Patty Baldwin owns All Biz Services, a website development and hosting business.

 She is also currently working on a new Internet project - An Online Store marketing authentic Native American Artwork indigenous to New Mexico, where she lives.

First and foremost, Patty is an entrepreneur. Throughout her career, her focus has been sales and marketing.  Specifically, her forte is assisting small to medium size businesses succeed during start-up and ongoing promotion.

Every position that she has chosen to involve herself with has required communication skills.  

Patty has a passion for teaching others how to communicate more effectively. 

Patty has an impressive array of experience in Corporate America:

While she enjoyed her position with the Better Business Bureau, the travel and commute from her home base in the southwest began to take it's toll.  After almost 15 years in the BBB, she left to return to sunnier climes.

After leaving the non-profit arena, her experience led her to the field of small business promotion and advertising.  She became the advertising director for a local start-up community newspaper.  In six months the paper grew from a bi-weekly to a weekly publication, increasing revenues by over 400%!

Patty has also developed a successful network marketing organization specializing in communications.

Currently, Patty works from home, operating several successful online businesses.  Her experience serves as a testimonial to anyone who chooses to transition from the standard corporate world to working at home.  

Patty says: "I firmly believe that the Internet is making the largest change to the way business is being and will be done in the future.  Companies ignoring this paradigm shift will simply be left behind and many will go out of business."

I decided to interview Patty and find out a little bit more about this accomplished entrepreneur...

Well Dave, I had pretty much broken through the so-called "glass ceiling" in my chosen career field.  There was nowhere else to go and I was pretty much burned out on the corporate scene.

Flexibility and freedom.  It's really great to work in your nightgown!

I still direct the marketing and sales activity for a small weekly newspaper.  Have a good staff in place and it only requires a few hours a week.  The majority of my time is spent with my online businesses, of which I have several.  Web site development and hosting, several affiliate programs and my current project is building an Online Store marketing some of the authentic Native American artwork available here in the Southwest. 

Define your passion.  It's very easy to try and force a square peg into a round hole, especially on the Internet.  Whatever it is that you love to do, work that into your design for a home-based business and avoid the so-called "get rich quick" syndrome.   

My favorite story gives me a chuckle each time I repeat it.  I had been communicating with a local business person about building a web site for him.  We had spoken several times over the phone discussing his various needs and he suggested we meet for lunch.  I arrived at the restaurant about 10 minutes early and was seated.  After waiting for about 20 minutes, the waitress approached me, leading a fellow who had been sitting across the restaurant.  She asked if I was waiting for someone, and I responded affirmatively.  She stepped aside and this gentleman's jaw dropped, his eyes got wide and out of his mouth popped, "But you're too old, you can't be Patty?"  Of course, he was extremely embarrassed at blurting out what was obviously going through his mind and I assured him there was no reason to feel badly about being honest.  His assumption was that if the work had to do with computers, I must be a youngster.  

The moral?  Even Grandmas can build a business online!  By the way, I got the order!

Thanks for offering your story, Patty. I'm sure it will be an encouragement to people!

Patty Baldwin - www.allbizservices.com