Website Keywords for Google Spiders.

Everyone knows that if you want to find something on Google you type in certain words in the search bar and Google finds those websites with those words in it. These “words” are called keywords. If you want to be found on the web you will carefully survey the best keywords to use for your website.Each page of your website can feature a related keyword. Remember Google treats every page, especially page1,2,3 like separate websites so you want to make sure they are all about the same keywords that best describe your business or project. When you control your own website you can list all the keyword for each pageto make it easierfor the search engine spiders to find you. This may seem redundant but the text on the page should use these keywords frequently. If you pick the right keywords and design your website around these keywords you will do well with Google. When you build web pages, you are building them for real people as well as search engine spiders. The words, phrases and text should appeal to people and (not be spammy) be structured so that spiders love the content too. Spiders are very logical so things like appropriate headings, photo names and link names should relate directly to the page keywords. The most important keywords should be in the top third of any page because they are the most important according to the spiders. Kind of makes perfect sense doesn’t it?

(As an example I what I just wrote about: my original heading for this page was "website design tips" After I did a website page analysis, I changed it to the heading " website keywords for Google spiders" because these were the most predominate keywords in the passage so now the heading lines up with the content. I also repeated the heading although that somewhat redundant but forgiveable, I hope. I also changed the font to a header font rather than a normal font because the spiders view headings as being more important)

A second way search engine spiders find your website is by noting how many other websites link to your website. (called backlinks) Google figures that if you website is discussed or linked to yours the webmasters must think it is important and worth noting so Google ranks your website higher. How do you get other websites to link to yours? Well you can phone them and ask them, you can email them, you can build a few websites related to yours that link to yours, you can join Veretekk (http://wellness.veretekk.com ) and use its SEO system or you could join Wellolistic.com for free and create your own backlinks via blogs, articles, music, podcasts, video uploads as well as links from your profile pages. Your Wellolistic.com presence has a social network interface so you can interact with customers quite easily which will help you build content and shine a light on your primary website. You can easily upload content to Facebook and Twitter from Wellolistic.com which makes it even more useful to you. You can also take your RSS feed from Wellolistic.com and place it on your website to provide more dynamic changing content that all search engines love. It’s a win win situation for you that cost nothing but your time to create the content on Wellolistic. The one major restriction is that your website should be related to health, social issues or environmental issues to tie in directly to the theme of the community.

November 3,2011 Colm Maher, Founder of Wellolistic.com

Wellolistic.com is a social network for people passionate about health issues, social issues and environmental issues. Wellolistic thinking encourages holistic thinking about health, social and environmental issues that include wellness for the body, mind, spirit, our society and the planet. It includes being proactively engaged in the overall well being of society and in your own state of personal health. Being “wellolistic”presumes a genuine inclusive caring for yourself, your family, your society, animals and the environment

The Dangers of a Vegan Diet

A vegan diet is really good for the person but really bad for the economy. If millions of people in Canada adopted the diets recommended by the books “The China Study” and “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” and the movie “Forks Over Knives’, lower demand would have a disastrous effect on big cattle farmers, dairy farmers, and hog producers. All kinds of jobs would be lost and real estate values of farms would plummet if it could not be used for crops. More land would be needed to grow more fresh produce. People would be getting healthier and living longer so doctors and nurses and all the health technical people like x ray technicians and lab technicians would find themselves in a vastly diminished job market. Imagine that, unemployed doctors. Hospitals would be almost empty and nursing homes would become health resorts because chronic illness no longer existed. Nutrition consultants will do well. Social security would have a whole new issue of lots of people living longer. The retirement age will certainly go up because these new health active seniors will want to work or contribute some way to society. McDonald's will become a vegan first food place simply because it will be good for business.

These wholesale changes in society will be very disruptive and cause widespread economic calamity, perhaps economic collapse. Major industries like cattle farming, meat processing plants, dairy farms, milk production, cheese production, yogurt producers, food processors, supermarkets, food transport, all the medical professions, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies will all suffer tremendous losses in income and many will simply go out of business. A major depression would no doubt result. Who knew that vegetables could mean so much? This why no government in their right mind is ever going to endorse this diet as the answer to the health problems of today.

