Print this articleThis week Contributing Host Sarah Zeldman interviews Nancy Cleary.
Nancy Cleary is the founder and CEO of Wyatt-MacKenzie - the leading independent publisher of mom writers internationally. Nancy has 20 years experience as a professional graphic designer and branding expert, and her publishing company celebrates 10 years of empowering authors, creating unforgettable brands, award-winning books, and catapulting the careers of moms.
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Noble, OK – Business owners interested in selling physical products online are invited to attend the first annual virtual Product Sellers Seminar running Sept. 17-19, 2008.
This free 3-day business planning and marketing seminar is for anyone with a new or growing business and who wants to know how to improve their marketing and business management skills.
“Most home and small business owners are struggling to reach current and new customers,” said Michelle Waters, owner of Watersweb Solutions LLC and host of Product Sellers Talk Radio (www.michellewatersonline.com). “Our three-day event will feature successful business owners who have experience selling physical products online and locally.”
The event will be held entirely online at ProductSellersSeminar.com (www.productsellersseminar.com) with pre-recorded interviews available for listening and live hour-long sessions available in an online conference room.
Participants only need a computer, high-speed connection and a microphone and speakers or headset to participate.
Founded in 2002, Watersweb Solutions LLC is an ecommerce solutions company that works with home-based and small businesses across the globe to develop effective, physical product selling websites. A former newspaper reporter and editor, Michelle Waters is host of an online talk radio show for product sellers, and teaches web design and internet sales classes at Mid-America Technology Center in Wayne, OK.
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Contact:
Michelle Waters
Email: michelle@michellewatersonline.com
Phone: 877-744-4319
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PR: Oklahoma eCommerce Expert Sponsors Product Sellers Seminar
Bloomingdale, New Jersey, August 10, 2008 – Less than fiver years ago Cara Mirabella was little more than a slob when it came to her home. Now her personal story of transformation into a capable home manager is inspiring thousands through her website and weekly podcast. As TheHouseholdHelper.com celebrates its first anniversary, Mirabella is rolling out an online boot camp-style program to help others make the same turnaround in their own lives.
“Women tend to be real sensitive about their homemaking skills,” says Mirabella, founder of TheHouseholdHelper.com, “so if you feel like your sinking it can be very hard to take the first step and say ‘I need help’. Domestically Challenged Boot Camp provides a level of privacy that is hard to find in most coaching and mentorship programs.”
After realizing how much more peaceful and fulfilling life became after getting a handle on her own house, Mirabella started looking for ways to help others overcome organizational challenges within their homes.
“With all the supermom images that we’ve been exposed to over the years, it can be really difficult for women today to admit that they are overwhelmed so it’s been a goal for me to create a comprehensive program where everyone feels comfortable rather than judged.”
“Many online programs provide steps and suggestions for improvement,” explains Mirabella, “but the problem is that they don’t help connect these wonderful new habits to a step by step process of integrating those good habits into real life.”
Domestically Challenged Boot Camp is delivered completely through email and takes a participant six weeks to complete. “At that point habits are established and you’ll have a plan that can take you through almost any occasion or challenge,” says Mirabella, who developed the program based on her own experiences and credits for her ability to deal with the premature birth of her son and the often tumultuous schedule of her shift-working husband. Continued support and encouragement is provided through weekly emails after the course is completed.
For more information on the Domestically Challenged Boot Camp, or to arrange an interview about household management and it’s affects on health and well-being, contact Cara Mirabella at cara@thehouseholdhelper.com or visit DomesticallyChallengedBootCamp.com
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Contact:
Cara Mirabella
TheHouseholdHelper.com
888-345-7181 Or 973-809-8348
cara@thehouseholdhelper.com
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From Disaster to Diva Inspirational Turnaround Leads to New Boot Camp for Women
My guest this week is Deb Ng of Blog Talk Radio. Deb serves as BTR’s Community Manager and I’ve asked her to share about her experiences as a professional blogger and tell us how blogging for pay led her to a full time telecommuting job in the area of social networking.
How would you like to work full time from home by blogging, twittering and acting as an all around cheerleader and activist for something you love? Deb did it and it’s pretty exciting to consider what this means as far as other opportunities out there.
Deb’s other websites include Freelance Writing Gigs and Network Blogging Tips.
News & Happenings:
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Want to join the ranks of Mom Infopreneurs? Join Carrie Lauth and I for the 42 Day Launch Incubator.
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The 2008 Hot Seminar Series runs every Wednesday this summer at 9pm Eastern. This week: Nicole Dean.
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Register for the September Moms Affiliate Expo and get access to exclusive interview audios being released all summer.
Do you have a question about how to get rolling with your business? Use our Listener’s Line to call in your questions (Call my Listener’s Line at (214) 615-6505 ext 9115.) or feel free to email it to me. Maybe I’ll answer your question on next week’s show.
For the WAHM and her family,
Kelly McCausey
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Today marks the last day that a new member can join Mom Masterminds and have the chance to ‘graduate’ into a lifetime free membership after 18 months of consecutive payments.
