Saturday's show was the hardest show to write. Finding information for the radio show is sometimes easy. We planned that our show last Saturday would be is the American dream dead? We picked that one because of an article that was found written by Rick Newman that was orginally posted in US Weekly and published on Yahoo. What Rick was trying to say was that if you do not live in america you can achieve the american dream of starting your business. That hard work and dedication were not needed. I do not believe that. Everyone works hard, you have to inorder to start and run a business. You can't just start up a business and sit back and doing nothing to bring income in. You have to work at it, you have to advertise and get the word out about your business. That's the only way to do it.
And then there was the interview from LaDerrick. He gave praise to God because gave him his business and with the help of the Lord his business is flourishing. He takes every opportunity to pray to God, to minister God's word to those he works with. It's not just LaDerrick that works hard on his fitness business but it's also the Lord, shaping and molding LaDerrick's business.
One of the people that I like to refer to for inspiration for my business models is Jim Henson. Why? Because he was a man of God. Prayed to God and gave thanks to God for his blessings. God used Jim Henson to bring his message to the world. Be kind, never give up, forgiveness. Just about everything I learned I learned from the Frog. Yes you read that correctly. A Frog. I learned leadership skills, I learned it's best to treat others kindly and I learned team work. Any child who grew up watching the muppets learned this at an early age. And still do if they watch Sesame Street. Most parents let their children was Sesame Street to learn the fundamentals of early education, from A, B, C's to 1, 2, 3. Your children are also being taught how to be kind and share. Treat others as you would want to be treated. All of this is God's message from the begining.
Is there anything wrong with sitting back and letting someone else have the wheel? No, because God will work your business the way that he wants it to go. He will lead and direct it and tell you what he wants you to do. As I have said before it's best to know who to hand your stuff off to. And the Lord is the only one that I trust for my business. He will direct those to me for helping me grow and getting things done right.
I do have a retraction though. I said on Saturday that we were doing as Jesus asks, Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. This is not true. This is a Chinese proverb not the preachings of Christ. The Gospels tell us that Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat. And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right. (2 Thessalonians 3: 12-14)
Well I'm outta here. See you another time in the big blog world.
Beth Elliott
Monday, September 24, 2012
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Get Motivated!
We had a REALLY Great show today! Seems like the 60 mins just flys by in a matter of seconds! We discussed varies ways that we get motivated! The right side of the brain is your determination and the left side of the brain is your "I need to do this and I need to do that" distraction! Listen to the show now and find out what we said about it. You can listen to the show here at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/somethingbuilding.
We're always looking for business owners and entrepreneurs to be on our show! If you would like to be on 'Something Building' please send us a message through our show page at www.blogtalkradio.com/somethingbuilding or through our contact us page on our website www.somethingbuilding.com we'll love to hear from each and every one of you!
Until next time!
Jason Steward
Another one in the books
Well today we finished another show and it's officially in the books. Do I get nervous doing live radio? No. It doesn't bother me because I get to have banter with my best friend. I'm looking at him on skype face to face so to say. So there is no need for me to be nervious. I don't even get nervous when the countdown starts.
I think I was more nervous when I took the steps to create my own company. And yeah I admitted that I don't buy ebooks. I have a total of maybe 10 ebooks links to my computer, phone and tablet. So they are always there. But I do go in the bookstore and buy books. You have to support businesses around your hometown. Because if they aren't making money then your town will slowly become a ghost town.
It's best to start your own business because if you make products of your own, your made in America. Do you really want to continue sending your money out of county? It's not coming back to you if you do that. Yeah the larger companies send work over seas because they get HUGE tax breaks to do that. But is that fair to you here in America to have that done? It leads to job loss and less economy money in your pocket but the big wigs of the major companies are lining their pockets. Are they paying their employees higher wages by the money they are saying. I can not honestly answer that.
With my company I create all the work, though resently the man I hired to great the illustrations for my ebooks has decieded to create some of the books for me. Well that takes a lot of pressure off of me and I am thankful for it. The money that comes into JSNCS goes to pay for local artist here in the states. I don't send my work over seas and I have no reason to. Products that I will oventually want to have on the site for sale such as stuffed animals will all be send out to local artists that have the talent for it here in America. They need the business and I need to make sure that I can over see everything.
We had an interview with Kristi Sawyer today. She sells jewelery for a company called Jewel Kade. The fabulous part about it is the jewelery is all made in Alpine Utah. Made in America. People here in America are more aware of the dangers of lead poisions and other problems that would arise from having small children. If Jewel Kade sent their designs over seas to be made in mass production do you really think that they would be able to make sure that the product they were selling would be good in the way of free of lead? No they wouldn't cause once it comes back in the U.S to be sold it would go from a warehouse straight to differnt locations. This is why I feel that Jewel Kade is an excellent product because it's made in America for you.