Thank God, individuals can still choose what’s best for them. One by one people will change so perhaps all the above will happen gradually over the next 100 or so years which gives everybody time to adapt. A vegan diet will become normal. Former farm animals will be kept in zoos just so people can see them. People will look at these animals and think people back to the 21 st century people as if we were barbaric for eating these creatures especially since an animal diet was so unhealthy. Yes, it will be hard for future humans to believe that present humans were so poorly educated in the elementary rules of nutrition.

About www.Wellolistic.com . Wellolistic.com is a social network for people passionate about health issues, social issues and environmental issues. Wellolistic thinking encourages holistic thinking about health, social and environmental issues that include wellness for the body, mind, spirit, our society and the planet. It includes being proactively engaged in the overall well being of society and in your own state of personal health. Being “wellolistic”presumes a genuine inclusive caring for yourself, your family, your society, animals and the environment. 

November 1,2011 Editorial by Colm Maher, Founder of Wellolistic.com

Anti  Science Thinking : Alive and Well but not Healthy.

There is a disturbing common threat evident predominantly in the USA when it comes to science. For a country that boasts about being a leader in technology and so called leader of the free world, this fact should cause people around the world to shudder. We are often amused by the people in the Middle Ages because they thought the world was flat and that the Earth was the center of the universe and anyone who thought differently was regarded as a lunatic. The Catholic Church is often criticized today for the anti science evident in the famous Inquisitions that branded people as heretics when they differed from Church teachings. In the past many of these dissenters were jailed, tortured and even put to death for having alternate opinions usually based on some rudimentary science.  Science was seen as the enemy especially to the established world order.

 It is disturbing to note that in the so called modern day USA, things have not changed much. Apparently, the dumb bunnies are still in charge. No we don’t put people in jail, whip or flog them or put them to death by hanging, the electric chair or the axe for supporting certain scientific opinions after all we do have freedom of speech, don’t we?  No something much more insidious is used: mind control. The Nazis were the first to use mass propaganda to influence popular opinion. They used newspapers, magazines, radio, the movies and public demonstrations to promote their cause. Can you imagine how effective they would have been with the internet, social networks, present day cable television? They would make Fox News look like real small potatoes and Rupert Murdock would be out of a job.  One of Nazis basic social media principles was “tell the big lie” because everyone will believe it because it was so big it must be true.

Present mass propaganda is largely funded by the mega multinational corporations that have more cash and assets than most countries.  None of these corporations have to answer to the public directly but they do often answer to their shareholders. These shareholders only really care about their return on investment. In other words, money rules. When a corporation sees a threat to its business it reacts to preserve its investments and assets. No thought is given to what is good for society or individuals. That’s not the purpose of the corporation. That’s somebody else’s problem. Most corporate actions don’t have a big impact on people directly so their action is not really that important to most citizens. This is not true when corporations sell products that impact the health of an individual, and the overall health of society.

Modern corporations often behave in a similar fashion to the people of the middle Ages, and the Inquisitors when it comes to science that threatens their cash flow.  Even thought the science is real, some corporations simply do not recognize it. Not only that, they do all in their power to discredit it. They use all the propaganda tools available to cast doubt on science so as to confuse people. This is the modern weapon used against science so people will not take any actions that will impede the financial interests of corporations. Since cash is not a problem, corporations spend  millions on lobbyists, TV ads, newspaper ads and paid stooges who write blogs and appear on TV as so called experts. They spend millions on supporting political parties who support their views. In fact, politicians are often persuaded to vote certain ways to retain or garner money for campaigns.

These are the tactics used by the tobacco Industry and the climate change deniers. These people know they are wrong but that doesn’t matter. What matters is the bottom line this year and next. The general economic or health consequences are not entered into the equation. This short term thinking is the fundamental flaw in capitalism. This like a cancer cell that feeds on the host until it kills the host.

There is another huge lie being perpetuated on the American people who have a huge impact on their health, longevity and finances. This lie protects the interests of the food industry, the cattle industry, the dairy industry, the drug industry and the insurance industry. The lie relates to the recommended healthy cholesterol levels.  The American Heart Association, the National Cholesterol Education Program and the National Research Council al recommend that cholesterol levels be below 200 mg/Dl. They also state that you can consume 30% of your diet from fats. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. M.D.  In his book “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” states that “This so called safe level virtually guarantees, that if everyone actually met their stated goals, that every year more than 1.2 million American will suffer heart attacks and millions more will watch the inevitable progression of their coronary heart disease.” Esselstyn also says that most doctors know that 25% of heart attacks effect people who have cholesterol levels between 180 and 200 mg/Dl and those 30% calories from fat virtually guarantee high cholesterol. (Dr Esselstyn is featured in the book, The China Study and in the movie “Forks over Knives”)

