If you have entreprenerial dreams will be glad to learn of my new business in Saskatoon. I have set up Azaleas Virtual Assistants, with a goal of training just four students at a time in all the details of running a web business of their own from their computer at home. I will use some of the non-profit web sites I handle free of charge as training ground, but I'm also committed to spending half-days in helping students brainstorm, plan and set up their own website and business.

It's like growing your business in an incubator setting, with over-the-shoulder guidance to make sure it will fly. I believe in four months these new business owners will be begging to quit paying me and to run their web business at home. Most should be turning a profit by then, so I will graduate them and take on new students every four months.

I plan to start this unique training service May 1, but am also offering one-week Basic Computer Skills courses, in April while recruiting and interviewing trainees for the May through August course. These are aimed at seniors or those who are new to computers and need some basics so they need not be afraid of their machines, and can become comfortable handling emails, and other basic tasks. The shorter courses will be run Monday through Friday from 1 - 4 p.m. for just $75 for the week.

Although I could do lectures or weekend seminars on these topics, people generally can't remember how to do things until their own fingers have gone through the paces a number of times. This is why I feel the tutoring approach will be more effective.

My business, Azaleas Virtual Assistants, is located in a second story suite in the Western Tract Mission building at 401 33rd Street and Ave. D, in Saskatoon. I have been setting up four computer stations over the last three months and preparing for this business I used to daydream about back in Hague.

Though I will give out graduation certificates, my courses are not geared for those seeking higher learning accreditation; rather, for those who would like to have a business up and paying them an income, or to have the basic skills they need to do virtual tasks for other entrepreneurs who find they have not the time or inclination to handle administrative tasks or to maintain their websites.

High ethical standards will be stressed throughout the course. Followers of Christ should feel very much at home in this course.

Prospective students do not need to have a lot of knowledge of computers or the internet, as long as they willing to learn. I am going to start the courses from the ground up, including the installation of an operating system, and how to do basic troubleshooting. More information can be found on my Azaleas pages

The courses described above will include SiteBuildIt! You can learn more about it following the links below....

Yes. I do! It's always inspiring to see how someone has overcome some obstacles in their life, and found a way to turn their lemons into lemonade, or somehow find a good way to make a living. Very often using a passion or a problem they had to deal with on the way. Recently I've read several pages full of these success stories of people who needed to make a living for their family, and they somehow got connected to SiteBuildIt (SBI), and because of their due diligence, and the excellent help they got, they now have a successful web business. Some of them make very handsome incomes! You can read them too at Case-Studies

You have to be an affiliate to get into the forums, but there are four long, l-o-n-g pages of stories of how people found SBI and what a difference it is making in their lives. I wish you could read those too! Makes me grin with hope.

Thanks to the good folks at SiteSell, I can let you SEE what we're talking about through this video TV player right here on this site! Check it out! :)

Does your spirit groan with desire to make a good living? To use your gifts and skills in a meaningful way, and be rewarded for your hard work? - But you feel like you have nothing with which to start a business?

See me nodding in empathy? Me too!

I know what it is like to start with a zero budget, or a shoestring too short to so much as wrap around your finger - never mind tie it even!

Still. It IS possible. It just takes longer.

There's no real shame in being poor. Only in being lazy, and unwilling to work. If you are eager to learn and to work hard, you can succeed! Wonderfully!

But you must not give up. If one way doesn't work, pray, make sure you're going in the right direction, and about it correctly, and try again, or hunt for an alternate solution. It will probably turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you! It usually does.

I have SO MUCH to share with you! Both personal stories, and suggestions for how to speed up the learning curve, without taking the false detours I've taken. If you end up on a rabbit trail, don't despair. It's a lesson in your University of Hard Knocks. You're not likely to make that mistake again - which is worth something down the line. But if you'll heed my advice, you can skip some of those hard knock lessons and forge ahead to a quicker success.

First, you ought to bookmark this page, as a lot of new links and directions will be added. (Don't assume this will stay the same).

One of the best ways to move ahead is to latch on to someone you respect, and become friends, and take their advice. If you want to latch on to me, I'll do my very best to give you honest and good counsel, and to be a good example.

You do the latching-on by reading my eAction Blog every other week. It alternates with my Linux Learning Curve blog which is a separate category at the same location. I share my learning experiences and tips there. (The basic eAction blog entries can be received as an ezine every other week as another option).

You can also write me to tell me about yourself and your goals and dreams. Then I'll know better where to start with giving you suggestions!

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