Marketing Materials

marketingmaterials77-cyndiboyer7You’re almost ready to open the doors to your new business.  You slowly, wisely and intelligently put the pieces to your business together, one by one. You’re excited and you’re ready to find and welcome new clients.  You’re ready to put your skills and abilities to work.  The one thing you need is a way to market your business in a unique and yet super powerful way.  You’ve been thinking outside the box, but you’re not exactly sure what you need in terms of your marketing materials.

Here at Moms in Slippers, we put together the most amazing marketing materials package for your new typing/secretarial business.  Our book of marketing materials are exactly what you need to grow your business as quickly as possible.

You want to make money because you need to make money and the time is now!  Here at Moms in Slippers we’ve created some of the most awesome marketing materials you will ever need to help your typing business soar. Designed to grab attention, we created these tools to help your business thrive.

Here’s what you’ll need to promote your typing business:

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  • Fliers
  • Postcards
  • Brochures

Ready to take your business to the highest level even before you open the doors to your new found business?  Grab your copy of The Shopping Cart and start making money in the comfort of your home today!

Make Money in Comfort

The Celebrating Home Work at Home Opportunity

Make Money at Home in Comfort Starting Right Now!

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Where are you in your life right now?  Where would you like to be?  Are you earning the kind of money you know you’re worth.  Are you making any money at all and you really want and need to earn a living to help provide for you and your family? Perhaps you’re working a job that you’re not happy in and you’re not making the kind of money you know you have the potential and ability to make; would you like to change that?  Would you like to be financially and debt free?

I don’t think it makes any sense for anyone to be struggling financially today.  What sense does it make for you to be living paycheck to paycheck.  So many people in their 40’s and 50’s struggle every day financially.  This just shouldn’t be.  It’s not right.  With all the endless work at home opportunities available to you, you should be living and enjoying an abundance of riches in your life and Celebrating Home can easily help you to achieve your work at home dreams.

Celebrating Home is one of the most lucrative and profitable work from home businesses in the world.  It is an awesome Christian work at home business in the work at home arena today.  I would love for you to read and find out more about this amazing work at home opportunity so that you can start living the life you want to live if that is your goal and aspiration.

To find out more about this platinum, truly golden opportunity, please visit my website.  I’d love to have you on my team. I will help you to build your business in a unique and great way!

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Type in the Comfort of Home

Your Type From Home Business

 

If you’re searching for a really lucrative work at home business then maybe a typing or secretarial may be the piece to your puzzle you need to open the doors to becoming your own boss.

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It’s true that some things do change, but as long as colleges exist that means that there are professors and which also means there are students that need to have term papers, reports, dissertations and the list goes on and on that need to be typed. Now, let’s help you to decide if a typing business is the right work at home business for you.

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Think about how fast you can type. If you can type thirty words a minute then you should think about setting up your own typing business right in the comfort of your own home. A typing business has the ability to bring you nonstop business that will keep you busy forever and the potential to make great money is phenomenal.  Think about this; how does making any where between $40-60 dollars an hour or more for typing dissertations, term papers, reports and more.  Its also possible for you to make a small fortune creating and designing fliers and brochures. The possibilities for having a successful typing business are endless.

So if you’re ready to get started I can help you by providing you with some of the most awesome marketing tools ever.  If you really want to jump start your business and set it up for great success you’ll need great looking marketing materials. I’ve created some of the most awesome marketing materials to help you to achieve your goals as easily as possible.

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15 Signs You’re An Entrepreneur

Get Focused and Start Your Business Today!

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Pressed to describe the stereotypical entrepreneur, which words would you use? Passionate? Dedicated? Optimistic? Sure, those apply. But insecure and troublemaker are more accurate, according to ‘treps who know a success when they see one. Do the following traits, characteristics and quirks describe you? Well then, you might be an entrepreneur (at heart, if not yet in practice).

1. You take action.
Barbara Corcoran, founder of The Corcoran Group, co-star of TV’s Shark Tank and author of Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business, says people who have a concept but not necessarily a detailed strategy are more likely to have that entrepreneurial je ne sais quoi. “I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans,” she says.

Corcoran’s recommendation? “Invent as [you] go,” rather than spending time writing a plan at your desk. In fact, she believes that people with life experience have an active problem-solving ability and think-on-your-feet resourcefulness that can be more valuable than book smarts alone. Those who study business may be prone to overanalyzing situations rather than taking action.

2. You’re insecure.
“Many entrepreneurs judged as ambitious are really insecure underneath,” Corcoran says. When evaluating potential investments, she adds, “I want someone who is scared to death.” Those who are nervous about failing can become hyperfocused and willing to do whatever it takes to succeed. If you feel insecure, use that emotion to drive you to achieve your business goals.

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3. You’re crafty.
“One of my favorite TV shows growing up was MacGyver,” confides Tony Hsieh, CEO of Las Vegas-based Zappos, “because he never had exactly the resources he needed but would somehow figure out how to make everything work out.”

A lifelong entrepreneur, Hsieh has done everything from starting a worm farm to making buttons and selling pizzas, so he admires MacGyver’s “combination of creativity, optimism and street smarts. Ultimately, I think that’s what being an entrepreneur is all about–playing MacGyver, but for business.” It’s not about having enough resources, he explains, but being resourceful with what you do have.

