Extra Money Earners. Pawn your 9-5
I always preach that you should always have money. There are so many cool things you can do, most you do already, to earn money. I think there is no reason to not have money:)
Here are a few cool things you can do to make money.
Affiliate Marketing.
You are online socially anyway, so put it to good use.
www.sosorella.com has a great affiliate program.
Uber hires all drivers that meet it's requirements and they have a car financing program.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
A few tips that I have learned along the way to run a business...
So, this past Saturday, I had a little downtime and I shared a few tips on Instagram. A few of you don't follow me on Instagram so I decided to share a few tips for my blog viewers. Keep in mind this is not everything. Its just a few things that I have learned.
- Its so important to "Run your Business"! I say this to my friends all the time and to sum it up, it just means to mind your own business. Run your business, not someone elses.
- Operate your business from the standpoint of it not being built on support from those you know. If you operate your business and expect your successes to be based on family and friends, you are most likely going to be disappointed.
- Look for other ways to take credit cards besides paypal. People have no idea how many sales they loose because they only take paypal.
- Do your do diligence before asking for help. There are too many free tools out here for you to expect someone to hold your hand through opening your business.
- BE YOURSELF. People want authenticity.
- READ. Reading your way to the top, is a phrase I use all the time. Reading will take you far.
- If you are an ecommerce online store, choose your platform wisely. My favorite is shopify. Click here if you want to check them out. They are awesome.
- My fave merchant service providers are: Shopify Merchant Services, First Data, Elavon, Stripe, and Square.
- Keep great accounting records.
Thank you babes, for supporting my blog by reading this. Hope these few tips help you.
Monday, December 8, 2014
I Save $20 a day.
Someone asked me about starting a business and what it took and how I did it. Well I will say this. I started with almost nothing. That is the worst mistake I ever made in my business and I encourage you all to learn from my mistake. One day I woke up and was looking at my bank account statement. I saw I had so many deposits that I had lost count, almost like $12000 in one month but I had no money saved. I was spending as soon as I got it. That day I decided to save $20 minimum a day. I'm OCD, so I increased it for myself to $20 per day, per account that I have. I chose $20 because I noticed I was spending $20 on coffee and a snack everyday. Every person I can reach, I encourage you to save money. $20 a day for 365 days is $7300 per year. In 24 months you can have a nice starter cushion. Here is a great article on saving money. Happy Monday baby dolls.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
The Importance of a Schedule
Man, today I had the most amazing day. Today I started a new schedule that I kept hearing one of my favs, Myliek Teele, CEO of CurlBox talk about. She always talks about a schedule and a to do list. Today, I got back in the grove of both. Started my day at 5am. The tricky part about getting up at 5am is going to bed on time. I found this cool bedtime calculator . I'm going to stick with this schedule.
5am awake and prayer
6am workout
7am Breakfast
730 Shower
830 headed to the office
930 return email and calls
10-12 marketing brainstorms
12-1 workout/prayer
1-5 website work
6-7 research
8 make dinner
10 sleep
5am awake and prayer
6am workout
7am Breakfast
730 Shower
830 headed to the office
930 return email and calls
10-12 marketing brainstorms
12-1 workout/prayer
1-5 website work
6-7 research
8 make dinner
10 sleep
Thursday, November 20, 2014
A Trip Around the World
With starting my business, Virgin Hair Depot, I have had many sleepless nights, danced on countless tables, and cried myself to sleep so many nights I have lost count. Finally feeling the rewards of all my hard work and sacrifices, I have decided to take a trip around the world in 2015. I have been taking my family on a vacation since 2008 and I thought the planning for that was hard.
Planning a trip around the world is harder! If anyone else is interested, I found a great article that has helped me. Click Here :)
I'm looking forward to China, India, Korea, Japan, Alaska, and Africa.
Sweet Magazine Wallpaper Trick
This has to be one of the cutest magazine recycle tricks I have ran across. As a person with a self admitted addiction to paper, this was right on time. In the Virgin Hair Depot headquarter offices, we have hundreds of magazines, that we subscribe to. I usually tare out the articles I love and toss the rest. Now I have something else I can do to the pages before we discard them. Great decorating tip for your office on a budget.
To learn how to do this, just click this link and head over to one of my favorite blogs, Brit&Co.
