Work at Home Mom Bloggers: April 2006

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Wahm reveal Tools and Resources for their business

Welcome to our weekly Question of the Week. What business tools have you purchased to help increase your home business earnings? If you haven't where you go to "learn" for free?
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I want the truth shares an abundance of free tools that she has used while trying to get an "online income" off the ground.

Amber shares what tools she used both online and offline to build her Shaklee home business.

Frugal Momma shares an expensive mistake as well gives some of best free resources for learning about internet marketing.

A Girl Gotta Spa shares the following

For my Country Bunny Bath & Body business I have bought a variety of items
from Vista Print. They always have some great deals each month. I've
ordered business cards, business card magnets, notecards that I design
with my rep. logo and glossy postcards. I've been able to get them all for
free and only had to pay for shipping. Directly from Country Bunny I buy
samples, catalogs, opportunity brochures and direct mailers. I also buy
advertising on websites and blogs.

I've also created an account with Constant Contact for my monthly
newsletter. The first 90 days were free and then it is $15 a month. I am
able to upload photos, create links, use different templates, see which
customers open the newsletter and where they are clicking. It's a
fantastic tool and definitely worth the money.

For my blogs, I have signed up with affiliates that would be appropriate
for my readership. I have also signed up with various advertising programs
to implement on my blogs. My spa blog is more business-like with articles
regarding skin care and beauty, as well as, product reviews and answering
readers questions. The past few months have shown an increase in readers
buying Country Bunny products due to my blog.

To learn for free I often go to Problogger.com and Lip-Sticking.com. I am
also part of some Ryze networks that offer tips on marketing.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Biker Momma blog mentioned on TV

I'm just tickled pink this morning! My blog was featured (for all of 30 seconds, but I'm not complaining ) on Toronto's big morning show, Breakfast Television! They had asked people to submit their blogs, so I did. They picked three or four out of all the submissions they received and showed our blogs up on their screens. The others were mostly pictures, but they actually read from one of my entries because one of the hosts had ranted about the same topic a few days ago. Anyhow, I was just so thrilled, I had to share

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Wahm Reveal Is it really a sacrifice

Welcome to our weekly Question of the Week. Many work at home moms made the decision to stay home with their children on a full-time basis. Have they had to make sacrifices to do this financially, emotionally or at all?

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Amber shares Health,Skaklee and more that it is really not a sacrifice to stay at home. She's got the best by working a home business and being there for her children.

I want the truth says maybe her sanity but in reality she has gained the world.

Biker Momma in a funny post says it adult conversation and her shower time. Many upsides as well!

Frugal Momma shares while it sometimes it maybe financially hard, it is well worth it to cut back and share kisses and cuddles during the day.

Check out these great work at home moms!

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Wahm Reveal Why we Blog

Welcome to our First Network posting about Why we blog! We may be small still but hope to grow. Find out how to join Work at Home Bloggers Network

Chef Michele reveals her why she blogs to help folks save money on her grocery budget. She has given us some great recipes and ways to stretch those food dollars.

Tricia Blogging away debt shares that she is tracking her journey to become debt-free. I may just be one voice, but I hope that somehow my words on my blog may give others hope and inspiration. I really believe that I will achieve financial freedom. I have had a heck of a rocky start, but I know it will happen. And I will blog about it every step of the way :)

Amber talks about how blogging is stress reliever for her on her Health Shaklee and more

A Girl's Gotta Spa talks about the transition that her blog has taken from just a business blog for her Country Bunny biz to one about pampering and taking good care of yourself.

Momma and the boys is frugal mom who wants to share ideas on how to stretch dollars because she loves it herself. She shares money saving tips.

Check out these great work at home moms!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Pinging your blog

Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity.

A 'Ping' is a basic Internet program that lets you verify that a particular Internet address exists and can accept requests. The verb ping means the act of using the ping utility or command.

Pinging in the blog world means different, but still similar. There are certain services that scans blog regulary for updates and publishes the recently updated blogs (for an example). So once you've updated your blog, you should let such a service know that you have your blog has peen updated. for this, you send a PING to the service. Most of the blog software have the ability to ping on their own. But pinging a dozen such services could be time consuming.

A blog ping is just a piece of text, in simple words. It'll contain your blog name and the url. It is usually prepared in the XML format. The servers that accept ping have special programs for accepting and processing these 'XML pings'.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Welcome to Work at home mom Bloggers

Blogging has becoming a passion for WAHMs lately! The blogger board over at wahm.com has been hopping!

Not only can we express ourselves with the written word but we can make a some extra cash. One way to help us all earn more is getting our posts out more with more traffic! We have created a web ring and will have our own blog carnivals here!

Here are the guidelines!

1. You MUST be a Work at home mom who has a blog.

2. Your site must be updated weekly, on average.

3. You have ONE WEEK from the time you submit your site until we delete you because the code is STILL not on your site. If you’re site doesn’t work or if we can’t find the ring code EASILY on your site, we’ll just delete you.

4. You will need to link to http://wahm-bloggers.blogspot on your home page. You may include the rings link on an internal page.

5. Have fun and comment on the Blogs that you can!!