Increase Your Family’s Income While Taking Care of Your Children!
Did you know that millions of moms just like you are making money from the comfort of their homes? You can do it too! Stay-at-home mom expert Liz Folger shows you step-by-step how you can stay home with your kids and make money doing something you really enjoy. From scrapbooking, catering, and massage therapy to pet sitting, accounting, Web designing, and hundreds more, you can turn your skills and talents into profits for you and your family. Inside, you’ll learn how to:
·Find a business you love
·Plan and budget your time
·Manage yourself, your business, and your family
·Tap into the Internet’s vast resources and opportunities
·Avoid get-rich scams and costly mistakes
·Obtain a business license
·And much, much more!
You’ll also discover tips and advice from 35 moms who have started their own successful businesses from home. If they can do it, why not you? With The Stay-at-Home Mom’s Guide, you too can turn your home-business dreams into reality.
"This latest edition of The Stay-at-Home Mom’s Guide will continue to inspire moms (and dads) in finding that perfect balance between a work-from-home venture and family life.” —Priscilla Y. Huff, author of 101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women
“Liz Folger provides solid, invaluable information that will start you off right toward home-business success. The National Association of At-Home Mothers highly recommends this book for any mother wishing to make money from home." —Jeanette Lisefski, founder of AtHomeMothers.com and the National Association of At-Home Mothers
"On-target guidance that will hone your entrepreneurial skills and lead you to success in the right home-based business." —Richard Henderson, publisher of Home Business Magazine |
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129 of 133 found the following review helpful:
 Chicken soup for the soul is betterApr 10, 2000
By Mark S
This book is more about feel good stories of people who started a business and they liked what they were doing. If you liked Chicken Soup for the Soul, you will probably like this. I was looking for a book to give some ideas of what good businesses someone could do part-time and make some extra money. These stories covered various set up costs and barely gave an idea of what is needed. The book basically sums up to be: Find out what you like and make a plan. If you already figured that out, don't buy the book.
77 of 78 found the following review helpful:
 Way Too Vague to Be BeneficialOct 27, 2005
By Sally DeLellis
"Author of 5,000 Reasons to Smile...for Chicks"
The profiles contained within this book are enjoyable reads, but the information is simply not comprehensive enough to be of real value.
For instance, a proofreader is profiled - she proofreads manuscripts for major publishing houses, including bestsellers. The odds of landing this type of work, unless you have an "in" (you used to be in publishing, for instance) are nearly impossible. While it's understandable that the author wants to sound optimistic, the simplicity of some of her advice is misleading.
Another woman profiled is an attorney, who obviously has the contacts from her working days that bring her work to do at home, as well as the ability to offer a service that is in demand. The average SAHM doesn't have a law degree, and can't just run out and get one.
The truth is, if you don't have work experience or a formidable skill that somehow make you in-demand, this book will do you no good. If you do have the experience or skill, then what you need is a book on marketing your services...simply posting flyers, as suggested in the book, is not going to lead you to 30,50, 80K a year!
If you just want to make money while you're home with your child, but have no real skills or experience, then try selling on ebay or having merchandise parties in your home. If it were so easy for people to make tens of thousands out of their homes every year, everybody would be doing it.
63 of 69 found the following review helpful:
Very little info of what is needed to start a businessSep 16, 2002
By Robert D. Bahe
Very little info of what is needed to start a business. This book basically told stories of people who started a business and how they liked what they were doing. More on the lines of Chicken Soup for the Soul. The stories covered various set up costs but hardly gave any ideas of what is needed to start a business.
73 of 83 found the following review helpful:
 Like sitting down for coffee and a chat with a girlfriend.Jun 24, 1997
By Cheryl Demas
Has your search for a home business led you to claims like these?
MAKE MONEY WHILE YOU SLEEP!!!!
I MAKE $10,000 A WEEK WATCHING SOAP OPERAS!!!!
Or, on the other end of the spectrum, home business experts will tell you that to be successful, you must sacrifice everything for the sake of your business, and concentrate all your energy on the business. Do this or you're doomed to failure. "There must be some middle ground", you think, "something for a woman who wants to stay home with her children, but still make some money."
If this describes your search, the "Stay at Home Moms' Guide to Making Money - How to Create the Business That's Right for You Using the Skills and Interests You Already Have" by Liz Folger is what you've been looking for. This book is written for the woman who puts her children first, and is dedicated to her role as mother, but would still like to work from home. Liz Folger guides you through the process of finding a business, getting started, and dealing with the challenges of combining business and family. She then goes on to profile 29 moms and their home businesses. Reading these profiles is like sitting down for coffee and a chat with a girlfriend. The moms are honest about the mistakes they've made along the way, and they also tell how they manage to "do it all."
No, it's not easy, and it's not for everyone. But if you're thinking about working from home while raising your own children, "The Stay at Home Moms' Guide to Making Money" is an excellent place to start.
Cheryl Demas, editor
WAHM - The Newsletter and Online Magazine for Work at Home Moms
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
A must read for mothers who want to earn money from homeJun 05, 1997
The Stay-At-Home Mom's Guide to Making Money is
a great resource for mothers who desire to make
money at home. Liz Folger effectively addresses
the unique needs of stay-at-home mothers and
their ability to run home businesses. This book
highlights the reality of working at
home, warns of potential home business scams and
lays out the basic elements necessary for moms to
earn money from home. Moms will be
especially enlightened by the individual
interviews with home-working mothers, which
illustrate how they started, their earning
potential and their recommendations for other moms.
Review by: Tina Champagne-Egge
Executive Director
Association of Enterprising Mothers
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