Maximizing Blogs for Work From Home Moms

Having a plain-Jane blog with a few scattered keywords nowadays isn’t enough to grab any search engine’s attention. The home-based working mom must choose her categories and keywords carefully so her important pages will move to the head of search engine’s list. What categories does she choose? It depends on what her blog is about. For instance, if she’s a life coach, and she posts affirmations... [Read more]

Did you create your Facebook fan page?

To market and brand your business, a home-based business mom needs more than just a Facebook page, you need a fan page also. Everyone who clicks on as a fan can see whatever you include on the page. this is the beginning or a continuation of building your own tribe. Your tribe will consist of like minded individuals and you will have the chance to flush out information, latest trends as well as have... [Read more]

Internet Radio Is a Credibility Boost

When a stay-at-home business mom wants to reach a wide audience, she can turn to a social radio network such as http://www.blogtalkradio.com or other podcast outlets (seehttp://www.podcastdirectory.com for a list of sites). These outlets offer several different ways to spread the word: as a caller to a show, as a a guest on a show or as a host. As a caller to a show she can let the listeners know... [Read more]

Coaching the Stay-at-Home Business Mom

Even the most self-directed, organized stay-at-home business mom sometimes needs someone to turn to for guidance, ideas or an objective viewpoint. That person can be a trusted ally or a complete stranger, but she must be someone who can stand back and look at a business and present plans for increasing profits or to build the business, whether the business is services or selling products. Business... [Read more]

Are Your Childhood Habits Affecting Your Business Habits?

We all form habits in childhood that may interfere with running a sound and profitable business. For instance, did you procrastinate as a child, like not cleaning your room when your mom asked? Well, now you’re a mompreneur, and that nasty little habit can get you into a world of hurt in your business. You have to return phone calls promptly; you have to pay bills promptly; you have to write reports... [Read more]

Lucinda’s Audition: The Ms. BOSS Talk Show (Oprah)

// Lucinda’s Audition: The Ms. BOSS Talk Show – Oprah OWN TV Don’t forget to VOTE for us  Read More →

Top 10 Motivation Boosters and Procrastination Killers

You have enough enemies when it comes to getting things done—having your own brain plotting against you is just unfair. Hone up on a few strategies, thought exercises, and habits that get you past mental roadblocks and back to productivity. Photo by CarbonNYC. 10. Pick Good Sounds Megadeth doesn’t get everyone motivated, and classical is many folks’ idea of nap music. Music is a highly... [Read more]

Business Tips from Moms for Moms

Home-based business moms have to keep in contact with not only their clients but also other moms in business for support, advice and general info. What better way to do that than blogging? Communicating through a blog spreads news like a spider web with tendrils going in all directions. Reading another mom’s blog may help you break through or get around a wall that’s interfered with your success.... [Read more]

Self-employed Moms Need to Advertise on Google

When you do a Google search, have you seen those ads in the right-hand column? You can have one of those ads for your Web site, for a product or service you’re selling, whatever you want, really. The program is called Adwords. The ads that come up in that column depend on what was searched for. For instance, if the person searched for “life coach,” and you’re a life coach, then your ad would... [Read more]

Celebrity Mom: Out With the Old in With the New

Once the home-based mom has her Web site set up, that’s not the end. Web sites need nurturing and updating, and that means all the pages not just the home page. Take the About Us page. Is the bio current? If not, this is the place to list new accomplishments and new skills. Also, update the headshot and any other photos on the page. You don’t need to be stuck in the last decade just because your... [Read more]

Video Marketing for Work at Home Moms

Emails, even email blasts, work just fine for ordinary communication, but if the self-employed mom needs her clients to see something she created, for instance, a Web video, then she has two outlets: Youtube and Ustream. Everyone is familiar with Youtube (www.youtube.com), in a lot of cases thanks to Susan Boyle’s Youtube video that went insanely viral. Ustream (www.ustream.com) is slightly different... [Read more]

Marry Your Competition by Joint Venturing

A good way to increase profits, reduce risk and broaden your market is by joining forces with a competitor. Maybe not all the time but a project or two may be a good way for both of you to grow your businesses and to see if a long-term association is worthwhile. If you have multiple businesses, the joint venture may be just one of those businesses, and the others you continue to run on your own. For... [Read more]

