Many women with home businesses discover that being a work at home mom requires a lot more time, money and energy than they had expected. It doesn’t take long to get in over your head and wonder if you are doing the right thing by working for yourself.
If your time and energy is in short supply, and your business needs a boost, WAHM-Articles.com has launched a new social networking community that might help.
The WAHM-Articles Forum helps work-at-home-moms learn how to market their businesses in less time and more effectively …

Five Characteristics of a Good Bookkeeper
Before we start talking about a bookkeeping business let’s distinguish between a bookkeeper and an accountant. A lot of people interchange the words bookkeeper and accountant often times not realizing they are two different things. In reality they are two very different things.
For the most part a bookkeeper doesn’t have a college degree in accounting where as an accountant does. A bookkeeper does more basic type duties such as data entering. This can include things like creating and mailing invoices to the customer, …

If You Love Writing Ghostwriting Could Be For You
The need for behind the scene writers, also known as ghostwriters, is huge. Content is king and the thought of having to add fresh content on a regular basis to a website, a blog, article directories, etc sends some people running for cover.
That’s where you come in. If you have a love for writing, a knack for words and don’t mind hanging out behind the scenes and letting someone else take credit for you hard work ghostwriting is a perfect …

Shelly sent me a tweet that she’d nominated my blog for an award. AWWW, I love awards. lol So off I went to check it out her blog: Shakin’ and Bakin’ in the kitchen with Shelly
Low and behold it’s an awesome Attitude of Gratitude award that was started by another friend online Denise Willms of Wahm-Articles.
Over the years I have had so much help online. I learned SEO from the people that have taught SEO at google conventions. And I’m talking, I learned this …

Bet you can’t guess what is happening today?
That’s right, it’s Shopping Event time at Mom Chats! WOOHOO, specials galore, incredible new companies to learn about, and of course, specials galore. ROFL Oh wait, I guess I said that already.
When: Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Where: Vendor Fair chat room
Time: 5:00 – 10:15pm EST (4:00 CST/3:00 MST/2:00 PST)
The schedule is below, but if you’d like to see just some of the specials the consultants will be offering make sure and check the Event Schedule on Mom Chats. Don’t forget …

Marketing to Digital Moms: How To Reach Out To Today’s Tech-Savvy Moms
Gone are the days when the word “Mom” conjures images of a female who cannot operate the video recorder or navigate her way through the latest videogame, and only switches on the computer to send an email to Grandma.
According to a study published in 2009 by Razorfish and Cafemom, up to 27 million (84%) of Moms online are tech savvy. They use Web 2.0 platforms and shop online. In fact, they use communication technology and social media to connect …

Small businesses don’t have the same marketing muscle as large businesses. A small business simply doesn’t have the advertising budget needed to build a “big” brand and to gain recognition in the market through that brand in the same amount of time.
So how is a small business to compete with the “big guns?”
The answer is by utilizing effective communication strategies with their customers.
As a small business owner, communicating with your customers should be at the top of your agenda. Your customers will give you feedback which …

Providing Good Customer Service In Direct Sales
Providing good customer service to your customers and hosts in direct sales needs to be a consultants top priority. In this day and age, there are millions of consultants all competing for the same customers, the same party hosts and the same potential recruit.
1. Answer all questions that a customer has for you. Answer them completely and in as much detail as possible. Speak normal language. Customers are not familiar with abbreviations or slang words used by an individual business.
2. Make sure you calculate …