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4. You’re obsessed With cash flow.
Before founding Brainshark, a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of technology for business presentations, Joe Gustafson bootstrapped a venture called Relational Courseware. “All I ever thought about was cash flow and liquidity,” he says, admitting, “there were seven times in [the company’s] eight-year history when I was days or hours away from payroll and didn’t have enough cash to make it.”

How did he respond? “In the early days, you could step up and put expenses on your personal credit card, but that can only go so far,” he says. “You need cash–even if you have the best company and the best receivables in the world–to fight the battle one more day.” Other strategies he recommends include working with a partner who can provide cash advances on projects and maintaining close communication with suppliers.

 

5. You get into hot water.
Stephane Bourque, founder and CEO of Vancouver, British Columbia-based Incognito Software, says true entrepreneurial types are more likely to ask for forgiveness than permission, forging ahead to address the opportunities or issues they recognize, even without approval from higher-ups.

“Entrepreneurs are never satisfied with the status quo,” says Bourque, who discovered he was not destined for the corporate world when he kept coming up with new and better ways of doing things–ideas that were not necessarily appreciated by his bosses and often were interpreted as unwanted criticism. Now, he says, “I wish my employees would get into more trouble,” because it shows they are on the lookout for opportunities to improve themselves or company operations.

6. You’re fearless.
Where most avoid risk, entrepreneurs see potential, says Robert Irvine, chef and host of Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible. True ‘treps are not afraid to leverage their houses and run up their credit card balances in order to amass the funds they need to create a new venture. In some ways, he says, they are the ultimate optimists, because they operate under the belief that their investments of time and money will eventually pay off.

7. You can’t sit still.
Entrepreneurs have unbridled energy that fuels them long past the time when their employees have gone home. They are eager, excited and energized about business in a way that makes them stand out. Irvine would know: He owns a restaurant in South Carolina, is opening another in the Pentagon and has a line of food and clothing products, on top of hosting his TV show.

8. You’re malleable.
“If you have only one acceptable outcome in mind, your chances of making it are slim,” cautions Rosemary Camposano, president and CEO of Silicon Valley chain Halo Blow Dry Bars. If you are willing to listen, your clients will show you which of your products or services provide the most value.

Her original vision for Halo was part blow-dry bar, part gift shop, “to help busy women multitask,” she explains. But she quickly learned that the gift shop was causing confusion about the nature of her business, so she took it out, replaced it with an extra blow-dry chair, and things took off. Smart entrepreneurs constantly evolve, tweaking their business concepts in response to market feedback.

9. You enjoy navel gazing.
Without direct supervisors, entrepreneurs need to be comfortable with the process of evaluating their own performance, says Laura Novak Meyer, owner of Pennsylvania’s Little Nest Portraits. That requires “a willingness to solicit feedback from those around you to self-improve,” she says, as well as paying close attention to feedback you may not have asked for, such as customer complaints or being outpaced by competitors. Little Nest surveys every client to ask for opportunities for improvement, and Meyer has worked closely with a business coach for the past five years to identify personal areas where she needs to improve.

10. You’re motivated by challenges.
When confronted by problems, many employees try to pass the buck or otherwise wash their hands of the situation. Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, rise to the occasion. “Challenges motivate them to work harder,” says Jeff Platt, CEO of the Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park franchise. “An entrepreneur doesn’t think anything is insurmountable … He looks adversity in the eye and keeps going.”

Candace Nelson, founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, agrees. Despite naysayers who questioned her idea for a bakery in the midst of the carb-fearing early-2000s, she persevered and now has locations in eight states. In fact, she was one of the first entrepreneurs in a business that became an ongoing craze, sparking numerous copycats.

11. You consider yourself an outsider.
Entrepreneurs aren’t always accepted, says Vincent Petryk, founder of J.P. Licks, a Boston chain of ice-cream shops. They may be seen as opinionated, quirky and demanding–but that is not necessarily a bad thing. “They are often rejected for being different in some way, and that just makes them work harder,” Petryk says. When his former boss didn’t approve of his off-duty research into ice-cream quality, he went out on his own to develop a made-from-scratch dessert in bold flavors. Rather than copying what most other ice-cream shops were doing, including buying from the same well-known suppliers, Petryk forged his own path. His early competitors? All but one are no longer in business.

12 . You recover quickly.
It’s a popular notion that successful entrepreneurs fail fast and fail often. For Corcoran, the trick is in the speed of recovery: If you fail, resist the urge to mope or feel sorry for yourself. Don’t wallow; move on to the next big thing immediately.

13. You fulfill needs.
Many people recognize marketplace holes, but it is the true entrepreneur who takes them from cocktail napkin to reality, says Jennifer Dawn, partner in New York City-based Savor the Success, a business network for women. “Entrepreneurs think of a way to fix it and take steps to fix it. They are innovators.” So when Savor’s network of women began asking for advice and input from co-founder Angela Jia Kim, she and Dawn created a new product: Savor Circles. These mastermind groups connect four members who give each other tailored input and expertise; even better, they provide Savor the Success with a new revenue stream.

14. You surround yourself with advisors.
Actress Jessica Alba, co-founder and president of Santa Monica, Calif.-based The Honest Company, which sells baby, home and personal-care products, notes that “it’s important to surround yourself with people smarter than you and to listen to ideas that aren’t yours. I’m open to ideas that aren’t mine and people that know what I don’t, because I think success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.”

“Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.”
–Jessica Alba, The Honest Company

In other words: True ‘treps don’t hire yes men; they talk to those with experience and conduct thorough research, gathering as much information as they can to make informed decisions rather than taking a shot in the dark.

15. You work and play hard.
“Entrepreneurs fall down and pick themselves up until they get it right,” says Micha Kaufman, who snowboards and sails in addition to running Fiverr, the fast-growth online freelance marketplace he co-founded.

Like in sports, the key to success in business is staying super-focused, the CEO notes. During Fiverr’s launch, instead of trying to deal with “an endless number of potential challenges,” Kaufman and his team focused on “the single biggest challenge every marketplace has: building liquidity.

Without liquidity, there is no marketplace. It’s like worrying about the skills needed for frontside-360 jumps before getting on a snowboard and learning the basics.”

How To Succeed at Working From Home

Work at Home Success!

When people think about working from home, many imagine sleeping in late, lounging around in their pajamas and long leisurely lunches. “But what people need to realize is that even though working from home offers a great amount of flexibility, it is still a professional job and it needs to be treated as such,” says Holly Reisem Hanna, the founder of The Work at Home Woman, an award-winning blog dedicated to helping women and moms fulfill their dreams of working from home or becoming self-employed.

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“Individuals need to learn best work at home practices, like setting office hours, having a dedicated office space, avoiding home-bound distractions, and actually dressing as if you were going to an office,” she says. “This will help keep your mindset sharp and focused.”

I can vouch for that. I’m working from home today and it’s no easy feat. I woke up, got dressed, powered on my laptop, and got to work—but it’s sometimes difficult to stay focused with so many distractions and temptations around me. I only work from home under special circumstances—maybe five or six times a year—but some do it more frequently, and others work out of their homes permanently. It’s not for everyone, though, and some do it more successfully than others.

“I think it depends almost entirely on the individual,” says Jenny Foss, a recruiter, career coach and founder of the career blog JobJenny.com. “As someone who made the transition–first to working part-time in an office and part-time at home, and then to being at home full time, and now, back to a split schedule–I understand first-hand that working from home is much different than an office environment. Those who are going adjust well to it, and be happy with working from home, will be those who are self-disciplined with their time, don’t rely on face-to-face banter with co-workers throughout the day, and those who are independent when it comes to administrative issues that will invariably crop up throughout any given week.”

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Jacquelyn Smith

Forbes Staff

 

WordPress

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Using WordPress

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As a susie homemaker and as a successful work at home mom, I knew I would need a website to help build my business.  When I started Moms in Slippers eleven years ago, I used FreeWebs as my platform.  I got a lot of traffic driving to my site every day and MIS was thriving.  My Google Adsense was growing and I was doing really well, but then I discovered WordPress and everything changed for me.

After doing extensive research on other platforms I decided to give WordPress a try.  Oh my goodness, WordPress was beyond complicated with it’s themes and myriad of plugins.  I tried my best to figure out this impossible platform, but I just didn’t understand how it worked.  I couldn’t figure out how to configure the menu, the plugins or anything.  I was stumped and I’m an expert when it comes to things like this, but WordPress had me.  It was truly a daunting task trying to learn how to use this platform.

Back to Webs and Then Brave Net

Okay, here I go, back to Webs and then over to Brave Net.  My oh my I was all over the place trying to figure out what platform would be a good fit for me and MIS.  I tried and really liked Bravenet, but I wasn’t satisfied with the widths of their themes.  I like things a certain way and I just couldn’t see myself using Bravenet longterm even though it had some great features.  I then decided to go back to Webs, for the hundredth time and just keep MIS there, but that relationship fizzled once again.

Light Bulb Moment

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I went back to WordPress and all of a sudden I had a lightbulb moment and I’ve been in love ever since.  The only problem that I’ve found with WordPress is that it was hard to drive traffic to my site until I did some more serious studying and found the key on how to get traffic to my WordPress blog/site.  My goodness, talk about challenging, but I have enjoyed everything I’ve learned about WordPress.  I’ll be producing my ebook soon on how to use WordPress to build your blog/website because I do believe that there is a need for it.

When I was trying my best to figure out WordPress I watched YouTube videos, but they were really no help.  In my upcoming course I will show you step-by-step and I mean step-by-step on how to setup your WordPress blog and how to use the plugins and everything that goes with running a successful WordPress site.  I want to give my audience step-by-step details because most tutorials fly through the lessons and they are not very clear or they go around the moon and back again.

Let Me Show You How I Did It

If you want to build your website using WordPress I can show you how step-by-step to ensure that you build your blog or site without wasting time because I know what it means to need help and can’t find exactly what you need in specific areas in building a website using WordPress.  You see that it really is easier than you might think.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be Your Own Boss

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When I joined Celebrating Home seven years ago, I was excited. I always wanted to be my own boss and was thrilled with the thought of working for myself in the comfort of my home.  I honestly believed and felt that the Celebrating Home opportunity was the perfect work from home business that would allow me to create my own schedule and truly design my business my way, which was around my family.  When I became a Designer with Celebrating Home, I immediately fell in love with their products.  Their candles smelled amazing and I was ready to launch my business sharing it with my family and all my friends.  They, too, loved the candles and I was on my way to enjoying great rewards that being my own boss would give me.

