Working at home can be a very rewarding and fulfilling experience if done correctly. One of the main reasons many women are choosing this path is that this allows them to spend quality time raising their young children and still earn income for the family.

There are many stay at home moms seeking alternative income streams they can pursue while still attending to their children’s needs. Being a stay at home Mom is a full time job in itself, cooking, cleaning, feeding the children, running errands, picking kids up from school, the list goes on. You may ask yourself how I can work from home when I already have a full plate as it is.

You’d be surprised how much time you can come up with if you set a schedule and stick with it as close as possible. Organize your time and your days will fly by. I’m not saying this will solve all of your problems, raising a family can get hectic but it will make things easier to deal with.

Here’s how to figure out how much spare time you have to make extra money from home.

First- List all of your weekly activities; include the amount of time it takes to do each activity like grocery shopping, laundry, cooking, cleaning, and transporting kids too and from school or special activities.

Second- Rank each activity by priority, and break them down by daily, weekly, monthly. Feeding the kids comes in higher than watching a soap opera. You get the point. This should give you an idea of what you have to do and when.

Third- Set your schedule according to your priorities. Group tasks together so you make the most of your time and money. Example: Stop off and get groceries, when you take the kids to soccer practice. Instead of making two separate trips get as much done in one trip as possible. You should now see how much free time you actually have during the day. (Hint; if you don’t treat this like a job and take it serious you won’t make any money.)

Fourth- Determine how much time you have to devote to your work at home opportunity and plug something in that fits your personality and available time.

Locating your work at home income opportunity
Beware of scams: There are tons of internet programs out there that promise you huge profits with little or no effort. Don’t believe it.
If they say they made $18,793 last month and you can too. Run! They probably made it off people looking for the pot of gold under the rainbow.

Surveys: I tried this. You spend hours filling out forms for a few dollars or coupons. When it’s all said and done you’re working for less than minimum wage. Oh! Every telemarketer in this hemisphere will be calling you.

The internet is your best bet for making money from home, if you do it right. It offers you the flexibility and can offer the income you need. The days of the dot com boom are gone. They have been replaced by high quality content driven websites that provide visitors with the information they are seeking. In the process of providing quality content these sites earn income from advertising other websites, selling their own products or commissions on products from other merchants.

You have the knowledge to tap into this incredible opportunity since the internet is filled with junk sites that never receive traffic. The trick to your success is generating quality highly targeted web traffic to your site. They arrive at your site specifically searching for information on your topic. No selling is necessary. You can devote yourself to this because you choose a niche that you enjoy, so it’s not really like working a job. Don’t get me wrong it does take work but there’s no such thing as something for nothing.

Once your website is up and running you continue to ad content. This is what drives the free search engine traffic to your site. Your site will now produce income 24hrs a day 7 days a week, no matter if you are on vacation or taking the kids to practice.

You can learn how to do this with step by step instructions for free! Four Work At Home Moms have gotten together to write a free web course that takes you by the hand and explains in detail how to make money from home (step by step.)

Everything I have learned on the internet has been self taught. There is no Online Marketing degree out there and if there were it would be outdated before you graduated.

Many people porvide you with fantastic information for free. It is usually up to date and really works. The reason they do this is because they hope by helping you succeed they will earn a friend and future customer. If they provided you with a bunch of hype or nonsense then you would see them as a fraud and not do business with them in the future.

Take advantage of the information you receive, it may change your life or it may not. You won’t know until you try it. After all it costs you nothing.

Louis Noble
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Everyone faces those days when it is just easier to eat out than go home and cook. In today’s fast paced society, it can be very hard to have time at the end of the day to fix a four course meal. However, this can be an expensive habit if you go out often. There are steps you can take to lower the tab when you just need a break or you are treating yourself to a night out.

