ITS OFFICIAL WE ARE ONLINE

Yes over the weekend of 23rd May I finally went live with my new site. Yes I know it is long overdue however though I certainly did not realise the amount of time and energy plus Proof Reading that was required. I have sourced several new products to sell on my site and will continue to grow and expand the range. That was of course my biggest hurdle as well being a very small home based business not having the cash resources to purchase products in quantity. Luckily for me I have a spare bedroom that has now turned into "The Warehouse". so there are lots of new challenges that lay ahead but they are exciting!

From now on I will be able to update my posts more often as I no longer need to be sitting at my computer uploading products and reading disclaimer paragraphs!! So come on take a look you never know what you might find, and don't forget to mark the site as a favourite, cos you will always find new products being added.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Sugar Spice Nice would like to wish all the mothers out there a happy mothers day. I was extremely lucky this morning to have a very quite start to the day with a cup of coffee and just day dream at my garden and be so glad for what I have in life. Later on my two daughters who are grown up now, cooked me a beautiful breakfast and we sat together and talked about what everyone was doing today.This is the only way I know how to tell the world how much I love them from the bottom of my heart and just how blessed I am to have two such beautiful, thoughtful and sensitive girls. Phil would be so proud of how his daughters are growing up.

Oh and by the way I got those new slippers that I hinted for !!!

SUGAR SPICE NICE WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT

Wow after a lot of research, development,late nights and procrastination I am happy to announce the launch of my new web site. I have a new found respect for those web developers who not only have to develop the look and feel of a site but listen and take on board the business owners who want "their" site to be special and "can we just make this change" and "does that have a lighter colour shade" and so on and so on. I am very lucky that I found a wonderful guy named Col Pearson with an incredible supply of patience who in his wisdom allowed me to voice all the visual bits and pieces that I thought I should have and then say "well it would look better like this" and I would think "yeah that does look better". So my advice for small business owners with a limited budget really take the time to ask others about who created their site and find their "wonderful" Col Pearson web developer because i can assure you it makes the journey so much more enjoyable and rewarding at the end of the day.

OFFICIAL LAUNCH MONDAY 12th MAY

SHOPPING CART BACK ON LINE

My web site is back up online and I am extremely glad. When you advertise an online shopping cart and then there are no products to view it certainly does not portray a positive image of ones business, however all is good and I am rearing to go with a start up bonus offering all online purchases FREE DELIVERY to anywhere in Australia. So if you have friends getting engaged, or married or you wish to buy something for your Mother or Wife for Mothers Day, get along to my web site, there are some beautiful products on line that would make for fantastic gifts. When you decide on your purchases follow up with an email to me and I will arrange the FREE DELIVERY shopping discount to take effect.

Look forward to being of assistance to all my customers. Yours in home furnishings Marg Atkins Consultant with sNspice Homewares

Actual Video of Interview with Mike Ryan uploaded onto You Tube

Finally at last I have managed to upload my very first video onto You Tube. I am extremely proud of myself and see this as another step in my growth as a late starter to commencing my own business. The satisfaction of achievement at any stage in your life never dissapates and also with this is the added bonus of showing my children that if you believe in yourself and your dreams anything is possible. So please take the time to view the interview which was so much fun given that it was on a HOT 38 degree Thursday with the noise of Melbourne Trams running in the background heading for the Grand Prix.

Interview with Mike Ryan

Last year in mid September 2007 I was interviewed for the very first time in my life if you would like to see my effort link through on the title and scroll down the page until you find the picture with me in it. There are two side bars so you will need to scroll down on the internal side bar first and after clicking through you will need to scroll up on the external bar. I was so nervous and afterwards I didn't think I would ever attempt an interview again. However how wrong was I, unfortunately the media file was lost and so Mike and Jenny offered to give me another interview which I am sure will come out much better. Yes Iwas still nervous the second time and also as the interview took place on Clarendon Street in South Melbourne on the first day of Melbourne's Grand Prix it provided me with the grandeur of appearing as a celebrity. It was just so much fun and I look forward to many more interviews as my small home based business grows.

Pitfalls of being a Home Based Business

I had forgotten how nice it was in an office environment that when your computer system went down there was an IT person to come and fix the error. However when you are working from home in a one person operation you suddenly become the IT person and in my case this happened over the January Christmas Holidays which left me even more stranded as there was no one to phone for advice. To make things even worse my error relates to my online shopping cart site which equates to no sales no money - catastrophic. Finally all should be working in the very near future and I must say I will be very very pleased when it happens. I have always been a big supporter of looking after home grown and small business operations but I was getting to the point that outsourcing the problem to the "not camping on the beach" holiday people overseas was starting to look my only option for getting back on line. Keep a look out for the Hooray I am making sales again! post.