Awesome Curriculums Worth Checking Out! Part 1

As many of you may have already purchased curriculums and other education-related items, there still are many who still have yet to be able to find something affordable and are doing a few things here and a few things there to improvise until you’ve gotten everything all square away for the 2009-2010 school year.

Do I have some great news for you!

Check it out: I’ve searched, scoured, signed up for (mostly demo purposes before I make recommendations), and even just asked other professionals where to find “great and usable” content, books, items, homeschool-related events, as well as support groups of other homeschoolers who are making major differences with corresponding results, and now I will share them all with you!

Although I heavily promote self-sufficiency in terms of making being an entrepreneur a family thing, it is my goal to still find and present other ways to save tons of money – particularly during this economy which one report says all the nations of the earth are still in a crazy bind while another report says we’re on an upswing.

Regardless of what anyone says, it’s still prudent to find free/complimentary resources as long as they provide real value to you to you and your family because that’s all that matters after everything is said and done. And I’ve also included low-cost and moderately-priced resources you may choose to invest in as well.

Let’s start with curriculums:

Tuition-Free Online Schools

Although I am a HUGE proponent of PRIVATE home education over public (including charter) home education programs, there a few online schools available that provide entire curriculums free of charge. If you’re interested in the following schools, you may contact them to see if you can enroll your student(s) in their California-based schools. They are Kaplan Academy of California [tuition-free schooling], grades 6-12, and Insight School of California [tuition-free schooling], grades 9-12.

Connections Academy is K-12. It’s an accredited online public school. *Not all grades offered in all states.

http://www.onlinehighschool.org/Free_Online_High_Schools.html (nationwide listings)

For outside the U.S., there’s always Google, Yahoo!, MSN, & Bing search engines to locate similar online schools in your country.

Free Downloadable Full Textbooks

If you want to see something really cool, then check out CK-12’s Flexbooks. Oh, you’ve got to watch the demo on how these books work! Talk about 21^st-Century style materials! This is one of the coolest textbook sites I’ve seen to date.

Why? Besides having full downloadable textbooks (the Geometry book is 810 pages!), you get to completely customize these books! You select what you prefer to keep, delete the rest, and/or even add a Wiki to them! (In case Wikis are new to you, basically what they are is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.) They’re adding more subjects to its base, so what’s currently available is a wide range of math and science books. I recently emailed the company and asked about other subjects, and was told that history will soon be added.

Another Wiki-based site that has all of the K-12 academic subjects is Curriki! This, too, is a free curriculum site that public, private and home schools can all join for free of charge and get as busy as your heart desires! Just click on over and take a look! (I’m a member and can hardly wait to see our private home school go to the next level in educational transformation and growth!)

Hotchalk is another dynamic 21-century style free teacher site that offers you tons of resources that are staggeringly impressive! This site allows you transform your lesson plans with digital content, as well as allows you to communicate, collaborate, and contribute so you can enhance your own experience with news, articles, product updates, blogs, and more! (Yes, I’ve joined this site, too!)

I personally subscribe to www.edHelper.com, which is an online subscription service that provides printable worksheets to teachers and homeschooling parents. They offer a wide range of subjects and topics, such as math, language arts, reading and writing, social studies, science, and a lot more! This site covers pre-K through 12th grades. And though I’ve purchased my children’s various curriculums from the vendors I like, I still use edHelper for random tests and quizzes, as well as lots of writing assignments and essays to ensure they’re on top of their game in terms of grammar and usage, etc. Sometimes I use it just to break up the monotony of “textbook” stuff.

Another reason I enjoy subscribing to edHelper is getting ClassBuilder.com for free. This all-in-one site is a tool for creating tests, grade books, and reports that you can use both online and off. It incorporates whatever you designate from edHelper so that you have immediate access to previous lessons and tests integrate directly into the ClassBuilder platform.

MoneyInstructor.com is another subscription-based site that you might want to check out to get the whole family on board in terms of learning what money is, how to invest it, where to invest it, as well as other finance-related insights and suggestions! I highly recommend visiting the entire site as it transforms the thinking of both parents and students concerning finances!

This next site is one I have enjoyed for a few years now that is great (just get ready for literally tons of resources!), and it’s Sites For Teachers. This site literally has links to exactly 1,218 other sites, both subscription-based and free! Whether it’s U.K.-based Planet Primary (an interactive whiteboard for teachers) to Education Creation (kids play educational games and activities to build skills - http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm) to music training for your children (wide range of various instruments plus how to read music sheets - http://www.how2readmusic.com/) to high school homework help (http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm), this site covers it and so much more!

Another great site to check out is Teacher Planet! This site gives you access to over 10,000 theme-based resources (lesson plans, templates, rubrics, worksheets, etc.). You’re sure to find a just about anything you need for your home school!

At the Awesome Library (www.awesomelibrary.org), the range is from kids to college, with 37,000 “carefully reviewed resources, that includes the top 5% in education.

EdSitement is another interesting site that provides free printed and interactive lesson plans such as Arts & Culture, Literature & Language Arts, Foreign Language, and History & Social Studies.

There’s Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence which is an education-related site that links you to other free sites when you select any one of the wide range of subjects you’re interested in.

I have more curriculum-related sites to share, but let’s save some of that for Part 2.

If you or someone you know would like to get started homeschooling in your own area, visit Homeschooling In America. Also, be sure to visit the Home School Legal Defense Association so you have access to attorneys who themselves also home school! Or you can visit your state’s homeschool website and learn about other homeschool legal representation that may be available through your state’s home school organization/association.

‘Til next time with more resources and information you can use,

Tisha M. Silvers

As We Enter Our New Home School Year...

...might we reflect over the past year and this summer? What specific successes have you and your family experienced thus far (at home and in your businesses)?

As you know, I'm a firm believer in making money management and having businesses a family affair. And although the following article (by reprint permission) is primarily for parents and guardians, our young entrepreneurs can do the same except at their own level and in their own way.

The whole family wins, hands down.

The gift of "reflection" is something that even I have taken for granted when I actually think about it. But no more! This "gift" will be greatly utilize in this new home school year as well as in business.

