It suits mothers because they can choose their own hours and work while children are sleeping or at school or daycare. Mothers who work are often termed Work At Home Moms [...]]]>

Increasing numbers of mothers who are at home with children are either making money online or wondering how to do it.

It suits mothers because they can choose their own hours and work while children are sleeping or at school or daycare. Mothers who work are often termed Work At Home Moms (WAHMs)  If they are in business for themselves, they are often referred to as mompreneurs.

For this post, I’ve collected links from great articles around the internet.

Case Study – How two moms are making $5000+ per month online

This from ViperChill is a look at how Heather Allard and Justine Grey make good incomes on the net – what has worked for them and what hasn’t. Very interesting viewpoint on the value of collecting email addresses.
http://www.viperchill.com/5k-case-study/

Mompreneurs making it online

How making it online involves pinpointing a gap in the market and providing a product a fill the gap.
http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/business-sense/2011/01/04/mompreneurs-making-it-online

4 differences of mompreneurs

The ways in which mothers who are entrepreneurs may differ from other entrepreneurs.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-article-a-114146-m-1-sc-9-4_differences_of_mompreneurs-i

7 Simple Summertime Marketing Ideas for WAHM & Mompreneurs

What to do to get your business moving through the sleepy summertime slump.
http://clevermarketer.com/7-simple-summertime-marketing-ideas-for-wahm-mompreneurs.html

Five ways to discovering your entrepreneurial spirit

Want to start a business but you’re finding it hard to find a place to start from?
http://www.enterprisingmomsnetwork.com/emn-blog/2011-04-27-09-11-10.html

A Mom Sees and Fills a Need in the Marketplace: Personal Hygiene Products for Boys

How Marie Gelin came up with a hygiene product line for boys, named Stinky Boyz.
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219629

Incorporating your business 101

Why incorporating your business can be a smart move – for tax benefits, to protect your personal assets and to change your outlook on your business.
http://smartmompreneur.com/features/incorporating-your-business-101

Flexibility-focused females launching twice as many start-ups as men: Report
This article from Australia, shows that mothers are actively starting up their own businesses.
http://www.startupsmart.com.au/planning/2011-06-14/flexibility-focused-females-launching-twice-as-many-start-ups-as-men-report.html

The 6 rules of a rich woman

While not specifically about mothers, there’s some thought-provoking statements here for women in general.
http://www.richwoman.com/Resources/Articles/The-6-Rules-of-a-Rich-Woman

A unique Boredom Busters business idea

From Australia, how two mums (moms) trying to afford school holiday (vacation) entertainment for children led to the creation of a new business called Boredom Busters.
(This is one of my own websites, for Australian business women.)
http://herbusinesslife.com.au/boredom-busters/

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(If you wish, you can then create a free, professional, one-click WordPress website.)

Simply, the Cloud is online storage and backup. Although these two things have been around on the internet for many years – the Cloud is a much more integrated approach, with solutions and tools for businesses.

Networked Blogs is a social blogging network that is integrated with Facebook.

You can follow other blogs through Facebook and other people can follow your blog. You can use the Networked Blogs applications to set up ‘follow’ widgets directly on your [...]]]> How you can promote your blog and get more traffic with Networked Blogs

Networked Blogs is a social blogging network that is integrated with Facebook.

You can follow other blogs through Facebook and other people can follow your blog. You can use the Networked Blogs applications to set up ‘follow’ widgets directly on your blog.

How do I set up Networked Blogs?

1. You need a Facebook Profile
You’ll need your own Facebook profile set up. Many people already have a Facebook profile and so are good to go!

2. Go to Networked Blogs and click ‘Add Your Blog’
You can’t miss the big ‘Add your blog’ button on the home page

3. Networked Blogs verification
You can choose to ask your friends to verify you or you can choose to add code to your blog (which adds a widget to your blog.)
Adding the widget can prove difficult in some instances, such as if your blog theme doen’t include a sidebar or footer where you include the code.

4. Add the widget or the badge
If you decided to not to use friends verification but the widget isn’t working for you, you can choose the badge – which should give you less problems.
You choose ‘Install Widget’ or ‘Install Badge’
Copy the code, but don’t close the page because you’ll need to go back there. Go to your blog and add the code to your sidebar (or footer)

5. Verify
After you’ve done added the code - be sure to come back to the page where you copied the code and click Verify – which is a big button towards the bottom of the page.
You’re done! Now you just need to get followers!

This type of market comes with social proof (People are more likely to buy something they see their own friends or family buying.) You can run your business on Facebook, in an environment where people like to stay and linger – [...]]]>

Selling on Facebook is a way of tapping into a massive market.

This type of market comes with social proof (People are more likely to buy something they see their own friends or family buying.) You can run your business on Facebook, in an environment where people like to stay and linger – and where they often recommend products and services to other Facebook friends.

The latest report by Forbes reports that “Facebook Fans are 41% more likely to recommend a brand and 28% more likely to continue using them. Plus a Facebook Fan is worth on average 136.38% and spends $71.84 more per year than non-Facebook fans.

Sell on Facebook for free

Vendio
You create a Vendio store (for free) and then use the Vendio Facebook store app to integrate with your Facebook page or profile. (Also free)
No technical skills required. Easy to set up and shopping is secure for customers. You only pay if you wish to upgrade to their Marketplaces Plan.

