| Kids play hard, and sometimes that means they | | | | noise right under-foot. That one really made |
| play really loud in the midst of exploring | | | | me laugh, because I have pulled similar |
| their worlds and role playing with siblings | | | | tactics just trying to get a moments peace! |
| and friends.I know with my kids, if I'm not | | | | And, yes, I have to admit, I have used them |
| hearing some degree of noise; [i.e. play], | | | | |
| from them, it probably means one of them is | | | | to make my business workable too!Oh I |
| not | | | | know... I hear some of you saying... why |
| | | | don't you just get your kids into daycare, or |
| feeling well, or they are coming down with a | | | | find a babysitter or a Nanny |
| cold.My world is blessed with two very | | | | |
| artistic and rambounous boys; 5 years and 2 1 | | | | to take them. Well, that makes perfect sense |
| 2 years old. With their play and with their | | | | of course. But for the many WAHMs who have |
| | | | given up jobs to work at home, |
| singing; [they love to sing Country music at | | | | |
| the top of their lungs!]; they have the | | | | first, they do not want to be giving the |
| ability to raise the noise level in our house | | | | majority of what they earn to those services; |
| to a "heaven-bending" volume in 9 seconds | | | | although they are very valuable services. |
| flat!And while I loved to hear them hard at | | | | And, second, there's that guilt.The guilt we |
| play, the sporatic and unpredictable noise | | | | feel because it was our choice to stop |
| [play], posed challenges at times when I was | | | | working at jobs and stay at home so we could |
| doing sales calls, or when clients called | | | | be with our kids. That was a conscious choice |
| with final questions about starting a | | | | we made. So when we start looking at having |
| business relationship with me.Clients don't | | | | to farm our kids out to daycare, babysitters, |
| wait, when they want to have questions | | | | or bringing in a Nanny, guilt; as to the |
| answered and they don't always call at the | | | | purpose of why we were staying home in the |
| best times. Sometimes these calls would come | | | | first place starts to manifest.So what is the |
| through when the kids were eating or doing | | | | solution? Is there really a solution to how |
| activities that were not so noisy. Great! | | | | to make sales with noisy kids in the house? |
| But.... most of the time, they did not!5 year | | | | Well, I don't know |
| olds are pretty predictable. You basically | | | | |
| know when they are going to make noise. But, | | | | if this solution is for you... But I do |
| if you know anything about | | | | believe I found the right solution for me!I |
| | | | don't have to hide in the closet anymore. I |
| the 'terrible 2's syndrome', you're already | | | | don't disappear into the bathroom to talk |
| familiar with the unpredictability of when | | | | muffled into the towels, lol! I no longer |
| the next scream, or loud laugh will | | | | work 5 to 9 hours a day on the phone during |
| erupt!Some clients understood. I would say: | | | | play time, or any time, doing follow ups and |
| 'yes I know you can hear kids in the | | | | sales calls.Clients no longer call the house |
| background. That is why I do this business. | | | | at unpredictable times, or at all for that |
| | | | matter. My kids no longer have to worry about |
| So I can be at home with them". For other | | | | how much noise they make in the house! And, |
| clients, that was not okay. I had some near | | | | I'll still make a nice 5-6 figure |
| misses and some fair size loses | | | | contribution to my family's income this |
| | | | year!What did I discover to make my sales |
| in bringing people in, to work with me in my | | | | business work for everyone in the household? |
| business because of this home-based | | | | Well.... that's another story that needs to |
| situation.Over the course of working out of | | | | be explained at another time!My typing time |
| my home, I have had many a conversation with | | | | is up - and my kids are calling me to come |
| other work at home Moms [WAHMs], and at times | | | | outside and play water-bomb balloons with |
| have doubled over in laughter at some of the | | | | them! Got to go ; )!Tracey DePaoli is a |
| ingenious, and sometimes silly tactics | | | | work-at-home-Mom [WAHM] who got tired of |
| they've pulled just to get a moment of quiet | | | | building success at the expense of her |
| when they needed to portray the illusion of | | | | family's time. She has a successful business |
| "executive-office professionalism" for the | | | | now that allows her the time freedom to |
| really important calls.Some of them would | | | | travel, play and spend precious time with her |
| hide in the bathroom. Others would sneak | | | | two young boys - 2 1/2 and 5 yrs and her |
| downstairs, or sneak out into the garage. The | | | | partner! She has been an avid Internet |
| funniest one | | | | marketer and researcher of online trends for |
| | | | over 15 years. Discover more about how you |
| I heard was the hiding in the closet | | | | can also earn a 6 figure income while at |
| trick... so the kids would not be making | | | | PLAY! |