Mommies Magazine

How Can You Join these Successful Online Businesswomen?

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by Nanette.

Working from home is the dream of many working moms or moms who are faced with the need to go back to work and leave their little ones behind. If you’ve wondered what it takes to be a Full Time WAHM (work at home mom), this post includes a resource to help you in that very direction.

Running an online business from your home takes careful planning, discipline and energy. When you work outside the home, it’s easy to separate work and family life. But when you bring the two together, chaos can erupt and there can be a big learning curve to getting it right. But it can be done.

You can beat that learning curve!

One way to do it is to learn from other moms who have been there and have successfully done it.  Learn from example! Luckily Just Add Sweat’s “Full Time WAHM Success Blueprint” brings you the success stories of 22 moms all earning a full time income from home.

You’ll learn exactly how they make money, the top 3 techniques they use to grow their business, their biggest mistakes (so you can avoid them!) and what finally brought them to a full time income.

Learn about these 22 amazing ladies and get your copy at: FullTime WAHM

Not only will their stories inspire you, but they’ll give you the practical advice you need to become a Full Time WAHM yourself.

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Marketing Your Craft Business Online

Posted on 17. Nov, 2008 by Nanette.

Are you gaining the benefits of marketing your craft business online?  If you have a craft business, you may have taken a traditional route in your marketing efforts, such as selling your items at craft shows.  If you haven’t tried marketing your craft business online, you should give it some thought.

The following are just a few of the benefits to marketing your craft business over the internet:

First and foremost, marketing your craft business online will allow you to reach new customers, from all around the globe. If you’ve been marketing your business in a traditional manner, your customers may be limited to our own location.

In order to reach new customers traditionally, a craft business owner would participate in the craft fair circuit, sometimes traveling hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

Marketing your crafts over the internet will allow you to get your business in front of many new people, all from the comfort of your own home. Even if you happen to enjoy traveling to various craft shows, you can still use the internet to market your crafts between events.

When you sell your crafts online through your own website or through an online marketplace such as www.Etsy.com, you can receive orders anytime, day or night. You can literally wake up in the morning to find that you received several new orders while you slept. This creates an almost passive income element to your craft business.

Many people who market their business through craft shows enjoy meeting their customers and the other craft vendors and establishing relationships with them. While nothing may beat that actual face to face interaction, the internet offers the second best thing with social networking sites.

Social networking sites, which include websites such as MySpace.com, Facebook.com, and Twitter.com allow you to meet and interact with others. These sites can help you find new customers but more importantly, it can help you meet other business owners.

Forming relationships with other business owners can lead to advertising swaps, blog swaps, joint venture projects and more.

Marketing a craft business online helps bring many new opportunities. This doesn’t mean you have to give up craft fairs or other traditional routes of selling your crafts. Combining online and offline marketing will help you cover all of your bases and insure you are making the most of your business.

In fact, I’ve got a little freebie for you here too: http://www.indiebizchicks.com/craft-biz-marketing-report.pdf

For more tips on marketing a craft business online, join in on a special seminar this Thursday, November 20 at 9pm Eastern. For more info, visit:  Special Teleseminar: Learn How To Market Your Craft Business Online…. Without Going Broke!

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Make Money Online

Posted on 23. Jul, 2008 by Nanette.

If you are a stay at home mom or work at home mom wannabe who’d like to do more to help your family financially, you have come to the right place. The purpose of this site is to help your find ways to make money online. Help you help your family financially. I’ve discovered there is an entire world out there of mom’s like you and I that want to help our family’s financial situation and still be able to care for our children. Women just like you and I that are making an income while caring for their children. Let me share with you what I’ve found.

There are a lot of ways to make money from home on the internet. It’s not just for surfing anymore. Everything from paid online surveys, mystery shopping, e-bay listing, online focus groups, work at home jobs and affiliate marketing can help you generate money from home.

Work at Home Careers

There are many companies that provide work from home employment opportunities but they are difficult to find sometimes. There is a large range of available types of work at home jobs ranging from customer service and data entry to teaching, transcription and sales positions. The trick is knowing where to look for genuine work from home jobs and how to avoid scams.

Working at home presents some challenges both in it’s requirements to acquire a work at home position as well as the challenges of working with children at home. To assist you in meeting the challenges, I’ve compiled excellent articles from some very knowledgeable writers who know first hand what it takes to meet and overcome those challenges.

Paid Online Surveys

Paid online surveys and product testing are other resource available. Although, it won’t bring in a full time income it can generate some extra cash for you and your family as well as give you the opportunity to have a say in what products become available to the public and try out some new products too. Freebies and samples also benefit you financially – saves a little money here and there and that always helps.

Your Own Online Business

Maybe you’d rather be your own boss? Ever thought about starting your very own online business? Do you have a hobby that could make you money? Given affiliate marketing a thought? Maybe you have and just don’t know where or how to start. Our articles will answer all your questions and get you making money online!

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WAHM Jobs

Posted on 23. Jul, 2008 by Nanette.

There are two key factors in acquiring WAHM jobs, 1. Finding and getting an online work at home job and 2. Avoiding online scams along the way. Both go hand in hand but let’s tackle these one at a time.

Finding that elusive work at home job:

The trick is knowing where to look for genuine work from home jobs, what they are looking for, how to present yourself to a potential employer you can’t see and how and what you need to land that job. Learning from others who have reached the same goal is extremely.