My #BlackFriday Sale Gift to you Ladies and a Small Piece of my Story
2013-2014 has been an amazing year for me. My business has grown more abundantly than I could have imagined. I knew I was on to something when a friend of mine reached out to me to invest and collaborate with his then girlfriend. I want to share my success with you all, my supporters.
This all started with Wifi and a Dream , and devine intervention. On April 25, 2012, my contract with a big firm was terminated. What does that mean? It means I had no income. This was April 2012. In Jan 2011, I had purchased a domain name and bought a website hosted by Shopify.
Up to April 2012, I had only made $300. Fast forward to March 2012, I had already begun to hate my job. I hated it. I got sick often. I would often cry in the car to work. My job had moved 1 hour away from my home each way. The people were stressing me out, and I was stressing them out. God heard my cry and he opened the doors for me and kicked me threw. I was fired by email! At that moment, I was not even sad or scared. I knew it was time. In the next 45 days I took a website that I had only made $300 dollars on and made $15,000. It was the most money I had ever made (not given to me) on my own. I made this $15k with Wifi and dedication. I dedicated time every day to do something to promote my product with no money, and to improve my website. I literally made $15k with no money!!!!!
Now I use my spare time to teach others to do the same. I believe everyone should have lifestyle breakthroughs and really pursue you dreams and goals! There is no other freedom like knowing you are the boss of you (besides God). In my webinar, I give the details. I give you the tangible tools you will need to go from 0-$15k a month like I did with little or no money. I show you how I turned my online store into a national brand with multiple stores spanning multiple states. I show you how I made myself a boss and how you can too. Today I spend my time managing the franchise stores and helping our 10 2015 franchisee roll outs get prepared.
To celebrate my success, I want to offer a mega BlackFriday Sale on www.VirginHairDepot.com .
On Nov. 28th from 5am-12noon
All wavy hair will be $70 per bundle any length. If you purchase 3 bundles or more, they will be $65 per per bundle up to 30".
Remeber I started with wifi and dream. Of course there are many other elements that made me successful, but most of all they were free. Start today if you are one of those people who always wanted to go out on your on. I'm just a girl who decided to go for it!
This all started with Wifi and a Dream , and devine intervention. On April 25, 2012, my contract with a big firm was terminated. What does that mean? It means I had no income. This was April 2012. In Jan 2011, I had purchased a domain name and bought a website hosted by Shopify.
Up to April 2012, I had only made $300. Fast forward to March 2012, I had already begun to hate my job. I hated it. I got sick often. I would often cry in the car to work. My job had moved 1 hour away from my home each way. The people were stressing me out, and I was stressing them out. God heard my cry and he opened the doors for me and kicked me threw. I was fired by email! At that moment, I was not even sad or scared. I knew it was time. In the next 45 days I took a website that I had only made $300 dollars on and made $15,000. It was the most money I had ever made (not given to me) on my own. I made this $15k with Wifi and dedication. I dedicated time every day to do something to promote my product with no money, and to improve my website. I literally made $15k with no money!!!!!
Now I use my spare time to teach others to do the same. I believe everyone should have lifestyle breakthroughs and really pursue you dreams and goals! There is no other freedom like knowing you are the boss of you (besides God). In my webinar, I give the details. I give you the tangible tools you will need to go from 0-$15k a month like I did with little or no money. I show you how I turned my online store into a national brand with multiple stores spanning multiple states. I show you how I made myself a boss and how you can too. Today I spend my time managing the franchise stores and helping our 10 2015 franchisee roll outs get prepared.
To celebrate my success, I want to offer a mega BlackFriday Sale on www.VirginHairDepot.com .
On Nov. 28th from 5am-12noon
All wavy hair will be $70 per bundle any length. If you purchase 3 bundles or more, they will be $65 per per bundle up to 30".
Remeber I started with wifi and dream. Of course there are many other elements that made me successful, but most of all they were free. Start today if you are one of those people who always wanted to go out on your on. I'm just a girl who decided to go for it!
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Boss Sacrifices!
Currently up teaching myself photoshop because I always need graphics done and I'm losing my patience being in que. Not to mention my budget does not allow for my cavier needs.
I let everyone know that when running a business you must know and be able to do everything you need. 
