When I saw the opportunity from Tyndale to review Making Money from Home, I was super excited! Although I have a full-time job that for the most part, I love, I’d also love to be able to work from home full-time. I already do some work from home, obviously because of the product reviews I do, but I can only do so much when working a regular full-time job. Anyway, I jumped on the opportunity to review this book.

I do have to say that I’m pretty disappointed with the book though. It does have some good information in it, especially since it covers a lot of information for online businesses. However, I was very disappointed with the fact that the book started off with a “Me, Me, Me, I, I, I” feel to it. In other words, it was all about what she’s done over the years with regards to making money from home and what her kids have done. To me, that’s a huge turn off. Boasting about yourself and your achievements doesn’t do anything for me. It’s almost like those sales people that say, “I helped XYZ Company save over $100,000,000 while working for them.” Annoying!

I do like that she gives websites to visit for additional information in certain areas and how to identify the work at home scams that are all over the place. I like that she also talks about affiliate sites for gaining money on your own website. Most of the sites I already know about, but there are a couple that I will be checking out. She also talks about how you can make money from these types of sites, with regards to how they pay you (by click, by page load, etc). Another great topic she discusses is social networking and how to bring them into your business.

This book was a review copy sent to me by Tyndale House Publishers.

Reviewed by Shawn Ann from Shawn Ann’s World.
Rating: 3 / 5

I agreed to review this book months ago! And why did it take months to post? Because you can’t just read it, you have to do it! Each chapter ends with assignments that take a lot of mental processing power, and each chapter is filled with links and resources so it takes a lot of research power.

I started the book completely skeptical. The author displays her credentials and experience and I raised my eyebrows. Then I suddenly remembered where I’d seen that name before–Donna Partow. She’s the author of “Becoming a Vessel God Can Use,” a book that impacted myself and my best friends studying it together in college. This was the same woman?!? Okay, she had my attention and I kept reading…

This is not a book that is easy to put into practice. Making money from home will involve research, creativity, planning, and marketing. She tells you how to go about starting each process but after that it’s all up to you, baby.

So, it took me 3 months to finish and I have a notepad of ideas and projects and research to follow up on. And, to be honest, I need to read it again. You won’t use everything in the book but even starting small is sure to reap some rewards. Just have a highlighter, a notebook, and the internet by your side before you dare to pick this book up. I give it 5 book lights, and apologies to Tyndale House Publishers for taking so long to post this review after you graciously provided this complimentary copy.
Rating: 5 / 5

Let’s face it, times are tough. Who can’t use a little extra money to help make ends meet? Making Money from Home by Donna Partow is the breath of fresh air I’d been looking for. It revived my Entrepreneurial spirit that had been lying dormant for several years.

Entrepreneurs have been around since before America became a country, but that coupled with a faith in Christ was the life blood that made this country great. Donna refreshes the idea with all the new technology that makes marketing so much easier: e-Bay, Pay Pal, direct and indirect marketing. She covers the fundamentals of each facet of running your own successful business with web addresses for additional help. From carving out space for your home office to paying taxes, Donna’s book can take you from idea to working business in clear easy to follow steps.

Tips are sprinkled liberally through out the book. Donna rounds out each chapter with questions to ask yourself and an assignment. The questions will get you thinking about your business and sharpen your focus. There are assignments that will can be as easy as setting a date to open a PayPal account or coming up with names for your business to checking into zoning laws for your home based business.

Donna also touches on multiple streams of income, an idea that runs counter to the mainstream mentality of one job for life or working for a large corporation. Donna has been on this track, running her own businesses,for twenty years. In order to survive that long, she must be doing something right. I have read quite a few aritcles and books on this subject, and this is definitely one of the best. Want to start enjoying the freedom that made this country great? Grab this book and you’ll have everything it takes to launch your new business.

Tyndale has provided me with this complimentary book in exchange for my opinion.
Rating: 5 / 5

Donna Partow is home business extraordinaire having been “in the business” of home business ownership for over 20 years. Partow’s newest book, Making Money from Home, successfully guarantees readers will come away from this solid resource knowing how to run a successful home-based business (see Partow’s subtitle). Throughout this comprehensive how-to (and when fitting “what not to-do”) handbook, Partow guides potential and already set-up home business entrepreneurs through the paces of getting started to becoming more efficient, effective, and ever-ready for taking their business to the next level. With lots of encouraging words and positive challenge steps, Partow not only provide the nuts and bolts of business ownership, she exudes a “can-do” attitude that is contagious. Readers will find themselves being educated, motivated, and armed with a bevy of practical resources to make good fiscal choices based on the ever-changing media, economic, and social marketplace. Partow’s book is both timely in its up to the minute analysis of the present business world and timeless in its principles for making wise, careful, and prudent decisions over a lifetime.

Michele Howe, author of Burdens Do a Body Good: Meeting Life’s Challenges with Strength (and Soul)
Rating: 5 / 5

Have you ever wanted to work from home? And be successful at it? Successful author, entrepreneur and ministry leader Donna Partow has been doing so very well for over 20 years. Her latest book, Making Money from Home, is filled with fantastic advice, tips, suggestions and plain old common sense. It covers topics such as: Getting Started, Time Management, Money Management, Priorities, Options, Marketing, Business Basics, Sales, Social Networking and (most importantly) Family Time.

The current economic crisis our Nation is in, has shown us (if we didn’t already know) there is no job security and we are responsible for our own financial well-being. People are starting out every day, and succeeding in, operating a business of their own. There is a ton of information out there on how to, but what is really accurate. It is imperative to find a trusted source and build from there. With Making Money from Home, we find that it is possible to have a profitable business of our own, without being all alone. It is a wonderful resource that will benefit both new entrepreneurs and those who would like to take their business to the next level.

This book was provided to me for review by Tyndale House Publishers.

Rating: 5 / 5