I just love hearing about people who have achieved success working from home. Today I came across a story from Busines 2.0 Magazine about how a stay-at-home mom accidentally built and sold a company for $10 million. Now, that’s what I call successful.
Back in the summer of 2005, Sheri Schmelzer, 41, of Boulder, Colorado decided to fashion some little clay
and rhinestone charms that would fit into the holes of her family’s many pairs of Crocs. Sheri’s husband saw some potential for a business being that there are 26 million pairs of Crocs in the world, more than 80 percent of them speckled by holes, and many of those shoes are on the feet of accessory-friendly youth. Within weeks, they had set up a website and had their parents working the assembly line in the basement.
According to writer Diane Anderson, “In February, when the company sold its 250,000th piece, Jibbitz products were carried in 300 stores and pulled in $212,000 in sales; 6 million pieces of Jibbitz later, in August, the products were in 3,000 stores and garnered sales of $2.2 million.
The Schmelzers outsourced manufacturing to Asia and stepped up to a 12,000-square-foot office and warehouse in Boulder. In October the Schmelzers agreed to take $10 million from Crocs for the company, which will operate as a subsidiary, plus $10 million more if they hit earnings targets.
Sheri Schmelzer still can’t believe her luck - or her newfound riches.”
This is a great example of how the next big idea can come from absolutely anywhere.
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August 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Working at home is a dream for a lot of different people. I’ve seen people start out pursuing their dreams of work at home with the Internet end up falling flat because they either have an idea, maybe even the technological know how, but they’ve narrowed their vision to one method of making money: selling products online.
I am a HUGE fan of online businesses, but for those of you who don’t know what the next big idea is, read on, I’m going to show you what you can do to broaden your online business vision and make money online instead of set up a product site and hope to make a sale. It is not too difficult for someone to put together a money making site, you just need to adjust the way that you think and the way you see the Internet.
So let’s start with this question: What is it that you want when you are online? Put yourself in the shoes of the millions of search engine visitors - ask the question again, what is it that I want when I’m searching online? The answer is this: 1) Information and/or 2) to buy something.
So give people what they want!
It may sound simple, but newbie online marketers have laser focused themselves on product sales and therefore cut themselves off of another means of making money - advertising. There are alot of ways to make money advertising on your site - most people will sell banner space, but you have to have a site that has a certain level of traffic before you are seen as a viable advertising website.
If you want a way to start using your homepage as a means of advertising, you need to sign up for affiliate programs and get yourself a Google Adsense account. If you have a website and you don’t post affiliate offers and Google Adsense ads, you are missing out on a lot of potential cash and giving your website visitors what they want. If people knew how much money Google is paying out EVERY MONTH in Adsense revenue or how much affiliates are willing to pay simply for posting a link to their products on your website, online business owners would stop focusing solely on how to sell the latest as seen on TV gadget, and start putting out related affiliate product offers as well.
Take a look at these sites for ideas on layout, affiliate offer presentation, Adsense layout, and know that sites like these ones are making hundreds of dollars a month, simply by broadening the website focus to meet the needs of the website visitor.
http://www.bad-credit-solution.com/
http://www.thesourceforpaidonlinesurveys.com/
This is NOT DIFFICULT! Now that you have the idea, run with it and start giving yourself alternate ways to make an online income.
If you have any questions about this method of marketing on your site, please email me at seoangelgoddess@gmail.com – I’m tired of seeing good people’s dreams getting trashed simply because the experience and vision of online marketing was not there. Take advantage of online advertising and start working on your own success today.