2008 has been the year of Examining and Improving my business.
With a ruthless intentionality I pinpointed each of my web projects and demanded that it reveal its fruit and show whether it was delivering a harvest worthy of the amount of work and money being devoted to it.
Some projects passed proudly through the fire.
They [...]

Update: Voting Continues Until December 14th! (Details Below)
We tried and tried (my VA and I) to make a list of 100 (Active) WAHM Blogs - but I’ll be darned if after more than a month of effort we failed to reach that wonderful three digit number.
We even tried to squeeze in some extra blogs by [...]

That’s how a recent email began.
‘Kelly, I know you probably get emails like this all the time.’
And another addressed to a business partner and I started like this:
‘I’m sure you get a lot of e-mails like these, and I hope I don’t waste too much of your time, but. .  I have a proposal for [...]

This week’s WAHM Talk Radio is a ‘Coffee with Kelly’ episode.  That means it’s just me, a cup of coffee and you - my listener.  I’m talking right to you about the reality of what it takes to achieve a business dream.
I was recently reminded that a lot of folks have Dreams but never do [...]

This post has been co-written with Lynette Chandler of Easy Internet Survey.
Take several similar businesses who are all trying to reach and serve the same group of people… why will some businesses thrive and others fail?
Truthfully there are lot of potential reasons, far too numerous to list, but let’s imagine that these business owners are [...]

Single moms face additional obstacles when it comes to living their dream to be a full time work at home mom. There’s no one to share responsibilities with, no one to help with the kids or bring in a paycheck and insurance.
As a single mom I often felt completely overwhelmed. Looking back, I [...]

Everyone else here at Sparkplugging is either in Las Vegas or jetting their way there as I type.
They’re participating in the much acclaimed Blog World Expo.  I’m seeing a lot of chatter about the event on blogs and on Twitter - enough that I’m starting to feel the gentle bite of a mild jealousy that [...]

Last night I was nearly overwhelmed by the number of tweets and links to blog posts that were - ‘ahem’ - opinionated to say the least about Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin and her speech given at the RNC.
As a conservative voter - I don’t expect liberal voters to agree with me or like the [...]

When I started my home business I didn’t have any plans to quit my day job, I just wanted to make extra money so that I could keep my electicity from being turned off - again.
When I considered my options as a single mom with one eleven year old son I knew that picking up [...]

Fair WAHM to WAHM disclosure, this post is all about inviting you to come join me at Mom Masterminds
In the summer of 2004 Alice Seba and I launched Mom Masterminds.  MM is a private mentoring and networking membership for work at home moms who want to build an internet based business or who [...]