Stop Playing Russian Roulette With Your Passion

Too many mompreneurs hold a pistol to their heads and give the revolver a good spin when trying to get their businesses started and keep them going. They have what I call shiny object syndrome. Any little thing can pull them away from business job one, starting their entrepreneurial life and making sure it brings in the income and keeps the customer satisfied. Getting distracted will surely harm the... [Read more]

Social Media for Mom Entrepreneurs:3 Easy Steps to Connect With the Right People

Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter. The Internet is full of social options to reach out and promote your business in addition to your Web page and your blog. But you have to use them wisely and carefully. Facebook is a good place to have not only a page, but also a site to collect fans. When you post info, all your fans get the post. LinkedIn is a site for business people to contact each other for business... [Read more]

STOP What Your Doing Right Now…Set Up Your Google Alerts Today, Here’s Why

Google Alerts is ‘email updates’ of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. It distills the results from the first 20  pages of its search engine results and sends you the alert. The most important aspect of being on the web is your online reputation. Making sure that the information regarding yourself and your business is representing you... [Read more]

Make sure you use PROTECTION

Make sure you use PROTECTION: My Free Copyright Today I was asked by my accountability partner about protecting my materials.  This is something I have not thought about or even phantom someone using my brand without permission.  Well today was a great wakeup call where she pulled up one of my blogs written by me, authentically being used on someone else’s site with no credit to me and all credit... [Read more]

Great Expectations Quiz: Lucinda Cross

Great Expectations Quiz: Lucinda Cross Posted by Nicole Feliciano on Friday, February 12, 2010 It’s baby number three for author and blogger Lucinda Cross. Lucinda’s writing (www.corporatemomdropouts.com) focuses on Moms that have left behind corporate jobs for motherhood and are in the process of reinventing themselves. Let’s check in to see if she’s squared away in other... [Read more]

Gifts for first 200 applicants to the BUSINESS BABY SHOWER Contest

   Gifts for first 200 applicants to the BUSINESS BABY SHOWER Contest   Dear Corporate Mom Drop Outs:   The Business Baby Shower is a contest to celebrate entrepreneurial moms and all they do to birth and grow a successful company while balancing family life. The Contest runs from January 1 – April 30, 2010.   Winners will receive thousands of dollars... [Read more]

Vision Boards: Are you a Chicken or an Eagle?

When is the last time you put your vision on paper. I am not talking about a 30-page business plan or the hottest self-improvement seminar that you went to and had to fill out a questionnaire or assessment. I am talking elementary school. Taking glue, pictures, colors and phrases and placing your vision on a board. This concept known as a Vision Board is a visual explorer. It is our thinking, more... [Read more]

Money Matters interview

We got featured again, this time Lucinda Cross was invited for an interview on “Money Matter”. Check it out.  Read More →

Are your testimonials older than your kids?

When was the last time you updated your rave reviews? I do, and today I received a wonderful testimonial that I will use to close a few open ended deals. This testimonial is fresh, credible and speaks of the value and benefits of working with me.  Some people are still surviving on decade old testimonials, some times people want to see some fresh results, I know I do when it comes to working with... [Read more]

Business Baby Shower set to launch Jan. 1st are you joining us?

Daily News Corporate Mom Dropouts Business Baby Shower Contest to Launch Jan. 1st ! Business Baby Shower is a contest to celebrate entrepreneurial moms and all they do to birth and grow a successful company while balancing family life. This contest, which officially launches January 1, 2010, will bring awareness to mom entrepreneur companies and their products and services. Participants... [Read more]

Kids Cook Meals

With all of the major holiday feasts we undertake this time of year, it may seem easiest just to make the kitchen “off limits” to kids during meal prep. Much more fun is to assign a special dish that kids can do themselves as a contribution to the table. This year my young daughter and son were my official “potato mashers,” and did a great job with both regular and sweet spuds. Not... [Read more]

Can I bless someone today?

Making small deposits into life’s cycle will open doors to unlimited resources. I had a conversation with one of my “Incubator” clients and she talked about how she is finding it hard to stay above water financially during the holidays and how she does not know how she is going to manage even in the first quarter of 2010. With worry and fear in her voice, I can hear the words of wisdom pop... [Read more]

Staying Positive and Patient with blessings

Okay here is some good news and some not so good news. I was blessed to have an interview with ABC News Now last Friday. As I walked through the door and into a room full of monitors, phones and producers, I was greeted and treated like a celebrity without the security. Not a hair misplaced, eyebrows perfectly arched, spray on makeup from MAC was just right and lip gloss from Sephora could not... [Read more]

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