Cross Blog Conversation: Reba Collins

I’ve got another Cross Blog Conversation to start today and this one is with Reba Collins of Internet Marketing Boomer.  (Are you following Reba on Twitter?)

We have a focus for this CBC and it’s all about How long it takes to be a Success on the Internet.

Reba, I was just thinking about this last night.

I had charged myself with the difficult job of writing a new ‘About Me’ page for my websites and wanted to share what a dramatic change I’ve experienced over the six years since I started my business.

Taking myself back to 2002. I remember sitting at my desk in the living room with Sean playing out in the yard with his friends.  I was financially and emotionally destitute.  I never had enough money and felt like I never got to do anything I wanted.  (whaa-whaa!)  At that point in my life I had one goal – to make an extra $200 per month so I could keep my electricity and phone from being shut off AGAIN.

I thought so small back then – but at the time it felt like I was thinking so big!  To earn $200 a month at a part time job I’d have to give up my weekends with Sean and that just wasn’t something I could do to him.

The first money I earned online was $5 for a graphic button for a fellow work at home mom.  Then I earned $10 for a banner and button set.  A few weeks later I celebrated my first completed goal of earning $50 in a week and within a few months I consistently hit my $200/month goal.

THAT felt like success   Heck, it WAS success!  I felt so empowered and full of excitement.

I thought to myself… ‘Keep this up and you’ll be earning $500 a month in a year or so.”

LOL!  I’m grinning today to remember how sweet and simple my expectations were then.

Reba, I share this to ask you a couple of questions… ‘How do we define Success?’ and ‘How often has your definition of success been changed?’