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• Kristy T. from Webmomz shares with us about the upcoming holiday for WAHMs! Feb. 12th is the 5th annual Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day!

• Interview with Sharon Hinck , author of Renovating Becky Miller, the sequel to The Secret Life of Becky Miller.

• Success From Home Segment with Diana Ennen

• Quick Wit from Christian comedian Bob Smiley!

You can catch this segment and listen to any you’ve missed here, http://www.cwahm.com/loudblog/

Congratulations Mompreneurs for your 3-part CBS Segment.

Stop by their site at www.mompreneursonline.com and learn about working from home from other mompreneurs. Diana Ennen is the mentor for virtual assistants there as well as the partner on the mompreneurs marketplace helping to develop it, in particular the scrolling bar you see on the site.

Once again, Congratulations!

Everyone gets stuck in a rut professionally at one time or another. Sometimes it’s just a temporary state of mind, which passes quickly and you soon find yourself back on track after a weekend off or a holiday break. But what happens when that feeling inside does not pass? You start to realize that you are unhappy more than you are happy. The job you once loved, just doesn’t excite you anymore. You get up in the morning dreading going to work and once you get there, you just can’t concentrate. You find yourself becoming what you thought you’d never would when you took that job, a 9-5 clock-watcher.

Well, buckle your seatbelt. It’s time to take the Career Change Challenge and see if you need a career change boost.

Take the simple quiz below and see how many apply to you.

The Top 10 Signs it’s Time for a Career Change:

1) You no longer feel excited about going to work.
2) You find yourself daydreaming during meetings.
3) You leave a bit early or sneak in a bit late.
4) You aren’t as thorough as you once were when it comes to completing projects or meeting deadlines.
5) You aren’t feeling challenged anymore – your workday is just a routine.
6) You call in sick more often.
7) You haven’t come up with a new idea or procedure in months.
8) You go through the motions at work and put in minimum effort.
9) You surf the Internet looking at other opportunities when you should be working.
10) You make more personal calls on company time just to make the day go faster.

If you saw yourself in more of these than you’d like to admit, perhaps it’s time to consider making that change and finding that passion again. It’s time to decide if the right move for you is pulling out the classifieds and finding a new position in your field or perhaps finally taking the plunge you’ve always dreamed of and starting your own business. Entrepreneurship, being your own boss, financial independence, it sounds too good to be true. But it’s not.

For those wanting to start their business, it is important to find the right home-based business. You need to match your skills and experience with the business that will leave you the most satisfied and also one that will give you the greatest profits. One option that many career-minded individuals are turning to is starting a business in the lucrative educational industry. With the right skills and tools, you could become a home-based tutor broker and match qualified tutors with students in your area.

One of the reasons this is such a good business opportunity is the demand for qualified tutors is at an all time high. Nationwide, parents spent $5 billion to $7 billion on tutoring sessions last year, an 18 percent increase from 2005 according to the Education Industry Association. Five years ago there were approximately 800,000 tutors nationwide, today there are approximately 2 million tutors according to the National Tutoring Association. As you can see, now would be the perfect time to start your own business in this thriving Industry.

Laurie Hurley of Home Tutoring Business http://www.hometutoringbusiness.com is one such tutor broker. She contracts with qualified tutors and matches them with students in need of one-on-one tutoring. She has successfully connected hundreds of students with dedicated, professional teachers and tutors and is now offering her effective business procedures to entrepreneurs looking for a strong business with great earning potential.

So if you know it’s time for a career change, look to starting your own business. Find a business with lots of support, the tools needed to begin and succeed, and also a proven track record of success. 2007 can be your most profitable and enjoyable year ever.

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Laurie Hurley has been featured in national magazines including Entrepreneur Magazine’s Summer Start-Up Guide, Woman’s World, Family Circle, Family Fun, Parenting and more. Her site at http://www.hometutoringbusiness.com offers detailed information on getting started in your own tutoring brokering business. For additional information contact Hurley at info@hometutoringbusiness.com. Article is free to reprint as long as author’s bio remains intact.

What is the one resolution that tops most lists every year? Yes, many wish for that extra weight loss and better health, but what most long for is more time with their family & friends. Time to enjoy life and connect with those they love the most. Quality time not spent doing or achieving, but loving and believing. What’s the best way to get this extra time? Simple, organizing your life, every aspect of it from your business to your home, to your car, to even the purse you carry. Spend less time searching and more time enjoying.

