Now for the bad news. I’m never going to get to read your amazing review or click your affiliate link to buy the product.

I know that probably sounds mean, so let me explain before you throw virtual tomatoes and flaming bags of poop at me.

I searched for reviews of a particular product (No, I’m not naming names or pointing fingers so you can run off and search it to see the ranked url, so use your imagination here, mmmkay?) and I skimmed the page of results that Google gave me and looked at the descriptions and titles of the top five or six before I clicked on one. I was looking for information on a very specific aspect of this product and the third ranked URL mentioned this aspect in their description so it was naturally my first click. The URL sounded sort of mommy-blogger-ish, so I thought even better, I can support a work at home mom in the process here, awesome.

Sounds good so far, right? Unfortunately, this is where things go upside down on our little journey.

I clicked and the new tab opened and the little “thinking” icon started to spin. The header came up with some navigation at the top, and a big banner ad, and more icon spinning. And more icon spinning. Sidebar started to load, and more icon spinning. At this point there are about 20 ads on my screen and no sign of the review yet. More spinning. Wow, I need a coffee refill, so I head off to the kitchen.

When I get back from refilling my coffee mug with warm caffeinated joy there is a picture of the product and the beginning of the review, but the entire post still had not loaded and there were somewhere around 30 – 50 ad buttons on the page. I didn’t count for an exact number and the page was not done loading yet, and I closed the tab and went back to the search engine to find another review.

Just some food for thought as we head into the new year. Less is more when it comes to sidebar clutter and banner advertisements. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have any, and I know you love your friends blogs and ad swaps are great, but that doesn’t mean you need hundreds of 125×125 buttons on every page of your website via the sidebar.

Have a great day and happy blogging!
Kind Regards,

I’d like to suggest to you today that you take a few minutes of your day think about the services you’ve used in the past 30 days or even the past 60 days (both online and offline) and write up a testimonial for those services that were good and beneficial to you in any way.

Testimonials are a great way for any business to showcase what they can do, whether they’re adding them to their newsletter, displaying them on their website, or even posting them on a board in their shop.

You’ll make the service provider’s day and hopefully also help other folks to make their decision about using that service in the future.

Have a great day!
Kind Regards,

How to Get Paid Creating a Juicy Information Product

Have you ever wondered what it takes to put together a step-by-step guide or system? I’ve seen them for sale and I’ve even invested in a step-by-step guide on marketing and mindset that I absolutely love. But, maybe you and I are a lot alike. I have kids at home and my life is very busy. I would love to put my own system or step-by-step guide together, but how on earth am I supposed to find the time?

Then it occurred to me that I can get paid for creating my genius system. And you can too. (Don’t worry, I’m not selling anything. I just want to share this idea with you).

So, how can you create this amazing, genius product and get paid in the process? It’s simple. Don da da doooon…eCourse!
Okay, now did your jaw just drop in disbelief? Are you thinking, what in the world is she talking about?

Well, hold on there. Don’t stop reading yet.

Let’s say you have a business specializing in WordPress. You love what you do and you have plenty of clients, but you’re tired of working so darn hard and you want to start bringing in some passive income. Plus you want to tell other moms how easy it is to start making money online starting your own blogsite service. What can you do?

· Create easy, digestible weekly lessons on how to get your WordPress business up and running.
· Charge a small amount of money to send the lessons via email to hungry learners.
· Compile all of the weekly lessons and combine them to create a step-by-step guide or system.
· Hold a couple of free or low-cost tele-classes on your topic.
· Deliver your new step-by-step guide as an e-Book with audio or use a fulfillment company like, www.vervante.com and have your step-by-step guide with CD’s of the teleclasses delivered as a hard copy.

Voila! You now have a manageable way to create your first information product and get paid for it. That wasn’t hard at all. Now go get busy on creating your new product. I can’t wait to see your natural genius in play.

About Michaela:

Michaela is offering a 12 week workshop and mentorship program to women and moms who would like to reinvent or create the business of their dreams. To learn more about the program visit Passionate Profitable Moms to get more information. There is an EARLY-BIRD SPECIAL until August 19th. Be sure to check it out.

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Before you build your blog you need to do a little bit of niche research. Ask yourself these questions:
Is this niche viable, or is there too much competition?
Can I beat some of the sites on Google’s first page?
Does this niche have buyers, or just tire kickers?
Are there some good affiliate programs associated with this niche?

It’s been said to pursue your passion and the money will follow. This is true to a point, but suppose your passion is juggling machetes? Do you think there’s a market for this skill? The broader niche of juggling might suit you better. Don’t limit yourself to things you know now, though. It’s easy to do research online, so if you have a strong desire to learn about a new topic, starting a blog is a great way to get an education.

