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EPnews -- from The Entrepreneurial Parent
a work-family resource for home-based entrepreneurs
@ http://www.en-parent.com
July 12, 2000
Lisa Roberts, Editor:
epideas@en-parent.com
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The Funny Things EP Kids Say
& Do
SPECIAL SECTION: Media Inquiries & Opportunities for EPs
EP Times -- En-Parent.com Has A New Look!
Making Money Matters -- Survey Responses Needed
What's Happening at EP -- New Membership Automation + More
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Editorial Note: EPnews is distributed
the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every
month. The Entrepreneurial Parent web site is updated on an ongoing
basis
throughout each month (en-parent.com).
Welcome all new subscribers!
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THE FUNNY THINGS EP KIDS SAY & DO!
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Submitted by EPnews Subscriber, Debbie Williams, EP Mom to David,
age 4
(mailto:Debbie@organizedtimes.com):
Last month my column, Organized
Times, was picked up by another distributor,
ZDTV's "Working the Web." I was doing the happy dance,
and my son was
twirling with me in my office. When he asked who I had been on
the phone
with, I told him "ZDTV." He ran out of the office,
down the stairs, and came
back with his Dad's Rubick's Cube, changing it to read "ZDTB,
ZDTB, ZDTB!!!
(Now who says branding doesn't work?!!!)
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Why work at home? So you can hear the funny things your EP Kids
say
throughout the day. Share with the EP Community something your
child said or
did recently that made you smirk, giggle, or LOL. Send your submission
via
e-mail to:epideas@en-parent.com.
And if you need a stockpile of
smiles to get you through your EP day, pick up
your own heartwarming copy of Grace Housholder's "The Funny
Things Kids Say."
On those stressed-out EP days, you'll be glad you did!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963871536/theentrepreneuri
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MEDIA INQUIRIES & OPPORTUNITIES FOR EPs
Lisa Roberts is working on 2
articles for a national business magazine and is
currently looking for:
** Telecommuters. In this tight
labor market, companies are having a tough
time recruiting and retaining valued employees. Headhunters and
HR managers
are trying everything -- and telecommuting programs are high
on the list of
HR strategies. If you are an employee who has recently been hired
with the
promise of a telework arrangement, or have decided to stay on
with your
current job only because a teleworking program was implemented,
I would LOVE
to talk to you!
** Someone who was recently a
victim of an Internet scam. If you lost money
by "investing" in a fraudalent biz opp or was promised
more than you were
delivered, I need to speak with you ASAP ;-)! Can keep your name
or the
company's name confidential if you wish.
Email: Roberts@en-parent.com
for either of the above.
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Jeff Zbar, our own "EP Work-at-Home
Dad Expert," is looking for the following
profiles:
* Taking a bigger HO Deduction.
Have you increased the size of your home
office so you could take a larger tax deduction?
* Killer Customer Service. How
do you provide good customer service and build
lasting customer relationships? Also: A sidebar on Making your
home office
conducive to meeting with customers. Getting a separate business
line for
customers, and dedicating space if you must have meetings in
your home
office. Need by Friday, July 14.
* Temps in vogue. Anyone know
of a temp worker out there who used to have a
hard time finding solid assignments, and now has more than s/he
can handle?
Need ONE - plus an expert in the field. Need ASAP.
Email: jeff@goinsoho.com
for any of the above.
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Need some start-up capital?
Oxygen and ka-Ching have teamed
up with a wonderful organization to offer a
new program: Oxygen Gets You Going! Oxygen Gets You Going is
a unique
program designed especially to help women get their small business
ideas off
the ground, or to the next level, through a combination of grants,
loans,
computer equipment and advice from small business experts.
Oxygen Gets You Going is currently
accepting applications from now until
August 4th to find 3 women to win....
* A $5,000 grant
* Computer equipment from Hewlett-Packard
* Mentoring from ka-Ching.com's small business experts
* Appearances on "Pure Oxygen" on TV and Oxygen.com
To find out more - visit http://www.oxygen.com/getsyougoing/
Go ahead EPs, give it a whirl!!!
