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WAHM Wednesday: Freelance Future – How to be a Successful Freelancer
If you have a particular skill you may be able to make a living as a freelancer. Most freelance businesses require very little startup cash. And one of the primary benefits of being a freelancer is that you can create a business that fits your needs and lifestyle. You’re self employed and therefore you make [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Get Your Questions Answered
Getting started with working form home can feel a bit overwhelming. However I strongly believe in the doors working from home can open up for the stay at home mom, or those who would like be to stay at home mom. Even though starting to work form home can feel overwhelming, we feel that questions [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Administrative Assistant
Did you know you can make money as an assistant from your kitchen table? With the internet and basic technology you can provide a valuable service to clients around the world. Best of all, you can be online and working in just a few short days. You can become a virtual assistant. What is a [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Make Money Talking About Your Favorite Subject
Do you have a topic you’re passionate about? Maybe you just love to breed tropical fish. Maybe you enjoy talking about parenting or baking cupcakes. With a little planning you can actually make money talking about your favorite subject. You can become an affiliate marketer. What is an Affiliate Marketer? An affiliate is someone who [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Start a Business Sharing Recipes or Reviewing Restaurants
The food industry has really changed. In fact there are many famous food bloggers and online restaurant critics. They used their love for food and created a business. You can too. Here’s how: Making Money by Sharing Recipes There are a few different business models you can embrace. One model is as an affiliate marketer. [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Opinionated? Here’s How To Make Money By Sharing Your Thoughts
Do you have strong opinions? Do you enjoy sharing them and discussing your viewpoint? If you do, there’s money to be made. Yes, you can make money by sharing your opinion. You can review products or services and earn a profit. What is a Professional Reviewer? How Do You Make Money? A professional reviewer is [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Start Your Own eBay Business Today
Do you enjoy buying and selling? Do you have a knack for finding great bargains at garage sales and thrift stores? If you enjoy shopping and bargain hunting you can turn your hobby into a money making business. You can start your own eBay business right from your kitchen table. What is an eBay Business? [...]
WAHM Wednesday:Crafty? Here’s How to Turn Your Hobby into a Business
Do you have a special skill or talent? Can you make things that people value? Are you crafty? If you are, you can make good money. You can turn your hobby into a work at home business. For example, if you knit, you can create an online store. Sell products that you’ve knitted and take [...]
WAHM Wednesday: 5 Traits of a Good Direct Sales Team Leader
You just recruited your first person into your direct sales company. You’re excited, she’s excited and you both want to hit the streets running. Awesome! But, how do you know if you’re a good leader or not? There are 5 traits every good leader possesses. If you don’t have these traits I strongly suggest you [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Is Direct Sales’ Leadership For You?
There is no better investment than helping others. When you are in a leadership position that is what you should be doing, helping others. If you are going into leadership for any other reason, say for the glory, credit or recognition, then you are going in for the wrong reason. In addition, you probably won’t [...]
WAHM Wednesday: It’s All About the Momentum Part 2
When you think about any business, you know there will be ups and downs, but sometimes the rough times make it easy to give up or throw in the towel altogether. With a direct sales business, it can sometimes seem like the drive is slowing down and you may find yourself wondering if you ever [...]
WAHM Wednesday: It’s All About the Momentum Part 1
What do you think of when you read the word momentum? I think of a marathon runner, keeping the pace, never slowing down to let the person on his tail overtake him. Just as a marathon runner holds a steady pace, so as to not expend his energy too quickly and sputter out, so should [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Steps to Build Your Direct Sales Business Right Away
When you first start a brand new career in direct sales you’re pumped, excited, and ready to hit the streets with your awesome product you know everyone will want to buy. Good. Keep that excitement. Although you may be able to get every friend and family member you have to hold a show and make [...]
WAHM Wednesday: How to Become a Media Consultant
What is a media consultant? It’s someone who helps businesses with their media needs. This can range from writing a press release to getting them interviews with the local and national media. Many companies are on the lookout for media consultants as they know that good media exposure can work wonders for any business. When [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Membership Websites
Membership sites are quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of websites on the web. A membership site is a website that requires people to sign up as members in order to have full access to the site’s content and tools. Membership sites are built around a common issue or theme. They can take [...]
How to Become a Ghost Writer
Being a ghost writer can be the best of both worlds. You have the opportunity to work from wherever you want, doing something you love to do. And because you hand over the finished product to your customer, you are relieved of the marketing and publicity tasks associated with successfully publishing a book. Top it [...]
