About This Site
If you think only computer geeks can have a successful website, I have great news for you!
Hi, I'm Deb and I'm the person behind this website.
My husband (Captain Joe) and I are semi retired, meaning that we come home to Canada in the summers to work. Our winters are spent in Mexico aboard our sailboat.
Joe and I have been self employed almost all of our working lives (he, farming and I, teaching first aid and CPR and working casual as an EMT-A) and it occurred to us that we had no pension to look forward to and we'd be working at least part time into our twilight years at the rate we were saving.
It's not the working that presents a problem it's the restrictions that working imposes on one's life.
We needed a job we could take with us and work at when we wanted to. A job that we controlled rather than it controlling us.
At about the same time we were watching with interest as our daughter started a website less that a year after buying her first computer. The part we were watching with interest was the ever increasing income she was generating.
"You can do this Mom" she assured me as I started asking questions.
I took the plunge without even reading the case studies of numerous people just like us who've had great success with their websites.
I walked into this not having a clue what I was doing and knew there would be a learning curve and lots of work ahead. I told myself that there would be times of frustration and that I was committed to work through it.
There have been frustrations along the way. Thank goodness for the forums that have answered pretty much every question before i asked it.
It took a couple of months but I just kept putting up pages on my new website learning as I went along. Pretty soon things started to fall into place and make a whole lot more sense. By that time I had a functioning website up.
Not long after that, money started to trickle in from advertising income and we get closer every day to having a steady income that will turn into our retirement fund.
This is my 3rd website and the 4th will be out in a month. Not bad for a semi retired grandmother of two.
Here's a place to go for more information about making money on a website where you don't even sell anything!
I couldn't have done it without a web hosting company that provided every tool I needed to start my own website.