Fundraising with Celebrating Home

A Great Work at home Business Opportunity

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When I opened the doors to my Celebrating Home business, my son was in the 7th grade. His school was having their annual fundraiser and I thought to myself, this is the perfect time to launch the fundraising aspect of my Celebrating Home business.  The moms on the fundraising committee at B.J’s school decided that they would give me a chance and use my candles for their fundraising campaign.  It was a success, though very small.  I made about $100, but I was so deeply grateful for that because it gave me and my Celebrating Home business the opportunity to get our names out there.  That was my first and last fundraiser only because I didn’t pursue that piece of my business because it wasn’t something that I enjoyed doing.  I love selling my candles, wall art, home decor and kitchenware and that’s what I do now every day along with my other home based businesses.

Fundraising May Be a Good Fit for You

As a stay a home mom looking for a great work at home opportunity, fundraising may be the answer and key to your work from home success.

If you’re in dire need of earning an income or you want to make a little or a lot of extra money to help support your family, then the Celebrating Home opportunity may be an excellent fit for you and your current lifestyle if you are a stay at home mom. Celebrating Home offers many incentives that are motivating and fulfilling.  Bonuses along with your commissions are a great way to earn even more money from your Celebrating Home business.  The opportunity is amazing and the rewards, again, endless.  If you have a child in private school, or maybe you have a child going to college this fall or perhaps you’re swimming in credit card debt, Celebrating Home can easily help you to achieve all of your work at home goals and make the kind of money you know you’re capable of making and truly deserve! 

Looking for a Wonderful Work from Home Opportunity to Support Your Family?

What About a Great Fundraising Opportunity to Support Your Organization?

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With up to 50% of all sales benefiting an organization’s goal, Our fundraising program is community minded. With so many organizations in need of funding, we are thrilled to give back to local sports teams, schools, churches and other organizations with this program. Celebrating Home has made our products even more affordable to ensure more families may enjoy them.

Your friends and family will look forward to supporting your Celebrating Home fundraiser with the wide variety of products offered. We offer candles, fragrance warmers and gels, plaques, table signs, totes, gift wrap and cookie dough. Also new in Spring 2014, we have prebaked sweet treats such as cookies, cinnamon rolls, and braided bread!

Many organizations use our products for fundraising throughout the year. Sports teams, cheerleading squads, school classes, even privately owned businesses turn to Celebrating Home for fundraiser ideas. We have Designer fundraising consultants who love to make it EASY for you to raise MORE MONEY than you ever thought possible.

We make it easy for you from start to finish! With tiered services to ship to you in bulk, sorted by seller or even directly to your customers, you will be amazed at how little work your organization needs to do to get your items delivered.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
START YOUR FUNDRAISER TODAY!

No Place Like Working From Home!

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There Is No Place Like Home!

Work at Home for Yourself

Working from home is one of my greatest and must fulfilling accomplishments. I continue to strive towards building my businesses a little more each and every day and it’s just one of the things that I look forward to because not only are my businesses helping me to earn money, but more importantly what I do helps me to help others.

I love to write and I love to share my goals and dreams with my audience and followers. Being a business owner is not all about making money because anybody can make money online in the comfort of their own home, but not every body has the heart to help others.

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Helping You Live Your Work at Home Dreams!

I believe that it is essential to bless others on this awesome road to being a highly successful work at home mom/woman.   I love being like salt and light, making an impact on the lives of those who long to work at home. My goal has always been to be a blessing and sincere help to moms and women who seriously want to start their own highly successful and prosperous home based business.

Creating Wealth

I know and I have a deep understanding of what it means to have to work to earn money to take care of a family. When I worked as program coordinator at the local hospital near my home, I learned some priceless lessons; the main one being, I wanted to be my own boss and create my own wealth. Having some knowledge and background on how to make this happen, I began my amazing work-at-home journey back in 2002 after leaving corporate America. My typing skill was the one thing that I knew I could use to help me to embrace this newfound venture that I was about to embark on and I quickly realized that I had this great potential to take a typing business to whole new level of a secretarial business that I could grow beyond my imagination and I did just that. Even though I let Magic Fingers Secretarial Services go almost as quickly as it was birthed, I made a whole lot of money, but I was not being fulfilled. I also knew that I could do something even greater. I had a skillset, a gift of creativity and design along with my unique gifts of writing that I so desperately wanted to use to provide products and services that people needed and still need to this very day. I was right.

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Here I am still working, but enjoying every sing thing I am doing simply because I am working wiser, smarter, happier and more content than ever.  More consistency. Better marketing. I took a whole new look at all the things I’ve been doing and I began doing them even better than ever. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that I am writing more and more every day. I am writing from my heart, always being a genuine and sincere soul, I love sharing all that lays on the table of my heart to bless others. This is so very important to my business. If I can’t help my followers to achieve perhaps just one goal every day, what good am I? Life and having a home based business, or being a business owner is not just about me making a boat load of money, but rather it’s all helping my audience and customers to find and get what they need for their lives and their businesses, to help them prosper and thrive in ways they never ever thought possible.