Cut Out the Soda

 

Soda is one of the highest marked up items on any menu. Most restaurants will charge almost two dollars for one drink and some don’t even offer free refills. When you consider that for a party of five that is an extra ten dollars on the check, you will probably agree that water is a much better choice. The other option you might consider is purchasing a meal that includes a drink.

Deserts Are a No-No

Many deserts cost almost as much as the main course and very few people ever finish them. You are much better off to wait until you get home for something sweet or stop somewhere and buy a whole cake on the way home. You can usually buy a whole pie or cake at the grocery store for less than the cost of four slices at a restaurant.

Learn To Share

Sharing large entrées is a great way to save money on a meal. Many restaurants offer large portion that end up going to waste. This is a great idea if you have children or babies. Rather than buying a kid’s meal you can just ask for an additional plate. Be aware some restaurants frown on this practice and will charge for an additional plate.

Take Advantage of Kids Night

If you will be eating out with kids look for a restaurant that offers free kids meals or very cheap ones. Some companies have one night a week that they designate as kids day and all kids under 12 eat free. You can also look for restaurants that have special kid’s menus. These menus will often have many of the same items on the adult menu, just at a scaled down size.

Limited Time Specials

Some restaurants will offer limited time deals like buy one get one free, or two meals for a set price. You should also check for the special of the day. In most establishments, one meal is offered at a discounted rate each day. You might even find some restaurants offer a free appetizer or desert with your meal. These specials can be a great way to stretch your dollar a little further.

Download or Buy Coupons

There are two types of coupons to be considered when you are considering going out for dinner. You can download regular coupons online for special savings or free items with you meal. However, you can also buy coupons or gift cards for many places online. Check your local radio or television site. With these deals, you can purchase a certificate or coupon to spend twice as much as you pay. For example, if you buy the coupon for 25 dollars you get to spend it for 50 dollars.

Joe Deacon
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If you quit smoking today, you can save bags full of money. Several people and instances have already tried to determine how much savings you can have if you quit smoking, but of course that will differ from smoker to smoker as well as be influenced by other factors associated with smoking such as health matter.

In the work place

Smokers sometimes get a hot deal, not making money, but not being hired by Companies.

They may say it out loud or they may not, but they prefer non-smokers because

1. smokers take more sick days off.
2. they fall ill more and
3. their family falls ill more.
4. they have a shorter attention span as they have to go out for a smoke every couple of hours,
5. they have higher health insurance premiums that some companies hate to foot and
6. they may pass respiratory infections to co-workers.

By quitting cigarette smoking you can widen your horizons as far as jobs are concerned and then have a greater chance of sticking around.

How to decrease your assets’ value

Have you ever thought that a smell that you as a smoker cannot smell can influence the value of for instance your house? Because non-smokers are not willing to buy a house filled with the stench of cigarette smoke. The people living there may have gotten accustomed to the smoky smell, but for non-smokers the carpets, drapes and furniture reek of cigarette smoke and it can either result in a slower sale of the house or not getting as much money as you would like for it.

The second most valuable asset after your house is most probably your car. Is the inside of your car smelling like your house …. Full of smoke? What an easy way to decrease the value of your car ! If you want to get more money for your home and car down the road – and who doesn’t – quit cigarette smoking today.

Even places like an online auction site can be an unlikely place where your smoking can lose you money. Many bidders prefer stuff from smoke-free homes when they for instance buy toys for their children. If you have kids and you are looking for toys and other stuff online on auction sites, you will undoubtedly see many listings which highlight the fact that their bedding or plush toys come from smoke-free homes. They expect to and often do get better money just because they do not smoke.

Looking smart can cost you more

Because your clothes are always smelling of smoke, it may be that cleaning them professionally 0r having them laundered, might cost you more than just an airing. A few dollars here and there may not seem like much now, but multiply the number of extra dry cleaning items by the number of weeks you have smoked and you will not be too pleased with the answer.

