It's celebration time!

Wow what a year it has been!! As I sit looking across the snowy garden and across the Solent to Portsmouth, I am reflecting on the last year. In Summer 2009, the company that I had been loyal to for 7 years moved the goalposts which spelt financial disaster for me! I had spent 7 years building and training a team & suddenly the company I represented decided they didn't want to pay me unless I made the team work harder. I was not prepared to compromise my credibility and so I left! I  had told those team members, who were mostly mums working home based businesses round their children they could work as and when they liked! Suddenly I was expected to change the rules!!! No way! I had ethics and so I and my ethics went to seek pastures new. Well there I was on the bottom rung of the ladder and with ethics but no income! I became a distributor for Utility Warehouse and continue to be so. (Lyn's Utility Biz)

 I love helping people save money (even more crucial in these current difficult times) and although long term the financial outlook is very good (given time and effort)- it is not a get rich quick scheme but it is building. 

As people knew me as a book lady and as I loved selling children's books, I decided to become an ambassador for Barefoot Books. (Lyn's Barefoot Books) I love the ethos of the company, the books are beautiful and so easy to sell!

Then a year ago today, and this is the cause of today's celebration,  I was browsing Giant Potential , a social networking site for ladies in business, created by entrepreneur Roberta Jerram. My eyes lit on a post from Paula Pomeroy. She was (and still is) a distributor with Wikaniko (pronounced we can eco!) I left her a message and within and hour she had called me! I loved what she told me - I could build a business helping people to take small green steps to save the Earth without costing the Earth. I would get paid for it!!! Amazing I thought! I am sure this is something that other people would like and so I scraped together the starter fee and bought myself a business in a box. That was my Christmas present to me!!! I couldn't really afford it but decided I couldn't afford NOT to!

 It was a very wise decision. I have now grown quite a team for Lyn's Green Biz and there is continual interest in my business both from ptoential distributors and customers. Paula and I have become the best of friends. Paula and I attended the Mumpreneurs awards in September where I was presented with the Best Saleswoman award 2010 (having entered myself when someone criticised me for running multiple businesses.  I have also recently become a Phoenix trader  and all businesses are combined as  Lyn's Biz) 

 I was delighted that Paula and Roberta were with me when I won. Roberta was responsible for connecting us via Giant Potential and Paula has helped me to build the business I have achieved in this my first year. This is only the beginning!!!! Wikaniko is still a relatively new company but it too has Giant Potential. Karen and Trevor (who set up Wikaniko) are great people with great vision and great ethics. They have set the company up as a co-operative and they have to work as distributors like us to achieve their income. The profits are shared out. I am so proud to be part of this as indeed I am for all my current businesses. In celebration of my first Wikaniko birthday, I am running a competition. All current subscribers to my newsletter will be entered as will any new newsletter subscribers who sign up between now and Christmas Eve. Anyone who recommends another person who then signs up to the newsletter will get an extra ticket in the draw! The prize will be either a business starter box (In other words I will pay for you to join Wikaniko as a distributor) or you may choose the equivalent price (£48) in product from the Wikaniko range. To enter you will need to visit my Wikaniko fan page. If you are recommending others to the site then leave me a message . I have had an excellent year. Now its onwards and upwards!! 

So go ahead and enter my competition. That's right just sign up to my Wikaniko newsletter. The competition closes at midnight on Christmas Eve.  Tell all your friends to subscribe (don't forget to message me  and you will get an entry for every one. Have fun and I hope Santa brings you lots of lovely goodies!

Lyn's Biz