A great site with ideas how to grow your blog

Blogging is becoming the new way for businesses to get their product out there and to be able to update their customers en mass. There are lots of different free programs out there to get started. This site helps pick out the best format for you and gives you tips on how to grow your blog.




There are also terrific free programs that you can develop websites and have a blog attached.

I have one check it out: CraftyMomof3's Gifts
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Ravelry.Com

My friend and fellow yarn crafter turned me on to this site. I am still working my way around it, but it seems like a good time! It's easy to use and I love that you can post multiple things on your profile. So if your into the Crafty Life check it out.

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My nickname is: CraftyMomJen

Tutoring

Make Money With Your Knowledge And Skills – Start Your Own Tutoring Business

By Liz Folger, Work-at-Home Expert

Do you enjoy teaching others? Are you looking for the flexibility of owning your own business? Would you like to make on an average $25 or more an hour? Then the tutoring business might be the perfect home business for you to start.

Tutors Wanted!

The good news is that there is a growing demand for tutors. Being a tutor isn’t just about academics either. It can be sports, music, and the arts. And it’s just not the kids who are looking for tutors. With so many adults going back to school, adults are actively seeking tutors and coaches to better themselves.

Those who make great tutors are teachers, teacher’s aids, dads, moms, coaches, those who home school, and entrepreneurs. Anyone that has the desire and enjoys teaching will find this a great field to get into.

The nice thing about becoming a tutor is that all you need to say is, “I’m a tutor.” There is no state licensing or certifications, and you don’t need a college degree. While it’s a great selling point if you do have some qualifications, it’s not necessary. Just the fact that you’ve helped your own kids with their homework for many years can establish you as a tutor.

Here are just a few areas that you can choose to tutor:

• All subjects taught in school


• A foreign language, or English as a second language


• Any type of Sport


• Any type of musical instrument


• Voice lessons


• Reading (Children and Adults)


• College Entrance Exams


• Computers (The senior citizen market is a great area to tap into)


• All types of art

This is just a partial list. There are so many areas that could require a tutor.

The Joy Of Owning Your Own Tutor Business

Think about the areas you would like to teach. Don’t be afraid to niche yourself. While at first it might seem like a good idea to tutor all subjects, you’ll find that being considered an expert in one area is the way to go. If down the road you’re tutoring someone in Math who needs additional help in English, and this is something you feel comfortable with, go for it, but finding your niche is always a good thing.

As the owner of your own tutoring business, you can decide the client base with which you’d like to work. If you want to work with kids, you can decide if they will be elementary, middle school, high school, junior college or college. If you find you get along better with middle aged children, then work with them. You no longer have to make money working with people you really don’t enjoy or jive with. That’s the beauty if self-employment.

What Makes You The Expert?

Whether you’re tutoring biology, flute, or soccer; what are your qualifications? Are you a teacher? Do you have a degree in music? Have you been working as a biologist for many years? Now’s the time to toot your horn. Even if you’re a mom or dad who loves a certain subject and has helped your own kids, you can easily say you’ve had this many years helping children in that particular area.

Where And When To Teach

The cost of starting your own tutor business really isn’t that much when compared to other businesses. Most of the time you’ll be teaching in your own home at your kitchen table. You don’t really need any books; your students will bring their own. Anything you need to buy like flyers and business cards, is a tax write off.

When school is in session you’ll find your busiest times will be Monday through Friday from 2:30 PM To 9:00 PM. You can decide the exact hours you want to offer, and if you want to teach on the weekends. You can decide if you want to work in the summer, since sometimes kids need to go to Summer school, or parents simply want their kids to have a jump-start on the next grade.

How much can you really make?

Depending on how much you tutor, in what part of the country you tutor, how in demand you are, and how many students you have all depends on what you’re going to make and what you can charge. Below is a chart based on making $25 an hour, which is about average for a tutor. However, it’s not unheard of for tutors to make as much as $60 an hour!

