Let’s Get Ready with Cedar Valley Publishing

Jill Hart will be on our 10/14 show with her new book, hot off the press:  So You Want to be a Work-At-Home Mom.

Home-based businesses are estimated to be a $427 billion-a-year industry. In recent studies it was found that as many as 105 million people in North America alone were working at home. Considering this information, it is obvious that home-based businesses can be successful — and authors Jill Hart and Diana Ennen will help you succeed with your own.

So You Want to Be a Work-at-Home Mom details all the basics of starting a business in a spiritual, motivational, and comprehensive manner. From deciding what type of business to start to keeping your family and faith first, this helpful tool details every aspect of establishing a business. With proven success tips utilized by the authors and others who own work-at-home businesses, this inspiration approach will provide you with the resources you need to start your own home-based business.

So You Want to Be a Work-at-Home Mom includes:

• Detailed information on types of businesses to start
• Ideas for setting up your workspace
• Assistance in starting and operating your business
• Definitions and descriptions of work-at-home terminology and processes
• Help for developing your Web site
• Explanations of the business “nuts and bolts,” including bookkeeping, taxes, and more
• “How to” for marketing your business

Jill Hart is the founder of Christian Work at Home Moms, the co-host of the live internet radio show, “The CWAHM Network,” and the publisher of RadiantLit.com. Jill has published many articles and is a contributing author in Laundry Tales, The Business Mom Guide Book, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, and Faith Deployed. She holds a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies. She resides in Nebraska with her husband and their two children.

Cedar Valley Publishing is giving away a set of their award-winning books:  Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! (your choice of the Spanish/English or English Only Edition) & Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!  These books are currently used inside 400 school districts nationwide and been reviewed by over 700 mom bloggers.  For ages 2-8!  www.cedarvalleypublishing.com

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Leave a comment with your email address.  One comment per email address.   Contest ends at 12 midnight on October 31, 2009.  Winner will be chosen with a random draw and announced on Wednesday, November 4, 2009.  Good luck to all!

We have so many friends who either have new babies (Baby Vince, Baby Madyson, Baby Paige, Baby William, Baby Kyla - to name just a few) or are expecting soon (Sara, my guess is September  18th; and Abbie with twins, my guess is November 23rd - Mike’s birthday), so I just had to post this giveaway from The Diaper Baker.  Check out these adorable diaper cakes!!!

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Meet Stacey Kannenberg, CEO of Cedar Valley Publishing in Fredonia, WI

Stacey Kannenberg is an author, publisher, speaker, motivator, consultant, blogger, keynote, spokesperson and Mom CEO.  As the “Ready to Learn Mom”, Stacey is a nationally renowned education expert and award-winning author, with an expertise in children’s education and “Mom entrepreneurial ship.”  Mrs. Kannenberg is the Founder and CEO of two publishing companies:  Cedar Valley Publishing and Stacey Kannenberg Unlimited, an imprint of Cedar Valley Publishing.

Stacey is the co-author of the award-winning and state approved, Let’s Get Ready Series with Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten! and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade!   Stacey just released the highly anticipated Spanish/English Bilingual Edition of Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten!  iA Prepararse Para Kindergarten!  Her books are truly making a difference with parents, kids, educators and schools!

Stacey is proud that her books have sold over 60,000 copies, are 100% made in America, are used inside over 400 school districts nationwide, have been reviewed by over 700 mom bloggers - and Cedar Valley Publishing was recently voted as a top 50 Children’s Publisher for 2009!  Cedar Valley Publishing donates 10% of all book sales back to literacy foundations and schools!

 Stacey is the publisher of two books by Syndicated Columnist and National Radio Host/Personality, Jodie Lynn.  Jodie’s titles are Syndication Secrets and Mom CEO (Chief Everything Officer) Having, Doing, and Surviving It All! Stacey is also the publisher of the soon to be released books by Barb Rockaway:  Mommy, Where are You? and Daddy, Where are You? These books are to help a child deal with the death of a parent. 

To help support her publishing business, Stacey is also a Principal, Consultant and the Chief Connecting Officer for Mom Central Consulting, as well as the Vice President of Mother Talk, where she specializes in viral, grassroots and word-of-mouth marketing to brands, businesses, authors and publishers. She uses her 22+ years of expertise to help her clients reach their goals.  Mrs. Kannenberg is also a media favorite with her extensive television segments, magazine, newspapers and hundreds of radio interviews! 

Cedar Valley Publishing sells award-winning books, including Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten!, Let’s Get Ready For First Grade! and a Spanish/English version of Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten!

The books that Cedar Valley Publishing sells to schools, families, book stores and libraries is the main business model of the company.

Stacey Kannenberg is first and foremost, Mom to Heidi, 10 and Megan, eight and wife to Michael and resides in Fredonia, WI.

You can learn more about Stacey Kannenberg and her business at www.cedarvalleypublishing.com.

