Do you know that Mom Masterminds recently celebrated a fourth anniversary? Wow!

It’s been an amazing four years.  We’ve seen some incredible businesses born here on our forum. Partnerships and symbiotic business relationships continue to be created on a regular basis between our members all the time.

It’s incredible to see what creativity
erupts when moms who are all serious
about their businesses get together!

Our challenge now is to keep things fresh and forward moving so that our membership and resources continue to be as valuable four years from now as they are today.

Lynette and I have put our heads together to come up with ideas for helping MM continue to grow and thrive and starting August 8th, 2008 this is what you’ll see:

A New Lower Price.

The monthly cost to access MM will go down to $24.97.  (it is currently $39.97/mo)

More Urgency in Learning.

Instead of creating a new resource and tucking it permanently into our Learning Center, each month’s resource will be available to members for that month only.

We believe that this will help all of our members stay engaged and accountable to ‘DO’ something with their MM membership.

We will still have a great permanent Learning Center with great ‘evergreen’ content - and if you join MM and want to access resources from previous months - you can purchase them individually at a low cost.

Saying Goodbye to the Graduate Program

For about three of our four years we have offered members who remain consistent in their membership over a period of time the opportunity to ‘graduate’ into lifetime membership.  We knew when we introduced this perk that it couldn’t last forever and the time has come to close the window of opportunity forever.

Current members and those who join before August 8th can still achieve lifetime paid up status after 18 months of uninterrupted membership.

The Seven Day Free Preview Remains

Anyone can grab a single use Seven Day Free Pass into MM to explore and decide if a membership is right for them.

That’s it! Through these changes MM will continue to be the premium resource for learning and networking that it has become known for.  Lynette, our Special Advisors and I hope to see YOU on the inside soon

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Sharon McMillan is a seasoned business writer, public relations expert and new podcaster (thanks Kelly McCausey!).

When her first child was born she started a promotional and events company (based out of her home) that produced conferences and written materials for companies in Canada and the United States. She worked from home for 4 wonderful years until one of her Ohio based clients pleaded with her to come on board as a full-time publications editor and events manager.

Over the years Sharon has worked with various large and small companies, including work-at-home-moms, to develop public relations strategies and marketing materials that served to promote and position these businesses for success.

Today Sharon provides the same exceptional communications service and support for the growing number of mom-preneurs and small business owners who are driving our economy and keeping communities and cities alive across the United States and Canada.

Her communications company Sharon Writes is an internet based service for small business owners and other organizations seeking public relations, marketing and business writing services for websites, e-books and special reports.

Work from Home Moms and other entrepreneurs who see the value and environmental benefit in investing and working in our communities will also enjoy Sharon’s other main website, New Urban Mom.

New urbanism is a concept that supports work at home moms and other business owners and innovative thinkers who realize that the health of our families and our future lies in our ability to nurture and develop “green-friendly” safe communities where we can work, live and play.

Sharon is a passionate advocate for new urbanism and she invites her clients and colleagues to listen to her podcast and visit her home on the web to share their ideas and comments about working and thriving in their communities.

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Arika Lewis resides in Virginia with her husband, two boys and one little princess. She loves nothing more than spending time with her husband and children, no matter what they’re doing.

After searching for years (almost 8 to be exact) for the perfect work at home opportunity that allowed her to have control over her dreams and finances while spending time raising her kids, Arika opened the doors to Take 5 Virtual Assistance in 2005 after the birth of her second son.

Arika knows firsthand how tough it can be to head a business and family, but believes that every woman can do both, with a bit of help. That’s the reason she started Take5Va.com, a virtual assistant business that caters to Internet Marketing mom business owners.

Within less than a year, Take5VA began turning consistent monthly profits of over $2,000 and if you ask her, Arika will tell you she never dreamed she’d actually make it with her own online business and now that she has, she owes her success to God, her internal entrepreneur drive that kept her looking for a way to stay home and raise her children, her supportive family, and especially her clients.

Take5VA - A virtual assistant business that caters to Internet Marketing mom business owners and specializes in writing and affiliate management.

Recently, Arika partnered with another Mom Mastermind member, Nicole Dean, on her first passive income project. Let’s just say that Arika is in love and can’t wait to see what this new venture brings her. You can see her project at YummyPLR.com

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Teresa Smolinski is the mother of two teen daughters, Tessa and Laura, and has been working at home since 1994. She first got a taste of the freelance world by working in her husband’s commercial photography studio, and quickly realized that being self-employed is a lot more rewarding than the corporate world! She combined her love for technical stuff with graphics and began servicing book publishers by creating technical art for math textbooks.

When her girls were preteens, Teresa did her best to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in them. When her oldest daughter was twelve, the family started Pre-wrap.com which was inspired by Tessa’s frustration in finding the product locally. With much help, support, and cheerleading from Mom Masterminds, the business has grown tremendously! They now ship pre-wrap internationally!

Teresa has recently added a Kids-in-Biz blog, hoping to help and inspire other families to start a business with their children. She strongly believes that kids can be taught entrepreneurial concepts at a young age, even without starting an actual business.

