"From College Dropout to Family Unity, Peace & Time Freedom"
All I ever Wanted to be when I grew up, was a Present, Happily Married, Stay At Home Mom…
It was the Year 2000 when I said goodbye to my 9-5 job in the Construction Industry, to come home to raise my first born son. From the time I was 6 Years old, my one Dream and Goal in Life was to become a ‘Present’ Stay at home Mother, but I knew that in order to do that, I would need to find a way to earn a supplemental income from home.
Working from Home, but Still Trading Time For Money.
After planning my escape from the 9-5 Ratrace for the 9 Months I was pregnant, I was blessed enough to find an ‘at-home’ job answering phones for 2 big corporations.
I worked this at-home job for a while, but I was still trading time for money.
My husband and I were living under the same roof, but we were like 2 ships passing through the night. I would hand him the baby so I could lock myself inside of a room to work for 5 hours and then when my shift was over, he would hand me back the baby so he could go work. Not quite the vision I had of being a Present Stay at home, happily married mother.
Once my son was round 8 months old, he started getting more fussy and needing more of my attention and so I tried network marketing, as I heard it was a great way to make a part-time income as it was supposed to be a ‘Home Based Business’ but the way the company was training me, required to do alot of things that #1, kept me OUTSIDE the home like home parties and home meetings in other people's homes,
...and the higher you got into the compensation plan, the more responsibility was required and Traveling away from the family to go to corporate events, add to that, doing things I hated, as an introvert, like talking to total strangers and hard selling my friends and family…
It just wasn’t the right fit for me.
How Do I Make Money When I'm Not on My Computer so I can be a PRESENT Wife and Mom for My Family?
Then I tried eBay for a while, but their fees kept going up and my business was at their Mercy, as they could close my business down on a whim.
But before I quit eBay, I would successfully take my store from zero to Silver Powerseller in only 3 months… and I was able to do this because I set myself apart from everyone else in my Niche who was selling the same products I was…by Creating a BRAND For My store.
Discovering the Power of Branding.
Other Sellers got wind of my success and they began private messaging me to see if I would Brand their Stores… filling that need would result in the birth of my first Marketing & Design Company.
After a few months of designing stores on eBay, I realized one thing… I had Created myself a job! I was still stuck trading time for money and if I wasn’t working I wasn’t getting paid.
How Can I earn An Income from Home even when I’m NOT On My Computer?
Then I asked myself a question, ‘How can I still Earn an Income, Build a Business from Home, but STILL Make Money even if I’m NOT on my Computer?”
This is when I discovered the POWER of Internet Marketing and ‘Business Models’ and COMBINING Internet marketing with Business Building to Create a Business that also allows me to have a life and BE that Stay At Home Present Mother I always Dreamed of.
So I went on to invest $1997 into a Coaching and Leadership Program that focused on teaching How To Use Video Marketing to generate leads for your business online and following their training I was able to earn my very first $3,000 Sale Online, from a complete and total Stranger!
I finally cracked the code to online success!
(or So I thought)...
Taking My New Skills, I joined a Network Marketing Company
I achieved Leadership Ranks, Won Medals and Walked across Stages, but...
With My Newfound skills, I began to apply the principles I learned to different opportunities online, specifically in Online Network Marketing…
And Since uncovering these online marketing principles, I was able to:
- Achieve a Leadership Rank inside of a Health & Fitness Network Marketing Company
- Walk the stage at 2 Different Company Events
- Achieve Leadership Rank inside a Generic Attraction Marketing System
- Become one of the top 3% Income Earners for a Generic Marketing & Blogging Company
- Achieve #1 Affiliate for a Blogging Product Launch Contest
- Run my own Lead Converting Authority Website Design Agency
A Funny Thing Happened though…
No matter what I did, I always would go back to teaching people how to build their business online.
Since Network Marketing Success is based on Team Duplication, I always found myself recruiting new people but then having to go back and teach them how to Brand Themselves and setup their blogs and start generating leads…
And so my efforts always brought me BACK to what I knew best and Loved – Which was helping people get their business off the ground, online!
And…because this is my story and it’s important to be completely HONEST and Authentic with you…
I have to Share Something Personal…
Even Though I had Seemingly Achieved ‘Success’ for some reason, My Heart Still Felt Empty
I would still battle depression and I still felt like my home life was out of Balance…
I tried meditation and visualizing like a lot of online gurus teach, but nothing was working to fill in that hole in my heart that still made me feel empty inside, and it was affecting my business. I couldn’t be effective knowing that I had all this turmoil in my heart.
Yes I was home, but WE as a family, were not HAPPY. I don’t know if you can relate. Sure, things looked beautiful on the outside, my highlight reel seemed very attractive, but behind closed doors we were not fulfilled and it was affecting our family dynamic ….
