Strategies, tips & ideas for work at home moms
Welcome back to the job market, Mama! Here’s how to figure out what you’re worth now (and how to translate “momming” into marketable skills). It’s a New Year, and if you have ever thought about starting a home-based business or increasing your income by working from home, you have probably spent a considerable amount of …
Great bios aren’t written, they are lived! Many mompreneurs are working to brand or rebrand themselves and their businesses online and offline and the two pieces of marketing collateral everybody wants to have are a targeted, optimized, branded resume (or CV) and a biography. If you have never thought about writing your bio, you should. …
When it comes to blogs – and I’ve owned and ghostwritten for a few in my day – it’s important to start with the understanding that it pays to be consistent. When the blog first goes up, you’ll be posting consistently, full of ideas, ready to make a statement (and some money) with your mad …
Updated February 2019 How much should a freelance writer charge per hour? If you’ve been writing for any amount of time at all, you know your value as a writer is not set in stone. In fact, your value increases as you get better at your craft. But I would venture to say many of …
Belief, Values and Missions Google defines belief as “an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.” How important are your beliefs to your purpose? Can you pursue and achieve a dream you do not believe in? Yes, but would you really want to spend your finite, non-renewable time working hard at something …
Let’s Create an Inventory of Your Professional Assets and Marketable Skills It’s week two in our six-part Value Series. As women (and especially as wives and mothers), it’s sometimes difficult to define our value succinctly. Being a mom and a wife is often a thankless job. And while we don’t necessarily seek praise, if we’re …
You’ve seen the guy in the purple suit talking about “free money” and you may even know somebody who knows somebody who got a grant for their business. But how much of what we know about the US Small Business Administration, government grants and small business loan programs is the real deal? If you work from home, can you get a government loan …
At some point or another, we all come to the place where we need to reposition ourselves in the job market to either accelerate on our current path, or move in a different direction altogether. In this post, let’s talk about how to go about rebranding yourself to go in a different direction. A decade …
The Only Three Things You’ll Ever Need to Know to Completely Crush Fear Fear is a sonuvagun. I have seen it talk smart men out of good decisions; I’ve seen it talk good men into bad decisions. For the bad rap it gets, fear really is a force to be reckoned with. But I know a …
Over the last 20 years of working from home in various businesses, I frequently came across other small businesses whose owners didn’t realize they would have to invest in marketing and advertising. Even today, home-based businesses and work at home moms aren’t always comfortable leveraging even simple social media strategies to get their product or …
The Single Most Damaging Trait That Keeps Would-Be Women Entrepreneurs from Having Success Some women seem to have it all – talent, brains, beauty, relationships, money. By anyone’s definition of the word, these women seem successful. Then there are others who seem like they should have it all but something keeps them from realizing their …