Enjoy!

-Tisha-

Creating Greater Success Through Reflection

If I could give you a tool or resource that would change your life in positive ways, change your results, create more happiness in your life and help you get better at anything you desired . . . And if I could promise you that this tool would cost you nothing, require only yourself and could be used at any time . . .

Would you be interested?

I’ll bet you would.

Now at the risk of sounding a little bit like a carnival barker or used car salesperson what I just told you isn’t hype – there is such a tool. And you already possess it.

The tool is reflection.

I`m sure that you know people that have been on a job for 10 years and have continued to get better and better at their work and you probably also know people who have been on a job for ten years, but it is like they have one year of experience, ten times. In other words, they never really reflected on their work and results and so nothing seems to get better. They don`t seem to learn from their past experiences.

Which of these people would you hire? Which of these people do you want on your team?

But I’m Too Busy

The number one reason I hear for people not reflecting is that they are too busy. They are too busy moving from task to task, from project to project, and event to event. When they recount this challenge to me they end by asking, “When would I have time to reflect?”

Our lives are much different than were the lives our grandparents. 75 or 100 years ago in the evening people would gather around a table or sit on the front porch and sip iced tea and visit about their day. What they were doing was relaxing and, while not in a very structured way, they were reflecting on their day.

We all know that this type of reflection works because as one of the things we ask our children when they come home from school is “How was your day?”

We say we are too busy – that the reason we don`t reflect is that we don’t have porch time. Somehow we do find television time – and while there is nothing wrong with television - it doesn’t allow us the space, time or opportunity to reflect as we sit watching it.

Other Reasons

Time is typically our excuse, but it isn’t the only reason we don’t reflect. We also don’t reflect because:

We don`t think about it.
We don`t realize the importance of it.
We don’t value it.
We don’t think we know how to do it.

Hopefully reading this helps you get past the first reasons. Let me deal now with the last one – the issue of skill.

Examples

We all know how to reflect, consider . . .

Sitting around a table with friends playing a card game. In between hands, people are talking about what they could have done, should`ve done, might`ve done – all of this conversation is simple reflection. And while some people playing the game don`t like to “overanalyze it,” spending that time in conversation about what just happened will make us better card players in the future.

Or for those in a different generation, the reflection is the time they take between two rounds in a video game as they quickly think about what happened and how they do it differently the next time.

Golfers quickly analyze their swing as they watch the trajectory of their shots, thinking about what worked and what they might adjust.

And we do it at work, thinking about how the meeting or presentation went as we leave and move to the next item on our calendar.
So we know how, and we even do it sometimes, but how can we use this skill more successfully more often?

How to Reflect More Effectively

Make time. Reflection is about having time. We all have the time, regardless of how busy are schedules are. Reflect in the shower. Reflect on the drive to work (turn off your radio or your iPod and think). Reflect in the moments before you go to sleep. Reflect with your family as you eat a meal. Turn off the television. There is time – we just have to carve it out.

Ask questions. Reflection is about thinking and questions help our brains think. Consider using his list of questions as your “starter set” of reflective questions – the questions to help you think about what happened and what you can learn.

What worked? Why?
What didn`t work? Why?
What does this situation remind you of?
How can I use this experience?
How does this experience relate to other situations I’ve been in? What can I learn for that situation?

Knowing what I know now, what would I do differently next time?

Think more broadly. Don’t just apply your thinking to how you would do this exact same task or respond in this exact same situation the next time. Our lives are too complex for that! Think about what you can take from this experience and apply to other related or perhaps even unrelated situations. Look for generalizations, patterns, tendencies and underlying principles. When we think more broadly we make our reflection time infinitely more beneficial to our lives.

This is some of my reflection on reflection. As we practice this skill we will get better at it and our results will begin to improve dramatically. Make the time. Ask the questions. And by all means apply what you learned. When you do this, you will make your life experiences your most precious source of learning, and your most fertile ground for your own success.

Copyright © 2006 - All Rights Reserved, Kevin Eikenberry and The Kevin Eikenberry Group.

Kevin Eikenberry is a leadership expert and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a learning consulting company that helps Clients reach their potential through a variety of speaking, consulting and training services. He also is the author of Remarkable Leadership – a book that will help you improve results as a leader, regardless of your job title. Contact him to learn more about how he can help you or your organization improve your skills and results.

Today’s kids are tomorrow’s leaders, healers, entrepreneurs and ....

No matter what's going on outside our world, "our" personal economy is what we choose make it. And as such, now is the time that we start creating our own financial futures.

When you're ready to take the reigns of your own life and help your children do the same, wonderful things start to happen such as experts like Patti Handy (with uncanny timing) emerges with important information that can help us shape own financial worlds.

Check out what this money coach and author, who has to say to "all" parents:

Kids and Cash
Patti Handy
Money Coach

"Today’s kids are tomorrow’s leaders, healers, entrepreneurs and what ever else they desire to be. Our futures, their futures, are in our hands… for now. Our schools teach the fundamentals we all know and love; reading, writing, math, science and history. What concerns me is our school system lacks some of the ‘street smart’ skills that kids will need to be those successful leaders, healers and entrepreneurs.

As a parent, we must take teach our children ‘money smarts’. Can you imagine how empowered you would be if your parents taught you how to balance a checkbook, invest in the stock market, manage credit card debt, start a business, or the power of compounding interest? If you were one of the lucky few whose parents did teach you money skills, consider yourself blessed. The present economic situation is a perfect time to teach our kids the importance of money management and the need to respect money for what it is, and isn’t.

So, where do we start? With the basics. Depending upon your child’s age, you can start with talking about money. Most of us don’t discuss the family’s financial situation at the dinner table. I propose you do. I think it’s important that children understand what is happening, good or bad, with the money being earned. Don’t get me wrong here; I’m not suggesting you tell your kids your annual income or the balance of your investment portfolio. What I am suggesting is to bring the kids into conversations regarding ways to save, creative ways to earn additional money and what to spend that money on. Involve them with decisions on vacations, donating to a charity or cause, or how they plan to buy their first car.