As an awesome and highly grateful entrepreneur, wonderful, caring and loving mom (as told by my four precious pearls), dedicated wife, faithful and loving daughter, caregiver, magnificent coach, counselor and woman of God, I am elated and super delighted to give and share information that I have been given to you. I hope you will accept and apply all that I will be passing along to you and if you have something you’d like to share with me, my heart is open and I accept.

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Your To Do List

Accomplishing Your Goals On Your To Do List

 

Here at Moms in Slippers, it is my ultimate goal to help stay-at-home moms become successful work-at-home moms.Work from home ad

Starting a profitable and successful home based business is not hard.  It just takes dedication and commitment to make your business great.  

Your To Do List

I’ve always read many articles and I’ve heard other business owners say you have to see what the competition is doing and compare your product/service to theirs.  This may be true for some, but I believe that if you have a product or service that provides or offers a need then your business will thrive.  If you’re using your gifts, talents, awesome skills and amazing abilities along with your wisdom, knowledge and understanding then you’ll always be ahead, just simply and easily moving forward positioning yourself in a place you never even thought possible. Your daily to do list can help you to begin your journey and will serve as a compass for as long as you’re in business.  Your to do list is essential to and for your business because it will ensure that you accomplish each task that is important to you while creating your business goals for growth.

When I started my work from home businesses, I was all over the place, just like a lot of women who have chosen to open the doors to their own businesses.  I’ve made a lot of mistakes, the biggest mistake being not just sticking to one thing, but because I love to write and I have a deep passion for designing, I kept getting a ton of ideas in my head.  It seemed I was starting a new business every few months.  I then learned how to piece all my businesses together because they were all relevant to my main business, Cyndi’s Light Work Designs.  I learned how to make my own websites and I designed all my own headers and buttons.  For me, this wasn’t work, but a peace that I experienced whenever I was doing something to help grow my business.  I even designed my own marketing materials.  My audience loved everything I designed and they loved everything that I wrote that pertained to my business.  

Being a business owner is exciting but only when you know what it is that you’re doing and when you know the direction that you want to take your business in.  

When I started Cyndi’s Light Work Designs it was birthed from Angel On My Shoulder, Coloring Pages for Children. momHome-is-where-Mom-is And then I began adding piece by piece to my design business.  From the main branch of my tree, other branches have sprouted which have truly helped my business take on a whole new life that has given me a lot of pleasure and joys that I know for a fact could not have given me had I decided to continue to work in corporate America.

My time spent in corporate America has taught me a lot though and I am so highly grateful for all the lessons I’ve been able to apply to business.  When I was promoted to program coordinator on my last job at the hospital, I knew very little about the computer, but once I was given the opportunity to learn new things, I taught myself every single thing that I needed to learn about Microsoft Word, so much so that it changed my life because I was able to take that knowledge and apply it to my business.  I do believe that every business needs a computer and we all need to be computer savvy. From that point on, every single software program has come to me very easily; it’s almost like I designed the software myself.  This is a gift I’ve been given and I use all my gifts confidently and I love it.  I taught myself Photoshop and more.  

If want to start your own home based business and you’re a little or a lot nervous about everything that goes along with being a business owner/entrepreneur email me and I will coach you through it.  It’s easy, highly rewarding and amazingly fulfilling and I say this because you’ll be utilizing your God-given gifts in a unique and awesome way, your way!

Your Business Tools

Business Tools You Can Use

When structuring and setting up your launch for your new magnificent home based business there are some Virtual Phone Service for Your Businessessential business tools that you will need to ensure the success and smooth running of your business.

One tool that we all need as women entrepreneurs or business owners is a business telephone.  Ring Central has a wonderful system that works great for any business and their customer service is exceptional.

Another great business tool that every business should have is a great looking website.  For your website platform I highly recommend WordPress. They have a large variety of themes to choose from along with a host of plugins that will allow you to make the website all your own.  You can customize it to your taste and wow your audience.  Weebly is another platform, as well as webs, but I think WordPress is perfect for anyone looking to build a nice website.

And of course you will need hosting if you decide to go with WordPress.  Hostgator is awesome and has everything you’ll need to run your site using WordPress.  Bluehost is another great choice to host your website on, you really can’t go wrong with either.  You can research both to see which one will best fit your needs.  You have a lot of options to choose from and with all the great hosting platforms available to you, just make sure you find the one that will give you all the options you’re looking for.

I research everything when it comes to my businesses and I’ve found a lot of great information which can be
overwhelming, but if you just take your time, you’ll be just fine and you’ll carefully choose all the right business tools that will benefit you and your business as you prepare to journey to your work at home destination. It’s a fun time and a great position to be in!
 

Benefits of Being Your Own Boss

Great Benefits of Working for Yourself!

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I’ve had some great ideas and some wonderful inventions and each and every one of my ideas have been an enormous hit accompanied with great success and prosperity, almost like writing a song that instantly becomes a hit record.  A song writer writes one great song and she can’t put down the pen because she’s thrilled about writing the next one.  As a matter-of-fact, she has the next song already written in her head and it’s etched in her heart.  She just needs to get it on paper and then write the beautiful music that will compliment her lyrics.

 

That’s how running my businesses have been for me.  It seems every single week or month, I’m coming up with more and more brilliant ideas.  I have multiple gifts and I love using every single one of them.  This is how I keep my businesses thriving.

