Kristie T’s Home Business Blog Fun, mom-geared work-at-home tips and advice on making money on the net.

Are you looking for an easy way to get more website traffic? But, getting noticed by search engines takes a lot of time and effort.  That’s why submitting your website to directories is important.

As you know, getting ‘Links’ plays a major role in determining your ranking position on the various search engines. Submitting your website to a directory creates back links that really give a boost to your SEO efforts.

What is a directory you ask? Well, it’s different from a search engine. Directories are run by humans who review web sites and categorize them within their directories. Yahoo and DMOZ are the two biggest directories on the web. Some directories even feed their databases to other directories and search engines.

I’d love to personally submit your website to my list of the 50 top Free Directories and boost your SEO.

Read the results this client got with my Directory promotion already:

“Kristie, I appreciate your help in promoting my teenfrontier.com website in directories last week. I’ve already seen an increase in subscribers for the One Minute Parent. Many thanks!”

Barbara McRae
www.TeenFrontier.com

If you would like some help doing that, I am offering a special 5 hr retainer package for $225 for submission to my hand picked list of top 50 Free Submission Directories.  It’s a lot of work and has to be done carefully by hand to pick the most appropriate category and enter the required information for submission. But this is one way I can personally help your business.

Sign up for your Directory Submission package here:

http://www.brandingonthenet.com/retainer.htm

I look forward to helping you!

Kristie Tamsevicius

www.Webmomz.com

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It’s a sad fact that many of us who work from home will face divorce.  I have seen many of my dearest friends online go thru divorce in just the past year or two.  What many people don’t know is how much divorce can cost you and how stressful it can be on your kids.

One thing I just learned of this past year is called divorce mediation.  Instead of running straight to a divorce lawyer, you can work with a divorce mediator to peacefully work out parenting agreements, financial agreements, and other divorce details.

If you’d like to learn more about it, here’s an article on Divorce Mediation and Financial Security for Families.

If you live in the Chicago area and know someone going thru a divorce, I highly recommend Brian James for to mediate your divorce.

It’s wonderful when families can stay together.  But if you have to get divorced, the more peaceful you can make it, the less effect it will have on the kids.  You’ll save so much money (and stress) working with a divorce mediator.  It will help you stay more grounded thru your divorce so you can keep money coming in through your work at home business.

Hugs to any of our Webmomz having tough times.  I am thinking about you!

Kristie

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Announcing the Winners of The Business in the Bathrobe Day Contest. Special thanks to all of you who celebrated Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day! And now the exciting part - here are the winners of our Bathrobe Day contest!

Prize Winners of Doing Business in Bathrobes 2010

• Sue Seward won a robe from ComfyRobes.com donated by Veronika Doud
• Raelee Peirce won I Love My Life Book and Toolkit donated by Webmomz
• Debra Bennett won Membership in Home-Based Working Moms donated by Lesley Spencer Pyle
• Megan O’Brien won Membership in HireMyMom.com  donated by Lesley Spencer Pyle
• Lin Kellum won Natural Mom PLR pack donated by Carrie Lauth
• Donna Bradshaw won 1 Hour Bookkeeping Coaching Session donated by Raquel Morphy
• Cami Collison won Personal Strategy Session donated by Jane Deuber

Congrats again to all our winners!

And thanks to everyone for making this the BEST Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day ever!

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YEAH! It’s finally here! Today is Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day! It’s a special holiday to celebrate the freedom of work at home entrepreneurs around the globe!

Are you working at home in YOUR bathrobe today? Don’t forget to enter our drawing for lots of cool prizes including a plush bathrobe from ComfyRobes.com, our official holiday sponsor!

And as an added bonus, ComfyRobes is offering 10% off all bathrobes as a special gift to our Webmomz. And can I just tell you these are the warmest, fuzziest, most wonderful robes. You’ll love them!

Just visit www.ComfyRobes.com and enter “webmomz” in for the coupon code and get 10% off your order. But hurry, this special offer expires on February 28th.

If you haven’t entered our contest, be sure to do so today. We are picking winners soon. Who knows, maybe the winner will be you? Visit www.BusinessinYourBathrobeDay.com to win!

Happy Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day everyone!

Kristie T

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On Christmas eve, my sweetheart Rick asked me to marry him. And I said YES! Only problem is there is NO room for him to move in.

You see while putting away the Christmas decorations, I came across a hidden stash of books in the crawl space of my basement. There were 1000 copies of my book that I forgot I had. Yikes!

So I decided to offer a sale to clean out the basement and make room for my new fiance’s things.

