Category: Women Make Money

Tell Your Story

It Will Boost Your Business

Tell your story

Tell your story with truth sincerity and authenticity. I love a great story. What about you women of virtue. Don’t you love a good heartwarming or even life event kind of story. A story that has the ability to perhaps change a life or motivate someone to stop laying dormant, but instead get them to step out in faith to do something they’ve never done before. Now that is what I call a magnificent story.

We All Have A Truth

Tell your story

I would like to think that we all have that kind of story in us. I know I do. It’s the story of my life. I need to write a book called the story of my life. I already know it would net me a couple of million dollars because I also already know that it would definitely warm and transform many women’s lives around the globe.

Twists and Turns, Hope and Light

Tell your story

My story has many twists and turns, along with fear being the chains that held me captive for a very long time. Looking back on those fearful days I now realize that fear was a waste of time.

Now like you I have been blessed with great gifts and a powerful skill set.

When I finally realized that I could use my gifts to help others that’s what I did and still do. When I realized that I could earn a living using my gifts well that’s when I decided to start a small typing business of my own. Well I have graduated from that business and have now earned my ph.d. In my mind anyway.

If you are a business owner or if you’re planning to start a business I want you to know that you should tell your story. Let people everywhere on the planet know who you are and why you do what you do. Talk about your unique journey. Share your dreams and elaborate on how and why you started your business. Tell them about your life. Display your passion and love for what you do. Put your product or service on display and take your business to a completely new level. It will change your life forever with no regrets whatsoever. Not only will it alter every aspect of your life, but it will impact your business that matches your vibration.

Be blessed Women of Excellence!

Cynthia

Streams of Income

How To Get Streams of Income Flowing From Your Business Into Your Business

Streams of income

Income. It’s what everybody needs to live a comfortable lifestyle.

Leveraging your business can be fun and exciting. It can also be a great experience filled with lessons that can change the way you see business and always remember that business is more than just business. It’s about giving and gifting what you yourself would expect from others.

Business is also about sharing and really caring about your customers and those who have come to trust you. If you were to take time to sit back and reflect on how you worked so hard on building your business, you would quickly realize that you’re like a star who recognizes the fact that you may not have such a thriving, flourishing and all around successful business if it were not for one, God the Father, your infinite source of knowledge, wisdom, abundance and prosperity who provides you with the necessary tools and resources you need, and two your customers/clients with whom you have an excellent rapport and awesome business relationship. For some of you personal relationships have formed simply by you being a dedicated and wonderful Christian business woman owner your customers know, respect and have come to highly trust.

Streams of incomeSo how do you get more streams of money and lots of it flowing from your business into your business.

Let’s say you are a graphic artist and you own a design business. The possibilities for you are endless in this great field. You could be making, easily, $100,000 a year. Here’s how. 

One way that you can stream income from your existing business is by using your unique graphic design ability and creating your own store where you can put your designs on a bevy of products that include:

  • Greeting cards
  • Tee shirts
  • Wall art
  • Keychains
  • Coffee mugs
  • Mouse pads
  • Pillows
  • Throws
  • Postcards and more.

Here are a few of my designs from my Zazzle store.  Right now I have a balance of $7.36 in my account.  I had a lot more, but I let someone go in and use the money because she was having a Sickle Cell event and I allowed her to use my earnings to order the mugs and buttons that I designed for her special event.

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You can make a lot of money on Zazzle and CafePress, but it does take a whole lot of time and effort.  I have sold tee shirts and mugs mostly, but I haven’t really focused on my store too much this year because of my body butter business.  I plan to relaunch my store before the year is out.  I highly recommend opening a Zazzle store, but also know that when you sell items on Zazzle, they of course, get most of the percentage, leaving you with pennies, but if you sell a lot of items, it’s well worth it.  It does take time as I stated earlier. 

If you want to look into opening your store with Zazzle, you can open a free account here.

I hope this article has been useful in helping you to think about how you can grow your business to get more money flowing into your life. 