For instance Cyndi’s Light Work Designs; it’s not just a design business, it’s so much more.  I grow my design business with all the components that I’ve attached to it: Scriptures on the Table; Personalized Keepsakes; Treasures of His Grace and now Life Changing Aspirations.  I believe that every one of these components will serve a need.

If there is something pressing hard on your heart, a business concept, or perhaps you may be considering becoming a Mary Kay consultant or 5Links rep, or whatever it is you are pondering, get it going and then you can make it your very own by implementing your thoughts and ideas and start enjoying a real highly profitable business of your own.

There are endless ways to make money in the comfort of your own home.  Why start today.  I’m sure you’ll find something you love to do and remember, it doesn’t have to be hard.

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Brilliant Ideas

How To Turn Your Brilliant Ideas Into A Profitable Long-Lasting Business!

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So you have the most brilliant idea and you’ve been contemplating turning into a home based, work-at-home business that you just know has the potential to make you enormous profits.  It isn’t just a huge money maker, but it has the awesome ability to be a great help to others.  This idea has been swirling around in your head for the longest time and now it’s time to launch it and share it with others.

Do you know what you’ll need.  Are all systems in place to make your business highly successful to the point that it will thrive for as long as you want or need it to.  Have you completed you research on how to start your business.  Do you have everything you need to help make your business run and flow smoothly in its’ day-to-day operations?  Do you have your business telephone line, a computer, printer or just whatever it takes to begin your work at home journey?  

Being your own boss is beyond rewarding for a number of reasons:

1.  You work on your own schedule

2.  If you have small children, you’ll always be available to and for them.

3.  You don’t have to ever worry about commuting to an office, sitting in rush-hour traffic.

4.  You can greet your children with loving and open arms when they get home from school with a warm plate of delicious brownies waiting for them.

5.  You can do things your way.

6.  You can implement as many of your own amazing ideas to help your business steadily grow.

You see the list is endless.  You can make your own list as to why working for yourself is highly beneficial.  

For me, working from home is the only way to work.  I love it and I wouldn’t have it any other way!

No One Like You

There is No One Like You!

What does this say to you.  There is no one like you.  It means you have a gift.  Maybe you have several gifts.  Whatever gifts you have been given, if you’re not using your gifts, it’s time to unwrap and share your gifts with the world.

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Think of your gifts like Christmas presents.  Anyone would be elated to receive the gift that you have.  Why not start your own home based business with your amazing gift.  You’ll change the world and you’ll change your life!

Loving What I Do

Doing What I Love Almost All The Time!

As a work-at-home mom, I work doing what I love which is designing, writing and always helping someone in some form or capacity.  It is who I am.  It is my heart.  It is my life.

Using my great gifts, amazing abilities and awesome skills, I have journeyed into a whole new world of what it means to work from home.  Work at home, work from home, work for myself.  I am my own boss. I have created my own schedule which means I work when I want to work.  I can take my vacation and lunch breaks at the times I designate without ever having to worry if my schedule will conflict with someone’s else’s schedule.  I am free.  Free to do what I love to do.  Free to implement all my own genius ideas into my own work at home business to make it a wonderful success.  There is no cap on my salary.  There are no limits placed on me and I love constantly building my business to suit and meet my audience’s needs.  This is what I call living life to the fullest.  

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So I say all of this to say that now I am embarking, once again, on another new work at home venture.  It is another step on the ladder of my design business; www.cyndisdesignz.com  I am excited and it’s something I’ve been wanting to do for far too long.  I have all systems in place with the exception of one small item.  I just have to get a newer printer before I can open the doors to this business and so I plan to have my new printer soon.  I have to finish doing some research on what printer will best fit my new goals.  

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And once again, I am saying all of this to say to you, you highly intelligent and gifted women and moms, If you’re still sitting and looking around and pondering your next move in terms of working for yourself, if you have something that you know people need, don’t waste another second.  Just do it.  It’s easy.  So very easy.  

 

Being Productive

Hello Moms,

I hope you all are well and I hope you enjoyed your 4th of July holiday.  

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My family and I had a spectacular 4th of July this year.

Last week I didn’t have a productive week at all in terms of my businesses.  I was busy preparing for the 4th of July weekend for my family’s cookout on Sunday, July 6th.  Friday, July 4th, I cooked and cleaned just about the entire day, but my husband helped me.  I had him sweeping and cleaning our hardwood floors in the living room.  He swept behind the sofas and he also cleaned the dining rooms floors.  We used part vinegar and water to clean our hardwoods; the vinegar cleans amazingly.  After the floors dried, I had him put varnish down on the floor to give it a beautiful shine.  My cousin uses baby oil to shine her floors, but it is just too slippery and someone could get serious injured when they walk on the high shining floors.  Olive Oil is a good way to shine hardwood floors, but the varnish lasts a long time which means the floors look good for a long time.

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After my husband cleaned the living and dining rooms he headed into the bonus room to clean it and that was major work because we have so much stuff jammed in that room.  Once again, he did a wonderful job organizing everything.  It looked like a whole new room when he got finished cleaning it.

