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If you are running a WAHM business, the choice of products will play a part in your WAHM business success. What attracts customers to purchase from you every month? Will sales, promotion or freebies work? They do work temporarily.  Consumables is brisk business and not many WAHM business owners consider consumables or household products. If you sell consumables, your customers will always come back to purchase from you every month.   Of course, you don’t want to sell the same products like the grocery stores have to offer. You have to sell consumables in SUPERIOR QUALITY at REASONABLE PRICES and the most important thing: they are not available in grocery shops. How can you source these consumables? You don’t need to import directly from the manufacturer and take the risks. The answer is probably from direct selling company. Most of products in direct selling company are not available in grocery shops. Direct selling company allows an individual to be distributor. You purchase goods at wholesale prices and resell them at retail prices.  There are disadvantages of direct selling:

1. Capital investment to buy products.
2. You may not sell lower than the standard retail price set by direct selling company.
3. You’re burdened with inventory. What if you can’t sell?
4. Distrust and Doubt. Will people trust you or will they doubt the originality of the product  if you run a  WAHM business with online store?

There is another alternative: CONSUMER DIRECT MARKETING. You become the consumer and you refer people to shop to the company and be a consumer. You don’t need to carry inventory and don’t deal with billing. You will earn commission because of your referral. Earning a commission may not be too excited but if the company rewards you with multi-tiered commission, that’s the EXCITEMENT. If you wish to build WAHM business with consumer direct marketing, you can find the information below:

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I recently promote puzzles offline during Family Day event. The event certainly attracted the crowd of families to enjoy the good atmosphere. For WAHM business and small business owners, the event is an opportunity to promote their products and services.  The fee for stall rental was USD 30 for 4 hours, no matter whether you had sales or not. I could see some WAHM business and small business owners did their best marketing efforts by distributing flyers and free samples of the products. I just realize how online business could save cost and no waste. If you still have doubts, here are 7 solid reasons why you should run online business:

1. Very low overhead cost. You save cost on building and utilities.
2. Online business runs 24/7.
3. Online business is 100% environmentally friendly.  All information is delivered electronically via internet and  no paper is required. If you don’t use papers, you save trees and the impact is for the environment.
4. No sales talk. Imagine that you need to do the sales talk repeatedly  day by day to customers if you run offline business. If you can present a good sales letter on your website, it will do promotion by itself to people who visit your website.
5. One man show. You don’t need to hire employees who are not able to work 24 hours a day. Online business is possible to be run by one person.
6. Focus on Online Marketing, no idle time for manning the physical shop.
7. Free Traffic. If you know about SEO and social media, you can have traffic to your website. More traffic can convert into customers or sales.

Online business doesn’t mean that you need to pay expensive pay per click or advertisement space online. For WAHM business owners, it is worthy to learn internet marketing on how to drive free traffic via search engine or social media sites to your website. Learn all aspects of internet marketing for free at Online Profit

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Do you know that you can set up a WAHM business by monetizing content of your blog or website? People are looking for information and if you have good content in your blog or website, your blog or website will attract traffic.  GOOD CONTENT is equal to  REAL MONEY.  You can monetize your content with advertising (google adsense or textlink) or better still with Affiliate products or your own products.  Visitors or readers may be interested to buy your products as well because you provide good information. Writing good content is not easy, it needs expertise and in depth knowledge. The inexpensive way to have good content for your blog or website is through Private Label Rights Content or PLR Content. PLR Content means you buy the rights for content or articles for your blog or website. You can present as its original or tweak them to accommodate your products or affiliate products.  If you want to learn how to profit from PLR content, please check out Private Label Content which not only provide content but provide you with more values such as:

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If you are looking for WAHM business opportunity, I can say that profit from PLR content is the opportunity to set up a WAHM business with a low cost investment. If you run a blog or website with the topics above, you certainly will not miss this special offer, won’t you?

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I  related the recent incident with my customer. She could be the most difficult customer that I have ever had in my history of running a WAHM business. I believe that WAHM business owners run their business with their integrity and honesty and there is no intention to trick or to cheat the customers. Mistakes, misunderstanding or miscommunication can happen between your customer and you. Some people just like to buy products or services from WAHM business because of the speed and personal attention.  