I heard Carrie Wilkerson recently say that the passion doesn’t have to be the thing you’re writing about, your passion can simply be taking care of your family and paying your bills or getting out of debt. I thought that was a pretty wise thing in the current economy with so many people looking to get started.

Now that you have your niche you need to get your blog online. Don’t use free blog sites like blogger.com, or wordpress.com. You need your own domain name and your own hosting. These sites have their uses, but you should never trust your content (and maybe your livelihood!) to a free service. If you’re looking to make money with the site you’re creating chances are a few months from now you’re going to want to move it from that freebie service anyway, so I think it’s worth the 8 or 9 dollars to just start with your own domain name.

Okay, you’ve got your domain name and hosting. What platform will you use for your blog? Many people use WordPress for this. You can install WordPress using Fantastico in your cPanel, or you can install it manually. You may want to install WordPress in its own directory rather than in the root folder. This leaves your root folder uncluttered and easy to navigate, but changes your URL from http://www.myblog.com to http://www.myblog.com/some-directory.

Now for the most important part: Content. You need to add posts regularly to your blog. Every day is great if you’re able to, but at least several times weekly. Set up a schedule and stick to it. An advantage of WordPress is that you can set posts to publish on a certain day. This means you can load posts in advance without having to write new ones every day.

Don’t make the mistake of just adding posts with affiliate links in them. This is a big turn off for visitors. People are coming to your blog for information. If everything on your blog is sell, sell, sell, you will soon be reading it alone.

Now comes the hard part: Traffic. Remember this formula: Content+Backlinks=Traffic. This means that the keyword-optimized content you add to your blog, plus the incoming links you have to your site, equals search engine ranking. The big thing here is backlinks. You can never have enough backlinks.

So, how do you get backlinks? You can post on forums with a link to your site in your signature. You can comment on other relevant blogs. You can submit articles to article directories with a link to your site in your resource box. Post a classified ad on free ad sites with a link to your blog. There are many ways to get backlinks. Just make sure they are relevant to your blog.

To answer the title question, yes it is possible to make money blogging and sometimes a lot of it. The important thing to remember is that it takes work, consistency, and perseverance. Remember that last one, because that’s the real key to making money with a blog.

I hope that clears up some of your questions about getting started blogging for money. If you have any other questions, please leave them in the comments section below or fill out our Ask a Question form. We’d love to help you get started!

Kind Regards,

P.S.If you’re new to blogging and need a little help, I strongly recommend Beginner to Blogger in 4 Weeks from my good friend and fellow mastermind group member Traci Knoppe. She’ll take you step by step through the entire process from installation to creating your blog posts and she’ll even help you customize your blog theme.

What are you waiting for? Get started blogging today! Learn how to create a blog with the Beginner to Blogger in 4 Weeks eCourse

Did I purchase what she was selling? No, I did not. Would you? Probably not. I’m not going to name names or point fingers here, so don’t bother to ask. I know that she is currently working on rewriting her description and messages in a more positive light, so the situation will be remedied soon enough. But, it made me think a little.

I looked around the internet a bit and sure enough I found plenty more pages that were very, very negative. Now, don’t misunderstand me, you want your information product to be the cure for a particular pain or problem that someone is having, so of course you have to describe that pain or problem to get your point across. That is not what I am referring to as negative here.

By negative I mean looking at everything from the negative point of view with a negative attitude. I’ve seen a lot of “negative advertising” and “negative marketing” going on a lot lately and I have to say that it doesn’t attract me as a buyer at all and it makes me want to poke you in the eye just a little bit.

A good example without linking to anyone online in particular would be those rotten political ads you see on TV all the time, making yourself look better by making someone else look bad is not the way to win me over for a vote or to buy your stuff, so knock it off and show me some real value in a positive way.

I hope you’re having a super productive Monday today and influencing the internet in a positive way!

Kind Regards,

It’s a common misconception that summer will bring us more free time if we work at home, when in fact if you have kids chances are you’re going to have less free time in the summer than during the school year (unless you’re a homeschooling family, then that’s a whole different ball of wax!)

So, let’s look at some things we can do to best manage our time during the summer with the kids home, vacations coming up, barbecues to attend, and all the things that make summer what it is.

We want to hear from YOU ~ what’s your best summertime tip for managing it all while still enjoying a few rays of sunshine?

I’ll get us started off with a few…..

• Change your schedule to work more at night and less during the day. This way you’re not interrupted and you can get more done without that feeling of momguilt that you might find yourself getting during the day.
• Arrange a sleepover swap with the kiddo’s friends families. This can take some creative scheduling on your part if, like me, you have a larger family. But, never fear, it can be done.
• Check into local Day Camps that activities for your kids to do, often times there are free or low cost programs available. We did this two summers ago for my youngest two and they loved it. It was a small group, it cost me less than 100 dollars for both of them to join up for the whole summer. They went swimming twice a week, did crafts, went to the zoo, and made a bunch of new friends.

