Some of you reading this know me personally, so you know my children are my joy. Yeah right, so this post is going to involve considerable bragging about my daughter and how awesome she is, however, I will try to incorporate a lesson here for those of you that have kids and wish to help them find their destiny, their dream career.
My daughter's name is Mandy Brister and ever since I can remember she has loved animals. She has a magical way of connecting with them, training them and even caring for them when they are sick and nursing them back to health. Over the years we have had many pets, horses, rabbits, cats, dogs. Her dad and i noticed her special gift early on and in elementary school she wanted to be a veterinarian when she grew up. As she grew older and began college, she had some challenges choosing a major and decided against becoming an veterinarian. She looked at Accounting, Business and Marketing as a possible career field and now she is a little less than a year away of completing her Business Administration degree.
She is very ready to graduate and has already started her own business, called My Rascal Puppies. During the first quarter of the year she did research and came up with a plan. She worked to build a store to sell her English Bulldog puppies and then added a Word Press blog. About a year ago, she had purchased a English Bulldog puppy (Darla) and with that experience fresh on her mind, she worked hard to have all of the elements on her site so that it would be user friendly for anyone to visit that was interested in acquiring an English Bulldog puppy for a pet. At My Rascal Puppies you can find plenty of pictures of each English Bulldog puppy she has for sale (adoption), as well as videos. The videos are especially nice because you can tell more about their confirmation as you see then run and play with other puppies in their litter.
Other important features of the business include the warranty, guarantee, purchase process and shipping arrangements. It is all spelled out, because she understood that when you are purchasing a high quality purebred English Bulldog you are going to have questions.
In a perfect world, everyone would be honest however she has already learned horror stories of scammers (posing as breeders) on the internet, posting puppy pictures and offering English Bulldog puppies and accepting deposits via wire transfers and never delivering the dog. Isn't that horrible? She wanted to make sure that when someone visited her site that her contact information, both email and phone number would be there so that prospective puppy buyers can speak with her in person. She is also verified by Next Day Pets so that visitors to her site can see she has an established, credible business.
English Bulldogs are a special breed of dog, they sometimes get lonely when left alone for long periods of time so she developed an application process to find out about the lifestyle of the prospective buyer so that her puppies will only be placed in homes where they will receive the highest degree of love, care and attention. Yes, was developed from her passion and understanding of the needs of an English Bulldog. She also has continuing education and training materials available for proud Bulldog owners to raise the puppies to healthy and happy adult dogs.
She is very serious about the early care of each litter of puppies such as: hygiene, diet, exercise, play time, socialization, health, vaccinations and regular veterinarian visits. All of this is very time consuming and laborious for most people, for her it is a joy. She keeps a journal of each puppy and charts their growth and other vital information to share with the new owners.
For most young people it can be a struggle to start their own business and especially one they will be passionate about for a lifetime (something they look forward to each day.) As a parent, it is so rewarding when you know they have found "it", the dream that has become the reality, the job that they were born to do. It is really a happiness and peace of mind that is difficult to explain.
In closing, I would like to say, be patient with your children as they evolve to adulthood and discover the many opportunities that life has to offer in the way of careers. More often than not, they may change their minds many times and when they find their destiny, their will be a joy on their face, a spring in their step and a song in their heart like you have never seen before.
As a parent you may think, what more is left for me to do? Is my job done here? Of course not, just do like I do and start bragging to everyone about their accomplishments. And so, this post would not be complete, if I don't share with you the beauty and championship of some of Mandy's English Bulldog puppies…enjoy and wishing you the best for your business, and your children(s) businesses too!
Meet the pups, Samantha, Judson, Lexi, Alexia, Carlos and last but certainly not least Julie.

For those of you that I have privately coached, consulted with, mentored or maybe we have even been co-workers or friends through a business connection with StomperNet, an internet marketing membership site, I wanted to announce publicly that I am no longer employed by Stompernet. For the past three years I have literally come in contact with hundreds, possibly thousands of fantastic internet marketers via my role with StomperNet, as a business coach and internet marketing consultant.

In fact, I really wanted to send each and every one of you a personal message to let you know and when I started to do that, I became overwhelmed with all of the clients that I have worked with over the past three years. Wow, and what a privilege it has been to work personally with all of you… and to watch you set and achieve goals, implement new business strategies, discuss keyword research, link building article marketing, Facebook, Twitter and that is not even the half of it.

So I hope you will forgive me for not writing each and everyone of you (that have had a profound impact on my own personal and business growth) and saying my brief goodbyes here on my own public blog…

I will still be a part of Stompernet, as an apprentice, a member, and I think that will be pretty cool, kinda like the old days. I will shooting off at the mouth here on the blog, from time to time…and so I hope that you will subscribe to my blog and that way we can still remain "connected" in a very Web 2.0 way.

I have updated my contact information on my blog in case someone needs to reach me privately, as well. I would like that very much because I really hate goodbyes.

I have "some things" in the works that I am collaborating on with the great and wonderful, Freddie Brister, my article marketing guy and husband. And so please stay tuned for Joyce Brister 2.0

Kind Regards,

Joyce Brister

http://www.MyArticleMarketingGuy.com

myarticlemarketingguy@gmail.com

P.S. Thanks again for what you have meant to me and "Don't let anyone steal your dreams."
P.S.S. I would also like to thank those those that mentored me, it meant alot. Here's my list (in no particular order):
Andy Jenkins, Brad Fallon, Dan Thies, Leslie Rhode, Jerry West, Andy Edmonds, Sherman Hu, Dave Taylor, David Bullock, Don Crowther, Bill Crowther, Eric Shannon, Chris Watson, Vin Montello, Jayne Hallock and many other Faculty, Moderators and Staff.

How do I spell success in my internet marketing business? S-T-O-M-P-E-R-N-E-T L-I-V-E 8, that's right. On August 7-9th, 2009 (in Atlanta, Georgia) the greatest minds in internet marketing will be your teachers. The Live events that StomperNet hosts are not the typical pitch fest with the same ole same ole stuff. Throughout the year StomperNet faculty and staff are researching trends and theories to find out what is working. I am talking cutting edge. No hype. For me, I kinda like my internet marketing knowledge served up that way. I don't have time to be sorting through any BS, if you know what I mean. I go for the stuff that is research based and that way I can get from point A to point B a lot faster, which means making more money for me in my business.

Registration is open now for all of the full StomperNet members. You will want to register now and make your travel plans to attend before the event fills up and is closed. In the past these events have been so packed, we have had to re-arrange meeting rooms to accommodate for the large crowds, bring in extra seating and the end result was Andy Jenkins and the Fire Marshall were seen in regular discussions about safely seating the masses in attendance. So, make your plans early so we can fill the largest meeting rooms and start Stomping the Search Engines before we close the doors.

Oh and by the way, if you are not a current StomperNet member and you are reading this, you can join us in Atlanta for Live 8. That is, if you act quickly. We have a limited number of tickets to offer for non-StomperNet members. If you would like more information, go to the page that says Contact Joyce Brister
and there are a number of ways to reach me. So call me today to get your tickets to Stompernet Live Event and I will be glad to fill you in on the details.

Well, that's about all I have for you today, I am still celebrating the fourth of July and Independence Day with family and friends this weekend and I would like to wish a safe and happy holiday to all of my US readers. Tomorrow, I will share more StomperNet secrets about past Live Events that I have attend (so, far I have been to a total of 6) and how I have made hundreds of thousands of dollars with what I have learned. That is, if you would like to hear about it? Just post a comment if you really want to know…..