I recently had to buy a NEW laptop because I spilled water in my other one and fried my motherboard. Now I didn’t spill the water on purpose, I was trying to avoid my 2 year old from grabbing it out of my hand when some accidentally flung out of the glass onto my keyboard. Now that I had to almost start from fresh, I need to find a graphics program to install on this new laptop. On my old laptop, I used a few FREE graphic software programs that I downloaded online. While sometimes FREE is the most cost effective way, sometimes FREE software does not do exactly what you want it to do. So   read more

A great way to make money when you own a website, blog or newsletter is through advertising. Depending on your site’s audience, you can charge others to place a text ad or image ad of some sort. I recently heard of a website called Project Wonderful. This site allows you to bid for advertising spots on other blogs or websites as well as earn money from others paying you to advertise. How it works is simple. You basically create a FREE account and create an ad box. It will give you code to copy to your site. Within minutes, you will be ready to start accepting bids on your ad space. Share   read more

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Mavenlink. All opinions are 100% mine. When you own a business, being able to communicate with your clients is important to create a working relationship between you and your clients. With my business, I am always keeping in touch with my clients via email. When you have a large business, there will be times when you need more than just email to communicate with your clients. I was looking today at the Mavenlink website. If you have never heard of it, Mavelink is a company that has a program that allows companies to communicate with their clients   read more

I have over a dozen blogs. Some of my blogs are within another domain so I don’t have stats just for the blog like I have wanted until now. I did not know how easy it was to install the Wordpress Stats Plugin. I installed it on one of my blogs a couple days ago and within hours I had stats coming in. If you have a self hosted Wordpress blog and want some stats, try using the plugin at: http://wordpress.org /extend/plugins/stat s/ Example screenshot taken from Wordpress site: You basically upload the plugin, activate it and input your Wordpress API key. Easy as pie! Enjoy Share This   read more

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Raising a Father. All opinions are 100% mine. Raising A Father I love books that are about stories from the heart. The video above is about a book called Raising a Father that is written by a father who seen his flaws at parenting. This father realized that he was spending too much time at work which was damaging the relationship with his daughter. In this book, the author shares his real true stories about leaving the corporate world. He leaves his job to start a home based business which enables him to spend time with his daughter. This story   read more

Since I am a frugal person who saves money, I use “free graphic programs” rather then shelling out a ton of money buying one. The internet has quite a few FREE programs out there to edit and create images that are just as good as the programs you can buy. I have heard lots of other moms talking about the program Picnik. This is a free graphics editor that is fun to use. It has a bunch of neat effects and fonts to use with your photos. What makes this program even better is you don’t have to download anything. You can create and edit your images online, without even creating an   read more

©Terri Seymour of www.SeymourProducts. com Social media marketing is extremely important to your business and as this marketing method evolves, so must you and your business. Social media marketing is marketing through online communities, social networking sites, blogs, etc. If you are not already utilizing social sites for your business, you need to start NOW! Social networking enables business owners to get extreme exposure for very little or no cost. You can use social networking sites to build your reputation, brand your business and increase your customer base. The marketing potential of   read more

One of my favorite ways that I make money online is by writing. I really have a true passion for writing and make some great money doing it online each and every month. When I was young, I wanted to write children’s books. I even had a poem published in one of those poetry books.  If you have a passion for writing, you can seriously make an extra income online. There are tons of different ways you can make money with freelance writing, blog posting, articles and more. Lots of moms (and dads) are making money writing articles for the website Examiner.com. I have not personally made any   read more

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Speek. All opinions are 100% mine. Many times teleconferencing can come in very handy for your business. I have been on many conference calls for different businesses that I have been involved with in the past and thought the concept was great. You are able to get many people on one conversations I should say. If you are involved in direct sales, you have probably heard of or have been involved in teleconferencing. It is a way that you can get your whole team on the line to share what you have to say. There is a FREE web-based teleconferencing   read more

Okay, so I spent all day yesterday and today setting up Mom's Blog on Wordpress. This is something that should have been done a LONG time ago. I love Wordpress and I wish I would have started the blog on that platform from the beginning. Mom's Blog can now be found at:http://www.mommye nterprises.com/moms- blogOur new feed address is:I have started the new design with a FUN new giveaway too. Be sure to visit to enter to win.THANKS Blogger for pushing me to MOVE my blog. I still have blogs on Blogger that I plan to regularly update though, I won't forget about you.Stefani   read more