You Charge $25 An Hour…

Your Work 5 Hours A Week $500/month

…………. 10 Hours A Week $1000/month

…………. 20 Hours A Week $2000/month

…………. 40 Hours A Week $4000/month

Creating your own tutoring business can be fun, challenging, rewarding, and very profitable financially. Find an area you love, an age group you get along with and enjoy teaching, and the sky is the limit.

Liz Folger is the founder of http://www.bizymoms.com. Bizymoms.com is the leading online resource for work-from-home ideas. The site offers home-based business start-up kits, online classes, e-books, chats and enthusiastic support for moms who want to have it all - a family and a career.

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Bizymoms Welcome Service Business Kit

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Making Money with a Newcomers Welcome Service
By Liz Folger, Founder of bizymoms.com

There is one business that I know for a fact won’t go out of style or not be needed in the coming years if only for the simple fact that people are always on the move. In the last 10 years I’ve moved far more times than I would ever want to admit. Each time I found myself in a new town, I was lost. I had no idea where anything was, where the hangouts were, or what businesses were in the area. I’d always slowly find these things out, but it took time.

How nice it would have been to sign-up for a free service where someone would come to my house, tell me about the new community I had just moved into, and give me a packet of goodies that included coupons, gift certificates, maps etc. That would have saved me a lot of time, and given me a good overview of what to expect in my new town.

Owning your own newcomers welcoming service can be very rewarding. Not only will you be able to make a newcomer feel welcomed and informed, but you can also help local businesses by acquainting them with their future customers. It’s a big win-win situation for you. Perfect if you like making everyone happy.

To run a welcome business you simply talk with local businesses in your area. You explain to them that you will give newcomers who just moved to the community a welcome packet, and you ask if they would like to be included. They might want to give you a special coupon or a gift certificate to include in your welcome packets.

You then decide how you want to have these flyers and coupons printed. You can decide to do it yourself, work with your local printer, or make copies at a local copy shop. Finding these newcomers isn’t too hard either. You can hook-up with realtors and local county records to find potential clients. And, thanks to Bizymoms.com Business Kits, it is now a whole lot easier to find potential new comers.

Bizymoms.com has created a Welcome Service Business Kit that includes everything you need to get this type of business started and running successfully. The kit starts with a workbook specifically for starting a welcome service business. Also included is a marketing ebook, a basic workbook for general business start-up, and 6 months of support. And, if that isn’t enough, you also receive a beautiful lifetime website that has a total of 5 pages. The website is yours forever, and once you pay for the kit, you won’t have to pay anything else for the site…ever.

What’s so incredible about this webpage is the fact that you will become an associate on the website http://www.yournewtowngreetings.com; which will be promoted throughout the country. Bizymoms will also help you to find newcomers. Potential customers can visit the site, look for an associate in their area, and ask that a packet be delivered to them. It’s that easy. If you want to learn more about this wonderful opportunity visit: Bizymoms!

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Grow Your Candy Wrapping business.

10 Marketing Ideas to Grow Your Candy Wrapping Business
By Liz Folger, Work-at-home Mom Expert

The business of candy wrapping (and it’s far more than just wrapping chocolate bars) is getting more and more popular. Personalized gifts and favors are always well received. Once your personalized gifts are seen at a wedding or being sold at a fundraiser, you’re going to start to get calls from other people and companies who will want to put in their order. Your candy/favor wrapping business just needs a little marketing so your business can get moving. Below you’ll find 10 ways to market your candy wrapping business. Use one, five, or all the ideas that you need. One thing I do recommend is that you have a fun and use the marketing ideas that you enjoy the most. Because the more marketing ideas that sound like fun to you, the more you’ll work at it and the more business you will find.

1. Business Cards With any business you have it’s key to have some type of business card. Making your business card unique is also a great way to get a future customer’s attention. With a Candy wrapping business you can do this very easily. Take a small chocolate bar or a Lifesaver roll and print your business card on a wrapper to fit the candy. This is sure to make a tasty impression.