Conscientious individual s who follow  these national guidelines are essentially believing the big lie from highly respected institutions in America.  Why? Where does all the harmful cholesterol come from? Animals. Do you think these associations are heavily influenced by corporations that depend on animal products for their very existence? Do you think the Department of Agriculture is influenced by big farm /food/dairy corporations? There is no doubt about it. Even the government has put its head in the sand when it comes to cholesterol and fat levels. This is the same government that funds health care, health research and is currently trying to control health costs while at the same time another arm of the same government is doing is best to ensure that disease continues to kill and cripple people in the USA.

The science is there and it is irrefutable but it conflicts with the financial futures of many industries. Confusion is purposely created and people fail to act. It’s the same strategy used by the tobacco industry and the climate change deniers but the lie about heart disease has not reached the same level of public knowledge. Until it does, millions more will die since corporate profits are more important than the health of a nation. What do ordinary people do?  People need to be proactive about their own health since you really don’t know who’s really acting in your interests or some nebulous corporate interest. I would suggest you read both The China Study by T. Colin Campbell PhD and Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr M.D. and see the movie “Forks Over Knives”.  These books are not promoting any special interest, just good nutrition through healthy eating based on scientific evidence. We all owe a real debt of gratitude to these men who are stepping out of the box and taking on very powerful adversaries in the name of science and good health.

Oct 31,2011 Editorial by Colm Maher, Founder of Wellolistic.com

About www.Wellolistic.com . Wellolistic.com is a social network for people passionate about health issues, social issues and environmental issues. Wellolistic thinking encourages holistic thinking about health, social and environmental issues that include wellness for the body, mind, spirit, our society and the planet. It includes being proactively engaged in the overall well being of society and in your own state of personal health. Being “wellolistic”presumes a genuine inclusive caring for yourself, your family, your society, animals and the environment. 

Editorial Oct 28,2011I Colm Maher, Founder of   http:// www.wellolistic.com  

I  have just finished reading ‘The China Study” by T. Colin Campbell and as I laid it down, I said to myself and to Pat, my wife, that “this was the most important book I have ever read”. It ranks right up there behind the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. The Wall Street protestors and their associates throughout the world have had a lot of press lately and they deserve our recognition and thanks for protesting an economic system that favours the rich with no regard for anyone else. The China Study could fosters an equally and perhaps more important grassroots movement because it empowers everyone to take charge of their own health by eating the right foods.  

This China Study is not based on some fantasy or nebulous idea about nutrition. It is factual and based on mountains of scientific data and it rocks the status quo in the medical Industry, food industry and drug industry. Each by themselves have massive lobby groups to promote their special interests which actually boils down to one word “money”.  All together, these industries are a gigantic part of the GNP of any country so any threat to them is a threat to the overall economics of a country and in fact the world. Are they too big to fail? Is that why governments don’t tell people the truth? Are the masses of people expendable so a few other people can line their pockets with money gained from ill health. Is the system that perverted? Read the book. 

The China Study basically says you can prevent and reverse heart disease, cancer , diabetes and a host of other diseases simply by following a vegan diet. This has enormous implications for everyones’  health. Ordinary people like you and me can control their own health outcomes without the need of a doctor, a drug company and a food processor. Most of we need can be grown by the local farmer and by other farmers that are not so local. If this movement becomes widespread we don’t eat animals nearly as much as at present so the vast resources used to feed herds of animals will no longer be needed which lifts a huge burden off the environment. It’s a double win situation for humans, the animals and our planet.  

The core facts in the China Study have been recommended before but simply ignored, swept under the rug and forgotten. Mainstream medicine treats nutrition as if it has nothing seriously to do with health. Drugs and procedures replace food as the talking points. Colin P. Campbell is a brave man and should be honoured for his role in bringing these basic food facts to the attention of all who will listen and read. He, no doubt, has very powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to discredit him and his book. This time I believe the real facts will get out to a much larger audience via the internet and websites such as www.wellolistic.com. The Wall Street Protestors have shown that there is fundamental discontent with how government operates and that ordinary people are willing to take action so government works for the people not the lobbyists and special interest groups, including the rich. Given the facts presented in The China Study, ordinary people have the power to control their own health and we, the people, get to vote for our health three times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. How will you vote? 

