The following is list of great resources that I've come across to help you build your home business. To start, build and maintain a home business it always helps to have the right tools around to be successful. Another great thing about this list is a lot of the these are work at home mom owned. So, not only are you helping yourself out, you'll be supporting a fellow work at home mom in the process. If you have any ideas of more resources that can be listed here please feel free to Contact Me anytime.
Be sure to check back often as I will be adding more and more everyday!
Step By Step Guide to Starting Your First Website
As the saying goes, you cannot begin a journey without taking the first step. The same is true when starting a website. Creating a new website can seem like a difficult task at first. But when broken down into steps it's a piece of virtual cake! If you've wanted your own website, but never knew where to begin, this is THE place to start. This e-book written by Kara Kelso starts from the VERY beginning - taking you through the steps of buying your first domain, setting up your hosting, and even setting up your email. We don't stop there - this guide will show you how to take care of your site (editing and adding HTML), set up newsletters, and get you started marketing your website.
An Internet Based Moms Guide To Marketing Your Website
This comprehensive guide starts you out with time management and goal setting. Then once you're ready to go it moves onto a second look at your website, the right way to use your email signature, how to use your website stats to your advantage, search engine optimization, networking, newsletters, advertising, affiliate programs, press releases, and then topped off with a lot more promotion ideas to take your home business to the next level.
The Essential Business Success Package
This powerful course includes two business success manuals to motivate, inspire, educate, and give you the "how to" marketing information and tools you need to carve out a successful living online. Part One - How to Unlock Your Potential to Succeed:Stop Dreaming & Start Working
This isn't your traditional, run-of-the mill course that makes you feel good while you're reading it, but then gets tucked away and forgotten. No! This course is designed to send you leaping over the roadblocks towards the future you're dreaming about. Part Two - The Truth About Marketing & Making Love Don't let the title throw you. This manual is bursting at the seams with easy-to-follow, practical, and profitable marketing advice to take your from marketing zero to hero. But the difference between this and the other marketing manuals is that it not only educates while entertaining you, it also approaches business from a place of passion, spirituality and Universal theory.
The Super Affiliate Handbook
Affiliate Marketing is VERY quickly taking over the internet and home based businesses. In this book Rosalind Gardner (who made $436,797 last year through affiliate marketing and proves it) tells you how you can too. Affiliate Marketing isn't rocket science! And best of all, it doesn't require you to carry inventory, ship products or deal with irate clients. It's really the easiest of all the ways to make money online…and LOTS of it! Rosalind explains in detail exactly what she does to make tens of thousands of dollars every month using her computer, the Internet and affiliate programs.
The MOE Manual - A Complete Guide to Ezine Publishing
Earn Money Online with Your Own Ezine! Creating your own ezine is a surefire way of increasing your online income and success. The MOE Manual can help you increase your income. Real, basic, step-by-step information to get your started on the road to success. Learn how to build a loyal list of subscribers, how to put your ezine on the internet map, powerful free promotion tactics and much more!
Up Close and Virtual:
A Practical Guide to Starting Your Own Virtual Assistant Business Up Close and Virtual is a complete reference guide to starting a successful and PROFITABLE virtual assistant business. We cover all the business nuts and bolts including business and financial planning, bookkeeping, billing, and setting up your business. Plus it offers information on domain registration, creating your web site, and most importantly, how and where to find clients. Still working full time? We'll show you how to ease into your practice while working full-time AND continue to care for your family.
(Editor's Note: For all of you out there looking for that "Typing For Pay" job...why not avoid all the scams and start your own.)
Say What You Mean When You’re in Business
Say What You Mean When You’re in Business, is a very comprehensive eBook on effective communication written especially for small business owners with all types of businesses! It is over 90 pages long packed with over 100 detailed tips on effective communication in business that will greatly increase the success of your business!
PayCodes.com
The World's First PayPal Coupon System!
PayCodes is the ideal way to reward your customers and attract new buyers by providing PayPal coupons. PayCodes coupons can be applied toward any PayPal purchase. Coupons can be of any value with preset limitations and specific expirations. The perfect solution to help you track all your online and offline promotions!
Creative Memories
Creative Memories makes Personalized Candy Bar Wrappers. Get your business out there by giving away candy! You can choose a "pre-made" wrapper OR have yours custom made at no extra cost. Choose from a variety of wrapper sizes OR have a custom size made to fit your candies. Creative Memories also creates custom wrappers for any occasion.
