Do you work at home?

I have a Home Office.

How many children do you have?

One 30 year old daughter.

How many hours do you work a week?

At least 60 unless you want to count the sleepless nights that I am working on marketing strategies from my bed.

Tell us a little bit about Career Bags and how it got started. (more…)

For this week’s Lovable Links, I am featuring some of my favorite PR and Marketing blogs for women and moms. Many new entrepreneurs can’t afford to hire a publicist, or for that matter pay for advertising, so here are resources that will help take you home-based business to the next level without breaking the bank.

Whether you need information on social media marketing, branding, blogging or PR these great gals have you covered!

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By Holly Reisem Hanna

Have I ever told you how much I love Twitter? I love that I am able to quickly connect with people from all over the world; one of those connections that I recently made was with Diana Ennen, author, publicist and business owner. After checking out The Work at Home Woman, Diana contacted me on Twitter to see if I would be interested in reviewing her book, Virtual Assistant: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA. Knowing that many of readers are interested in becoming Virtual Assistants, I gladly accepted.

In today’s unsteady economy, many businesses and organizations are reaping the benefits that are associated with using Virtual Assistants (VA), by decreasing the costs associated with rent, equipment, overhead and insurance benefits. Even author, Timothy Ferriss talks about the benefits of utilizing a virtual assistant in his wildly popular book, The Four Hour Work Week.

While the Bureau of Labor Statistics is far behind the trend, this article written by Anita Campbell indicates that the Virtual Assistant field will continue to grow and expand as companies scramble to jump on the social media and blogging bandwagon. Anita says, “Virtual assistants are now being hired to write/proofread blog posts; update MySpace and Facebook pages; comment on forums; perform social bookmarking; compose Twitter tweets to publicize new blog posts; and a variety of other social-media activities”. (more…)

Recently I’ve received a lot of emails from readers asking various questions about websites and blogs, and if in fact they are really needed to run a successful freelance business from home.

Before launching The Work at Home Woman I had no experience with building a website, or blogging for that matter, and the whole process seemed very intimidating not to mention expensive! But as Steve of SnapPages so eloquently puts it, “no business—regardless of its size—should be without a website. This is especially true for home-based businesses, where your website may be the only impression you ever get to make with your customers”.

That’s why when I found SnapPages I contacted them to write a guest post for The Work at Home Woman, and tell us a little bit about their service. Not only does SnapPages provide low cost, professional looking websites with hosting – but you can incorporate a blog into your website which is imperative to remaining competitive in today’s market. So here’s Steve to tell you a little about SnapPages and website creation. (more…)

I love HGTV (Home and Garden Television); from Divine Design and House Hunters to Designed to Sell – I could watch this channel for hours if my two year old would let me. So when I heard of a new work at home opportunity from my favorite channel I was absolutely thrilled! Haverhill Home Stagers has been running some commercials on HGTV for home-based Home Stagers, so I decided to take a look into the Home Staging field and see what exactly this opportunity entails.

Home Staging is the process of de-cluttering, organizing and improving the physical appearance of a residential dwelling prior to putting it on market for sale. According to WikiHow, “Potential buyers make their decision to purchase your home in the first 30 seconds upon entering. First impression is the key to selling your home fast and for top dollar. In addition, well staged homes sell for 30-50% faster than their counterparts”, so you can see why home staging is important! (more…)