CandiRandolph.com

Hi...my name is Candi Randolph and this is my website. I live in south Fort Myers, Florida and enjoy beautiful sunshine, warm temperatures and the shores of Estero Island (better known as Fort Myers Beach) every day.

Born and raised in the Michigan, my husband and I moved to southwest Florida in 2006. We totally changed our life, went through some tough times like many other people did as the economy struggled, but have built a good life here in the sunshine state. 

My husband, Randy, and I are both business owners. We just seem to function best when marketing, selling, administering and otherwise throwing ourselves into the job of making a business successful.

I am a realtor with Century21 TriPower Realty on Fort Myers Beach. This is my newest venture as I write this in November, 2010. I obtained my real estate license a few months ago, interviewed a number of real estate companies and brokers in the greater Fort Myers area, and ultimately determined that Century 21 was the company and TriPower Realty was the brokerage for me.

I love Fort Myers Beach, as does my husband, and we spend quite a bit of time there, walking, biking, enjoying the water, fishing (Randy, not me...I'm not into it), checking out the eateries we love, listening to great music and catching brilliant sunsets whenever we can. Visit my blog, FortMyersandtheBeach.blogspot.com, to learn more about where to go and what to do on the beach.

So, real estate services in the Fort Myers Beach area as well as greater Fort Myers just seems to make sense for me. I've put tremendous effort into building the foundation of my business, and focus much of my efforts into online marketing, an area that I have a passion for.  Read more about my real estate business...

My real estate website, Fort-Myers-Beach-Living.com, is a work in progress, but I am proud of the result so far! I love to take specific areas of the Beach, for example, and highlight them for my visitors, including a link to a current listing in that particular community. Fort Myers Beach is full of condominium communities, so I am building an online portfolio of the various types of communities and what they offer.

Fort Myers Beach is a world renowned vacation spot for families, college kids and folks from literally all over the world. Consequently, it's a great area for investors looking for real estate opportunities.  The beach has had its share of short sales and foreclosures, but at this writing they are small relative to other areas of southwest Florida.

I'm looking forward to a successful career in real estate, knowing that it is a process of building relationships and massive amounts of hard work!

Another business that I own is a small interior decorating company in the Fort Myers area called Simply Designed.  I started this business shortly after we moved to Florida in 2006.

I studied interior design and graduated from the Sheffield School of Interior Design in New York. I also worked at a custom interior design shop in Brighton, Michigan where I lived, and learned a great deal about working with clients in their homes, helping them create the environment that best suited their lifestyle and budget.

What I found after doing this for a year or so was that I absolutely loved it. My prior occupation had been primarily in banking, which was a great career for me, but of course didn't allow for the creative juices to flow. (I'm also a pianist and that was probably where the creativity was finding an outlet for many years).

Owning Simply Designed...decorating to fit your budget! allows me to continue that passion for decorating and helping clients create their own unique environments.  It's been a fantastic part-time business for me, allowing me to have great fun working with clients to purchase furnishings and accessories, select color palettes, place furniture, shop with clients, and more. Read more about a small business...

One of the off-shoots of this design business was my venture into online marketing, which quickly grew into a passion that remains with me (thus candirandolph.com).  When I found that an outside job was necessary to us to jump start our life in Florida, I knew that decorating and design would have to take a second seat.

Another off-shoot of my design business was an E-Book that I wrote, Ten Simple Steps to Design Success.  I remember back in early 2009 thinking about how I could continue sharing my love of decorating with people even though I was working in an administrative position and the design business was shuffled to the 'back seat' for awhile. Of course, I am always thinking about ways to earn an income, and there was that motive, or desired result, as well.

So, over the course of about four months I drafted a decorating guide called Ten Simple Steps to Design Success. That was an incredible learning experience for me. Read more about Ten Simple Steps here.

Not to be deterred, of course, I created a home decorating website, Great-Home-Decorating.com, in June of 2009.

What a learning experience that has been, and life-changing as well!  Most of you have seen and read about, and some seriously considered, an online business. Actually, who hasn't thought about working from home...ditching the 9 to 5 routine that so many wish they didn't have to be a part of.



Well, I am here to tell you three things about an online business:

1. IT CAN BE DONE
2. YOU CAN MAKE MONEY WITH AN ONLINE BUSINESS
3. IT TAKES A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK, COMMITMENT AND TENACITY THAT MOST PEOPLE AREN'T WILLING TO GIVE

Want to know more? You should, if you are at all curious about what people do to earn money working at home online...it doesn't hurt to check out the possibilities, now does it? Read more about an online business...

Now, I need to tell you more about my husband and soul mate, Randy. Why? Because he is such an integral part of my life, as well as the owner of one of our main businesses, The Wizard Handyman Service.

We also own Randolph Custom Homes of Florida, LLC a residential building company. There has not been much activity with this business, of course, since Randy got his builder's license in Florida 2007 and we opened the company. (He's been building for over 25 years so is no novice at that!)

But, it's there for us when needed, and it seems that times are starting to improve as of this writing.

Randy opened The Wizard Handyman Service in early 2007, and it has been a growing business since that time, fostered by many, many hours of hard work, consistent advertising and a solid referral base.  There is nothing like word of mouth from satisfied and loyal customers to feed a business, and that is what has happened with The Wizard Handyman over the last 3 1/2 years.

We have had our busy times and slow times with this business, like most other self employed folks, but Randy is such a unique person with many skills (and a never-give-up attitude) that we have persevered and are now well established.

I'm in the process of developing a website for our businesses and will link to it when they are up and running.

I believe that the key to a happy and healthy life starts with what is in your heart. I gave my heart to the Lord when I was six years old. He has been the foundation for all of my decisions and life directions since then. Oh, except when I decide to do things MY way, of course. That's when I veer off course for awhile.

I also believe in moderation in all things in my life, "all things" meaning those that are moral , ethical and legal. I've never been one to be over-absorbed in any one facet of life.

I also committed myself to leading a healthy life in terms of what I eat, drink and do on a daily basis. And, I think that is one of the main reasons that I've been able to remain healthy and about the same weight since my early 20's. Read more about my lifestyle choices here.

Thanks for reading more about me, and I hope that you take away some valuable information today,