Saturday, July 31, 2010

title pic Financial Survival Ideas for Work at Home Moms

Posted by Debbie Dragon on March 13, 2010

The current economic climate is making it increasingly difficult to support a young family. However, there are a number of ways for Moms to gain that vital, extra income, by working from home, and still taking care of the family. Here are just a few ideas to help increase the bank balance. They won’t make you a millionaire, but they are great methods to earn some much needed extra cash.

title pic Balance House Work With Work At Home

Posted by JuanitaRitter on October 13, 2009

Working from home requires that a person stay focused and have good time management skills.  It’s natural to think that once you’re working from home, everything will magically run smoothly because you are in the  home all of the time. But it quickly becomes obvious that unless you are sticking to a schedule, you will [...]

title pic Five Simple Tips To Get Your Finances Under Control

Posted by Debbie Dragon on October 3, 2009

This article comes to us from Gabriela Michelle, about how she reeled in her family’s finances and made it possible to become a stay-at-home mom.  Since we’re stay/work at home moms, too, we thought these tips were great and wanted to share them with you.  You might be surprised at the possibility of living on [...]

title pic MOM BIZ SPOTLIGHT: MELISSA SULLIVAN

Posted by Tisha Tolar on June 1, 2009

Melissa’s Websites:
Melissa Sullivan Stampin’ Up!
Melissa Sullivan Usborne Books
Melissa Sullivan Gold Canyon Candles
Melissa Sullivan, who lives with her husband Sean and their two young children, first became an entrepreneur in August of 2004 before she even became a mom. As a life-long crafter, she was usually involved with creative projects to fulfill her [...]

title pic Time for a Checkup?

Posted by Debbie Dragon on May 19, 2009

My kids (ages 6 and 3) had doctor appointments today.  Just their annual physicals, no big deal.
After only about 5 minutes of waiting in the toy room, we were brought into the exam room.  The nurse proceeded to do all that preliminary stuff – blood pressure, weight, height, can they hop on one foot?  Then [...]

title pic One of These Things is Not Like the Other: The Entrepreneurial Mind

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 18, 2009

Silicon Valley Blogger over at The Digerati Life, has posted an AMAZING post on the mind of the entrepreneur. This is one of my most favorite topics – one that endlessly fascinates me.
I have always realized I do not think like many of the people I know, even in childhood. It used to bother me [...]

title pic How I Plan to Work During the Summer…At Home…With the Kid

Posted by Tisha Tolar on May 13, 2009

Last year around this time, I was very anxious about how my first summer working from home and managing a kid was going to work out. I wrote about it on our former website and you can find the post here. Funny enough, now it is such a blur, I can hardly believe it was [...]

title pic Ladies and Gents (if there are some) Drum Roll Please…

Posted by Tisha Tolar on April 23, 2009

We EMB moms are pleased to announce our first giveaway contest on the blog! It should be the first of many and we are telling you first! I will be posting the official press release next so go read it and see what it is all about, my friends!
We are so excited to regroup and [...]

title pic Writing for Money – Without Being Published

Posted by Debbie Dragon on March 28, 2009

I used to hate it when someone would ask me “What do you do for a living?” because I never knew quite how to answer the question. Do I say I’m a stay-at-home mom of two boys? Do I say I’m a writer? Both are correct, but telling people you are a writer for a [...]

title pic GUEST POST: Taking Control

Posted by Tisha Tolar on January 12, 2009

This is a guest post from Jody Richards, a student of Make Money From Writing. Jody is currently exploring a new career, working from home and has asked to guest post on Empowering Mom Blog. Congratulations Jody! It’s a great post! You are on your way!
When I was graduating high school, I was sure I [...]