Nancy-Radlinger-or-wisgrandma

Just a little about me. My ex and I owned and operated a landscaping company for 25 years and since the divorce I have discovered I'm at that magic age - too old to be hired by anyone and too young for social security - sooooooooooooo what do I do.

The first thing I did was to clean house and that is how I got started with working online. I started selling on Ebay and WOW that was interesting learning all that HTLM coding and a challenge for this granny - learning everything the hard way - trial and error. After months, I learned my way around Ebay and discovered the chat room and met many friends that have been very encouraging. But it was the bloggers on Ebay that thru me the life jacket when I seemed to be drowning (lack of sales) The bloggers have taught me so many things that my poor brain is on overload most of the time. (lolol)

Well, then I got brave (or crazy) and started my own website and wow that has been an interesting experience. This is one of those time being a newbie that I thought at the time was the right thing to do but soon found that I had been taken for a ride by the dropshipper - another learning experience - guess you never get too old to learn.

Well, with the ebay strike/boycott, the sellers were concerned about having all their eggs in one basket so we started looking for other sources and was told about YUWIE and wow was that a great day - you people are the greatest - I am on brain overload now. I have met soooooooooo many nice people here and have a growing family of friends - I'm just thrilled to have met so many wonderful people and the tips, suggestions, referrals are just unreal.

My next step in this wonderful new internet world I discovered MLM marketing and more social networking - that has really been an education. I was really skeptic at the time but have to admit that I'm getting proved wrong - this really does work. The only problem I have discovered is that some of the sites have rules on what links you can advertise or even talk about - so I decided to start my own social site
If you want to find out some of the mistakes I have made, some of the things I have learned the hard way and what is working now for me. Also, I will never be the type of person that will not ask you to join something that is not working for me and am not one of those people that flood you with invites - what I do is write blogs about what I'm doing and you can read them when you want or decide if they are right for you - then you can join or not.

The next chapter in my life came about by accident, all my life I have collected hummingbirds items and have them thru out my house. I also love gardening and enjoy them during the spring, summer and fall in my gardens and at my feeders. So when I stumbled onto Hummingbird Hits and it was for sale - well it just seemed that it had my name written on it - it seemed like an door of opportunity opening for me - so I bought the site on 11/11/08 and this ole granny is still learning. Life just never seems to amaze ma and I have learned from experience to go with the flow of things in your life you never know when your door will open for you. One thing I want to say before closing is that after all these years, I finally am happy, I love my job and I don't mind working 12-16 hours a day to make all this work - I have been and will continue working as I have something to prove to ME - I CAN DO IT.

Well, I got lucky again and WON another traffic exchange - guess it pay to be in the right place at the right time. I worked so hard to win this exchange - it was going to the person that surfed the most sites and I WON Teacup Puppy Traffic

Then after having the money invested into that fancy website (they sure saw me coming on that one) What I kept hearing from my friends and customers was I get to your site and then don't know what to do - well that is not good thing when you are hoping they can browse around and buy something. Sooooooooooooo back to square one - start all over again - soooooooo this winter have worked hours and hours getting a NEW easier to get around in site on line. They say you learn from your mistakes - well I sure have. So finally my NEW SITE is ready to hit the cyber world - stop on over, take a look, sign my guestbook and let me know if I made this one easier.

Thanks for listening to me babble - and by now you are wondering how in the world does she keep up with all this - well, I'm SERIOUS about what I'm doing here on-line and believe that things are not handed to you on a silver platter - YOU HAVE TO WORK FOR WHAT YOU GET - call me a little old fashioned - but it has worked for me in the real world - it will work here also. Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

Guess you are wondering by now does all this ole granny do is set behind this computer screen - altho, I have to admit that I do spend 12-16 hours sometimes (actually alot) here, I do get away from it here and get some exercise. All these years, I have had a problem with my weight and been a yo-yo dieter - you know gain, lose, gain more, lose, gain - well you will never believe that I found exercise that I love and it don't even feel like exercise. My granddaughter and I was at the Rudolph Picnic the year after my divorce and we were watching a group performing for the crowd and they were line dancing - all of a sudden I heard myself say to my granddaughter - you know grandma has always wanted to learn how to line dance - looks like it would be fun. Well, you know how unexplainable things happens and you know they were meant to be. My son bought me ticket to go and see Lorretta Lynn and it was a bus tour thru our local bank - you will never guess what happened on that bus trip. The tour guide has games for us to play and the game that changed my life was - matching country songs with artist. If you haven't figured out by now, I love all kinds of music but my favorite is country. Anyway, there were 3 people on the bus that got all the answers right and one was my girlfriend that travels with me, me and the 3rd was a line dance instructor. Yea, I know - unbelievable - best part was that the classes were starting in just 2 weeks. So, I'm hooked - I love line dancing - you can dance and don't have to have a partner, it's wonderful exercise and it's finally an exercise that I can't wait to go and do. I just started my 3rd season of lessons and I have lost 40lbs - YEAHHHHHHHHHH - no dieting - I eat what I want when I want. One more thing, I have a group of friends that I dance with now and we get together once or sometimes twice a week and go dancing and I even performed with my class group at that Rudolph Picnic.