Profit from my hard work!

Read this ONLY if you want to earn money!

I work from home. How lucky is that? No having to get up at 5 am, or in my husband's case at 3 am.Yuck! Not only does he get up at 3 am he has to shovel white stuff just to get out of the driveway for half the year. I sympathize.

Most nights when he leaves I'm still awake, working. I find it easier to work at night than during the day because during the day the phone keeps ringing, the dog wants out a million times a day, she barks at everything outside that moves, and whoever else is in the house, even though they know I'm trying to work, find it necessary to tell me every thought they have, what's on TV, what's in the newspaper, and what's going on with everyone they know. And so, working at night is much easier. Besides that, I've always been a night owl anyway so it's in my comfort zone.

Working from home has other merits, one of which is you can look like someone who just crawled out of bed, hair all over the place, morning breath, old worn slippers and a red fleece sweater on and nobody knows or cares. You can set your own hours which is wonderful, but having your own business doesn't mean you can slack off with the "amount" of hours spent. No, in fact, I probably work double the hours of my husband. The nice part is that I can work whatever hours and days works for me, which is most hours of most days. lol I do pretty much work 7 days a week, and although some of those hours are long hours of pretty much not moving off of my computer, others are minutes strewn between vacuuming and cooking dinner. (Ok, I admit it, my husband also seems to be doing most of the cooking lately!) The other great part about what I do is that I completely love it.

About 7-8 years ago I didn't even know how to turn on a computer, had no idea how to control the mouse, couldn't even figure out how to set it up. Now, I run my own business from home. No, I'm not looking for a pat on the back. In fact, with the amount of time I've spent on my computer in the past 8 years I should be much more knowledgeable than I am. I admit to being a slow learner, the kind who makes enough mistakes, bad mistakes, that you learn from them. I have spent entire days trying to figure out something that others can figure out in ten minutes. lol Once I learn it this way though, I usually remember it! Working from home is wonderful, it really is. I wish I had known several years ago what I know now, but that's part of the learning process and growing process.

Over time my online Cafe Press store(s) has grown, and now I can say it's rather successful. Not only do I work from home which is absolutely a dream come true, but it's profitable as well. I've literally spent thousands of hours to get this store to where it is, and you know what...?? YOU, yes you, whoever you are...YOU, can profit from all this hard work very easily. If you have a website, a blog, even email, you can profit from my store! How? By joining our affiliate program. Our affiliate program will pay you 20percent of my retail sales for any customers that originated at your website or blog, or even from a link from your emails you send out! I'm serious, it's that simple.

Let's set a scenario here. You have a blog, it's getting some traffic. You sign up for my affiliate program, insert special links on your blog with your special PID number (these can be either text links or image links, can be links to my storefront, sections of my store, or certain products), a visitor to your blog clicks on this link, likes my products, orders, and you get 20 percent of the sale! How easy is that? Once you set your links up it's done. Just sit back and check your reports and watch the money roll in. I sometimes go shopping for a few hours, come home, and I've earned more than what I spent while shopping. I go to sleep and wake up and I've made sales. I go on vacation and while I'm gone I'm earning money. Now you can cash in on all my hard work of setting up my store, designing, uploading, SEO work, etc. And...all you need to do is put these special affiliate links on your website or blog! Yes, it really is that easy! Now you might ask, why would I like for you to do this?? I mean, that sounds kind of crazy doesn't it, that I'd want you to get 20 percent of my sales. Well, it's because without you, I wouldn't have these sales that you referred to me. We both win. It's a win-win situation. (and remember, 20 percent! That's $20 on every $100 a customer spends!)

Ok, I know I'm sounding like a late night infomercial. I know you are skeptical. I know you think it won't happen...that you'll spend time putting up these links and never make any money. It's possible yes, probable, NO. My store has holiday and special occasion items. During the holiday season sales are brisk, but not only then. I have Valentine's Day items, Easter items, graduation items, birthday items, Mother's Day items, Father's Day items, Halloween items....things people want all year, not just during the holiday season. You CAN and probably will make some money, and like I said, it's not that hard. Once your links are set up the rest takes care of itself. Once you see how easy it is you'll probably want to make more websites and add more links though. lol

Sign up for my affiliate program through Cafe Press then put links to my store on your site and see for yourself. It can be done! Whether you want to earn a little with minimal effort or a lot by putting links all over the net, you can earn money doing this!

