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The Work at Home Woman is an award winning blog and business resource for women and moms who wish to work from home or become self employed! My mission is to help women and moms acquire the knowledge and skills to be able to successfully work from home or to become self-employed while providing support, inspiration and motivation.

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The Integrated Mother – “Attention Work-at-Home and Telecommuting Moms:
Discover how to effectively balance work, family and life – all under one roof! Introducing the Get Your Groove Back! eClass (beta), a one-on-one learning intensive for work-at-home moms with Michele Dortch, M.A. This class is made up of six (6) lessons delivered over six weeks. It is not a group class, but a one-on-one intensive with me. That means you pick the start date! Classes start weekly, every Wednesday. Cost $149.00.

September 11, 2010 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bloggy Boot Camp – “One day blog and social media conferences for women. The idea is a more convenient, lower cost, more co-operative experience. These day events are for brand new bloggers or experienced social media mavens- something for everyone”. more

By Deb Howard Greenleaf

Coming up with that perfect business idea and launching your new business is a lot of work!  Once your business is off the ground and you’ve begun to make some money, however, you quickly learn that making money is only half of the battle.  To maximize your profits, you’ll want to contain your operating costs as much as possible. At the same time, you’ll want to capture as many deductible business expenses as you can in an effort to save on your taxes.

Most of us recognize the standard business expenses that we can deduct, including:

1. Office supplies – Be sure to hang onto your receipts for office supplies, as the “Staples” charge on your credit card statement is not adequate documentation.  You’ll need a receipt that shows the vendor name, date, and a line-item listing of each item purchased along with an amount.
2. Furniture, computers & peripherals – Most furniture or equipment purchases will actually be deducted through depreciation expense.  If your business is showing a profit, you will be able to write off 100% of the cost of the item through the “Section 179” deduction.  If your business is not showing a profit, you’ll have to stretch the write-off over three, five or seven years. more

By Angela Bickford

During my last post, I talked about the importance of social networking. It was a big hit, and I promised to talk in this post about the top 10 mistakes people make in social networking. These will focus mainly on Twitter, Facebook, and blogging, because if you remember, they are my ‘holy trinity’ of social media.

As a reminder from my last post, here’s a great definition of social networking from the site WhatIs?:

“Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one’s business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.”

So, what are the top 10 mistakes? Well, it depends on who you ask, but in my experience, it comes down to these 10: more

Tell us a little bit about Handle Your Own PR and the idea behind it.

Handle Your Own PR is a company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, small business owners and independent PR professionals do their own PR. It offers access to downloadable, targeted media lists, offers free PR tips to help you get started with your PR campaigns, and press release writing services too. In other words, Handle Your Own PR enables professionals to run a successful PR campaign on a shoestring budget!

The idea for Handle Your Own PR was planted in my head by two PR colleagues, Jules Brooke and Simone Heydon, who live in Australia. They launched the company in Australia last year and have had much success. The duo found me on Twitter and asked if we could talk about working together to bring their idea to life in the U.S. After a few Skype chats I was hooked on the idea and we haven’t looked back since! more

Thank you to everyone who entered the Handle Your Own PR Media List Giveaway!

There were a total of 75 entries for this giveaway, all entries were placed in a numbered spread sheet and the winner was selected using random.org

I’m very excited to announce our winner, drum roll please…

And the winner of the Handle Your Own PR Media List Giveaway is #44 Abbey Fatica of Living My MoMent, Congratulations Abbey! Please let me know which Media List you would like and send me your mailing address.

Didn’t win? Handle Your Own PR is a company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, small business owners and independent PR professionals do their own PR. It offers access to downloadable, targeted media lists, offers free PR tips to help you get started with your PR campaigns, and press release writing services too. In other words, Handle Your Own PR enables professionals to run a successful PR campaign on a shoestring budget!

Discount: 15% off everything!  Use code WAHM15

A special thanks to Jenny Finke of Handle Your Own PR for sponsoring this giveaway!