So, I am sharing here 3 quick actions what we should do when you are in the same situation like me.  

1. Control your emotion. Some customers with strong emotion can get overreacted, irrational or  sarcastic. You can’t just reply with the same act as your customer does to you. You need to be  professional and control your emotion when you answer to their call or reply to their email. Keep your conversation over the phone short and your email short.  Don’t take the bait by replying with rising tone.
2. Apology. Apology works wonder. There is a saying, a customer is a KING or a customer is always RIGHT. Apology doesn’t mean that you are in the wrong position.  Don’t just sorry which looks informal and position you in the wrong side. Use the phrase: I apologize personally that the situation is out of our control and we will try to work on your problem…
3. Offer a solution. Listen to her problem and show her that you care and offer her a solution. Use the phrase that begin with:  I understand that……

There are customers who will accept your solution or apology but there are customers who are difficult to please. Well, you have to judge the situation. If the customer has never been pleased with your product or service no matter how hard you try to solve her problem, you only have one choice, stop your sevice or take back your products and give them refund.  Don’t worry if they spread bad news about your WAHM business. You have tried your best to serve your customers. Don’t take revenge to disclose your customer name to social media publicly. Not only WAHM business, corporate companies have good and bad reviews as well from their customers.

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Affiliate Marketing Programs is the easiest and free cost WAHM Business to set up. Even individuals join affiliate programs to earn income online.  You don’t need to create products and most of affiliate programs provide you with marketing tools such as banners, articles for sharing, email content for your autoresponder list and tweets. Isn’t it great that all you need to do is to promote affiliate programs? You can promote affiliate programs via blogs, mini websites and social media sites.

WAHM Business Tips to Choose Affiliate Programs

You have to select affiliate programs which are relevant with the topic of your website or blog. You can start with the software, web hosting or e-products that you use. It will be easier to review the products if you know the advantages.  Promote digital or electronic products has an advantage, a big commission which ranges 30-70%. I would suggest you to choose affiliate program from marketplace rather than individual affiliate program so you don’t need to keep plenty of pairs in username and password. Browse products from digital marketplace with big name such as clickbank, paydotcom or e-junkie.  You need to familiarize with the affiliate marketing metrics or terms in each marketplace to select  the popular and saleable products. If you promote various affiliate programs, you need to organize them. The management tool for affiliate program that I would recommend is Linktracker.  They provide affiliate link cloakers so others will not alter your affiliate link. You can manage and view the statistic of your various affiliate program in one page. They provide viral tool so you or other people can share it to facebook and twitter.

Promote WAHM Business Affiliate Programs with Blogs

You can promote affiliate programs by writing reviews on your blog or website. With blogs and websites, you can distribute and promote your blog and website intensively to many sites such as blog directory, article directory, social media sites, forum and many more. But, you need to master the complexity of building blog and website and not everyone can commit to update their blogs and websites regularly. Also, you need to understand SEO in order to improve your website or blog position in the search engine to bring traffic.

Promote WAHM Business Affiliate Programs with Twitter

Do you know that you can earn income online by being active in social media sites? Corporate companies, politicians and all sorts of people use social media sites such as facebook and twitter. If you have WAHM business and promote affiliate programs online, you must use social media sites too. One powerful social media sites is twitter. All you need to do is to tweet. People earn income online by joining PPC Twivert advertising program. If you want to earn income online BIG, you have to promote affiliate programs. With twitter, you can promote various affiliate programs frequently in a day. One software that can automates affiliate programs via Twitter is called TWEETOMATIC. Yes, you can have your hands free doing other things while your twitter work hard for you. Twitter has advantages. You can pull your tweets to facebook and linkedin and it means that you publish in 3 social media sites.

Affiliate Marketing Programs are easy to start and they can bring additional income online for your  WAHM business.  They may go in line with your current business. Why don’t you join affiliate program now to earn income online?

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I have watched Toy Story 1 and 2 and I think that Toy Story 3 movie  is not as funny as the previous series. Life was not always rosy for Toy story Round-Up Gang when the owner, Andy was grown-up and ready to move on to College life.  Woody and his roundup gang had to think a backup plan if they wanted to remain as play toys for children.   Their decision to stay at daycare was a nightmare and their fate was ruled by the heartless Lotso, a bear with sweet strawberry smell. Woody led the roundup gang for an escape and they made their way back to Andy’s house. With a brilliant idea, Woody left a note for Andy and he suggested toys giveaway to the little girl who would care for toys. Woody and the gang finally found a caring and loving owner, a happy ending for them. What lesson do you learn after watching Toy Story 3? There are friends and foes in a real life but we have to keep making friends. Making friends improves our social skill.