You can read all about the changes on the MM Blog - and read more on my Sparkplugging WAHM 2.0 blog. Be sure to read the great comments from MM members on that post.
By the way - if you want to same some cash and zoom straight to lifetime paid up status - take advantage of the one time payment option.
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This week I welcome Sarah Zeldman of Solutions for Busy Moms to Work at Home Moms Talk Radio as a new Contributing Host. Sarah will be bringing us great interviews and resources on a regular basis. I am thrilled to have her on our team and look forward to enjoying the content she delivers.
Sarah’s first guest is Maria Marsala, founder of Elevating Your Business and a licensed One Page Business Plan® consultant draws on her Wall Street trading experience and 30-plus years of business success to help business owners nationwide. Her specialty is helping business owners build bigger,
better businesses by streamlining the parts of business they choose to ignore: planning, administration, operations. Maria’s written more than 200 business and Internet articles and has appeared on TV & radio shows on both coasts.
To Sign Up For Maria’s Informative E-Newsletter & Get Your FREE Business Check-up Guide PLUS The Notes for This Show, Please Visit
www.ElevatingYourBusiness.com/WAHM
News & Happenings:
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Want to join the ranks of Mom Infopreneurs? Join Carrie Lauth and I for the first 42 Day Launch Incubator.
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The 2008 Hot Seminar Series runs every Wednesday this summer at 9pm Eastern.
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Register for the September Moms Affiliate Expo and get access to exclusive interview audios being released all summer.
Do you have a question about how to get rolling with your business? Use our Listener’s Line to call in your questions (Call my Listener’s Line at (214) 615-6505 ext 9115.) or feel free to email it to me. Maybe I’ll answer your question on next week’s show.
For the WAHM and her family,
Kelly McCausey
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My special guest this week is Tara Brown of Publish Our Stories. Tara responded to a blog post of mine about the many limitations that many direct sales companies place on online promotion by their representatives.
Mother of five, Tara has found a direct sales business that suits her busy family life and that gives her freedom to promote her interests both online and offline. The business is Cherish Bound.
I really wanted to talk to Tara about her business choice and let you see how she is taking advantage of the web; especially how she is using a blog to naturally promote her business.
News & Happenings:
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Want to join the ranks of Mom Infopreneurs? Join Carrie Lauth and I for the first 42 Day Launch Incubator.
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The 2008 Hot Seminar Series runs every Wednesday this summer at 9pm Eastern. This week’s guest is Brandie Kajino of The Home Office Organizer.
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Register for the September Moms Affiliate Expo and get access to exclusive interview audios being released all summer.
Do you have a question about how to get rolling with your business? Use our Listener’s Line to call in your questions (Call my Listener’s Line at (214) 615-6505 ext 9115.) or feel free to email it to me. Maybe I’ll answer your question on next week’s show.
For the WAHM and her family,
Kelly McCausey
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This is a Guest Post by Beth Pratt of It’s a WAHM Thing 
It’s hard to work at home when you have a spouse who doesn’t support what you’re doing. In fact, being at odds over something so vital to home life can have a disruptive effect on a relationship. If you are absolutely determined to work at home, whether because you want to be with your kids or because you feel for certain that there is an opportunity for future wealth in what you’re doing, you’ll have to find a way to appease your spouse.
To figure out how to deal with an unsupportive spouse, we have to understand why he (or she) would be unsupportive to begin with:
- Jealousy: You’re at home, maybe with the kids, while he spends the day fighting traffic, a boss, and co-workers he might not like. You don’t even have to get up early in the morning!
- Fear: Because your income may not be as steady as with a traditional job, you might not be able to do your part to keep your end of the financial see-saw up. He may be stressed that you won’t bring in enough money, or resentful that he’ll have to pick up the slack should you fail.
- Misconception: He might think you’re a victim of a scam. Let’s face it, work-at-home jobs have a shady history. Think of all of the advertisements out there preying on people who want freedom from the traditional job. Envelope stuffing, Multi-level Marketing schemes, and others have been cheating folks out of their money and freedom for decades.
- Mistrust: There are many levels of trust in a relationship, and anything to do with finances is going to bring that up to the forefront. Is it you your spouse doesn’t trust, or do he not trust that you’ll actually work? One kind of mistrust is easier to handle than another.
Now that we have an idea of why a spouse might become unsupportive of your new work-at-home career, we can begin to consider solutions to the problems.
If your spouse is jealous that you found a work-at-home job, it shows that he would choose the same thing for himself, you just got to it before him.
In this case, give him a reason to help you out. Point out to him that the faster you can build yourself and your business up, the faster he can leave his old nine-to-five existence behind. If he’s the kind of guy that would never feel comfortable with the unpredictability of working at home, ask him to talk with his boss about arranging a telecommuting position. Many companies are offering the option for their workers to work from home a day or two each week.
Fear is a big reason spouses refuse to support a work-at-home venture.
