Devoted to WAHMs -Work at Home Moms

Welcome to the Know More Media team, Laura. Very excited to have you writing on WorkFromHomeMomma. I know the readers will greatly benefit from your viewpoint and experience. Looking forward to it!

Hi Laura,

It's nice to know that you're taking over WFHM, which I've regularly been reading since Deb's reign.

Thanks Dan!

Hi Alfa! It's nice to "meet" you. I'll look forward to your comments and feedback.

Hi Laura
Congratulations on being selected as the new Work from Home Momma blogger.

Laura,

Congratulations on taking over Work From Home Momma! While Deborah Ng is definitely a hard act to follow, I can think of few bloggers who would fill the bill better than you!

Wishing you success!
Jeanne

Thanks for your kind words Yvonne and Jeanne!

I might need to talk to you sometime about how you pull it off, Laura! I am a work-at-home dad of two little ones.

Welcome to this space and I am sure you will make it great!

Hi Easton! Thanks for the encouragement. I look forward to hearing from you often.

Hello Laura,
Congratulations on your new writing/blogging opportunity. I'm looking forward to visiting you here often and linking to your blog at Home Biz Notes.

Hi Mary Emma Allen! Thanks for the encouragement.

Congrats Laura! I'm so excited you've joined one of my two favorite networks :) I'm sure you'll be very happy here. I can't wait to see how you grow your little corner of Know More Media :)

Welcome Gayla! I really appreciate your support and help. I hope to see you here often.

Hi Laura,
Welcome to Know More Media! We are so glad to have you here, this is a topic many people are interested in.
Michelle Dunn

Hi Michelle! Thank you for the welcome!

My wife and I have a small business, a handyman service, but I have begun to experience some latent affects of physical injury that may require me to shut my business down. My wife, however, still works outside the home as a manager of a medical office. She has amassed quite a knowledge and experience base with being a director of medical records,to medical coding and billing and, now all three where she uses her skills in managing the medical office of an asthma and allergy clinic. She is, quite obviously, a very efficient multitasker and has, for the most part, learned all of her skills while working on the job over the course of about 15 years.
Regrettably, she was diagnosed with an auto immune disorder, idiopathic anaphylaxis, which has given rise to some other serious secondary allergies issues. She has recently contemplated telecommuting from home and, since she has considerable experience in both paper and electronic billing systems, we both believe it will be a good fit for her and our current living situation. However, she did mention to her employer that she would like to explore the options of working from home and he did not respond favorably.
I am in the process of remodeling part of our home to accomodate a fairly sizable office space for me to engage my particular business and, hopefully, for her to be able to engage her future desires of operating a medical billing business from home.
What, if any, recommendations or advice would anyone here have to offer to someone like her? I love my wife dearly and would love to see her be able to realize the dream of working from home so that she can be in a more relaxed atmosphere and within the parameters of her medical condition which, quite often, leaves her fatigued and tired. We are of modest means and live our lives accordingly. We don't ascribe to the fast food and instant gratification mentality that so many Americans do so, we're pretty good at living within out means. What sort of investment and operating capital would we be looking at for her to start her own business? Also, are there other companies out there who hire someone like her to do home based medical billing so that she could work from home in the interim and build the capital to start her own business?
Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated and heavily weighed. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Dawg

Hi Boyd & Rebekkah McLaughlin,

I'm sorry that it took such a long time to get back to you. I plan to post on this topic soon.

In the meantime, I'd say to read everything that you can find on the topic. Starting a home business part-time while you continue to work your day jobs might be the best option in your situation.

Whatever you decide, I wish you the best.