Okay…. your turn! Let’s hear it. What tips or ideas might you have for making the best of your summertime?

Kind Regards,

He landed with a thud so loud he scared my neighbor who was weeding out her flower bed, she jumped up and looked around thinking something horrible was wrong. No, sorry, just my clumsy cat. We both laughed out loud at poor Maurice, who proudly got right back up on his perch of the deck railing and went back to sleep.

What’s my ridiculous point here and why I am comparing my clumsy cat to your online business venture? The point is that cats do not always land on their feet, yet they have this stunning reputation of being graceful and elegant and always landing on their feet. Why is that?

In my opinion it’s because cats are proud, they hold their head their head high no matter what. They get right back up, dust themselves off, and go right back to what they were doing having learned from their fall and doing a better job to keep their balance when they get back on the railing, or the window sill, or the shelf, or whatever the challenge may be that is in front of them.

In all honesty it’s how a cat presents themselves. They don’t put up with ridiculous things, they don’t worry about what those around them think, they do what they set out to do even if it takes them ten tries to accomplish their goal.

There’s a lot to be learned from a cat that you can apply to your business goals or even your personal goals. As long as you proud of what you’ve done hold your head high and carry on. If something needs tweaking, then tweak it. There’s no harm in fixing things or changing things as you go along.

Have a great day,

I come to you today with much sadness on my heart. The WAHM community has been rocked with so much tragedy these past few weeks. Today I come to you and ask you to pitch in and help out a friend, a neighbor, and someone you likely already know. Melissa Ingold, aka Internet Marketing Sweetie has made her way into our hearts and minds by providing quality content and great information and helping as many work at home moms as she can reach out to in a day.

Today I ask you to repay Melissa’s kindness by sending a loving thought her way after the death of her son Kyle, and if you are capable sending a few dollars her way to help ease the burden of funeral expenses for her family. Kelly McCausey has stepped up and organized a fundraiser page and I strongly encourage you to click on one of the options you’ll find there http://www.wahmtalkradio.com/fundraiser-please-help-out-a-wahm-her-family/

Kelly has generously offered to donate profits from two of her products if you would like to buy a Mom Masterminds Membership or a Blog Internship package, and there is the third option of donating directly via Paypal to Melissa and her family. I personally chose to donate directly to the family and sent what I could from my Paypal account.

I only wish that I had been able to donate more to help Melissa out. Remember, every single dollar counts in a time like this. Regardless of what you do, think a positive thought and send a virtual hug her way today, then go and hug your own children a little extra today too. I know she will appreciate it.

Here’s the link to the fundraiser page again: http://www.wahmtalkradio.com/fundraiser-please-help-out-a-wahm-her-family/

Kind Regards,

Thanks to rapid investments in technology and the widespread availability of high speed internet, the world is a much different place today. In the past few years, blogging became one of the biggest online trends. You could find a blog on just about any subject and the people writing them came from all walks of life. Businesses caught on to this phenomenon and realized what an effective tool this was for communication and promotion.

A trend has popped up in the blogging world: audio. Instead of typing your thoughts and feelings, you can simply record an audio file and upload it to your blog. This is exactly how podcasting became popular. The first podcasts were actually “audio blogs”. It caught on so fast, that these audios took on a life of their own and became an entirely different category, more similar to an internet radio show.

Using audio on your blog is a great way to add interest and let your personality show through. You can keep it simple; you don’t need to add audio to every blog entry
and don’t have to develop a whole podcast. If you wanted to simply add a touch of audio, you could record a welcome greeting that your readers could listen to upon entering your blog.

If you currently have a large readership and are afraid that you will lose readers if you change your format, you could work the audio in slowly. You could add a bonus audio message to a few posts. For example, if you wrote a post about housecleaning, you could add an audio message containing your five best tips for quick cleaning. Your readers could choose to listen to it if they wanted.

If you find yourself getting a lot of positive feedback, you may want to increase the amount of audio you add to your blog. You may even want to have a few posts per week that are strictly audio based.

You will find that some people absolutely love audio and will greatly enjoy audio blogs, and some will prefer to read blog posts. Combining the two can add a bit of variety to your blog and keep all of your readers and listeners happy.

There are several companies that provide audio services that make recording your blog posts simple and easy. You can check out Audio Acrobat as well as Hipcast, Whistletree, and Blog Talk Radio. You can also perform a Google search to find more companies providing this service. Each company will have different pricing and options, so check each one out thoroughly before making a decision.

Kind Regards,
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