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New Things to Consider

I have officially decided that I'm perhaps the world's worst blogger. I mean, look at this blog, I haven't contributed to it in months! I'm absolutely pushing myself right now to write this, and because of that I'm sure it's not going to come across as very interesting or creative. Maybe I need to start reading blogs and get some ideas what others write about. I compare my less than enthusiastic blogging abilities to that of writing letters. Words don't come easy for me, at least not creative ones. Perhaps I'm too methodical, precise, practical, and therefore just want to say whatever it is I want to say and be done with it. Nevermind it's boring for the reader. Oh well...it is me and I'm probably not going to change now.
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ok...five minutes has passed.
I sit here staring at this like a writer with writers block would do. Which reminds me, I think I know how that feels. I was trying to think of the name of the country my daughter's mother-in-law is going to visit this spring, and even though I should have known it, it just wouldn't come to me. I sat there mentally going through the alphabet thinking of every country that starts with every letter for nearly an hour. My mind was totally blank. ha! If that's what writer's block feels like I can really sympathize!
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Ok, nothing exciting to say and so I'll just once again tell you about my site and my stores. Yes, stores as in plural. I now have three of them and it's no wonder I can't come up with anything creative because most of my waking moments and yes, many of my dreams as well are spent on my Cafe Press store. I never would have believed I could be earning the amount of money I am earning from having a Cafe Press store. I also highly recommend it to anyone who loves to earn money by playing on their computer all day! Seriously, it's much easier than you might think. Easy, yes...time consuming, yes, that is...if you want to be successful at it. You don't just slap any ole design on a T-shirt and expect people from all over the world to flock to your site and buy it. No, you have to start with a good, quality design. Then you spend a good amount of time setting up your store, uploading your image, writing tags with keywords for that image, setting your price, etc. Ok, great, now it's up in your store. If you are lucky somehow, someone will find it on their own. Most times though in order to get visitors to your site you need to spend time tweaking keywords and meta tags and descriptions and promote, promote, promote it! All combined, it can be time consuming, but the rewards can be great. Working from home, setting your own hours, doing something you love (I swear, it is fun and addicting!) is like a dream come true.
I mentioned I have more than one store. I mostly focus here about my main store, Peacock Cards. I am happy to announce that I've recently opened a new store, Toddler's Place. I admit to loving designing the kids and baby items the most, and so I guess it was only natural that eventually I would have so many designs it would warrant me opening yet another store. Toddler's Place is unique in that I not only have my own products, but I have put up many products of other Cafe Press shopkeepers as well. Looking for a Little Sister T-shirt for the new baby? Not only can you find all of my designs at Toddler's Place, but you can find designs from other artists as well. What's great about it is that you can fill your shopping cart with items from as many of these stores as you want, and it's all added to the same shopping cart so you only pay one shipping cost! I have searched friends shops and the Cafe Press marketplace to try to add only the best of the best designs. Toddler's Place has baby, toddler, and kids T-shirts, bibs, creepers, tote bags, baseball jerseys, sweatshirts,hoodies, as well as some room decor items and keepsake gifts. As with Peacock Cards, Toddler's Place items can be personalized for free, and we have shirts and other items for holidays and occasions too. I hope you'll take a peek at it and find something you like.

VISIT TODDLER'S PLACE!

VISIT PEACOCK CARDS!

New Items at Peacock Cards

It's been over a month since I last posted, and that's way too long! If you've stopped by our store at Peacock Cards, you've probably noticed a lot of new items added recently. In the past couple of days I've added a nice selection of dog lover designs as well as some miscellaneous text designs including I'm Touched, I Can Count on 3 Hands, Grammar Police, Sometimes I Hear Voices, I Dressed Myself, and I'm Really Funny. Also new to our store is four scrapbook designs including Scrapbook Addict, I'm a Scrapbook Diva, Love to Scrap, and Tagged Scrapbook Queen! In the baby t shirts section we have some new animal designs including Moo the Cow, Oink the Pig, Woof the Dog, and the Cat's Meow. You'll also find that we added an entire section of themed birthday shirts, buttons, and tote bags for kids from first birthday to 13th! You can find such themes as Puppy Dog, Butterfly Garden, Birthday Picnic, Pool Party, Camping Birthday, Hocus Pocus Magic, Baseball, Soccer, Car Racing, On the Farm, Birthday Circus, Bug Birthday, Flower Power, Diva Princess, Birthday Sleepover, Zoo, Dinosaur, Cool Surf, and more! Right now until July 26th there's another great sale going on. You can save $5 on orders of $40 or more by using coupon code SUMSAV at checkout! Please stop by and remember, if you see something you like but want it personalized with a name, drop us an email before ordering and we'll personalize it for you for free!