You can do it!! And if you stop by
ka-ching.com, don't forget to say "Hi" to Lisa (ka-ching's
Work-at-Home
Expert) on her boards or read her e-columns at:
http://ka-ching.com/business
;-)! Good luck to all who try!!
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EP OF THE MONTH
Shari Rosen Ascher & Maggie
Sisco, or "Team Shaggie"
http://en-parent.com/Profiles/Shaggie.htm
Every month we highlight the
achievements of one of our newly registered
members by selecting them as our "EP of the Month."
As we review our new
member forms, we take a look at business names, niche markets,
special PR or
advertising techniques, innovative products or services, and
other types of
unique business practices.
This month we chose Shari Rosen
Ascher, EP to 2 children, ages 3 & 6, and her
partner Maggie Sisco, EP to 2 children, ages 4 & 6. Shari
& Maggie have been
a job share team for two companies and are so in sync professionaly
that
they like to refer to themselves as "Team Shaggie."
(That's how they answer
their phone, respond to email, etc.!) Their company, ShareGoals,
LLC, at
www.sharegoals.com, is a full service job share consulting company
that works
with both management and employees to help make job sharing a
win-win
proposition for everyone who wants to give it a try.
Since we love the whole concept
of job sharing and "sharing goals" -- both
professionally and personally -- we're happy to have found another
advocate
of work-family balance, and pleased to have "Team Shaggie"
as members of our
EP Community.
<begin round of applause>
Please welcome "Team Shaggie"
by viewing their Profile Page at:
http://en-parent.com/Profiles/Shaggie.htm
and/or sending them a welcome
message at:
mailto:Team_Shaggie@interep.com
</end round of applause>
To All -- Please Note: We now
hand out an "award" graphic to our EPs of the
Month, which can be prominently displayed on the winner's home
page or "press
room" page. We also continue to offer our selected EPs a
FREE Profile Page at
the EP Showcase and a photo link from our home page all month.
So please
spread the word among your friends, colleagues and email loops
-- invite the
EPs in your life to join en-parent.com as a registered member,
and let's
build the EP Community together!
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EP TIMES -- AN EDITORIAL
EP Times is taking a break this
month in favor of introducing you to our NEW
SITE!! EP & NAEP now have a new "home" -- please
take a fresh look at our
over 450 pages of information, camaraderie and resources -- at:
===> http://en-parent.com
Want to help us make en-parent.com
THE Internet "hub" for Entrepreneurial
Parents worldwide? Please help us spread the word through your
own favorite
ezines, discussion groups, web sites, message boards and the
like. If you're
at a loss for words, here's a summary of what we're about:
"The Entrepreneurial Parent
(tm) is dedicated to promoting the home office as
a family-friendly workplace for all parents looking to balance
work and
family on their own terms. Entrepreneurial Parents are an emerging
workforce
trend -- 11.7 million strong in the U.S. alone -- and the Internet
is
enabling the EP Community to unite, strengthen and grow. For
news,
membership, resources and inspiration, it's been www.en-parent.com
for EPs
since 1998!"
Thanks all for your loyal support
and patience while we rolled out "Version
2.0" of en-parent.com. deB and Lisa have tried their best
this past school
year to develop a user-friendly, fun and useful site for you
to visit,
explore, learn and make vital contacts through. We do hope you
like it but
would love to hear your feedback one way or another. Anything
specific you
love or hate about the new site? Inquiring minds want to know
;-)! Send your
opinions to editor@en-parent.com
and we'll take a close look to see if
changes need to be made. Thank you!!
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Lisa Roberts is the mother of four, Web Producer of The Entrepreneurial
Parent and author of "How to Raise A Family & A Career
Under One Roof: A
Parent's Guide to Home Business" (Bookhaven Press, 1997).
Copies of her book
are available for purchase at: http://en-parent.com/order.htm
and through
Amazon, at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0943641179/theentrepreneuri
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MAKING MONEY MATTERS
Being available to your kids
and managing a career under one roof sounds to
many like the best of both worlds, but without pulling in some
kind of income
what's all the effort for? Making Money Matters! Let's hear how
YOU earn your
keep as an EP. This month we're out of interviews, so feel free
to use the
survey below to send in your submission. Please keep in mind
that this column
is here to spark marketing ideas for the already-established
EP, not a venue
to recruit aspiring EPs into a business opportunity, so no MLM
or packaged
business opportunity submissions please. Just copy, hit reply,
and fill out
the survey below, or mailto:editor@en-parent.com
with the subject heading
"MMM Survey." Thank you!!