About www.Wellolistic.com . Wellolistic.com is a social network for people passionate about health issues, social issues and environmental issues. Wellolistic thinking encourages holistic thinking about health, social and environmental issues that include wellness for the body, mind, spirit, our society and the planet. It includes being proactively engaged in the overall well being of society and in your own state of personal health. Being “wellolistic”presumes a genuine inclusive caring for yourself, your family, your society, animals and the environment. 

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Wanted: Writers and readers needed who are passionate about serious issues that effect our health, society and our Planet.

Where: Wellolistic.com is a Social Network for People Passionate about Health Issues, Social Issues and Environmental Issues.

Cost:  Cost nothing but your time and creativity.

Benefit: A great opportunity for you to influence social change using the many tools available free on the website.

About us:

The Wellolistic Mission Statement

Wellolistic thinking encourages holistic thinking about health, social and environmental issues that include wellness for the body, mind, spirit, our society and the planet. It includes being proactively engaged in the overall well being of society and in your own state of personal health. Being “wellolistic” presumes a genuine inclusive caring for yourself, your family, your society, animals and the environment.

Using Wellolistic

Are you a Professional Consultant, a Chiropractor, a Naturopath, A Nutritionist, An Environmentalist, A Social Worker, a Trainer, an MD or a health food retailer? Are you a dietitician, a nutritionist, a weight loss counsellor concerned about nutrition? Are you an advocate about taking action against climate change and global warming? Are you concerned about human rights around the World? Are you appalled by the living conditions of First Nation people in Canada? About hunger, starvation, AIDS , malaria in 3rd World countries?

Do you have a home based business? Are you with a wellness network marketing company?

Or are you like most of us, a concerned consumer who is looking for better health, a better life  and a healthy environment for yourself and your family?

Perhaps you have a health issue or you have a child or a parent with a health issue. Perhaps you are as mad as he-- with the system. Perhaps you are a fighter for a cause like autism, or MS or AIDS or accessibility, global warming, or human rights. You have a home here.

We have created wellolistic.com for you.

It's dedicated to the above issues and uses the tools and advantages of a social network type website to allow you to communicate and connect with like minded people. The website facilitates two way communication to allow conversations to happen and input to be shared by by the public and members. The public can read about the issues expressed here but only members can fully participate by posting blogs, articles, uploading photos and videos, sharing documents, creating forums and groups for discussions on specific topics.

It's definitely worth your while to join and it's also free.

The Wellolistic Mission Statement

Wellolistic thinking encourages holistic thinking about health and social issues that include wellness for the body, mind, spirit, our society and our planet. It includes being proactively engaged in the overall well being of society and in your own state of personal health. Being “wellolistic” presumes a genuine inclusive caring for yourself, your family, your society, animals and the environment.

Using Wellolistic

Are you a Professional Consultant, a Chiropractor, a Naturopath, A Nutritionist, a Trainer, an MD or a health food retailer? Are you a dietitician, a nutritionist, a weight loss counsellor concerned about nutrition? Are you an advocate about taking action against climate change and global warming? Are you concerned about human rights around the World? Are you appalled by the living conditions of First Nation people in Canada? About hunger, starvation, AIDS , malaria in 3rd World countries?

Do you have a home based business? Are you with a wellness network marketing company?

Or are you like most of us, a concerned consumer who is looking for better health and a better life for youself and your family?

Perhaps you have a health issue or you have a child or a parent with a health issue. Perhaps you are as mad as he-- with the system. Perhaps you are a fighter for a cause like autism, or MS or AIDS or accessibility, global warming, or human rights. You have a home here.

We have created wellolistic.com for you.

It's dedicated to the above issues and uses the tools and advantages of a social network type website to allow you to communicate and connect with like minded people. The website facilitates two way communication to allow conversations to happen and input to be shared by by the public and members. The public can read about the issues expressed here but only members can fully participate by posting blogs, articles, uploading photos and videos, sharing documents, creating forums and groups for discussions on specific topics.

It's definitely worth your while to join and it's also free.

More on Tools and Benefits

We have a comprehensive package of free tools available to you. These tools are designed to get your message out and also allow you to communicate better with your associates, friends, customers or patients or the general public and allow people with the same interest to connect to you.

Tools for writers and readers, tools for media people, tools for shoppers, health help tools, connection-feedback tools, advertising tools that you tell the whole story such as in the WelloDirectory .

