Interview with Sophia McIntyre of Work At Home Space
This week, I had the opportunity to chat with Sophia McIntyre of Work At Home Space and Healthy Perspectives.
WAHM-Articles: Hi Sophia. Thank you for visiting the WAHM-Articles Blog. First of all, can you tell us about your business?
Sophia McIntyre: Hi Denise. Thank you for having me here.
I own the website Work At Home Space. It’s a free resource for anyone looking to work from home. I offer a list of reputable work at home companies who hire telecommuters. I also offer unresearched daily job leads, business articles and information, free ebooks, health and wellness articles, home businesses and other work at home related topics. Plus, I have a growing forum with tons of resources.
W-A: How does your business help moms?
Sophia: I’m always seeking knowledge on things I’m not quite familiar with and I take what I know and my experiences and share them with others hopefully to prevent them from not making the same mistakes I did. I consider my business a stepping stone in guiding people in the right direction.
W-A: How did you get started working from home?
Sophia: I started online in late 2002 when I came across an ad typing program. At that time I had no idea there were such thngs as work at home forums let alone know that one should never pay for training material fees. Luckily for me I didn’t lose out, but it was a turning point for me when the company went belly up.
W-A: If a mom wants to work from home, what choices does she have?
Sophia: She has a lot of choices. It will depend on what she wants to do and what kind of income she wants to bring in. There are many different options to explore from working for an employer as a customer service rep for example, owning her own home business, affiliate marketing, writing, blogging or freelancing.
W-A: How can participating in a community forum help moms work from home?
Sophia: Community forums are invaluable tools. Not only are they loaded with resources on working at home, but you can get first hand information from the members who are doing it and can share their experiences and knowledge. It’s a great place to network because you are meeting people from all over the world with different interests and backgrounds.
W-A: You also own a blog called Healthy Perspectives. Can you tell us about your blog?
Sophia: Healthy Perspectives features an array of health topics, nutrition, recipes and fitness for maintaining an overall healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.*
W-A: What inspired you to create Healthy Perspectives?
Sophia: My love and thirst for knowledge in the health and wellness industry. I love reading how foods good and bad can benefit us in a healthy way. I’m amazed on all the information I have found during my research that not only it tastes good, but how it can prevent this or why it’s important to eat that. There are a multitude of illnesses I’ve never heard of and they are popping up everywhere so I like to be informed.
W-A: Every online business owner struggles to get traffic to her site. What have you done to promote traffic to your website and your blog?
Sophia: Forum networking and signature advertising are my best advertising methods thus far. Not long ago, I started writing more articles and I’m slowly starting to see results. I also guest author on a work at home blog that has given me a bit more exposure to my website. For my blog, I mainly do link exchanging with other health related blogs and I also joined BlogRush which has spiked my traffic a bit.
W-A: How has writing and submitting articles helped your business?
Sophia: I haven’t written many articles, but lately the last few I have written and submitted have slowly given me some results.
W-A: Where do you get ideas for the articles you write?
Sophia: Some of my articles have been from personal experiences, some from articles in magazines I have read or tidbit of news I’ve heard from the radio. The others come from forums. Like I said, forums are invaluable in many ways. It’s a place to learn, share, gather information and ideas.
W-A: Do you have any words of wisdom to share with someone who’s thinking about
working from home too?
Sophia: Patience, persistence, consistency, perseverance, research and love what you do.
W-A: Thanks for your time Sophia! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas, and wish you success in 2008.
Several of Sophia’s articles are published at WAHM-Articles.com, and they offer invaluable advice for starting and marketing your home based business. You can also visit Sophia at her website http://www.workathomespace.com/ or her blog http://healthyperspectives.blogspot.com/
