10 Reasons for Women to Start an Internet Business

Starting an Internet business is in my opinion, one of the fastest and smartest ways women today can make money. Here are 10 reasons for starting an Internet business, and one reason why you shouldn't!

1. Money. Pure and simple, we all could use a more of it. Whether it's to get out of debt, build a retirement, or just simply make ends meet. With the right guidance, an Internet business can start generating income almost immediately.

2. Family. Let's face it Moms, a lot of you want to be home with your kids. A work at home job is great for just that reason…unless you have to leave home for appointments, parties, or sales calls. Then you're right back to babysitters and being away from your kids. An Internet business truly lets you run it from home.

3. Self Esteem. Many of us are so busy being Moms, and wives, and community members, we forget to forge something in our lives that reflects our inner selves. Starting (and becoming successful) in your own business can boost your feelings of self worth, and that makes everyone in your life a winner!

4. Community. Our communities that we live in are better off for us having started businesses. It provides good role modeling for our children, provides tax base for necessary programs such as police and fire, and a community where people exhibit pride and hard work is a better place to live for us all. Perhaps you will inspire more women in your community to start a business!

5. Tax Benefits. Most women who start a business at home are going to be able to take large tax deductions for their home business. Less taxes means more money in your pocket, and that's a good thing!

6. Work at Home Household Savings.Working at home means no expensive wardrobes. The average professional suit for a woman can cost over$150! Can you imagine NOT having to buy expensive work clothes anymore, and how much money a year you can save your families budget? Also, how much do you think a work at home mom uses expensive convenience foods and restaurant take out?

7. Flexibility. Because I work at home, I can arrange my schedule to be available when a child is home sick or heartbroken, for a field trip at school, or to just take a mental health day once in awhile and sit at a park and read. How many bosses would give you the day off to read?

8. Being in charge of your own business means you are no longer at the mercy of layoffs.Don't get me wrong, a home business can crash too…but at least YOU hold the reins and make the decisions, not someone else.

9. You determine how much you work, and how much you make. No more being paid less than you are worth, no more begging for a raise. If you educate yourself right, you can pretty much combine hard work + persistence=unlimited income.

10. You can sell your business later on down the line…it's an investment! Build it large enough and successful enough, and many website owners have sold their sites for hundreds of thousands of dollars…and started out knowing very little about building an Internet business.

One reason NOT to start an Internet business…

DO NOT start a business to please anyone else. There is so much pressure on women today to do it all….many times we feel we are not successful unless we make a lot of money, are perfect moms, never gain a pound…you get the idea. Start a business for you, and your dreams, not to convince the world, or the mother in law, or your next door neighbor…that you can do it all. Running a business is not for everyone, but if you want to follow your dreams, work at home, and make a good income, starting an Internet business is a great place to start.

Top 10 Best Free Android Apps For Women

Women have to play different roles their entire life. As students, wives, businesswomen, mothers, the list is endless. In fact, multi-tasking becomes a part of their lives. So it is but natural that when people develop apps, women will be interested in the ones which will help make their lives a little less hectic. Today’s article is dedicated to those apps designed especially for women.

OurGroceries

This app is specifically for those women whose husbands seem incapable of keeping a grocery list and as a consequence, tend to forget all about the week’s shopping. OurGroceries creates multiple lists for different stores, which can be directly sent to your husband’s Android. There is also a feature in which you just enter in a recipe and the app will automatically build a list of all you need, based on the ingredients entered.

Shopsavvy Barcode Scanner

Women have been known to be the best when handling money judiciously. Every product they buy, they will make sure they have scoured the entire city in order to make sure that they are getting it at the least rate possible. This app is designed exactly for this purpose. Click a picture of an item’s barcode, and Shopsavvy will search every nook and cranny of the web for price comparisons. Finally, a method to be economic in a classy way!

Jorte

Jorte is basically a personal organizer app for the Android. The most obvious question would be: What makes this an app especially for women? Answer: It’s cute. It has an attractive interface with a pink, red and lavender-ish color scheme. It also offers top notch functionality which makes it just the thing for busy women.

Mom 2 Be Pregnancy Tracker

This app is for expectant mothers, worried about the health of their to-be-baby. Mom 2 Be sends you daily growth statistics and weekly tips. It also enables you to create journal entries which you can share with your friends and family.