Do you think that adults are better in making friends? Children are more spontaneous. They can make friends easily.  Parents  only need to guide them with some courtesy and let them answer if someone asks questions to them, no need to answer for them. Your children will also observe and take clues from you, how you approach strangers and how you converse with your friends. Let them make friends to learn social skills. They will find good friend, best friend or BFF (best friend forever) for the one with the same interests and hobbies. They will learn that there are good friends like Woody The Leader, Buzz Light Year The Rescuer, Jessie The Faithful Friend or even  a foe like Lotso The Heartless Sweet Talker. This is a life lesson for them.

In real life, we meet with all kinds of people.  We need to learn basic social skills to make friends especially if we are in business. Marketing is all about people, we need to understand people if we want to succeed. If you have WAHM business or online home based business, you must use your social skill to promote your business online via social media sites such as facebook and twitter.  I found myself awkward when I started facebook to promote my  WAHM business to strangers. I learned internet marketing skill and social media skill from Professional Lead System and Magnetic Sponsoring. I put into practice what I learned and I found myself to express words  more easily on social media sites. Practice makes perfect and I find new true friends along the way. Don’t be disheartened if you meet someone like Lotso or your old friends distanced you. Look for like-minded friends instead. Life is not always rosy but experiences will bring maturity and greater height for your WAHM business. I also have a similar Roundup Gang like Woody. I found that having a team such as  Million Dollar Mom will give an encouragement because we work for the same goal.

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WAHM Business is on the rise. The Internet is the driving factor for home based moms to aspire to be home based working moms and make online profit by building WAHM business. Here are some top ways to make online profit without having to carry inventory of physical products:

1. Freelancing

Freelancing by definition is selling your service or skills without a long term contract. You can offer any number of services. Writing, graphic design, transcription, editing, audio creation, photography, and even  your voice over services can all be offered as a freelancer. Freelancing gives you the ability to pick and choose the projects you work on and whom you work with. It provides you with the freedom to set your rates and to choose when you work and when you don’t.

2. Information Marketing

Information marketing is exactly what it means, you make online profit by selling information. There is an information hungry society and we often turn to the internet to help solve our problems. Whether you want to lose weight, learn how to be better parents for your kids and we all have problems we want to solve.  Information Marketers  make online profit by writing information in their blog content to draw potential advertisers and also to write e-books, books or software for the purpose of selling. They can also conduct online course or coaching. The key success to be an information marketer is to find a topic of your interest and you do the research. There are tons of niche topics that are waiting to be discovered.

3. Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketers earn a commission on products or services they sell. Generally, affiliate marketers create a website or a blog around certain niche topic. They use blog content to build an audience and drive traffic to their website or blog. In their content they promote, review, and link to the sales pages of the products or services they represent. Affiliate marketing can be a very lucrative wahm business. Like information marketing the key is to find a niche you are passionate about and to research supply and demand. You will also want to research affiliate products and services.

4. Network Marketing

Network marketer’s job is to build their network besides marketing products. The key success of network marketers lies on the team building. There are advance systems used in network marketing such as My Lead System Pro and  Attraction Marketing to generate leads. With the use of Internet and technology, network marketing home business is a lucrative WAHM business. It becomes the trend or like A NEW KID ON THE BLOCK. The network marketing group provides Internet marketing and team building training for home based moms or home based working moms who want to learn to be effective network marketers and leaders.  Network Marketing is about teamwork. Moms can rely on the group and get support from the group. The power of network marketing home business is to generate residual income.  Million Dollar Moms who adopt Internet marketing and attraction marketing is a fast growing network marketing group for moms.

My advice to home based moms and home based working moms is to choose WAHM business model that you are comfortable with. I choose WAHM business model 2, 3 and 4 and run those together. Yes, it is possible to have a mixed of several WAHM business model and it makes me to be a multi task Mompreneur.

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