For middle schoolers and teens, open a savings account and teach them the importance of monthly deposits, regardless of the amount. Create in them the healthy habit of making that deposit every single month. Compounding interest and time are on their side and simple, small deposits made regularly add up to huge money later. Did you know that $4 a day, 5 days a week invested at 10% (historically, the average in the stock market) turns into $1.3 Million in 50 years. Tell that to your teen who loves to visit Starbucks or Jamba Juice!

Introduce the concept of a budget, although I don’t care for that word. (Like a diet, it implies I have to give up something). It is about compromise and being aware of where the money goes, so rather, suggest this: what is priority, given the income? Teach them to live within their means and the dangers of credit. If our kids can understand this now and realize the consequences if they don’t, it will make for a peaceful and prosperous future. As parents, we know there isn’t anything we want more in life than to see our children healthy, happy and at peace."

Money Coach and published author, Patti Handy, received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, followed by a combined twenty-five years in the banking and mortgage arena. A past holder of the Series 7 and Series 63 licenses, she has most recently served as a Senior Mortgage Advisor for over 7 years. She holds a California Real Estate Brokers License and is a CTA Certified Life Coach. Although she has extensive work experience, she credits the invaluable lessons that her parents taught her at a very young age as the true gift. Understanding the importance of learning money management early, she is passionate about sharing her financial wisdom with teens and young adults so that they too, will be empowered with money smarts. Look for her book, How to ditch your allowance and be richer than your parents, 9 wealth building tools to make a teen rich, coming July 2009. Visit www.teenscashcoach.com to sign up for a fun, free weekly video series teaching your teens money smarts! Learn more about her DVD program “The Prosperous Teen”™, Ordinary Money Habits create Extraordinary Results, by clicking on the products link at www.teenscashcoach.com

Just How Much Are You Into Social Networking?

If so, what has been your biggest benefit?

For many of us, it has become so integrated into our world, we haven't actually thought about it.

Take the social network survey and see:

http://socialtoo.com/survey/view/2726

Kids & Money

In a time where parents hear about the economy every time they turn around, our children are still bombarded with the latest must-have gizmos and gadgets.

We all would like to reward our children with their heart’s desire – especially if they work hard academically and through their various activities. But how do you balance it all when on one hand you have watch where you spend those hard-earned dollars, and on the other grant them the things they actually want because they've earned them?

That can be tough a one. But wise parents have gone beyond explaining how they have to be careful about where to spend their money to actually sitting down and showing their offspring how to become good money managers themselves.

For families who really could use some simple, but powerful money management strategies that include detailed how-to techniques, here is a resource that is worth checking out:

Kids Wealth.

They not only have a money kit that contains what the family need to get started, but they also hold very informative teleseminars you can register for as well.

I highly recommend this program which is designed to help you teach your children ages 4 and up smart money habits and how to become success-minded.

Rich Kid Smart Kid is a great online resource, and also the name of the book that is a great read!

If you would like to cement everything your children and teens have learned in terms of financial well-being, you may want to try Money Instructor which generates actual worksheets for your home educated students that you can use as part of your curriculum.

More than ever, now is a great time to get our financial houses in order since there are many free (but fun) resources available for us today.

Here’s to a successful 2009!

Tisha M. Silvers
Author, "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover! "
Foreword by Paul & Sarah Edwards, The Self-Employment Experts
www.homeschool-wealth.com

www.Twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Calling All Business Owners Under 19...And Their Parents & Guardians!

Hey Everybody:

Today we're going look at various ways to get this ball rolling for our children -- particularly the ones who desire more than the $20 bill you give them!

If you're wondering how to help them get going, I have a few ideas and suggestions you may want to consider. And we'll start with Jeff Brown of Teaching Kids Business who has a whole Website dedicated to helping them. Check out his YouTube channel where he talks to the kids about going into business and its benefits, as well as give them an opportunity to share their story (great for business exposure). He also invite parents and teachers to join in and share their business ideas.

I recommend that you and your family take some time and explore his site in detail. It's packed with how to get up and running. After viewing his YouTube Channel, I recommend that you visit his resource center with a pad of paper and pen in hand!

There you will find links to teacher resources, parent resources, mentorship, entrepreneurship, games, and even how to get your kids interested in the first place! And his site's content is written with both kids and teens in mind. Well worth any time and effort you put into it, that's for sure! And once you've taken your time to explore his site in detail, I'm sure you will agree! Highly recommended.

If you happen to wonder if your 8-year-old can really learn about money and business, perhaps you may consider sending him or her to camp. Millionaire Mind Camp, that is! Children ages 8-11, grades 3-6 can spend 10 days in summer camp learning about money, self-empowering techniques, using their natural talents to become wealthy, and so much more!

Say your kids are a bit older than that? No sweat! Millionaire Mind Camp covers ages 8-18, grades 3-12! Check it out and see if it's a good fit for your family.

After reading more stories about young entrepreneurs and the money they generate annually in their businesses at extremely young ages, you will see that "nothing" really is impossible when you pair up knowledgeable and caring adults with determined children!

While the rest of the world is focused on the economy, there is a very large and *nationally-based* group of professionals who have chosen to gather up the apples that have seemingly fallen from the trees we call "the recession!"

We're taking those apples and turning them into all kinds of products while earning a profit to boot!

Whether it's selling haircare products, office chairs from their bedrooms, computer services, or even babysitting brokering services, these kids are on it! Yes, one smart young lady is earning quite a bit by being the middleman...er, I mean, middle girl by pairing up parents who need a babysitter with the kids who are willing to do it!

And speaking of brokering services, let me let you in on something you might not be aware of, but could help you generate great income if you allow your mind to get creative enough to come up with a business idea that's comfortable for you.

There is a particular service that works best in a recession that doesn't work as well when the economy is flourishing, and that's brokering services. The bottom line with brokering services is that you're the middleman who arrange a great opportunity between those who need a service and those who would like to provide it to them, while taking your cut for the arrangement.

So whether it's "babysitting services" (as mentioned above), or a company that needs to liquidate some of its unused/unsold inventory (for whatever reason), you can be the "finder" who needs to buy what's being liquidated, and arrange that sale.

