For only $1, you can join our community of mompreneurs and learn the most effective ways to start or grow your online business.

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Commenter #2 – CARA!!!!

Cara, we’ll be contacting you directly – we need to hear back from you within a week to acknowledge the prize award (otherwise this could be reawarded to someone else if we aren’t able to get ahold of you).

Congratulations and thanks to all who entered and shared their ideas and hopes with us, it is invaluable feedback we hope to put to use for your benefit as an PromotingMom member!

]]> http://www.PromotingMom.com/blog/2009/11/29/and-the-grand-prize-winner-is/feed/ 2 http://www.PromotingMom.com/blog/2009/11/22/congratulations-to-our-contest-winners/ http://www.PromotingMom.com/blog/2009/11/22/congratulations-to-our-contest-winners/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:10:28 +0000 ashley http://www.PromotingMom.com/blog/?p=93 Congratulations to our site review/30 minute coaching session prize winners! Using random.org we randomly selected the comment winners for our contest.

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The winners are:

Amber from www.classichousewife.com

and

Kimberly from www.prettypinkmomma.blogspot.com

Congratulations to our Winners!!!

Before you can consider starting your own business, you need to get into the right mindset, get your priorities straight….

• Why are you considering working from home or starting your own business?
• How would it impact your life and your family?
• Are you prepared to put in a fair share of sweat and tears to see some true rewards?
• Do you know who your support group is going to be?

Give those questions some deep thought and then grab our ebook below with some thoughts on pursuing wealth and finding your passion. This book is not a “how to” manual, but more of a “putting you in the right mindset” and preparing you for the adventure you’re about to embark upon.

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• Is that a certain dollar amount of revenue?
• Is it a certain number of visitors to your website?
• Is it a certain number of readers at your blog?
• Is it being able to pay your bills without stress?
• Is it being able to buy the car or house that you’ve been saving for?
• Is it being able to stay home with your children and quit a part time or full time job that keeps you away from them?
• Something else?

We want to get to know the moms we are helping and get a clear idea of what success will look like for you (so when you hit that point, we can remind you!)

Now this is the good part. To one lucky winner, we are giving away:
FREE 1 month Gold Membership to PromotingMom.com,
PLUS $50 credit towards getting your website and marketing plan started
PLUS a free 30 minute 1-on-1 coaching session

this package has a value of $300
- think about how that would help you start your business!!

Here is how you can gain entries (multiple entries can be earned if you do any/all of the items below):

• Leave a comment on the blog post here
• Write up a post about PromotingMom on your blog or add a banner or text link on your website
• Tweet about PromotingMom and why you think it might help you/your business on Twitter
• Post about PromotingMom and our upcoming launch on Facebook
• Follow us on Facebook and leave a comment on the wall
  
• Sign up for our affiliate program (if you haven’t already) and post an affiliate link or review to your site, OR send an email invite any “mompreneur” friends to join using your affiliate link

To earn your additional entries beyond the blog comment below, simply send an email to info(at)PromotingMom(dot)com with the locations of your posts or comments. You’ll be given 1 entry for each of the above items that you do. $50 credit will be awarded as a cash credit towards any of our “done for you services” of your chose – logo design, graphic/banner design, writing, link building, etc. The contest ends on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 12am PST so make sure your entries and emails are sent prior to then. 1 winner will be chosen at random from the entries that are processed, and will be posted here on the blog.

Good Luck!!!

We want to hear from you! We are going to give away 2 valuable prizes to 2 lucky readers. To a “newbie” (we use that term endearingly for anyone who has not yet fully launched their business), we are offering a 30 minute 1 on 1 phone coaching session, answering your most crucial questions and offering insight on how to get your business off the ground. And to one seasoned mompreneur with an existing business of any kind, we will offer a full review of your site, making recommendations for layout changes, ideas for monetization, marketing strategies, and anything else that might help you take your business to the next level. Each prize has a value of over $150.

