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Blogging for Kids
Get ready to be inspired! As a blogging solopreneur, I’ve been encouraging my own kids to start their own sites sharing their own interests. They see me working and have helped me with posts and writing assignments on occasion so they know that I make money from my blog. My two older kids actually have blogs and although they aren’t blogging much yet they are excited about the possibilities. I want my kids to have the ability to make money {Read More}
Virtual Assistants Need to Practice List Love
List love? What’s she talking about? I mean building a list of followers for your virtual assistant business. Let me explain with a little story. I was in a virtual assistant forum that I frequent the other day and saw a comment that went something like this. “I need help deciding between these two list management services for a client of mine. They are working on list building with a weekly newsletter. I don’t have a need for these services {Read More}
Grow New Income Streams Sooner Not Later
This is a guest post from Kelly McCausey of Solo Smarts. Back in 2002 when I first started to make some extra money on the internet, I only knew of two or three basic ways to do it. Do something for someone and get paid for it. (Graphic & Web Design, Writing, etc.) Sell something I owned to someone else. (eBay.) Sell something someone else owned and keep a little bit of the money. (Direct Sales.) I dabbled a bit {Read More}
What’s A WAHM To Do?
Are You Stuck?
Sometimes, we have to stretch or even contort ourselves to squeeze out of the space between the rock and the hard place that has you wedged in. Get Un-Stuck! Kelly McCausey is once again hosting her Stretch Yourself Challenge. It begins on May 1st and I can’t wait to move beyond the boundaries I have set for myself. If you’re thinking about signing up, I’d like to remind you of a couple things. 1. It’s currently $47. The next time {Read More}
Investing in a Business Coach
There’s a question I’ve been asked a lot in the last couple weeks and it goes something like this: Do you feel like having a mentor really helped you? Quickly followed by one that asks: Was getting a coach worth the investment? So let’s talk a little bit about why I believe finding a mentor you can trust to guide you is one of the most important things you can do for your business. Benefits of Hiring a Mentor/Coach Ideally, {Read More}
Do Friends & Family Think You’re Smoking Pipe Dreams?
You’re excited about starting your online business. You’ve got a domain name, hosting and your WordPress blog is all set and ready to go. You’ve written your first post and you’re adding stuff to your side bar and trying to figure out all this money making stuff. You’re going to MAKE. MONEY! WOOOOOOO!!!! Your mom, co-workers , friends and even your husband have no idea what you’re doing besides chasing a dream and they’re worried that you’re getting taken in {Read More}
List Building
List Building: Using Incentives
Everyone loves to get free stuff so long as there are no strings attached. You can build your list with freebies to garner interest for the products that you are selling or promoting. This is a classic way to build a subscriber list. So you’re probably asking yourself, if I’m giving away free stuff how am I going to make any money? The long and short of it is bring in your subscribers and turn them into customers. Keep reading {Read More}
List Building: Keeping Your Subscribers Happy
Everyone has received an email. Most importantly we’ve all received unsolicited emails at one point or another. It’s important that you build a list of subscribers who want to receive email communications from you. If they believe they haven’t given you permission to email them they can report you for spamming. And that’s a big no-no. Probably the most common way online business owners connect with their potential customers is through email marketing. You can reach more people that way {Read More}
List Building: Email Marketing with Autoresponders
Email marketing can be an effective campaign if done right. You’ll want to find a good balance between offering “free” things that will provide value to your list with affiliate marketing and promoting your products. What are Autoresponders? An Autoresponders is a software program that you can use to send email messages to your subscribers in the frequency and order you choose to let them know that you value their participation in your business. For example, you could create a {Read More}
Blogging 101
9 Ways to Leverage Your Articles
Writing a great article takes some time and since you’ve gone through all the hard work it’s time to make use of it. Once you send it off to an article directory, is that it? Are you done with it? No way! Don’t let all that sweat go to waste, use your article over and over to squeeze every last drop of usefulness out of it. In other words, leverage your articles. By doing this you won’t have to spend {Read More}
Make Money Blogging
The internet is a great place to share your thoughts and opinions but did you know you can make money doing it? Your own blog is the perfect place to write about your passions AND find ways to monetize it to make you money. The great thing about the internet is that you are connected with literally millions of people the world over who are all looking for something. If you’re able to provide what they need, then you can {Read More}
7 Tips to Better Blogging
Blogging is great fun and can be quite therapeutic. But, if you’re looking to make money with your blog you will need to dig in a bit more. There are lots of things you can do with your blog to help you get more traffic leading to increased sales. Here are 7 tips to get you started: 1. Clear Blog Design You want an attractive design that pulls the reader in. Be sure to structure it so the readers coming {Read More}
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