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How Diabetes Created My Business

Posted by Chris on Jan 15, 2010 in Insurance | 1 comment

Growing up I always had dreams of owning my own business in New York City in a big high rise building. When I was hit with the diagnosis of diabetes when I was 19 those dreams still were there. After a few years of having diabetes and realizing what the insurance side of diabetes was like I started to become discouraged about owning my own business. How would I get insurance if I owned my own company. These are still my biggest concerns.

Diabetes introduced me to blogging which led me to social media. I started blogging everyday, going on social media sites, started working on design, started learning about search engines and how they work and different marketing techniques. I started to think to myself damn this is awesome, I would love to do this for a living. But, how will I pay for insurance.

So while still working for that old company I began to do some consulting, giving advice to people on how to rank better in Google and then teaching them about Twitter and showing then how Facebook = easy money. So then popped up CSI Marketing Solutions, LLC.

Right now I have insurance through Cobra for the next 18 months so the insurance part of owning my own business is not as much of a concern. So this is how diabetes has led to me owning my own business. If it wasn’t for diabetes who knows if I would have created a web design an search marketing consulting company.

It’s times like this that make me thankful to be diabetic.

Have a great weekend everybody.

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One Response to “How Diabetes Created My Business”

  1. The poor diabetic says:
    January 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM

    The big D guides a lot of the decisions in our lives, I am a blogger really because of it, while I would have probably blogged about something else that I am passionate about, I chose diabetes because it is a big chunk of who I am and what I do, so it became the natural choice.
    Success or failure is up to me but the motivation goes squarely to diabetes.

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