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As a work at home mom I’m sure you’re always looking for resources just like I am. Resources help make being a work at home mom successful. Depending on your needs and wants you may need more than one site, but often times it’s easier when you can go to one site for all of your needs.

In doing some research online I recently ran across a website that contains a ton of information and may just be the ultimate site any WAHM needs. The site is wahmresourcesite.com and it’s one you should definitely check out for yourself. I have bookmarked it and plan to visit it regularly.

This site has a resource site directory, articles, tips, work at home job lists, giveaways, and so much more. If your target market happens to be WAHM’s, you’ll want to check out their directory ad space.

Once you visit this site, I’m sure you’ll book mark it and visit it on a regular basis. I know I have and will continue to visit looking for new and valuable information that’s sure to help me reach success.

So make sure you visit wahmresourcesite.com and see how this site can help you and your family. I just know you’ll be happy you did when you see all of the resources placed on the site for you to see and take advantage.

As a Work at Home Mom I know how important it is to have all of the resources I need in one location. I want to have one place where I can learn and get what I need. I have found a place to make that happen. That place is the WAHMZone.

The WAHMZone offers WAHM services, learning information, a place to advertise, and so much more. They have everything I need and so much more. I visit this site on a regular basis and it’s perfect for what I need.

If you have found you continually go to numerous different places to get everything you need, you should consider visiting WAHMZone. Once you’ve been there a few times you’ll see the value of the site and you’ll bookmark it like I did.

As a WAHM you know how important it is to save money whenever possible. When you do this, you’ll be able to live comfortably and have the ability to continue to stay at home. There are a lot of resources out there to help you make this happen, so the best thing to do is search to see what you find and then use them as much as possible.

A lot of communities have 2nd hand stores that are perfect for clothing. Shopping garage sales during the summer is another way to purchase clothing. If you have multiple children, boxing up clothes that are outgrown is another way to save money on clothes.

The one resource that I have found very helpful is coupon sites. The one I use the most is www.afullcup.com. I have the ability to search for coupons that are for things on my grocery list. I create a shopping list for meals based on what we want to have and things we have at home. Then I go to that site and print coupons based on those things. Coupons are a great way to save money on things you need to purchase so you have food to eat.

This website is very valuable to WAHM’s as it gives you the ability to save a lot of money. Money you can spend on other bills so you can continue to work from home and support your family. If you use this coupon site or any others, please share this information with us.

Do you have those days where you feel like you haven’t made any steps in the right direction? Or worse yet, you’ve worked all day juggling your family and business but you aren’t even sure what direction you’re moving?

Get out of that stuck, frustrated place with these three key tools every work at home mom needs: her mission, her goals, and her plan.

Mission

What’s your personal mission? At the risk of sounding like a corporate team-building brochure or church-planting book, you’ve got to have a mission statement!

If you had to sum up in one sentence your mission as a mother, how would you do it? How would you define your mission for yourself as an entrepreneur?

When you clearly define your mission in different areas of your life it will make all of the little decisions easier. Keeping that big picture in mind is the key to creating productive days.

Goals

Once you know your mission, the next tool you need to have is your goals. Define both short-term and long-term goals.

Short-term goals will help you to identify your next action step and move forward consistently. By setting short-term goals you’re able to celebrate successes and stay motivated.

Long-term goals will help you pull yourself through short-term failures by reminding you of the big picture.

Plan

How do you get to your goals? With a plan! Each goal you want to achieve can be reached by breaking it down into little steps to take action on.

With these three tools working together, your plans will help you achieve your goals, and your goals will help you focus on your mission — success!

“Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.” -Ryan Allis

P.S. You can get a free goal setting worksheet along with other helpful resources for your home based business here.

When you first start your review site, it can be easy to get caught up in accepting any and all reviews that come your way. Sadly, many reviewers find that certain products just will not work for their site and they then find themselves in the uncomfortable position of not having a lot of entrants for the review and giveaway. There are a few things you can do to make sure that you are choosing the proper things for your site.

