For Mother’s Day, I thought it would be fun to share a little bit of humor with the mothers along with some encouraging words. Although I normally write about business topics such as strategy, leadership, social media, or business ownership, I decided to give back to the mothers today.
Here are some encouraging words for the mothers:

Tenneva Jordan: A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Sophia Loren,Women and Beauty: When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has …read more

Mothers will be celebrated across the country today, but if you really love mom, you’ll encourage her to take a good look at her finances. That, according to Eleanor Blayney, CFP, is the greatest gift you can give.
Mothers are involved in 95% of family financial decisions. The make up one of the largest occupations (motherhood!) in the United States and are the chief supplier of our nation’s productive capital. However, they earn no salaries, insurance, days off, retirement accounts, or Social Security benefits. And to top it off, women live longer than men, which means they’ve got to be especially intentional …read more

With Earth Day in the recent past and Mother’s and Father’s Day approaching, we see an increase of holiday-oriented marketing. This type of marketing can be of value to customers, but only if you truly have a holiday tie-in. If you’re just trying to grab some of the holiday hype, your customers may decide that you’re following a trend rather than offering them a good deal.
For instance, I heard several people scoffing at flyers printed by stores touting their Earth Day deals and environmental consciousness. The paper waste was not lost on those potential customers. Also not a good idea: …read more

Today, mother’s day has become a commercial venture, replete with over priced and unsustainable cut flowers, mountains of cards printed on non-recycled paper and questionable gifts. But it wasn’t started that way.
Mother’s Day creator Julia Ward Howe, who also wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” wrote the following proclamation, in part as a response to the bloody Civil War in the United States:
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether
our baptism be that of water or of fears!
Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant
agencies. Our husbands shall not come to …read more