By Jenn

What it is: “A step by step guide to making money online with your passion for natural family living.”

Cost: $47.00 – Packaged E-book Download

I am a small business owner who has recently made the leap from local farmers’ market to the Internet and so I was very excited to be given the opportunity to try the Natural Mom Business Guide program.

To get started I downloaded and printed out the entire e-book. I read through it and made tons of notes in the margins and highlighted information that I thought was relevant to me. Once I had read the book, I went back over it and started working through it section by section at a more thorough pace, testing the ideas as I read them. I then read the additional guides, transcripts and listened to the audio interviews that come with the package.

This program guides you through the may different types of Internet based businesses and provides links and information about each of them. It also provides you with many ideas and options to get visitors to your site, creative ways to fund your initial business costs and how to get started with your first website.

As an existing website owner I found some of the information as bit unnecessary for my purposes (it would be great for people just starting, though) but I was able to use the majority of the program to start improving the look and feel of my site as use the techniques outlined in the program to boost my visitor volume. I even took Carrie’s advice and started a business blog – something I had been thinking about for a long time but wasn’t sure how to start.

My only disappointment was that the guide is somewhat self – promoting. Many of the links you are directed to belong to The Natural Mom, but don’t let that deter you. This program had lots of great ideas and points you in the right direction to use them. I found that once I had the fundamentals I was able to come up with ideas on my own and had more confidence to implement those new found ideas!

Carrie Lauth also has a natural moms podcast. The business guide reviewed is available here for $47 and if you’re not ready to commit to that there’s a free mini-course at that site too.