2. Get Your Yummy Business Cards Into The Right Hands Now that you have your cards created, think about who you’d like to market your business to. You could start with event and wedding planners and specialty gift shop owners.

3. Wedding Trade Shows Throughout the year there are several wedding trade shows. Think about booking a table at one of these shows to display your wedding favor ideas.

4. Fundraising Organizations Your children’s school might be the perfect place to start. What’s great about this business is you can create some wonderful samples to show your potential client. Other groups might be daycares, sporting teams, and hospitals.

5. Local Shops Is there something special about your town? Do you get a lot of tourists? What attracts them? Create a special wrapper for your particular area. For more options offer seasonal themes like Halloween, Christmas, Easter and the Fourth of July.

6. Press Releases Get the word out on your business by writing a press release for your local newspapers and local TV news stations. To help them remember you even more, create a special candy bar with the reporters name on it.

Online Marketing Ideas

1. Website Have a website so your customers can check out your work 7 days a week 24 hours a day. Include that website URL on all your marketing materials like your business cards.

2. eNewsletter Get the email address of all your customers. This way you can send them a monthly or quarterly enewsletter that tells them about your specials and new products or ideas that you have. Include some freebie ideas like new party trends and ideas. Make the enewsletter something your customers are going to want to receive.

3. Network Network with those who have similar businesses. With the Internet you can do business with a wedding planner in another state. You no longer have to do business just with the people who are in your local town. This is especially good news for those who live in very small towns.

4. Post On Message Boards and Mailing Lists. Find wedding and fundraising idea sites. The key here is not to promote your business blatantly. Just answer questions, be helpful, and then include a nice signature line that includes your name, name of business, URL and email address.

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Candy Wrapping Business

How To Start A Candy Wrapping Business

What woman doesn’t love chocolate? Combine that with all the emails I get from moms who want to find a business where they are able to make money with their home computer and boy, have I got an idea for you! Chocolate + your computer = your new home business!

If you haven’t heard about the business of candy wrapping then let me give you a quick explanation. This is where you take a candy bar and you design and print your own wrapper to put over the candy bar’s original wrapper. Now you might be wondering why would someone want to do this? Well these favors make wonderful birthday and wedding favors. They are great for special events and get-togethers like family reunions and retirement parties, and can be used in fundraising events.

And it isn’t just chocolate bars that candy wrappers are finding to wrap. They’re also wrapping lifesavers, gum, tic tacs, mint, and even popcorn bags. Some wrappers are even wrapping non-food items like bubbles and matchbooks.

More Ideas Of People and Groups Who Might Want Your Service:

· Bridal shops
· Wedding planners
· Event planners
· Baby shops
· Obstetrician offices
· Florists
· Gift shops
· Specialty toy stores
· Trade shows
· Professional fundraising groups (try the school your kids go to)

Skills Needed:

The skills you will need for this business might be something you already posses. But it helps to be creative and have some knowledge of graphics software. However, there are lots of programs and free ready-made wrappers available on the Internet. Customer service skills are important too. You’ll need to market your business and there are so many great ways to get your business name out there. A chocolate bar with your business card wrapped around it would be a great way to get people’s attention.

Supplies:

Equipment that you might already have is a computer, color printer, some type of graphics software, paper for your wrappers, and in some cases you might need candy bars (sometimes clients will provide the candy bars and you just need to sell them the wrappers). When just starting out, scissors work great for cutting your wrappers, but as your business grows you’ll want to look into a nice paper cutter. You’ll also need something to stick your wrappers together. Glue sticks or tape works great. Make sure whatever you choose is acid free and photo safe.

Once you’re business gets rolling a little more, you might want to invest in a scanner and/or Digital camera if you don’t already have one. These are useful if you want to add personal photos to your wrapper designs.

