Seven Mistakes Review Bloggers Regularly Make

I love it when I hear about stay-at-home moms that are trying to supplement their family’s income.  I’ve always believed (obviously by what I’ve done) that you can be a stay-at-home mom and still exercise your talents and skills and create a growing business.   Many moms are turning to Review Blogs as one possible […]

Domain Names

As part of our homeschooling curriculum, my children each need to start and maintain their own website before they graduate.  In order to have a website, the first thing you need is a domain name.  Do you own any domain names?  I’m a little bit of a domain name junkie.  Actually, I don’t own that […]

I Love Small Businesses

Whenever possible, we shop at small, locally owned businesses.  Not only do we love to support the owners and the workers, but we’ve found small businesses to be much more responsive to our needs and desires.  We’ve often found the products to be of much higher quality and the customer service to be excellent.   […]

Starting a Small Business

http://traffic.libsyn.com/goatmilkstuff/BMSG011.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:41 — 41.0MB)Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 011. Many families today feel trapped by dead end jobs that barely make ends meet.   Even so, there is a perceived safety net in an expected paycheck, and with the struggling economy, any job is better than no […]

Building a Business Takes Time

I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately from people who want to support their family with a small business. My typical response is, “That’s wonderful! You won’t regret it!” Then they tell me that they need to start supporting their large family from this endeavor alone within the next 6 months. To which I respond, “Unless God […]

Small Family Business

Long before I started Goat Milk Stuff, I began praying for a family business.  At the time, we had recently moved out to Indiana and Jim had left teaching to work for a friend’s garbage company. I had six young children (ages 8 and under) and an entire new lifestyle. Five of those children were […]

Being an Entrepreneur

I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur. To create something. To grow something. To be in charge of something. I never had any idea that the business I would start would be based on  soap (and certainly not goat milk soap). That was purely God’s idea and His timing. But during high school, I always […]