Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #301
March 8, 2010 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
Traci Knoppe is an entrepreneur at heart. She has been a professional web designer since the late 1990’s and in recent years has added internet and affiliate marketer to her ever expanding resume.
From her extremely successful Beginner to Blogger in 4 Weeks blogging course, public speaking, coaching and teaching on the subjects ranging from blogging to social media, to her wildly successful American outsourcing service company – YourWebTechTeam.com - above all else, Traci is constantly striving to help others.
When she’s not working, Traci enjoys life spent with her husband, six children, two grandchildren, plus her six dogs and two cats. In her spare time she can be found sewing, making soap, bargain shopping and eating bon-bons on the sofa. 
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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #300
Happy 300th Episode to Work at Home Moms Talk Radio! Launched in November 2003, WAHM Talk Radio is the longest running podcast for the Work at Home Mom
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Kelly interviews Alice Seba of Contentrix.com. Since Alice was the primary cheerleader for the original launch of WAHM Talk Radio, it was a complete given that Kelly would want to have Alice in this special milestone episode.
Alice has created several successful online business, selling many along the way. She shares how her perspective as a work at home mom has changed over the years as her family grew.
Tishia Lee interviews Marie Ynami of MommyCommunity.com. Marie was the recent winner of the Why I Love MomWebs Video Promo Contest – you can check out her video by visiting the contest page and clicking on Marie’s name.
Marie’s a multi-faceted woman who enjoys blogging, producing content, singing karaoke and crafting who also works from the comfort of her own home. Tishia and Marie talk about how Marie got started working from home and Marie shares a few businesses that she tried before starting her online business in 1998. Sometimes you have to try a few things before you find your groove and Marie has certainly found her groove with Mommy Community – a successful website providing different resources for moms such as home biz training, mom manuals and more.
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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #299
Tishia Lee interviews Hollee Temple. Did you know when it comes to email there are etiquette rules you need to follow? Hollee shares several tips to make your email more professional. Be sure to listen in for some great tips and Tishia tell on herself for breaking just about all the rules Hollee mentions!
Hollee Schwartz Temple directs the legal writing program at West Virginia University College of Law. Holding both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northwestern University’s journalism school and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law, Prof. Temple writes a bi-monthly national column on work/life balance issues for the ABA Journal, read by half of the country’s one million lawyers. She is currently at work on Good Enough is the New Perfect (Harlequin Non-Fiction, Spring 2011), a nonfiction book that will chronicle how the mothers of her generation are redefining success and feminism by refusing to settle for lives they don’t want.
This week, Mary Lutz, the Efficient WAHM teaches you how little tricks can save a lot of money in the long run. Listen as she references a scene from Will Smith’s movie, Pursuit of Happyness and how she ties it into ways we can save time by using our keyboard shortcuts, just as Will’s character did, only using a phone, in the movie.
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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #298
February 15, 2010 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
Kelly McCausey interviews Edie McRae is a native Houstonian who called New Orleans home for 20 years. Hurricane Katrina devastated her community, including her entire immediate/extended family and friends. Undaunted, she and her family moved to Houston to start a new life from scratch.
EdieMcRae.com™ strives to connect small business owners to personal, financial and environmental resources for their businesses through effective use of popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging and more! She affectionately refers to herself as a “social media paramedic” because she helps clients break through the feelings of overwhelm with hands-on application, effective techniques and strategies that bridge the gap between theory and implementation.
Edie is going to the Mom 2.0 Summit and Kelly asked her some questions about the event.
Tishia Lee interviews Mary Lutz of provbs.com. Mary and Tishia talk about how Mary got started working from home – the when and the why. They also dig into Mary’s biggest struggle she finds herself facing working from home as well as the one thing she loves the most about working from home. Mary takes a few minutes to share about a major decision she was faced with this past December that would have had a major impact on her business.
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This week Mary Lutz, the Efficient WAHM, brings us her time saving tip “Turn off those Social Media Distractions”. Listen to Mary as she describes how social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can distract us from getting our work done which in turn causes us to lose money, instead of making it. Mary also tells us how we can effectively schedule in time for social networking so we don’t lose that important connection with our potential readers, subscribers and clients.
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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #297
February 8, 2010 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
Kelly McCausey interviews Justine Smith of Handmade Marketer – formerly the Etsy Business Blog. This mom of a two year old girl in Toronto, Canada has experiences some great successes with her own Etsy store and now she’s helping others to reach their goals. Justine is demonstrating how smoothly you can move from doing something to teaching something.
Tishia Lee interviews Angel Williams of Plus Size Skills.
Tishia wanted to bring a different perspective to this week’s interview – that of a newbie just starting out in the work at home/blogging community. Angel shares how she got to the point of just starting to break into the work at home community as well as what she wants to achieve with her blog.
Angel and Tishia talk about the feelings that Angel has as a newbie. Angel’s excitement is contagious and you don’t want to miss this week’s interview.
Important Reminder: The deadline for the Mom Webs Video Promo Contest is Monday, February 8th at Midnight. Make and submit your video ASAP!
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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #296
January 26, 2010 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
My guest this week is Michael Martine from Remarkablogger & Blog Traffic Fisher.
I run into two kinds of people in my coaching practice – well, I run into all kinds of people – but there are two kinds that stand out to me in two extremes.
