Hello I am Margaret O’Connor Flanigan

I’m Margaret O’Connor Flanigan and I put up this site because everyone kept telling me that I needed to “brand” myself!

I haven’t been too eager to put my name and face out there because it’s just not my nature and also, I think there are more than enough huge egos in this business already and I certainly don’t want to add to the problem.

I don’t like my marketing to be “about me.” I like to emphasize the opportunity, the product, the company, the team and the resources we provide. I usually market anonymously or under a team name. I guess I am fairly shy in person and perhaps I have let too much of that carry over into my business.

I enjoy what I do and I don’t take myself too seriously. I get a big kick out of this business and (most of) the people I work with. Issues that I am very passionate about include helping beginners and trying to keep people from LOSING money on their home business. I get pretty mad when I see experienced marketers taking advantage of beginners. People who have made a career out of cheating newbies think I am a real bitch. That’s fine with me. Bring it on.

I have embraced my new identity as a “cheesehead”* because I have found northern Wisconsin to be extremely relaxed and down-to-earth. I feel like I belong here because I have no interest in HYPE and this is a very hype-free environment. Compared to Chicago (where I am from originally) this is a very polite, low-key, easy-going kind of place. I enjoy living and working in an environment where people take time to listen to each other and enjoy life..

I am an experienced marketer and website designer. I started out many, many years ago as a computer programmer. I left the workforce to stay home when my kids were born. I home schooled and did day care for a while and then when my marriage broke up (my ex was convicted of abusing our daughter), I started selling the advertising on church bulletins. I realized that I loved sales and marketing! The church bulletin company pulled out of the Chicago area just as I was having my first success as an internet marketer and the rest… as they say… is history!

When my divorce finally went through (after 4 years, don’t ask!) I grabbed my kids and we fled to a very small town in northern Wisconsin. I was so grateful for my online businesses because they allowed me to pick up and move without worrying about finding work locally.

Several years ago my parents both became very ill. Originally from Chicago, they had retired down in Arizona 25 years earlier. But now they were in their 80’s and my mother needed a great deal of care and my father had suddenly been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and now he needed care also. Once again, having my own online business saved my life, allowing me do go down there and get them, bring them up to live with me and care for them in my home. After a few months with us my mother passed away peacefully here at home. My father’s Alzheimer’s continued to get worse but he was still the sweetest funniest dearest man in the world. My father passed away on March 22 2008, 2 years and 1 day after my mother.

So now I (try to) balance my responsibilities to my family with my work as a marketer and web master… and sometimes find a few minutes to myself for fishing, kite flying and a few other hobbies.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you take a few minutes to explore this web site.

Have a blessed day!

-Margaret

 

*Cheesehead refers to people who live in Wisconsin USA, especially those who live in the northern, more rural part of the state. It also means a fan of the Green Bay Packers Football Team. #4 was, of course, Brett Favre’s number.