Where We're Going

• I reduced the miles I was driving to work every day, which affected expenses like miles on my car lease
• I reduced tire wear, maintenance, gasoline
• I no longer had to sit in the rush hour traffic on the freeway twice a day
• As an added bonus, I was able to give most of my suits to a local shelter for women!
   

The best part of working from home has been the better quality of life for both me and my family. I am now working out regularly, eating healthier, sending my girls off to school with kisses, smiles, hugs and full tummies.  When they return from school, I am there to greet them with a snack and more hugs.  Let me tell you, this is very important to them. I can see it in their grades, their health and the fact that they even take my hand now and then when we are walking in public (these are teenage girls)!  
  
I feel very fortunate to be working from home. But it has not always been this way. When my youngest was going to preschool, I had a live-in nanny who used to get them up, make breakfast and take them to school.  One day I went to pick my youngest up at Montessori and was asked to show ID.  This was a wake up call for me.....a real blow.  How many of us are working so hard to make a living, that we are missing out on life?
 
"Most people go into business for themselves because they want to work less and have the potential to earn more. But this is rarely the reality---at least the working less part," says internet guru, Michael Port.  One of the main problems with being self employed is you are normally trading dollars-for-hours...when you don't work, you don't get paid.  Owning an internet business can be different from being self employed and this is the key.
 
Smart Women's Coaching is teaching women how to create a business that runs without them by utilizing the latest technology to create multiple streams of passive income through joint ventures, co-promotions and affiliates.  "The most exciting part of this process is learning to create income by doing what you are passionate about-and then delegating or outsourcing the rest", stated my partner, Jill Jordan during a talk to a local networking organization.
   
In last month's newsletter we announced the names of our Smart Women's Advisory Board members who are some of the most talented internet based work-from-home men and women in the industry.  They were selected because they all share a similar mission: Helping entrepreneurial women learn how to live balanced and fulfilling lives while creating ongoing passive income through a home-based-internet-business. 
 
While we are adding the final touches to the Café, please begin to think of the women in your life who may be interested in learning how to reinvent their lives with purpose, passion and prosperity by starting their own work-from-home business.  You can send them this newsletter by simply clicking here. Thank you for helping us get the word out!

How Do Joint Ventures and Co-promotions work?

• Mompreneur and radio show host, Shelleen McHale, (www.metrochickradio.com) and Mike Jaffee, coach and "Human Wake Up Call", connected about how to co-promote his teleconference slated for October 2007(www.momconference.com).
• Author and coach, Marilyn Schwader (www.clarityofvision.com ) offered to edit our Smart Women Talk™ interviews to create both an online e-book as well as a self published book on reinventing midlife. 
• Deborah Gallant (www.webpowertools.com) is helping my former financial planning colleague and me to create a new website, The Designated Daughter™, where we will be interviewing care giving experts. Again, Marilyn will be editing the interviews and helping us publish this book as well.
• Shelleen McHale (www.organizeyourworld.com ) is helping me create an organizer for daughters to use with aging parents. We will co-market/promote the organizer on both of our websites.
• Best selling author, Barbara Stanny requested ideas from her personal network as to how we get "unstuck".  We all submitted our ideas to her.  The result: I am now a published author in her new book, "Breaking Through--Getting Past the Stuck Points in Your Life".

The key to success is focusing on your unique talents and strengths and then partnering with someone else who not only has a complimentary product, service or skill set.  The key to our Smart Women's Café is that we have done all the work for you by opening up our personal network of experts.  We have gone through the trial and error and invested the time and energy to pull together who we believe are the top coaches, consultants and experts to create a successful work-from-home, internet-based business.

• What type of business is best for you
• Where to start
• How to write a business plan
• Internet marketing
• Utilizing the technology of the internet
• Writing and Publishing
• Getting Known
• Networking
• Branding
• Websites, blogging and ezines