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Who is Tiffany Dow on Squidoo

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How Tiffany Dow Began a Work at Home Career

It was late 1999 and my son was diagnosed with RSV - an infant respiratory illness. At the time I worked nights at Bank One's Corporate Center resolving funding issues so we wouldn't have to put our kids in daycare, but knowing he was sick - I couldn't bear it. The day he was diagnosed, I packed up my desk and turned in my resignation effective immediately.

I vowed to stay home for good, even if we had to cut all of our expenses and downsize significantly. While surfing eBay for birthday Jets gear for my husband (since I'm in Texas and can't find it here), I found "Professional Services" listed. Nosy one that I am, I clicked the link and it took me to Elance.

On Elance, I built up a reputation as a top Internet Marketing writer, ghosting for some of the biggest names in the business. My pay rate steadily increased as demand far outweighed supply for my time.

Eventually, befriending these top 'net marketers paid off for me in another way. They taught me part of the ropes and I was able to morph into a marketer myself full-time after joining marketing forums like the Warrior Forum and meeting wonderful mentors like Craig Desorcy of We Help Newbies who has given awesome advice on how to start a blog on his IdiotProof Blogging site!

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The Best!!!34 points

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My mentor, a big giver, 100% ethical to the core.8 points

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Straight, no BS British Guy. Male version of Tiff7 points

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Why Do You Like the Gurus You Listed Above?

What Have They Done to Knock Your Socks Off?

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Why make the transition?

Let's look at this week alone. A client used to pay me $1,000 to write a 50-page eBook (this is before my rate rose to $30 per page). This week as a marketer, my Social Networking on Squidoo eBook has already taken in over $3,000.

This doesn't include sales from my affiliate products that I promote or the sales from my other eBooks. You can see the difference in money, but there's another perk.

My Squidoo eBook was written and launched. Now - I do nothing. My affiliates promote it and it's really true passive income for me. Am I kicking myself for not making the transition sooner? Yep!

One of the best decisions I made was to launch my PLR Mini Mart, because my visitors can give me a custom request of topics they want and I can build my PLR packs for what I already know my target audience needs.

I then took my Writer's Guide and evolved it into an eBook for any average person - not just writers: Building an eBook Empire. I know many marketers use rehashed bonuses, but I like to write unique ones that complement my products, so this guide teaches those who can't write, how to!

PS - My son is now 8 and thriving. I stayed up with him all night, every night - just making sure he was breathing.

I also gave birth to a precious baby girl who is now 3 and it's been Heaven being a work-at-home mom whose career is soaring.

Tiffany Dow - the Early Years

I'll get into more about what helped my success in later modules, but I like to get to know people on a more personal level, myself.

Growing up, I was extremely thin. At age 6, I weighed 22 pounds and wore toddler clothes. They tested me for every disease imaginable but I simply refused to eat. I outgrew that obviously (lol).

It wasn't enough that I was super skinny - I was hideously ugly, too. I was legally blind so I had to wear coke-bottle thick glasses with huge round rims and my teeth stuck out almost straight so that people called me Bugs Bunny and the cruel kids ostracized me on a daily basis. They said I could "eat corn through a picket fence." (I can laugh now, but boy that one hurt!)

Then in 5th grade, I got braces. They wouldn't be off for 3 more years, but I couldn't have been more proud. It gave me the confidence to make the drill team at my school and slowly but surely, I gained friends.

In 7th grade, I got contacts, too, so my big blue eyes were no longer hidden and I finally felt good about myself. I was always taller than the other girls. (I'm about 5'8). I eventually grew out of my ugly duckling stage and turned into a swan

Growing up...

Growing up, I played golf from age 3, but at school I also played field hockey and basketball. I went to private college preparatory schools from 4th grade on. The crowd was made up of blueblood socialites and let's just say my dad was more "new money."

My dad sold insurance, traveling around the country. He'd be home for a week and gone for two. My mom raised us but I love them both equally. They're still alive. My dad suffers from dementia to a point (he's in his 80s) and my mom is my best friend and also a writer (she's in her 60s). They remained caring about each other after their divorce.

My parents split in 1978, when I was just 8 years old. My dad kept my childhood home because he knew it was sentimental to me (he was never here so he really didn't need to keep a home fulltime). And then when he moved to Florida, he gave it to me to raise my kids in. It's a wonderful street - a dead end, tree-lined lane situated on the outer edge of the big city, so you still feel like you have space to breathe.

I have a sister who is 6 years older than me. She went to a church boarding school, so we were never close. She eventually became addicted to drugs and we have just recently began trying to reconcile after many years of bad blood between us due to her addiction and the fact that she has 4 kids and 1 grandchild.

High school and college were better for me...