Connect online at:

• www.cedarvalleypublishing.com/blog
• http://readytolearnmom.com/
• www.twitter.com/StaceyKann
• http://www.facebook.com/stacey.kannenberg
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/staceykannenberg
• http://elementaryeducationnews.com/

A former Wall Street executive, My Mom Knows Best, Inc. founder Josephine Geraci has always been a problem solver. Her extensive professional experience includes senior level marketing positions at top financial institutions, including Merrill Lynch and Pershing. She was instrumental in helping to establish Lionheart Research, Inc., one of the industry’s first “boutique” firms, which specialized in aerospace and defense equity research. Josephine was also the founder of The Jerry Cantwell Brain Tumor Foundation and raised $100,000 for brain cancer research.

Like many women, Josephine put her “professional” career on hold after the birth of her first child and turned her attention to being a full-time mother. Three kids later, Josephine found herself dismayed by a lack of information about protecting kids from germs in public places.

So, translating her business skills into her job as a stay-at-home mother, Josephine began to work on a product that would protect children from potentially harmful microorganisms that lurk in public places. The idea for “gLovies®” was born, and My Mom Knows Best, Inc. was formed.

In the years that followed, Josephine refined her product, lining it with plastic, making it waterproof, and adding an elastic band to secure it gently to a toddler’s tiny wrists. She invented three playful penguins, CJ, Gaga, and Niki, to adorn the exterior.

gLovies® (Patent Pending) is the first in a line of My Mom Knows Best products, developed to help parents and caregivers keep their children well and happy.

Our second “Get Ready to Learn Mom” is Jill Starishevsky, Author of My Body Belongs to Me.

Jill Starishevsky is an Assistant District Attorney in New York City, where she has prosecuted hundreds of sex offenders and dedicated her career to seeking justice for victims of child abuse and sex crimes. Outside the courtroom, Jill’s fondness for writing led her to create www.thepoemlady.com, where she pens personalized pieces. Her mission to protect children, along with her penchant for poetry, inspired My Body Belongs to Me. A mother of two, Jill is also founder of www.HowsMyNanny.com, a service that enables parents to purchase a license plate for their child’s stroller so the public can report positive or negative nanny observations.

Jill wrote My Body Belongs to Me to teach children that they don’t have to endure abuse in silence. Parents and educators should use it as a tool to facilitate an open dialogue with youngsters.

It took the world by surprise, and although the number of deaths being reported each day has decreased, there are still many reasons to be wary of swine flu, not the least of which is that it can prove to be fatal. It’s called the flu, but it’s not as simple as the fever we normally get because of viral infections. In fact, there are no current vaccines to protect you from swine flu, also known as H1N1 influenza. But, if you take the time to stop panicking and think about how you can prevent your family from becoming affected by this disease, you’ll see that all you have to do is follow a few basic precautions, most of which are exactly what we would do to keep common illnesses like colds and coughs away:

• Practice common sense hygiene: And by this I mean that it is imperative to keep your hands clean at all times. If we were to observe our hands under a microscope, we would be flabbergasted at the amount of germs it hosts. Simply put, the more we wash our hands, the less chance we have of being infected with any contagious disease. Encourage people you live with and interact with on a regular basis to wash their hands too, after they’ve handled money, used their computers, or even when they get back home from a trip outside.
• Keep your nose and mouth covered: When you go out in public places where you know swine flu is prevalent, cover your face with a mask and avoid hanging around there for too long. Also, cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze or cough.
• Stay away from closed places: If you tend to spend too much time in closed environments, don’t. Places that have no open windows and are air-conditioned have germs circulating, and when infected people enter them, you’re prone to the disease too. So until the epidemic dies out, stay safe.
• Keep a list of medical options at hand: Know who to get in touch with in case you or a close family member is affected. Don’t take symptoms, no matter how trivial they are, too lightly. If you have a runny nose or run a slight fever, call your doctor and get yourself checked out immediately to prevent it from escalating into anything more serious.
• Protect others if you are sick: In case you think you may have swine flu, see a doctor immediately. Quarantine yourself until you’re able to get treated so that others around you are not affected. Wear a mask at all times and avoid touching or coming into contact with other people.

The only way to battle any disease is to be prepared, and if you are prepared for swine flu, beating it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

This guest article was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of nurse practitioner schools . Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: adrienne.carlson1@gmail.com

I was raised by an amazing Grandma who proudly had a sign in her home that said, “If Mom says no, ask Grandma!”  For all those amazing Grandma’s check out this site dedicated to you and now proudly carries our books!

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Vision, passion and drive would best characterize Stacey Kannenberg in a nutshell! She’s got ideas like you won’t believe, she exudes a sens of being that can only be qualified as contagious and yet she talks to you like you’re her new found friend! Join Astrid and Quinni as they pick Stacey’s brain into the stars!

Click Here to Play this Blog Talk Radio Interview!

For more on Stacey, visit: www.cedarvalleypublishing.com, www.cedarvalleypublishing.com/blog, http://readytolearnmom.com, www.twitter.com/StaceyKann