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Working From Home During Christmas Holidays In California!

Hello To All The Work From Home Women,

How are you doing working from home during this Christmas holiday season?  Are you taking time to enjoy this time with your family, friends or for yourself?  Don’t forget to celebrate and create memories during this time along with continuing to work your business!

While going to parties and gathering with family and friends don’t forget to casually mention your industry in some manner.  You never know who is looking for a health program,  needing dental care, looking to purchase jewelry, seeking to find a home based business, etc.  I think you realize what I am getting at!

So, have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the celebrating along with building a great business!

Beverly Blankenship

http://health-discount-cards-sacramento.com

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Repurposing Social Media Content

Hello Business Women,

Certainly hope your home based business or brick and mortar business is showing good profits during the month of August.  Which ever business type you have it is very important to stay abreast of social media marketing!

I was reading a post by Hilary Brooks, “Repurposing Content: It Works For Social Media Too!”  She shares great information on repurposing content.  Below is an excerpt from her post:

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As women in business, we are always “on”… and with social media it’s no different. Between LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, the newcomer Google+, and our blogs, we are sharing massive amounts of information on a regular basis.

But how do we make it work for us even more? Repurpose it.

http://www.womenonbusiness.com/repurposing-content-it-works-for-social-media-too

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Be sure to visit Hilary’s blog and make a comment!

Hope this will be a benefit to each of you business ladies!

Until next post,

Beverly Blankenship

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How Successful Thinkers Can Help You Build Your Home Based Business!

Hello Business Women,

How are you on this first day of June 2011?  Do you have some new networking ideas to start the month off with?  How about different networking groups in your area that are established or maybe just step out and start a like minded group!  I am an ambassador with Successful Thinkers Meet Up Group.  There are approximately 200 groups nationwide and more starting up.  I am going to share some information from Successful Thinkers website below.

http://mySuccessfulThinkers.com/bizladyca

Successful Thinkers was founded by Jim Bellacera for networkers to have a place to network without having to pay fees!!!  What a concept!!!

High-Tech meets High-Touch
Successful Thinkers is a new, dynamic concept for individuals who want to be successful in every aspect of their livesWhat makes Successful Thinkers truly unique is that it incorporates the best of technology; Internet, multi-media and the like with the best of personal, face-to-face interaction.
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This high-tech, high-touch scenario enables members to fully experience and implement a well-rounded approach to promoting themselves and their business utilizing cutting-edge technology trends and time-tested relationship building techniques.  More importantly, this high-tech, high-touch approach creates an interactive environment where members can experience success for themselves “in the field” rather than just learning about it.
If you don’t have a chapter in your area, visit the website above, become an online member, ambassador and start a group!  Pay it forward and build your business by helping others!
If I can be of help in you getting a chapter started please contact me by visiting http://www.formerbrokemom.com
Have a great month of success,
Beverly Blankenship

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How To Advertise Free Online

Good Morning Women In Business!

Trusting you had a great weekend and ready to learn how to advertise for free online!

We have been learning how to market online with blogs, articles, and different social media sites to grow your home based business.  So, today I want to share how to advertise for free and give you a few online advertising sites.

You can do a search online for “Free Advertising Sites” and post your item or business opportunity.  It would be good to go to http://www.alexa.com and see how the advertising site is rated and if it would be worth your time to use that site.  When you post the ad be sure to stumble it at  http://www.stumbleupon.com to send it across the internet.

Watch this video with Dale Calvert on learning to write ad copy for the ads you want to post!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRO9RpEVpuY&feature=related

http://www.slideshare.net/dalecalvert

Here are a few sites to get you started:

http://www.craigslist.org

http://www.adlandpro.com

http://www.kijiji.com

http://www.backpage.com

http://www.oodle.com

http://www.adpost.com

http://www.inetgiant.com

http://www.epage.com

http://www.salespider.com

Be sure to use your keywords in the ad title as well in the ad.  Also, renew the ad when it expires because the more your information is seen the more exposure you are getting!

Hoping this will help grow your business.  Be sure to visit my website and get the free ebook!

Have a great week,

Beverly Blankenship

http://www.momssuccessfulbiz.com

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Why Blog And How!

Hi,

Hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of April and getting into business activity with Spring!

Wanted to publish some information on blogging especially for people who may not know how yet or just need some help in getting started.

Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.

However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything but just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.

With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.

Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.

Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.

Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.

Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life.

From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.

So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.

Here’s how:

1. Consider your audience

Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.

After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard” (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.

2. Pictures speaks a thousand words

To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.