For over seventeen years, The Busy Woman Inc, http://www.thebusywoman.com, has been on a mission to help women organize. They relied on input from thousands of real women and spent years in the development of a product line that focuses on results. President, Susie Glennan, is an expert in this field and last month alone was featured in USA Today, Real Simple Magazine and KNX 1070 Radio. Her products also get national recognition and are currently featured in iVillage’s stuff they love. Glennan states, “If you’re a busy woman you MUST stay organized and on top of every little detail in your day. You must learn to prioritize, take time to plan your day in advance, and schedule in free time. We based our entire Busy Woman line of products on enabling you to do just that.”

Glennan provides the following top 5 organizing tips for 2007:

1) Find the Right Daily Planner – Look for one that is right for you and your busy schedule and use it religiously. Everyone has different personalities and different tasks to accomplish so personalize it according to your needs. Always have your planner easily accessible. For example, keep it open on the passenger’s seat while driving and on a central counter or table at home.

2) Learn How To Use Your Planner for Best Results - There are many ways to schedule and plan in a daily planner. But because your brain functions in a rational order and focuses on the first appointment it sees, you should write things down in time order. Other planners have you schedule according to person, which makes you search for the first appointment of the day.

3) Schedule the Night Before - Block your time on your daily planner pages the night before. This will keep you from feeling hurried while writing out your schedule during the morning rush. Giving yourself the opportunity to plan your day in a focused, calm environment, without pressure will help you stay on target. Also, consider putting your planner on your nightstand in the evening. That way as things come to you during the night, you can easily write them down.

4) Schedule Travel Time - Most busy women/moms travel, whether for work or family functions. Schedule those trips and don’t forget to schedule not only the travel time, but also time to gather all the important items you need. Jot down those items in your daily planner and any other special things you might need. Then remember to check your planner right before you leave.

5) Use the right tools – Look throughout your home and office and locate areas that need to be organized. With the right tools, you can easily organize your office, living room (no more looking for the remote), kid’s room, bathroom, car, etc. Look to The Busy Woman website to fulfill all your organizing needs.

This year, you can keep those resolutions. Stop by The Busy Woman website to find tips and articles, as well as a complete selection of daily planners and organizing tools. See how with the right tools, you can do it all.

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Susie Glennan has been happily married since 1982, is mom to 3 teenagers, and is a Home Maker, Nurturer, Teacher, Author, Professional Speaker, Toastmaster, and President of The Busy Woman, Inc. She teaches time management seminars; offers FREE consultations with your order, and will help you set up a schedule that’s right for you. 800-848-7715 - http://www.thebusywoman.com

Britney Spears will get 2 weeks of fame from getting her privates caught on camera. Is this the best form of “exposure”?

“Not!” says Susan Harrow. “That kind of fame is free, but most people don’t want publicity for baring their wares or their souls”. Harrow, a kind of Mother Theresa of PR, is giving authors, entrepreneurs, small business people, and whams another route — one they can understand and afford. She’s partnered with more than 20 of the best publicity and marketing minds in the business to offer $3400 worth or products and programs for a fraction of their cost. She’s kicking off this venture with the E-book Get Into O Magazine: Ten steps to getting you, your book, product, service or cause into Oprah’s magazine.

“No matter how smart people are, understanding publicity seems to be like doing a Rubik’s Cube. People want to promote themselves but don’t know how,” Harrow says. “This package is the equivalent of getting a Ph.D in PR.” To get free publicity products and programs and more go here: http://www.prsecretstore.com/megasale.html

Harrow recognized that most small businesses, non-profits and authors also can’t afford high-priced publicists. Nor do they have expertise in-house to successfully approach a magazine such as O. So Harrow interviewed publicity experts and people whose products, book, service or cause had been successful at getting into O, The Oprah Magazine. With that knowledge and over 17 years of public relations and marketing experience, Harrow wrote the e-book, Get Into 0 Magazine.

What people need is free publicity — and the kind of quality PR that a placement in O, The Oprah Magazine provides — which can be as profitable as getting on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Getting on Oprah or into O is not easy, Harrow admits. But it can be done. “And the results can be phenomenal. One of the people I interviewed compared placement in O to getting the Academy Award. Appearing in O, The Oprah Magazine put many of them on the map,” Harrow notes.

Susan Harrow, media coach, marketing strategist, branding expert and author of Sell Yourself without Selling Your Soul (HarperCollins), and CEO of prsecrets.com is releasing the 136 page O E-book as the kickoff product for this venture. 1/8/07 through 1/12/07 only at: http://www.prsecretstore.com/megasale.html