Working at Home on the Internet

Working at Home Blog Carnival-Thirtieth Edition

Welcome to the April 27, 2007 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy.

And Here We Go…

advice

Matthew Paulson presents The Best Consumer Credit Cards posted at Getting Green.

Matt OConnor presents Do You Really Want To Make A Lot Of Money? posted at Adventures In Internet Marketing.

Conan Stevens presents Monetize Your Blog - 14 Top Methods - How Many Do You Use? posted at Conan Stevens Online, saying, “Usefulfor Bloggers and Webmasters alike.”

Terry Dean presents 10 Internet Marketing Rules to Live By posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.

business

Ponn Sabra presents Your $200 PRWeb Press Release is Waiting For You?Find Out How To Claim It posted at Empower Women Now, saying, “Please consider my blogs anchor text as “Women Entrepreneurs Blog”. Thank you for your time and careful consideration.”

Allan Wallace presents The Entrepreneur’s Mind posted at BFU - self directed learning for visionaries, saying, “How does the thought process of an entrepreneur differ from that of an MBA when starting a business?”

Lead Optimize presents The Sales Leads are in the Details posted at Lead Optimize.com, saying, “To generate sales leads from your site, pay attention to the details.”

Silicon Valley Blogger presents 3 Ways To Fund Your Business: How To Finance A Startup For The Best Growth posted at The Digerati Life. (I had included this on my Weekly Helpful Reads last week, if you missed it then be sure to read it this time.)

David Lorenzo presents Career Intensity by David V. Lorenzo, Business Coach and Advisor posted at The Career Intensity Blog.

Christopher J. Brunner presents What Makes Women Entrepreneurs Different from Men? posted at GreatFX Business Cards, saying, “How women entrepreneurs are different from men in the way they handle and run their own businesses.”

Scott Bannon presents Several Freelancing and Self-employment Opportunities that are Wide Open posted at OBannons Leap, saying, “Opportunities available in the freelance and self-employment market”

Joshua Dorkin presents   Improving Your Brand With Promotional Advertising by TimeForBlogging posted at Time For Blogging.

Michelle Sweeney presents Business Networking posted at Tonic Gifts.

home

GP presents Growing and Becoming posted at Fish Creek House - INNside Innkeeping, saying, “Much can be gleaned whether your growing a business or an organic garden, A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.”

inspiration

Ririan presents 10 Golden Lessons From Steve Jobs posted at Ririan Project.

tips

Joseph presents Make money with Google AdSense posted at Make Money Blogging.

Susan Borgas presents Garry Conn.com and Dosh Dosh’s Technorati Favourite’s List posted at Arts & Stuff, saying, “Networking can be a very time consuming effort for the author of a blog. This post will show you how to rank higher in the Technorati Favourites with little effort by the blog owner.”

Courtney Tuttle presents 5,263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog posted at Court’s Internet Marketing / Personal Development, saying, “This article helps people to learn to make money blogging from home.”

Stephanie Foster presents Get Google’s Help in Optimizing Your Website posted at Aspects of Home Business Blog, saying, “Google offers tools to help webmasters make the most of their sales pages.”

work

David Maxwell presents CPA Advertising” Maybe in the real world posted at Free Web Hosting Reviewed.

Leo presents Top 10 Ways to Reduce Your Work Week posted at zen habits.

L. Mills presents What Exactly is an Independent Contractor? posted at Work at Home Mom Revolution.

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April 27th, 2007 at 06:05am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | 9 reader remarks | Print This Post

PayPal, A Must Have for Online Business

 A lot of people think that PayPal is just for E-Bay or Amazon to make payments for things you purchase through their services.

But, if you feature Advertisers on your Blog or Website you should consider using PP as a way of getting your commissions and payments. Some Advertisers only pay through a PayPal account, but most will offer it as an option instead of using checks for remittances.

If you have your own products and/or services that are featured online PP is a quick and easy way to get payments from your customers. The only thing they need  is either an account of their own or a Credit/Debit Card. Remittances are made directly to your E-mail address and are credited directly to your PayPal Account.

There is a $500 limit to transactions per month on a personal account which if fine for a Small Business just starting out. Upgrades are available once things begin to improve and the profit level increases. The fees are very reasonable for the premier business accounts and services increase accordingly.