Patty's Pretty Paper
Patty can help you give that "extra special touch" by personalizing all of your stationary. She offers personalized top-fold notecards, envelopes, stationary with letter heads, return address labels, envelope stickers and much more. You can choose the package that best fits your needs and budget. Need hostess gifts? Patty has gifts that you can have customized too!
Oriental Trading
At Oriental Trading you can purchase bulk materials at very low costs. Here you can find small gifts for customers, hostesses, reps or whoever. Oriental Trading has a huge selection of many, many items including office supplies. My personal favorite here would be the pencils you can have personalized with your business name from Free! There are also many other items that you can have personalized too (also for free!).
Affordable Kall8 Toll-Free Service
Kall8 is the only fully integrated toll-free service that offers you traditional 800 service in addition to a complete set of online tools to manage and track your toll-free number in real time.
Toll-free calling is advantageous for everyone
Nationwide Businesses, Mid-sized and Small Businesses and Families, order toll-free 800 services and get a number that rings directly to your home or business. Redirect it to your fax machine or cell phone and back as you change locations. Track calls on the Internet in real time. Select an easily remembered Vanity Number for your business. Kall8's low rates are perfect for businesses or families.
With Kall8™ you get: Custom Routing, Voice Mail, Inbound Faxing, Web site account management, Call Recording, Lead Generation, Vanity Numbers, And much more!
WYSIWYG Editor and Website
This WYSIWYG is a "What You See Is What You Get" HTML Editor. You can create some great files without needing HTML Editor. You can also set-up the website and re-sell this software
WebCam Watcher
Add webcams from all over the world and view them all from your desktop.
Press Release Software
Create printable custom press releases with no writing skills needed.
Web Page-O-Matic
Software to create a website in under 20 minutes.
Website Appraisal Program
Program to appraise the value of domain names. See how much your domain is worth OR charge others to appraise theirs.
Mommy's Helper Domain & Hosting Services
Mommy's Helper has affordable domain name and hosting services available to help you get your home business seen online. Affordable pricing with outstanding customer services. Wahm approved!
Easy Web Site Builder
This website builder is sure to please those without any web design experience or those who just need to get a professional website quickly. With over 450 templates to choose from (or design your own), you'll be able to create a feature-rich site that includes up to 1000 pages, shopping cart, message boards, photo album, links page, ability to upload any file format, custom feedback form, guest book, recommend this site script, mailing list/newsletter, coupon page, and many more website builder features. You can even try this site builder for free with their 10 day FREE trial.
QuickPayPro
-With QuickPayPro you can start your own affiliate program with thousands of Web Site associates doing the promotion for you.
-You can instantly process credit cards in real-time through any major payment gateway system and deliver products automatically.
-Track the results of every marketing campaign you embark on with the powerful Webvertising feature - which tracks leads, ROI, and other important stats that empower you with the surefire knowledge of your most profitable ventures.
-Set up an unlimited number of follow-up responders with unlimited messages.
-Totally automate the whole process with ease - and all this is done from just one simple control panel. You don't even have to install any software. The whole lot is run from a secure dedicated web server, which is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Try out their Free Trial to see if it just what you needed.
Mommy's Helper
Mommy's Helper offers affordable advertising for the average work at home mom. As a work at home mom myself, I understand how small that advertising budget can be. We also have a variety of packages to fit all budgets.
Wahm State Directory
A state by state listing of work at home moms. Get your business listed here for only $20 a year AND a free listing as Mom's Market.
Mom's Expo Looking for effective, affordable advertising solutions? Join the Expo! MomsExpo.com features a great way to help you with your promotion efforts! Grow your business, get new leads, make more sales! MomsExpo.com Membership gives you access to free business software, programs, books, support and advertising opportunities. See for yourself what hundreds have already discovered!
Wahm's United
Join Wahm's United for TONS of free advertising! Members also eligible for exlusive advertising discounts.
Rent-a-List.com
Get the best possible prices for the highest quality targeted leads. Many different packages to fit any advertising budget. Sign up for FREE account to try it first.
Mommy's Helper's Online Community Come join us at Mommy's Helper's Online Community! This is a huge network of very talented work at home moms. Come share all of your tips and tricks of working at home and maybe you'll learn a new thing or two. We have such a huge variety of topics that you're sure to find exactly what you're looking for. And if you don't ...just ask!