* Make sure you know who your followers are. One easy way you can do this would be setting up a Facebook business page for your review site. Within that, Facebook tracks your stats on your followers. You can get their ages and whether they have kids and other info. This will really help you in figuring out if something would work or not.

* Set up a Survey on your blog to see what type of products your followers are looking for. Just ask and they will tell you.

* Is the product something you personally would enter and use? If not, chances are that many of your followers would think the same thing.

* Is the product timely in the marketplace? Are you reviewing a gift item at the proper time for that item to be a gift? Halloween goods at Christmas won’t help you much.

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When you make a purchase, more times than not you’re looking for a product someone else has told you about or you’ve read it online or in a magazine. You want to make sure the product you are considering will do what you want to do and you’ll want to make sure it will last as long as you want. This is why it’s a good idea to read product reviews on the product you’re considering.

As a Work at Home Mom, I trust other Work at Home Mom’s and I value their opinions. This is why I look for reviews from these fellow mom’s. I have found a site that is perfect for reviews of all sorts. That site is Two Classy Chics and it’s owned by Shelly Hill and Chris Carroll.

Not only will you see great product reviews, but you’ll also find giveaway’s as well. What better way to try a new item than to win that item in a drawing. Two Classy Chics gives you that awesome chance with a lot of their blog posts.

So if you’re looking for a way save money while learning about the best products around, you need to connect with These Two chicks and see what you can do. Click here to see a complete list of the products they might be giving away.

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Here are seven of the plugins I consider essential for any WordPress website I setup. These can help your WordPress site be more secure, more search engine friendly, easier to deal with, and more engaging for your visitors.

To find these plugins, login to your WordPress administrative area, click “Plugins” on the left menu, then click “Add New.” You’ll see a page with a search box you can type the plugin name into and then install the plugin.

Akismet: Blog spam is out of control and can be overwhelming if you have to delete it all yourself. Let Akismet deal with it for you instead.

All in One SEO Pack: This is a great plugin to help make WordPress more search engine friendly. It gives you more control over various elements on your pages.

TinyMCE Advanced: The default editor in WordPress has an extremely annoying habit of removing line breaks and spaces. It also doesn’t allow an easy way to change the font. This plugin fixes those problems.

WP Security Scan: Make your WordPress site more secure with this plugin. It scans for common vulnerabilities and things you can change to keep your site safer from hackers.

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This week, Karri Flatla of the Alpha WAHM Blueprint stopped by to answer some of my questions about becoming an Alpha WAHM… and to explain what a work-at-home mom needs with a blueprint anyway. I think you’ll feel inspired by what Karri had to say, and hopefully you’ll start thinking about how having a blueprint can benefit your own work-at-home life too.

Please do remember to leave a comment at the end of the post. For one thing, I would really like to know what you think about this particular topic.

PLUS you’ll be entered in Karri’s Comment Contest and could be the lucky winner of her popular digital compilation 99 Tips & Aha Moments to Grow Your Online Business (Rocket Science Not Included.)

WAHM-Articles: How can having a “blueprint” help a work-at-home-mom? Is this different than a business plan?

Karri: The Alpha WAHM Blueprint is very different than a business plan, and in the book I recommend getting clear on your personal blueprint BEFORE you write a business plan. That said, if you’ve already written a business plan, or the one you have is outdated, this “blueprinting” process is still critical to your long term success as a business owner.

A business plan lays out the nuts and bolts of running and growing your business. It’s very “left brain” if you will. However, a blueprint forces you to dig deep and understand WHY you want to have a business and WHAT you want it to bring to your life (and the lives of your loved ones).

Without teasing apart the different aspects of your vision and purpose, even the best laid “plans” will fail to provide any real value to you as an entrepreneur who is bound to face difficult decisions along the way. You need a compass, not a to-do list!

