The Mom Pack

The Mom Pack

I must say that success will be much harder to achieve if you don't join some sort of group online to help you promote your business. That is where TheMomPack.com comes in. They are a super website for moms promoting moms. By joining The Mom Pack, you will find that there are hundreds of other moms in your corner and more than willing to help you to build your business. You can ask questions, look for items that you are interested in buying, find more information on promoting your business, advertise your business and much more. This website is a must for moms who need more customers. Give them a try and do your part in helping promote businesses owned by moms.

Upon joining, I was welcomed by well over 20 moms and all I did was say hello. Before this, I had been struggling to find a way to get the word out about my new website that also promotes moms. I don't have that problem now and I am quite glad that they are here to help. Stop by and if you see where they can help you, sign up for free. Come back to this page and comment on your experience with them to show your appreciation for their generous offer.

Nini's Bakery

My husband is hands down, the best baker in Tallahassee. Years ago, his family, friends and coworkers tried some of his tasteful desserts and told him that he should open a bakery. He has been baking for friends and family ever since! He named the website after our daughters, Nicole and Nia or “NiNi”. They are so adorable and love to help him bake the family desserts that we have all come to love. Friends can't stop calling to see what we have on our kitchen counter that they can get a taste of and friends of friends have now started calling. If you live in the Tallahassee area, you have to try one of his treats. His menu includes: cheese cake, chocolate cake, apple pie, chocolate chip cookies, carrot cake, german chocolate cake, red velvet cake, pound cake and much, much more. You can view what his specialties are on his website here.

Dexter has loved to bake for years and the reason his desserts are so good is because he really puts a lot of care and experience behind everything he makes. He has converted several people who didn't like dessert to eating his cheese cakes, red velvet cakes and carrot cakes. He has an awesome banana pudding and, well, I need to stop now before I get too carried away.

Tallahassee, check out the website: www.ninisbakery.com and give Dexter a call. To help me out, just let him know that you saw Shalene's blog and that is how you found him. That should get you a smile!

Mom Groups

I am now a member of several great, online groups of moms who want to help moms and I love it because I am meeting many moms who represent businesses of all kinds and they are all home based! Please subscribe to or follow my blog so that you don't miss out on new posts about moms who have extraordinary businesses from home. They represent everything you can think of. I have seen moms who have: travel agencies, candle businesses, childrens clothing and accessories, build websites and do website marketing, photography, and much, much more. I have just discovered that you can buy everything you need from a fellow mom and I love it! Please support these home based businesses to help everyone be successful.

If you have a home based business that has not been featured on my blog (one per business opportunity at this point--but I might be able to do it geographically in the future if I get requests for more than one per business opportunity) contact me for details on how to be featured by submitting a comment (I will not post comments that are requests on my website--only comments about specific posts). Posts will be labeled by the business opportunity so that it is easy for my readers to find the exact opportunity they are interested in without weeding through the website by the post.

I am open to suggestions to make this website easier to navigate, so please let me know. Just submit a comment to me on this post to be contacted. Your comments will not be posted on this website, unless I choose to post them after reading and approving them. (Sorry, but I must prevent spam or we will all be frustrated).

Dental and Vision Plan

Many who have benefits at work, are not offered a good dental and vision plan by their employer. Many employers do offer excellent health plans, but do not compensate anything for dental care. How about those who are self employed or just need a dental and vision plan to cover their routine costs? Try taking a look at what Dental Plans has to offer. Dental Plans is a website that I use to refer my readers to a great company that offers low cost, discount dental plans. They have been in business since 1999 and have thousands of satisfied customers.

They are running a special offer now where you will get an additional 3 months free with any dental plan purchase, so you get 15 months to try it out! You can go to the website to look at your zip code and see what dentists and what plans are currently available. Annual plan costs start at $79.95 and you can get individual or family coverage. You can also visit the website for member testimonials.

Are you looking for additional benefits like vision or prescription savings? You can visit Dental Plans for that too! Current individual vision savings plans start at $29.95 a year and offer over 12,000 participating eye care locations across the country.

TrueGreen2 Earth Friendly All Purpose Cleaner

For those who like the idea of “going green” and helping our environment, there are several companies that are online and that sell such products. One of the companies that I have tried is TrueGreen2. They have all purpose cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, hand soaps, paper towels, bathroom tissue and more. Although they have products that cost a little bit more than the typical grocery store products, these are great for our health and for our environment. My family has joined with a great company, Shop To Earn, and they offer these products through their website. Since my husband and daughter have terrible allergy and sinus problems, I had to find a company that offers products that are safer for them than your typical name brand cleaning products. We were very nicely surprised by the power of their multi purpose cleaning solution. One bottle replaced our old window cleaner, kitchen cleaner, glass cleaner and tub cleaner. My whole family, including two small daughters, were taking turns to use this new cleaner around our home and we all give it a thumbs up!

