One of the more common things you hear from business owners, both online and offline is… “Make time for your family“. After all it’s very easy to get caught up in “work” and in many cases your family life suffers. I don’t think I have that problem, especially since I began using the services of a virtual assistant.

My problem is usually the opposite. I spend too much time not doing or building my online business. For example… I’m a huge fan of hot and spicy foods, especially hot sauces. Getting the right peppers locally that had “zing” to them was almost impossible. Sure, the ones in the supermarket are advertised as being super-hot, with a nice graphic of flames etc to convince buyers to beware! Truth is.. they’re usually like spicy ketchup to me. So I did what any pepper loving fella would do. I started planting my own!

So while I was harvesting my peppers this morning (see pic above) one of the campaigns I was paying to promote via pay per click advertising went down. I was paying for clicks to a landing page I created, but when some clicked on the actual offer they got a connection error. Yes,, prime example why you MUST watch the store. While I was giddy with all the beautiful peppers I was picking, I was sending money down the tube with my paid ads.

Lesson: If you’re advertising online, be sure to always keep checking your website or pages to ensure they are fully operational. There’s no fun knowing you spent a ton of cash and it resulted in nothing.

BTW, those pretty suckers you see in that pic are the real deal! Habanero! And yes, our girls also eat them with much ease as I do! The kids at their school never believe them when they say they eat the hottest peppers in the world.

Look on a supermarket shelf in your town or city soon. Tehya wants to start making her own brand of hot sauce to market. Last year she spent some time with my mom and she learned the secret to an amazing super-hot, but tasty sauce. Saty tuned if you like the firey stuff.