Rather, accountability. The first of my book sales money has been deposited from Amazon to my bank account. This means I get to track and ear-mark 10% of that money for the Japan fund. I don't think I need to go so far as to open a separate bank account, but I have been toying with the idea of getting Quickbooks to keep it well organized and separate business, reports, taxes, payroll. I'm going to want to watch every penny and pay myself a small income from the business. There are so many details I haven't figured out yet. Then again, QB is pricey and I am a whiz at excel, I'll do my own tracking and figuring for now to save money.
The business details and all the little tasks it takes to work via websites and on my own from home, believe it or not does not overwhelm me. These are the driving details that charge me, really get my thinking fired up and my creative juices flowing. I love the set-up process and seeing it slowly come to life.
The part that overwhelms me is the sales. I can have a lot of fun putting this all together, but driving sales and pulling sales out of thin air are daunting tasks to me so I always try to think of it as a healthy challenge or game to conquer. Today was a good day. More baby steps behind me. I saw an email alert from Amazon that sales were transferred to my bank account, I saw another email from Amazon tonight that I sold another book, the money of which will be deposited next Amazon cycle. Seeing book sales notification in my email is always encouraging. Of all the millions of books and thousands of people that must be on Amazon at a given time and someone bought my book, that's a great feeling. I am so confident and really jazzed up about getting so much more stock listed in my current inventory. I know my sales can go through the roof. Well, relatively speaking - through the roof to one lonely single mom with a lot of time on her hands and one teenage daughter is small potatoes compared to Donald Trump's overhead :-) Not to mention we have a few critters running around underfoot that are counting on me to be the most successful used-book-sales-lady I can be!
Tomorrow's babysteps: figure the actual 10% due for the first accounting to the Japan fund. See if there is a way to screenshot-capture the Amazon sales deposit for blogging and accountability. Make a few runs around town for more used books to sell, libraries, goodwill.
The jewelry gig is slower going, but I did meet with a new friend today, Amanda, and she invited me over. She's having some friends over in a couple weeks and told me to come on over with some jewelry catalogs and see if anyone is interested in hosting a party. I thought that was very nice of her to suggest that.
Last but not least for today, another task complete. The computer and Internet are set up at home and here I am laying in bed typing a blog post with my iPhone. I was plopped in front of the computer so long today, my lower back got really sore. I had to lay down. Another very exciting post tonight, meh :-/ I am still encouraged I am in forward motion. Things are coming along slowly but surely.
Please don't call me Shirley.
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