic-generating, money-making program or tool or package (I have "people" for that!)

And yet, even though I'll probably never know the mechanics of all that stuff, today I have everything I need:

Time and energy to spend with my family

A place to express my creativity and share my love of aromatherapy.

Financial independence.

A flexible schedule that lets me drive Chris to football, basketball, soccer...

Free time to volunteer in my community (and even have tea with my friends.)

Everyone should be this lucky!

If you're interested, click here to see how I did it...

Wishing you all the best in your endeavors, and happiness in your life.

Kyley

One Last Thing

I joined the SiteSell affiliate program because I strongly believe in the product, and I wanted to recommend SBI! to my family and friends. Now my mom, my sister and some of my friends have begun building their own website businesses.

So I have no qualms about recommending SBI! to you. I know it works. If you sign up for SBI! through the links on this site you can start your own online business today, and I'll receive a small commission that helps support this website.

Thank you in advance, and if you need help getting your new SBI! website started, just ask. I look forward to meeting you in the SBI! Forums.