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My sister recently became a mom and when the time came at the end of her maternity leave to go back to work, she simply couldn’t do it. She didn’t want to leave her son in the care of strangers while she went back to work making a small hourly wage. Her and her husband sat down with their monthly budget and realized that they could not make do on his salary alone. So she started to look into her options.
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There are forums and message boards out there for just about every topic. If you would like to meet other people online and discuss bird watching, knitting or curling there is a forum for you. Many times one of the top suggestions for gaining new customers is to post online at a message board related to your business or hobbies.
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Running a home based business is not much different than running an out of the home business. In most businesses you are dealing with people and need them as customers in order to stay in business. The way that a potential customer perceives your business can be a big deal in their determining whether or not to do business with you.
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My good friend has two girls, a four-year-old and two-year-old. They have a membership to a hand’s on museum in their area and visit at least once a month. They have a large water table for the kids to play with and there is always science demonstrations going on.
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My husband, daughter, mother-in-law and I all went out for dinner on Friday night at a local mall. We had some fabulous Chinese food sitting on the patio of the restaurant. It was a lovely dinner made even better by my daughter not needing to walk all over the restaurant. We were all able to enjoy our meal without getting up once.
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So many times, Mom is the last one to be taken care of. You spend so much time doing for others that it leaves little time for ‘me’ time. An article at CNN.com suggests that if Mom does not take care of herself, then resentment and depression may set in.
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I have found that working at home can be very lonely at times. My friends either have no children, they had kids ages ago and they are in school all day, or they work full-time and their children are in daycare. Not many opportunities for play dates there. Having a support structure of other moms with children about the same age as my daughter has been very important to me though.
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Since becoming a mom it never ceases to amaze me how the amount of junk mail we receive seems to have increased about tenfold. It started out with the formula and diaper coupons and then seemed to move onto juice, snacks, and daycare centers. Now I can tell that summer is almost here by the number of summer day camp flyers that I have received.
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As part of our Tuesday recipe series, I thought pretzels would be a fun topic today. I love pretzels. Most of the people that I know love pretzels. Strangely my dog won’t eat them, but I still love her. There is nothing quite like a homemade pretzel though. Getting to twist them into shapes, bake them and then eat them is so much fun.
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Do you make something? Do you consider yourself a “crafty” person? Do friends and family ask you to make things for them? Has anyone ever told you that you should sell your items? Putting up a website and hoping to get sales it not really a great way to start a business though. There are some good methods for testing the market and seeing if your items will sell.
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