Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street 1997

Randi on stage @ 1444 Market Street  1997
Randi on Stage 1997 at 1444 Market Street, SF, CA

Jack and yours truly today

Jack and yours truly today
Randi and Jack on the "Cadillac Campsite Tour"
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Welcome To Fifty Five Is The New!

Hello out there!
What's it to you, turning the age of Fifty-five? You don't have to be turning it tomorrow, you could have already turned that corner a while back. That part doesn't matter so much.
While it's important what one feels, what matters most of all that one feels, that one feels anything at all.
So, as an exercise in self-examination and a way of getting over an incredible writer's block, I submit this blog to the World Wide Web, and I submit myself to a bit of mirror gazing.
Inspired by the movie "Julie & Julia," I will blog for one year, which will include my turning fifty-five, and see what I find.
Who knows? Maybe fifty-five will be something fantastic...like the New Me.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Venture

Tiles by rcw
We went and did something perhaps totally insane...but then again it's something that will be beneficial to what Jack and I are trying to accomplish.  We went to a seminar about internet marketing strategies and they were very informative. We signed up for a class and then when we got there learned a lot more.

What the company offered was not just these classes, apparently they also offered software and help getting set up and more.  But the price!  Jack and I talked it over and decided to give it a try....knees knocking while (once again) signing my life on a dotted line. $6,000!  In monthly payments of $265. (no penalty for early payment)

.On the one hand, we have no business spending that kind of money (have I indicated that we are among the struggling-poor?) when the economy and all that blah, blah, blah.
On the other hand, we have been trying to get our music, my artwork and Jack's ideas up online and shared with the world.....we've dreamed of being able to make a living doing that.  This knowledge and the tools and software help make it possible.

So we took a leap of faith and are now learning all about internet marketing, getting one's website up high on the search engine pages and elsewhere, and drop shipping. I believe it's going to be beneficial. I'm going to be doing a lot of "homework" for a few days, learning all this-and have a feeling the Tech Support folks and I will be getting to know one another as we get things set up.

I'm getting fairly sleepy now. Been a busy day. I just baked four apple/orange cranberry pies after a morning at the SSI office and an afternoon of home work.  It's very late and I am finally tired so will put any worries on the back burner and let the Maker of all take care of things.

So for tonight, Fifty five Is the New Venture...starting out with some new tools under our belts and big dreams in our hearts.

UPDATE:  We were unable to get our business corporation set up, due to our lack of funds...so the StoresOnline people agreed to let us out of our contract.  I will sing their praises about their fair treatment of us to anyone who has any questions.    RCW 12/2010

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