NETWORKING WAHM

Networking on My WAHM Space: The Basics

“My WAHM Space” is a great new way for women who have businesses to network with each other! Each week, registered members (registration is free) of this fantastic community get together on the web forums, live chats and other fun events designed to help women showcase their businesses and talk about the challenges of owning a business. Each member gets their very own profile page where they may include information about their business including links to their personal blogs and business website(s). Then at different times throughout the week, members can hold online chats to sell their products and they offer some great deals!

Of course, there are web discussion forums and chats where Mom’s can ask questions, talk with each other, vent if needed and find a social outlet that encourages and educates all. My WAHM Space is better than other social networking sites out there because here you can find other Mom’s who can relate to and understand the unique challenges of being both a Mom and a busy business-person. Where else can you find true friends who share the same experiences, trials and successes as you?

Not only can you share ideas with other Mom’s, but you can build a blog and use the power of the Internet to write about your life, your business and any other interests you may have. Use this tool to post pictures about yourself, the products or services you offer and how other Mom’s can benefit from learning more about you. You can add a group of favorite members and get to know them through the weekly activities available, plus save time and money in your advertising efforts. Send email reminders out to your friends and family and other members to come check out what’s new. My WAHM Space is full of opportunities to use social networking to build your business and make friends at the same time, so I encourage you to check it out today.

10 MORE Ways to Use eBooks to Boost Your Business

The response to our previous blog post about 26 Ways to Use eBooks to Boost Your Business has just been awesome. So awesome that I’ve been inspired to think of even more ways to use eBooks – 10, in fact.

But before I get into that, let me just remind you that you don’t have to write these eBooks yourself. If your business is related to Mommyhood, check out Mom PLR eBooks. With your monthly membership, you’ll get private label rights (PLR) to an eBook, articles, blog posts and everything else you need for marketing.

1. Use content from the eBook to post meaningful and valuable comments in blog posts related to your niche.

2. Write a blog post about each topic in the eBook’s table of contents. Use on your own blog or as guest posts in related blogs.

3. Use the eBook as the basis of an online survey, to help you learn more about your market such as what type of information they want.

4. Create a FAQ page or special report with links to your site and/or affiliate links. Then make it go viral.

5. Distill the key points of an eBook into a poster – to give away or sell.

6. Use information in the eBook to create high-quality landing pages for your Pay Per Click campaigns.

7. Based on the eBook contents, develop a set of comics you can give away to build your list.

8. Pre-load a USB flash drive with several related eBooks and sell at a premium.

9. If you have a membership site, offer the eBook as an unannounced bonus.

10. Organize a webinar around the eBook. Record the webinar, have it transcribed, and you’ve got a brand-new product to either sell or give away.

Whew! With our previous blog post, that’s a total of 36 ways you can use eBooks to build your business. If I’ve missed any, please feel free to let me know by posting a comment below.

There’s so much you can do with content, but it takes time, effort and money to create it. When you have access to high-quality PLR content for a specific market, such as Mom PLR eBooks, then you’ll have plenty of time and energy to get maximum profits from the content. If you want to try out Mom PLR eBooks, use coupon code “ebookboost” (without the quotation marks) to get your first month for only $5. After that, it’s $29 every month and money well spent. I’ve been a member for over a year.

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I have given you so many ideas for building your biz with eBooks – which one will you do first?

26 Ways to Use eBooks to Boost Your Business

eBooks are one of the most popular forms of content on the Internet today. They’re easy to publish, eco-friendly, and virtually free to distribute.

Done-for-you private label rights (PLR) packages like Mom PLR eBooks make publishing and marketing them easier than ever. No wonder, many Internet marketers are making fortunes from selling eBooks.

But did you know that an eBook can boost your business in so many ways, other than by selling it as an eBook?

Here are 26 ways one eBook can boost your business:

1. Break up the eBook into blog posts or articles for your site. Publishing fresh content frequently is a good way to build up traffic.

2. Use content from the eBook to respond to questions in Yahoo! Answers and discussion forums in your market. Of course, add a link to your site.

3. Turn the eBook into a training tool for your affiliates. Good affiliates are essential to your business.

4. Pull out content from the eBook to create a Squidoo lens, Hub Page and Google Knol. These Web 2.0 platforms are excellent sources of back links to your site.

5. Rewrite parts of the eBook into unique articles and submit to Ezine Articles, Lady Pens, Associated Content, Go Articles, and other article directories. More quality back links for your money pages.

6. Break up the eBook into an e-course. You can either sell or give away the e-course.

7. Take parts of the eBook and use them in your email newsletter or Ezine.

8. Give away the eBook to build up a mailing list. Readers will gladly give their email addresses for an eBook that addresses their problems.

9. Offer the eBook as a bonus for a paid product. Increase the value of your product.

10. Give the eBook away as an unannounced bonus to your customers. They’ll love you for it and will be happy to buy from you again.

11. Take the most actionable parts of the eBook and create a printed promotional postcard, flyer or newsletter.

12. Rewrite the eBook for a more specific niche, such as “stay at home Moms,” “Moms of multiples,” “Moms of teens,” “homeschooling Moms,” etc. Create a new stream of income from another market.

