Carrie Wilkerson is a speaker, author, wife, and mom of four who is juggling life. Just like you, she has the demands of health, family, finances, and community. After finding herself over six figures in debt, overweight and overwhelmed, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Being denied for job interviews and feeling ... Read More
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Do You Have What it Takes to Succeed Online?
You want to succeed online. You hear the success stories. Kids making full-time incomes while still in high school. Stay-at-home moms who turn a skill into a full-fledged business. How about the hobby blogs bringing in six-figure incomes? Whatever the case, working from home with an online business is certainly ... Read More
Female Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Business Success
Sponsored by Alibaba Being an entrepreneur is all about empowering yourself to create a business that's right for you. It's about facing up and rising to different challenges, overcoming the day-to-day demands, learning and planning for the future. In a new campaign e-commerce specialists, Alibaba is celebrating female ... Read More
E-Commerce: 4 Proven Ways to Increase Your Average Basket Size
The difference between success and failure comes down to how much you can sell. However, in the current economic climate, consumers need to be convinced more than ever before, that they need (or even want) what you’re selling. In addition, you want them to fill their virtual shopping baskets as much as they can before heading to the ... Read More
10 Cool Ways to Give Out Your Business Cards
We've researched and read countless amounts of tips on how to get your business cards seen. With so much information at our disposal, it's no wonder we don't know where to start. Here is a small compilation of all the very cool ways of distributing your business cards. 1. Drop it Like it's Hot Don't just hand your cards out - DROP ... Read More
Keep Your Home Business Running After a Natural Disaster
By Jay Acker It's tempting to believe that the worst will never happen in our town (or to our home office), but the wild weather in recent years proves that no region is immune from a natural disaster. Just like any business strategy, the key to surviving a catastrophe and getting your home office back in business is to plan ... Read More
Why the Party Plan Business Model Works So Well
Many direct sales businesses rely on the party plan model to generate the bulk of their sales. The party plan business model is a fun, exciting, and profitable method for direct sales consultants to market and sell their products. This business model has been around for quite some time because it has been so successful. In the ... Read More
5 Ways To Get Support From Your Husband
When you start working from home, getting support from your spouse is very important. Unfortunately, not all spouses are willing to give you the support you need. When I first started my small business, my wife was not very supportive for various reasons. Fortunately, I learned several tricks that helped me get the support I needed ... Read More
Do You Need a Business Phone for the Home Office?
Like many new home-based business owners, I had this very question years ago as a startup. It just makes sense if you run a business that you should have a business phone number and a dedicated line. Or does it? In this post, we'll take a look at the pros and cons of having a dedicated business phone line, and number for your ... Read More
How Anne Klar Makes a Full-Time Living as an Artist
Anne Klar works from home as a full-time artist, expressing her creativity and sense of innovation through her unique three-dimensional sculptural paintings. Read on to see how Anne makes a living as an artist. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your entrepreneurial journey. I received a greeting card several years ago that ... Read More
Why Hobby Blogging is Not Like Career Blogging
I know I’m not the only one guilty of being a serial-blog abandoner. I’d ask for a show of hands, but I wouldn’t want to embarrass anyone who is currently reading. I can’t even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a great idea for a blog, got it started, written some content, and then. And then my attention has been pulled in ... Read More
How One Woman’s Struggle Became a Hair Care Consulting Business
Personal Hair Therapy is a company that specializes in custom supplemental hair solutions, designed to help women going through the stages and struggles of thinning hair with compassion, understanding, and free education. Amber Charette, the owner of the company, is a licensed cosmetologist and expert in the field, helping women ... Read More
4 Key Points for Increasing Profits with Superior Customer Service
As many successful business owners and service providers know, good customer service is critical to building or maintaining their business. Exemplary customer service helps your business get noticed. But no matter how great your service or product happens to be, bad customer service can bring your business to a screeching halt. So ... Read More
How To Get More Party Bookings
There is really no trick to running a successful direct sales business. But you will need to be innovative, determined, and most of all, hard-working, to keep your business afloat. The most common question many direct sale consultants ask is, “How do I get more party bookings?” I want to share eight easy ways to get you more ... Read More
Professional Women Are Leaving Corporate America
An event whether happy, like the birth of a child or tragically sad is often the catalyst for professional women to leave Corporate America. It was years ago that my daughter Serena died in a drowning accident yet the memories of that day are as vivid as if it happened yesterday. Serena for years had been my silent secret child ... Read More