The End of the Road

To backtrack a bit…

We left Vancouver 2 weeks ago, with our clothes and a few toys, and arrived in Winnipeg just over a week ago.  The kids did surprisingly well, although the little one (20 months) would get to the point every day when it was just ENOUGH.  No amount of cartoons, gummy snacks, or cookies would do the trick.  "OUT!" "STUCK!", he’d shout, as he pulled frantically on his carseat straps. Poor kid.  If I was a little less inhibited, I may have done the same thing.

Stopping for a well deserved break, during which the kids hardly left the van, preferring instead to ‘drive’ themselves.

We did eventually arrive, however, a little nervous about seeing the house for the first time.  We were envisioning that scene from a Nicole Kidman movie where they pull up to their new country home, finding it all dilapitated and decrepit and dusty.

Unfortunately, the parallels were a little too, well, parallel.

It’s hard to see from the pictures…but imagine your state of mind when you’ve been on the road for 4 days with 2 little kids, and arrive to find that your new place hasn’t been cleaned AT ALL (by the way, that food in the freezer? Not ours.  Yuck).

It’s not like the last people lived like pigs.  It’s just that after having cleaned out last place meticulously (remember, my mother-in-law spent 5 hours JUST on the oven), we had hoped for a little more out of our new place. So instead of jumping right into my new business, as I had planned, we were left cleaning our new place from top to bottom.  But enough about cleaning!

I mentioned that I had the official launch of Her SEO last week.  Wow.  Can I just say, if you’re thinking about starting your own business, go NICHE.  You always hear that ("Figure out what your niche is, then run with it").  But I’m experiencing it firsthand. 

Since the launch, I have been overwhelmed with support, questions, clients, and ‘way to go’s’.  What an amazing confirmation that the business is heading in the right direction!  I’m sure once the ‘new business hype’ has worn off a bit, I will be faced with slow times.  But it’s such a nice affirmation that search engine optimization services are needed in the mom/women entrepreneur community.

Which leads me to give you a head’s up for my next post: the question I have been asked the most is, "Can I do the SEO on my site myself, and if so, how?".  I will attempt to answer this shortly, so if you are a website owner looking for more trafffic, stayed tuned!