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Business Success Tips – Six Summertime Survival Tips For Work-at-Home Moms
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Summer is one of the most difficult seasons for entrepreneur moms. Juggling work with kids who need extra attention and outside playtime can make for some stressful days. You want to have fun, but you also know that the demands of business require your attention. Here are a few tips that will help you get through the summer and stay sane in the process.
1. Look For Ways To Add Passive Income. Spend the time to create that ebook or program that runs without you. Another way to create passive income is to get more involved in affiliate programs. Find programs that fit your audience and then offer these great products to them. They’ll thank you for it and you’ll make a little extra cash.
2. Enjoy Your Freedom. In this day and age you can work almost anywhere. So, this summer don’t stay inside – hit the park and bring your laptop. Head to the beach and write or proof documents there. Be sure to keep a running list of documents that you’ll need access to or take advantage of an online document service such as Google Docs so that your files can be reached from wherever you are.
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The Scoop on Exercise Games For Kids and Dads
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As a father of two young girls, I know how important it is to spend time with them. They need their dad around for comfort, fun and even exercise.
Christian parents know it is our calling to raise and train our kids in the ways of the Lord. I think you’d agree it is a tough calling.
There is no switch we can flip on and off. It’s on all the time whether you want it or not. Read More→
How to Listen So People Will Hear You
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Listening is THE most important communication skill. It is essential in a marriage, as a parent and in the business world! Most people are too busy thinking about what they are going to say next to pay much attention to what the other person is saying. However, merely listening to the words that someone says will only give you about 7% of the meaning!
Good conversationalists, great communicators and smart business owners are “Active Listeners”. What’s an active listener? You have heard that old expression: God gave you two ears and one mouth! An active listener is someone who listens twice as much as he talks. Someone who listens to what was not said. Someone who listens to how it was said. An active listener is someone who pays attention to the other person’s tone of voice, body language, eye contact and facial expressions. From this we may determine the degree to which Mary doesn’t like people who interrupt her, the fact that John is being sarcastic or that Sally never talks about her mother. These may be significant bits of information that you will need to know when trying to relate to people!
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10 Ways to Improve Your Google Ranking
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Google is the world’s most popular search engine. Shortly after its creation, Google’s popularity skyrocketed and it soon became the dominant search engine for finding information on the internet. This is why, if you own a website, you want it to be high in the Google ratings.
Google is constantly changing and evolving so you need to keep up with the changes. Their recent changes, called the Panda Update, caused many sites’ rankings to drop significantly. Google’s mission is to provide the highest quality information for each search done and in doing this, many sites get lost in the endless pages of search results.
To get your website increased ranking there are many things you can do and many things you should not do. I have tried to list some of the more effective things you should do and a couple things you should not do for better placement in Google.
1. Limit Your Advertising – If you have a hodgepodge or cluttering of advertising on your site, this can decrease your ranking. Google considers excess advertising to be a sign of a low-quality spam site. And remember, Google’s goal is to provide the highest quality sites at the top of the search results.Read More→
Jump Start Your Work-At-Home Job Search in the New Year
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Starting in November, life gets busy. Holidays, travel, family…it all takes away from extras like having the time to conduct a work-at-home job search. But now that the holidays are over and the New Year is here, it’s a great time to jump back into looking for a work-from-home job. While the economy continues to be in a slump and the competition for jobs are fierce, employers are hiring. Here are some strategies to get your telecommuting job search back on track.
- Make time everyday to do your job search. New jobs are posted every day and your best chance to get considered comes with getting your application or resume in as soon as possible after a new job is posted.Read More→
10 Ways to Boost Your Online Mailing List
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the most powerful ways to build a successful online business is by creating relationships with your visitors so they can begin to trust you and feel comfortable ordering from you. One way of building these relationships is by having a mailing list so you can keep in contact with your subscribers. This helps form a bond and will start to build that foundation of trust and credibility.
Sending out weekly online newsletters or mailings is a great way to solidify the trust relationship. But who do you send it to? Taking the time and effort to build a responsive email list is not easy but it certainly can be done.
The ten tips below will help you get started building that all important list of names and email addresses! Read More→
No More Excuses! Make Social Media Work for You
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I LOVE social media. In fact, I log several HOURS per day on various social media networking sites. Granted, most of that time is for my clients. I figure it’s a good thing when you can turn something you are knowledgeable and passionate about into a service, which is why I decided to be a social media marketer, managing the social media profiles for clients.
Over the last couple of years I’ve heard all kinds of excuses from clients with regards to why they have decided to cut back on their social media marketing efforts. Here are just a few:
- It doesn’t work for me!
- I’ve seen no real increase in traffic to my website.
- It takes too much time.
- Facebook is just a place where people goof off and ‘act’ like they are working.
The Power of One
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Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9
I am sitting in my office as I type this article with more than enough things on my to do list. I have tackled my kitchen with hopes of getting my living room and kid’s room in order before a conference call that I have scheduled this evening. At this point I have a few options:
- Option 1: Get frazzled and overwhelmed ending in no productivity.
- Option 2: Start cleaning my living room but with a lack of vision only to look up hours from now with only bits and pieces of each room in order.
- Option 3:Or I can do what has consistently worked for me in the past. That is the Power of One.
Had you visited me earlier today you would know that my kitchen was a hot mess! Read More→
Being The Best
Posted by: | CommentsI truly believe that whatever success a secular business owner achieves, those of us who know and walk in the power of Jesus should dwarf their success. We have the secret key – access to the Kingdom of Heaven through Jesus Christ. This means that you have to be in a place where you are comfortable being the best in your area of industry and calling.
This is a time in which the Lord is opening up His harvest like never before. Your capacity to receive more joy, power and wealth is expanded every time you stretch your belief, go for something you really desire or encounter a situation that causes you to reach deeply within yourself to muster up the strength to get endure and overcome.
Being the best means that you truly embrace the power, dominion and authority you have been granted through Jesus. It means operating with the love of The Father and opening your heart up to providing solutions to the problems they encounter on a daily basis. When you have a heart to provide their solutions, they are happy to value what you bring to the table. Read More→
10 Ways to Be Successful with Affiliate Sales
Posted by: | CommentsAffiliate marketing is one of the fastest and most affordable ways to get started making money online. In essence, what you are doing is selling other companies’ products for a commission. You can make money without developing your own product or building your own sales site. All you do is promote the product and send the customers to the company’s site to make the purchase.
Of course, I don’t want to make this sound too easy. It does take work, commitment, persistence and time like any other business. By following the ten tips below, your affiliate sales should increase and thereby increasing your monthly income.
1. Personal Recommendation – You always want to try the product before you start promoting it so you can give it a personal recommendation. A personal recommendation can be very powerful in persuading people the product is “real”. This is especially true if you are already established online and have a good clean reputation. If you are not well-known a personal recommendation will still carry a lot of weight. Read More→