If writing is an art, blogging is could be defined as art too. The people who are really into blogging are the ones who are artistic in their own way. They carefully choose words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything else. These types of blogs sometimes go rather well with the people reading them. They feel as if the know the author of the blog.

Basically, blogs were first introduced online as weblogs. This was in the mid 1990′s. They were referred to as “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Web logging as it was called, gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a great source of information. However, with web logging, you still need a web site and your own domain. With blogging, you do not need your own website or domain. You just need to sign-up with a blog provider, which there are many that are free of charge. Don’t get me wrong, you can still have it all too. You can have the domain and blog in one package.

There are different types of blogs. You can have a personal blog or a business blog. I actually have a few of both. Business blogs are usually created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase their online sales. It is also a great way to add content to your website. Personal blogs are created for a variety of reasons. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, dreams, goals and whatever else they want to share with the world.

If you are thinking of starting a blog, whether it is personal or business, you might want to read the three tips below to start off on the write foot :

1. Consider your audience – Who will you be writing for. Who will be reading your blog.
Even if you have a personal blog, thing about what is going to interest your readers.

2. A picture speaks a thousand words – Include images in your blog posts. People love reading blogs that include photos.

3. Make Your Blog Interactive – Be sure to allow for comments on your blog. When you get comments, be sure to respond to your readers.

Remember, a blog is what you want it to be about. There are no guidelines or rules. You set the rules. Just be sure to post to your blog frequently. Many times when you don’t update your blog on a regular basis, you will slowly loose your readers. Enjoy your blogging hobby, it might be rewarding in the long run.

Are you sick of all those scams out there? So called “systems” that require you to pay hundreds for worthless ebooks that are otherwise available free online. All these “gurus” that claim there success is proof that the system works, but in reality, they made there “success” by selling you this garbage. You’re not alone. I’ve been searching the internet for legitimate work at home jobs for longer than I can remember, I’ve seen more scams than you can shake a stick at. I’m here to introduce a gem I found, something that’s not going to take all your money. Thousands of work at home moms (including my self and many of my friends) are using to replace there day jobs.

When you come across a scamish looking sales advertisement, they pretty much all look the same. Those long pages with a lot of huge, bold, underlined, and highlighted text. You know what I’m talking about right? With all the alleged user testimonials and the lists of reasons why you should pay hundreds for there e-book. These scams are almost always selling the same things: ebooks about getting rich fast, losing weight, or diet pills/supplements.

I’ve found a method that really works, and I’m not going to waste your time or money before I tell you what it is. It’s called article marketing, it’s rather simple on the surface but there is a lot more too it than I will describe. Basically, you write blogs/articles (about 250 – 300 words each) about products that you enjoy. It could be your favorite cleaning solution or that new washer/dryer you purchased. In these articles, you include an affiliate link that has your user name embedded. When someone searches Google or Yahoo seeking that particular product, your article will appear. If the article helps persuade them, they might be interested in purchasing, and click the link. From every person who makes a purchase through that link, you receive a commission.

These articles will remain on the internet making money for you, for years. You don’t need your own website or any programming knowledge, you just need the desire to earn money. There are hundreds of blogging sites that will allow you to host your articles and blogs completely free. This job is absolutely ideal for stay at home moms, work on your own schedule when and where you wish.

With minimal start up costs, affiliate marketing is fast becoming one of the easiest and most popular ways to begin making an income from home.Rather than incurring expenses for products to sell or build up an inventory, you only have a few start up costs including purchasing a domain name, building a web site, web site hosting and a good autoresponder. Expenses you will be able to keep to a minimum. Before you jump straight into building a web site there are some things to consider first.

Begin by finding your niche! Not every product is a big seller. Not every affiliate program is top notch. Some affiliate programs’ payouts are very low while others may not pay their affiliates at all. Some companies may have very high payout levels, others may pay small percentages of each sale, while others may pay per click or pay per lead. Learn what each of these are and how you as an affiliate, can make the right choices. Research needs to be done before you take another step. It’s always best to start at the beginning, so let’s start with the basics.

The Basics:

Learn what affiliate marketing is and how it works

Potential affiliate programs you can join

Articles and advice on affiliate marketing

Learn some of the secrets to affiliate marketing success

Before you take your next step, building your affiliate website, be sure you are able to answer these questions:

What is your niche?

Who is your target market?

What type of products are you interested in promoting?

Are the products you are interested in promoting, products others are interested in and looking to buy?

What are your goals for your new business? (Writing down your goals helps you keep them in mind and helps you stay focused)

How do you plan to promote your business?

Now that you have those or at least most of those questions answered, move on to the next step.
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They have brandished the ladle. They have brandished the steering wheel of the family SUV. They raise kids, cook meals, and make sure everything is right as rain at home. But now, emerging from the quilts and the pots and pans, is the new breed of moms. Women who realise that they can actually earn a decent living working from their abode. Work home moms that generate large incomes every month.?If you are a mom incidentally taking a break from screaming children, whining kettles and mindless T.V, you have stumbled upon an article that might just change your life for the better.

Possibly, you were an independent woman – working hard, doing whatever you wanted, but then marriage and kids came into the picture. You’re still happy, but the respite is killing you. You are intelligent, tenacious and have the skill sets to generate a large income. So why brood at home when you can make a living FROM home? The desktop computer and the internet have revolutionized the way people make money today. This is no longer the arena of the offline workspace, nor is the internet the realm of big budget MNC’s who try to soften your mind with the dreaded ‘pop-ups’. Internet marketers, virtual offices and the evolution of direct marketing and digital business have allowed hundreds of thousands of people, including moms, make not just some money on the side – but a realistic monthly income that puts almost anything else the real world can offer to shame.