3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs

Even if you are free to write anything you want to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.

After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.

4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs

In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.

Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.

5. Make it interactive

As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. You can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.

You can even place an area for comments or for some feed backs. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.

Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.
Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it.

As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.

Be sure to visit: http://www.momssuccessfulbiz.com and request the free ebook on Social Media Marketing

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Simplicity and Duplicity in Networking MLM

Hello To All My Women Biz Friends,

Are you enjoying working your MLM business in this new month of March?  I wanted to post some basics of network marketing today because there may be those who don’t realize some of this information!

After reading the post visit the website and request the free ebook to help you in building your business.

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Ask some of the more successful MLM marketers and they will tell you that the key factor in networking MLM is simplicity.

Networking MLM is a very simple business. But keeping it simple does not mean that hard work is not involved. One of the common mistakes is that people try to make it complicated.

Even if a complex system achieved great results for you, others will find it difficult to copy. In networking MLM, personal success is not your greatest asset.

Your greatest asset is having a system that guarantees the success of everyone using it. The success of others, and your success, is dependant upon their ability to do the same things you do. Keep the least experienced of those in your network in mind when you set up a system of doing things for your organization to follow.

Everything you do must be simple enough so that everyone can quickly duplicate your efforts and achieve the same phenomenal results as you.

In MLM networking, you should not do things that require special skills, resources which are available only to you or to a limited number of people. Open up your business to a much larger pool of people who can become successful.
You need to build your network as quickly as possible. You can only meet with a few people each day and can personally close even fewer sales.

But using an MLM networking strategy, you can help others quickly learn to do the same simple things as you. When they do, they multiply your efforts.

Go for the same phenomenal results. This is quality duplication. Each person in your MLM networking, from top to bottom, must be able to exactly duplicate what you are doing and be able to teach others to do exactly the same thing. How large a sales team you can build depends on how well it is duplicated.

To ensure duplication, you need a system or processes that anybody and everybody can follow and teach. You cannot duplicate a person but you can duplicate a system.

In building a successful and long-term network, the MLM networking system must rule. Remember a system is only as good as it is duplicated.

The more complex a system, the less likely quality duplication will be achieved. To make sure you duplicate well, follow the System you are provided with religiously. There is no perfect system and your time is better spent perfecting your ability to duplicate it rather than perfecting a system.

Take this example. Ray Krocs, the founder of MacDonald’s cannot be duplicated but the MacDonald’s franchise system can be and is, to almost 100% perfection in  outlets worldwide.

Keeping it simple. To ensure you do things that your distributor can learn from and duplicate.

Is what I am doing easily duplicable?
Is it simple enough to be duplicated? Keep asking yourself this same questions and if you answer “yes” at least 75 % of the time, you are on the right track.

The most successful people in MLM networking business understand that everything must be kept simple in order to grow your business. Show others how simple it is to do what you do. They need to see you do it, and then believe it is simple enough for them to quickly duplicate to achieve the same good results in your MLM networking.

http://www.momssuccessfulbiz.com

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Networking Offline and Passive Marketing Locally

Hello to Everyone,

I have been sharing a lot lately about online marketing, social media marketing, etc. but today I will share regarding passive marketing.

There are a lot of net workers who just haven’t gotten the hang of internet marketing or don’t feel comfortable being online.  So, today, we will look at passive marketing in the local area.

I built my business by networking locally and doing a lot of passive marketing.  For those of you who may not know what passive marketing is – - when you leave a trail of fliers, business cards, etc. with your business information in different locations without really talking to people.  Also, you can tell a clerk, etc. you would like to give them one of your cards to share with others.  This creates curiosity causing that individual to look at your business.

There are many ways to be creative with what you hand out, post on bulletin boards, etc.  I am going to list a few ideas below that hopefully you will find helpful and fun in marketing in your local area or when you might be traveling!

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#1. Take a small zip close baggie (snack sizes work well) and include the following in it:

Your Business Card, Business Oppty Mini Flyer, a Piece of Candy such as hard candy or a lollipop, mini flyer of current host specials, discount coupon (optional) etc.

Hand these out to the bank tellers, retail cashiers, at your kids sport events, every where you go!

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2. Daycare Centers! They are excellent to contact and leave business cards and/or fliers at!

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#3. Network with others in your community who are in home business. Find out what events and activities that they participate in. They are usually “in the know” and can help you get started in networking in your community.