Everything You Need to Know About Internet Marketing

Here's a year's worth of education in Internet marketing that you can read for yourself and then use as your own - because it's PLR!

Tiffany Dow - Into the Grown-Up World

College, Parenthood, and Beyond

So I went to Texas Tech University right out of college and studied Journalism. I originally wanted to be in broadcast journalism because I envisioned myself the next Barbara Walters or Diane Sawyer.

After the first year, I was horribly homesick. I came home for the summer and since my boyfriend, a football player for Texas Tech, decided to stay home, I left Tech, too.

I immediately got an offer to train with a former PGA pro who offered to take me to the next level - turning pro in exchange for a cut of my future earnings. I also immediately had a sponsor offer to pay my way through the mini-tour before I turned pro.

During this time, I got really good at my golf game. I had always played on the team in high school, but now I was able to enroll in tournaments against grown men and outdrive them, although my short game was always scary.

I got restless, though...

I broke up with my cleancut boyfriend and started dating a bad boy. My golf game suffered because it was hard balancing late-night partying with 5 A.M. training at the driving range.

In the end, I wound up pregnant with my son, quitting golf, and returning to my journalism roots. I wouldn't trade my son for the world. It's the life I was meant to have and he's my angel.

While back in college, raising my son as a now-single mother, I became mature and focused. I wanted to make a great life for myself and my son. I finished college - this time tackling print journalism. I also met my husband, who I've been with for 10 years now.

Ten years later, I am President and CEO of my own corporation and owner of a thriving Internet marketing business. I have three wonderful children - ages 15, 8, and 3. I'm married, and very happy with how my life has evolved.

I'm now remodeling the childhood home to update it with everything it needs to be modern. I just bought energy-efficient appliances and WOW - what a different a new washer and dryer makes! Next up? Rewire the whole house! Pricey, but I can now afford it. After that, the roof, plumbing, foundation, and then al the fun begins - the aesthetic stuff - new kitchen, second story, and more!

Books I Love

I've read each of these and was absorbed with the characters. Highly recommend them!

Honorable mention: Deep End of the Ocean
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Links to Tiffany Dow's Sites...

Or Sites Tiffany Dow Thinks Are Important!

For some reason, I like these sites - maybe they're mine or maybe they're mine ;-)
Tiffany Dow's Home Site
This is my home on the web - you can always see what I'm up to by stopping by here and grabbing a freebie.
Social Networking on Squidoo
My Squidoo eBook. Learn how to network your way to success!
Building an eBook Empire
Buy this eBook and get a free membership to my Ning community where I offer personal mentoring.
PLR Mini Mart
Can't write? Buy my PLR articles, eBooks, autoresponders, and reports and use top content for your online efforts.
PLR ATM
Learn how to launch your own PLR store!
Ghostwriting Cash
Discover the profit potential of running a flawless ghostwriting business online.

Not My Links...

Here are some links to sites by people I admire.

Take a look!
We Help Newbies
Craig Desorcy's We Help Newbies site has been priceless to me. This man knows his stuff and is one of the great people in the world willing to share with others.
Squidoo Cool
This is the blog by my business partner and friend, Lewis Smile. He's fantastic and a genius with this web 2.0 stuff :)

Other Lenses by Tiffany Dow

...on Squidoo!

Come visit my other lenses, rate them, and sign my guestbook to generate traffic to your own lenses.
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Tiffany Dow's Pet Projects

I'm into:

1.) Helping find missing kids - see my missing kids lenses.

2.) Reality TV - omigosh, I LOVE Big Brother!

3.) Reading fiction books and tabloids for celebrity gossip.

4.) Cooking (and eating). lol

Want to see some of my other pages?

Here are my other lenses!

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  • Millionairemomma May 16, 2012 @ 11:25 pm | delete
    Thank you for sharing your story.
  • JwGinn Apr 25, 2012 @ 11:37 pm | delete
    Ok so I am finally getting around to Squidoo. Thanks Tiffany for all you do to teach and help.
  • Ysis Apr 9, 2012 @ 5:08 am | delete
    Hi Tiffany,

    We have talked on e-mail almost one -or more- years ago. I have created a few lenses on squidoo and I am more familiar to the terms now, but I have not found the discipline and perseverence required to follow a clear line in my projects.

    Still, from time to time I do read some of your information, which I believe it is precious, and I hope that I will manage to put everything into the right track.
  • JohnMcLean Nov 27, 2011 @ 11:16 pm | delete
    Hello to my fellow Texan!

    I love how willing you are to share and be vulnerable about the good, the bad the ugly!

    Off-topic, but I cannot find the answer anywhere on Squidoo: There's a "Video Module" for sharing video, but where is the "Audio Module" for sharing audio (mp3 and the like)?!

