Independence Day – My Declaration
July 4th, 2009 | by Conrad Walton |I’ve been thinking for a while about what I want to do with my life, to make money. I’ve been reading all about how to make money at home in your spare time. Just buy my ebook and you’ll have it made. As I try different things, it’s been getting clearer to me what I’m really good at and how I can best fulfill people’s needs.
I’m a web developer. I build web sites. Web sites help small businesses succeed when they’re done right. There’s a whole bucket of marketing mixed in with building web sites. That part is fascinating to me. How, and why, do people buy things? As much as I love building web sites, I love building businesses more.
My wife, who is always right, said I should use a client or two as examples of what I can do for a small company, so I did. The journey of Flower Art and Mermaid’s Purse are documented below, and will continue to be documented here, as a result.
That is the beginning of my independence movement.
That is the beginning of my independence movement.
I want to help people who work at home, making things, following their passions, to get something up on the web to sell their stuff. I want to help them on that journey. I want to help them on their way to independence, and gain my own independence as we go. There seems to be a lot of people who would love to do something like this, but they are afraid or not sure what to do next or how to get started. Everyone has great ideas. The hard part is doing it, making it happen. I can tell you how to do the magic trick. The hard part is getting on stage and wowing the crowd.
Today is Independence Day in America. It’s also the day that I commit to helping people who make things in their homes, build that into a business, selling things on the net and getting their own independence through that process.
We may pay their taxes, but they’ll never take our freedom.