When looking for paper, candy bars, ink etc. Try to buy in bulk. You’ll usually get a better deal and be able to keep more of your profits if you shop wisely.

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Fundraising as a business

Why Fundraising is Important:

It seems obvious why fundraising is important: to raise funds for needed items, services and programs. Yet, raising funds has so many other benefits besides the obvious.

Often, budgets get cut, or less than ideal family situations mean that children have to go without things or activities that their classmates receive, and later life opportunities may be diminished because of it. There are, unfortunately, needs of great variety all around us, and fundraising will most likely be an aspect of our lives for generations to come. But raising funds for a cause has a lot more benefits than taking care of an obvious monetary need.

Unexpected benefits

Fundraising is important for a variety of other reasons as well. For example, it allows the children or other recipients of the funds (or what they purchase) to feel some pride of ownership. In many cases, the beneficiaries of funds that are raised are able to feel not as if they have received ‘charity,’ but as if they have actually earned the item or experience that the funds have provided. What better way to help a person to feel empowered than to allow them to help raise the funds needed for a cause that will benefit them?

Fundraising can make a huge impact

In the growing pressure from government to “do more with less,” it is unfortunately true that the way that many schools and communities are doing this is to cut out the programs that they deem as not being essential. This often means that many childhood experiences will be lost as well. Field trips to see the capital, to perhaps stand for the first time inside a museum, or to attend their first play or concert, would be lost without many fundraising programs. On top of that art programs at the schools themselves, like music, theater and visual arts, are often the first area where cuts are made.

Learn to help others

Fundraising is one aspect of engaging children in civic minded activities from a young age. It creates awareness in a young person that they are part of a community, and that this position entails a certain amount of responsibility and also self empowerment. When they are raising funds for other segments of society, it teaches them to appreciate what they have and to understand that they have the ability, even from a young age, to help others.

It is a fact that children who participate in civic or public service from a young age are more likely to carry on with that type of work into adulthood. On the other hand, if young people are being helped by others who are doing fundraising for a cause that affects them, they understand that there are people who care about them outside of their immediate circle. This can help them to have a greater sense of self-esteem and self-worth, which can lead to better life choices overall.

There can be a business opportunity in it fundraising.

~Where can you find Fundraiser opportunities? Everywhere!~
• Talking to party attendees
• Talking to your kids, family, friends and
neighbors
• Your local daycare centers
• Your local schools
• Wherever people play sports
(local clubs or sport leagues)
• Your place of worship
• Women’s Clubs
• Check local newspapers and
supermarket bulletin boards for groups
sponsoring or announcing events
• Look for phone numbers while driving
by daycare centers, pre-schools and
schools or by school-sponsored
car-wash events.

A Good Fundraising Opportunity is Tupperware. You earn profits and can offer your fundraiser customers a 40% return from retail sales.

Tips for Your Successful Fundraiser:

*Planning
When planning a Tupperware Fundraiser program, always check with the organization to
determine if and when there will be any other similar fundraising programs. If possible, plan
to hold your Fundraiser program first. When planning your Fundraiser, determine the
reason for the program and the amount you and your customer wish to generate with
the Fundraiser program.
Preparation
• Use Tupperware Fundraiser templates including Introduction Letter, Goal Letter, Participant
Letter, Goal Worksheet and Thank You Letter. Templates and sample letters are available
online under “Beyond the Party.”
• Prepare an announcement letter to be posted on the organization’s information boards.
Include important information and instructions about how to complete the forms and checks.
• Offer incentives for the best participation or top sales. Use Tupperware® Tiny Treasures™
items or other prizes like gift certificates for pizza or ice cream parties.
Implementation
• Run a Fundraiser for about two weeks and plan to end it on a Thursday. This will give
you Friday to contact people and collect orders from anyone who might have forgotten.
If necessary, you can always extend your deadline an additional week.
• Photocopy the order form. Keep a copy for your records and include a copy with each order.
• To make delivery easy, write the family name on each bag.
• Include a thank-you note and business card with each order. If you wish, you can also
add a Tiny Treasures™ item as a gift to prompt people to call you back with questions,
giving you the opportunity to generate dating and recruit leads.
• To secure future Fundraising opportunities with this organization once the program
is closed, follow up quickly with the check, thank-you letter and your business card.
• Mark your calendar to call the organization four months before their next planned
Tupperware Fundraiser to ensure it will take place.
Tools and Support from Tupperware