After that, I headed into the kitchen where I prepared my potato and seafood salads.  This year, I decided to cut my celery and onions in advance.  I even mixed them altogether adding the mayo, relish and all my seasoning as if I was actually making the salads right then and there.  It’s a lot of work prepping, but I wanted to make things a little easier on myself so I decided to prep earlier than usual.  The only thing that I didn’t add to my potato salad this time was my hard-boiled eggs because one of my son’s friends doesn’t like egg in his potato salad.  Both of my salads tasted incredible; just truly delicious.  I couldn’t believe it myself even though I am an excellent cook. (Lol) I should be on the cooking network with my own cooking show.  I love to cook, bake brownies and peanut butter cookies which is why I cannot wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas to get here.

My Newest Dessert;

The Pepperidge Farm Banana Pudding.  Too Good To Be True!

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Sunday came and I was still super busy making even more food.  I wanted to be sure that I had more than enough food to feed my guests.  I always make more than enough food because my guests love to take home a plate or two!  My husband and I had to make our way to Giant Supermarket to pickup some last minute items that I needed to make my Pepperidge Farm banana pudding that my husband can’t seem to get enough of.  The banana pudding is out of this world and I have made a vow to make it for my husband every Sunday.  We have to watch out though because this banana pudding is so scrumptious it can pack the pounds on you!  My husband doesn’t have to worry about putting on any weight because he can eat just about anything and not gain an ounce of weight.  

The cookout turned out to be really nice although it was just my two sons’ friends who attended.  My husband and I just enjoyed each other’s company and we had a grand time sitting outback of our home listening to some of the greatest sounds to ever grace the airwaves.  The food was some of the best I had made in a long time in terms of a cookout and my sons’ friends loved everything that I cooked.  From the ribs to burgers, everything that God supplied us with turned out to be absolutely delicious.

Until our next cookout, I’ve got to get busy working again because I miss it and I miss it because I love what I do.  I hope you’re well and are enjoying this season of caring, sharing and giving.

 

When I Work

My Work at Home Life

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My work at home experience has been awesome.  I have several work from home businesses that I enjoy, but what I love the most is designing.

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Being a self-taught designer, I’ve learned a lot about the different elements of my craft and I always welcome learning new and unique things.

Working at home allows me to take my time in terms of creating my brilliant and vibrant masterpieces.  When I design logos for my clients, I try my very best to create a masterpiece that they envision.  I take my time and work to try to get as close as possible to what they tell me from the color scheme all the way to the creation itself.  Being perfectly honest, sometimes, I can piece a design together in a matter of just an hour and sometimes it may take longer depending on the type of logo/design I’ve been asked to make.

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Whatever the design is, be it a logo, a personalized keepsake for a birthday, graduation, a special cause or occasion, I work in comfort knowing that because I work for myself, I never have to worry about doing things so fast that the finished product doesn’t represent who I am as a graphic artist.

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Superior Customer Service Great for Business

 

I was up before the sun this morning. My daughter had sent me a text
asking me to call her when I woke up. When I woke up this morning, it
was around 6:34. My plan was to be walking in the supermarket, again,
by 7 a.m. I got there at exactly 6:53 a.m., but when I got there the
doors were locked on the east end of the market so I made my way down
to the opposite end, grabbed my shopping cart and immediately started
shopping. The first thing that hit me in the face when I entered the
market was Gatorade; 10 for $10. The next thought was my bottomless
pit, son, B.J., but when I got home another thought popped into my
mind; Christmas. I can save these Gatorades for the Christmas season
since I’m expecting a lot of company these will be perfect. Now
looking back, I should have gotten 10 more, but I can go back and get
more before the sale ends. I was right in my thinking because my
daughter was calling me so early in the wee hours of the morning to
ask if she can have company for the Christmas holiday. I told her
that she has to ask her father, but it was fine with me, so I’m
thinking I need to really get moving on my Christmas shopping to
ensure that I have more than enough food and drinks.

I’m shopping away in Giant looking for sales. The store is empty
except for the employees and a few early morning shoppers like myself.
As time went on a few more shoppers came into the store and I guess
they were thinking like I was thinking; get up and get the grocery
shopping finished early so that we can have the day to finish all of
our other tasks on our Saturday-to-do-list. While shopping, I said
good morning to the other shoppers and a few looked at me as if I had
4 heads. I immediately thought to myself as I often have to remind
myself, not everyone is going to be receptive of my heart. I have to
keep telling myself that because I honestly believe that people should
be love and I’m sure some of them are, but I guess I just expect
people to show it as I do, but that’s okay because you never ever know
what people are going through. I smiled at one man and he looked at
me like I was stone out of my mind, but I just pushed on, grateful for
my life.

The people in the market reminded me of something very important
pertaining to my business: I am a business owner and I love to treat
my customers with a smile. I want to make sure that my customers and
potential customers hear and feel my smile. I want the sincerity of
my voice, tone and words ensure their satisfaction not just with my
products, but with me as an individual and business owner. I want them
to know that they can always trust me. I usually earn my customers
trust during our first conversation because sincerity and just being
plain nice is my nature; there is no other way to be. I make sure
that my customers can hear me smile over the phone and they can
picture a smile from me via email. This is extremely vital to my
business and I’m sure you feel the same way and besides this is great
for customer retention so make it a practice to practice superior
customer service skills.