In order to enter the contest, we are asking everyone to submit a comment on this blog post:

• If you do not have a business yet, we’d like you to describe your dream business and what kind of training and support you will need in order to fulfill your dream business completely.

• If you have an existing business, we’d like to hear your goals for business growth and what your expectations are from a training site like PromotingMom.

Please submit your comments on this blog post by Friday, November 20th. We will randomly choose a winner from each category and set up the site review and coaching session this weekend or early next week.

Feel free to share this contest with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or your blogs, we are open to anyone who wants to share their ideas and goals with us. We want to gear this community to meet each of your specific needs and goals, so we are asking for your input so that we can make this the best resource possible for you to grow your business.

Cheers!

Ashley and Ashley

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You can use these on your blogs and websites to show off your Mompreneur pride. Or better yet, sign up for our affiliate program and once inside you’ll be able to use these same banners with your affiliate link to earn recurring commissions for any referrals! Check our our affiliate program here.

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Meet Ashley Rader, one of PromotingMom.com’s co-founders. Ashley got her start in internet marketing back in January of 2005, when she launched her wedding favors and gifts website, www.momentsofelegance.com. What started as a branch off of a wedding gown business has grown into one of the premier wedding favors destinations for brides across the country. After getting connected with some great mentors and coaches a few years back, her website not ranks on page one of Google for many highly competitive keywords such as “wedding favors”. The website receives over 60,000 unique visitors each month (even more during the busy summer wedding months) and currently boasts a support staff of 10 people that Ashley manages.

Since starting Moments of Elegance, Ashley has ventured into a few other internet marketing ventures, most notably www.jackscouponcodes.com, www.evolutionseo.com and www.blushingbridezilla.com. Her current passion however has been focused on PromotingMom and getting the chance to share the world of internet marketing with Moms across the country.

Having this kind of business has allowed Ashley the ability to stay home with her 2 children Jackson and Lila who are 3.5 and almost 2. It has provided significant financial freedom for her family as well as the freedom and satisfaction of having the best of both worlds.

There is no quick and easy answer, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an answer that will give you what you are looking for. For us, we were moms who wanted to be home with our kids. We also felt a drive for personal and professional success, that brought in income but of course didn’t detract from our #1 priority, our families.

Internet businesses have become that answer for many moms. There are coaching sites out there that will promise you quick and easy riches. Moms, take our word for it as we have been there and tried them, there is no quick and easy riches. But you can find the riches (and whatever that means for you, whether its an extra $1000 a month, or $100,000 a month). It is possible, but you have to be willing to put in a little bit of sweat and tears.

Here are a few tips for making it a smooth transition:

• Make sure you and your spouse are on the same page as far as working as a team when it comes to child/home responsibilities.
• You may have moments where you need to get away to do a few hours of work. Make sure you have family that’s willing to pitch in or some of our mompreneurs have local co-ops where they watch each others kids while the other one works (we love this!)
• Find a place in the house for your business so you can shut the door, and set boundaries for children when it comes to interrupting Mommy.
• Set weekly goals that you think you can stick to
• If you don’t hit your goals, just readjust. Don’t beat yourself up over it, you have a lot on your hands! Cut yourself some slack.
• Make sure you take hours or days off as “you” time. Whether that is alone getting pampered, or spending quality time with the kids. Its important and healthy to keep a good balance and make sure you aren’t overworking yourself.
• Find a good support network, we think we have a pretty fantastic one here at PromotingMom. It is a community where everyone looks out for eachother, we share ideas, we give feedback, we commiserate. Each one of us here wants to see everyone else succeed and we are all “with” eachother in this journey. A network of positive support from people who are embarking on similar journey’s, is essential.

For us, becoming Mompreneurs has been one of the most positive experiences of our lives. We get to be with our kids, but also contribute significantly for our family. It does take some time and work, but if you align yourself with the right resources and set reasonable expectations for yourself, you too will likely find it to be a wonderful opportunity for you and your family.