About me
Well, I was thinking that if you have seen my home page and read some pages, you may be wondering who I am, who is this woman who lives in Italy and talks in a "strange" English about Italian food.
I am Ana Maria da Costa Vasconcellos, I was born in Rio de Janeiro and even if I dreamed about living in America, I was 19 when I got married and came to live in Italy. At the beginning it was not easy at all. My husband comes from a town with 2000 inhabitants from a small city in Sardinia and we lived there for 19 years. |
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Arriving from another continent in such a small place is an experience that seems to come out from a film. I came from a big city to a place where everything you do is followed by each one and you HAVE to follow their culture and uses.
But in our life nothing happens just by chance, as my sister uses to say. I learned a lot about life, about family... and about food!
We have two wonderful children (it always sounds strange to call them children, as he is 25 and she is 19!), Stefano and Gabriella.
During 2002 and 2003 I lived in Brazil again. I then opened a small spaghetti house where I offered the "real" Italian food. When I decided to come back to Italy I had to close it, but I conquered some customers with my food, and it was a great experience.
After graduating in Economics and pos-graduating in Eno-Gastronomic Culture, I was looking for a way to make extra money online, as I love computers and Internet. Well, this site is my answer. Here's how I got here:
I love Internet since I met it ;-). I learned to use it by myself, with pure passion and also have made crazy things for it; as connecting using long distance calls causing big discussions with my husband for the salty telephone bills.
Since then I have been always fascinated with the possibility to communicate with people from all over the world from home.
I then began to look for Internet business ideas. Make an income online was an idea that fascinated me. But what to do? How to earn money online? Is it possible to work online at home? I had heard about home Internet businesses, but did not know how to turn my idea into one, how to make extra money online from a passion, a hobby..
I then turned to a ebook written by me about building a website to sell online. I knew what to do to build the site, the problem, as Internet began to grow, was to reach the customers, to be seen. Success online becomes possible when people find your site.
I continued with my trials and errors for a long time. I began to learn about Search Engine Optimization, but it was terrible. Everything was always changing. By one side it seemed to work, by the other I kept reading articles saying Google was punishing those sites who tried to “tweak” it.
But I kept dreaming. And during one day of February, I found a new way to face Internet marketing. I met, just by chance (maybe as you’re doing now) this particular way of hosting a site with all you need to have it well positioned in the main search engines.
Of course you have to work on it, nothing is fake. But... take a look at these people... one of these stories could be your story!)
It’s the very first time that I am really reaching the people out there. Month after month my visits grow and I am always more and more enthusiastic about it.
I am a strong believer that we HAVE to live our dream. It is the only way to be happy. We can only feel ourselves satisfied when we spend our time doing what we like to do.
I know it’s not always possible to work fulltime on your website, we have times during the day that we have to take care of other things, maybe a full time job that gives us the money to live.
But…during your spare time you can begin this wonderful adventure of building a business that can lead you to the life you want to live, working online at home, from your desktop.
I have always dreamed about working through the Internet, always tried to discover how to earn money online, make my living and being able to work wherever I may be–free of scheduled times and bosses.
Take a look at these experiences:
My site now is well positioned for many keywords and I am being able to pay a couple of bills with what I earn from it. And it is continuosly growing.
If you're reading this YOU found me! That’s a great example. And...I work online at home :-)
And... I did nothing regarding that...only wrote my pages! SBI takes care of the rest.
Well, it’s up to you, it costs less than a dollar a day…Click here to know more about it
Nice to have you here!
Ana
p.s.- About my English... I studied it while in my teens in Rio. I always loved this language and used to sing each Beatles' songs, used to have penpals around the world and somewhere inside me I already knew that I was going to live my life abroad. I am sorry for my English mistakes. Having a second language (Italian) between Portuguese and English, makes me mix grammar rules, once in a while... :-)
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