I'm currently using a blog I found called www.kevinandamanda.com to help me. Hope you find it useful as well.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Introduced our new Peruvian Wavy Hair!
Monday, October 6, 2014
17 Things You can get Almost Free!
I'm sharing this article with you because most of my readers are persons wanting to start a business or are already running a business! In business things cost money so its nice to get some things free.
Free or Very Close to It!
Ps, I share these things because they help me. XoXo
Free or Very Close to It!
Ps, I share these things because they help me. XoXo
October Dinner and Conversations to Build Relationships
October is a month that I love! Its a great month at work because it ushers in our holiday season, and fall is my favorite season. Each October, I do a Sunday series with friends and associates were I invite about people over each Sunday for dinner and conversations. Each person invited is allowed to bring one person with them. I love to entertain. When we get together we discuss family, business, travel, and we exchange a book or a piece of information that we think would help someone else. Its networking but setting solid foundations.
I'm very excited about this Sunday so I have been looking for some ideas. Then I found this:
I think it would be fun to have a formal dinner this Sunday with the proper place settings. If you want to know more about place settings or entertaining you may read here.
I'm very excited about this Sunday so I have been looking for some ideas. Then I found this:
I think it would be fun to have a formal dinner this Sunday with the proper place settings. If you want to know more about place settings or entertaining you may read here.
30 thing for 30 days
For those of you who are new to my blog, I am Ariaka Autry, an entrepreneur. I work in sales, marketing, customer service, shipping, and everything else it takes to get the job done. This is what being an entrepreneur takes. I get asked often about sales, getting customers, and all types of things like this. I found a great article with a list of 30 things to do consistently for 30 days, forming a habit. While the article was a self improvement article, I found that doing most of these things increased my sales. These were all free things that I could do every day.
Now pick one or more challenges and stick with them! Keep a log, challenge your friends and stay inspired! Be cautioned, picking too many challenges at the same time can easily result in a failure of all of them. Here are the first 20 but I suggest visiting this link to the original blog for all 30!
#1 Write a I-Like-This-About-You note/text/email each day for someone (Easy)
This is the perfect way to let someone else know you care. We are so often focused on the bad stuff that we forget to mention the good. You surely will make people’s day, 30 days in a row!
#2 Talk to one stranger each day (Hard)
This is a great one to cure approaching anxiety. Have you ever resisted the temptation to talk to someone because you were afraid and said to yourself that you actually don’t want to talk to her/him anyway? Not anymore! After 30 strangers you will understand people are just people and there’s nothing weird in speaking to someone you don’t know.
#3 Take one picture each day (Hard)
This one gets harder nearing the end of the challenge because at one point you will run out of the easy shots. This one is great to combine with other challenges, a great way to make a photo diary!
#4 Re-evaluate one long-held belief each day(Intermediate)
Questioning your own beliefs is a great way to rid yourself of bullshit while continually adapting to new knowledge you’ve taken on since putting old beliefs together.
#5 Take a 30 minute walk each day (Easy)
Walking is healthy, relaxing and inspiring. And it is both easy and free! A great exercise while walking is to observe other people and think about what the differences and similarities are between you and them. This will definitely increase your empathy and your observing skills! A great book on this subject is Manwatching.
#6 Take a moment each day to practice self compassion and self-love (Hard)
Do you love yourself? Do you beat yourself up after you make mistakes? You can test your own level of self compassion here. Chances are you don’t score very high. This is because our society sets standards that are almost impossible to achieve. And so we form a habit of thinking we are not good enough, not worthy enough. There is also a kind of stigma on self-love, it is often confused with either being arrogant or it being a weakness. Both are wrong. It is a skill that can be trained so you will develop the emotional skillset to accept parts of yourself which you might not like very much, you learn to stop fighting against frustration and start accepting it as an integral part of life itself. Self love and self acceptance are also crucial to loving and accepting others around you. Exercises to increase self compassion can be found here and check out the love yourself challenge here.
#7 Try a new recipe each day (Intermediate)
If you want to learn how to cook you need to practice, practice, practice. Forcing yourself to try a new recipe each day is a great way to learn of more techniques and ingredients. It also makes it easier to drop bad food habits you might have and turn them into healthy ones!
