I’m Janice – a wife, mother, employee, runner, softball player, internet addict and a completely obsessed New Kids On The Block fan. My blog title is a reflection of how busy life has become caring for 2 completely adorable, yet “spirited” little girls while my hubby travels A LOT for business, though I do still run on occasion.
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I have to apologize – this blog post is a little different from my usual informative, motivational post…
A few weeks ago, my personal trainer approached me about fitnesscheerleader.com. His opinion was that overall it’s great, but there’s one problem – I’m not generating any revenue for the amount of time I obviously put into it. Now at first I was like, who cares? I don’t really want to make money – I just want to motivate people and see them do well. Which is a fine and admirable goal, right?
But of course his comments nagged at me for a few weeks – he suggested I sell a product. I thought long and hard about this, and brainstormed what I could possibly sell. A motivational eBook? A pre-natal fitness eBook? Sorry – I couldn’t see myself spending money on those, so why would anyone else? I don’t want to charge people to visit my site – that’s a quick turn-off in my opinion. (Though I could use eBooks as a way to get people to sign up for my newsletter….). Then I got to thinking about my power walks…..
You see, now that running has become tougher for this preggo mama I’ve begun doing a walk around the park on my lunch hours with hand weights. But I don’t just carry the weights – I do an upper body strength routine while I carry the weights. I need to keep my arms in shape for carrying my baby I also alternate some fast and slow walking – adding intervals for additional fat burning. It’s a fantastic workout and keeps my walks fun. So I thought – maybe people would be interested in downloading a walk and tone mp3? You know, an mp3 that you could download (for a small fee) from my site that will guide you through a great walking workout (set to some fabulous music of course)! So I’ve begun the process of recording such an mp3, and building a sales section and affiliate section for my site. As an added bonus, I will throw in a free eBook with every mp3 purchased
My product idea is great right? But now I need some help actually marketing my mp3 – oh isn’t marketing always the fun part?
And this is where you come in…
Below is a sign up form to be notified of when my walk and tone mp3 product is launched. If you sign-up, I’ll send you the download info for a free trial of it (once I’ve finished recording it) so that you can do a review of it on your site – if you like it, perhaps you’ll do a giveaway? I’ll even provide a coupon code for your readers. And because I’m a blogger and I hate doing stuff for free without getting anything in return, I will set up anyone who does a review as an affiliate so that you’ll earn 25% of any sales you generate! Pretty sweet, eh?
So what are you waiting for? Sign up below so we can BOTH start earning some money!
How often do you think about the energy you consume? You know the gas in your car, the hydro that lights your home, the natural gas (or oil) that heats your water and your home etc…
I know I don’t think of my energy consumption and carbon footprint as much as I should, but today I did. As part of my job I attended the Energy Matters 2010 Summit hosted by the Region of Peel. The keynote speaker that kicked off the conference was Thomas Homer Dixon – he did a fantastic job of capturing my relatively uneducated attention. Yes I know greenhouse gas emissions are a concern, yes I know we’re depleting our oil sources, yes I know we’re experiencing global warming… But I never saw the tie between these concepts and how I can play a role in saving our planet. I’ve felt helpless and like we’re all doomed!
But we’re not (thank goodness!). Sitting in a room full of engineers I realized that there are already ideas on how we can almost reverse the effects we’ve placed on the earth. But we can’t expect to keep doing what we’re doing & get a different outcome. We know our lifestyles are contributing towards our own doom.
But how can we help on a personal level? Oil supplies us 40% of the energy the world uses – 90% of that is used by vehicles. But oil is quickly becoming depleted, and as it becomes depleted it takes more and more energy to find & produce energy. We’re running out.
Energy really does matter!
So how can we do our part & reduce our demand? Does anyone know? Do we buy locally? Reduce our consumerism & therefore how much product needs to be transported to us? Should we reuse more? Walk to garage sales etc? I know the part I’m playing in my job, but wow! What can we personally do?
Like I’ve said, I’ve never really considered how much energy matters.
I’m sure all of you are well aware that Earth Hour begins tomorrow night at 8:30 pm (and I’m assuming you’re also participating….), so what I want to know is… What will you be doing during Earth Hour?
My family is definitely participating, as my work position is closely associated with the environmental differences my local government is making. I’m planning on turning on some flashlights (my hubby’s dad was a fire fighter so candles are a no-no at our place), and will be cuddling up to read stories with my girls, and truthfully… I can’t wait!
On Sunday I decided to take my daughters (Sierra is 4 and Brooke is 2) to the afternoon fun swim at our community run pool (The Milton Leisure Centre). I looked on the swim schedule and saw that the pool we go in was open from 1-3:30. Now, children as young as mine don’t get ready to go anywhere quickly, so after 30 min of coaxing, the girls and I finally arrived at the pool to go swimming at 1:25pm. When we got there the counter person asked me which swim I was there for – the 1-2 swim or the 2-3:30 swim? I was taken aback – what do you mean what swim am I there for? We’re coming to swim for 45min – no more, no less. She explained that we could swim from either 1-2 or 2-3:30. Basically the customer service rep was telling me we could either hang around in the lobby for 35min to wait for the 2-3:30 swim, or I could rush the kids into their bathing suits as fast as I can and then swim for what would probably amount to 25 min of swimming. Either way the cost was going to be $5.95 + tax.
I also alternate some fast and slow walking – adding intervals for additional fat burning. It’s a fantastic workout and keeps my walks fun. So I thought – maybe people would be interested in downloading a walk and tone mp3? You know, an mp3 that you could download (for a small fee) from my site that will guide you through a great walking workout (set to some fabulous music of course)! So I’ve begun the process of recording such an mp3, and building a sales section and affiliate section for my site. As an added bonus, I will throw in a free eBook with every mp3 purchased 
Below is a sign up form to be notified of when my walk and tone mp3 product is launched. If you sign-up, I’ll send you the download info for a free trial of it (once I’ve finished recording it) so that you can do a review of it on your site – if you like it, perhaps you’ll do a giveaway? I’ll even provide a coupon code for your readers. And because I’m a blogger and I hate doing stuff for free without getting anything in return, I will set up anyone who does a review as an affiliate so that you’ll earn 25% of any sales you generate! Pretty sweet, eh?
On Sunday I decided to take my daughters (