My discovery translates to huge savings for you…

If you ever wanted to work from home, my home business guide, I Love My Life A Mom’s Guide to Working from Home can show you how!

The information you’ll find in this book is PRICELESS in helping you start your business and make money right away.

Inside this book, you’ll discover…

• how to turn your passion into a home business you’ll love
• easy “stress free” ways to manage business financial
• secrets to building an effective business web site
• clever ways to market your business online that cost you nothing
• key strategies for growing your business to the next level
• deas to help you build a multiple streams of passive income
• how to manage it all while being mom and taking care of the kids at home!

It’s a motivational, start up and high power business strategy book all-in-one!

How good is the book? It’s only gotten 5 star reviews on Amazon. I get letters from moms everyday telling me how this book has changed their life and their business.

Read what this mom had to say

“I’ve read just about every “Become a Work-At-Home-Mom” book out there and this one is TOPS! Seriously, my copy is totally highlighted and dog-eared! The information is great, the guidance is priceless & the the resources are the best! “

Sarah Zeldman
The Solution DIVA

If this sounds reasonable, you can claim your copy for just $10 at:
www.kristiet.com/10dollarbook.htm

Warning: If you’re really serious about starting your own business take advantage of this while you’re still able to…

…Because I’m not going to just give this away forever, my fiance things I am crazy for giving the book away at this price. So I’m forced to limited it to the first, 1000 people that take action Right Now.

I you ever dreamed of being your own boss, starting your own business, and making money from home, then you’ll want to check this out. — Buy your copy now before they’re gone!

** Sale ends Thursday, January 7th at Midnight **
After that, the price goes back up to $14.95.

Go here –>>www.kristiet.com/10dollarbook.htm

Thanks for your help I know you’ll enjoy the book!

Kristie T

P.S. I must warn you… I’d hurry because - I’m mailing this out to over 10k people right now.

P.S.S. Thanks to everyone who wrote me the wonderful notes of congratulations! I truly feel blessed to have a “family” of amazing moms like you! You are the best!

To guarantee YOUR book is shipped to you immediately — before I run out of copies and take this page down — I recommend visiting
www.kristiet.com/10dollarbook.htm. before it’s too late!

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When you hear those stories on TV about kids starting their own businesses it’s always so inspiring.

That’s why when I heard that my friend Patti’s son Kyle started a cleaning business I wanted to share the story with you.

Kyle is 11 years old and in the 6th grade.  He started a new business called Kyle’s Cleanery.  When I asked Kyle what gave him the idea to start the business he said, “He got money for doing chores and thought he could do something extra and he likes earning money.”

The idea came to Kyle when his family was riding in the car and his sister Heather asked their mom about getting a job.  Kyle asked if he could get a job to earn his own money too.  His mom said that he was too young to work. So that is when Kyle decided to start his OWN business.

When I asked why he decided to start a cleaning business, Kyle said “I clean really well and I love walking dogs”

He came up with the name, Kyle’s Cleanery by himself.  His mom says that  “As soon as he thought of the name it stuck.”

Kyle priced his cleaning services at  $1 for dog walking, $2 for washing small cars, $3 for washing big cars, and $2 for raking the leaves. He has plans to expand to snow shoveling in the winter season.

To market his new business, Kyle gave out flyers.  He hand designed the flyers with pen and paper and photo copied them.  Then he walked around the neighborhood passing them out.

So far business is good! In his first week he earned $35 total and has 4 customers. His goal is to save enough money to get a WII or some baseball cards.

What Kyle likes most about having his own business is that he likes being his own boss and doing things himself.   He performs his cleaning services after school and rarely on weekends because then he is at his dads or playing baseball.

Congrats Kyle! Your story is truly an inspiration to kids (and moms) everywhere! I am proud of you!

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One of my favorite things about fall is that once the kids get back to school it’s easy to get back into a schedule.  But without a plan, it’s easy to get busy and not be doing the things that have the most impact on your business.

Today I ran off to IHOP to plan business over some pancakes.  One exciting thing for me is that my web design business (Brandingonthenet.com) has merged with a local Chicago wedding photographer business Imagine Photography (photographybyimagine.com).  Just so happens that not only is it a great business connection because our businesses are so related, but it’s been a LOVE connection too.  Very cool stuff.

So we sat down and looked at our revenue streams and how they tie in and could work together and different things we could do to promote each business and leverage our marketing efforts.

My next step is to put it in writing in a 3 ring binder book we can reference.  One for our big picture vision and how our entities intertwine.  There is another sheet for every project we wanted to tackle with specific to do items.  Then we created a separate sheet for each marketing vehicle and to do items for that.