We also have a segment for pet owners, job seekers, and member merchant coupons (like Groupon). We are going to add a Dating Section under Links as well as links to other  interesting websites.

We have also launched access to the Natural Medicine Comprehensive Database on a subscription basis.(See Supplement-Help Guide tab)

This is a very important tool for professional recommending natural products because it rates products independently as well as suggesting treatment protocols . It also allows the professional to print out patient handouts which makes everyone happy. Consumers love it.

About the Soap Box

Soap boxes were wooden crates that speakers would use at public places so they could stand above the crowd so they could be seen and heard. This tradition was very prevalent in Hyde Park in the England. Anyone who had a cause had a soapbox and used it. Our SoapBox is the modern day version of this idea. It's for single stand alone articles about any health or social issue.. If you want to explore any issue with a series of articles, I would suggest starting a blog.

Movements are all about causes usually rooted in injustice. It's the one big reason why this website was created in the first place: people need more effective venues to express their opinion about health and social issues.  The Big Boys in Industry, Lobbyists and some rich folks with a private agenda certainly have the money to get their point of view across via television, talk radio, daily newspapers, magazines and books. These avenues are mostly closed to the common person which is why websites like wellolistic.com are valuable and much needed.

So if you have a Cause, let us all hear about it.

Facebook, Twitter and now Google Plus

Wellolistic.com links in with Facebook and Twitter because many people use and like these services.

Some would say: why this website? 

Aren't Twitter and Facebook doing a great job? Yes, they are doing a great job at what they do.

Facebook, to me, is like a giant bar with lots of people, pub games, slot machines and loud music whereas

Wellolistic is like meeting people in your local park while walking, or people you meet in the library, or gym or health food store.

Twitter is great for short messages and for linking to in depth articles and issues.

I use both Facebook and Twitter to promote Wellolistic.com.

I believe that Health is our most valuable asset closely followed by the quality of life we experience in society and that we have a fundamental responsibility to manage our own health and be proactive within society. Evil will triumph if good people do nothing.

Some people naturally "want a say", some "want to learn" , others have an inclination "to teach" and we all have a need "to connect".

Wellolistic is a vehicle for helping this happen and is open to all. Our logo is round because all people are equal, and because we think holistically. It is multicoloured because it is all inclusive of all people and the "W" stands for the " Words" that give us power to create wellness in the World. The logo was also inspired by the "wellness wheel". Wellolistic itself is a coined word combining  "wellness" with "holistic". We are currently in process of registering the word as out trademark in Canada and the USA.

The New Age of the Internet

Facebook, Twitter, and now Google all feed on the latest mega trend on the internet and that is "interaction of people".

People want a voice and they want their voice to be heard. These social networks are "people first communities" and that's why they are so successful.

Big business sometimes gets the message right but many of them are stuck in the 70's. Some get it right to be sure but there are many who just wish it would all go away. Well, it's not going away. Small businesses have a real opportunity to level the playing field on the internet. That's always been one of the great attractions of the internet for small business. The downside is somebody has got to learn the few basics to make an impression on the web. In the "old" days websites were created but now they are somewhat obsolete. Why? Websites are often  static one way communication devices like a TV commercial that tells you things but never records your input when you say things like "what a stupid commercial" or something positive like " why aren't all commercials that good?".

You have an opportunity here to have a fully functional interactive web presence with Wellolistic. You can actually do way more on this website than you could if you created your own website. The big bonus is you can do it all yourself without hiring a web design person. So you don't have to wait for them, or pay them. You can update and create your web presence anytime, any day and do it mostly for free. If you are an overworked, very busy professional person have staff members do it for you.

If you can use Microsoft Word, Word Perfect or use email, you can easily learn to use Wellolistic.

It will be worth your time and your efforts.

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About Free

Just to be absolutely clear:

Wellolistic is free except for the Natural Medicine Database which we pay a small fortune for so we can offer it to you because we think it is an exceptional resource to all who are using natural remedies.

We do charge for The WelloDirectory Ads,  the Community Ads (webpage ads), Career Ads and for merchant Coupon creations.

We also reserve the Articles section for recognized experts/advocates in business, health and social change.

