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!

Hello Friends,

I would love your support! For the past 4 years, StartupNation has hosted a contest called the Home-Based 100 Competition which is a ranking of top home-based businesses and the amazing people behind them.

Last year I received this national honor and I would love to win it again. All you have to do is visit their site and click and vote, no registration needed. I would be truly honored if you’d leave a comment too.

You can place your vote here: The Work at Home Woman – StartupNation’s Home-Based 100! And remember you can vote once a day until October 1, 2010. (more…)

By Holly Reisem Hanna

I absolutely love fashion, but for the last 3 ½ years my focus has been on making sure my daughter has been dressed to the nines and not so much myself.

That is until now…

This past June I received an invitation from a company called CAbi inviting me to view their Fall Fashion Show called The Scoop.  CAbi, which stands for Carol Anderson by Invitation, is a direct sales company which offers women a home-based business opportunity in the fashion industry. Honestly, before receiving this invitation, I had never heard of the company and was curious to see what they were all about.

Approximately nine years ago Carol Anderson, a former designer for Nordstrom, decided to take her clothing line out of stores and create her own company which sells the line exclusively through their CAbi consultants via in home parties.

After viewing the spring collection online, and seeing the modern and stylish clothes, I was very eager to attend the event and learn more about the opportunity. This year’s Fall Scoop was held in Anaheim, California at the Convention Center, and upon arriving at the Hilton I could tell that The Scoop was a BIG deal! (more…)