Time for more work to be done so I'm done for today.
Beth Elliott
I think I was more nervous when I took the steps to create my own company. And yeah I admitted that I don't buy ebooks. I have a total of maybe 10 ebooks links to my computer, phone and tablet. So they are always there. But I do go in the bookstore and buy books. You have to support businesses around your hometown. Because if they aren't making money then your town will slowly become a ghost town.
It's best to start your own business because if you make products of your own, your made in America. Do you really want to continue sending your money out of county? It's not coming back to you if you do that. Yeah the larger companies send work over seas because they get HUGE tax breaks to do that. But is that fair to you here in America to have that done? It leads to job loss and less economy money in your pocket but the big wigs of the major companies are lining their pockets. Are they paying their employees higher wages by the money they are saying. I can not honestly answer that.
With my company I create all the work, though resently the man I hired to great the illustrations for my ebooks has decieded to create some of the books for me. Well that takes a lot of pressure off of me and I am thankful for it. The money that comes into JSNCS goes to pay for local artist here in the states. I don't send my work over seas and I have no reason to. Products that I will oventually want to have on the site for sale such as stuffed animals will all be send out to local artists that have the talent for it here in America. They need the business and I need to make sure that I can over see everything.
We had an interview with Kristi Sawyer today. She sells jewelery for a company called Jewel Kade. The fabulous part about it is the jewelery is all made in Alpine Utah. Made in America. People here in America are more aware of the dangers of lead poisions and other problems that would arise from having small children. If Jewel Kade sent their designs over seas to be made in mass production do you really think that they would be able to make sure that the product they were selling would be good in the way of free of lead? No they wouldn't cause once it comes back in the U.S to be sold it would go from a warehouse straight to differnt locations. This is why I feel that Jewel Kade is an excellent product because it's made in America for you.
Time for more work to be done so I'm done for today.
Beth Elliott
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Busy and Loving it!
So Jason did the test run to make sure that this blog would work, now it's my turn. We created this blog for our listeners and fans to show how busy, rewarding and fun it can be to have a small business.
My days start when the coffeepot is creating my IV link to the world, I read the news on AOL or Yahoo early in the morning. From 4 weeks ago I have been searching for information on other small businesses that we at Something Building could share with you, our listeners.
Tuesdays are my busiest days even more now than before. Because I do have a family I am responsible for, I wear many hats in this household along with wife and mother. Small business owner of JSN Creative Services, an e-publishing company. I do graphic designs for a paper called Tidbits which my co-host and I work on together and of course the radio show. Our deadline days for getting the paper to the printer is Tuesday and last night I had an interview that needed to be recorded for the show. Its best to get the work done and not put it off tomorrow. Before you know it the work is past a week and still not done.
That's what happened for the questions for Lisa that I need to work up. It was to be done Monday but didn't get done. On Tuesday the same thing and here it is Wednesday. I like to have all ducks in a row for the show by Wednesday so we are prepared for Saturday.
As I have stated before on the show you have to know who to send work out too. You can't possibly do everything yourself. With JSNCS I contract work out to an illustrator. I can draw very well I just don't have time for it cause it takes me 6 hours or more to convert 1 e-book for Kindle. The coding is killer for me but publishing is my passion. And you add graphic design and sometimes sales for Tidbits I have to make sure that all the work gets done.
Last night I created a print ad for the radio show. It's important that we find out what works best for advertising for you and print advertising is important. Why should money be spent on it? Where you can get the word out about your business you still need the help of a print publisher. If you support your paper, your paper supports you. They can reach a larger audience then you can. The best option is to find what is popular with the people in your town. That's your target audience. And I know for a fact that it does take time for people to start trusting your business, which is why it's important to keep advertising your business. The more that people see your business the more they trust you. Take a look at the lawyers that advertise on TV and on billboards. You see them when you do not need them but you know who you want to turn to when it comes down to that. It's the exact same thing for your business, this is one of the most important ways to reach out and create a bond with future customers.
So I've gotten the print ad done and posted it to Something Building's fb page and getting ready to re-touch it to include CST zone so that it can be posted here. Having one ad is okay to circulate and it can be circulated everywhere. It's important to keep your ad whether you create it yourself or have someone like the local paper create it for you, but you need to be happy with your ad, it’s a reflection of you and what you do.