You can give them a try through our website with Shop To Earn. You can also contact me to find out more about how to make a living with your own environmentally friendly website that also pays you cash back for purchases made online buying green products and retail products. Find out how we get paid cash from companies like: Staples, Target, Kohl, Kmart and many, many more. This is new so the time to find out more is now!

Why I Like Dish Network

I think that having Dish Network is a big improvement over the cable service that our family once had. We are a family of four and have different tastes in programming. I love to watch sitcoms and movies. My husband enjoys sports. My daughters love to watch SpongeBob and Disney channel. Yes, we can watch all of this on cable, however, we had to pay more for less quality. Our cable package did not deliver the best picture quality, which is why my husband wanted satellite tv. My problem with cable service was the price! When I compared the channel lineup we were paying for to a similar package with Dish Network, I found the cable to be way too expensive. We decided to have Dish Network installed and we love the difference. He loves the sound and picture and I love the price. The kids are more than happy to have options of watching Disney East or Disney West. The same with Nickelodeon. We're all sold. I decided to become affiliated with Dish Network to help spread the word to other moms who might welcome the same change in their home. We do get local channels and we have not had service interruption problems, which we had pretty often with our cable service.

Here is where I introduce the free DVR they will install for you, free of charge with your system installation. The DVR is the greatest thing since the VCR and it is better. It offers a simple way to record programs you love to watch so that you never have to miss them again. We type in the names of our favorite shows or movies, and the next time they come on, they will be recorded and saved for us to watch as often as we want. You may never need to rent or buy a movie again!

Right now, Dish Network is offering free professional installation, free HBO/Starz for 3 months, Cinemax for 12 months for 1 penny, $50 credit on your first bill and free activation. You can take a look at what Dish Network has to offer and schedule your free installation by clicking here.

Need Extra Income Try Dish Network

You might be looking for a way to make an extra income online and one of the best programs online is the Dish Network affiliate program. Dish Network packages offer a variety of programming to fit every household, so you are sure to find many people that you can help.

If you like to refer great services to your friends, then this is the program for you. You can be paid for each Dish Network system that is installed and you receive a free website and free marketing materials to help you spread the word. The best part is that it is free to join, so give the program a try. We are a small family business and we enjoy this program that helps with family income. By joining the Dish Network affiliate program through us, you will receive help with training and marketing to supplement your income.

Our economy is in trouble and many are cutting down on the cost of entertainment. They are cutting down on things like: going out to eat, going to the movies, traveling and more. This means that they will be looking for more entertainment at home. This is where a nice income working with a good program will help. There is no lack of online customers with the power of the internet so there is plenty of room for growth. You can offer these services on or offline. View more details about the program and on how to join and get started with your marketing plan.

Social Media and Online Businesses

I have just joined some social media websites, like Facebook and Twitter. These seem to be essential for moms who are struggling to make their online business presence known.

On Facebook, you can find other people you know by email address or the "People You May Know" tool and you can find old classmates, co-workers or just groups that interest you, including networking online. I joined blindly not knowing what to expect and found several people I know are already on there. Friends, co-workers and classmates alike. It is a great tool for your business too so join for free.

Twitter is awesome because you can find tons of moms online who have their own business or who have websites about parenting, budgeting, gardening, beauty, anything you want to know more about. I look forward to networking with these moms and learning how to manage my busy life. There is even a "twittermoms" site so that we can network with each other and cut out the extra stuff.

There is also Stumbleupon which is the easiest, most useful website to use for bookmarking your favorite websites. If you tend to bookmark websites that involve how to get organized, you can find others looking for the same type of website. If you are looking for ways to budget your grocery costs, there are websites bookmarked for that too. There are websites for anything you can think of here.

I will be back to post more on how these websites work and how to incorporate them into your business, but for now just join and start building a network of people who like what you like. You might decide not to ever use it for business.

I have many friends who have tried network marketing over the years and did not make much money because they don't have a "business" sense and don't know how to market. Try social media because you can meet many people online who are interested in what you have to offer and you don't have to count on offline marketing.

Once I figure out more about how this works, I'll post my social media links for you.