Anne Hebert has been working from home as a freelance marketing consultant since 1995. She has worked with hundreds of companies, organizations, and individuals in dozens of industries, creating a strategy and digital content to help them effectively deliver their messages and define their brands. Her specialties include marketing ... Read More
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From Corporate Worker to Freelance Writer, Interview with Laura Spencer
Laura Spencer started her freelance writing business in 2002. Her specialties include business writing, copywriting, editing, and web content. Before 2002, she worked for several Fortune 500 corporations developing online help systems, technical documentation, and training materials. What did you do before launching your own ... Read More
How This Mom Joined the World of Freelance Copywriting
Mindy McHorse had always loved writing, but when she went off to college she decided to take a more traditional career route and focused on pre-med. After obtaining her Master's Degree in Public Health and landing a cushy job in project management, she felt like something was missing from her life. As fate would have it, writing made ... Read More
How This Mom Made a Business Out of Welcoming New Moms to Motherhood
Catherine Redfern is the curator and publisher of the New Mama Welcome Pack – a virtual support package from 60 international contributors to help new mothers through the fourth trimester. See how having a baby was the catalyst for Catherine to leave her stable 9-to-5 job and venture into the world of entrepreneurship! Tell us a ... Read More
How Rikki Mor is Making Money Selling Hair Brushes
When Rikki Mor created the Knot Genie detangling brush, her vision wasn't worldwide recognition, being featured on the Today Show, or being written about by thousands of bloggers. It all started because she was frustrated - she was done spending hundreds of dollars a year on hair products in my attempt to tame her three daughters’ ... Read More
Starting a Profitable Business From Home, Interview with Carrie Wilkerson
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
The Future of Telecommuting: Making It a Win-Win Work Situation For All
Since the popularization of the Internet, one of the fastest-growing trends in the professional world is telecommuting - and working from home has never been easier. Meanwhile, corporate mega moguls (like Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly) are instituting company-wide telecommuting bans and changes to the ... Read More
How to Convert Your Office Job to a Telecommuting Position
Seven years ago, I asked the partner of the law firm I worked for in Austin to do the impossible … make my full-time office job a work from home job. I was nervous asking for this, especially since I was still relatively new to the firm, but my boldness paid off. My position became a remote job, even after I no longer worked ... Read More
Keep Your Home Business Running After a Natural Disaster
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 ahead. Developing ... 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
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
Warning Signs that Working at Home is Not Right for You
For many, the ability to set your own hours and work from the comfort of your own home is a much-coveted position. Office employees often lament to their work at home counterparts, who seem to have freedom and flexibility to complement their salaries. But as the common saying goes, the grass is greener on the other side. Working ... Read More
How This Mom Turned Her Wide Variety of Passions into a Business
Writer, Alexandra Brown has been sidetracked by all kinds of distractions: college, marriage, career, and motherhood. With a diagnosis of hypomania, stopping to smell the roses includes an idea to breed a new strain. Alex suffers from a constant creative influx of ideas - most of which she takes the time (and resources) to explore. ... Read More
Dealing with Working Mom Guilt – 7 Tips For Work-At-Home Moms
If you are a work-at-home mom or thinking about being a work-at-home mom, then you probably have dealt with guilt at some point in time. If you have worked out of the home, then guilt was likely to be a part of your daily routine. When you decided to stay-at-home, as I did, you probably thought that this guilt would be gone. For me, ... Read More
