Sharon’s Corner Bookstore
I am Sharon and I am an independent author. Welcome to my website! Sharon's Corner Bookstore is primarily a shopping search engine that helps people find and compare books online. That sterile environment doesn’t appeal to me. At heart I am a small town country girl and I love the independent bookstores that reflect the interests and values of their owners. My desire is to create the atmosphere of the friendly, helpful neighborhood bookstore online. Hence “Sharon’s Corner Bookstore” was born. This site has been a “labor” of love and so “born” seems correct terminology to me, a mother and grandmother.
Opportunity came in the guise of a eminent domain orderI was born in Monmouth, Illinois, my mother's hometown. My father joined the Coast Guard as I turned three, so my older sister and I grew up as military brats.
I met my first pony when I was about three. She was one of the ponies that walk the endless circles at county fairs. When my allotted time was up I hung on tight and my parents allowed me additional rides. When they ran out of quarters (oops, showing my age) I was taken off the pony, screaming. I knew I belonged there with that pony!
At each new duty station my parents found ways of letting horses into my life. They encouraged the reading habit by reading to us, and I remember Black Beauty being read as my bedtime story. Black Beauty was the most formative book of my young life. It showed me that animals have feelings, needs and wants. When I couldn’t be with horses I read about them. Marriage, family and work (dialysis nurse) filled the next part of my life. We raised three daughters and a son with horses and books, both of which remains important in their adult lives. Our tranquil rural lives altered greatly when a neighboring city came out into the county where we lived and claimed eminent domain on our home and land. We moved to another rural setting in Arkansas, but I now had an hour and a half commute one way. A ten hour work day plus a three hours commute soon took its toll on me.
How to ditch the 9-5 and make money with your own horse websiteI wanted out…but at 56 years old what were my options? I honestly thought I had almost none until I found SBI and built this website. SBI stands for Site Build It an amazing online program that allows even a totally computer illiterate person such as I was then to build a website. Virtually any hobby or passion can be turned into an online business if you have the know-how to do it. SBI provided the know-how I just provided the passion. I was a dialysis nurse with no programming skills, web-design knowledge, and no business background. If SBI can help me they can certainly help you reach your dreams of ditching the 9-5 job. Just bring your passion and motivation. Follow the SBI video guide and learn what key words and niches are. Then SBI will teach you how to build a website block by block, how to drive traffic to it and how to monetize your site. SBI has a full money back guarantee. They're happy for you to try it out to see how you like it. Keep in mind SBI’s mascot is a tortoise. Slow and steady. Yes it does take time, this is not an overnight success scheme this is a proven program that works. It works on any subject you can bring a passion to. Remember doing something you love never feels like work. With SBI you set the pace. Have a look at the Video Tour to get an idea of how it works (or the Quick Tour if you're on dial up).
My parents instilled basic honesty in me and I have an innate distrust of “politically correct” terms such as “visions and missions.” I do take strong pride in my personal values, and my objective is to promote independent authors~~like myself!
Values: I value personal and professional integrity. I value the intellectual rights of independent authors and believe they should keep all of their royalties. I value an individual's desire to buy a book, not pay a middleman high overhead costs. Goals: To provide a site that charges for advertising only, no commission fees. To provide the general public with good reading material, by independent authors, at a fair price delivered to their door. Disputes: Customers buy directly from the independent authors. Disputes should first be dealt with by those two parties. If a customer is unable to get a satisfactory response from the independent author I will negotiate on their behalf.
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