13. Sell the eBook as a printed book through Lulu.com. Be where few Internet marketers are.

14. Expand the eBook into a self-study course, by creating mindmaps, cheatsheets and step-by-step guides.

15. Break up the eBook into an audio or teleseminar series, which you either sell or give away.

16. Transform each chapter of the eBook into a podcast via iTunes. Podcasts increase your authority, drive traffic to your site, and warm up listeners to your offer.

17. Use the eBook to create a slideshow or screen capture video. Use the video to market your product or service on video sharing sites like YouTube.

18. Read the eBook to create an audio product. Sell it as a digital product, or a preloaded mp3 player. You’ll stand out from your competition.

19. Translate the eBook into another language, and sell it in other countries.

20. When preparing for a media interview, get content from the eBook to build your key messages.

21. Distill the eBook into a special report to either sell or give away.

22. Get the best nuggets of content from the eBook and turn them into Twitter tweets. Add a link to your site or squeeze page.

23. Use the eBook as a reference material when writing a press release.

24. Transform the eBook into a white paper, which explains your product or service to your target market.

25. Bundle the eBook with other eBooks about related topics, to create a comprehensive home study course.

26. Break the eBook content down into group coaching sessions you give through teleconference, teleseminar or webinar format. Charge for the group coaching, or give free access to build your list.

As you can see, an eBook can boost your business in so many ways. If you’ve only been using an eBook as an eBook, you’re missing out. That eBook can be repurposed, transformed, re-targeted and monetized in so many ways. Even a single eBook can do so much for your business.

If you don’t want to write your own eBook or hire a ghostwriter to do it for you, then using PLR content is your answer. PLR is the most affordable and fastest way to get an eBook and other content for your biz.

If you’re in the Mommy market, then you have to check out Mom PLR eBooks. Your monthly subscription gets you one brand-new, professionally written eBook every month, along with everything you need to market it:

- a special report to give away
- a sales letter to sell the eBook
- 5 articles
- 5 blog posts
- 1 squeeze page to build your list of readers interested in the eBook topic
- 6 emails to follow up and promote to your list
- eCovers for the special report and eBook
- 6 promotional banners
- list of affiliate programs related to the topic of the month
- checklists and other guides to help you make the most of your PLR package

Because you have PLR on everything, you can edit, rewrite and transform the content any way you like – and even put your name on it. All the graphics are in PSD format, so you could easily edit those as well.

Can’t wait to try it out? I don’t blame you. Use coupon code “ebookboost” and get your first month membership for only $5. Use it to join Mom PLR eBooks now.

In What Way Can A Blog Be Good For My Business?

It isn’t long after you start your business before you hear people begin to tell you, it’s a good idea to get a blog started. Unfortunately, some times people don’t tell you why or are only able to give you a sketchy idea why. How is blogging why. How is blogging helpful to your business, particularly if the business is offline or when you are a service provider, like a belly dancer who belly dancer who performs at private functions for example.

Here are some ways having a blog could help generate more interest, leads or bookings.

It Exhibits Your Expertise

It is alright to put up videos and pictures on web pages to show others what yo to show others what you can do for them, but I’ll bet you have more and newer videos and snap shots. Also, some orders are unique. These are all good reasons to show off and what better way than to use blog because it is so easy to update. A belly dancer can display videos where a client has requested something unique which forced her to think outside the box and come up with some creative choreography.

It Can Demonstrate How You Will Solve Client Problems

You know the old saying, people buy solutions, not productons, not products or services. You can explain this on a regular web page but on a blog, it all becomes more believable, more tangible.

It Shows You Are Actively Using Your Skills

If you are currently working with clients, any post you make about your job is a good testimonial. It shows that there are people who already trust you to do what you claim you will do. Better still if your customer can contribute to your blog or allow you to quote them.

You Can Get To Know Your Prospects And They Get To Know You

This is true particularly when you offer a service because people usually want to work with others whom they can get along with. Because a blog is interactive, through the comments people can begin to experience you and get a feel of how the company handles their customers.

It Can Help Increase Website Traffic

When you write good, content that is relevant and also promote it, people will take notice. When they do, they are more likely to share it on their own blog and their social networks and even decide to email it to their newsletter subscribers. All good ways to get fresh traffic.

It Can Reduce The Need To Answer Questions Over And Over

There are questions in every business that people tend to ask again and again. Whenever you answer these questions on your blog, you help your prospects out by giving them the information they are seeking, you plant the seed of trust, you add fresh content to your website, stuff that search engines and people alike love. And finally, you reduce your work because now you don’t have to type your answer again and again.

Blogging can be a quite rewarding. The down side is, starting one can be somewhat of a big learning curve if you are pretty new to web publishing or feel you will fare better with technical stuff when you have some help. True, you can hire someone. At the same time, knowing the basics isn’t such a bad thing because it reduces your reliance on others when you need something simple done. You don’t have to go at it alone. There are resources you might want to check out, like the Blogging Starter Pack.
It is like having a tutor to guide you step by step getting your blog up and running.