Fear of losing what you have built up, fear of getting behind on bills…there’s nothing wrong with that either. You should have already discussed the financial implications of a work-at-home career before quitting your job, and hopefully you had the foresight to save some money to provide a cushion while building your career up.
If not, you put yourself in a stressful situation. What can you do to ease your spouse’s fear? Offer to get a part-time job, or offer to pay one household bill each month, with the stipulation that if you can’t pay it, you’ll return to the workforce.
If your spouse believes that you’re being scammed, he isn’t likely to support what you’re doing.
This has more to do with his attempt to protect you from being victimized. To put him at ease, you’ll have to prove that your job is legitimate. Visit a respected website like this one, which can help you determine if your work-at-home job is a scam or a legitimate position. You might be surprised.
Does your spouse not trust you to work at home?
If so, you’ll need to handle the problem quickly, because it has nothing to do with your job. If your spouse doesn’t trust you to have that much control, is there a reason? If there isn’t a reason, you’ll have to sit down and talk it out. If you can’t resolve the trust issues, counseling may be required.
If he doesn’t trust that you’ll work, why is that? Are you an Internet hog? If so, you’ll have to make a schedule and stick to it or face the possibility that you may have to return to a more structured environment.
With a little bit of negotiation, you should be able to weather your spouse’s unsupportive attitude, eventually bringing him (or her!) to accept your position. In time, you might even convince him that you’re saving him money working at home.
Beth Pratt is a work at home mom and editor for Its a WAHM Thing, a blog covering all aspects of balancing your home-based career and raising a family. Beth is the proud mother of two boisterous boys: Theakston aged 5 and Alwyn aged 2.
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PENSACOLA– July 21, 2008 – Small Business Management expert, Nicole Dean, understands the value of marketing, networking and continuing education when building a business. Those three components are the basis for a freelancers’ business directory and network called “Shelancers” that Dean recently created with fellow entrepreneur Darina Loakman.
“Over the last few years I’ve built a successful business addressing the needs of women who want to work from home. Creating the Shelancers directory with Darina was the next step in finding a professional platform to promote and connect women business owners with potential clients. And, it works. In fact, I’ve hired several women myself through the directory,” explains Dean.
Shelancers is a directory of business service providers that includes top professionals from various fields including bookkeepers and ghost writers to virtual assistants and graphic designers. All members of Shelancers are independent contractors offering the kinds of services that are in high demand by business owners who want skilled workers, but may not have the resources or need for a full-time, onsite staff member.
One of the fastest growing segments of the market place today is the small business sector—especially those companies capitalizing on the opportunity offered by doing business online. The challenge these businesses face is finding the professionals they need in an efficient and timely way. Shelancers is fast becoming the conduit for connecting skilled service providers with business owners.
Freelancers benefit from the expert marketing strategies put in place by Shelancers to promote their members. But that is only part of the story as Dean and Loakman are also focused on developing ways to help their members to attain business longevity and success.
“I am passionate about helping women to realize financial independence. Too many freelancer directories focus on being the largest or on attracting the most freelancers. We’re focused on creating strategies, services and resources to ensure that freelancers who join our membership also become sustainable and successful businesses,” explains Dean.
“The members’ area at Shelancers is quickly filling up with marketing and technical training to help our members attract more clients while expanding and sharpening their skill sets.”
Shelancers acknowledges and responds to female freelance professionals who want
* To be listed in a directory that is being actively and effectively promoted online to business owners in the United States, Canada, Europe and around the world;
* An efficient, effective and affordable resource for listing business services and responding to client inquiries;
* A directory that is also a membership organization offering a responsive networking and informational forum that includes regular, up to date educational resources for members.
For more information about how a freelancers can benefit from this innovative business and promotional resource visit www.shelancers.com.
Florida resident, Nicole Dean has been helping women work from home since 2004 and is a recognized expert in Online Business and Affiliate Management. A resident of Ireland, Darina Loakman was included in a list of 50 of the most influential women in Ireland as compiled by the Examiner Newspaper (2006). Both entrepreneurial moms are available for media interviews to discuss their joint venture - Shelancers (http://www.shelancers.com).
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Sharon McMillan, Media Relations
(905)-472-5384
sharon.mcmillan@bellnet.ca
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Managing your own affiliate program involves more than we realize when we first get started. Running a good program and keeping active affiliates is not a ’set it and forget it’ proposition. I know - I devote quite a bit of time to working on my affiliate program and am busy right this minute preparing new creative graphics and articles for my affiliates to use to promote our products.
Sometimes you want to have an affiliate program, but you want to keep your focus in your customers and products. In that case, you need to hire someone to do the affiliate management for you.
I’ve often recommended Angela Wills of StarVA Virtual Assistant Services to friends who need help with their affiliate program. She has a lot of experience and knows all of the little things a good affiliate manager should do to find and keep motivated affiliates.
Angela is offering a free seminar next week that affiliate program owners and managers should make a point to attend if they need a shot in the arm to get their program going.
The link to sign up is here: Starting an Affiliate Commotion FREE Webinar
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