So a business plan tells you what to do, and a blueprint tells you why you’re doing it in the first place (and if it’s even the right thing at all!).

WAHM-Articles: You call your book an “empowerment guide for work-at-home-moms.” Why do work-at-home moms need to feel empowered? What do you believe we are lacking?

Karri: We need empowerment more than ever now. Working moms today have very few role models that make any sense for the realities they face here and now. Modern moms who also have paying careers are expected to be and do EVERYTHING for their families. On the one hand, we’re supposed to keep a beautiful, perfectly groomed home, dedicate our full attention to our children no matter what our own needs are, and look fabulous doing it.

On the other hand, we’re educated, we’ve earned our own incomes prior to getting married and having children, and we know what it means to have something (a life) to call our own.

Experts tell us it’s about work-life balance. In Alpha WAHM Blueprint, I passionately disagree with this sentiment. In fact, I ask women to let the notion go completely. Instead, let’s shoot for something more meaningful—like a true integration of work, love, passion, family … all of it. The modern work-at-home mom wants synergy, not separation. She also wants to stop feeling like she has to be perfect and instead can just focus on what brings her the most meaning and joy. If that means the kids don’t get as many home cooked meals or mommy-made crafts, so what?

Kids—and their dads—want mom to be happy. That is all your family really needs. The media and societal norms have construed it to be more complicated than that, but it’s not.

WAHM-Articles: Karri, you managed to write this book while being a mom to two little boys and running a successful web marketing business. How do you keep yourself motivated to grow and develop your business?

Karri: I’m as human as anyone else on this journey. That means some days I feel like packing it all in and just baking some cookies for my kids. But then I remember why I started doing this in the first place (and that I don’t like working in the kitchen much!). I am doing this because I want—with all my heart and soul—a life designed by ME and my family, not “the boss” or some corporation’s idea of work-life balance.

This is why having a personal blueprint is so important. It provides you not only a sense of deep purpose and meaning, but it serves as a reminder when things aren’t looking so hot in your business. When you stay connected to the real you—to the truth you’re striving to live each day—very little can stop you from achieving your work-at-home dreams.

Thank you so much for visiting WAHM-Articles, Karri!

If you want to learn more about getting empowered and creating your own personal blueprint, you may want to check out Karri’s book, Alpha WAHM Blueprint.

Please remember to comment below to enter Karri’s Comment Contest. Do you think having a blueprint would benefit your business? Have something else to add? We’d love to hear from you!

It’s Free Book Friday, but this week, instead of telling you about another free book you should read, I want to tell you about the free book you need to WRITE!

When I talk to online business owners about their traffic and sales, a lot of them seem to think a new visitor will become a customer the first time they click through to the sales page,. But – unfortunately for them – that’s usually not the case. More often, a new visitor will need to visit you or hear from you several times before they’re ready to make that first purchase.

One way to help build that relationship, and keep that new visitor coming back, is by offering a first-timer a free ebook or report in exchange for their email address.

While most first-time visitors won‚Äôt buy from you immediately, there’s a good chance they will leave you their email address in exchange for a report or ebook. Then you can follow up with them and let them know about your products and services, and new additions to your site.

For this strategy to work well, it’s vital that you understand what is valuable to your target market. Do your research and offer a freebie they can’t refuse.

If you don’t like to write, or dont have the time to create a free product to give away, consider outsourcing your content to a ghostwriter. WAHM Articles offers a writing service that creates WAHM ebooks and content for you Рfrom start to finish.

Here’s the link to our ghostwriting services and testimonials from some of our clients.

I just wrote a short post about how my daughter Cassidy likes to bake, and I encouraged moms who enjoy cooking with their kids to write a few articles with their ideas.

If you’re a mom whose looking for ideas of how to cook with your kids, you might like to take a look at the many recipes and cooking ideas already published at WAHM Articles. You’ll find plenty of of child-friendly ideas, and adult favorites too.