Tupperware

For the organization:
Why a Tupperware Fundraiser?
1. 40% of all retail sales go to YOU!
2. Strong brand name recognition
3. High quality, well-respected product – with a limited
lifetime warranty
4. Personal service of a professional Tupperware
Consultant
5. No handling charges and free shipping for all fundraisers
with retail sales of $400 or more
6. Benefits the local economy
7. Professional sales materials
8. Sales incentives
9. We handle all order processing, product sorting &
bagging
10. Immediate payment of proceeds!

For more information please email me at CraftyMomof3@my2.tupperware.com

Start your own letter business

Make It Your Business To Increase A Childs Self-Worth
By Liz Folger, Work-at-home mom expert and founder of Bizymoms.com

Have you ever given your young child some of your junk mail and told them it was their mail? Did you see how excited they got and how important they felt? My girls would all of a sudden act like they were very important and "read" their mail as if they were the next big hotshot executives.

One thing I enjoy about children is their honest expression of their emotions. Of course it isn't pretty when your child decides to throw the fattest tantrum in the middle of your grocery shopping experience but really haven't you felt like doing that yourself at times? Imagine how much better you'd probably feel if you felt that frustration, expressed it, and then got up, dusted yourself off, and went on your way?

Children have this marvelous way of feeling their emotions, something adults should look into a bit more themselves. I think that's why as adults we receive so much pleasure giving our little ones gifts. It sure feels good when a child you love and adore shows such happy appreciation for something you've given them.

There's a business out there you can get into that helps increase a child's self-worth and can make a child very happy. So much so you are sure to get repeat business from happy parents and relatives. And really, isn't that the best form of marketing, selling your product to your satisfied customers over and over again?

When I was a child, I loved Holidays, and actually still do to this day. Holidays are a magical experience. Then there is the experience of loosing a tooth or days a child is extra nice to their little brother and sister. They say positive reinforcement is the best way to remind a child how they should act. In the article "Why Positive Reinforcement Works," by Brenda L. Gargus, Brenda said, "Positive communication is a tool to reinforce good behavior and eliminate bad behavior; it builds self-esteem and inspires confidence in children."

What if you could actually start a business from home and your business was to increase a child's self-confidence, and offer a service where parents could use a form of positive reinforcement with their kids?

An online article at askdrsears.com talks about how self-esteem as a child effects your adult years. It explains that, "Self-esteem is your child's passport to lifetime mental health and social happiness. It's the foundation of a child's well being and the key to success as an adult. At all ages, how you feel about yourself affects how you act. Think about a time when you were feeling really good about yourself. You probably found it much easier to get along with others and feel good about them."

Bizyletters.com offers the above and a whole lot more. Some of you might have heard about the business of Santa Letters. This is where a parent fills out a form about the child including information such as the names of their friends, siblings, pets, activities they do very well, etc. Then you use the information to create a very personalized letter for that child and send it to them during the Christmas Holiday.

The Bizyletters opportunity offers Santa Letters, but it also offers templates for letters from the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny, the Great Pumpkin and too many more to mention here.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone asked you what you did for a living and you could say, "My job is to make children feel very very special and most importantly loved?" Gifts might come and go, but a letter from Santa, or the tooth fairy is something parents keep to put in scrapbooks, and baby books. It's a special memory for a child who has no doubt he must be the most important person in the world.