    I'm on your mailing list + a big fan of your work, by the way!
  • mansukh Nov 17, 2011 @ 11:32 pm | delete
    Hi Tiffany, I just want to take some time out and Thank You for introducing me to Squidoo through your 52 weeek challenge, which has helped me "start" a passive income. It might not be very high but as I said the income has started. Thank You!
  • whiteskyline Sep 28, 2011 @ 8:41 pm | delete
    Great information here, and I do appreciate how you provided the rating system, great for newbs like me.
  • mysterrio Sep 25, 2011 @ 3:11 pm | delete
    LOVE YOU!!!
  • SAPearl Sep 24, 2011 @ 11:43 am | delete
    Saying hi! I found you through listening to you on an old podcast right now, called the Jackie Jones Challenge! I think I can learn a lot from you!
  • anka_n Sep 20, 2011 @ 12:21 am | delete
    Hi
    nice to read your lens about yourself - thank you!
  • Macnair Jun 15, 2011 @ 10:57 pm | delete
    I subscribed and will be looking for packs about my 4 topics i sent you.
  • aardvarkapparel Jun 12, 2011 @ 10:35 am | delete
    Saw your squidoo video on youtube. Very informative. Thanks
  • Gail47 Apr 6, 2011 @ 5:29 am | delete
    I've followed you for a while now, but didn't really know your backstory. You have certainly endured and overcome a lot to get to where you are now. What an inspiration!gagzoom
  • solutionism Apr 3, 2011 @ 6:15 am | delete
    Cool!
  • solutionism Apr 3, 2011 @ 6:15 am | delete
    Cool!
  • GrammaLinda Mar 11, 2011 @ 6:05 pm | delete
    Hi, Tiffany, I have been following your work for a couple of years, now, and have learned a lot! This is a great lens. Good work! Linda
  • GrammaLinda Mar 11, 2011 @ 6:05 pm | delete
    Hi, Tiffany, I have been following your work for a couple of years, now, and have learned a lot! This is a great lens. Good work! Linda
  • bwcabound Mar 10, 2011 @ 2:42 pm | delete
    Hello Tiffany, you do not know it but you are my mentor. I have been following your work for some time. I have implemented many of your strategies into my work. You are an awesome inspiring person. Thank You!!!
  • Sage62 Mar 7, 2011 @ 7:33 am | delete
    Thanks Tiff. You've blogged that you guard your home privacy seriously, so sharing all this must've been very scary. Thanks for being so honest and approachable. Susan
  • esmconcepts Mar 6, 2011 @ 11:36 pm | delete
    Hi Tiff, where is Bev hiding???
  • SherylP Feb 15, 2011 @ 9:47 pm | delete
    Hey Tiff, I've been following your blog for so long but I believe this is the first time I've read your Squidoo lens - now I'll have to add you to my favourites!
  • Carol_Amato Jan 22, 2011 @ 4:04 pm | delete
    Enjoyed reading your page.
  • javrsmith Jan 2, 2011 @ 8:59 am | delete
    That must have been quite an ordeal with your son. Nice to hear that it's working out. This lens has been blessed.
  • scss Dec 12, 2010 @ 12:37 pm | delete
    Well done, interesting lens on this subject - a big well deserved "Thumbs Up" to your for the work on this lens!

    Loving your daily blogs - keep up the fantastic work, it inspires us all.

    - Helene Malmsio
  • dndcomputerservices Nov 29, 2010 @ 1:47 pm | delete
    I am sorry for your son's illness but on the up side i am glad that you have found your way in Internet Marketing so i have someone to learn the way from
    Thank You again
    David
  • CCGAL Oct 15, 2010 @ 10:49 pm | delete
    I really enjoyed your "If I knew then what I know now" video recording this evening. I had intended to be home to tune in live, but that didn't work out, so I was very happy to see your e-mail that it was recorded and online. Thanks so much!
  • osotomayor Jul 30, 2010 @ 8:34 pm | delete
    I'm learning as I go, thank you so much for the wealth of information you share.
  • RinchenChodron Feb 8, 2010 @ 8:45 am | delete
    I just watched your video and joined your FB group! Great lensography.
  • TheresaMarkham Jan 30, 2010 @ 8:00 pm | delete
    Tiffany is one of the few internet marketers I actually ENJOY to get emails from - they're always personal & always useful (and entertaining too!)!
  • poddys Jan 26, 2010 @ 4:13 am | delete
    This was a really interesting story to read Tiffany, and a very nice lens. It makes me want to set out and create some ebooks too. 5*****
  • burnfatfaster Jan 11, 2010 @ 9:14 pm | delete
    Hi Tiffany,
    Really a pleasure to read your story and see what you do.

