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Work at home moms, also known as WAHMs, have a lot on their plates; they are full-time caretakers and full-time business women. A life coach can help WAHMs succeed in all areas of their lives.A Life Coach Can Help WAHMs Stay OrganizedEvery mom knows the importance of organization; add a business to the mix and organization becomes even more important. As a WAHM, you need to know where your child's play date is, when your next deadline is due, and...

I am a home-based entrepreneur. I own a tutor referral service in Southern California and have been a tutor broker for eight years. I just launched my second business. I authored a book about how to begin a tutor referral service and packaged it with a customized website and Accounting Software, support, ads, etc. and am selling it via the internet nationwide and in Canada. Having started two businesses, I have learned about small business planni...

Marketing is critical to the success of your baby food business. Here are some of the highpoints of the various marketing programs that we used during the initial launch of Sprouts Baby Food Inc. back in early 2006.Public Relations Campaign--Vehicle: Email press release; hand-deliver of media kits; phone calls to key targets.--Media Kit: Cool box, birth announcement, press release, profiles, menus, etc.--Goal: Awareness; Feature stories--Target: ...

Part one of Small Steps for Big Work at Home Success listed the first eight steps you can take towards ensuring your business won't end up in the "failure" category. While most of those steps focused on the overall vision you have for your company, these six concentrate on more specific areas you can zone in on to skyrocket your chance for success.1. Who is your target consumer? If you sell Pampered Chef, your target consumer is women. If you sel...

Even with the millions of electronic greeting cards that are sent every year, giving out personal, printed cards for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, or "just because" will never go out of style. Research shows that the majority of people across the world prefer old-fashioned greeting cards - both giving and receiving.With an estimated 3,000 greeting card publishers in the United States alone, it comes as no surprise that a lot of good greetin...

Getting organized is the key to making your life as a work at home mom efficient and, relatively, stress free. If you can get and stay organized, your business and your home life will flourish. Without taking some simple organizational steps you'll be swamped with work and overwhelmed with laundry in no time.One of the most important parts of getting organized as a Wahm is to establish business hours. Setting up specific working times during each...

Understanding your market is critical. As early as possible, before you launch your business, I encourage you to survey moms in your area to learn about their values, buying habits, and infant feeding rituals. An easy way to do this is to use an online survey tool (there are dozens out there) to create your survey. Then send an email to all the moms you know, post a notice on a local mommy message board, or send an email to an online Yahoo! Group...

Most everyone has thoughts now and then of quitting their outside jobs so they can work from home. After all, we can always find something we don't like about where we work, the work we do or who we work with. Working from home can be a wonderful alternative. But maybe you're just not sure. Even with the hundreds of work-at-home opportunities available today, walking away from a job you've had for a while, or that has become comfortable, is a big...

Handmade Baby Food vs. Commercially Produced, Store Bought Baby FoodFood from your baby food catering business will be differentiated from commercial, factory produced baby food in the following ways:People & ProductionYour baby food is made-by-hand by individuals who are committed to the quality of the baby food. At least one certified chef is on duty at all times supervising the process and ensuring that ingredient and cooking standards are met...

One of the best, and simplest, ways to start a Wahm business online is to become a seller on one of the several online auction sites. Ebay is the most popular, and most widely recognized. However, sellers are also having success on Yahoo auctions, Overstock auctions and many others. Being an online auction seller has many benefits for a Wahm. You can run your business from your home. You can set up auctions to automatically list at certain times ...