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10 Reasons to become a Virtual Assistant

10 Reasons Why You Should Become A Virtual Assistant This Year

First of all, what is a virtual assistant (VA)? I like to explain it as a word processor gone wild. A VA is someone who works with clients, providing them with top quality support services without having to be physically present at a clients office. VA services are becoming more and more popular thanks to today’s technology such as email, the Internet, online instant messaging, fax, phone, and overnight delivery. Gone are the days of offices needing their support staff in the same building.

If you have a secretarial background or other support staff expertise and a love for computers and all the technology it offers, then here are ten very good reasons why you should start your own VA business this year.

1. Make An Income You Can Live On

It was reported by virtual assistant trade organizations that the average full-time VA working in the US would gross about $39,452 annually. Now that isn’t a bad income!

That is the type of money you can live on, even if you are a single mom.

2. The Need For VA’s Is Only Going To Get Greater

According to the George Washington University forecast of emerging technology, Virtual Assisting will become a $130 Billion Industry by 2008. Thanks to our growing technology, and the fact that it’s easier to just source out work to a VA due to the fact that a business doesn’t have to pay for any benefits when they out-source, this type of service will only get bigger and more in demand.

3. Are you feeling unfulfilled, unchallenged, and unmotivated? Is your current corporate job beginning to feel like a real drag?

Are you dreading getting dressed up, driving your commute to work, and working with a boss who is ungrateful and unappreciative? Do you love some parts of your job and despise other parts and wish you could do the parts you love more? Then becoming a VA might be something you need to look into.

4. Want to continue your professional working life without having to leave home?

Want the flexibility to work from home and have a better balance between work and life?

Maybe you’re thinking of having kids, or have had your first baby. You so want to continue your career, but you also want to spend more time with your children. Take a good hard look at the world of a VA. This type of home business will continue to give you the satisfaction of a career, while also offering you the ability to be there for your kids doctor appointments, their first step, school field trips, and running them around to after school events.

5. Gain the ability to work with people you want to work with.

Do you tend to click with certain types of people more than others? With a VA business, you can decide who you want your clients to be. Authors, salespeople, consultants, coaches, executives, entrepreneurs, and small business owners are just a few of the types of people you could work with.

6. The ability to do more than just one thing.

Looking for a little variety in your business? Don’t want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over again? Here is a list of just some of the things you can do as a VA.

* Administration
* Writing services (technical or creative)
* Business/employee communications
* Proofreading and editing, research (online or traditional)
* Word-processing
* Spreadsheets
* Data entry
* Database management
* Message management
* Scheduling
* Bill paying
* Simple website design
* Newsletter distribution
* Bulk mailing
* Reminder services
* Event planning
* Special projects
* Concierge services
* Secretarial services
* Research
* Data processing/data management
* Desktop publishing
* Transcription services
* Mail and email services
* Telephone/fax services
* Internet services
* Bookkeeping
* Purchasing services
* Writing/editing services
* Marketing services
* Personal services
* Santa letters
* Proposal Writer

7. The ability to Niche yourself.

Choose just a few of the ideas above and take it one step further. Niche yourself. You might already possess knowledge in a certain area. You can contact those businesses you are already familiar with and work with them. Maybe in the past you had worked as support staff for a marketing company. If marketing is your thing, you can let businesses know that you can not only be their VA and take care of all their typing and database applications, but that you can also use your expertise to help them market their business.

8. Use the equipment you already have.

If you’re reading this article, then there’s a good chance you already have a computer, a printer, and fax capabilities. Why not start putting that equipment to good use and make some money?

9. The choice between working full-time or part-time.

Maybe you don’t want to work full time, but you need to do something to call your own. That’s great! You’ll be your own boss; you can decide how much or how little you want to work.

10. Being able to say you love the way you make money.

If just the thought of working with your computer and current technology makes you giddy, why not make money doing something you love? Grab hold of the opportunity to make as much money as you’d like and the ability to work from your home. You have the opportunity to decide who you want to work with, the type of work you want to do or not do, and your niche area. If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you visit *** to learn more about starting your own Virtual Assistant Business.