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1. In a 2-3 sentence statement, explain what your home business
is about,
including your target market and "mission statement."
2. What are the most popular
products and/or services you sell? How much do
you sell them for (or what's your hourly rate), and how did you
find the
right price/fee schedule for them?
3. What are *your* favorite products
and/or services? Why do you like to sell
them?
4. Tell us a bit about your marketing
campaign. When did you start noticing
your first sales (after which marketing technique), what marketing
efforts
have you noticed yield the greatest results, and how do you make
your first
contact and subsequent sales (via online, phone, fax, mail, face-to-face)?
5. Any additional comments are
welcome.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT EP
---> New Features @ en-parent.com:
1. Membership Automation (!!)
Remember when you first signed
up with The Entrepreneurial Parent? It might
have taken you a few minutes to fill out the form, but we must
admit it was a
manual and tedious process on our end to add you to our database
and get your
listings up on the appropriate web pages. Now members of the
EP Community can
join or update their listings automatically (yahoo!). This is
good for you --
new members will be listed within 24 hours in most cases -- and
certainly
good for us!
We are currently converting our
nearly 1,000 registered members to our new
system, so if you don't see your name up yet don't worry -- it's
coming!
Meanwhile, you can take a peek at what our new Business Directory
currently
looks like at:
http://en-parent.com/directory
And all members are invited and
encouraged to update your listings at:
http://www.en-parent.com/links2/cgi-bin/add3.cgi
Don't be left out of this excellent
and far-reaching referral tool -- readers
and new members often tell us that when they're in need of a
product or
service they'd prefer to turn to a fellow EP over a Fortune 500
company any
day!
2. EP Teleseminars.
Nancy Collamer, an EP Expert
and Coach, is conducting our first Teleseminar
for aspiring EPs entitled, "How to Find the Perfect Home
Career for You." Our
EP Home Career Counseling inquiries indicate that finding a legitimate
and
rewarding home career is the most difficult challenge for new
EPs. If you may
be one, come join us in September & register now!
To learn more &/or register,
go to:
http://en-parent.com/seminar.htm
---> EP in the News!
** It's out -- the July/Aug issue
of "MyBusiness" (the print magazine of the
National Federation of Independent Businesses / NFIB, with 600,000
readers),
features Lisa's "Favorite Bookmarks." Curious? She
selected:
www.emkf.org -- as a springboard to several of the
best entrepreneurial
resources on the web (latest news, stats, info, contacts, etc.).
www.poorrichard.com
-- for smart advice on low-cost web utility options
www.funnykids.com --
an ever-inspiring source on why she should spend more
time with her kids!
www.jugglezine.com --
for intelligent, thought-provoking commentary on
work-family issues
** Maryland Women (Summer, 2000),
wrote:
"Web Support for Entrepreneurial
Parents: At times, work-at-home parents may
feel isolated and out of touch as they try to maintain a balance
between
their work and family. An Internet resource, The Entrepreneurial
Parent, may
help such parents get more connected. This site...provides support
to parents
who have chosen to bring their career home." (There's more,
but that's the
intro!)
** Lisa was interviewed yesterday
by a reporter for "Business Week" and was
told that EP had also been recently mentioned in "Ladies
Home Journal"!
(Anyone see it? I missed that one!)
** Your Business Today, a radio
show hosted by James Rasmussen of the
Minnesota News Network (MNN), recently aired a program about
"The
Entrepreneurial Parent"
Want to get "in the news"
too?! Read the Media Inquiries above...and enjoy
spreading the word about matters that matter to you...
And stay tuned EPs -- it's a
fun & bumpy ride up ahead and you're all invited
;-). An "EPnews Flash" with exciting news should arrive
in your mailbox in
the next week or two -- keep your eyes open! And in the meantime,
don't
forget to schedule in a trip to the beach, pool, water park or
some other
such fun with your kids this week... Have fun!
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