Pre-wrap.com Fun, sporty, and functional headbands for female athletes at any age!

Smolinski Studios: Online portfolio of photography, illustration, and tech art

Kids-in-Biz: Kids in Business ideas and inspiration

Kids Business Ideas: Ebook with 83 Ways for Kids to Make Money

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Patrysha’s passion can be boiled down to one word: promotion.

Over 11 years in small business strengthened her belief that an investment in marketing is the key to business success. Her goal is to help others get maximum effectiveness from their investment. Her latest endeavor, PK Marketing Solutions, focuses on providing a variety of promotional services to small and home based business.

“I started out providing childcare and flirted with direct sales for a short while. Eventually, I tried my hand at traditional freelance writing where my impatience with the long lead times quickly morphed into business writing which led to an intense study of marketing, which led me to MomMasterminds.”

When her skills landed her in advertising sales, she learned more about traditional media advertising and began to see the potential for integrated marketing that takes advantage of both traditional and new media solutions. Her goal is to help owners take advantage of all marketing avenues possible with the minimum possible risk.

PK Marketing Solutions focuses on providing the best quality of copywriting through a wide range of products and services to enable small and home business owners to take full advantage of marketing and promotion options both online and offline.

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LaTara Ham-Ying is a natural mom entrepreneur, writer, wife, and mom to two active boys residing in the greater Chicago area. She has always desired to share her passion of natural living with others and finds that being a natural mom entrepreneur a good way to do just that.

For over 10 years, LaTara has taken her knowledge of natural health and living to the masses (or whoever will listen); sharing the power behind things like following a vegan diet, using essential oils and common household ingredients to clean the home and care for your body, and how to use herbs to heal.

LaTara also utilizes her writing skills to help the eco-conscious entrepreneur increase their web presence and reach their target market through the power of quality content.

LaTara has a few site that are geared towards sharing her passion with others:

Vegan Family Living: Blogging about the Vegan diet and living a more natural existence.

The Vegan Meal Helper: A meal planning service specific to those who follow a vegan diet or seek to incorporate more vegan meals into their family’s diet.

The Natural Writer: LaTara’s writing service

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Nanette Gomez is a work at home mom of two. She is the proud owner of Premium Virtual Assistance, her own virtual assistant business. Nanette became a work at home mom after the birth of her first child in March of 2001. In early 2008, after years of working at home as a legal document coder, Nanette decided it was time to take on a new venture and a new position - as a virtual assistant and business owner. Nanette is happily building her virtual assistant business one satisfied client at a time and encouraging other moms to do the same with her website - The Mommy Circle.

PremiumVirtualAssistance - Nanette specializes in assisting internet marketers and mom entrepreneurs in building their online businesses.

TheMommyCircle - Encouraging and informing moms of how they too can create an income from home while enjoying all the wonders of being a mom.

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If you’re a content site owner, blogger or podcaster, you always have your eyes open for great new content.  One reliable standby for generating fresh original content is to write up book reviews or conduct author interviews.

Our newest audio resource gives an overview and tips for doing just that.  Members can access the Mp3 right now.

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I know it’s a silly saying but Summer IS Sizzlin’ and I’m geeked about the coming months.

The Hot Seminar Series kicks off next week with our first speaker, Wendy Piersall of Sparkplugging. It’s going to be an awesome series this year. You can see the whole line up on the website and sign up for free event access.

Then in September I am hosting Moms Affiliate Expo, a three day event that will teach moms about affiliate marketing and help to connect them with as many affiliate programs as possible.

If you run an affiliate program that moms should know about I invite you to become an Exhibitor and place your multi-media listing on the Expo website.

There are SMMO deals for MM Members for both the Hot Seminar Series and Moms Affiliate Expo, so be sure to visit the SMMO forum for details.

Changes here on the MM Blog

We’ve opened up the MM Blog to our terrific Graduates so you’ll be seeing them stop by to introduce themselves one by one and maybe pop in with a guest blog now and then.  Be sure to say hello when they do

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Melody is the mother of four grown children and has been involved in direct sales for 20 years. She loved using Watkins products so much she joined the company to buy wholesale which quickly developed into a real business.

Melody enjoys running her Watkins home-based business mostly online, but is experienced in several other marketing methods including party plan and public events. She says the best thing about her business is the people. “I get to meet the nicest people.” It’s very rewarding helping customers find the Watkins products they want and helping team members build their own business.

Melody has a number of web sites to serve you:

Watkins Online - Shop for Watkins products, learn more about us, our career opportunity or request a free catalog.

Independent Watkins Associate Melody Thacker - Watkins products, information and services, find a local associate, recipes and articles for living a healthy lifestyle.

Love Homemaking - she blogs about homemaking, recipes and more with an emphasis on green, simple, healthy living.

Exposed, The Watkins Lady’s Secret Life - she blogs about direct sales, home-based business, internet marketing, social media and business basics.

She also has written several hub pages, you can see the Watkins Lady’s pages here and is a lens mistress at squidoo, visit the Watkins Lady’s Lenses.

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