Being A Work At Home Mom (WAHM) Is A 24/7 Job

Wow!!! It has been an amazing two months with Renegade Professional. I knew I needed to learn more if I was really going to grow my business, I just didn’t know how much I needed to learn!

When you join Renegade Professional they have you go through a 90 day plan, to make sure you are building your business the right way. So far they have walked me through (and I am following them, because they are the experts and I am paying them to learn).

• Building a Squidoo Lens ( I already had one but now built one to promote Renegade Professional)
• Creat an eZine article
• Bookmark my content using Digg
• Creat a Twitter account and begin networking there
• Begin a blog page (which obviously I already have) but they show your other blog spots where you can monetize blogs for free.
• Create a Hub Page (see more free blogs you can monetize)
• Watch videos (on everything you could imagine)
• Start book marking with other social sites, other than Digg
• Improve the content on your blog or website using what you have learned so far
• Study the Writing With Pull class (this is where I am now) of course I skip around and do other stuff too. 

I am focusing now on the “Writing with Pull” class because It is an area I think I am weak in.  How to really sell people on what you are writing without really selling people!!!!  That is tough to do!

I have found myself obsessing over these classes, they are just so fascinating and I want to learn more and more about how to make my business better. Like today, I told myself I was not going to be on the computer at all today, but, here I am! It is almost a little insane.

I do love what I am learning, but I have always loved learning new things, that is why I am also a teacher and a coach to others who want to learn more. I guess I will always be in school in one way or another!

Filed under: Attraction Marketing, Growing Your Business, Internet Marketing, Motivation and Inspiration, Professional Training (Help!), Tools For Business Success, network marketing, social networking | No Comments »

Is your online business everything you had hoped it would be, could be?

Mine wasn’t either!

So I sought out professional help. I joined the Renegade Professional which is run by Ann Sieg and Mike Klinger. These are two HUGE leaders in the attraction marketing field, in other words, how to get people to come to your site!

They have classes in everything to do with attraction marketing, (too many to even name all of them). You do everything in your own time, when you want to, when you have time. You choose the classes you really want to take, skip the ones you already think you know (I wouldn’t do that though, I found out, I don’t know too much actually!) I skipped a couple of classes I thought I knew everything about, then went back just to look. Well… I am amazed at how much I don’t know, even about things I thought I was pretty versed in!

Each classes in depth and taught by someone who is the guru in that field. They have classes in the hows and why’s of Social Networking. They go through every social networking site and tell you how to join, how to write for that network and how to attract people to you and make them your followers.

They have classes for Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Squidoo (it really is a social network), Digg and so many more. I was not a fan of Social Networking sites….. I have learned that is a HUGE MISTAKE! You better become a fan of Social Networking if you really want to grow your business. So, I am learning all about Social Networking and how it works and how I will incorporate it into my business. (like it or not!)

You can stay with the Renegade Professional as long as you want or quit at anytime. You work at your own pace, so, you could finish all the classes in a month if you have the time, you could finish in a year. It is up to you.

Me, I am taking the classes around my work schedule. Being a teacher, gives me the next two months off and I plan on hitting the classes hard and learning everything I can to move my business ahead. It has been fantastic learning from the professionals in a step my by step manner and working on the things I really want to work on first and going to the ones I am dreading (putting my face in video) till much later!

I am going to be writing more and more about my experiences here and hoping that you too will get professional help if you think your business is not where you want it too be. It might just change your life!

To your success!

Filed under: Growing Your Business, Internet Marketing, Professional Training (Help!), Tools For Business Success, social networking | No Comments »

What is Attraction Marketing? It is simply how you get people to come looking for you and your business services or product. It really is that simple, but learning Attraction Marketing is not that simple.

Renegade University is offering a FREE Webinar on July 2nd at 9pm EST.  In this Webinar they will be teaching how you can make a Wordpress blog that will draw people to your blog like a magnet.

What they will go over in this FREE Webinar

• 13 keys strategies to build a super blog.
• 9 Killer tips for promoting your blog posts.
• Super Ninja tactics for Social Networking.

And of course they will go over much, much more but you have to sign up in advance for this course.  You can sign up for this course right now ….. SIGN UP NOW!

