Aromatherapy Supplier - Business Networking Groups - Meet Robin Lemon, the mom Entrepreneur
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| My guest today is Robin Lemon. Robin Lemon calls herself the ‘Mom Entrepreneur’ and rightly so…Her primary website sells natural soap products, herbal comfort pillows and various aromatherapy products. All her products are natural…They are all not only chemical free but highly indulgent and aroma therapeutic. Robin ’s business does not stop at these natural products. She runs two business networking groups - one of them provides purely online networking opportunities and the other provides online and offline networking opportunities. | |
| These networking groups are for moms who already have a business or plan to start one. Robin has a blog associated with most of her websites. She shares her business experiences on these blogs. Robin has four kids…She is truly inspirational…Read and be inspired by this amazing and busy business mom’s story… | |
| Tell us about why you started your business and which one of your websites was your first website? | |
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I have always dreamed of owning my a business, so when I lost my job for being so ill during my 3rd pregnancy, I decided to make a go at making money from home. I started with selling on ebay, that was very fun and profitable. Then I joined a direct sales business and worked that for the next 3 years. I started my first website lemondropshop.com in 2003, it is not active now but I still have the domain name that directs to my main website so I wouldn’t lose those who bookmarked me and I have this feeling someday I am going re-open it;) I love lemons! |
| Can you also tell us briefly about the various websites you run? |
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| Every website of yours has a blog associated with it. In your opinion how important are blogs for businesses these days? |
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Blogs are a great way to keep customers informed of updates an happenings in your business as well as turning readers into customers. Great for developing relationships without pushing sales on the readers and staying connected to them.
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| to business moms that are not yet members of the network and also to get members of the network to interact by blogging and commenting.
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| You have four kids. You have multiple websites and you probably are running each one like a separate business. Now how do you do it all? Do you work on all sites every week or do you have a site for a week? | |
| I have a monthly, weekly and daily routine. For example: week one of my monthly routine is to add new content to my sites. Then I plan out my week ahead of time Monday- download content and review it, Tuesday- edit it, Wednesday- publish it on the appropriate sites, blogs, etc… Then when I am planning my daily schedule I have a designated time in my day that I strictly work on this project. I just implemented this system last month and it is working great for me, thanks to Carrie Lauth, www.carrielauth.com for sharing her system. Otherwise I would probably still be overwhelmed trying to fit everything in everyday! | |
| What are some of the ways you promote your websites? How do you get the word out there? |
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| I change my email signature frequently to make it more noticeable, announcing something current going on it entices more to click. I network online and off by participating in networking groups, I comment on other blogs and I Twitter. I list my business in any appropriate directory that I can find and I don’t pay for much of my advertising. I write press releases when I have an event. I have put myself there enough to get newspaper interviews about my business. | |
| If you had a chance to do it all over again (in business) is there anything you would do differently? | |
| I don’t think so. Even if some things didn’t work out for me or cost me too much money and time in my business they were all learning experiences that I needed to get where I am. I would have started using a coach sooner though, it is well worth the money to invest in. | |
| Finally, your five keys to business success? | |
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| Sites Of Interest | |
| http://robinlemon.com/ | |
| http://www.naturallydelightful.com/ | |
| http://www.naturallydelightful.com/ | |
| http://www.momsbusinessnetwork.com/ | |
| http://www.momsinbusiness.org/ | |
| Visit Robin’s business websites to get more information about her natural products, aromatherapy products and business networking groups… | |
| This interview was published on 31st January 2008 To read more stories about women in aromatherapy business click Aromatherapy Products. |
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