An example might be someone who's selling a business opportunity and signed up a lot of people. These people may have chosen to work from home, and need office supplies and furniture, but the money is not there yet because they're just getting started. In the meantime, this company over here has failed to sell their brand new furniture because people just aren't buying because of the economy. Now this company can't seem to even get rid of it fast enough and has decided to take a loss.

Either you can sign up all those new work-from-home people in need of steeply-discounted furniture and put them on your list and arrange this sale (getting your fee from both sides), or you can let a business broker ultimately get in there and do what they do best, which is find a company to sell that inventory to and get that fee themselves!

Oh, if you may be wondering why this is not the ideal business to be in during a great economy, that's because for the most part, brokering services at this level isn't really needed. People are buying from the companies directly and most likely are paying full price as well!

Could you be a broker because you happened to see an opportunity to help someone rent some unused and gaping space in their business establishment while finding a few work-from-home business owners in need of a very small space to rent a couple of times a week?

Might your teenager see an "information service" opportunity between those who are seeking very specific services, such as fun but cheap places to take their families to and match them up with the providers of t hose "little known" cheap but fun places while taking a fee for pairing up the two?

Food for thought is all.

Finally, Young Biz is a site that you and your pre-teens and teens should also check out. Packed with great information and like the others, and designed with your young entrepreneurs in mind. Another highly recommended site!

If you know of any sites or local programs that our members should know about, please either post it in the comment section or send me an email.

Until next time, may business ideas come you speedily!

Tisha M. Silvers
Author, "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover! "
Foreword by Paul & Sarah Edwards, The Self-Employment Experts
www.homeschool-wealth.com

www.Twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Homeschooling Work At Home Moms, Dads And Guardians

Hope you put some of Stephen Pierce's great advice to work this week in addition to those gems I gave you first couple of days! Your business life can really soar by taking those principles and strategies and applying them!

To wrap up this week and to begin preparing for next week, I would like to share a few things with you.

Before I do, go ahead and grab your copy of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover!", not because I'm trying to make a sale, but rather because the book is literally packed with at-home and traditional business-building strategies that are yet to be seen in other business-development books.

It covers a plethora of sound and proven strategies for your home business or traditional office-based (commercial or industrial).

So whether you have a local area establishment (such as a daycare, gas station or accounting practice), an Internet-focused business, or both, these strategies are designed to step everything up several notches to enable you to forge ahead of your competitors.

Not only does the book cover those powerful strategies, but it also covers how to do that while you home educate your family. It also give you business ideas for your pre-teens and teenagers so they can create businesses of their own as well!

I seriously admonish you to grab a copy and just check it out for yourself. If you purchase the 280-page, I offer a 100% money-back guarantee plus you have a full 365 days to check it out! Not 30 days or 60 days like the others, but an entire year! For your convenience, if you look on your lower right you will see the picture of the book and a clickable Pay Pal link.

The printed copy without the money-guarantee can be purchased at:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-homeschoolers-income-makeover/3824741

Now regarding your pre-teens and teens having businesses of their own, we are going to cover that all next week. Talk about the possibilities! The whole family gets to generate income through their own ventures and enjoy doing so. Who knows? One idea could very well make them a millionaire! Anything is possible. Skeptical?

Well here is proof of teenagers taking advantage of the opportunities that made them into millionaires:
http://money.aol.com/forbes/general/teen-millionaires (Forbes article dated March 3, 2009!)

And here’s a preview of more to come:
http://www.mysmallbiz.com/teen-business/teen-business-ideas.php (article)
http://www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/youtube.htm (video)

Many parents think their offspring just don’t have what it takes to start and run a business, but you would be really surprised what can be done with the help of encouraging adults and a bit of outside help!

Well, here’s where I’ll let you in on something you may not have considered.

If you honestly believe that your child is incapable of operating something as simple as the traditional lemonade stand because he or she is mentally or physically unable to do so, then might you consider taking your child’s biggest interest and at minimum, create a website or blog with general information about his or her interest, put on the website/blog an Adword account, as well as some appropriate affiliate products you might be able to find on ClickBank, PayDotCom, and/or Linkshare? (These and more are a few strategies I share in my book, by the way!)

You can always hire a ghostwriter or ghostblogger to keep the site updated by adding fresh and relevant content to it daily. That way, although you technically control the business, this could be an ideal scenario for your child to draw income from based on his or her specific interest(s).

Now on the last day of our young entrepreneur series, we’re going to deviate just a bit and talk about kids and money rather than kids and business.

No doubt this is going to be a fun time if you and your family apply the strategies.

I look forward to comments.

C’mon, go ahead. Write a comment. Don’t be shy.

‘Til next week,

Tisha M. Silvers
Author, "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover! "
Foreword by Paul & Sarah Edwards, The Self-Employment Experts
www.homeschool-wealth.com

www.Twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Stephen Pierce's "Goal Get 'Em Report", Finally..."

Hey Blessing!

You are, you know...

Today, we're going to wrap up Stephen's "Goal Get 'Em Report", which I really hope you found both meaningful on two levels (business and personal) as well as "doable." Because if you don't believe you can actually "do" what he wonderfully laid out, then how can you benefit from any of it?

The truth is that you can do this!

If you can run a business AND homeschool your family simultaneously, then you can apply all seven steps!

This group is one of the best to create accountability partners and help each other scale all seven steps that I will recap in a moment. I'd like to see your participation and know of anything that you believe will help us as both home educators and home-business professionals.

We all have skills and collectively can bring a plethora of talents and resources to the table that will benefit it us all.

Mind sharing your thoughts with us?

Heeerrreee's...Stephen!

"SUMMARY:

1. Find an accountability partner.
2. Find out if you are stuck.
3. Create a weekly / monthly pulse for your company.
4. Create an issues list.
5. Get clear about your objectives and focus your resources.
6. Be consistent in your actions and recommit every day.
7. Celebrate your progress.

Talk about what’s up and about something good that’s happened. If nothing good has happened business wise, talk about something good that has happened personally. Maybe you lost a pound, or maybe you gained a pound! Find something good, because there’s always something good happening, and then celebrate it!