Filed under: Attraction Marketing, Growing Your Business, Internet Marketing, Professional Training (Help!), Tools For Business Success, network marketing | No Comments »

A lot of businesses both online and offline know that the summer months are not as busy as the colder months.  People are on vacation and not spending money on things online or in the stores as much as they do during the winter months.

So, the question is…. are you taking off the summer from building your online business?

If you are you may be hurting your business.  The summer is when others are taking off to go on vacations and figuring everyone else is slowed down so no sense in working on their business either.

But, what if you worked full out during the summer on your business and come fall when everyone else is trying to get back into the swing of things and get their business rolling again, you are already up and running and miles ahead of everyone else?

Doesn’t it  make sense that you will be more visible and likely more apt to make sales when you are already out there and getting noticed all summer long when others are basically sleeping?

It really is basic, spend some time this summer really working on your business, getting noticed a little here and there and by fall you should be highly visible and ready to make some serious sales and money when everybody else is just waking up from their long summers nap!

If you are not sure how to attract new customers to your blog or website, there are a couple of great free video’s being offered at the Renegade professional site and you can check them out here.  Renegade Professional.You might just learn a thing or two about attracting more customers/prospects to your blog or website, it’s FREE so go check it out.

Filed under: Growing Your Business, Motivation and Inspiration, Professional Training (Help!), Tools For Business Success, Working From Home, blogging | No Comments »

How much do you worry about Google Page Ranks?

I try not to worry too much but, when my ranking goes from a 3 to a 0 over night, I have found myself obsessed with figuring out what went wrong.  How did I take that big a hit over night?  Did I change something so drastic (NO), did I say something to piss of the google gods (I don’t think so?)

So what the heck happened?  And better yet…. why do I spend hours worrying about it?  Could be tomorrow it will be back to a 3, or a 1 or, it could just stay at a 0 and really probably put me into a mental institution trying to figure out how it happened and why.

I think I need more caffeine to figure this out, I’ll get back to worrying in a little bit.

Filed under: Musings, Website Design | No Comments »

Schools Out, Schools Out…….Come on, sing along with me, you know you want too!

As many of you know my side job is as a teacher.  The last month of school is always a tough month, as any teacher knows.  The kids are both ready to get out of school and not ready because it means they won’t see many of their friends for the next 2 months.

For some it is even more traumatic than just not seeing their friends.  For many it means they won’t have regular meals and will have no positive social interactions at all.  Many will have no discipline again and they actually crave that discipline (no matter how much they will tell you they couldn’t care less, they really do!)

For these children, it is almost like we are abandoning them and they act out badly during these last weeks of school.  Any teacher who has been around for any length of time, knows exactly what I am talking about and is very sensitive to these children and their feelings of abandonment.

When I was much (much) younger I worked every summer so these kids had a place to go, to feel like they were still important, where they could feel like they had a purpose to get up in the morning, to have a place where they could get something to eat (we would go through a whole lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in a summer).

Now, I am old an tired!  I need the summer off just to regenerate enough to go back in August and start it all over again.  Now is the time for the younger generation to step up and give these special kids a place to go and reason to get up in the morning.  And for goodness sake, a place to get a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

No matter what the gesture is, no matter how small, no matter what it is you decide to do with these kids during the summer, it will not be forgotten!  If it is just one peanut butter and jelly sandwich, if it is just one afternoon making beaded necklaces, if it is just sitting around reading them a book… IT DOES MATTER!

It can make the difference between  that kid shoplifting at the local quickie mart or them hanging with you and leaning about a whole new world through a story book.  It can mean a child eating a wonderfully delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich or nothing at all.

My Challenge to you.

I am putting out a challenge for all you to make a difference in ONE child’s life this summer, even if for just one afternoon.  Volunteer at a school to read to kids, to do arts and crafts, teach a sport or just offer to be a place for them to hang out and not get into trouble.

If you are a teacher, the sky is the limit what you can do with these kids.  Volunteer your time, or maybe you can even get paid for your summer help (it will help buy the bread, peanut butter and jelly).  Make a difference in just ONE child’s life this summer and it will come back to you tenfold.

You might even find that you like children a little bit more next year when you start up your school year (because usually, the kids that hang with you in the summer are your trouble makers).  You may find out the trouble makers really aren’t bad kids at all, they just need ONE person who they know really cares about them.  That just might be you!

Have a great summer and make a difference in just ONE child’s life this summer!

Filed under: Helping others, Musings, Tips For Life | No Comments »