By Alicia Jay | This is a guest post from Alicia who works online as a virtual assistant. If you would like to tell your story about being a WAHM online feel free to contact me. Thanks Alicia!
 The Virtual Assistant with Her Head in the Clouds
When I started my online business I was full of hormones and one fairly large baby boy. Yup, I was pregnant—and laid off. If you haven’t experienced this before, I can tell you, it doesn’t make for a fabulous combination. However, I’m that girl who always finds a silver lining to every cloud.
The Beginning
My husband and I never intended to live with just one income when we decided to start a family and the layoff was not something we had planned on either. I didn’t have much success finding work so I turned to the internet. My background was in social work and business management. I wanted very badly to find something I could do successfully online that
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By Wade Harman |  This is a guest post from Wade Harman who owns and writes at Bloggers Make Money. He is an ex coal miner turned online rock star. Thanks Wade for your awesome contribution to Ramblings of a WAHM.
How To Get Fast Blog Traffic
If you own a blog, then one of your main concerns with that site is learning how to get blog traffic. If you’re like me, then the faster it comes the better! There are thousands, nay, millions, of blog posts on how to do this or that, and it really aggravates me that none of these really help the reader!
How am I going to benefit from buying someone’s product and promoting it on my site when I can’t come up with the traffic?
Hmm, that does pose a problem!
Without traffic, you’re not making any money. I want to remedy this problem in this post that Allie has allowed me to
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By Alan Chatfield |  Guest post by Alan at Life’s Too Good
Relationships are really important – especially in business.
… and if you are working from home – then you are in business.
Even putting that aside for a moment, if you just consider yourself a blogger, then relationships are still important if you want your blog to get anywhere, but more so if you want it to bring in dollars because you just can’t run a business in a vacuum.
An Example Close To Home
Some of you may recognize me from a couple of posts I’ve already done for Allie here on Ramblings of a WAHM. Here they are:
Do You Commit Any of the 7 Deadly Sins of Online Networking
5 Tips to Make Your Work-at-Home Business as Professional as Any in the Corporate World
So this is my third guest post here. Now, I didn’t just write these and send them anonymously
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By Allie |  Explaining Ourselves as WAHM?
After working at home for so many years, I cannot believe that I still get such crazy questions but I do. “Are you a scammer?” “Do you stuff envelopes?” “Do you make any real money?” Why is it that people cannot believe that some of us do actually make a great income from our computers?
Case in point – my own father. I love him dearly, but sometimes he still thinks that I am getting scammed in some way. People don’t always understand what we do. Sometimes it is simply envy, but other times it is a total misunderstanding of how hard and work intensive being a WAHM can be.
So, I am writing this article for all the WAHM’s out there who have a hard time explaining themselves to friends and family. Use this text as your “answer” the next time someone asks how you earn money from
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By Alan Chatfield | Guest post by Alan at Life’s Too Good
Networking Is Huge
Networking (as in people connections) is huge these days. It’s an essential part of modern business and modern life with sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn changing the way we interact or at least providing us with a few new and different options.
Successful people in business have always known the importance of networking, with or without the internet. If you want to know more about networking in general before we take a closer look at online networking, read this post: How To Network Effectively (but then make sure that you come back here!!).
What About Online Networking?
So what is different about online networking? Well, lots of things. Think about it you can reach more people more quickly. One very important aspect of networking is building rapport – which works completely differently online. The speed and tonality of your voice, your body language, your facial expressions
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By Guest Writer | Hi! I’m Jackie Lee… I’m a perfectly imperfect full time work at home mom. I started working from home a little over 7 years ago, and I went full time just before my daughter was born around 5 years ago.
I was brought up in a middle class family where everyone assumed you’d go to college, get a degree, get a good job and carry on the middle class dream. I unquestioningly followed the plan. However, it wasn’t until after I got out of college, way over my head in debt and not making enough to cover my bills that I started to question the logic of said plan. 
I started looking for ways to make money from home, and got started in network marketing. I loved it and started making money right away… however, just like many people online I got distracted. Distracted by the shiny objects, and I wasn’t super happy buying leads and cold calling people every day before I went to work at my J.O.B.
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