The interview recorded last night has been sent to my co-host Jason to make sure everything sounds good. We spend just about every single night on Skype just to make sure that we are on the same page, not only for Tidbits but for the radio show. Jason also owns a title preparation business in our hometown of Mobile, AL. I live in Birmingham, AL. Tidbits is a paper for parts of Birmingham so Jason has to travel up here during the week to get things for the paper done. Not to mention that he has several offices throughout the state of Alabama for his Title paperwork business.
So if you think that you’re just too busy to create your small business dream. You’re never too busy to full-fill a dream. Heck, think of your bucket list (which seems popular right now) and put starting your business on that list.
We have a good bit of things to discuss for the show, including godaddy.com's problem they had on Monday. Which affected a lot of small businesses, the radio show website included.
It’s just about lunchtime and I still have a lot of work today so I’m done blogging.
Don’t forget to check us out online at www.somethingbuilding.com on facebook at www.facebook.com/somethingbuilding and listen to the show www.blogtalkradio.com/somethingbuilding
As I have been dubbed by my best friend and co-host of the show, Jason. I leave you with my new closing tag.
Queen of Love you all!!!
Beth Elliott.
My days start when the coffeepot is creating my IV link to the world, I read the news on AOL or Yahoo early in the morning. From 4 weeks ago I have been searching for information on other small businesses that we at Something Building could share with you, our listeners.
Tuesdays are my busiest days even more now than before. Because I do have a family I am responsible for, I wear many hats in this household along with wife and mother. Small business owner of JSN Creative Services, an e-publishing company. I do graphic designs for a paper called Tidbits which my co-host and I work on together and of course the radio show. Our deadline days for getting the paper to the printer is Tuesday and last night I had an interview that needed to be recorded for the show. Its best to get the work done and not put it off tomorrow. Before you know it the work is past a week and still not done.
That's what happened for the questions for Lisa that I need to work up. It was to be done Monday but didn't get done. On Tuesday the same thing and here it is Wednesday. I like to have all ducks in a row for the show by Wednesday so we are prepared for Saturday.
As I have stated before on the show you have to know who to send work out too. You can't possibly do everything yourself. With JSNCS I contract work out to an illustrator. I can draw very well I just don't have time for it cause it takes me 6 hours or more to convert 1 e-book for Kindle. The coding is killer for me but publishing is my passion. And you add graphic design and sometimes sales for Tidbits I have to make sure that all the work gets done.
Last night I created a print ad for the radio show. It's important that we find out what works best for advertising for you and print advertising is important. Why should money be spent on it? Where you can get the word out about your business you still need the help of a print publisher. If you support your paper, your paper supports you. They can reach a larger audience then you can. The best option is to find what is popular with the people in your town. That's your target audience. And I know for a fact that it does take time for people to start trusting your business, which is why it's important to keep advertising your business. The more that people see your business the more they trust you. Take a look at the lawyers that advertise on TV and on billboards. You see them when you do not need them but you know who you want to turn to when it comes down to that. It's the exact same thing for your business, this is one of the most important ways to reach out and create a bond with future customers.
So I've gotten the print ad done and posted it to Something Building's fb page and getting ready to re-touch it to include CST zone so that it can be posted here. Having one ad is okay to circulate and it can be circulated everywhere. It's important to keep your ad whether you create it yourself or have someone like the local paper create it for you, but you need to be happy with your ad, it’s a reflection of you and what you do.
The interview recorded last night has been sent to my co-host Jason to make sure everything sounds good. We spend just about every single night on Skype just to make sure that we are on the same page, not only for Tidbits but for the radio show. Jason also owns a title preparation business in our hometown of Mobile, AL. I live in Birmingham, AL. Tidbits is a paper for parts of Birmingham so Jason has to travel up here during the week to get things for the paper done. Not to mention that he has several offices throughout the state of Alabama for his Title paperwork business.
So if you think that you’re just too busy to create your small business dream. You’re never too busy to full-fill a dream. Heck, think of your bucket list (which seems popular right now) and put starting your business on that list.
We have a good bit of things to discuss for the show, including godaddy.com's problem they had on Monday. Which affected a lot of small businesses, the radio show website included.
It’s just about lunchtime and I still have a lot of work today so I’m done blogging.
Don’t forget to check us out online at www.somethingbuilding.com on facebook at www.facebook.com/somethingbuilding and listen to the show www.blogtalkradio.com/somethingbuilding
As I have been dubbed by my best friend and co-host of the show, Jason. I leave you with my new closing tag.
Queen of Love you all!!!
Beth Elliott.
Monday, September 10, 2012
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