 

The Benefits of Being Your Own Boss

Have you started your own home based company. Is there something
holding you back; maybe you just can’t decide on what business venture
you’d like to tap into. There are tons of work-at-home opportunities
out there, but wouldn’t it make sense to start with your heart. What
I mean by this is simple and really, it is simple, real easy to start
a home business when you start from your heart because your start up
will be your passion. This is the reason you want to start your home
based business because you have a burning passion inside of you and
you know for a fact that you can turn that passion into a profitable
business, but your focus shouldn’t be earning profits, it should be
doing what you love to do.

When I started my home business, I started it because I was laid-off
from a job I despised and I didn’t want to even think about working
for someone else ever again. I didn’t want to carry the burden of
having to go on job interviews and I didn’t want to deal with office
politics. Why do these things that make life so very difficult on a
job even have to come into play. Why can’t we just go to work, do our
jobs and from time-to-time, be heard when we want to implement our own
ideas that we know for a fact will help to make things better for the
company. Instead we are forced to deal with supervisors who think they
have the right to down to you forgetting that you’re as much an adult
as they are and that they have no right to talk to you in such a
disparaging manner or tone. This is unacceptable.

Okay, getting back to what I was saying because I’ll go on and on
forever about working for someone else. I started my own typing and
transcribing business because it was something that I knew had the
potential for me to earn a lot of money. Magic Fingers Secretarial
Service was born and passed away once I discovered it was not my
passion at all. I began to feel like it was a major chore for me to
type dissertations even though I made really good money. At first, I
was thrilled to have started Magic Fingers because I thought typing
was truly my passion, but I realized that owning a home based typing
business was not for me when I discovered the art of design. Now
don’t get me wrong, I love to type, but for myself and I did enjoy it
for as long as it lasted, but when I began creating works of art with
my software program, a fire ignited in me and Cyndi’s Light Work
Designs was founded. It’s amazing how when I began creating my
magnificent masterpieces, I thought to myself, Cynthia, you’ve been
wanting to have your own t-shirt business for the longest and your
design business is the gift God gave you to start your t-shirt
business. Isn’t it awesome how God puts the pieces of the puzzle
together for you out of His love for you.

My desire and initial thoughts were to open an online store to sell my
design on various merchandise. I looked into CafePress and Zazzle.
When I read about the commission, I closed both stores and just laid
dormant for way too long because I just didn’t have the funds to open
a physical store and CafePress and Zazzle were out of the question; my
oh my was I ever wrong. I am one to research and research, but for
some reason, I didn’t research CafePress and Zazzle nearly enough to
know that anyone can have a great online store creating and using
their very own designs. Now I have several stores on both CafePress
and Zazzle; my only regret is that I wish I would have kept them open;
it was a lesson I had to learn. I am growing my stores and I am
loving it. I have to promote my stores to drive traffic, but that’s
not too hard and when you have a business you love, its never hard
work to put in hard work if you know what I mean. I thoroughly enjoy
working all of my businesses and blogs. Its like it just feeds me
because I love to share my stories to be a help and blessing to others
who may be thinking of opening an online store or starting a home
business of their own.

If you want to start a business working in the comfort of your home,
don’t wait another second. What is your passion; what gifts and
talents do you possess that you think would give you the happiness you
desire and that you can use to start and grow your own business.
Think of your passion as a career. You probably have a passion
embedded deep inside and you that you’ve given deep and careful
thought to; well think no more; if you know like I know you need to
just write down your thoughts right now, pen your goals, create a plan
and start your own home based business. If you’ve been equipped with
all the right tools, your business cannot possibly fail.

Working in Comfort

Working in comfort doesn’t just mean working comfortably in my bedroom slippers.  It means doing things my way.

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I’ve set up and built my business on my terms.  I’ve pieced it altogether using my skills and my amazing typing, transcribing, writing and designing abilities.  My schedule revolves around my family’s schedule and my time is my time.

I work when I want to work. I can take my lunch break anytime of the day if I so choose.  I go drive to the market to get the staples that every cupboard needs or to do my weekly grocery shopping.  I can also go on vacation whenever I want to without ever having to worry when someone is going to take the time that I may want. I don’t have to worry about scheduling my vacation around someone’s else’s time.  For me, time is a very precious and special component in my life as well as in my business.

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As a business owner working from home, I never ever have to worry about punching a clock.  I have the freedom to do everything my way.  To build my business my way.  I have endless opportunities to incorporate all my own original and brilliant ideas to keep my business soaring for as long as I’m in business.  So all these things mean that I work at home in comfort simply because I do things my way.  There is no limit or salary cap placed on my talents, gifts, skills and abilities.  I get to use every ounce of my talents in a way that will keep my business prospering and in a class by itself.

 

How to Start a Home Based Business

So you want to work from home.  It’s easier than you could ever imagine and here’s why.

As you sit in your house or apartment, I want you to look around you.  Write down what you see.  Maybe you see a picture hanging on the wall.  Perhaps you see somethings in your kitchen that inspires you.  The cabinet doors.  The refrigerator.  Your precious pearls, your children.  Look at them and think about how precious they are to you.  What do they need?  What can you give them that would be beneficial to them in your eyes, but a lot of fun or educational for them.  Maybe it’s creating some coloring pages or a coloring book.  Maybe you can write a children’s book; a personalized children’s book with your child’s name.  There it is.  The beginning of a great new business venture; a business you can grow and enjoy.  It’s just that easy.

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What are you waiting.  Let’s get started.

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