Taking A Sabbatical

A time comes in everyone’s life and in every business when you have to step back and reevaluate what you’re doing.

Starting shortly before the new year, I started taking a hard look at what I’m doing at Watersweb and considering different ways that I can help other women business owners, both online and in my local area.

During this time, I’ve made a few decisions:

1. I’m consolidating several sites, including this one, into one site.
2. I’m developing a new buiness model that will enable me to help local business owners who are too busy to run an online business, but need to do so. I will be offering full service website design, maintenance and promotion packages to Oklahoma business owners.
3. I’m spending more time speaking to local organizations and business groups such as the chamber of commerce.
4. I’m spending more time improving my DIY website tools so that they’ll be beneficial to more online and local business owners.

After reading this and seeing my extended absense on this site, you may be wondering if I’ve disappeared and if Michelle Waters Online or Product Sellers Talk Radio will be back.

1. My Michelle Waters Online blog posts will be moved to the Watersweb Shops site. Most of my blogging though will take place at Sparkplugging, where I am the new Ecommerce author.
2. I will move the Product Sellers Talk Radio podcast. Once I know for sure where it will be, I will let you know.

If you have any questions, just let me know here. And if you’d like to continue following me, just ckeck me out at Twitter and subscribe to my feed at Sparkplugging.

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