    Margaret
  • WordCustard Jan 5, 2010 @ 5:05 pm | delete
    It's great to start getting to know you, having just seen your youtube video. Your success on Squidoo is an inspiration!
  • Brehaut Nov 8, 2009 @ 9:17 am | delete
    Hi there,

    I have recently purchased the IPK killer course and your course on Squidoo. WOW, you sure have a lot of insight. I am a newbie I'm not afraid to admit, but I'm learning. I highly recommend your course to anyone interested in internet marketing. Please check out my new squidoo lens /www.squidoo.com/Hot-Christmas-Gifts2009 and tell me what you think. THanks so much. Melissa Brehaut
  • Miguelito203 Jul 24, 2009 @ 6:32 pm | delete
    I'm glad I came across your lens. After seeing you like everywhere, it's cool to know even more about you. :-) 5*'s.
  • Heather426 Jul 15, 2009 @ 12:09 pm | delete
    love the lens, very impressive life!
  • PeterEvans Jun 27, 2009 @ 4:02 pm | delete
    Hi Tiffany, Your name's out there so much I feel like I know you. Nice lens but then your an expert in my eyes.
  • rydigga Apr 28, 2009 @ 9:05 pm | delete
    Hi Tiffany, Fascinating lens, thanks for sharing. You had your braces early on in life. I got mine 1 month into freshman year in high school and had them taken off senior. I am now making up for all of the smiles that I missed during high school :)

    Ryan
  • x3xsolxdierx3x Apr 24, 2009 @ 10:27 am | delete
    I read the lovely bones a while back.......somehow, it made it's way over to me while I was in Afghanistan in '02-'03......great lens, btw.....5 stars
  • poutine Jan 10, 2009 @ 10:11 am | delete
    Such a great bio. I learned a lot about Tiffany Dow today and will study
    your other sites.
  • IsabelR Nov 14, 2008 @ 8:25 am | delete
    It was so nice to check this lens from you. It speaks about you as a person.
  • Auntiekatkat Nov 5, 2008 @ 8:37 am | delete
    Tiffany I am a Squidoo newbie and love your lens as they teach me so much, but I would love to know how you get your images to look like photos with a grey border. Thanks for taking the tiem to teach us all
  • RentMyGarden Oct 16, 2008 @ 7:41 am | delete
    Tiffany Dow on Squidoo in my lastest published Squidoo lens The Squidoo Queen Review I have been asking "Who Really Is The Squidoo Queen?" I think everyone who visits this page knows the answer.
  • rose08 Oct 16, 2008 @ 3:56 am | delete
    what an admirable mom:) very moving and interesting stories. a lot of fun as well as a lot of information. I can understand why you can gain the reputation in Elance through this great lens. It's almost another ebook. I want to have your pen if it can be copied, LOL. I think private college often have various of different programs, students there can take care of their interests and hobby easier.
  • MD- Oct 15, 2008 @ 12:31 pm | delete
    Good stuff Tiff! Here is one of my lenses Pimp My Interview. Could you review it and rate it?
    Also-how does one check the page rank of a Squidoo lens?
  • hermitqueen Sep 30, 2008 @ 4:37 pm | delete
    Hey Tiff,

    Can't believe I'm finally getting around to checking your lens (this one at least) out! You're kind of a big deal ! ;) Pretty inspiring, too!

    Best, Lee Ann
  • lc2u2 Aug 24, 2008 @ 1:13 pm | delete
    Hi Tiffany,
    I am fairly new here on Squidoo but learning so much about internet marketing from people like you. Thanks for all the good down-to-earth info you are providing on your lenses.
  • YvesMarieDanie Jul 13, 2008 @ 6:46 pm | delete
    As always, you rock with the best "I can use this right now to make money" information, Tiffany. It's been a while since we talked via email. Hope all is good. Cheers,

    Danie
  • ShannonC Jul 2, 2008 @ 4:38 pm | delete
    Great lens thank you :)
  • Jun 22, 2008 @ 12:18 am | delete
    Wow Tiffany,
    I just found this page from the list of squidoo's Hot 100 along with Hillary Clinton and other great people.That is really awesome! Keep it up.
    bye,
    faraz
    author of wealthy affiliate guide.
  • Canyon_Hiker Jun 6, 2008 @ 11:24 am | delete
    Hi Tiffany.

    Your great e-book on lenses flipping led me to create a lens. Thanks for pointing me in the Squidoo direction.

    Canyon_Hiker
    Can You Find Peace of Mind & Freedom From Worry In a Crazy World?
    Peace of Mind
  • nichelady Jun 4, 2008 @ 5:53 pm | delete
    Tiffany, you're one of the finest Warriors I've met, ever. It's amazing to see your story here, and I'm glad to have "met" you! I saw your rates once, which inspired me to have the backbone to demand a fair wage as a writer -- and get it! No advice here, just keep being the professional you've been all along!

    Isa Murphy
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