White Noise Lite

Have a baby who refuses to sleep without periodic noises like the water running or the buzz of the vacuum cleaner? Then this app is just for you. White Noise Lite allows a mother to choose from ten different sounds: Airplane, Beach Waves, Chimes, Clock, Cricket, Fan, Rain, Thunder, Train and White Noise. These ten, perfectly looped sounds will create just the ambience which will help your baby to fall asleep.

Shapes

This app is for busy moms who need ten minutes of undisturbed silence while making an urgent call, or write a report. Shapes is designed to amuse and interact with young children, while teaching them about shapes. Effortless and free, this app has the reputation for keeping even easily distracted toddlers busy.

My Days – Period & Ovaluation

My Days lets women record the dates of their menstrual cycle and then estimate their upcoming fertile days, as well as the time of their next period. This app is beneficial for both, women trying to conceive, as well as those trying to prevent pregnancy.

Body Stats – Women

This app helps women track their health and fitness progress. It has features which help them find gyms, motivational links and even journals. It helps them save measurements and view the history of their progress. It is available in all Android versions and supports App2SD.

Beauty Product Reviews

Beauty Product Reviews is an app which lets the user browse over 280,000 honest consumer reviews on 45,000 beauty products in every conceivable field- skin care, hair care, anti-aging, etc. It helps in comparing prices as you shop, see more products in a particular range and also find products faster.

MomsZeal

This is basically a mobile mom community which allows moms to ask questions and get opinions on any parenting issue ranging from their children’s growth stats to their soccer practice. It allows moms to talk about mundane everyday activities relating to their kids and also make friends while they are at it.

Useful iPhone Applications For Women

Have you ever wondered why women may appear stressed?  Women have to juggle many obligations and ensure everything runs smoothly.  From their careers to raising children, taking care of the family and household, to caring for themselves and their health.  

In addition to having some fun with your iPhones, a variety of applications have made it easier for you to be more organized so you can anticipate, plan, and accomplish your goals.

Shopper (MidCentury Software)
MacWorld says this its the best-selling grocery app in the App Store!  Shopping at the grocery store has just been made easy for you with the Shopper app by MidCentury Software.  By utilizing the customizable features, you will be able to go through the aisles faster and more efficiently.

Features

• Create new lists based on others making it easy to create using the template lists
• Create multiple lists for specific stores, situations or recipes
• Create lists by searching the built-in catalog of grocery and other items
• Easily organize your lists to match the aisle or layout of your stores
• Add prices and quantities to your items for tracking budget and expenses
• Tracks coupons

Price: $0.99
App store link

NikeWomen Training Club (Nike, Inc)
NikeWomen Training Club has given you the ability to totally customize your daily work-out.  These are exercises which are geared towards a woman and her body.

Features

• Added timer for each exercise
• Create a workout program
• Pick your mini, register
• Invite friends to workout

Price: Free
App store link

OmniFocus

Features

• Search through all your projects and actions using the new Search screen
• In Projects and Contents screens, you can select All Actions to show a grouped list of actions
• Set up repeating actions and projects using the new Repeat screen

Price:  $19.99
App store link

iPeriod (Winkpass Creations)
This is a great application and one of the most helpful for the active woman.  With iPeriod, your cycles for the next 12 months are automatically calculated with an at-a-glance view.  Planning your vacations, events, or being prepared has never been easier.  User defined icon labels are available to make notations such as headaches, cramps, and they day which you perform your monthly self breast examination.  iPeriod is discreet showing only “iP” on application icon.  This is not for only women.  Men can also use this to plan events, and those special weekend get-a-ways with the lady in their life.  iPeriod could be the best two dollars ever spent on an iPhone app.

Features:

• Discreet icon name “iP”
• Predicts your future 12 cycles
• Predicts ovulation and fertility (this feature has an on or off setting)
• Calculates averages
• Alerts you when your cycle is expected or late
• Records symptoms as often as every day
• 4 user-defined icons labeled as you choose
• Records custom notes assoiated with yor cycle
• Emails your period data for backups
• Calendar view
• Password protection
• Remembers your last cycle dates so that you don’t have to
• You can set cycles longer than a given length to be ignored in statistics (useful for pregnancy)

Price: $1.99
App store link

Baby Tracker: Nursing (ANDESigned)
Baby Tracker: Nursing has made feeding process for your newborn even easier.  It keeps track of your sessions with a few simple clicks.  Detailed history is available and permanently stored in daily logs on your iPhone or iPod.