Setting up your system for success,

Cyndi

 

I’ll Say It Again Revised

Business Is More Than Just BusinessBusiness is more than businessAnd The Reason We Should Embrace It

 

Hello Women of Excellence,

Do you see the women in the photos smiling? It’s because they recognize the important fact that business is more just business. Read on to see exactly the point I am trying to make.

Business is business. I am constantly being reminded of it whenever I sell a product, but there is so much more to business than business.

One of the most valuable lessons I have learned as an empire owner is that most people have taken most, if not all of the emotion when conducting business. There is absolutely no emotion attached to business tradings, dealings and transactions. Well, except for me and I hope you feel the same. Listen, if we were to take all of the emotion out of our daily business practices I don’t think we would be in business for long. Business is strictly business for most, but is this really a smart way or the right way to run a business.

 I think it’s extremely important that we keep some emotion in our daily business transactions.  What I mean is this; when I hand make a body butter gift set for a new customer I make sure that I pour a lot of love into my gift box creations.  It is important that I place in each box that I lovingly designed the highest quality products that I can find because I want to give my customers the very best gift items that I can possibly give. This is important because I want my customers to be happy and satisfied with their purchase.  For me, presentation is everything.  

Business is more than business

Now just think, if I were to take all of the emotion out of my daily business goals I would find myself cutting corners and I probably wouldn’t take so much time crafting such beautiful gift boxes.  I enjoy what I do and it is my hope that it shows in each and every one of my presentations.  For me, producing great themed gift boxes is my passion and I want that passion to shine through the nano second my customers’ eyes open their elegantly designed gift box. I don’t ever want to cut corners when it comes to giving my customers the very best.

I think it’s safe to say that we as God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs, love to produce and give life changing lasting substance that has great potential and could possibly change someone’s life. Also, if I removed all emotion from my business I don’t think I would enjoy the success that comes from being that brilliant business woman who knows how to give! I wouldn’t be able to define success and if I couldn’t define success (in every aspect and area of my life and business) what good would I be to my customers, potential customers or myself. I would just be another business owner focused on making lots of money.  Now, please don’t get me wrong; I am sure that there are a lot of successful businesses owners who make tons of money, but I think the focus is just that money.  I think it’s important that we put our customers’ needs first and then the money will just flow right into our hands.  So, let’s not make money our focus.  Instead, let’s think about how we can change lives through our services and products.  It is imperative that we think about others.  When we do this, our business will soar like never before. Business needs to be more than just business. 

Business is more than business

BUSINESS IS HELPING AND GIVING OUR VERY BEST AS WE WORK TO CHANGE LIVES

Being in business means helping, giving, sharing, gifting, blessing and transforming. In our hearts we should be pouring out compassion into the lives of our clients and potential customers by providing them with highest level of service one can give. It’s that simple.

It’s an amazing feeling running a business, but it’s even more exciting when you run your business from a mindset that says I only want to offer and give the very best that I can give where my business is concerned and that includes exceptional customer service and the very best product/service in my specialized field which includes amazing prices that’s fair to both my customers and myself and a show of appreciation in the form of a special gift to my customers; a high quality gift that they can use to help them in some area of their life even if it only makes them smile. It is then that business is recognized as more than just business, but a caring individual who, behind the scenes presence can be felt in the most enriching and empowering way ever!

Be encouraged,
 
Cynthia

Welcome July

A New Season

Good Day God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs,

How are all of you phenomenally brilliant women business owners doing these days.

It’s July already and I am really excited about this new season.

In this new season, I’ve decided that it’s time to embark on something new, but new should always pertain and be relevant to your existing businesses.  I say this to say, because new opportunities are always being presented to me and I used to think that that meant it’s time to start a new business, but I learned as I went along that when new ideas come to me or are gifted to me that have the great potential to make more money, and yes, we all love to make money, it doesn’t mean that I throw up a new website or start something altogether different from the businesses on which I already built, am currently building or trying to build up. 

Okay, let’s get right down to business and setup even greater success in this new season for our businesses.

I am presently working on a few minor business details using my favorite platform on which I use to build most of my websites; WordPress.  

I’m not sure if any of you use WordPress for your website(s), but if you don’t maybe you should consider switching over to this rich CMS.  It has a steep learning curve, but once you understand how it works I think it will serve you well and you’ll be happy with the results when you see how much you can do with it and all that it offers. It has a ton of plugins to help you to do whatever your goals are in terms of building your website.

