7/29/11

Hey all. I finally came to the decision that maybe it'd help how I feel to come around here and post an entry. Let's just say, life has me down right now. We are paying our bills fairly well. School is the same. Even with the help I have received with Algebra, I believe this class is going to be my first college failure. It sucks, but it's true. I am in my last week and I'm 8 percent away from passing right now. Those danged tests and quizzes this class dragged me down really quick where as algebra 1A I was able to do ok on the quizzes and then failed the tests and managed to stay just above passing. So, I gave it my all but last week I felt myself giving up. I knew I was lost.

So, the other thing is, our home businesses that we are involved in. ACN is our main business, but Erin does the Healthy Living Oils as well. We do that one more so because we use the oils ourselves and they help us a lot, and we are distributors mainly so we can also share their benefits with others whenever people approach us about them. That's mainly what happens, we will be at the mechanic shop and someone will come in and be complaining about shoulder pain, and someone that has gotten oils from Erin will refer them to her and they will be amazed at how well the oil takes away the pain.

So, with our ACN business, I'm working with this sort of "training" where I am going through a program and within a year, I am guaranteed to add 100 representatives into our business. They are helping me put up a web page to market myself, without advertising ACN that is, simply advertising myself in whatever service or services that I want to advertise, and then getting leads that way, and then when I'm in contact with them, then I direct them to my online store front. Well I was going through the training last night, and it had me go to the web site generator and create a web site, creating the auto generator and stuff like that as well, where they would read what I put on there, and then have the option to leave their contact information if they want more information. So here's what I thought I was supposed to do because I was not told anything different by my mentor or by the training material that I was reading. Well, when I did my first web page, I selected to have it sent to me instead of to the hbsa web team, that way I wasn't actually submitting the page to be put up online just yet. Was almost like a practice page if you will. But on this page, I talked about finding a solution to financial independence, and being able to spend more time with your family, etc, basically working on a site that might generate leads with people that are already looking to get into an opportunity like this. The funny thing though, that caught me for a loop is I talked to my mentor today and he was first like "you shouldn't be putting up a web page yet unless you got to ______ section." I was like "well, in the last training material handbook I went through, at the end it had me create a page, but I didn't have it submitted, I had it sent to me." He was like "oh, ok, then that's good. I thought you said you submitted it online."

So I told him what my page said and he was like "thats not right." I was like "what do you mean?" He was like "we're not advertising your business. We don't care about getting people signed up to do business, what we are getting you online for is to make you the expert, gain you lots and lots of customers, and then those customers will be the ones to inquire with you about how you are able to offer them these services, and you simply say 'i get a piece of the action', and then a lot of them will be like 'how do i get a piece of the action too?' and that is when you direct them to your ACN rep page and they join your team that way." I guess I have been slightly depressed since that call, but it makes sense. I have to have not just rep's on my team but reps AND customers as well, so I guess I should just stick with it. I wish I could find a legit, not too complicated way to go out there in the world and bring in a significant amount of money. I keep getting this ad for some lady in davenport that supposedly is now bringing in multiple streams of income and is not having to work a normal job. If only it were true. I don't doubt ACN, I know it's a great business, and eventually we will get it up there. Right now is just really slow. Doesn't help that when we talked to family about it, either we heard nothing, or josh and sonia basically were like "yeah you helped us out with monavie but we heard from a cousin of a cousin that acn doesn't work so we aren't interested." Everyone that we thought would jump on something like this didn't, but that's part of the training we go through, they even tell us "those that you think will, wont. Those that you think wont, will. Those that you think can't, can, and those that you think cant, can. It's interesting because you would bring someone that you think is too young, say a 19 year old with no job, and you think she's broke and she signs up and becomes a rep. Then you try to show it to a business owner and they wont even give you the time of day. SO FRUSTRATING!

So, dad keeps calling us asking us for updates about going to philly. Hopefully we will have a more definite date soon. We don't have a definite just yet, but still shooting by the end of summer ish. It might be that Erin and Ally go out there first and I stay here for a month or so and then I go out too. I guess we will see. Anyway, I needed to come on here and vent because I feel like I am being pulled in ten different directions. I still get unemployment, so that helps, but school sucks, and I want the money situation to be 100 times better than it is, but I am doing what I can. Some days I feel like I don't have enough time to try to do all the things I want or need to do. oy. So anyway, I'm going to go upstairs and hopefully be able to go to sleep. Have had lots of trouble doing that lately. Last night I didnt go to bed till 4 am and still it was 5:30 before I fell asleep, then I was up by 6:45 because zoe was having a night mare, and then I slept till about 11, and dragged myself up finally.

On that note, I'm going to head out. Really hoping things look up pretty soon. Sometiems I think that we just need to get out of this town. I sometimes think that it's the town of clinton that depresses me. Anyway, I will talk to you all later.