Features

• Easy start/stop timer for the Left and Right nursing sides
• Promotion of proper alternate side nursing with both visual cues and simple Begin side functionality
• Add new nursing sessions manually without using the timer or edit previous saved sessions
• Record bottle feedings by type, volume, and amount
• Nursing history log grouped by day
• Summed full day nursing times and session counts, ready to show your doctor or lactation consultant
• Last Feeding time is always visible soo you know when the next feeding time should be
• Multiple baby support with names and easy switching
• Twin and triplet support to easily nurse from one baby to the next
• Data export via email in (CSV) format for import into Excel or other spreadsheet programs.

Price: $7.99
App store link

Contractions (Cliff Maier)
Contractions is designed for pregnant women who are going in labor.  This application logs the length and intervals of contractions making it easy to inform your physician of progress.

Features

• Easy to use start and stop buttons
• Email button to send data to your husband and doctor

Price: $0.99
App store link

Baby Tracker: Diapers (ANDESigned)
It’s the parent’s responsibility to ensure the best health for a baby.   Most doctors will inquire about the baby’s stool and with everything on your mind, Baby Tracker: Diapers makes it easy for you to record what is inside the soiled diaper.

Features

• Easily record Diaper information by type Wet (W), Bowel Movement (BM), or both
• Add detailed notes and/or quick diaper descriptions including color swatches for tracking changes from meconium to normal BM
• Diaper history log grouped by day with summed counts of both Wet and BM changes, ready to show your physician
• Supports up to 6 children
• Export data in CSV format for import into Excel or other spreadsheet program
• Always visible last diaper change time shows how long between diaper changes

Price $1.99
App store link

Amazon Mobile
Purchasing on Amazon has just been made easier with Amazon Mobile  This app allows iPhone and iPot touch owners to very quickly search, shop, compare prices, read reviews and make purchases on Amazon.com.

Price: Free
App store link

The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel 2.0 takes your weather experience to the next level with in-motion radar maps, traffic cams in select markets and improved graphics.

Features

• Location-based conditions and forecasts
• Fully customizable, in-motion radar maps
• Local and national severe weather alerts
• Local national and international video forecasts
• Traffic Cams (select markets)
• Share Alerts and Forecasts via email
• Store and nickname your favorite locations

Price: Free
App store link

Facebook
Stay connected easier with family and friends on Facebook for iPhone.  Start a conversation on chat, check your friends’ latest photos and status updates, or upload your mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

Price: Free
App store link

Tweetie
A 2009 Apple Design Award winner, Tweetie is a fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch.  It offers everything you would expect from your timeline to trends, and easy to use.  You won’t be too far from your girlfriends on Twitter with this great app.

Features

• Handle multiple twitter accounts
• View your timeline, replies, and direct messages
• Manage your favorite tweets
• Browse your friends and followers
• Post new tweets, repost tweets
• Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages
• Follow and un-follow people
• Block/ unblock users
• Navigate reply chains
• Inline web browser
• Inline TwitPic image viewer
• Upload pictures to TwitPic
• Update your twitter location
• Unparalleled scrolling performance
• Post links with automatic link shrinking
• Uses secure connection (https)
• View Twitter trends and perform custom searches
• Nearby searching
• Save favorite searches
• Instapaper integration
• Links to StockTwits
• Optional landscape keyboards

Price: $2.99
App store link

Cocktails +
Cocktails gives over 2,000 contemporary and classic mixed drink recipes.  Every recipe includes a description, ingredient description and substitution information.  The recipes can be categorized by spirit, drink type, flavor and other characteristics.

Features

• Cutting-edge recipes from mixologists
• Imperial and metric units
• Mark favorites for future reference
• Share recipes via email and Twitter

Price: $2.99
App store link

Epicurious
Recipes from the award-winning food site, Epicurious.com are now available on your iPhone.  Search over 25,000 delicious, professionally tested recipes from Bon Appetit, GCookie, Gourmet, Parade, and SELF, plus recpes from cookbooks, chefs and restaurants.

Features

• Browsing popular recipe collections
• Search by recipes or keyword
• Save recipes to Favorites
• Email recipes

Price: Free
App store link