Colm Maher owns Wellolistic Inc that owns wellolistic.com, Bread Roots Inc, Healthy Food Fans, Wellness Plus for You (as an Immunotec Distributer). He also owns a website called www. home-based-business-ideas.biz. Colm also uses Veretekk as an internet marketing resource and has written ebook called My Home Based Business Story available on Amazon.com. It's about my business journey and it's like an autobiography. It takes you right up to wellolistic.com which will be a major addition to the ebook someday.

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Wellolistic is a free health and wellness resource and always will be. Use Wellolistic.com like a cafeteria, pick and choose what you like. Use the tools provided here to promote your wellness business or practice, your wellness cause, comment on current news, events, politics, or tell your personal stories on in several different areas like Blogs, Groups, Forums, and Wellobuzz

The general public can find answers on health and wellness from posted information that builds here daily. More importantly, the general public can use the tools available via Wellolistic.com to comment on and make recommendations and suggestions about the current delivery of health and wellness anywhere in the world.

Health and Wellness professionals have a great vehicle to educate and to connect with people using WelloNotes , Blogs, Wellness Directory, Events and other interactive tools.

If you are interested in making a difference in health and wellness

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The software is brandable which means businesses can use it to advertise their business (website) and the way it works, this branding ad always show up on Google or Bing or Yahoo so its like being on the first page of these search engines every time someone you gave it to FREE uses it.

If you've been looking for a home business that gives consumers and business owners really good value for money, this is it.

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Search engine optimization for Soho depends heavily on the number of back links you have. In other words, how many other websites are linking to you. Google gives a lot of weight to back links when ranking a website. For seo, the number of back links is definitely not he only factor that matters but it is an important measure that cannot be ignored.

Building back links to your website can be tedious, and time consuming especially if you attempt to contact other website owners to exchange links. Sometimes the requirements they demand in exchange for the privilege of linking to their website can be onerous and not worth the effort. If you are seriously interested in seo for your website you might want to consider using Veretekk's Seo Portals where you can populate 40 odd websites with links to your websites and that's just the beginning of what can be done. http://home-business.veretekk.com

There's also a no cost alternative at http://home-business.free-page.net . As the name suggests, you can get a free website, including hosting for free and there are no limits to the number of websites you can build. You don't need to know any real html other than to put <p> at the beginning of a paragraph and <p/> at the end of a paragraph. All you have to do is fill in the blanks with your contact information, 3 website links and a brief description of your product or services and you are on your way to having an unlimited number of  "gateway" web pages which you can use to build unlimited back links. It also makes a great online business card.

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Home Business: Bread Business: No Place Too Far

In the late 90's all natural and organic breads sales were growing at health food stores because of growing consumer demand and the fact that the supermarkets were not interested in this niche market at the time. Bread Roots benefited by this boom and  expanded very fast. The problem was the whole market was new so we really did not know where to expand to next. So we just about went everywhere in Southern Ontario and into Montreal, Quebec. Six years later we do not go up North to North Bay or Sudbury, or to Montreal but we still cover a wide area. So on some routes we made money and some we definitely lost money. Before you start a route you can only hope for the best, estimating sales. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't: problem is you can lose a lot of money finding places to go that just doesn't work well for your profitability. It's because of issues like this that force businesses out of business. You have to be optimistic about growth to be in business but you can become too hopeful and lose big time.

Luckily we have made more right decisions than wrong decisions so far but we have to continually monitor weekly sales and expenses to stay on course. We now travel about 5,000 km per week with 3 trucks. In this time of historic gas prices increases, each route has to be scrutinized and evaluated in light of the new realities. Beside gas prices, there's a lot more competition now from the supermarkets which now carry many organic products including bread. We counter that by finding more niche markets within the bread and baking industry. Never a dull moment even when the trucks don't break down.

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You could hide under a rock and hope all these negative things aren't going to happen to you or you could do something about it. If you have lost something over the past 8 months--money, your house, your job, realize one thing- sometimes it takes a shock to start you on a new journey. Forget blaming yourself. Just start something new. Failure is not a person --failure is an event. The way things are now the common man is at the mercy of big business, big oil, big banks, big business. There is a niche which is open to all with the guts to get back up and start fighting for your economic rights and that is the home based business arena. Doing nothing is not an option. Make things happen for you, don't let things happen to you.