Know your numbers and keep a record of your daily measurements.

If you’re stuck, know what the bottleneck, roadblock or barrier is. Know the primary obstacle that you feel is holding you back so that you can address it and MOVE FORWARD. Talk to me! I want to hear from you…

http://www.talkbacktostephen.com

…tell me your goals, together we will achieve what’s possible."

Stephen Pierce is a great resource and highly recommend him.

If you know of other professionals you would like to recommend to our group, please post it.

If you feel a bit reserved about posting, you can send me an email directly at homeschool_wealth@yahoo.com.

'Til Next Time,

Be prosperous and multiply abundantly.

Tisha M. Silvers
Author of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover!"
A 280-page book that covers how to turn your finances around using three proven strategies: (1) Creating a real business the right way, (2) things you can do to begin eliminating your debt, while (3) increasing your income-producing assets (which are easy-to-implement strategies that do not include real estate, stocks and bonds, and the like, though you should if you're able).

It also shows the parent how to help their children gain financial intelligence that are SO simple even a four-year-old can do this -- literally!

I also include step-by-step homeschool and home-business strategies And SO much more!

If you prefer the instant digital download version of the ebook, I put a Pay Pal link right here on this blog on your lower right side for your convenience. If you like to have the printed version that you can conveniently read whenever you so choose, here's the link for you as well:
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-homeschoolers-income-makeover/3824741

If you let me know you would like to order a printed copy, I will give you a substantial discount by ordering directly from me!

Also, if you go to the LULU site, I uploaded 2 sections from my newly-added bonus section so you can see for yourself if what I propose (for additional business models you might want to consider) is worth taking the chance to order. Only on the e-book orders I give a 365-day money-back guarantee!

Tisha M. Silvers
Author of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover!"
www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Stephen Pierce's "Goal Get 'Em Report", Part 7 “Celebrate Your Progress"

Hello, Greatness!

Yeah, I'm talking to you!

Today we're going to discover how to celebrate our progress.

You know, it's pretty easy to forget that every now and then, we need to give ourselves a pat on the back for a job well done.

I mean, think about it. We take care of our households just like those who are out in the workforce. And we're at home more than they are, which could mean we might be tempted to do "home-related" stuff because we have the freedom to do just that.

Additionally, we home educate our children, which is another meaningful, but time-stretching responsibility as well. And because we created systems that work for us, we can eventually get to the point that we don't even think about it (the work and responsibilities of both) -- we just do it almost on auto-pilot as if it's now second-nature to us.

Well, in the world of other professionals, they have their days broken up into two halves: Work (whatever the work hours are) and home (which includes going over homework and everything else that had to wait until they got there).

And because of this clearly defined line, it's very easy to appreciate that we are indeed unique parents and business professionals who have managed to blend both worlds (home and work). So from time-to-time, when we stand up and take a stretch, just go ahead and reach behind you and give yourself a good pat on the back for being able to move so skillfully and easily.

Stephen is going to share with us "how" we can celebrate our progress from a business viewpoint, but we can make this work in our home and homeschool lives as well. Enjoy....

"Even when we have something that’s great, we celebrate that, but at the same time, we know that more is still possible. So, we continue on a day-to-day basis to confront those new possibilities.

If you think about the world today, about technology and where we are with the transportation system and where we are with technology, like cell phones and the Internet and iPods, and all these different and incredible things, all of them came not out of somebody settling with what’s good and what’s great, but they came out of somebody being inspired by what’s possible.

Whether it’s the Sony Walkman many, many years ago, or it’s the over 70,000 different inventions from 3Ms lab based on polymer chemistry, or something as exciting as the iPhone, the iPod Touch or iTunes itself, or the Internet and all the incredible things that are happening on the Internet, it’s all coming from what’s possible.

I want you to know that every single one of us has an equal opportunity. Life favors no particular person and success knows no prejudice.

As you listen to me and as you live and breathe, you are just as deserving of success as myself, as a Bill Gates, or as anybody. But at the same time, you’re no more deserving of success.

See, here’s the kicker. Life does not give us what we deserve. Life gives us what we go claim. And claiming is a proactive process that we have to engage in every single day.

We can state that we’re going to claim it, but then we have to go out there and actually make it happen, and understand that when certain things don’t necessarily happen on time, or certain things fall behind schedule, or there are certain kinks or obstacles we need to get around, that’s all par for the course.

When a guy or lady goes to play golf, they can’t complain about the woods or the sand or the water, because they already see that that’s there. They try to stay out of it.

But here’s the thing. If they go into the sand, they already have an idea on how they’re going to get out of it. If they go into the woods, they already have a contingency plan in place on how they’re going to get out of it. They don’t like it, but they know they can get out of it and they can still win the game.

This is a process, and this process is an ongoing journey of continuous, unending progress that every single one of us should enjoy every step of the way. There are certain things that happen that we don’t necessarily feel good about, but because we know that it’s worth it, we go ahead and we endure it and we keep on moving forward.


You have our unwavering support every step of the way throughout your process. One of the ways we want to demonstrate that is by here encouraging you to have weekly huddles with someone, if not with us, then with someone who will hold you accountable for your action steps.

Once your progress moves forward, add the same weekly or monthly pulses we use, which are exciting because of what you'll actually do there, as far as the learning and the reporting."

What great advice! When you make the time to do it, go back and read that again.

Better yet, copy/paste it to a document, laminate it (if you can) and put it on your wall so you can read it again and again!

Tomorrow we're going to wrap up Stephen's awesome advice, and I will provide his link so you can contact him if you'd like!

'Til then, have an awesome day!

Tisha M. Silvers
Author of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover! "
www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Stephen Pierce's "Goal Get 'Em Report", Part 6 “Be Consistent In Your Actions And Recommit Everyday"

Hey, Fellow Professionals…

This next one spoke volumes to me! I sure hope it has the same effect on you to help move you onto “true greatness.” The benefits of applying this next strategy is apparently obvious. So without further ado, here ya go!

