Work From Home Mums Blog – Resources, Return To Work Advice, Online Business Ideas

A friend of mine in London, UK recently took action on her work at home ideas. Leanne though predominantly an aspiring actress was looking to supplement her lifestyle and came up with the idea of hosting and organizing children’s parties in London.

The way society has progressed today the internet has become in most cases the number one way to find the products and services you need. For this reason Leanne,  together with input from her friends setup the ‘The Teeny Tiny Party Company’ and put together her first website to promote her services.

I’m sure you’ll agree from the screenshot to the right that the website is both professional looking and is relevant to the audience she is aiming for. In case your wondering, the service used to create the website was wix.com and you can try their website building tools for free.

I’d like to take this opportunity of behalf of all our readers to wish Leanne all the best in her endeavours. I hope this might have sparked ideas in more of us…

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If you are lucky enough to have school going children, you are probably on the last stretch of summer before they go back to school. I know some go back at the end of this week and others the beginning of next, mine go back next Monday the 31st. I hope you’re all set books bought, uniforms ready etc.. I have to confess I’m not !! not a book bought or a pencil case sorted. I don’t have to worry about uniforms luckily cos they don’t wear any at their school. When school ended this year I just decided I was going to enjoy the summer, not think about school terms or routines until I needed to and despite the weather I’ve had a great summer ! I stepped back from work a good bit and I just enjoyed being at home.

Luckily I was able to do a lot of that because I still continued to earn money due to passive income streams I had set up and due to having great help with Nancy who continued to keep an eye on the website and answer all your emails. When you work from home, particularly if you are on your own, it’s important to have backup and other structures in place so that you can step away when needed and you know I’ve spoken about this before. I have to confess my income did drop a good bit this summer, much more so than other summers but what’s past is past and my goal moving forward is to really up the ante ! I’ve decided that I’m fed up of all this doom and gloom and people accepting that incomes are dropping and that that seems to be ok because it’s happening everywhere !. Well I didn’t like having my income drop during the summer (much as I enjoyed my summer !) and I’m not going to accept it going forward, so I want to increase my income this year, introduce new revenue streams and real get rocking ! So are you with me !! Don’t accept that incomes have to drop because of what’s going on around us, make sure you try and upset the pattern and incease your income. Whether you are just starting out or have been in business a while, try and make one positive change THIS week that will set you on the road to better financial results.

If you’d like to bounce this around with me, or even just ask a question that you’ve been wondering about, or want to share some ideas then join me in the iamawahm conference room next Tuesday 1st of September from 10.00am to 11.00am. I’m going to make myself available in the room for that hour sort of like an open office tuesday! so that you can just pop in, say hi, ask a question whatever you want. No need to stay for an hour or anything just pop in and say hello ! If you’d like to join me just make sure you are signed up to the chat list to get all details on how to enter the room. If you signed up on this list previously for a workshop or something no need to do so again, you’ll be sent all the details.

If you haven’t signed up you can do so here I Am A WAHM workshops

From I Am A Wahm http://www.iamawahm.com/wanna-increase-your-income-this-year/

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These days we all receive lots of emails and sometime unwanted. We join a group or buy a product and then we are getting emails from these known businesses, possibly that we didn’t want.

Then there are those emails that come in offering pharmacy products, or worse, that come from a source that is totally unknown to you. These are not only annoying but often offensive.

So you decide that you don’t want to receive these unwanted messages anymore. What do you do?

Well in the case of email from a known source, that is a business that you deal with or dealt with at some time, you should politely unsubscribe from the mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email. The business will not take offense and if anything they will save money by only sending their messages to people that are happy to receive them.

And in the case of unknown sources, those offensive emails that some how get past your spam filter, add them to your junk mail otherwise known as ‘manually marking your mail as spam’.

BUT PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do not manually mark unwanted mail from a known source as spam or junk mail. Use the unsubscribe link. You can cause serious damage to a genuine and reputable business by marking their mail as spam.

Most reputable businesses these days pay to use a proper mailing service, by marking their mail as spam can get them banned from the mail provider and in some cases reported to their hosting company as well, and banned by the hosting company too, forcing them to close down their online business.

You thought their business was good enough to use or try in the first place, so give them the respect of managing their mail in a fair and considerate way.

Something I have come to realise on my journey into the world of internet marketing is there are many people who have an idea and fly into setting up a business without any idea about SEO and Keyword research. I am all for giving ‘it’ a go, with and without research! Yes, I know – how can she say that? – learning happens from mistakes.

But the best advice I could share is that SEO actually means doing less with little, you can drive traffic to your site by using the right keywords, but this is where I find it amazing that people don’t try to qualify their keyword choices. They simply think hmm! if I was searching on Google what keywords would I search on. In some cases you will think of the logical choices, but it is the HOT keywords, the ones that are heavily used or niche terms that really bring home the traffic.

There are many products in the marketplace that help to work out the keywords you should be using. Google have their own tool, another and favourite of my own is Market Samurai, I have been using Market Samurai for a year now and wouldn’t start a new niche or website without consulting my own personal samurai first. Let me give you an example I own a site called www.womenscyclingshoes.org and I researched Market Samurai to find my keyword phrase which I did buy the domainname with it included.

I was aiming to get onti page 1 of Google in about position #7. Well at the time of writing the site is infact on page 1 of Google in positions #5 & #6 … So how do I know that, Market Samurai keeps a track of my ranks for all of my keywords and domains, and let’s me know where  am placed in Google, Yahoo and Bing for each. That is happy free traffic. Market Samurai offer a free 12 day trial of their software, but it is so good you will want to but it, and that is the joke part … it is only $149.00 anyway.

Another I wanted to tell you about today is Keywordspy. I couldn’t believe there is this cool tool freely available for you to use to search; keywords, affiliate product, competitor information and your own keyword stats. Just type in your own URL and see what pops up.

I highly recommend the fully functioning Keywordspy and Market Samurai products because let’s face it you get what you pay for. But if you are just at the beginning of your internet marketing journey then a free trial or free version is a must . Just to check whether the keywords you thought were good or whether they aren’t. Well not ‘just’ for those reasons, because you need to know what words are going to help you build your online business into a thriving success.

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Becoming a work from home mum is not an easy task and many mums are turning to creating their own work from home job by way of becoming a ‘blogger’. From blogging about parenting advice to their favourite hobby, mums are discovering that their opinion counts, some even discover they can make money! Go figure!

Well I wanted to share with you a site that I recently discovered and think is an awesome concept that can potentially make working from home an completely new game.

Sponsored Reviews puts advertisers together with bloggers to write honest reviews in your personal style about their products and services. And yes you get paid for it. I have signed up today and will ‘keep you posted’ ; )

Why not check it out for yourself, Sponsored Reviews.

PS: It is FREE to join.

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