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Home Business: Bread Business Phase 1 Continued

In the beginning I focused on owner operated stores like fruit and vegetable stores, delicatessens, cheese shops and butcher shops. The best stores were the fruit and vegetable stores but herein lay a huge problem for me since most were only open from May til the end of October. So like the sausage business, I was stuck in a seasonal market to some degree. Two stores became my best customers: a health food store in Peterborough and an organic fruit and vegetable store in Whitby. These stores were open year round and both sold good volume. Health food stores intimated me a little back then and I only went in them to see if they were interested in my organic line of bread I was distributing. They were.

Sales were consistent year round but the business was not that great. Some stores were only ordering $25 worth of bread. I eventually discovered the secret through fear of losing my business to the bakery. The bakery  started making noises about opening a retail store in the middle of my main market as well as delivering to supermarkets in the area. They had often suggested I get more lines to sell but I resisted. Suddenly, more lines became the solution to keep my business going. I also found out something very useful. Some of the stores who ordered $25 worth of bread now ordered $75 worth of bread because I was supplying what they wanted.

After a few years of delivering in station wagon, I upgraded to 15 year old Chevy van. Suddenly, I had a lot more space and I also realized that the station wagon (not the original VW Fox) was actually keeping a lid on my business because I no more room. Within 2 weeks of getting the "new" van, it was 75% full. There was no way in the world the product would have fit in the station wagon. This happened again to me when I upgraded from the van to a Cube Van.

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Home Business: Bread Business Phase 1

When I decided to close the sausage business I also had the task of finding a new business. I quickly decided I wasn't going after a job so I looked around, asked some questions and decided to see if I could sell all an natural, 7 grain bread form a local bakery in Peterborough. The bakery was always at the Peterborough Farmers Market and they always sold out by 12 noon. Selling my sausages across the way from them, I got a good view of customer response. I then talked to the owners of the bakery about selling the bread to stores in the area. At that time (1995), they only served health food stores via couriers. Now they serve every supermarket in sight. They agreed to let me give it a try so I got samples, made up a pricelist and went to 5 stores one Thursday afternoon. In retrospect, these stores were far from the ideal market for the product but at that time I just didn't know the market. I was just excited that 4 out of 5 said yes. I often wonder if I would have continued if all 5 had said no. As a result, I started my first route using a Volkswagen Fox mini station wagon as a delivery vehicle.

I learned quickly that guaranteed sale did not work for me at all. A deli ordered 5 light rye bread and could not sell any so I took them back. They didn't look that bad to me so I took them out of the bag and fed them to the wildlife one the Ganaraska River in Port Hope. Many bakers use guaranteed sale to get the products into the store. I think it just promotes waste. Supermarkets only care that there shelves are full, they don't have any real responsibility for the bread because the sale is guaranteed which means the bakery or distributor takes the loss. I found that they really cared about shelf life. Back then most regular bread lasted 10 days to 2 weeks or longer because it was full of preservatives. My health all natural bread only lasted 6 days. For many supermarkets, shelf life seems more important than human life. Preservatives in bread didn't seem to matter much. The look of the package was much more important than was actually in the bag. Back in 1995, I was talking about all the trans fats in baking as a health issue. It took another 10 years for this to become a mainstream health issue. More to come.

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Home Business: Sausage Business

The sausage business was not all bad. I enjoyed making them, I enjoyed getting positive feed back from our customers which I still got even 10 years after we closed down. I did not enjoy all the washing up and cleaning up I had to do. I was a great learning experience for my children at a very impressionable age. In the mid nineties they would have been in their early teens. As in most home businesses children often help out. Besides doing jobs around the store like serving customers, handling cash and doing other odd jobs, they also went to the markets interacting with all kinds of customers and promoting the sausages. In order to do this they had to get up at 4 am to be on the road by 5 am so we could be at the Toronto market by 7 am. This was a big stretch for them but they did it. They certainly got a front row seat to running a small home based business. Both my children have excellent interpersonal skills and have always had great personal confidence in dealing one on one with adults. Now adults themselves these skills are becoming extremely beneficial in the work they do.

Your children watch you and even though they never admit it, you are a role model. Starting a home based business can have a wonderful impact on family life if the children and spouse are involved. I know this is not always possible but, when it is, it will create lifelong memories. If the business does note work out, start another one as I did with bread. It's good for the children to know that failure is not a person but an event and that if something does fail you simply start all over doing something else until you get it right.