To implement this, we are implementing a “power hour” where every day we set aside 1 hour to do marketing activities.  When I used to do this in my network marketing business it grew like CRAZY!  So I am excited to do this again and see the results.

And then every week my new beau/business partner Rick and I will meet, discuss progress, choose next steps for the week.  It’s great that we can help each other stay focused and excited.

Do you set regular time aside to PLAN for your business? Head to Starbucks or Panera.  Or if you have tiny kids take them to McDonalds and let them play at the playland while you plan out your business future.

Happy planning! Here’s to focused efforts to get amazing results in your business.  A little planning goes a LONG way!

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One of the big dilemnas  as a business owner is finding a way to thank your best customers over the holidays.

So I have been on a mission to find a great business gift to send to my favorite clients.  This week I found something fun from a local Chicago based company (Popcorn Palace) that rocked my world.  Now popcorn has long time been a favorite treat of mine.  It’s the perfect snack to munch on while cranking away in my work at home office.

I like to know that I am sending out quality stuff.  So I ordered a sample.  When I opened the tin, I dove right in and  WOW!  After a couple bites, it was sooo hard to stop eating.  What I really like is that Popcorn Palace offers some very cool popcorn flavors gourmet varieties like White Chocolate Cinnamon, Dark Chocolate Cherry, and Cookies and Cream.  For the more “wild” at heart, they carry some outrageous candied popcorn flavors like Tangerine, Spiced Apple, and Grape.  (I know my kids would go crazy for those!) And if you wanna kick it up a notch, they offer some fun spiced popcorn varieties including Cheesy Ranch, Jalepeno, and Sour Cream and Chives.

I LOVE sharing the “popcorn love” with clients, vendors, and business associates.  What’s awesome is they will even put your logo on it. But best of all they make and ship your popcorn order fresh for you that day.  Believe me it’s freshness you can TASTE!!! MMMMMMM.

I encourage you to check out the selection of popcorn flavors and packages they offer at Popcorn Tin.  Ok, I am off to put in some of my holiday orders.  Gotta love that online ordering.

What are some of your favorite business gifts you like to give to clients for the holidays?

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Man do I have some cool news for you. I got a WONDERFUL surprise from my good friend Randy Hlavin of I iDreamBIGG who asked if I could use 10 tickets to Lynn Pierce’s Women’s Business Empowerment Summit at the end of July in Las Vegas.

And WOW was I excited. “Of COURSE!” I said. Lynn Pierce is awesome. And Randy has arranged for me to give away 10 Free Tickets to Lynn’s event. Now these tickets are being sold at $997 - but Randy has given me 10 of these tickets that I can GIVE as GIFTS to my Webmomz members.

The deal is that you have to book your hotel room by tomorrow (July 7) to receive the FREE $997 value admission gift that Lynn is allowing me to pass onto you. So if you would like to go to this event - your only cost is travel and hotel.

Remember, this event is only weeks away in sunny Las Vegas at a superb and stunning hotel! And what mom wouldn’t wanna get away in Vegas with some like minded moms. Way fun! Here is a bit about the event. http://WomensBusinessEmpowermentSummit.com/index1.html

If you wanna get your free ticket email Lynn@LynnPierce.com with any questions and tell her Kristie T of Webmomz sent you!  BTW - this is not an ”affiliate” offer and the ”gift” is simply that…  an incredible opportunity to quickly move you and your business forward to the success you deserve! — Remember there are only 10 spots I can give away.

So if you are thinking about this, jump on it. These 10 spots will go like candy - really quick!

Hugs,
Kristie T

P.S. Thanks to Randy Hlavin for thinking of my Webmomz and coordinating with Lynn so I could offer you this awesome gift! You rock Randy!

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Webmomz is really excited to announce our 2009 Business Grant winner.  Tracy Fletcher of A Totally Mobile Massage in Gainsville, Florida won our $500 business grant.

In addition to helping ease stress for her clients, Tracy is helping her community by serving as a mentor for pregnant teens and battered women to help them find financial independence by starting their own massage businesses.

Special thanks to RenegadeHouseCleaner.com and MomsMakingMoney.org for helping sponsor this year’s grant so we can continue the tradition of supporting the dreams of entrepreneurial moms.

Click here to learn more about this year’s business grant winner Tracy. 

http://www.webmomz.com/resources-free-business-grants-2009-winner.shtml

Join me in welcoming Tracy huge success in her new business.

Kristie T
Webmomz.com

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