Tag: "business"
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 [...]
Tips and Lessons Learned in Starting an Online Business
Below are some quick tips and lessons learned in starting a business, in no particular order. As you’ll see, there’s definitely a theme of how to best deal with human resources: outsourcing to virtual staff. It costs more in time, money and sanity to keep dead weight. Tips to Dealing with Virtual Staff Break relationships [...]
CardsDirect – Review Custom Full Color Business Postcard
While I clearly don’t get to often enough, I’ve always loved photo cards. And, who doesn’t just adore any baby announcements that arrives in your mailbox, let alone a personalized photo baby announcements? CardsDirect is one such website, that provides this adorable options to have any parent send hours searching for just the right style, [...]
Tips to Hiring a Real Estate Agent
If you didn’t know I was a highly-successful, million-dollar producing real estate agent, licensed Realtor (R) who was a foreclosure and short sales specialist when I lived in Toledo, OH. Within 6 months, I was a top producer in my company and in less than a year, I moved to a ReMax affiliate so I [...]
Top 10 Ways The Library Can Help You and Your Business
I just found this old article I wrote back in 2005 when I was sharing how the library helped me start my new business. Since I’m moving once again to a new state and town, I just read it and thought it had some classic memories advise that may help us all. 1. Establish Yourself [...]
Email First Impressions Go a Long Way Too
Do you ever get an email that is so personal and interesting yet so off-base and makes no sense that it actually intrigues you to read it in full…only to say “What? What? What?” Or, do you just delete them? Do you find that sometimes you feel that their intentions are actually pretty-okay…but, they just [...]
Top Ten Tips to Help Gain Your Husband’s Support in Your Blog or Business
My dear mentor Amy of Mom Spark Media, started a new series this week, called “Dear Mom Spark”. The debut question truly hit home because Anonymous was seeking advice to help her gain her husband’s support for her love of blogging. Well, I just had to share my long comment here, and spice it up [...]
How I Make Money Blogging – Must-Have Tools and Steps To Take
I’ve been asked quite a bit the past two weeks, “How do I make money blogging?” I always reply that it’s all about “setting your blog up right by using the right tools, and networking with the right people”. Whenever I talk to moms interested in making money online from home, I always explain that [...]
American Muslim Consumers – Higher Education, Younger and Make More Money
While I’ve shared the incredible purchasing power American Muslim Consumers play nearly a year ago, major media outlets are finally asking key questions and starting interesting conversations. Yesterday, TIME shared recent poll results, CNBC quickly had a follow-up interview with Mostapha Saout, CEO of Allied Media Co. Common Misconception: Muslims are All Arabs In this [...]
