Sara Sutton Fell has more than 20 years of experience in the online job market industry. She is the CEO and founder of FlexJobs, an innovative career website specializing in telecommuting, flexible, freelance, and part-time job listings. Sutton Fell is a graduate of UC Berkeley and currently lives in Boulder, CO. Find out how Sara ... Read More
Archives for 2017
Common Work-at-Home Scams You NEED to Stay Away From
You've seen it before: Unfortunately, in the work-at-home niche, scams are everywhere. Some work-at-home scams are more obvious than others (and occasionally legit opportunities may sound like a scam, too). It's hard to weed out the legitimate, work-at-home opportunities from the scams you need to stay away from. So, what can ... Read More
How This Mom is Making Money with a Referral Business
Debra Cohen is a successful mompreneur, President of Home Remedies® of NY, Inc., and founder of the Homeowner Referral Network (HRN®) and Aging in Place Referrals business. Her contractor referral business pre-screens home improvement contractors and refers them to local homeowners. Cohen launched her HRN business in 1997 as a way ... Read More
How to Sell Services Online to Bring in Steady Income
There are no right or wrong answers when it comes to making money online. As your little corner of the Internet, it’s up to you to figure out what revenue streams to pursue. What may work for some people, might not work for you. And that’s okay. As long as you’re open to the many possibilities of making money online, you can sell ... Read More
Start a Virtual Assistant Business From Home, Interview with Gina Horkey
If you're looking to quickly and successfully start a virtual assistant business from home, keep reading! Gina Horkey is a married, millennial mama to two precocious toddlers from Minnesota. Additionally, she’s the founder of Fully Booked VA (formerly Horkey Handbook), a website geared towards helping others find or become a ... Read More
Why You Should Use Online Accounting Software Over a Spreadsheet
Sponsored by Intuit It doesn't matter if you're an Etsy seller, blogger, home-based business owner, freelancer, or independent contractor -- you need to track your income and expenses. If you fail to do so, you can end up with some major headaches and financial penalties down the road. In fact, when I first started freelancing ... Read More
Setting Up Your Home Office: When to Hire Professional Help
Setting up your home office is an important task. As the place in your home that allows you to get away and get work done, you need to set it up the right way. If your home office space doesn’t consider your working needs or can’t accommodate your tech equipment, you may find it difficult to work from home productively. But ... Read More
Is It Time to Sell Your Blog? – Interview with Heidi Gollub
Heidi Gollub started Free Fun in Austin as a creative outlet in 2010, when she was ten years into being a stay-at-home mom and still had two little boys at home. She’d take her boys on a new adventure every morning and write about it in the afternoon when they were napping. Gradually, she started writing about free events that were ... Read More
Simple Marketing Strategies for Your New Home-Based Business
Congratulations! You’re so excited; you’ve taken the plunge and entered the world of entrepreneurship. This may have happened in many different ways. You may have purchased an established business, you may have inherited one, you may have started one from scratch, or you may have joined a reputable direct selling company. Regardless, ... Read More
How This Mom Started a Successful Healthy Cooking Class Franchise
Jan Pinnington is the Founder & CEO of Healthy Hands Cooking. She is a Certified Nutritional Consultant who previously spent 26 years in the corporate communications industry developing custom programs for some of the industry’s largest retailers through her position as Account Executive and then CEO of her own boutique ... Read More
New Bloggers, You Can’t Be Scared of the Word No
As new bloggers, we're scared of hearing the word NO. This keeps most of us huddled behind our computers pumping out content on our blog. While it's great to continue writing fresh content for our blog, we never get new eyeballs on our blog, which means you're basically writing awesome content for yourself. So, what should you do ... Read More
3 Confidence Boosting Tips for Female Entrepreneurs to Ask for More
Whether it’s requesting extra funding for your startup or meeting to establish a partnership with another company for the first time, asking for more is still a struggle for even the most confident entrepreneurs. Want proof? According to a survey conducted by salary.com, 44% of people negotiate only sometimes, and 18% opt never ... Read More
How to Sell Mindfully and Without Being Pushy
Selling is stressful, especially when you’re doing it for your own business and even more so if you hate it. When you’re stressed, you act from a place of fear, and in this fearful state, your brain is forced into primal fight-or-flight mode. During client interactions, this fear manifests as pushiness, desperation, and insecurity – ... Read More
How This Mom Boss is Earning a Full-Time Income Helping Others with Tech Solutions
Jaime Slutzky is a WordPress website developer and the owner of Virtual Summit TECH where she and her team produce multi-part online events. Jaime is married and the mother of two girls, she has been working from home [and coffee shops, gymnastics, and dance studios ~ basically anywhere with WiFi] full-time since 2011. Read on ... Read More
Five Flexible and Unconventional Ways to Make Money
I convinced my husband to join me at Ulta the other day as I shopped for lipsticks. As I dragged him down the aisles, he took in all the serums, tubes, jars, and brushes and was amazed that women bought all this stuff, and what’s more, that we spend quite a bit of money buying this stuff. His final comment was “What a great country ... Read More