Don’t you just hate it when you really need to update your blog and draw a blank? Well, one of the best ways to jump start those creative juices is to simply look at the calendar. How simple is that?

Every month, week and day, there are some really strange, fun and downright funny holidays and observances celebrated everywhere. In fact, you can even make up your own ‘holiday’ to celebrate on your blog with your readers – that’s how easy it is to come up with days of posts at a time. But you don’t have to make it up yourself. It’s hard enough coming up with a post. Here’s a blogging calendar I found that feature some of these holidays. The other nice thing is, it has room to jot down your own ideas and you can use it to literally plan out the year’s content – or just a month or two ahead if you’re not the planning type. This really helps keep your blog going without rushing to write last minute posts.

Download and check it out for yourself. I bet you can find a couple of posts just off those dates you can write about. In fact, you can write about them right away and schedule them. Your readers will have fun and marvel at how you are so on top of the holidays and seasons.

Wow! I was going to write an article on one way that I found to make money with twitter that I felt was responsible, reliable, and ethical, while not being spammy. I knew about two different services, Magpie & Sponsored Tweets. I like Sponsored Tweets and didn’t like Magpie…. or so I thought. Read the rest of this entry »

All around the internet I’ve been hearing about Virtual Assistants. One of my close friends who is a business/life coach raves about her VA who helps her with emails, daily tasks, scheduling and much more. Her virtual assistant helps her to focus on her business by taking the hassle of the “little” jobs off her shoulders. This sounds like a great thing, for both the busy professional and the stay at home mom who wants to make a good living.

But I had some questions about being a Virtual Assistant. After doing some research and asking a few of my friends about it, these are the answers I got for my questions. If you’re thinking about becoming a Virtual Assistant, these questions might be helpful to you as well!
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What Is Mamapedia?

Mamapedia.com is a new site – still in Beta – that has taken the advice given by thousands and thousands of moms at Mamasource.com and has made it searchable in question format. Imagine a Google that searches just for the advice of real moms given to other moms! That is Mamapedia.

*Thank you to New Baby for donating this VADO camera from Creative Labs to our fun event. Please check out New Baby and consider adding your own vlog!




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I just read a recent hiring trend report from Elance.com hiring trends for February and found that article writing is one of the top 5 skills that businesses are outsourcing to freelancers. It’s really no surprise, especially since Elance caters mostly to online businesses. After all, what is the Internet made of? Images and WORDS and it’s those words that are crucially important.

And believe me, most Internet marketers don’t have either the skill or the time to write – or both, and that means a lucrative opportunity for people like you with some writing skills.

If you’re not yet, click on the button above and go register at the site to become one. Then join us on Friday, March 6th & 7th for the Site Launch party on twitter! You can win all sorts of prizes, including a sponsor package to go to BlogHer09! Which just happens to be one of the biggest blogging conventions ever and it’s mostly for women! Just do a google for BlogHer08 and see all the great things (and sometimes crazy things) that happened at last years event. I would absolutely LOVE LOVE to go, mostly to meet all my blogging, twittering, social networking friends.

There are other great prizes to win at this twitter party as well, and more is being added! So don’t forget to sign up at Sassy Mamas, pre-register for the party at Mom’s Most Traveled, and then start tweeting about the party!

The growth of the Internet and people looking to earn some extra money from home, paved the way for MLM companies to double over the last decade. With this growth in interest in network marketing, many new companies have sprung up to join the ranks of the time-tested, older MLM companies.

If you are thinking of starting a side career in MLM, or just want to see how your current company measures up, take note of the critical things to look for when choosing an MLM company. Read the rest of this entry »

With the Valentine’s day coming up this weekend, everyone is coming up with holiday specific posts. I know with all of my various blogs it hasn’t been easy to find something to say. My sweetheart and I don’t celebrate Valentine’s day, because our anniversary is at the end of the month. So that makes it even harder to figure out! So what’s a blogger to do??

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Wise Online Entrepreneurs know that the best selling products online are health products and health-related ebooks, books, tapes, newsletter subscriptions, etc.

Now World famous Dr. Suzanne Gudakunst has just released her latest “shocker!” that makes it possible for just about anyone to profit from this fact.

She’s making it possible for someone to get a fully-operational online “store” that specializes in “health-related” goods and services.

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Article by Lynette Chandler

Did you know there are lots of ways RSS can be used for your business? Here are some example uses that you may not know about. Quick note: Some can be easily abused so… use them wisely, if you use it.

Twitter: Automatically create a new tweet when you have new posts. There are many ways to do this, a popular and free tool to use is Twitterfeed.
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