For as long as I can remember I've wanted to run my own business. Through school, college and University I always 'knew' that by my late twenties I'd be running a very successful software company or e-startup... or so I thought!
After graduating from Uni I had a stark choice - get a well paid programming or design job with a flash London software company, or move back to Cornwall where I had grown up and face an employment climate that was unlikely to fulfill my dreams. I needed experience (or so I thought) before starting my own business, but after 3 years of studying in Manchester I was longing to get back to my roots...
As I suspected finding meaningful employment in the IT sector in Cornwall was near impossible. I ended up working for the family business - a mail order clothing outlet, hardly what I was looking for. I did drag the company kicking and screaming into the 21st century by first getting them on email (wow - technology!) and building them a small website. I took this to the next logical stage and developed an online store and within a year or so a large percentage of their business would be online.
From the back of this experience I started delving more into web design and in 2003 I finally set up my own company - Kernow Web Designs
I was proud of my new venture and worked hard to get the business off the ground. I took on work at a knockdown price to 'get my foot in the door' and build a client base. I advertised online and offline, and slowly picked up bigger projects. I taught myself Flash and built a number of games in the process which I used as promotional tools (and posted them to a free website for others to play and use : Kwikgames And I even moved into a nice big office in the local town... but the problem was there was simply not enough hours in the day!
The harder and longer I worked the more money the business made, but there was only so much I could physically do. It was getting obvious that I would need to employ others if I was to build the successful business that I hankered after. This was a real sticking point - on the one hand I wanted to expand the business, but on the other I knew only too well the pitfalls of taking on employees (my fathers business had taught me all about health and safety, pensions, redundancy, sick pay... all the things that caused management stress and problems!) so I was very reluctant to do so.
Then salvation...
One day after leaving the office I found a business card on my car window, "Major Second Income - Earn £500 to £3000 extra per month without affecting your existing job or business". It sounded too good be true and so I concluded that it probably was - but there was a website address on the card so I browsed the site with the idea of selling them my web design services. I filled out an application for a free info pack and waited.
Two days later an info pack dropped through my letterbox that would change my life. I had discovered Kleeneze, a company that I had never heard of, and Network Marketing "The most powerful income structure ever devised". I decided it was worth trying and got started immediately.
I made back the investment within 10 days and was well into profit by the end of the first month... Although only working very much part-time for a few hours each week I was bringing in a few hundred pounds extra each month on top of my Kernow Web income. Over the next few months I started to get involved in the sponsoring and very slowly built my Kleeneze business on just a few hours a week. It would be over a year before Cressy joined my in the business and we hit Gold status within 8 weeks after that. With the foundation of a very strong team we can now see that the sky is the limit. We can have as many people working for us as we like - without the headaches of being an employer, and finally I have the high end successful business I've always wanted... you can to!