WAHM Wednesday: How to Become a Copywriter
There are all kinds of online writing that someone can do, but copywriting is one of the most profitable. So what is a copywriter? Copywriters produce material that helps sell a product or service. They can write slogans, advertisement letters, anything that sells. And if you can write copy that makes something sell, you could [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Podcasting 101
Now that your blog is up and running you may want to start looking into different forms of media to deliver your content besides writing. A lot of work at home moms have found podcasting to be a pratical way to deliver content to their readers. Below are some simple Q&A’s to help explain what [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Profit with Info Products
Have you ever thought about putting that blogging expertise to better use? If you know a lot about a topic, create a product that you can offer to your readers. Everyone is developing informational products. It is actually a stroke of genius. Why do people come to the Internet in the first place? They come [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Sell Advertising on Your Blog
If you are an enterprising blogger, you can sell your real estate in an effort to make money. Start simple and work your way up. Getting Started Direct advertising takes some gumption. In order for people to take a chance by advertising on your blog, they need to know you. Your marketing plans for your [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Affiliate Programs Help Your Blog Make Money
Blogging is one way that people make their presence known on the Internet. It began as simply an online journal but is not a way to make money doing what you love. Bloggers are always on the lookout for ways to do that. Have you thought about affiliate programs? Affiliate programs are taking off like [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Use Google AdSense to Make Money Blogging
Google is one of the most popular search engines. They also have a popular advertising program called Google AdSense. Use it to make some money for your blog. Some people are not go-getter advertisers. They are not into direct advertising and things like that. If this is you, there is an answer. Google makes it [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Drive Traffic with Article Marketing
So, you have a blog set up. You are outfitting it with tools that make it easier for people to take part in your discussions. Now, all you need is the people. Here are a few ways to drive traffic to your blog using articles. The biggest part of blogging is writing. In essence, it [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Outfit Your Blog to Make Money
In our first week of WAHm Wednesday we talked about the first step to starting to work from home is to start a blog. Now, we will talk more about how you can start earning money from your blog. But, your blog may not be ready from day one to handle the new approach. Here [...]
WAHM Wednesday: Getting Started
Almost everyday I receive an email to my inbox from one of our readers asking “How can I work from home?” So I decided to go ahead and start a series for our readers here that will help shed light on this whole working from home gig, and hopefully will inspire them to find something [...]
The Work To Home Movement
In the last several years there has been major growth in the number of moms who are leaving their high paying jobs and returning home to care for their children. Why has this been happening? I believe that many people are realizing that the decline in stay at home moms has been a major factor [...]
Great Staying Focused on Your Business Tips
Staying focused on your business is sometimes harder then actually doing work for your business. At times procrastination can me so much easier if you are a WAHM. There are just so many other things you could be doing. I am going to let you in on a secret: The dishes piling up in the [...]
Take Time For MOM
Women are nurturers and care-takers, if someone has a problem women will try everything to try to help them. WAHMS are no exception. WAHMs spend there day taking care of the family, doing housework and managing their business. But, WAHMs easily forget to take care of themselves. Yes working from home makes it possible to [...]
Childcare suggestions For WAHMs
You are probably working form home because you wanted to spend more time at home. But I am sure there are times when you are knee deep in your business and have to hire some kind of child care. Here are just a few creative solutions on childcare dilemmas. WAHMs in the direct sales business [...]
Quick Tips for WAHMs to Balance Work and Family
Have you ever heard someone say being married is easy? What about, how easy it is to balance your business and your family? No, you never hear either one of those things said. That is why it is so easy to put your relationship on the backburner when you are feeling stressed. So here are [...]
Staying Confident After Your Decision to be a WAHM
Now that you are a WAHM you have probably ran into someone that has asked you “So when are you going to get a real job?” That question really can hurt, specially when you are working harder as a WAHM then if you were out working away from home. Here are just a few tips [...]
Great Organizing Tips for WAHMs
How tall is that pile of papers on your desk? Do you have papers overflowing from the files? Does it ever take you 45 minutes to find a phone number that you are sure you wrote down somewhere? If you answered yes to any of these question here are some great organizing tips for you. [...]
Time Management Tips for WAHMs
So many people think that WAHMs have it easy, but if those people have ever lived a day in a WAHMs life they would know it is not as easy as they think. Not only does a WAHM have a business to run, but children to tend to, a house that does not clean itself, [...]
Creating Income Opportunities
Have you looked high and low for a way to earn some real money from home? Why have you not taken those great skills you have and use them to build a business? You own your own business you can make your own schedule, and you can choose your clients. So many people want to [...]








