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 Tips for Creating a Plan for Your Work-at-Home Business
A business plan is essentially a roadmap for success. It keeps you on course based on your goals and objectives. The old saying is true: “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” A business plan helps you analyze your business operations to make sure they are aligned with your short-term and long-term goals. [...]
Six Online Resources Your Home Business Can’t Do Without
Starting a small home business on a tight budget is much easier to accomplish thanks to all the technical resources available online. Many of these technical tools allow home business owners to automate certain tasks so you can focus on the money making aspects of business. It also saves you lots of time and money. [...]
5 Ways to Accomplish More as a Work-at-Home Mom
When people learn that I earn a living working at home, they often gush about how lucky I am that I never have to step foot out of my house to go to my job each day. They also seem to envision leisurely work days with me in my robe and pajamas tapping away on [...]
Summer Planning Guide for Busy Moms
When I first started working at home, my children stayed home with me during the summer months. I had to find a balance between providing them with fun activities and meeting my income goals. As my business grew, so did the challenge to keep the kids entertained while also exposing them to educationally stimulating activities. [...]
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 [...]