Personal costs

Smoke affects your breath as well as your teeth. Bad breath and yellow teeth can cost you money, even if it is only a packet of mints. Factor every expense, from the value of your home to a pack of breath mints and add it up. Multiply it by the number of years you have been smoking and it can shock you.

Why not take up this challenge: You are a smoker and your kids are secondary smokers, let x-rays be taken of your lungs as well as your kids’ lungs. Then compare it with x-rays from a non-smoker. Your kids’ x-rays might just be the reason why you quit smoking.

John Roberts
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I like many other fathers out there, used to leave shopping for the children up to my wife. She would take them to the store and I would get to sit on the couch and enjoy a football game with no interruption. Sadly, that’s all been changed thanks to the limited funds available at my kid’s school to supply the sports gear that they need. It is up to the parents to purchase what was once readily provided by the school and now I’m the one that makes the trips to the store with the kids in tow.

My wife and I have always encouraged our children to participate in sports because they teach them about teamwork and working hard to achieve their goals. These types of lessons will hopefully help them later on in life, as they attend college and then enter their chosen professions. Prior to budget cuts, getting their needed equipment was not a financial consideration for the parents. Now, in order for my children to continue to play their favorite sports, we have to cut down on other expenses to be able to afford the expensive gear.

Two of my children play hockey and this type of sport is rough on the equipment, so replacing it has become a fact of life. Just the cost of the skates alone practically has me looking in the want ads for another job. Even though we buy equipment made of good quality, my kids are constantly growing, so we are guaranteed to have to replace items with every season.

Then there’s my own gear that I use to go hunting with. I also fish and play golf. My wife plays tennis with her friends and between all of us; we should own stock in sporting goods companies. As it is, the sales clerks in the store that we frequent knows us by our first names.

We made sure to get on their mailing list for catalogs because they often contain coupons that will save money on the things that we buy. I have to admit that I love getting these catalogs because they keep me up to date on the new advancements in sporting gear. While I certainly can’t afford to replace my golf clubs every time they come up with an improved one, I can at least put them on my Christmas list with the slim hope of getting one of them. Recently, a friend of mine who is in the same boat that I am, told me about a sporting good supplier that sells high quality used equipment.

I don’t have a problem with buying used equipment, as long as it works well and will save me money. From what I understand, they will also buy my used gear or sell it for me on a contingency basis. This is a great relief because it will save us a bundle and I won’t have to get that second job after all.

Gregg Hall
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What is a Property? For most people the term “Property” generally brings to mind real estate or a belonging. In the world of entertainment or licensing and merchandising, a Property refers to a character or a group of characters. In other words, an Intellectual Property. Well known examples are Mickey Mouse as a single Property or the Teenage Ninja Turtles as a group Property.

Properties can be utilized or arise in a book, a comic book, as an image on a cup or can be the focus of a television program or can be utilized in a television commercial.

Billions of dollars have been generated since Mickey Mouse developed in the wonderful mind of Walt Disney and of course the Disney Corporation is the epitome of intellectual Property rights that all others aspire to.

What does a Property consist of? This is where matters become confusing. If you can imagine in your mind, a pizza pie that has been cut up into slices. Or, better still, take a sheet of paper and draw a pizza or a circle. Then, divide the circle into parts – let’s say sixteenths. Each one of those sixteen pieces represents a different part of the whole and each one of those pieces can be sold off or licensed, as is more the common practice.

The following are some of the more common categories that are licensed off as part of a Property; publishing, music, board games, electronic games, clothing, television, action figures, plush dolls, remote control toys, play sets, cards, greeting cards, educational products and so on.

Obviously, the more popular the Property, the more licensing fees are generated and the wider the range of products. A wonderful example of a Property that spun off from a first book is Harry Potter. I’m sure that when J.K. Rowling was slogging over her first book in a London cafe, she had no idea that Harry would become a world-wide phenomena spawning a huge array of children’s products.

