This blog is about my 2016 journey into finally losing my weight. You can follow along with me on my YouTube channel Januine. Just click the link here: Januine and it will take you there. Today’s video is on my Weight Loss. I will be fessing up that I didn’t do too well this week. It has been a hectic but productive week but I had to let some of the things I needed to do go by the wayside. I will be posting a video on Weight Loss every Monday. If you want to be notified when I upload a new video then go over to my YouTube channel and subscribe. Just hit that subscribe button.
It is probably one of the hardest things that most people attempt to do. But to help you I have put together a week menu for this week of January 11 to 17, 2016. You can download this by clicking the image. You can also download the Tamale Pie recipe and the Oven Fried Chicken that I will be using for dinner. I am using a book called American Diabetes Month of Meals Planner. It’s a pretty simple menu. I tried to keep it easy with fairly simple ingredients. There are some repetitive meals but I find this easier and I don’t mind it at all. Each meal has the calorie total shown in parenthesis. I have also included the day’s total of calories at the bottom. Also provided is a space to keep track of the 8oz servings of water consumed during the day. They say you should drink at least eight 8oz servings of water a day. Feel free to download this if you want to give it a try. I will be posting weekly menus on Friday evenings from now on so you will have time to put together your shopping lists for the week.I also encourage you to do some type of exercise each day. You don’t have to sweat yourself silly. But get up and move. If it’s walking or working out, just move.
Hope this is encouraging for you. I will be posting a weekly review on Mondays every week. Best wishes for a Healthier You!
I’m giving away a new Mambi Undated Planner Kit. This kit includes all you need to set it up just the way you want to. It includes stickers for Month, Day and Date. As well as other goodies to use with the Planner. This will run until December 31, 2015 Midnight. Once a winner is chosen I will mail it out as soon as possible.
Only one winner. One entry per Email address please. This is open to U.S. residents only. Just click on this link to enter http://wp.me/P6MtJK-3i
After months of working on building my own website I came to the point of having to decide where I was going to sell my products. I first attempted to get them on my website by using Woocommerce but this turned out to be quite a struggle. For some reason my website, which I established using WordPress would not communicate with Woocommerce. So my next step was to try and find a way to get a connection from my website to ETSY and have it open in a new window. This took a lot of research. Finally I found a plug in that would do just that. So now you can go to my website and click on a menu item titled Etsy Shop and go directly to my store.
After a lot of thinking and deliberation I finally decided to leave it that way. I thought a lot about the traffic I was getting on Etsy versus the traffic I would be getting on my new website. Since I have just established my website I have no subscribers. So the deliberation is saving money by putting products on my own website versus paying that fee to list them on Etsy. So for the time being it’s a much better choice to leave them on Etsy. But this might not necessarily be the right choice for you. So let’s talk about it.
When you sell items or products on Etsy you do have to pay a fee. But in comparison you don’t have to maintain it is strongly as you do on your own website and you have a built in large viewership. Personally I like that fact. In only two months I have already gotten over 1000 views on my shop. That includes views and likes and a few sales. I’m still working on being better at promoting my products and getting the word out there. It can be a tough sell when you’re one among hundreds.
When you sell your products on your own website there are definite advantages. You don’t have to pay fees, you have more freedom as to how they are presented and of course, you have more control over it. But again this depends on just how large your viewership is. Are there enough people going to your website to warrant keeping your products on sale just there. So let’s go into that further.
When you sell through Etsy you are charged $.20 for each item plus a 3.5% each time an item sells. That $.20 is per product listed. So you do have the advantage in that that charge generally occurs only once when a product is listed. So unless it is a unique item that will need to be relisted each time, it’s not that bad of a charge. And that charge is for a four month period.
When you list an item on your website there is an obvious advantage. Now I’ve talked about these before. But the greatest is probably that you have control over how it looks and how it’s listed. But you also have to maintain it. Now you can listed and let it set, but your sells will be small, if any.
So there are three things that you need to take into consideration when deciding where you’re going to sell your products.
Number one – How large is your viewership?
Number two – Can you maintain and keep up your product listings effectively?
Number three – How motivated are you to sell?
Now I can go thoroughly into each of these questions but I don’t want this blog to be four pages long. So I suggest you go and check out my video on YouTube under The Creative Owl and watch Periscope number two. That video gets more thoroughly into these three questions as well as other ideas and tips for selling your products either through Etsy or own your website.
As for me at this time it’s a much better choice to leave them being sold through at Etsy. I have a much larger viewership there and a much greater chance of selling my products. This might not necessarily be the best choice for you. Just consider these three questions and hopefully it will help you make that decision. But for me it boils down to question number one. Hopefully in the future I will establish a much larger viewership. Then I can move my products to my website and avoid those fees. However I think it’s still a good idea to keep items listed on Etsy. That way you can go into your About Me page and enter your website. That way those people that are viewing your products on Etsy can be sent over to your website and find the rest of your products there. Just saying.
I hope this helps. It can be a tough decision deciding just where and how to sell your products. And even then it’s quite a job to effectively do so. But I wish you the best of luck and a harvest of sales to successfully market your products.
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Hello and Welcome to my Website. I have worked hard and long in getting this website together. I have traversed many obstacles in order to do so. But along the way I have learned so much. With that said, let me introduce myself.
You can check out my About Me page and find out most of it. In thinking about what my first blog would be I stopped and considered just what my Mission in doing this is. For me it comes down to three parts.
Personal Mission. My mission is to step beyond my boundaries. To see life as an adventure. To explore every opportunity to expand my world.
Website Mission. To share my research and knowledge to as many people as possible. To help You discover new avenues to expand your business and your universe.
Business Mission. To provide products and resources to help my income but also to provide others with the tools to improve their business as well.
My attitude in my business is that’s it’s not all about me.
As to who I am. I am a Blogger, Planner Addict, Tech Geek and Entrepreneur.
I am a Blogger. I have been journaling most of my life. It’s my way of keeping track of the events in my life. Especially the changes over the years. It’s been an amazing journey. In future my plan is to blog three days a week. Hopefully on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. And to do a Periscope on Tuesdays and Thursday around 5pm Central Standard Time.
I am a Planner Addict and I gladly own up to that title. I use two planners and google calendar to keep my world in order. It’s how I get things done. Thanks to the myriad of YouTube videos, Periscopes and amazing women that I have discovered thru these channels, I discovered the amazing world of Planners, Organizers and Planner Addicts. I am not alone.
I am a Tech Geek. I love all things technology. It’s what keeps the world going. Without technology there would be no internet. What a scary thought!
I am an Entrepreneur. I have an Etsy shop where I sell planner stickers and other things planner related. I haven’t had my shop long but already I am hooked. You can get to my shop thru the Menu choice ‘My Etsy Shop’. This will take you directly to my shop. Check it out.
It took a lot of research and hit and miss to get me to this point. Along the way I have learned so much. This is what I want to share with you. Look for me on Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter. Just click the social media buttons at the top of my website. So if you want to be notified when new posts are uploaded on any of these Social Media channels as well as my Blog, please Subscribe. You can do so by entering your name and Email on the right sidebar Subscribe box.
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I also encourage you to do some type of exercise each day. You don’t have to sweat yourself silly. But get up and move. If it’s walking or working out, just move.