And that is when the BIGGEST Change of My Life Happened and my role as mother and wife finally became clear… and my priorities changed…
"The Biggest Change in My Business and Life, was when My Family Surrendered our Lives to Jesus Christ… that’s when My Priorities become Clear."
I went from a stay at home, married mother… to a PRESENT stay at home, Happily Married Mother. (Big Difference)
Not Sharing this part of my story, would mean leaving a huge chunk out of how I finally discovered my Purpose and finally realized my dream of being a PRESENT, Happily Married, stay at home mother.
I Began to Pray for Clarity around my Business and How to Move Forward, and then we Got Hit by An Unexpected Hurricane...
As fate would have it, we were unexpectedly hit by Hurricane Irma, which put us in a vulnerable financial position, which forced me to look for alternatives for Digital Marketing Tools AND creating a growing passive income online.
I had been struggling as a web designer after stepping away from both internet and network marketing but I was stuck on that month to month client grind. Then out of the blue, we were hit by Hurricane Irma in 2017 and it shook me by the shoulders and made me realize that I had to push through and break through and make this passive online income dream come true.
Fast forward a few months and I stumbled upon an All in One Digital Marketing Platform that claimed to be the one stop solution for Digital Marketing tools AND it had a pretty Sick (Generous!) Affiliate Program.
I took the trial to test the tools and by Day 3, I was sold, hooked line and sinker.
I started to take MASSIVE ACTION and worked harder than I have in my whole internet marketing career.
By Year #2 I'd Surpassed $100K in Commissions & then went on to cross over $400,000 in Commissions.
I promise you I never set a 'goal' or put it on a vision board to cross over to $100K. I just applied Godly principles to my business and put my head down, Had Faith, Stayed Focused and took Massive Action.
Just like anyone else, I also had challenges along the way, like the sudden loss of my beautiful Father, who taught me about being humble and having a good work ethic. (Miss You Papi) but through it all, I've leaned on Christ's strength to push through difficult times as the enemy wants to see us fail.
And then the Unthinkable happened...
The Company I loved so much and helped build, was abruptly Sold.
This is a story for another day but I had never experienced a heartbreak that impacted me this deeply as far as I can remember.
The Culture and Business model changed and all of the sudden I felt like an outsider. Not gonna lie, it hurt.
Now I had to Draw a line in the sand....and Build on My Own Land.
After leveraging Affiliate and Network Marketing Businesses for Years to work from home... and being at the mercy of 3rd party companies to earn an income...
I had to make a BIG DECISION and that was, It was time to fully step into Being in Business for MYSELF with God as my CEO of course.
I tip toed through by purchasing a $500 course that had master resale rights and literally, within months of me joining, they changed the license and the way you could promote the program and that's when I threw in the towel and decided I HAD to lead with My Brand.
Affiliate Marketing and Network Marketing are AMAZING and honestly I cannot wait for the possibility of finding a new program that aligns with my Brand...
But Branding Yourself and creating your own systems is KEY to protecting your business and that's what I am helping more people do....
Keep reading to find out how...
The Tables Have Turned...
Since deciding to go into Business for myself I started training with some of the most talented God-Loving Entrepreneurs in the Internet Marketing Space and one of my Coaches challenged me to Create my own offer and put it out there! I did and not only did it prove to help those who went through it....
( I had one girl go from making ZERO Sales to Selling her product
by making just a few tweaks in her marketing)
...but I was able to Turn all my experience as an Internet Marketer since 2007 and created My Magnetic Sellers Framework, which is the same framework that helped me make my first $3,000 sale from a total stranger, Walk the Stages in multiple companies and more recently become an award winning affiliate signing up over 700+ customers and earning multiple six figures in commissions.
It is now clear to me that God used all those experiences, even though some of them felt like I was totally failing, to help me RISE into the next iteration of myself and I'm so excited to help share my strategies with other purpose-led entrepreneurs (like you!) who are craving meaning in their work, who want to make more money online, but they want to honor their Strengths, gifts talents and values.
If you have a product or service or business opportunity that you are passionate about, because you KNOW that it will help other people transform their lives, but you just don't have a marketing strategy that honors who YOU are, how God Built You and you do not want to come across as a pushy salesperson, I would encourage you to start with My Magnetic Sellers Toolkit and get on the Fast-Track to attracting the People who are searching for someone like YOU to buy from!
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ABOUT BARBIE
I help coaches, everyday experts, service pros, and independent sales reps, build a magnetic, true-to-you personal brand... plus simple systems that bring in leads, sales, and sign-ups on autopilot (without the tech or design drama).
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Matthew 5:14-16: You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven.
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