Anyway, today I’ll be working on a few of my businesses and setting them up for the upcoming Christmas season. I know you may be thinking I’m crazy for mentioning Christmas, but trust me when I tell you, it will be here before you know it.  I am a preparer and a planner which is why I am able to get things done in a timely as well as a professional manner.  I keep my customers on my mind because I have to help people.  I just do.

And so it is that I have to tell you that I have a new collection I’ll be launching for the Christmas Season for my body butters and I am thrilled to see it all come to fruition. I have been working nonstop because you know as I always say marketing and technology changes every second we breathe, but I do what I know what’s best for me and my businesses and it all works for me and it all flows so perfectly. 

I believe if you have a product or perhaps offer a service and you implement your own unique and brilliant ideas into your business success will follow wherever you go.  You just have to know that you have something others need.  

You have to believe that your product is the one product that stands out from the competition because you created it using your creativity in such a great way that it has the powerful potential to change a life.

If you offer a service or you have designed a product out of a need here’s how you can market your services for life-changing success for you and others:

Write great content.

Example: Let’s say you make glittery glassware and in the midst of you designing your specialized glassware you have discovered that there are a lot of women and even some men that are doing the same thing.  Here’s how you take your glittery glassware business to the next level setting it up in a class all by itself.  You write remarkable content.  You tell an attention-grabbing, attention-keeping content that tells your personalized story about how and why you started your business designing beautiful wineglasses, glassware or whatever you want to call it. You are going to tell your audience about how you made the discovery and how it can change their lives.  Maybe they are searching for that one-of-a-kind gift that they simply cannot find in stores. Tell them how you are going to send them their glassware and how long it will take for them to receive it.

Create Life-Loving Value for Others

This is where you get to share your own wealth. 

When you create transformational and life-loving value for others, you not only change their life, but you change your own life.  

I cannot stress enough the wealth that is in you.  When you take that wealth and you use it to build your empire, but create value for others and prosperity for yourself. 

Creating value for others is empowering and enriching. It gives you the chance to share your gifts and abilities with the world.  This is how your money flows directly to you.  You take inspired action by creating value for those who trust and look to you to help change their lives permanently. When you do this you will see the value that has the potential to make you even wealthier than ever.  

Now, sit down and pen your plans to paper to create even more value for your customers as well as for yourself.  You’ll instantly see and feel the amazing and awesome power that is in you.  Get excited and keep your energy level to a temperature that is as high as the heat and humidity are during the Summer Season of 2018!

Blessings,

Cyndi

cyndisdesignz@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Systems in Place

For a Successful Business,

Plan to Have A Great System

As you prepare to write out your business plan you must have a system in place as brilliant as you. Depending on the kind of business you plan to incorporate into your life you must have everything you need before your big launch.

Let’s Explore with Examples

Let’s say you’re going to start a Cricut Crafting Business. You should already have in your mind the various crafts you plan to create, design and sell. Transfer those thoughts, visions, dreams and goals to paper. Write them down. Sketch them if necessary. Now think about the tools and accessories you will need to purchase to make your crafts.

Start a spreadsheet to list your items. and then transfer your thoughts to paper. 

Your Brilliant Brand’s Domain Name

Dot.com, net, biz, or info or tv.

As you put the pieces together to start your business, you want to make things as simple and easy as possible.  Starting a business does not have to be complicated.  

Here’s how to choose a domain name

Dot.com, net or biz, etc.

I like .com because it is easy, but any extension will work just fine.

Brief and to the point.

Enough spoken.

Easy to remember, say and spell.

You will want a domain name that is easy for your target audience to remember, say and spell.

No hyphens required.

You never want to use hyphens in your domain because it makes it difficult to type.  You want to keep things simple for your potential customers.

Use a list of keywords; if not in your name at least in your slogan.

You should think about using your own name and adding a slogan that speaks volumes about what you offer and/or provide.