“Once you’re clear and your resources are concentrated, then all you have to do is just be consistent with your actions on a day-to-day basis.

I would venture to say that if you have already made a choice that whatever it is you’re looking to accomplish individually is worth going through the process, then it is worth the commitment.

You have to recommit yourself on a day-to-day basis, because it’s not really about feeling like doing each task. It’s about understanding that it’s worth doing, so you now continue to do it on a day-to-day basis.

I’m sure you can agree that we make the choice, but one of the things we have to remember every single day is that in order to succeed, we not only have to have the courage to start, but we also have to be committed to continuing to following through and finishing. And that happens on a day-to-day basis.

Some people can be great starters, but they’re horrible finishers, which used to be the tune of my life. I used to start things but get bored and bail out, and then just look for something else more exciting to start.

We don’t make a one-time commitment. We renew our commitment every single day. Every time we wake up in the morning, we renew our commitment to following through on what it is we’re doing and to the idea that this is worth it. So, “Whatever it is I’m stuck on, I’m going to work this thing out, and I’m going to make sure that whatever it is I’m looking to materialize in my life, it’s materializing.”

This is something that every successful person goes through, and believe it or not, people that don’t succeed go through the same thing. But their commitment is not to see it through. Their commitment is to quitting and they are going to give up.

Their courageousness is more into the things that may not work and will not work, versus what it is that’s possible, and they tend to settle for something being ‘good enough’.

By the way, that is NOT my personality and it’s not one that I want you to have. Maybe you’ve read Jim Collins’ book Good to Great where he talks about good is the enemy of great. But I’m also a believer that great is the enemy of what’s possible.

Some people become content with what’s good, or satisfied with what’s great, and they never become excited and enticed and compelled to move forward by what’s possible.

Sure, we can have some good things, but I don’t want us to be satisfied. If anything, I want us to have an inspirational dissatisfaction, where it’s like we appreciate it and we have gratitude, but we know that there’s more that we can experience, so we continue to strive. ”

To Major Success,

Tisha M. Silvers
Author of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover!"
www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Stephen Pierce's "Goal Get 'Em Report", Part 5 "Get Clear About Your Objectives And Focus Your Resources"

Hello, Fellow Entrepreneurs!

Last week, I shared Stephen's suggestions that we should find an accountability partner, find out if we're stuck, to create a weekly/monthly pulse for our companies, and to to create an issues list."

Today it's, "Get clear about your objectives and focus your resources."

"The reason that weekly and monthly meetings are important is because everybody has to be clear on what it is they’re moving towards. The moment you get clear on what it is you’re moving towards, everything that you’re focusing on actually acts as a strategic filter that allows you to see what’s relevant and what’s irrelevant. You see, a lot of different things are going on in the Internet marketing community and online and in business and across the world, but not all of it is relevant to you.

Once you’re clear on your objectives, on what matters and why it matters and that it’s worth actually going forward, you can breathe again. In other words, you can be a little bit more relaxed and less stressed out about all these other things that are going on around you, because some things may be exciting, but they’re irrelevant. You don’t really have to pay attention everything around you! Once you’re really clear on your objectives, you can then concentrate your resources on those very specific items; whereas, if you don’t have clarity, your resources become defused and they’re all over the place. And thus, you don’t get the kind of impact that you can ultimately get."

This same advice also applies to local area businesses as well. Many things are constantly going on around us and it's easy to become distracted -- especially if you're working from home and homeschooling the children, too.

Also remember that your energy is a resource that needs managing as well. Maintaining vibrancy and mental alertness can start to wane after a while. And because we're a unique type of professional due to our working from home and home educating our families, the true key word here is "balance."

What would you suggest to our group that might help us blend balance, objectives clarity, and resource focus?

I would love to hear your comments and if these strategies work for you.

To a Balanced & Successful Weekend!

Tisha M. Silvers
Author of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover!
"http://www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Stephen Pierce's "Goal Get 'Em Report", Parts 3 & 4 "Create A Weekly/Monthly Pulse For Your Company" And "Create Issues List"

Hey there!

Today we're going to look at Stephen's steps #3 and 4, "Create a weekly / monthly pulse for your company" and "Create an Issues List."

As business owners, we know how vital this is. Let's see if we might be able to improve some of processes that we might be able to tweak it a bit to blend into our homeschool schedule as well!

"3. In our company there are weekly pulses that generally last around 90 minutes.

We look at:

* Score cards
* Higher levels of return on investments
* Creating headlines that entice and give forms of celebration
* Reviewing every team member’s hit list of items that they were committed to in the prior week

4. Create an issues list.
* We also look at an issues list:

* We identify any particular issues.

* We list them. We organize. We decide which ones are most important to get through to move forward. We look at solving those issues.

* We close out the meeting and recap meeting highlights. We commit ourselves to moving forward."

Hmmm.....food for thought for my business and household.

How about yours?

Please share what you feel will also be beneficial to those of us who are.

Here's to "Clarity!",

Tisha M. Silvers
www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Stephen Pierce's "Goal Get 'Em Report", Part 2 "Getting Unstuck"

Hey there!

Yesterday we talked about finding an accountability partner for both business and personal, and today we're going to talk about being stuck and what to do about it.

Step 2: Find out if you are stuck.

" All of us are going to be challenged, and like I tell people, the only people that aren’t challenged are stuck or are people who aren’t really doing anything. So to be challenged or to even to be stuck someplace means that you’re looking to make progress and that you’re moving forward.

In our company, we look to get beyond those particular failures and challenges and the things that tend to stand in the way. We always look what’s been accomplished first, and then we look at the daily measurements.

What is your daily measurement?

What numbers are you looking at every day?

If you’re doing this with yourself daily, you’ll know in advance what your numbers are and if you’re on track.

I’d like you to acknowledge when you are stuck. Like I said, being stuck is not really a problem, because when you’re looking to make progress, you get stuck. Figure out how to get unstuck and move on."

Question for you:

Are you stuck? If not, congratulations!

If you are, might we help each other get "unstuck"?

If you would like to add how you manage your daily measurement as well as how you get unstuck so that we all can benefit, we'd be much obliged!

