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Monday Morning Musings for Work at Homers – Ponderings

Joe Hauckes — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:16:21 +0000

Monday has always been a little bit of a let down, what with it being the beginning of the work week and all.

So to start things out on a bright note for the week, I bring you the…

Monday Morning Musings for Work at Homers…

Ponderings

- “I am” is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that “I do” is the longest sentence?

- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, and drycleaners depressed?

- Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as “4′s”?

- Why is it that if someone tells you that there are one billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?

- If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?

- If people from Poland are called “Poles,” why aren’t people from Holland called “Holes?”

- Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

- If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

- Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn’t live there.

- If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

Hope that put a smile on your face and brightened the start of the work week just a bit.

This Weeks Helpful Reads… Week 309

Joe Hauckes — Sun, 20 May 2012 09:53:44 +0000

Mark Twain

This is an ongoing series of interesting and helpful reads that I have come across on the Internet. I try to include the most helpful articles and links each week to provide the widest range of information for the home business entrepreneur.

Design tips for home officesin small spaces by Jessica Stillman… Not all of us work at homers have the luxury of having a separate office with a door that closes and keeping all the distractions out of our work area. Sometimes we need to “cut ourselves off” from the rest of the house and Jessica has some ideas on how to do just that.

4 Ways Computer Repair Shops Can Profit from the Table Revolution by Derrick Wlodarz… Sure lots of people still have desktops and laptops, but more and more of them are using their tablets for their day to day tasks. How can we, as computer repair guys make any money on what is becoming the next way to do business? Derrick has some suggestions.

I hope you find some of these articles informational and helpful. I think they will be enjoyable reading nonetheless.

Working at Home Blog Carnival-It Happened Again

Joe Hauckes — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:45:30 +0000

WAHI Carnival

This Edition of the Working at Home Blog Carnival has been postponed once again. I am working on setting up a submission form that can be accessed here on the Blog that will come directly to me.

I will update this post with the new submission information as soon as it is all set up.

In the mean time, keep trying the old Blog Carnival submission site to see if they actually fixed whatever problems they are having. I will continue to check them so we don’t miss any submissions.

If you would like to host one of my Carnivals, just use the contact form to make arrangements.

Remember, when you submit an article, please fill in the Category and Remark Fields to add your own description of your post.

Please Submit only ONE Article per Carnival, additional articles Will Not Be Accepted.

Since this is a community endeavour, please feel free to advise me through comments or my contact form if there is something you think I can do to improve the Carnival.

Technorati tags: working at home blog carnival, blog carnival.

How Bloggers Really Make Money

Joe Hauckes — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:35 +0000

This is a Guest Post by Audrey Porterman of Doctoral Programs. If you would like to Guest Post for WAHI, please visit the Guest Posting page.

Blogging is one of the best ways to make money online. When you’re just starting out, it may be unclear exactly how it is that you make money from blogging. You might understand that advertising is involved somehow, and you might know that getting a lot of traffic to your site is important, but how it all comes together may be a bit confusing.

There are a few different ways that you can make money through blogging. Here are the basics:

Advertising

There are many different ways to sell advertising on your blog. You can sell advertising directly, setting your own rates and terms. Unless you have a really popular blog in a popular niche, you aren’t likely to be attractive enough to advertisers for them to pay for space on your blog.

The form of advertising that most bloggers use is pay-per-click or pay-per-impression advertising. They sign up through a program such as Google AdSense (the most popular advertising program with bloggers) and place the ads on their blogs. Whenever a reader clicks on that ad, the blogger gets money — usually a few pennies. The more popular the blog, the more traffic it gets and the more likely that more people will click on the ads, creating more revenue. The less popular the blog, the more likely that revenue will be very small (maybe only a few dollars a month or none at all).

Other ads include pay-per-impression (whenever a user views the ad, measured by traffic) and text links (which pay per click or impression and are tied to hyperlinks in the blog content).

Affiliate Marketing

Another form of advertising, affiliate marketing pays the blogger a commission on any sales generated through those ads. For example, if you display an ad from Amazon for a new TV, and a reader clicks on that ad and buys that TV, you get a commission. Affiliate marketing tracks sales through specially coded links tied to your ads. Commissions can be fixed or based on a percentage.

When you choose affiliate marketing, it is best to choose products to promote that you actually endorse and that are tied to the content of your blog. You’ll be able to promote the products better, and your readers will be more likely to buy them because they tie in to their interests.

Sponsored Reviews

More companies are recognizing the power of blogs to promote their products — or to hurt their reputations. It only takes the recommendation of a popular blog to increase sales or the bad review of a popular blog to create a negative reputation.

Many companies will pay bloggers to review their products in the hopes of getting a good review. If you write a paid review, you have to disclose the payment on your blog (the fact that you have been paid, not how much you were paid). You don’t have to say you love the product just because you were paid for the post.

Selling Your Own Products and Services

The best way that bloggers make money is to sell their own products and services. Do you want to write a craft blog? You can sell your own creations, an e-book explaining your techniques, or an online course showing others how to make your creations. Do you want to write about small businesses? You can sell your consulting services or an e-book outlining your expert recommendations.

No matter what type of blog you write, you can sell your own products. Consulting, e-books, or products you have created are among the most popular items to sell.

Whatever method you choose for making money with your blog, getting a lot of targeted traffic will be the key to your success. The more people in your target audience who are visiting your blog, the more people you have to potentially click on your ads, buys your affiliate products, or buy your own products or services. You won’t necessarily get rich from any one of these methods individually (though you could), but you have a very good chance of success if you diversity and you use all of them well.

About the Author: Audrey Porterman is the main researcher and writer for doctoralprograms.org. Her most recent accomplishment includes graduating from Ohio State, with a degree in business management. Her current focus for the site involves business doctoral programs and psychology phd programs.

Monday Morning Musings for Work at Homers – 27 Signs You’ve had too much of the 21st Century

Joe Hauckes — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:24:50 +0000

Monday has always been a little bit of a let down, what with it being the beginning of the work week and all.

So to start things out on a bright note for the week, I bring you the…

Monday Morning Musings for Work at Homers…

Signs You’ve had too much of the 21st Century

1. You try to enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 4.

4. You e-mail your colleague at the desk next to you to ask if they’re ready to go to lunch.

5. You chat on-line regularly with a stranger from the U.S., but you haven’t spoken to your next-door-neighbor yet this year.

6. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have an e-mail address.

7. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.

8. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail rather than in person.

9. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.

10. When you make phone calls from home you accidentally dial “9″ to get an outside line.

11. You now think of three espressos as “getting wasted.”

12. You call your son’s beeper to let him know it’s time to eat. He emails you back from his bedroom, “What’s for dinner?”

13. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.

14. You didn’t give your valentine a card this year, but you posted one for your e-mail buddies via a web page.

15. Your daughter just bought a CD of all the records your College roommate used to play.

16. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.

17. You checked your blow-dryer to see if it was Y2K compliant.

18. Your grandmother clogs up your e-mail inbox asking you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.

19. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.

20. Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.

21. You buy a computer and a week later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.

22. The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.

23. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.

24. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.

25. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.

26. You’re reading this.

27. Even worse; you’re going to forward it to someone else.

Hope that put a smile on your face and brightened the start of the work week just a bit.