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Congratulations to Charlene @Swtlilchick, you are the lucky winner of the Belle Merce Social Status Necklace. If you are interested in ordering your own social status necklace please visit BelleMerce.com.
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Ever since I heard Soleil Moon Frye opened up her organic baby boutique, The Little Seed, I wanted to interview her about the store and how she is able to juggle it all. Then I found out Melissa Joan Hart opened her candy store, Sweet Harts. It amazes me how these two women can find the time in their already busy schedules to run a business!
It’s always interesting to find out how and why other mom entrepreneurs start their business, and even better when they are willing to provide advice that will encourage other moms to venture out.
Thursday I had the chance to interview both of these successful women virtually. I sent in a series of questions and they answered them on camera. They talked about a really cool party they hosted, “The Better Together” party, and discussed how important friendships are to woman and moms.
What a great concept too. I think it’s important for moms and women to take some time out of their busy schedules to hang out with friends, even if it can only be for a couple of hours a week.
Check out the video.
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Last night, I listened to the recorded edition of Sarah Shaw’s Ustream call and it really got me thinking. I’ve owned an online baby boutique for several years now and while it has been bringing in a steady amount of income, I find myself thinking that I should be doing more. I’ve bounced around the idea of starting my own clothing line or product but have never really followed through.
It’s very frustrating because it seems whenever I think of something – I will always find something similar at one of the trade shows months later. Then comes the thought, “why didn’t I just follow through.” Maybe I’ve just been scared to really put myself and my money out there. Sure I know that you can’t succeed without risks, but when it comes to money it makes me cringe. What happens if I put all of my money out there and fail and lose it all?
Even with the risk of losing it all, I can’t stop thinking about creating my own brand. I have so many ideas and now I’m really thinking its time to put myself out there and accomplish something great. Have you ever felt like you are “almost there” but you just need to take that last leap? What did you do?
I’ve been following closely on Sarah’s website, The Entreprenette Gazette, and it sounds like she’s talking to me. The person on the edge of success trying to figure out the next step.
In today’s post, Tips on how to discover a new product to invent, Sarah gets views from several different entrepreneurs on ways to discover that product.
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An easy to use digital white balance tool for ALL lens sizes.
Some people say white balance is not that important with a DSLR, “You can just fix it in Photoshop.” While you can fix white balance problems in Photoshop, wouldn’t it be great to correct white balance in a camera? After all, who wants to spend EXTRA hours editing. I was given the opportunity to test out the color right product first hand with my own Canon DSLR. With so many light temperatures in my house I would always get pictures that were to yellow or to blue and never right.
I found the Color Right and Color Right Pro very easy to use and it takes less than 15 seconds to set your camera up with the correct white balance.
Don’t let this simple little disk full you, it can correct your white balance in less than 15 seconds. Here’s how it works in 4 easy steps. [click to continue…]
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Over the weekend my mom bought some Popsicle’s for the kids, which is a special treat because we try and avoid storing sugar in the house. Anyway rain was supposedly in the forecast so we decided to take it easy indoors. I gave the kids their Popsicle’s and had to capture the moment.
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Mom Entrepreneur: Melanie
Business: Sippy Stuff™
Website: www.sippystuff.com
Twitter: @sippystuff
Facebook: SippyStuff Fan Page
Sippy Stuff™ offers a unique baby and toddler feeding accessory line that improves the way that moms, dads and caregivers alike manage, clean, store and organize sippy cups, baby bottles and other feeding tools. Each product uniquely simplifies the age old tasks of keeping sippy cups clean, food supplies safe and baby’s things off the floor. Our products improve the everyday quality of life for parents and protect the health of active babies and toddlers.
Products:
What inspired you to start your business?
I guess I just got tired of what I like to call the sippy cup drama. You know, cleaning all of those little nooks and crannies in sippy cups and baby bottles (valves, spouts, nipples, straws, etc.), re-label food containers with wash-away stickers after each dishwasher cycle, chasing after and ducking under sippy cups that my little one would toss. I wanted products to solve these daily challenges but nothing available the on the market that really satisfied my needs. If it wasn’t too short, it was too flimsy, too bulky or too expensive. I got frustrated with spending all of this time doing chores so decided to create my own product line of sippy cup accessories that would meet my needs and the needs of millions of other people like me.
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This month we talked about busyness, ways to decrease busyness, Google buzz, the Lifetime Clean Start Challenge and some SEO basics for mom entrepreneurs. If you haven’t seen the articles stop by the digital channel and check them out.
Also this month we added two new affiliates, BloggingBasics101.com and DigitalMomBlog.com, they have some great content on their websites so be sure to check them out too!
Here are February’s Lifetime Moms Articles:
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