Many companies prefer women’s voices when it comes to call servicing. They prefer a ‘woman’s touch’ when it comes to product promotion and customer servicing. In fact, women have a foot in the door, more so than men when it comes to call servicing or tele-marketing. What’s more, dealing with kids makes encountering difficult customers look like a piece of cake. And with all that practice chatting to your friends and neighbours, talking comes naturally and has become a natural flair.

Do what you do all the time! Love to cook? Sign up to provide live streaming cooking shows and teach people across the globe how to make a killer apple strudel. Have a secret recipe? Get paid to post it up. The options are endless; from freelance work, per hour jobs, to affiliate programs that generate a good stream of residual income.

Many ‘work from home’ moms generate large incomes through employing themselves in work that involve their strong points and talents. Virtual call centres, taking reservations for an external company, giving opinions of issues for e-zines, blogs and movies, and home telemarketing are just some of the jobs that moms at home can perform extremely well at. You can make anything from $12 – $50 an hour, with only a few hours a day. This extra source of income could make a big difference to your family’s financial situation and relieve some of the financial burdens that you may be facing. So don’t wait, go ahead and start looking for the right type of online job for you!
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I participate in many networking, business, and social groups on the internet. I keep seeing this question pop up as new bloggers, and established bloggers, want to generate traffic to their blogs. Over the last 6 months I have applied the following techniques daily and my blog traffic is steadily growing. My traffic tripled from June to July, and then doubled from July to August. These techniques work, however, you must be dedicated to applying these methods to see the results.

First, join forums and on-line groups applicable to your line of business. I am active on many WAHM, entrepreneur, women’s forums. Post something at least once a week in each group you belong to -either an article, helpful link, or a thought provoking question to the group that will get some conversation started. Maybe explain a roadblock you are having or ask for advice on a real problem. You don’t want to waste anyone’s time with hypothetical questions, and you really can get some good answers to real problems this way. I sit down and think, “What could I use help with this week?” And come up with a good question that gets other members involved. They may check out your links.

Join and participate in Yahoo and MSN groups. Look for groups that apply to your product, service, or target market. Remember, networking groups are for networking, not selling your product or service. The purpose of a networking group is to meet other business people, let them learn about you and what you do, and they will send business back to you – and you reciprocate. Groups and forums are not the place to push your product. Join and participate in business and social networking groups such as StumbleUpon, Ryze, FaceBook, and MyBlogLog. Interact with other members, ask questions, and particpate regularly.

Post on article sites. My articles are about eBay selling, working at home, and entreprenurial issues, and internet topics. I have written many of articles over the years and am just now getting them all posted on article sites.

Constantly and diligently build your blog subscription list. You want to build that list every, single day. Why? A subscription list is like a captive audience that you can market to any time you want. You get them on your blog feed, and when you have a new product, a sale, or announcement you can put it on your blog and that info will be in your subs mailbox in a matter of hours.

Write guest posts on other blogs. You can Google “Guest blogger” and find writers who are looking for guest bloggers. This is a volunteer situation, but another way to put yourself out there. I have been a guest blogger on several occasions and you are usually allowed a link back to your own blog.

Comment on other blogs. Surf around the internet and find blogs that correspond with your business niche. Once you start searching and commenting , you’ll see more blogs on each blogroll and before you know it you will have more blogs in front of you than you can handle.

Participate in blog carnivals. This is a great way to meet other bloggers and find blogs that you can visit regularly to leave a comment, and your link.

Write book reviews on Amazon. Anyone with an Amazon account can leave book reviews on Amazon.com. (If you don’t have one, you can set one up for free.) You just set up a profile, which of course includes a place for your blog or website address, and start reviewing.

Use Craigslist. You can post ads in the small business section and leave a link to your blog.

These are just a few suggestions. Try them and see what works for you. If a group, forum, or site isn’t sending you any traffic after 30-45 days, ditch those and concentrate on the ones that are generating traffic for you. New sites pop up every day, so the opportunities are endless!

Learn more techniques to generate traffic to your blog by visiting Moms in Business.

You probably use it every day but how well do you
know your Internet?

Ever wonder how all this foolishness got started in the
first place and why? How big it really is? How many present
users there are? The average time spent on a website?
Here are 21 facts you might or might not want to know
about the Internet.

1. Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He’s also considered by most
people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.

2. How did the Internet Start and Why?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early
60′s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States.
People would share the same computer for their computing tasks.
The Internet also received help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite
was launched in 1957; President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance
computer networking and communication.

3. Who was J.C.R. Licklider?

Licklider is often referred to as the father of the Internet because
his ideas of interactive computing and a “Galactic Network” were
the seeds for the Internet. His ideas would be developed thru
DARPA,(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1962.
Later he would help form ARPANET and the Internet was on it’s way.

4. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’
Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military
needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on
computers for research and development. It would also be a handy
communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in
a nuclear attack!

5. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT
researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill,
connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32
in California. The phone lines weren’t quite up to the task.

6. Who was Leonard Kleinrock?

Kleinrock came up with the theory of packet switching,
the basic form of Internet connections. With a group
of UCLA graduate students on Oct. 29, 1969, Kleinrock
connected with the Stanford Research Institute but as
they typed in the G in LOGIN — the system crashed!

7. What is an Ethernet?

It’s a protocol or standards for a set of computer networking
technologies for local area networks (LANs), the origins
of which came from Bob Metcalfe’s Harvard’s dissertation
on “Packet Networks”.

8. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by
Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo
in San Francisco.

9. Did Al Gore really invent the Internet?

No, but give credit where credit is due. He did the most of
any elected official to actively promote the Internet. However,
he wasn’t even in Congress when ARPANET was formed in 1969
or even when the term ