More from Cathy Watters
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How-To: Start a Blogging Business
You can start a blog on just about any topic: beauty and fashion, travelling on a budget, your favourite hobby, or anything else you can think of. And as you build up your audience, you can also monetize your blog so you can continue to write and provide service to your readers instead of going out and looking for another job.
Reviewing Products
One way of providing a good service to your readers while also benefitting yourself is to review products. It’s important to remember, however, that in order to give your honest and unbiased opinion, you can’t receive money for doing the review. However, you can keep the products you review, and if these are products you really want, that can be as good as money. What would you like to review? How about a coffee maker or a new computer? Or baby clothes? Whatever you want to review, if it’s in keeping with the topic of your blog, you can probably get it for free by contacting the company that makes it, as long as you can prove you’ve got a good blog, a solid audience and an established reputation.Selling Advertising
The best way to make money with your blog is to sell advertising. And yes, you can sell advertising to the company whose product you just reviewed (after the review is published) if they wish to advertise on you blog. …[ Read More ] • [ 3 Comments ] • [ Filed under How-To ] • [ 8/23/10 ] -
“Feisty, Frugal, & Fabulous” Mom turns hobby blog into biz
How do you go about making money online? Stay-at-home mompreneur Tenille Lafontaine started blogging two years ago and now gets free stuff (her most recent freebies were a trip to Cancun and a coffee maker) while earning revenue equivalent to a part-time job. She says it’s hard work but worth it to be her own boss, work from home, and to be able to contribute to the family income.
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The Accidental Entrepreneur
Robyn Land wanted to be an Environmental Educator when she grew up. Instead, she became an entrepreneur, and has been running a successful yoga business since 2006.
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How-To: Find a business organization in your area
Whether you’re just starting out, or you’ve been in business for awhile, it’s good to know where you can go to get help. Maybe you want to find out how to write a business plan. Maybe you want to know how to expand your business, deal with taxes or meet other entrepreneurs.
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Grow your business! – BC program matches owners with mentors
So, you’ve got your business up and running. Maybe things are chugging along very nicely. Maybe you’re struggling. Whichever the case, as a new-ish business owner (in business for one to three years) you may find that you have a lot of questions, or you have ideas you’d like to bounce off someone with more experience, or maybe, just maybe, you’re wondering how to take your business to a higher level.
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Frugal student writes book, becomes mompreneur
Sarah Deveau, owner of Cater Tot Consignment, is an expert at being frugal which, combined with her entrepreneurial spirit, lead to her writing her first book, Sink or Swim: Get Your Degree Without Drowning in Debt, while in university.
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Mompreneur opened store to spend more time with kids
Sarah Deveau, owner of Cater Tot Consignment and mother of three, had her first child in 2005. “I knew right away I didn’t want to go back to a full-time career,” she says. What she really wanted was a career on her own terms: something that would allow her flexibility to spend time with her children and earn an income.
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Reinventing Success – Family First
Deborah Gillam-Harry remembers the day she decided it was time to make a change. She was sitting in the living room with her pre-schooler. He was playing with his toy cars and she was working on her computer. An hour had gone by and they hadn’t spoken a word to each other.
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Making the change to Self-Employment
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One of the most difficult things in life can be recognizing that the career path you’re following – the one you spent years working on — is not in alignment with your current passion or life-goals. Michele Partridge and Chen Lizra are two women who made the change.
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Fashionably Business Minded
“Good-looking, well-fitting clothes can help women feel beautiful and empowered,” says Malene Grotrian. She and her business partner, Jenna Fortin, own Malene Grotrian Design, a company that creates fashionable clothes for women.
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The Taxing issue of Business Deductions
Canada Revenue Agency has a full library of useful business information available online to help you figure out which taxes, and tax write-offs, apply to you. It has everything from figuring out payroll deductions to filing tax for your sole proprietorship or corporation, and even explains record keeping requirements for businesses.
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Financing your Business
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Matchmaking: the business of Romance
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Linda Miller, Misty River Introductions, Inc., decided to start her first matchmaking business as a part-time job and within a year she had over 700 clients in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Her total start-up costs: $832 for advertising.
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Swirl: The little wine bar that could
Swirl, a small wine bar in Toronto, opened last summer to rave reviews. Part of its allure is the unique character. Converted from a small, 600-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment, the bar has been decorated with eclectic flair and reclaimed furniture.