Vendio Stores are 100% free. Therefore, our Facebook store app is also 100% free.  You’ll never need to give us your credit card information unless you want to sign up for our Marketplaces Plan

Vendio
 
 
Payvment
This Facebook store solution is currently in beta and if you set up a store now, you can keep it forever for free.
Add unlimited products, enjoy sales tracking, over 20 world currencies, automated receipts to customers, discounts for ‘liking’ your store (if you choose).

Our Facebook e-commerce solution ranks #1 because we understand that Facebook users don’t like to leave Facebook. When you launch a store, you join Payvment’s huge network of 60,000+ stores and get into our Facebook-wide shopping cart system that waves goodbye to abandoned shopping carts. Powered by Payvment’s “Open Cart Network” technology, your customers are able to complete their purchases from any storefront on Facebook.

http://www.payvment.com/
 
 
Zazzle Merch Store
If you have products on Zazzle, you can use a merchandise app for Facebook. Or if you don’t want your own estore website – you could try Zazzle and then sell through Facebook.

The Merch Store app lets you easily post your products onto Facebook to share them with your friends. In addition, you can easily spotlight other designers and showcase products from other Zazzle artists. Your friends can show their support by adding the app and showing your products on their profile. Whenever your products are purchased, you receive the normal royalty. In addition, you can enter your Zazzle username and password on the setting page in the app and receive a referral payment on any sales you generate if you are a part of the Zazzle Associates Program.

http://zazzle.com/
http://blog.zazzle.com/2007/11/15/create-a-merch-store-on-facebook/
 
 
The Facebook Marketplace
You can sell your product on Facebook for free with Oodle. Sell cars, real estate, pets and more.
Oodle is marketing the marketplace as a ‘social marketplace’. There’s less anonymity because each listing is connected with a profile on Facebook. (The crimes(pdf) committed through the online marketplace, Craigslist have been highlighted in the Oodle blog.) There’s even a friends tab that you can check to see what your friends are selling.
Oodle also tweets their listings on Twitter.

Oodle provides consumers with a friendly local marketplace to buy, sell and trade. Oodle Pro, launched earlier this year, enables local property managers, real estate agents and car dealers to join the conversation by adding their identity and reputation on Facebook and Twitter to their local listings.

Facebook Marketplace.Facebook Marketplace
http://www.oodle.com/

If you add an image to your WordPress post or page and you want the text to wrap around it, you just need to select either left or right for the image.

If you’ve already uploaded an image to your page, you [...]]]> How to wrap text around WordPress images

If you add an image to your WordPress post or page and you want the text to wrap around it, you just need to select either left or right for the image.

If you’ve already uploaded an image to your page, you can right-click the image - which will bring up the the edit and delete options. Choose the edit option (the picture with a scene in it).

You can do the same with an image ad, if you want text to wrap around it.

None

If you don’t choose an alignment, your picture will align as in the picture below. (Also, if you choose ‘none’.)

Text will not flow around the image.

Center

If you choose ‘center’, your image will be placed centre on the page. Text will not wrap around the image.

Left

If you choose left, your image will align left and the text will wrap to the right.

Right

If you choose right, your image will align right and your text will wrap to the left.

This list is more for those looking for some extra income, rather than a full-time income.

A big advantage of writing articles for websites is that you can do the work from home, in your own time and your [...]]]> The following list gives websites where writers can find writing work and get paid.

This list is more for those looking for some extra income, rather than a full-time income.

A big advantage of writing articles for websites is that you can do the work from home, in your own time and your own hours. You don’t have to spend time chasing clients for work or for payments.

You don’t need to run an office or advertise.

There are sites where you write articles and then wait to see if the ads bring you any shared income. I won’t be listing those – and wouldn’t recommend those either if you are serious about making some decent money through writing online. (Although you can make money with these if your articles happen to rank well in search engine results.)

Online writing work

 
Make Use Of
Detailed helpful tech articles.
You get a permanent author page and a byline (credit for the article.)
MakeUseOf will promote your blog/website where posssible. (Which is great!)

Payment per article starts at $50 per article for starter authors.

http://www.makeuseof.com/write-for-make-use-of/

WiseGeek
Choose from over 500 subjects to write on. Be paid promptly. (As quickly as within 2 days)
Articles are reviewed in batches of five. No deadlines. International writers are welcome, although their team is mostly American.
As far as I could tell, your name is not placed with your articles. (No byline.)
Payment via Paypal.

Payment per article ranges from $10 to $14 (US)

https://www.wisegeek.com/freelance-writing-jobs.htm

Quality Girl
Quality Girl has been in business online since 2008.
All articles are checked for quality by their editors and you must meet deadlines.
As far as I could tell, your name is not placed with your articles. (No byline.)

You are paid $11 (US) for each article you write.

http://www.qualitygal.com/

Wikio Experts
Write on a variety of subjects. Payments are spread out (you won’t be paid promptly.)
You can write in English (UK English), French, German, Spanish or Italian.
As far as I could tell, your name is placed with your articles. (You get a byline.)
Payment via Paypal.

Payment rates:

http://uk.wikio-experts.com/

 
PureContent
Founded in 2006, PureContent pays writers and editors from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and others.
You are matched to projects according to your expertise.

Pay rates: Variable. I wasn’t able to find out if there are any set rates.

http://www.purecontent.com/contact

 
Demand Studios
At this time, writers are only sourced from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. (May 2011)
At Demand studios, you can write articles for large websites such as LiveStrong and USAToday. There are hundreds of thousands of assignments – including editing, writing, video-making and many other roles.

Pay rates: Variable and paid twice weekly.

http://www.demandstudios.com