To Successful Daily Measurements,

Tisha M. Silvers
www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Stephen Pierce's "Goal Get 'Em Report", Part 1

Hi Everybody!

Here is the first of several parts of Stephen Pierce's report, "Goal Get 'Em Report", with reprint permission of course.

He's a great example of "nothing is impossible" when you take into account his background and how he rose to be one of the most recognized Internet marketers. Here's the link to his site so that you can check him out for yourself:
http://www.stephenlive.com/

"According to the Association for Training and Development, we have a 95% chance of actually hitting the goals that we set for ourselves when we have someone we are accountable to. This Special Report outlines steps that you can and will want to take to ensure that you’re meeting your goals. Most people know how to start stuff but very few people know how to complete stuff. So while it would seem appropriate at the beginning of this report to say let’s get started…. I prefer to say let’s get completed!

1. Find an accountability partner.

This includes a business associate or a family member who can hold you accountable, someone that you can have a huddle with. If you already have business partners or business associates, it’s a good idea to share this with each other so that you can keep that person accountable and you, yourself, can be held accountable. If we’re not held accountable and we’re not checking in with somebody, or somebody isn’t checking in with us, then the likelihood of us hitting the goals we set for ourselves diminishes big time.

Our company holds our entire team accountable for specific numbers and specific results on a day-to-day basis, because it’s the day-to-day things that each team member is doing that ultimately drives the larger goals.

One of the things that you constantly want to make sure of is, “Is this activity I’m engaged in right now moving me closer towards the larger objective?” If not, then you need to make some changes and get yourself back on track.

The whole purpose here is to find out what the good things are that we are doing what positive directions we are moving in, because there’s always something to celebrate in regards to our small victories. Sometimes we have a tendency to have a negative bias, where we tend to be overwhelmed or just pay attention to the things that aren’t really going that well. But we really do ourselves a great injustice when we do that, because there is always something good that’s going on."

Question for you:

Who's your accountability partner?

If you haven't selected one yet, consider someone here in this community. We all share a unique situation and that's running a business while homeschooling.

For this very reason, we need other professionals to help us stay on track with our goals and hold us accountable for doing those things that really matter -- both to our bottom line as well as to us as parents.

Share how you benefit from having such a partner or might benefit if you're seeking one.

To a successful 2009,

Tisha M. Silvers
www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Homeschool Business Owners are a Special Breed of Professionals, Part 2

Greetings Fellow At-Home Business Professionals!

Yesterday, I gave two very brief marketing suggestions that I know will give your business a head up on the competition.

As mentioned in the previous blog, here is the copy/paste of affiliate marketing and resale rights from the bonus section of my newly updated book. These two business models may be new to some of you, and already implemented by others.


USING MASTER RESELL RIGHTS, RESALE RIGHTS & PRIVATE LABEL RIGHTS AS A BUSINESS MODEL
(Or just for bringing in some additional income)

Before I go into how to create a business using these three types of rights, I’d first like to share how just by thinking creatively, you can generate income even if you don’t use these rights as “core” business models. After you read the following, just think about all the possibilities if these were part of your core business models!

MY PERSONAL STORY:

When I first started working on this project (writing the very book you’re reading right now), my sole purpose for creating it was to create 50 master resell rights for $50 each. I had planned to sell a maximum of 50 rights only so that once all 50 rights were sold, that was it. (And by the way, this entire book is my own original writing. No one else’s project is part of this book. Nobody’s! It’s all “me” as a result of prayer as I mentioned earlier. Thought I’d mention that again right here so you won’t have to wonder as you continue to read a MRR strategy I had initially intended to employ, but didn’t. Purposely.)

[Side note: If you do the math here, 50 MRRs for $50 each would’ve been a smooth and $2500! (Hint, hint! Did your brain say, “Hey, that’s a good idea! Let’s do that!”? I sure hope so.) Okay, back to what I was saying…]

Determined to provide only excellent information that people could actually use, I intended to write up to a maximum of 75 pages as well as give my MRR buyers a few ideas about how they might recreate the book’s content in several variations so they could get off to a good start.

I was going to limit my sales to only 50 rights because I actually had intended to sell the 75-page book myself AND give several leaders their own complimentary copy, in which they could turn around and sell it to their group members at a steep discount. Why? Because their members would’ve already seen the full price on the Internet from online advertising and knew they were getting a great deal by buying from their group leader! Everybody would’ve won.

My MRR buyers would have great information that they could use to create whatever kind of product they wanted to out of it. And at $50 for the master rights, that would have been a pure steal and they would have known it because I would’ve given them some great ideas to get them started.

Their customers would have benefited from the altered book (some of my original content plus whatever the new owner would have added to it). And I would have personally made a smooth (and quick) $2500 because I knew how I was going to market the original book!

The group leaders would have made out because they would have gotten it for free plus gotten the “resale rights” (NOT master resell rights!) so that they could make money by selling it at the retail value on their websites, but giving it to their members and subscribers at a steep discount – again instantly creating value to their own memberships. There would not have been one person who would not have benefited from this transaction at all! Everybody would have gain something extremely valuable!

I hope I got your creative juices flowing from using my own initial plan for creating a MRR as an example! Go ahead and put something together like that and make some money right quick!

And here, I’ll help you start off by giving you this: Create your own product (as I showed you how to do way earlier in this book). Then sign up for some great PLR (private label rights) giveaways! Yes, they give their products away (articles, videos, website templates, website scripts and more!) because they’re already selling higher-end products!

I personally recommend Aurelius Tjin (love his products!) at http://aureliustjin.com and Hilal Abdelwali at www.myhotproducts.com for rights you can both buy and get for free!

And in case you can tell that your brain is working on something, but just can’t quite figure out how to create something people would want to buy, then here is one example to help you get going:

Let’s say you were knowledgeable about the value of detoxing the body for maximum health. You used a particular detox product line and had personally gotten great results when you used it properly. You found yourself generally excited when people asked you questions about it, and you may have even been a bit surprised at yourself about how much you actually knew about the benefits of detoxing. It was at this point that you realized that this was definitely something you were interested in and felt that you should be paid for by being the company’s spokeperson!