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 Home Business: Making Sausages

One of the reasons I moved out of Toronto was to find someplace to start a home based business making  homemade sausage. I had become hooked on making these great sausages at home in Toronto and I had even sold them to a few customers. We found a place in Bewdley Ontario located just across the road from Rice Lake. The place was less than ideal with a house much smaller than we had in Toronto but it had several outbuildings, 2 of which had income so it looked like a good deal at the time. Trouble is I didn't know Bewdley when I bought it but I'm sure the ReMax agent who sold it to me did. Let's say it doesn't have the greatest reputation for anything except maybe fishing, hunting, cheap rent. Sometimes, I got the feeling that the visitors thought that this wasn't really part of Ontario and they could do anything they liked. It was kind of like what I imagine the Wild West was like. In hindsight, it was probably the worse location in Ontario to open a gourmet home sausage store.

People tell you things like customers will go anywhere for something good. Well they might for big items like good deals on fridges, stoves and automobiles--big ticket items but they won't travel for a package of sausages. We made up to 33 varieties of sausages. Most were pork, some chicken, some beef and some lamb. I have to say they were very big on flavour, low in fat and all natural. All natural was just a new thing in the early 90's. Business was good sometimes in the summer but it was basically the pits. I was commuting to my appraisal "job" in Toronto and later to Oshawa which was closer. The appraisal business was very slow in the early 90's so I just sort of drifted away and the sausage business took over.

Sales in Bewdley were lousy so we investigated some farmer's markets. We subsequently went to markets in Toronto, Peterborough, Port Hope and Cobourg. Trouble was that 3 out of 4 of these markets were only open for the summer so we basically starved in the winter. It wasn't any fun. It was just too much work making these sausages by hand with too little income. I just didn't think it was fair to me or my family to continue.

I still needed to make an income. I was about 50 and considered myself unemployable since I had been self employed for about 20 years by then. I looked around to see what I could do and found it in a loaf of all natural bread. More to come.

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Home Business:Real Estate Appraisal

The appraisal business was a natural fit form because I knew the Toronto real estate market in the 70's and I am detail oriented. The fact that I could work from home and be set my own hours was very helpful. In this age before cell phones, my pager worked well to enable me to do my real estate sales business on the side. These were mainly form mortgage appraisals for banks and trust companies. The appraisal required a home inspection, comparable sales inspection and a written report. These were in the days before such forms could be done on computer (there were no computers in the 70's). In a good week I would do 15 appraisals and 20 plus in a really good week. I did my inspections and appointments during the day and wrote the appraisals at night at home. In the early 80's computer real estate sale searches became available as well as fax machines. Both these technologies just made working from home even more viable.

The basic premise in real estate appraisal is that the value is based on "the highest and best use" of a particular property. Such issues as zoning by laws, official plans, location and economic trends are all factors in any appraisal. I always felt you would have to be a super duper real estate expert to base a opinion considering all these factors. Since, I could plainly see most of these issues were only casually addressed, I could not see a long term future for my self as a real estate professional.

In the late 1980's, house prices were going through the roof because of rampant amateur speculators driving up the market. I really felt that the value of properties could not be supported so I started looking at other options. A market correction in the early 90's proved me right but I was out of it by then.

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My Home Business Experiences

Back in 1976, 33 years ago, I started my first home based business because my well paid government job became the pits.

I had just gone through the experience of buying a house in Toronto and was impressed with the real estate business. This positive impression was in stark contrast to my poor impression of working for the Ministry Of Health for Ontario. So at 30 years old, I quit my "good job" and became self employed as a real estate salesperson. I have never had a job since although I have had a number of home based businesses. For the first 4 years I was fulltime in sales then for about 8 years, I was a real estate appraiser as well as a salesman. So I had 2 businesses going at once. Eventually, I settled on appraisal because I could work at home more and have more of a family life.

When you are in real estate sales, you are the business. Everything revolves around you. Because it is such a fast past environment where timing can be everything, it's difficult to call time your own. You are at the continuous beck and call of your clients whether they be the buyer or the seller. After you have worked weeks on end without a day off and done this for several years in a row, your attitude can suffer a bit. Sometimes you've been up til  2 am presenting offers that went nowhere and met a number of vendors that basically want to give you a pay cut. Other days, you may have planned a family day but either purchasers or vendors call you to show a house. It can become a perpetual guilt trip based on working too many hours and the feeling guilty about taking days off. Since you are the business, you are on call 24/7. It can be fun for a while but not in the long term.

The appraisal business took care of some of these issues but more on that tomorrow.

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