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Welcome Service

New Families Moving To Your Community Need Your Expertise: Get Paid To Share It!

It’s estimated that 40 million Americans will be making a move in 2006. Military families, those who have a job transfer, California residents who are tired of the high cost of living, students attending colleges and universities, families moving due to health reasons, they all have something in common. They’re moving to an area they know nothing about and they need your help.

Think back to the last time you moved to a new town. Do you remember how lost you felt? Where were the best schools for your kids? Who were the good doctors? What market had the hard to find items? Where were your daughters going to take dance? Having more questions than answers can be so frustrating and you could spend months learning everything you need to know.

Thanks to a new business career kit targeted at women who want to own a home-based business, new movers don’t have to feel so lost and uninformed in their new town.

“If a woman loves to talk and make new people feel welcome, then this type of home business is perfect for them.” Explains Liz Folger, founder of Bizymoms.com. The Welcome Service career kit is a unique opportunity that allows women who don’t have a business, marketing, or web design background to start their own successful welcome service business in just a matter of weeks.

So many women want to start a home business, but they just have no idea what business to start. Many of them feel frustrated because they don’t feel they have the skills needed to start any type of business. The great thing about a welcome service business is that just knowing about your town, and what it has to offer is really all you need to be successful.

“The career kit includes everything women have been asking for.” Explains Liz Folger. “Often times stay-at-home moms are stopped from starting their own home business because of tax and marketing concerns that turn into fears. This kit dispels the myths and shows them how they can become a home business owner one step at a time.”

The website that is included in the kit is revolutionary. Not only will associates have their own web site, but they can also add information to personalize the site as often as they like. They can send out newsletters to their database, and sponsors and newcomers can order directly from the site.

New residents to the area will appreciate the service, and local businesses will love this approach to advertising. Long time residents turned associates will enjoy recommending their favorite businesses and organizations. A personal recommendation is priceless when it comes to marketing a business.

Here’s how this business works exactly. An associate will work with other businesses in the area. Businesses will love the idea of someone giving their products and or services a personal recommendation. They may even want to include a coupon or a gift certificate for the new comer. The associates can either print the coupon themselves, or work with a local printer.

Associates will then personally deliver welcome packets to new families in the neighborhood. Each packet will contain coupons, maps, gift certificates and other goodies that will help inform new comers of what their new town has to offer. The business will pay a certain amount for each packet that is delivered.

Making sure the new comers use those coupons is important. You want your advertisers to see those coupons coming back to the store. With the database software that you will receive with your website you can simply send an email reminding your new comer to use the coupons. Your email can also include any additional tips or suggestions you feel may help them. You might talk about an upcoming event in the area that they may be interested in knowing about.

Finding families new to your area isn’t going to be hard either, just work with your local Realtors. They will love this “free” service that they can offer to their new buyers. And the new buyers will appreciate the additional help you can give them.

And you don’t have to stop there; new comer packets can be just the beginning. With your website you can offer up to five different packets. New babies packets, new pet packets, and holiday gift packets are just a few of the services you can offer. You can really tailor your particular packets to the area you live in.

The best part of this type of business is that you’re the owner. You can decide if you want to work full or part time. You can work around your kid’s schedule. You can decide how much or how little you want to make. It’s all about being in control of the lifestyle you want for yourself and your family.

For more information about starting your own local welcome service CLICK HERE!

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Liz Folger is the founder of Bizymoms.com. The #1 Goal of Bizymoms.com is to help women find a business they are proud to own, and then help them, step-by-step, make their home business dream a reality. Bizymoms.com has been helping moms become business owners since 1997. The site offers many resources from online chats to e-books and online classes. Just recently they’ve added home business career kits that are proving to be quite popular and much needed.

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