You decide when to make withdraws and transfer of funds to your personal or business bank accounts. Personally, I prefer using either a Checking or Savings account through my bank (even though there is an option of using a Credit Card) for a few reasons.

• Deposits can be made directly to your bank with No Fees
• Interest will accrue on funds with most banks
• Availability of funds for Offline use ie. paying bills, employees, office expenses

However, if a Credit Card is used as security will cost interest on any funds you transfer Into PayPal. PP doesn’t charge you but your CC will. This is a personal choice and it depends entirely on your situation and how you conduct your business.

PayPal is a very secure and trusted service for Online Business of any type. Payments to you are fast and are credited as soon as the payment is verified. PP is easy to work with if you have any questions or problems and they follow up right away with an E-mail for confirmation that your problems have been resolved.

I feel that a PayPal account is a Must Have for any Online Home Business and I highly recommend using it for Internet Transactions for Business or Personal use.

This is NOT a Paid Endorsement, however there are Afilliate Links in the article.

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April 25th, 2007 at 12:10pm | Posted by Joe | Affiliates, Basics, Management, Work at Home | 3 reader remarks | Print This Post

Indispensable WordPress Plug-ins for Home Business Blogs

If you use Wordpress as a Blogging Platform for your Work at Home Business, you undoubtedly use some Plug-ins to help ease the daily grind and enhance the experience of your readers, visitors and friends. I thought I would share the ones I have found to be the most useful to me.

 Here is a list of Plug-ins I use here at Working at Home on the Internet:

• Akismet

  2.0

  Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. By Matt Mullenweg.

• bdp-comments

  1.0.2

  List recent comments and posts - hacked from the WordPress core By Bryan Palmer (palmer.bryan@gmail.com).

• BDP Referral Tracker

  1.0.6

  Referral tracker - Provide links to referring domains, each with statistics on the number of hits By Brian Palmer (bryan@ozpolitics.info).

• DoFollow

  2.2

  Disable the “nofollow” tagging for comments. Timeout using comment age inspired by Christoph Rummel. Configuration: Options » DoFollow. By Kimmo Suominen.

• Feedburner Feed Replacement

  2.2

  Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. By Steve Smith.

• Filosofo Uncheck Default Category

  1.2

  Unchecks the default category when you select another. By Austin Matzko.

• In Series

  2.2.0

  Provides navigation controls for next/previous within a connected series of posts By Travis Snoozy.

• RS Discuss

  0.5.2

  The ultimate featherweight forum system for WordPress. By Rob Sargant.

• SimpleTags

  2.0

  Allows you to create a list of Technorati tags at the bottom of your post by providing a comma separated list of tags between the [tags] tags. You can use it with any blogging tool/method, not just when posting from WordPress itself (doesn’t use custom fields). Supports multiple words within tags. Also allows in-post tagging of words by enclosing them in [tag] tags. Works with the WYSIWYG editor. By Broobles.

• Subscribe To Comments

  1.5

  Allows users(readers) to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted after their own. By Jennifer - Scriptygoddess.

• Text Link Ads

  3.0.1

  Really Simple Web/RSS Advertising For Personal or Commercial Use By Justin Klemm & Matthew Drouin & Alex King.

• Time Capsule

  1.0.3

  Creates a timecapsule that displays entries from the past. Created by Aaron Brazell on behalf of ProBlogger.net By Aaron Brazell.

• What Would Seth Godin Do

  1.2

  Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors By Richard K Miller

• WordPress Database Backup

  1.8

  On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.

• WP-ContactForm

  1.4.3

  WP Contact Form is a drop in form for users to contact you. It can be implemented on a page or a post. It currently works with WordPress 2.0+ By Ryan Duff.

• WP-Polls

  2.14

  Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. By GaMerZ.

If there are any Plug-ins you have found that are useful to the Blogger who uses WordPress for Home Business, please share them with us.

PS. I’m looking for a “Broken Link Checker” Plug-in. With Well Over 800 posts and the way I spread the Link Love, I need help finding broken links.

Update: I have since uninstalled BDP Referral Tracker because it Consumes Resources like a Bear in a Salmon Stream. 

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April 23rd, 2007 at 12:52pm | Posted by Joe | Blogging, Plug-ins, WordPress, Work at Home | 4 reader remarks | Print This Post