By Holly Reisem Hanna

I want to thank everyone who took the time to answer this survey, I know how busy you are and I truly appreciate the time you took to provide these very valuable answers. The feedback that I received was awesome and I am so excited to let you know the results and about some new features and changes that I will be making here on The Work at Home Woman.

So here’s what YOU want and need…

Your Most URGENT Need at This Time:

1. Getting more clients, booking more shows and making more money.
2. Finding legitimate paying work-at-home jobs and opportunities.
3. Achieving better work-life balance.
4. More work-at-home ideas.

Solution: These topics are now my priority for content creation. I am going to give you MORE ideas, teach you how to make MORE money and how to find MORE legitimate work-at-home jobs and business opportunities! (more…)

I just wanted to take a minute to wish all you mom’s out there a happy mother’s day! I will be spending today with my daughter and husband, we are actually returning from our 7 night Caribbean cruise.  I usually host a mom’s day brunch with all of my siblings, but this year we will have to post-phone the celebration for a few days.

I hope that all of you hard working moms out there get to spend this day doing exactly what you want – because you deserve it!  You’ve probably seen this poem before, but I want to share it with you again, I think it sums up motherhood beautifully! I’m not sure who the author is, but this always brings tears to my eyes.

Happy Mother’s Day, Holly (more…)

By Holly Reisem Hanna

It’s been a very exciting and productive week for me, so I’m just going to jump right in and get started!

Next week I will be attending the Texas Conference for Women, in Houston, Texas. This is the State’s premier networking and educational event for women; and I have to tell you that I am thrilled to see Tory Johnson, Career Contributor for Good Morning America and CEO of Women for Hire, along with Suze Orman and Elisa Camahort Page, COO of BlogHer!

Oh yes, did I mention that I interviewed Tory Johnson?!? So look for Tory’s interview to be featured here on The Work at Home Woman, Monday, November 9, 2009. Along with covering this event, I will be posting my top tips for attending networking events. (more…)

There is so much going on here this fall, that I’m just going to dive right in and let you in on the latest news, events and contests:

Here at The Work at Home Woman we have two fabulous giveaways going on. The first is Free Advertising in The Work at Home Woman’s 2009 Holiday Gift Guide! Valued at $45.00, this is a fantastic way for you to get your product, holiday geared service or direct sales company in front of THOUSANDS of holiday gift-buyers! And because I love my readers so much, I am giving away, not just one ad, but FIVE! See, The 2009 Holiday Gift Guide for instructions on how to enter.

Our second giveaway is a luxurious French skin care product from Votre Vu. Valued at $56.00 Votre Vu’s Mal-Ligne Wrinkle Eraser is the savvy woman’s answer to ‘Faux-Tox’, putting a refined complexion within reach without the needles. For more information on how to enter this giveaway, please see Votre Vu Mal-Ligne Wrinkle Eraser. —- (more…)

By Holly Reisem Hanna

Generally on Fridays I feature a Lovable Links post, where I highlight various websites and blogs of interest. While I think this is useful, I want to start a new segment where I share my latest business adventures, frustrations, triumphs and news for the week. Don’t worry Lovable Links isn’t going away; there will just be fewer of them.

Here it is The Work at Home Woman’s Week in Review:

On October 5, 2009 the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) published its new guidelines for bloggers. In a nutshell, the guidelines require bloggers to fully disclosure any and all compensation received for reviews, whether it’s a free book, product, fancy lunch, paid trip or cash. The guidelines have quite a bit of gray area, because they don’t specifically tell bloggers how they should word the disclosure, but anyone accepting cash, freebies or swag for reviews needs to make it known to their readers. (more…)