I just want to totally apologize for the mess this site is right now. I’ve been very busy with updates to another site and unfortunately that makes the updates happen slowly here. I know it hasn’t been pretty in weeks, but it will be

Well our shopping events turned out to just not be enough anymore. Sometimes we just want more! We’d like to introduce our new Open House on Mom Chats. We have a two day shopping and chatting session starting tomorrow (Thursday May 7) We’ll be chatting about how to use our new audio room, play games, hold free classes, and of course…SHOP!!!

Join us at the Open House TOMORROW and FRIDAY; May 7 and 8. We have a lot of new things to unveil during this event, but even more planned for the future of Mom Chats.

Check out the schedule for some fun times with other Moms.

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 that many consultants also offer extra specials to attendees. You won’t want to miss out on those, or the prizes!

MomChats Shopping Event Schedule

4:30-5:00 – Come a little early for the Meet & Greet!

5:00-5:45 – Lia Sophia – Melinda Pitman

5:45-6:30 – Partylite – stacey harms

6:30-7:15 – Sensaria – Monica Hubinette

7:15-8:00 – Mary Kay – Kelli Caltabilotta
8:00-8:45 – Votre Vu – Lisa D’Astuto

8:45-9:30 – Just Jewelry – Dawn Lalli

9:30-10:15 – Thirty-One – Amy Lachance

Specials direct from Mom Chats owners

Mineralicious! – Val Selby – 10% off our newest product, the stickabuki. The Color of the Month is Goddess! Goddess is a rich, deep gemtone purple….the perfect shade for the goddess in all of us. Color of the month is always 10% off, a new shade is chosen each month to help build your collection. Looking for some free products? Free with your $30 purchase – My Favorite Things Collection! No coupon necessarily, just add it to your cart when you reach $30.

The Shoppes at Mom’s Online Retreat
In the Home Spa Shoppe our Featured Special is our Energizing Pedicure Spa Package ($25.00 w/ free Priority Mail shipping!) Get your feet ready for summer with this energizing soak, scrub and moisturizing spa pack. All products are hand-made by The Scented Tub. Our Candle Shoppe features the highly scented hand-poured soy candles of Prairie Soy Candles. With over 60 scents to choose from you’re sure to find the perfect candle for any occasion.

Top Ten Tips for Networking

I firmly believe in the power of networking as I have seen first hand how this has helped me grow professionally and personally. You need to be consistent with your networking efforts and this holds true for both online and offline networking.

There are a few basic tips you should remember when it comes to networking and they are as follows:

1. Networking is not about selling your business or products to everyone you meet.

2. Don’t come on too strong the first time you meet new people.

3. Share about yourself, not just your business. “People do business with people they trust and people they have gotten to know.”

4. Ask people what they do and invite them to share about themselves and their business.

5. Listen more than you talk and ask questions that will get people talking — not just a yes or no answer.

6. Make notes on things people have that might be useful to yourself or others.
*tip* I keep index cards on business contacts in a file box. I will write down information about this business contact on the index cards.

7. Find common ground with the person you’re getting to know. “People do business with people just like them.”

8. If asked what you do don’t give someone a long sales pitch. Keep it short and informative. If they want to know more they will ask.

9. Always tell the person you were talking with it was a pleasure meeting them and ask if it is ok if you add them to your contact
list.

10. Ask for their business card — that way you can be sure that there will be follow up. You can exchange cards if you wish but always get their card or if online, their email or IM name. Ask permission to contact them again.

Shelly Hill ~ Tupperware Manager
Contact Shelly at Ravish30@my.tupperware.com
Web: http://my.tupperware.com/Ravish30
Recipe Blog: http://wahmshelly.blogspot.com

As some of you may know I am co-owner of <a href=”http://momchats.com”>Mom Chats</a> which is all about Moms.  Free chatrooms and much more if you are there to talk about or to Moms.  A big part of our site is Online Parties.  In the 4 years we’ve had the site up we’ve heard a lot from people new to the online world that wanted to be more comfortable with their first parties and start off right.

Taking our online party class is the way to do that.  You can check out the many benefits of signing up for this class and some things you will learn.  This goes way beyond the ebook you can purchase.  This is many tips we’ve learned over the years that will step up your party.

Shopping at home is so much more economical. You don’t need a sitter to really shop out the good deals. You don’t end up with extra things in your cart the kids put in there. You can shop for yourself AND get a great deal. Oh then there is the added benefit of booking a party with a rep and earning free stuff.

Check out the companies and reps we have joining us. To see their specials visit our Schedule page.

When: Thursday, March. 19, 2009
Where: Vendor Fair chat room
Time: 5:00 – 10:15pm EST (3:00 CST/2:00 MST/1:00 PST)

MomChats Shopping Event Schedule

4:30-5:00 – Come a little early for the Meet & Greet!

5:00-5:45 – Pampered Chef – Patti Neslusan

5:45-6:30 – Scentsy – Kenneth & Didget

6:30-7:15 – Inspiranza Designs – Jennifer Stoll

7:15-8:00 – Thirty-One – Rebecca Sprouse

8:00-8:45 – MonaVie – Michael McCrackan

8:45-9:30 – Kelly’s Kids – Tina McKenna

9:30-10:15 – Taken