#8 Refrain from alcohol and other drugs for 30 days in a row! (Depends)
Do you have a social circle where there hasn’t been a sober night out for years? Can you try to have fun without ingesting chemicals to alter your doors of perception? This is a great challenge to learn how to stand up for yourself against peer pressure.
#9 Write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days (Hard)
Ever wanted to write a book? Do it. Do it in 30 days. Check out the official site here.
#10 Learn how to draw a human face in 30 days(Intermediate)
There are many ‘how to’ youtube videos on drawing and if you ever wanted to learn how to draw, stop making excuses. Set yourself a challenge and be amazed what you can achieve in 30 days!
#11 Watch a documentary each day (Easy)
Always wanted to know everything about a certain topic? You are in luck, it’s the digital era! There are more documentaries online you can possible watch in a lifetime. YouTube, Google Video, TruthTheory.org and TopDocumentaryFilms.com are some of the great sources. Here is a list of HEthens best documentaries!
#12 Read a chapter each day (Easy)
We all know we should be reading more often but somehow we are glued to the same computer screen you are staring at right now. Clicking buttons. The solution is to take some time each day to read one chapter. Just one. Easy right? Do it somewhere cozy or outside. Grab a cup of coffee or tea, turn on some ambient music. Check out these links on what books to read. Click here and here.
#13 Study a topic you’d like to master each day (Hard)
Always wanted to know everything about Animal Behaviour? Psychology? Physics? Philosophy? Educate yourself without school! Pick a topic, plan at least a lecture or an assignment each day and become a genius on your passion! Click here to find out what is possible and how to do it.
#14 Walk/Drive/Run a new route to work/school each day (Easy)
This is a great challenge to keep alert, discover new places, get a better understanding of your city and to have more fun while doing one of the mundane daily tasks of life.
#15 Read a new article on HE each day (Easy)
A great way to keep inspired, to come up with new ideas and to motivate yourself to make the best out of life!
#16 Media-fast for 30 days (Intermediate)
Don’t watch any television and stop following the news. Limit yourself to reading a maximum of 5 blogs this whole month. Log out of Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon. Stop the information overload and try living simple. You¥ll be amazed how much free time you have left!
#17 Pick one bad habit you already have and ditch it for 30 days (Hard)
Are you a smoker? Do you like to see the negative side of things? Do you practice self-hate? Do you eat fast food? Do you play too many video games? Quit them for 30 days, and pick another challenge instead!
#18 Inspire yourself each day (Easy)
Studies have shown that people who are inspired are happier, nicer, productive and will not stray away from their chosen path if life gets difficult. So print a quote and tape it to the mirror. Have an inspirational video as your starting page. Use an inspirational mantra for meditation. Get a principle to live by. In short, get your dose of inspiration each day!
#19 Take a cold shower each day (Intermediate)
Cold showers are great for uplifting ones mood, cure stress related diseases, to strengthens ones immune system and to make your skin beautiful. You can read the reports of some HEthens that have been trying it for some time over here!
#20 Think of an accomplishment you’d like to achieve for each year of the next 30 years, a year each day.(Hard)
This is great existential shock therapy. You can’t answer these questions without facing your life as it is right now and how it is likely to unfold. This one also gets harder progressively. It’s a great way to reflect!
Friday, October 3, 2014
Weekend Fun..30 Shots
So its Friday and I thought I would share a fun infographic I found on the web. With the weekend here, and ending a stressful work week, I decided to try something fun and different. Searching for some cool mixed drinks online, I found this. So I decided to try 5 of these shots this weekend for Sunday Football with friends and family. Sharing with you so you can try too. post your pics from what you try and I'll post mine. XoXo Ariaka
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
New Sales!!!
Today , VirginHairDepot.com , ended its major Labor Day Sale. Ladies you still have time to enjoy savings!!! Get 10% off all purchases of 3 bundles or more!
Friday, March 7, 2014
New Product Release!
So excited about my new product line. This line is dedicated to the women that want to grow healthy hair and maintain beautiful locks. Check it out over at www.hollywoodweaves.com. After years of research and numerous trials we have formulated a product that is like hair magic in a tube. The line is interchangeable. For example, I find myself using the moisture shampoo and volume conditioner combo on my extensions once a week. This combo keeps my hair extensions full of volume and moisture sealed in. This is a go to product that is safe to be used everyday! The line is sulfate free, paraben free, and color safe!