Work at home job types range from data entry to transcription but the most common is customer service. The jobs listed here are from legitimate companies who routinely hire telecommuters.

Customer Service

Working Solutions – Created in 1996 Working Solutions provides legitimate work-at-home opportunities for those looking for supplemental income, and wanting or needing to work from home.

Work at Home Agent – No investment required. You can even complete training from your home PC through their web-based training certification.

Alpine Access – Is the world’s leading outsourcer of call center services using home-based customer service agents.

Data Entry

Dion Data Services – Located in Des Moines, IA and is dedicated to providing high quality data entry services.

Palm Coast Data (FL only) – Data Entry Home-Keyers. Only residents of the City of Palm Coast, Florida are considered for Off-Site positions.

CPG (Scottsdale AZ only) – Continental Promotion Group offers a work-from-home, contract data entry program. Minimum requirements can be found on the website.

Key For Cash - Straight data entry. You type what you see. May or may not be accepting applications. Visit the site for information on open enrollement.

Mountain West Processing - Employment opportunites: Transcriber, Editior, Coders, Researchers. Visit the site for more information.

Document Coding

On Site E-Discovery – We know people are our greatest assets. We are dedicated to recruiting creative and talented individuals who seek out exciting career challenges. Apply online at the website.

Lighthouse Technologies – A Leader in providing document database design, indexing and data delivery to law firms and corporate counsel around the U.S.

Cypher Contractors – Must have a legal background.

Apex Document Solutions - One of the premier litigation support providers.

Teaching

ETS – ETS employs raters to evaluate essays online. Qualifications listed on website.

Brainfuse - Discover the fun of tutoring.

Transcription

Cyber Secretaries – Cyber Secretaries is looking for Independent Contractors, Free-lance Transcriptionists.

Ubiqus – Several types of transcription.

SALES

E-bay - There are always a few little things around the house that the kids have either outgrown or don’t use anymore that are still in very good to excellent condition. Or if you find your niche in E-bay you could develop your own store on E-bay.

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Work at Home Scams

Posted on 05. Jul, 2008 by Nanette.

Be alert to possible work at home scams to avoid being caught up in them.  There are a few items to look for that should tip you off to a possible online job opportunity being a scam rather than a legitimate job.

Avoid work at home scams but how?

Easy! Be alert to some key points to watch out for.  Don’t get impatient and jump at an opportunity without doing your research on the company first.  I say this from experience because we all fall for it at our weakest point no matter how smart we are.  As difficult as it may be, be patient.  Take this information to heart and find out all you need to before you apply.

Red Flags to alert you to an online job scam!  Make this your motto:  Never Pay for a Job.  Legitimate companies WILL NOT charge you a fee to work for them.

• Check the BBB for complaints
• Check scambusters.org
• Get contact information – address, phone number, etc. (If they won’t provide it then I would think they are hiding something)
• Newly established website addresses.
• Personal email addresses instead of company email address – aol.com or yahoo.com instead of (name of company).com
• Network – talk to others looking for wah jobs, check out wham bulletin boards.
• Question those ads that say no experience necessary.
• Check sites lke Yaho Yellow Pages and others to see if the company exists or can be found in their listings.
• Never send copies of personal information to an address or tax number you can’t verify.
• Go with your gut feeling, if something seems fishy or odd to you take that as a red flag.
• Be very cautious when a company wants you to set up accounts or transfer funds.  It could end up getting you into a lot of legal troubles (it’s not worth it).
• If a job seems to good to be ture, it probably is.
• Job offers that promise you’ll make lots of money for very little work or very quickly – RED FLAG! Even an away from home job wouldn’t offer this!
• Job offers that ask for a fee other than perhaps a fee for a background check.

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Review a Product and Make Some Extra Money

Posted on 02. Jul, 2008 by Nanette.

I was reading this article over at DreamLineSavings.com about how to make some extra money by reviewing products and making a 1-3 minute video about it. It’s a site called ExpoTV. If you aren’t camera shy you might want to take a few mintues to find out more about it.

According to the article they pay $10 per video for good quality videos. Here’s the link to the site so you can get some more details: Easy Way To Earn Extra Money! For you who aren’t camera shy this could be a great opportunity to make some extra money.

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Telecommuting and Networking Go Hand in Hand

Posted on 22. Jun, 2008 by Nanette.

I’ve been a telecommuter for a couple of years now. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to learn document coding and I am really glad for the break. I still do some legal document coding. If you’re looking for ways to find a telecommuting job it’s very important to meet others that are telecommuting or looking to telecommute too. Not only are you there for each other when you get down cause nothings been found yet but you also get another set of eyes looking for work at home jobs with you.

Make friends online and they may just end up being able to help you get the job when telecommuting positions open. And you make some great friends to boot! I sure have. And that’s how I got several of my jobs. Friends I had made online gave me recommendations and let me know when jobs became available. Give it a try!

Jobs At Home: The Complete Guide To Finding And Creating A Work-at-Home Job

Have you ever wondered how you go about getting a telecommuting job? Are there really companies out there who are looking to hire home-workers? In this resource, “Jobs At Home: The Complete Guide To Finding And Creating A Work-at-Home Job”, Leslie Truex show’s that it can happen! To order this ebook visit: Bizymoms.com
 

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