Well, you might not get paid for being their spokesperson, but you most certain can be paid for selling their product as an affiliate partner. (We’ll talk about that in the next section.)

So how might you get started? For starters, you could create a WordPress website, which is actually a blog site, but you own any content you put on it as oppose to Blogger.com where you do not.

And although you do know quite a bit about the subject of detoxing for maximum health, you feel that it would be easier if you could find a few prewritten articles from the private label rights stash you downloaded a few months ago.

You quickly go through a few of them, extracted pertinent information and blended your own knowledge with it. So now you have a blog about your subject matter, so what’s next? “Oh yeah! I forgot about that,” you say to yourself as you remembered that you talked to a doctor who has a detox website and told you she would be interested in doing a video interview with you!

So you made that call, did the interview, and got permission to put it the video up on your site. (Now you have written content, a video interview, “and” various detox products on your site as an affiliate partner.) And being the savvy person that you are, you naturally put Adsense ads on the site as well. But then you thought there must be more you can do, but what exactly is that? “Hmmmm…..”, you think aloud. “Of course!” you say to yourself as you remembered what other people did in addition to detoxing their bodies.

Some got on a very specific exercise plan. Some talked about how they eliminated certain foods while replacing them with others for maximum results. Some actually just “laughed” a lot more than before, while others stop abusing their bodies and minds with a lack of sleep simply by going to bed earlier for a full night’s rest.

Oh, you’re definitely onto something and you know it! “Should I write about adding all of these things together in one article or blog, or should I….should I…OF COURSE!... I should write about them separately – adding the appropriate product to sell with my article or blog. So now you’ve got a detox-related article + foods to avoid vs. to add to one’s menu (and their accompanying supplements that you get affiliate commissions from) + another 3-5 minute video interview + your AdSense ads income + the new book/e-book you created from your PLRs or MRR!

But you don’t dare stop there, do you? Not even! You’re going to put those interviews on CDs or DVDs for your CD/DVD-of-the-Month Club offer, and you’re going to package it with the printed transcript of the audio too. You may even choose to create a newsletter featuring people who have documented results doing what you and the experts suggested concerning detoxing and being good their bodies by exercising, laughing, and resting more.

And who knows? At this point you might even consider connecting with medical and natural redemies’ professionals by participating in a health fair or two and being one of their keynote speakers (which will create more product for you to sell or give away as bonuses for joining your online membership)!

This is just one example of how to generate income with these master resell/resale/ and private label rights products. Remember to sign up with some of the free giveaways where you can transform some of those products and services into income-producing ideas of your own.

And if you get a bit stuck, email me and let’s see what we can come up with that is comfortable for you. The first 10 minutes of the one-time only consultation will be free, but the money clock will start ticking afterwards, which is only fair to me, right?

Afterall, I have my plate full with homeschooling my kids and running a business just like you. ;~D

Oh yeah, before I move on to the affiliate business model, let me tell you why I chose not to use this book as a resale rights product. Someone brought to my attention that I could create far more value by selling it as a complete book or ebook if I were to add more valuable content.

So I did."

I trust that the ideas presented here that was taken the bonus section of my book has sparked your creative "marketing" imagination! The goal of this targeted group of professionals is for us to offer and create business strategies that enable us to me the market leaders in our perspective industries and fields.

I'm sure our group would love to hear about your business-building ideas that will help us get and retain being our customers' and prospective customers' preferred vendor and/or service provider choice!

Tisha M. Silvers
www.homeschool-wealth.com
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com

Homeschool Business Owners are a Special Breed of Professionals, Part 1

What's the difference between a home-based entrepreneur and a homeschooling home-based entrepreneur?

Two at-home full time jobs!

And because of this unique situation we homeschool business owners face, I set out on a quest to find out what are some things we can do differently in our business to help us stand out and above the rest of the crowd.

Here's what I discovered and detailed in my latest edition of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover!":

Market your business both locally and online, and do so simultaneously.

To do that (and do it simultaneously), the first thing that need to be clear is that marketing online and marketing locally is very different, although there are some similarities. So here are two strong strategies (more to come in upcoming blogs) that you should find not only interesting, but "doable" to help you get ahead of the competition:

Local Area Presence:

Besides the obvious, such as placing ads in printed newsletters and magazines your target market read, using door-hangers (if applicable), having a booth at their tradeshows, creating radio and cable TV ads, and giving lectures, seminars, workshops and speaking at meetings they (your target market) attend, add to your repertoire writing a few advertorials (an advertisement that “seriously” resembles an editorial) in your local and neighborhood newspapers.

Here’s a link to how to write them:
www.write.co.nz/mainsite/HowToWriteAGoodAdvertorial.html

And here’s a great site that are filled with examples of them: http://www.hardtofindads.com/

Many business owners don’t even know what an advertorial is, much less write them or how to write them. If you’d need a few super creative ideas to help you get more business exposure, send me an email and we’ll see what we can come up with that is comfortable for you.

Online:

Consider adding affiliate marketing and resale rights to what you’re already doing. Make sure that the products you promote and create are all complementary to your existing products and services.

In Part 2, I’m going to copy/paste my entire section on how to make this business model blend seamlessly with what you’re already offering!

Stay tuned!

Recommended Reading:
Rich Schefren’s “Internet Business Manifesto”, ‘The Missing Chapter”, and “Internet Business Manifesto – The Final Chapter” (and the other three), which are all free at www.strategicprofits.com/blog

Recommended Listening:
http://www.hardtofindseminars.com/ (Love these varied seminars!!!)
Seth Godin’s & SAMBA Team, “998 More Ideas”, which are 998 business ideas for people who are looking for ideas to start a business: www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html. In my updated book I give some marketing ideas for idea #47!


Tisha M. Silvers
Author of "The Homeschoolers' Income Makeover!"
http://www.homeschool-wealth.com/
www.twitter.com/tmsilvers
www.linkedin.com/in/tmsilvers

Creator of Social Networking Sites:
http://homeschoolbusiness.ning.com
http://homeschoolbusinesses.ning.com