Looking for ways to establish your blog, perhaps even earn money?

Looking for ways to establish your blogs, bring in more traffic and gain loyal followers or earn money. Take it from me, an amateur not long ago, these are tips and suggestions I have learned and applied.  And since applying the below suggestions, I have increased my blog presence in just the past few months.

• AdSense - Whether it be placement of google ads, search boxes or the like.
  
• Product Reviews -  Review products to help attract sponsors and in the process you not only help out the company, but you received free products as well.
  
• Giveaways - This is something I hear a great deal about, but have yet to to apply this one, but I am contemplating this one too, as it brings in a high traffic volume to your blog.
  
• Ads - Sell space for ads.
  
• Affiliates -  Earn money from affiliate marketing by placing ads such as amazon.com ads on your blog.  For every item sold through your blog ad, you are paid a small percentage of the profit.
  
• Follow/Followers -  Follow other blogs, get to know them.  Because follow and be followed.  It's called networking. Same goes for commenting. 
  
• Vlogs - Make a vlog, they are more personable, they help you to connect with your audience and help promote your blog.
  
• Social Networking Sites (ie Facebook and Twitter) Help to promote and gain loyal followers, as well as attract sponsors.  Basically, social networking is free advertisement.
  
  Before a few short months ago, I had no followers, no comments, no re tweets and my AdSense balance was around .50 a month. Now my AdSense monthly balance has more than tripled to earning somewhere in the neighborhood of about 2.50 and more a month now. And again, this has taken place just within the last few months, so imagine what it could be this time next year if I continue to learn and grow my blogs. The sky could be the limit for me, and it could be for you too!
  
  
  

Ideas to Work-At-Home

Need ideas to work from home?  I actually work 3 out of 4 of the below areas.  Affiliate Marketing, as an Independent Contractor and Freelance.   You might also be interested in working in any of these four areas or all.

Direct Sales - Arbonne, AVON, Mary Kay, Tupperware, Amway
Affiliate Marketing - Monet Minerals, Country Charm Scents, Teaporia, Spa Girl Gourmet,
Independent Contractor - Brand Ambassador, Merchandiser, Mystery Shopper, Inventory Specialist
Freelancer - Virtual Assistant, Writer, Blogger, Social Media, Photography

These are just a few ideas listed above, but is a nice place to start.  There are tons more similar ideas.  Just use the google search engine above to search for more.

5 Traits Needed to Blog at Home

1. Creativity - You have to come up with ideas and usually on a rather frequent basis, so creativity is a must have.  You need to keep your posts fresh and frequent.
2. Motivation - You must have motivation because when you are at home there can be many distractions such as the kids, your spouse, visits from family and etc.
3. Determination - You will need to be determined in being creative and keeping your motivation to continue to come up with ideas and playing those out.
4. Organization - A must have!  You need to be well organized in your creativity.  Keep your thoughts and ideas down on paper.  Keep your blog(s) organized as to which one to post on next and what to post.
5. Confidence - Is a must have above all else.  If you don't have the confidence in yourself then you certainly won't be successful in writing and maintaing a blog that other's will believe in. 

WAH: Need a place to start?

Want to work from home, but not sure where to start?  Need some ideas?  Well good news!  I have listed some great places to start!  The websites I have listed below are all legitimate businesses and great places to start.  And, I have either researched or directly heard of these businesses.  I am currently a personal affiliate with Monet Minerals and Country Charms Scents and I also work part-time as a *Promotional Event Specialist.  These opportunities work great for me.  You just need to find the right opportunity that works for you.   

In the past, I have also done work as a Virtual Assistant and was an Avon Representative, Beauti Control Cosmetics Consultant and Teaporia Consultant as well.  What am I getting at?  The simple fact that it is not as difficult as you might think and I am here to say, "you can do it too"!  It just takes a little time, patience and effort to get started and establish yourself.  These work great whether you are looking for a part-time opportunity, full-time or even if you are just looking for a hobby or a little extra spending money.  There are tons of options out there it's only a matter of finding them.  But I'm making it easy for you by giving you someplace to start!  A headstart if you will.  So remember time, patience and effort are needed.  With that being said, it's time to become your own boss, happy hunting!


Direct Sales: (Avon, Arbonne Mary Kay Tupperware Lia Sophia Jewelry)
Affiliate Marketing: (Monet Minerals Country Charm Scents Teaporia Spagirl Gourmet Consultant)
Online Jobs: (WAHMS Indeed Virtual Office Temps)
*Marketing/Promotions: (NARMS PromoWorks Advantage Sales & Marketing The Sunflower Group)

Not just WAHMS, but WAHHS as well

Work-at-Home-Moms or as you likely know them WAHMS are the top well known types of people who work from home, however there are more than just WAHMS out there. There are simply just the WAH (work-at-home) people, also SAHMS (stay-at-home-moms), CSAHM (christian-stay-at-home-moms and CWAHM (christian-work-at-home-moms), but what I'm getting at is those of us who work at home who are not home just because were mommies. We may be WAH (working-at-home) simply because we choose to or perhaps because we have to for other reasons besides being a mommy, such as being disabled. What ever the case, everywhere I looked, everywhere I turned WAHMS, moms and more moms, along with a great deal of mommy talk and such. And that's perfectly fine, great as a matter of fact, but I am just simply a WAHH (work-at-home-housewife). No mommy that needs to work from home. Although I do have a son, he is very much a grown man and living on his own. And in addition, I have two young step-children, however they live with their mother full-time, except for visitation with their dad, so again, no mommy here, I'm just simply a woman, as well as a housewife who works-from-home part-time.



In my searches for WAH information, the only website I came across that was similar was WAHW (work-at-home-women), but still most sites seemed to be highly geared towards WAHMS, so I decided to create WAHH for those of us who are not mommies, but simply WAH. Being a woman, who was also a housewife, but not a mommy, I felt we needed our own category and place to go to that was related, but without all the "mommy talk" so-to-speak. Hence the birth of my blogspot Work-at-Home-Housewives. You will find much the same information here with the exception that WAHH is not driven by the "mommy" factor.



But still, when it comes to the top legitimate, informative WAH sites, I would go with WAHM.com They have tons of great information, tips, articles, ideas, job postings, etc., and in addition have been around for quite some time now. And when looking for a legitmate WAH job, WAHM.com is the first website I visit. You can just go to their website, WAHM.com click on WAH jobs and simply plug your information into their search box to find WAH jobs near you.