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Promote Your WAHM Business With Internet Social Networking
When you start your WAHM business, please do not only focus on the operation of the business but pay attention to the marketing too. Internet social networking is an excellent and free tool to market your products or services online and to grow your list of potential clients or customers. You need to connect with them and earn their trust gradually. Through internet social networking, you gain friends, clients and possibly future business partners as well. Potential clients can communicate with you in person and this may increase their trusts in your business. You can also learn from other home based working moms and possibly build relationship and joint venture with some of them.
There are plenty of internet social networking sites to join these days, my advice is to be selective. The 3 most popular internet social networking sites which can benefit your WAHM business and increase your network with moms and home based working moms are:
Facebook has many applications and some can benefit your WAHM business. Marketplace, group, fans page, networked blog are among applications which you can use to promote your business to moms and to network with other home based working moms. If you are selling physical products, you can use Marketplace and publish what you sell through your network of people within Facebook. Creating your own group or fans page is a good idea to bring in potential customers and broadcast your message. If you have a business blog, do set up a networked blog to broadcast your latest post automatically.
Twitter is quite different from Facebook where members “tweet” to each other. To tweet is to send messages up to 140 characters. Through Twitter, you get to know others from their tweets. Your tweet may appeal to some potential customers which may attract them to follow you. You can send messages to your followers personally, create a list or join other members list.
Lindkedin is internet social networking site for professionals and business people. Groups or Jobs are the applications within Linkedin. You can start by joining groups of your interest and network with the people within the group. If you are home based working moms, you should look for specific moms group to interact with them.
You may eventually find internet social networking spices up your social life and benefits your WAHM business. Please note that your intention is to socialize with moms or to network with home based working moms. Do not sell hard your products or services. Friends get to know you in person and they will find out about your WAHM business. Position yourself as an expert, be friendly and genuine to your friends network. They are the keys to successful internet social networking. Please find out more about wahm resources from http://resourcesformomsandkids.com
Viviana W shares her journey as a WAHN=M and writes parenting tips from her blog, http://resourcesformomsandkids.com
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Tick Tock Mousing Around The Clock
Being a work at home mom has so many benefits. Most of us are able to work on our own schedules but what can be a blessing can also be a headache. You might be busy working away on your home business but in the back of your mind the unfolded laundry is nagging at you, the dog walks by and you think WOW it’s been awhile since he’s had a bath.
Managing your time is one of the most important things to do in your wahm life. Over the years I’ve come up with several ways that I keep on task whether it’s working on my home business or doing dishes.
Here’s my wahm list of tips for managing my time:
1. Make a list of things to do. I like to keep a spiral notebook, at the top of each page I put the day and date. I like to do mine for a month at a time this way if I schedule a doctor appointment or a teacher conferenece I have a place they will be remembered.
2. Make a housekeeping schedule. I personally like to spend two hours on my house cleaning in the morning before I get to work just so I don’t have dirty dishes pestering me when I’m trying to concentrate on my work.
3. Time blocking is another method that is very helpful. I like to use the timer on my microwave and set it for an hour at a time so that I don’t get lost in cyberspace.
4. Finding another wahm buddy to keep you on task. I have a work at home mom friend that I met online. While we have never met in person we talk on the phone almost daily. We’ll chat for a bit and then go set our timers to get busy. We then do a follow up call to hold each other accountable.
5. Working at home with young children can be another challenge altogether. The whole point of working at home is to be more available to them. Working while they take a nap is best but at times when that isn’t feasible I use to set them up with toys around my desk. For night owls like myself it’s easy to put in a couple of hours after they go to bed.
I’d like to hear your tips for how you manage your wahm time. Please leave a comment and share with other readers.
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