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Nikki’s Spot at Babyspot
BabySpot just recently posted a job opening for Chief Mom Officer and they just announced their newly hired Chief Mom Officer, Nichole Smith, or Nikki, as many know her. Nikki is a professional writer and a blogger of Chaos in the Country. I had an opportunity to have a little chat with Nikki while she was preparing for her first BabySpot Ustream Show called “Chatting with Charmed Mom”.
Katja: Have you always loved writing, or is it something you started after you became a mom?
Nikki: I’ve been writing since I was a teenager. I did your typical school newspaper and I also contributed some really twisted short stories to my high school’s fiction magazine. However, marriage and kids pretty much sidetracked me. I got back into writing in 2006 when I needed a way to deal with some changes that were happening in my life and blogging seemed so natural. I started my own blog Chaos in the Country and later started The Guilty Parent.
Katja: Now you do so much more than just write your own blogs though. Tell us a few places you have been writing in.
Nikki: I started building my portfolio as working as a content writer for SEO companies and
blog networks like Today.com. Now though, I write and blog for private clients as well as Life 123 and Female Forum. I’m also a contributor at Blissfully Domestic as well as an editor and writer for Type-A Mom. It’s been an amazing journey. I didn’t think when I started blogging I would be doing any of the things I am doing right now.
Katja: What is your best tip for other work at home moms, how to do it?
Nikki: I think you have to be very flexible and willing to roll with changes. I woke up this morning with one idea of what I was doing based on a schedule I had made on Sunday afternoon and so far, I haven’t even touched the schedule. If you aren’t able to leave yourself some wiggle room in the schedule or be open enough to accept that your days won’t be as productive as you’d have liked them to be, you’re setting yourself up to fail. I’m constantly re-evaluating where I want to go and what I want to do. But I’m also one of those people that when I plan too much, something gets dropped or left out. So yes, scheduling is important but being flexible is just as important I think.
Katja: I can relate to that! I like to make Plan A, B and C, which basically means I’m really flexible. Now, tell us about your new role at Babyspot.com.
Nikki: I’m the new Chief Mom Officer at Charmed Mom. My role though as the CMO is to help Babyspot find business partners that are like-minded in their vision of not only providing a safe and secure place for parents to network with each other, but to keep parents informed and educated on topics and issues that are of great importance to them as they navigate through the world of parenting. It is amazing to be part of the BabySpot family, because everyone is so amazing there.
Katja: I hear you will also be doing a weekly UStream show in your new position as the Chief Mom Officer. Tell us more about it and how and when we can tune in.
Nikki: We are hoping to make the ustream show a weekly occurrence where we are
going to talk to parents and BabySpot members about becoming more informed parents in regards to making their lives better, their children’s lives more fulfilled and hopefully a little easier in the process.
The show is called Chatting with Charmed Mom. For the first show, we are going to talk to Jessica Smith, the founder of Chief Mom Officer and a Chief Mom Officer herself for Wishpot.com We’ll talk a bit about becoming a Chief Mom Officer and give some information for those moms who would like the opportunity to be a Chief Mom Officer.
I’ll also be talking about what is new and changing at Babyspot.com. I don’t want to give everything away but in the next few months you’ll see us working closely with great organizations like the March of Dimes, Save Babies Through Screening Foundation, and The Cute Kid. We will also have a new look and some web 2.0 features that will allow parents to interact with everyone in the Babyspot.com
community as well as family and friends.
Looking forward following Nikki’s spot at BabySpot in the following months. Make sure to catch her Chatting with Charmed Mom show on Wednesday at 10 PM EST and visit BabySpot.com to see Nikki more in action.
