Last week Holly Klaassen was kind enough to let me review a copy of her E-book, 50 SEO Secrets for Mom Entrepreneurs. I’ve taken another search engine optimization (SEO) course in the past, so I figured that I would know a great deal of the information that was presented in the book, but figured I could still gain a couple of new tips. Little did I know that I was about to embark on a wealth of SEO information that I’ve been able to use on a daily basis.

Holly’s 60 page E-book isn’t filled with technical SEO jargon, but instead it contains 50 easy to understand tips for how to increase traffic to your website. She starts off by introducing a few key definitions and then delves right into the SEO secrets. Holly recommends “first reading through the entire book, and then focusing on one secret each day for the next 50 days. Some secrets will take more than one day to implement, but some will take as little as 5 minutes”.

Since I’ve read the book, I’ve been able to implement a few of Holly’s SEO secrets, and so far I’m very impressed! A couple of weeks ago I noticed that my Google page rank went from a three to a two. I couldn’t figure out why this happened; I thought perhaps I wasn’t using enough key words on my home page. After reading Holly’s book, I implemented secret number 23 and my Google page rank immediately jumped from a two to a three. (more…)

Interviews are a fantastic way to convey a woman’s business successes and struggles, while also providing motivation and inspiration to readers. An interview can also be a great tool for entrepreneurial women to distinguish themselves as an expert in their field, to promote their business and to help other women by providing answers to frequently asked questions.

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Here are 10 online business resources that love to promote entrepreneurial women in interviews and success stories – so get featured today! (more…)

For this Friday’s Lovable Links I am featuring some great business resources for women and mothers. So if you’re interested in becoming self-employed, working from home or growing your existing business, definitely checks out these informative business resources!

Forte Foundation is an alliance of major corporations and top business schools whose mission to increase the number of women business leaders by increasing women’s access to educational resources and business networks.

Their main focus is on women and the gateway opportunity that an MBA can afford. Filled with resources for career minded women, Forte Foundation provides information on how to get your MBA, business related events and pod-casts, a career center where you post your resume and search for jobs, success stories, articles and a whole section on work and life balance. Sign up for their free newsletter or join the Forte network – there is so much to explore on this site. (more…)

Twitter… you’ve probably seen that cute little blue bird tweeting on the latest cell phone commercials. Or maybe you’ve heard about it in the most recent news clip or media segment; but what is Twitter and how can it help you promote your home-based business?

With over 6 million active users, Twitter is a social network that allows you to post brief (140 characters) reports on what you’re doing and thinking. With celebrities like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher gracing its ranks, it’s no wonder why Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networks on the web.

Like other social networks, Twitter can be a powerful business tool by easily keeping people connected and expanding a company’s reach. But Twitter has a unique feature in that it tracks current trends and keeps people connected in real time values. (more…)

Before the birth of my son I always thought I wanted to be the woman that had the awesome job as a CEO of some large company and become a very successful career woman.  I was determined to let nothing stand in my way.  The day my son was born I looked at my husband in the hospital and said, “I never want to go back to work”.  At that moment I think my husband was very worried, a little bit scared, we had always been a dual income household and now we had a baby to take care of.

Once I got home from the hospital and things started settling in I knew I had to do something to make money and stay at home with my son.   I started thinking about things I could invent and how I was going to accomplish that, to looking at buying a business that already existed and how we were going to afford that.  I found an online company which appealed to me very much, but things did not pan out and it was not a good match for me at the time. (more…)