Giveaway: Making Work At Home Work by Mary Byers
May 12th, 2009 | 
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Are you one of the millions of work-at-home moms or work-at-home wives? Do you struggle with separating your work time from your family time? Feeling a little stressed out about being pulled in every direction?
Mary Byers’ new book, Making Work at Home Work, might be the solution you’re looking for.This isn’t a book about starting a business, but a book for those already in the middle of balancing life and work when there’s no distinct boundaries between the two.
Mary doesn’t pull any punches. Her writing style is straightforward. She tells it how it is. She’s been in so many of our shoes. As a work-at-home mom, she knows the struggles of answering a business call with a screaming toddler in the background. She knows the strain an at-home business can put on a marriage.
While Making Work at Home Work is geared towards moms and “successfully growing a business and a family under one roof,” work-at-home women without children will still benefit from the many strategies and tips Mary includes. I highly suggest that any woman who works from her home pick up a copy to read. It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is, you will benefit from Making Work at Home Work.
In fact, I speak from personal experience – I don’t have children and I have learned a lot from Mary’s book. I did skim over two chapters – The Parental Pact and Child Care Strategies – simply because they don’t apply to my situation. The rest of the book, however, is very beneficial and worth a read by every woman who manages any type business from her home.
Here’s the back cover copy…
Making Work at Home Work by Mary Byers is a guidebook for entrepreneurial women designed to help them think about their business in a whole new way. It covers important topics such as developing a successful business philosophy, balancing time between work and family, setting realistic goals, and handling the challenges of being a home-based CEO. In addition to including her own experiences, Byers profiles a dozen other women with home-based businesses who offer their hard-won advice.
Making Work at Home Work shows moms how to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set without sacrificing their families. It covers important topics such as developing a successful business philosophy, balancing time between work and family, setting realistic goals, and handling the challenges of being both “Mommy” and “CEO” while running a profitable home-based business. In addition to including her own experiences, author Mary Byers profiles real moms with home-based businesses who offer their hard-won advice.
If you’ve made it this far, I’ll let you in on a secret … You have a chance to win a copy of this great book! Actually, you have TWO chances!
First, Mary is hosting her own giveaway where you can win a copy of Making Work at Home Work (or another one of her books) plus a $25 Amazon gift certificate. You can enter her contest three ways:
- Leave a comment on Mary’s blog post. CLICK HERE to do that.
- Sign up for Mary’s quarterly newsletter where she offers tips and advice about all facets of a woman’s life: WAHM, mothering and women’s issues. CLICK HERE to sign up.
- Join the Work at Home Blog Ring. CLICK HERE to do that.
Second, I’m hosting a giveaway right here at Ramblings-n-Writings! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post telling me one of two things…
- If you work out of your home, what do you do?
- If you dream of working a job from your home, what job would it be?
Please make sure that you leave a valid email address or some way for me to contact you if you are the winner. The Ramblings-n-Writings contest will be open until 11:59 p.m., Monday, May 18. On Tuesday, May 19, I’ll draw the winner and let y’all know who it is.
P.S. – Make sure you hop over to Mary’s post and visit some of the blogs on the tour. I know some other bloggers are giving away a copy of this wonderful book too. 
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I work from home. And I have been struggling. I feel like I’m working all the time (I freelance, so I have more than 1 client). And then I get the guilt for feeling I don’t spend enough time with my family – giving them my full attention. Oh, and then there’s taking care of the house, too. So, yeah, I think I could benefit from a book like that.
I work at home as publisher and editor of Two-Lane Livin’ magazine, offered free, monthly, to readers in 15 counties of Central WV.
I have a friend who works home based, a single mom. She has 3 clients. I have seen how she struggles to cope all her tasks on each of her client. I guess, it depends on you if you can handle more than 1 client then go. If you can’t then settle for one.
I work at home with tutor.com and watching little kiddos and recently couponing – yes it’s a job!
Thanks for the giveaway, Kara!
I am a Distributor and Team Leader for a company that produces Gourmet Candles, Bath Products and (coming soon) a top line Mineral Makeup. I can do Retailing, Fund-raising and Team Building.
I am always looking for information to help me be even more productive. I think I would glean a lot from this book!
I’m a freelance writer and co-owner of TravelingMamas.com and I work from home — and love it!
ive always wanted to have a job where I can both be with my kids and still work. The closest thing I have found would be to work for a year-round camp. Kids can grow up at camp, you are always there, work is in your back yard. must be perfect!
Working at home isn’t easy for men or women… I’ve done it since 1983, though my wife was the stay-at-home primary care giver for the first few years of our daughter’s life. But what I think each of us can do is start at least one blog on a topic that we love. And when you get it moving, it’s time to get people to notice it (twitter can help with that) and then get people to play to read it. It’s not easy and there are lots of steps, but working from home and putting in time when you HAVE the time works well with something like this. Let me know if I can help you understand this better.
Best,
Charles Seymour Jr
http://twitter.com/UltimateWAHDads
there are lots of Work At Home programs out there. some programs are scam. I only stick to making blogs and monetizing it with Google Adsense.
it is good to know that there are lots of “Work At Home” opportunities that are available on the internet. I mainly use Adsense and Clickbank to earn money online. and work at home because they are reliable and pays consistently.
i also Work At Home by blog monetizing and website monetizing. i mainly get my online income by means of Google Adsense.
i also work at home by monetizing websites through adsense and i also run an online travel agency,
Monetizing websites, blogs, etc is a good way to earn some passive income.,”~
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Well, I don’t know if that is going to work for me, but definitely worked for you!
Excellent post!