It’s that time of year again! Since 2009, I’ve been compiling a list together of what I think are the 50 Best Blogs by Women. If you can believe this, it actually takes me a full year to put this list together. Each and every day I’m on the lookout for great new resources and fresh new voices. Some of these women I’ve had the ... Read More
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Free Blogging e-book: Work-at-Home and Make Money Blogging
Back in 2011, I published and sold an e-book titled Blogging Success: Tips for Creating Content, Getting Traffic and Monetizing Your Blog. Now I’m relaunching a revised version, with even more ways to make money from your blog. And I’m changing the price ... to FREE! Blogging Success, or as I like to call it, Work-at-Home and Make ... Read More
7 Things to Look for in a Home Party Plan Business Opportunity
One of the easiest ways to launch your own home-based business is to join a direct sales opportunity. Also known as multi-level marketing (MLM), network marketing, and home party plan businesses, direct sales is the business of selling products or services face-to-face away from a brick-and-mortar location. Here's how it ... Read More
How to Work Remotely and Get Ahead at Work
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about large corporations like Yahoo, IBM, and Bank of America cutting back or eliminating telecommuting work arrangements. While I don't agree with these company's logic, I do believe that remote workers need to be cognizant of the adage, “out of sight, out of mind.” So how do you show your ... Read More
How to Write a Successful Business Partnership Proposal
When I first started out, I was so eager to market my business, that sometimes I may have crossed the fine line between self-promotion and aggressive marketing tactics. Since then, I have learned that it always better to take things one step at a time and build up slowly. This is especially true when it comes to approaching ... Read More
8 Daily Habits That Will Help Nurture and Grow Your Business
Individuals everywhere are pondering what their goals and resolutions should be for the new year. Many will take the systematic approach of using the acronym S.M.A.R.T. to plan and measure their progress, while others will utilize an accountability partner or coach to move them in the right direction. While I’ve personally used both ... Read More
13 Simple Things You Can Do to Add More Time to Your Day
When my daughter started kindergarten, I thought that I’d have so much more time for myself and my business. But what I quickly found out is, that between pick up and drop off, Girl Scouts, PTO, volunteering, regular exercise class, additional work hours, and homework, is that I somehow have less free time, than I did when my ... Read More
The Fourth Annual, 50-Best Lady Boss Bloggers
It’s that time of year again! For the past four years, I’ve compiled a list of what I think are the 50 Best Lady Boss Bloggers. Meaning these gals have created their own blogging businesses from home -- not that they write about entrepreneurship. If you can believe this, it actually takes me a full year to put this list together. ... Read More
6 Essential Tips for Getting Your Pitch Accepted
As a blogger, my inbox is flooded with all sorts of requests - everything from pitches for guest blog posts, proposals for partnerships and collaborations, product reviews, mentoring, promotional inquiries, and the worst, link insertion requests. While I always appreciate peoples' interest in the site and respond to them politely, ... Read More
Diversifying Your Blogging Income: Banned From Google AdSense
Every morning, I go through my routine of checking my stats and reviewing my latest earning report on Google Adsense. However, when I tried to log in to my AdSense account, I got the following message: "Your AdSense account for this login is currently disabled. We recommend checking your email inboxes for any messages we may have ... Read More
33 Tips for Working From Home with a Baby
I remember when my daughter first came home from the hospital, it was the hardest three months of my life. I remember one night in particular, where I was trying to eat some frozen pizza and breastfeed my daughter at the same time, and it just wasn't working. I was so sleep-deprived and hormonal that I just burst into tears during ... Read More
7 Business Tips for When You Feel Like Giving Up
I’ll let you in on a little secret. I didn’t set any goals this year. While I know the importance of goals and having a clear-cut business path to achieve those goals, my heart just wasn’t in it. I had lost my exuberance and passion for what I was doing. Part of this was because of my struggles with infertility. It had been 13 ... Read More
Relationship Marketing: Get More Clients and Make More Money
One of the most frequent questions that I receive from new business owners and direct sales consultants is, "how do I get more clients?" While there are a variety of ways to go about it (email marketing, content marketing, direct mail, attending networking events, social media, advertising ...) I have found that one technique stands ... Read More
How to Use Twitter for Building Your Business and Blog Traffic
Recently a woman in my local blogging group asked: “Anyone know much about tweeting? Good "get started how to's??" I want to drive more traffic to my blog and Etsy store ... thanks in advance”. Because so many of you have asked similar questions about Twitter, I thought it would be a good day to discuss how to use Twitter for ... Read More
6 Tips for Working From Home with a Sick Child
I’m so tired. For the past two weeks, my daughter has been sick. It started off as a little cold and slowly progressed into a severe case of croup. After two trips to the doctor, a misdiagnosis, unneeded antibiotics, and countless sleepless nights we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. As a mom, you know how ... Read More
