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.
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. [...]
How to Earn the Blessings of Ramadhan When You Can’t Fast
Prior to the start of Ramadan, my 10 year old daughter asked me to help her come up with a plan for the month. She suffers from a chronic health condition, Hemoglobin SC Disease, which prevents her from fasting . She was concerned about missing out on the opportunity to fast along with everyone else [...]