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4. Wear a business name tag every time you go out into your community! Get a Catchy Slogan printed on it such as:

A. Ask me about (your company name) Products!

B. I work from home, you can too!

C. Earn some FREE when you party with me!

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#5. Get some Business Card Magnets printed up and hand them out every where you go! Have your friends & family pass them out too!  ( Visit: http://www.vistaprint.com)

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#6. Get a Yard Sign! If you have a home business consider getting a Yard Sign printed up and proudly display it in your front yard!   (Visit:  http://www.vistaprint.com)

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#7. Exchange Business Cards, Fliers or Coupons with another Home Party Consultant in a NON-Competing Business and place her filler in your bags & outgoing packages & have her do the same for you! Sort of “scratching each others backs”.

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#8. When you travel take numerous catalogs, flyers, business cards etc. with you when you pack for your trip. Make up a separate tote bag just for these items. Leave you catalogs, flyers and business cards ever where you go while on your trip.

ie. back of train seats, back of airplane seats, hotel lobbies, restaurants, sporting events, etc…where-ever. This is a great way to target non-local customers and interest in your business.

I believe these 8 ideas will help you get started marketing successfully in the local market.  Do an internet search for local marketing ideas and you will be amazed at all that is shared.

http://www.formerbrokemom.com

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How To Find Free Article Writing Information!

Hi Ladies,

As you know, I enjoy helping you to find ways to succeed in your home based business by marketing online and offline.  One of the ways you can market online is by writing articles and publishing them in Free article directories online!  I have been asked by different business owners how do you write articles, publish articles and what is PLR articles.  Well, the easiest way to do articles I think is to buy PLR articles and make them your own by changing certain information and creating your personal resource box.

Below you can visit my website and request the free ebook.  In the ebook you will find article writing and information on where to buy PLR articles at very reasonable prices from reputable authors.

http://www.formerbrokemom.com

Have a great time with the ebook and become more successful in your online marketing!

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Internet Marketing Tools

Dear Internet Marketing Business Women,

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Visit my website below and request the free ebook on Social Media marketing:

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The Difference Between A Home Based Business And A Home Based JOB!

Hi To Everyone,

In this economy today people are looking at how to create extra income or Just Income Period!  Thousands of people are online filling out forms to work from home and the owners of these capture pages are selling this info. to people like you and me.  So, when we call these leads a lot of the people are strictly looking for work and a paycheck.  They are not understanding exactly what work  from home means when they fill out the form.

With that said, I wanted to share one of my articles below.  Maybe you can use some of this info. when talking to a prospect.

When people say they “want to work from home” that can mean a lot of different things. For some people they simply mean they would like to do that job they do now… from home. Many employers across the country offer work at home programs that will allow you to do the very same job you would be doing sitting at your office at work from home.

However if that isn’t an option for you and your job you’ll have to find another way to make money from home.

The first thing you’ll have to do when trying to find something to do from home is decide if you want a home based BUSINESS or a home based JOB and believe it or not they are two very different things.

A home based business is exactly what it sounds like… it is a business. You are the boss and you are in control of everything. When you own your own home based business you will be able to set your own hours, set your own goals or quotas and best of all be able to give yourself a raise whenever you want.

A home based job is exactly like a job… just from home. You will still have a boss, you’ll still have a workload given to you and you’ll have a set amount of time to do it in. The boss will also decide how much you deserve to get paid and worst of all you can still get fired.

If you are looking for a home based job you might want to stop right here because this article probably isn’t going to help you. If it’s a home based business that you seek you may have just found what you’re looking for.

There are about a million different options when it comes to finding the right home based business for you. So many that it can actually be a little overwhelming. One of the first things you’ll want to think about is price. Now that you’ve decided the freedom and lifestyle of a business is right for you you WILL have to invest some money.

That is a key difference between owning a business and having a job. Whenever people tell me they don’t want to invest any money in their business I know it’s not really a business they are seeking… it’s a job.  It’s true that a job WILL allow you to save some money but it will never allow you the freedom that you’ll find by owning your own business.

Once you have a good idea of how much you’ll be willing to invest you’ll want to start thinking about the type of product you’d like to sell or market. There are a lot of great products out there that you can market from home and the choice is totally up to you but you will want to make sure it’s a product that has quality and it’s something that you are going to feel comfortable marketing… something you can get excited about.

I hope that this article has given you some idea of what you are looking for. If it’s a home based job you seek I wish you the best of luck in finding what you’re looking for. If however, you decide that you want the incredible lifestyle that a home based business affords you start by getting some information about owning your own business today.

Working from home is an incredible lifestyle… let’s hope you get to live it very soon!

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http://www.formerbrokemom.com

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