 

 

Now Is The Time; Or Is It

Is This Your Time To Soar To Your Destiny

When I entered into corporate America in 1990 I quickly realized that it was not a good fit for me for various reasons, the number one factor being I could not utilize my God-given gifts and my oh my did and do I love using my gifts to glorify God. He gave me my gifts for a reason which is part of His plan for me. I am grateful. 

When I left corporate America in 2002, I decided that from that moment on I was going to work at home for myself.  It was then that I began my very short lived typing/secretarial business.  I immediately found myself jumping all over the map because there has always been a reservoir flowing inside of me and I needed to get it all out at the same and that was an enormous mistake from which I gleaned my success. With so much to share with women who were/are just like me I began a journey that would lead to nowhere ( all my fault). I started a graphic design business. I wrote children’s books. I took a coaching course and became certified. I started a gift basket business and too many more to name and list here. 

Fast Forward; Not My Time Yet

When my father went on dialysis I had to do everything humanly possible with all the power available to me to help him and my mother. When he passed I had to then help my mother. When she started to decline very slowly I took care of her. She moved into our home and I became her caregiver for 16 years. 

During the time of me giving my mother my life I really could not delve deep into my business to give it the attention it truly deserved, but not one time did I stop planning and writing. When my mother died a few months ago it was really difficult to get moving in my life and in my business. I found myself chained to the bed. It just wasn’t time for me to go back to work for myself. 

Now Is The Time. God’s Time; My Time. 

Here it is the beginning of December and I’m working part time, full time and overtime in my business and let me tell you I am delighted and beyond excited as I prepare to launch my new skincare product Beauty and the Face, Love for the Skin, Luxury in a Jar!  It has been a longtime coming and well worth the wait for me and I hope for all my potential customers. It’s funny how Beauty and the Face has evolved. I started a blog about seven years ago and I never thought in ten million years that I would be handcrafting butter for the body. 

I am finally on a journey that is promising to carry me on my life loving journey to fulfill my life long goals and live my dreams.

Am I grateful. Beyond thankful. I’m going to blow this one out of the water. Whose traveling with me. 

If there is anything you’ve been dreaming about but you are not sure about go to God in prayer and ask Him if this is your time for whatever it is you’ve been contemplating. He’ll tell you by giving you, one by one, each lesson He has planned for your life in your business. Now is the time and I pray that if it’s your time too that you will skyrocket and soar with pure excitement.

Be blessed.  

Be Encouraged

Because Every Woman Entrepreneur Needs A Touch of Inspiration!

You are extremely powerful.

Yes, you are phenomenal.  Woman entrepreneur, you have this great unlimited potential breeding inside you encompassing every inch of your mind, life, heart and soul. You are resilient. Your mind is a journal that holds and retains your goals and all that you envision as an entrepreneur. 

You are a rich reservoir of valuable and priceless information.

 

 

A New Season

In this new season why not design, create and craft an extension of your existing business. 

Here’s what I recommend.

Think about your business and all the things that are relevant to your dynasty.  It could be that you want to design t-shirts for your business.  T-shirts can be a wonderful marketing tool.  T-shirts are not expensive to buy.  You can purchase t-shirts from Walmart, AC Moore, Michael’s, etc.  Or you can use Spreadshirt to design and sell your t-shirts. 

If you have a software program or if you are familiar with Adobe Photoshop, you can design your own graphics and upload them to Spreadshirt.  They have a large collection of t-shirts in all colors and sizes. 

I use Spreadshirt, but I don’t really market it the way I used to.  Here are a few of my own designs and here’s the link to help you to create that extension of your business if you decide that’s what you want to do. This will ensure that you get traffic to your website to help grow and prosper your business.

Ebooks

You can also write ebooks.  Ebooks are a fantastic way for you to make money.  I’ve written several ebooks and I’ve done well with them.  You just need Woocommerce or some kind of digital download program.  I really like Woocommerce a lot.  They set up everything for you.  They collect your payments right from your website as well. You just need to drive traffic to your website so that your potential customers can review and then buy your products. I’m so sure that you have priceless information that you want and are willing to share with the world!

 

 

Rubies in the Garden

Until next time, be encouraged, enriched and forever enlightened.

