KimberlyBen
Kimberly Ben is a busy freelance writer, work-at-home mother of four and the creator of Muslimahs Working at Home , a blog featuring advice, tips and resources to help Muslim women achieve creative and financial independence and balance in the home through halal home-based business ventures. You can also find her on Twitter @WorkingMuslimah, and Facebook.
4 Self-Care Tips for Busy Moms
If you’re a mom, chances are there’s never a dull moment in your world. Between taking care of the kids, husband, maintaining the home, work and all those errands that keep you on the move, you barely have enough time – let alone energy – to breathe. And that’s a real problem. When it comes [...]
7 Tips for Building and Working Your LinkedIn Network
When I first created a profile on LinkedIn, I honestly had no idea of the potential of this powerful this networking tool. I put together a simple profile summary, company description, included my website and blog urls and slowly started making connections with others. Within two weeks, two local companies contacted me about my copywriting [...]
5 Work-at-Home-Mom Tips That Make Achieving Home and Work Life Balance Easier
Last week I spent some time chatting with a lovely mum from the UK on Twitter about balancing business building strategies while raising small children. She asked how I managed to build a home-based business and care for my four children at the same time. I’ll be completely honest – it wasn’t easy, and there [...]
5 Networking Tips for Work-at-Home Muslim Moms
One of my primary goals in 2012 is to spend more time and effort networking and building strategic business relationships. As someone who makes a living working remotely from home, it is easy for me to isolate myself for extended periods of time, but that is neither healthy nor productive. First, when you spend the [...]
3 Legitimate Work-at-Home Money Making Opportunities
I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: the Internet has revolutionized work-at-home employment and money making opportunities globally. If you own a computer and have a reliable, broadband Internet connection, you can earn money remotely by working at home. There are numerous money making opportunities that allow you to create a [...]
5 Ways to Keep the Kids Busy While You Work at Home
I’ve been working from home as a freelance writer for seven years now. My children were all under the age of four when I first began seriously pursuing home-based writing opportunities. If finding paying gigs was the most challenging aspect of working from home, keeping my children worked a close second. In the beginning, I [...]
Ponn Sabra of American Muslim Mom to be Interviewed on Muslimahs Working at Home
I’m a big advocate of home-based business ventures. For the past seven years, I’ve been self-employed, and it’s allowed me the flexibility to earn an income and be available to my husband and four children when they need me. My passion for entrepreneurship led to the creation of my blog, Muslimahs Working at Home. My [...]
6 Benefits of Hiring Your Kids to Work for Your Home Business
Last week my three older children (ages 9 to 11 years) approached me to discuss the possibility of earning their own money during spring and summer break. Yes, it’s a bit early, but I admire their determination and willingness to plan ahead. My 9-year-old twins plan to speak to my uncle about helping out with [...]
How to Go from Writing for Content Mills to Better Paying Gigs
If you’re freelance writer who’s spent time writing for content mills like Demand Studios, Wise Geek or Mahola, you may have experienced a slowdown from your usual workload. It all started with Google’s now infamous Panda update. Long story short, the Panda Update is essentially Google’s way of penalizing lower quality content creators generating mass [...]
8 Online Tools for More Functional and Productive Freelancing
As the global economy continues to falter, many bloggers, copywriters, magazine and news writers have turned to freelancing as a way to make ends meet utilizing their skills and selling a variety of services. Technology has certainly made it easier than ever to operate as a freelancer from home. Having the right tools at your [...]
Create the Perfect Home Office for Freelance Writing
Whether you work from home as a freelance writer, or in any other home-based business venture, having a home office is essential. It doesn’t matter if your office is in located in a separate room of your home, or the corner of your living room. What matters is having the right equipment which makes performing [...]
5 Reasons Writers Should Consider Blogging
These days it seems like everyone and her mother has a blog. There are literally thousands of blogs on the web covering a myriad of topics. Some have been regularly updating for years, while others have long since been left to the wayside. Even with so many blogs on the Internet, as a writer you [...]
6 Mistakes that Can Derail Your Freelance Writing Career
If you’re serious about earning an income as a freelance writer, knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing what to do. Mistakes will happen, especially in the early days as you start your writing career, but some mistakes are harder to bounce back from. Avoiding these errors could result in working [...]
5 Tips for Teaching Young Kids to Fast During Ramadhan
Each year Muslims all over the world eagerly anticipate the arrival of Ramadhan. Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar when Muslims everywhere abstain from eating, drinking and other physical needs to reap the rewards of this blessed month. It’s no surprise that children are also excited about the arrival of this month. [...]
Tips for Observing Ramadhan During Your Menses
It’s Ramadhan and you’ve been dutifully spending the month fasting, praying, reading Qur’an and doing all you can to earn Allah’s favor during this most blessed month. Your body has adjusted to long stretches between meals and late nights spent in prayer when unexpectedly (or unexpectedly as the case may be) you get your period. [...]