If you have an idea for children that you think kids around the world will crave after, get started. The North American licensing and merchandising market totaled sales of over $60 Billion in 2006 and North American kids spent over $200 Billion in the same year. How to get started you ask? If you have an idea for a character and have limited artistic abilities, hire an illustrator or an art school student to take from your mind and transpose it onto paper. If you enjoy telling stories that kids like, even if your writing abilities are marginal, write them down.  The point is – get started. Don’t imagine you are going to be an overnight success. It takes hard work, long hours and a lot of money to become and overnight success, however, if you can develop your idea into something kids enjoy or better still want, you are halfway there.

The Author and Associates

Michael Trigg is CEO of You N Me Productions Corp, a Vancouver Canada entertainment company. You N Me Productions has joint ventured with Media Kitchen I.N.Teractive and Worlds Away Productions Ltd of New York.

Resources

Greanwold’s World www.greanwold.com  is the environment of Greanwold and his Minosaur friends, the newest children’s property in the kids international market place.

Michael Trigg
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Running low on cash to complete shopping for Christmas Gifts for your kids, and hoping that you’ll have money to pick up the last minute Christmas gifts you need?

Many things in life that are “Free” are overlooked or ignored. As people of habit we tend to do the same things over and over again. We shop at the same stores. We buy the same products. We shop out of need rather than planning. We are in a rush and shop without taking advantage of bargains and sales.

At the grocery store we shop for what is in our heads or on the shopping list after work, and then go home and prepare dinner. We ignore the free weekly sales brochure at the entrance of the store. We buy the same brand name of soup without comparing prices of soups in the same area. We buy bread and mayonnaise for sandwiches that will go with the soup.

So what did you miss? You missed a lot of savings that would provide you with EXTRA MONEY for shopping for Christmas gifts. If you would have picked up the weekly sales brochure at the entrance, you might have seen that Campbell’s Chucky Soup was on sale….Buy 2 Get 3 Free. So instead of buying your regular brand of soup at approximately the same price with no sale you could have SAVED MONEY.

You also may have found that instead of the loaf of bread that you normally purchase which was not on sale, you could have purchased a Brownberry 100% Wheat Bread and got ONE FREE (this also is a healthy made bread). As for the Mayonnaise, you could have just grabbed any jar including Hellman’s. You overlooked the fact that one of the jars of Hellman’s offered for the same price included “FREE 33% More mayonnaise” …10 ounces for free.

Hopefully when you shop you carry the store’s loyalty card that not only provides you with additional savings on other products throughout the store, but provides savings to you and your wallet on every visit. There was also a page of grocery breakfast items that were on sale and adding another $1.00 off each product when you bought any five of these named products for an additional savings of $5.00.

On Mondays, Dominicks/Safeway offers a rotisserie chicken for $5.00 and on Friday a pizza with one additional topping for $6.99 (you can even call and order it in advance, and have it ready when you arrive). This means more savings each time you shop with your loyalty card and that saved money can keep you shopping for your last minute Christmas gifts.

If you really took advantage of the sales on the soup, the bread, and the breakfast items by buying in bulk, you saved money not only this trip but also on your future grocery trips. On a recent trip to Dominicks/Safeway I took advantage of these sales, and filled my cupboard with 10 cans of soup (6 free) and 4 loaves of bread for my freezer and 5 breakfast items that included juice, sausages, coffee. Before swiping my loyalty card at the cash register, the total was $53.01. After swiping the card, the total was $19.62 which represented a savings of 63%. Dollar wise the savings amounted to $33.39.

Remember the Christmas gifts for your kids or last minute Christmas gifts needed to be purchased. This savings of $33.39 might make the difference for you and your loved ones. Feel free to take advantage of one of my many tips on how to save money this Christmas Shopping Season, and enjoy a good hot cup of coffee with toast and sausages for breakfast, and soup and a sandwich for lunch knowing that you got everyone on your list a personalized Christmas gift.

Robert Walsh
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