Blessings,

Cynthia

You Define Greatness

You Define Greatness.

Never Ever Stop Doing What You Were Born To Do

You Have the Power, Knowledge,

Skill Set, Heart and Mind To Do Amazing!

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Greatness.  It’s who you are and it’s what you do.  Great things.  Amazing things.  Phenomenal things. 

Growing up and now looking back at my childhood and the people I grew up with I realize that we all possessed something spectacular. We were all so very unique. There was definitely something special about us. I think about how smart we were. I reflect and can now clearly see that we were beyond gifted with the awesome and amazing ability to do just about anything our hearts and minds shared with us.

I am sure most of us ignored our callings and did what we thought was normal or perhaps right which was to go to college get a degree and enjoy some kind of career. Pondering all these things I think most of us missed out on our greatness. We missed the plane of something that could have possibly soared us to our individual destinations and even greater. I believe in my heart that all of us could have skipped college. We could have created, designed and built our own empires from our minds alone. That’s how phenomenally gifted and skilled we were and probably still are. 

I say this to say that no matter where you are in your life, it’s never too late for you to do what your heart is leading, guiding and directing you to do.  It is important that you realize what that is, devise a plan and execute your plan with faith in God. 

Go Ahead and Soar!

You Know You Can

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Now that I am a little older and just a tad bit wiser which stems from my own personal life experiences, I am finally walking and soaring through the doors of all the opportunities that are constantly being presented to me.  I want to tell you that each and every new business venture is just an extension of my two main businesses that I enjoy building a little more everyday.  We all know that God is infinite and this simply means that you will never ever run out of ideas to continually increase your revenue from the ever overflowing reservoir that is filled with chances for you to be a blessing to others and for you to earn a living for yourself. 

If things are still the same where your business is concerned or maybe even your life and you’re not where you had hoped to be right now at this very moment, then it is imperative for you to take a look at your business and see where you need to improve certain aspects or perhaps remove certain components of your new ones and replace them with new ones.  Go to God and ask Him to reveal what He sees in your business that need improvement.  Trust Him to answer.  Remember when you ask God for His help it is essential that you be sill and wait patiently for Him to answer.  He will.  Don’t be anxious and jump ahead of Him.  Running your business is a marathon and not a sprint.  Keep your faith in Him.  I have learned the importance of waiting on God. It builds patience, trust and it helps you to deepen your faith in Him.  There is no better way to run your business.  When you hear God speak then apply whatever He tells you to your business and watch, in excitement, your success go to the next 100 levels, one dream, goal and vision at a time.  This is the start of your success, abundance and prosperity.  

Be blessed and remember to always bless your business.

It Begins with You First

Becoming A Highly Successful Women Entrepreneur Consists of Having The Most Authentic System In Place That Leads To Your Abundance, Prosperity and Financial Wealth

 

 

 

 

 

It begins with you first.  Building a business begins with life and it starts with you.  Starting a building and blazing your brand stems from lessons you’ve learned, your gifts and skill set. 

Before you start writing your business plans there are systems that you need to have in place to build a successful business.  The systems I am talking about begins with those treasures inside you.  Before you begin to explore and discover your gold you must get unstuck.  After you remove all the negative energy from your life in addition to all the other things you need to resolve and those pertinent components you need to apply to your life it is then that you can confidently begin to build and enjoy a thriving and prospering business.

My Gold Program was written to help you to effectively and positively change what needs to be changed in your life.  It’s just that simple.  I know, because I have had major personal struggles that I had to overcome.  Once I realized how desperate I was for change, I had to pen this information that the Holy Spirit helped me to write.  I am never ashamed to tell you that my struggles were real and yet they were a true blessing for they truly changed and impacted my life in a major way and now I am, plain and simple, a peaceful luminous being with enjoys many successful work at home businesses.  It has taken me a lot longer than most people, but as I always say I am exactly where I am supposed to be and I am overjoyed and I want you to feel the same.

This program has changed my life.  Living life has changed my life.  I hope you will think about what changes you’d like to make in your life in an effort to start, soar and prosper your own business.  I hope this program blesses you! 

Go here to find out how you can get started today and enjoy the success your life and business deserves!