The first kind wants to ‘be an expert’ but they don’t want to put themselves out there to begin to earn that expert status. The second kind wants to ‘be an expert’ and they want to put themselves out there in a really big way – but they haven’t done anything yet that really makes them an expert.
Somewhere between these two is the person who wants to be seen as an expert and is willing to do the time in the trenches – DOING something that causes others to notice them.
I asked Michael to join me to talk about doing what it takes to go from a nobody to someone remarkable to others.
This isn’t just about building a business around you being an expert. This is for anyone who wants to be paid for their services or products on the web. Michael has some amazing wisdom to share in this interview.
Mary Lutz the Efficient WAHM brings us another Time Saver:
You’ve probably heard the saying “many hands make light work”, but Mary Lutz, the Efficient WAHM rephrases it to “many hands make light work AND more money”. This week, Mary talks to us about outsourcing and how you can actually make more money when you pay someone to do those time-sucking activities that must be done.
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Recommended Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #295
January 18, 2010 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
Mom Webs Hosting is holding a fun Video Promotion Contest. You could win up to a year of free hosting plus some other great resources to help you with your web business! The first place winner will get a special appearance right here on Work at Home Moms Talk Radio to highlight her business. Learn how to enter here.
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Tishia Lee interviews LaTara Ham-Ying of Social Savvy VA this week. They chat about the thing that LaTara finds most rewarding about working from home – being there for her kids as well as the one thing she finds herself struggling with as a work at home mom which is the one thing that working from home is all about – being home. The last few minutes of the interview LaTara talks about those mentors she’s had along the way that have helped her get to where she’s at today as well as the one piece of advice that she thinks all ‘newbies’ or future work from home moms need to know.
This week’s time saving tip from Mary Lutz the Efficient WAHM has to do with computer keyboard shortcuts. She found a handy little button on her keyboard that does all kinds of neat little tricks that, when used regularly, add up to a lot of time saved…not to mention the amount your frustration level will decrease.
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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #294
January 12, 2010 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
I’m tickled pink to have my friend and fellow blogger, Brandie Kajino of The Home Office Organizer as my guest on this week’s Work at Home Moms Talk Radio! Brandie is mom to one great son and has built a home business as a professional organizer.
She has just launched her new VIP Membership site and I invited her to come on the show to share all about it. So click the play button and listen in!
Welcome to our new special segment provider, Mary Lutz – The Efficient WAHM! Mary is sharing the first of her great Time Savers with us this week.
Mary says, “This week’s time saving tip is to set a schedule. As simple as it sounds, it is one of the most important habits you need to do in order to save time and make time for your family and your business. Learn how you can set up a schedule that’s right for you and your business.”
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Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #293
January 4, 2010 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
Happy New Year 2010!
We fulfilled dozens of wishes in our 2009 #wahmwish campaign and as usual, I’m left feeling incredibly blessed by the generosity and care that flows through our awesome work at home moms community. Thank you for being a part of it!
What’s Coming in the New Year?
Well, last week I asked my mailing list to tell me what they felt they needed in the year ahead and I got a great response. You told me that you want to learn more about: writing good emails, Clickbank, Twitter, Facebook, Photoshop, CSS, Article Marketing and more. About a third of those that responded expressed a need to improve their verbal communication skills – several indicated that they are afraid to speak to a group – even in a virtual environment.
An overwhelming number expressed an interest in more interactive learning resources. There are some things they just don’t feel like they can learn from an ebook or an audio recording.
I’m excited about this input and I’ve already put some of it into action with the release of a brand new learning resource at Mom’s Talk Biz. It’s called Verbal Confidence and it’s all about developing verbal communication skills and growing comfortable with speaking to a group.
What’s new here at WAHM Talk Radio?
Well, I had to laugh when I was reading all of the replies – one long time listener wished for a return to an hour long version of Work at Home Moms Talk Radio… and she’s not alone. I hear this request from listeners all the time. I’ve decided that these crisp new days of 2010 are perfect to bring back the full one hour episodes once again
I won’t be doing it alone though – I’ve asked two of my friends to become a regular part of the show.
Starting next week you’ll be enjoying a new segment called ‘Time Savers with Mary Lutz, the Efficient WAHM‘’. Mary will be sharing tips and tricks for conserving minutes while doing every day tasks in our businesses.
And I’m pleased to announce that Tishia Lee will be a regular correspondent as well. She has been providing us with great interviews in the past few weeks and I’ve asked her to make it a regular gig. I’m so glad she said yes!
Work at Home Moms Talk Radio #292
December 21, 2009 by Tishia · Leave a Comment
Wondering how to work from home? Here’s how one mom does it…
Tishia Lee interviewed Susanne Myers of Hillbilly Housewife. Susanne talked about the new Hillbilly Housewife Club she just recently started. It’s a membership site where frugal moms meet, learn, share and care. Homemakers and working moms alike were looking for a place where they could learn more, but also exchange ideas and meet other women who were having success saving money, cooking low-cost healthful meals, and becoming debt-free and that’s where Hillbilly Housewife Club came into play.
Susanne also shared one tip about what it takes to not only become a successful online business owner but how to stay that way as well as one thing she wished she would have done differently in the beginning.
It’s not too late to submit your #wahmwish – we’ll start fulfilling wishes later this week!
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