Category: Money
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 [...]
Calling All American Muslims – Ground-Breaking 5-Minute Consumer Survey. PLEASE Participate. Deadline Wednesday, October 19th
Be Heard Today by participating in this ground-breaking American Muslim Consumer Advocacy Survey by DinarStandard. DinarStandard™ is a specialized research, advisory and business media firm empowering Emerging Muslim Markets for growth and global impact. I’ve all respected and admired the work of DinarStandard, alhumdulilah. About the American Muslim Consumer Advocacy Survey This is one-part of [...]
October Free Webinar: Start a Mailing List
A striving, profitable online business cannot live without your very own mailing list…and if you don’t believe me, sign up right now for the free webinar being offered next week by SoloMasterminds!* I believe the single act of adding an optin enewsletter to a blog makes you the difference between a blogger and an online [...]
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 [...]
Kid Bloggers Club Finally Relaunched!
Hop on over and see all the New & Improved Kid Bloggers Club! Kid Bloggers Club is the #1 ranked kids blog in the world which is managed and written by kids, mashaAllah, God has willed: my 3 entrepreneurial daughters. The Mission: To offer a safe and secure place where kids and parents can learn [...]
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 [...]
Today Only: Free Webinar: Online Business Certification & College-Prep ACT Twitter Party
Salam! Peace! InshaAllah, God willing, everyone had an incredible Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr. Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, we always strive to have a more productive and memorable Ramadan and Eid each and every year–and this year was no exception, subhanallah, Glory be to God. How was yours!? Please do share…while I’m very slowly weaning [...]
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 [...]
Why I Blog and You Should Too!
When I started blogging it was not because of some pipe dream of internet stardom. It was out of pure annoyance. Way back in 2007 my sister was calling me at least once a week to ask me for my Moroccan recipes. Every week I had to think back and try to tell her all [...]
