OUR JOURNEY

Early 2021, after working for the Government in the census bureau, Patty & I were, for the first time basically unemployed. We looked at each other and said, "What Now?" We decided that we wanted to work from home. After looking at numerous ventures and offers, we decided to investigate affiliate marketing.

AFFILIATE MARKETING

Affiliate Marketing is made-up of folks like us, companies, organizations etc. that advertise and or market other company’s products and services. These organizations usually get compensated by a commission. Thes commissions are often 3-5% of the amount charged.

This is where:  2TWR.com   fits in. We don’t grow anything, we don’t make anything, we don’t sell anything. Our role is to review, comment and pass various vendors and information on to you.

There are thousands of affiliate marketing opportunities. Some with high dollar entry fees, with the potential of being a millionaire and some with no up-front costs, but lots of hooks. And then there are companies with moderate start up fees. We chose a company called Wealthy Affiliate, that offered moderate startup costs, 2 web sites and an abundance of training and information. We have never looked back or been sorry we joined Wealthy Affiliates. Wealthy Affiliates is predominately a social media-oriented software package. After a short learning and training time, we purchased our own domain name and started Kitchen Tips. Kitchen Tips was not our original idea of where to go or what we thought we wanted.

KITCHEN TIPS  

When we began our early on training, questions regarding direction were; what are your hobbies? What do you enjoy doing etc.? Of course, our initial thoughts were hunting and fishing. They explained that hunting and fishing were huge topics, and we would be competing with many folks in that arena. The #1 statement that hit us hard and stuck with us was:

“It is better to be a Big Fish in a small pond

than be a Minnow in the ocean”.

Thus, our name became KITCHEN TIPS.

For those who haven’t read the webpage yet, Patty is a student of the culinary arts community. She has a degree in culinary arts, has taught culinary arts at the college level. Patty has owned a high-end catering business as well as being a chef, and lives her profession every day.

I often joke it takes Patty's referral to 3 cookbooks to boil water. Patty is an ultimate professional in the culinary arts field and a great chef.

WHY THE WINTER RANGE

The new website is a result of several factors, The first being that our email limit within our old package limited us to 100 emails per 24-hour period. Kitchen Tips alone was taking several days to get out. Secondly, I have been the Post Commander of a virtual American Legion Post for 21 years. My main duty is to write a monthly newsletter. This, output load exceeded our computer limits. We decided to buy a new computer and expand our software capability. We can now send out 500 emails per hour. The package came with a Domain Name, 2TWR.com, several websites as well as sub-domains.

We share the homepage with Kitchen Tips, Veterans and American outdoors. We call our new enterprise:

THE WINTER RANGE 

  A  Winter Range is where ranchers often move their cows during the winter. The elk & deer often move to lower elevation to avoid the deep snow and cold, thus the name and domain:   2TWR.com.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

Over the past 25 years Patty & I have come to educate ourselves and evaluate the decisions we make. When we began Kitchen Tips, we had many decisions to make regarding what the Company would do and how we would do it. We always try to look at both sides of a situation and consider a couple "what if's" before making a decision.

We always throw in a "Be careful what you wish for"

POLITICS and THE WINTER RANGE

No better time than the present to address this subject head on. Some 30 years ago as I was progressing through the leadership chairs of the American Legion, I was instructed there are two subjects you avoid talking about "politics and religion." We can put religion aside as that is not often a subject in The Winter Range or Kitchen Tips. Politics is a whole different subject these days and times, as it rears its ugly head more than it should.

When we started Kitchen Tips, Covid was still rearing its ugly head. Our recommendations of shopping less, buying more online and avoiding contact with others as much as possible seemed to be the right advice and Kitchen Tips flourished.

Add gas prices, overall inflation and recession. While it is easy to lay blame and point fingers remember that 1/2 of us voted for the administration.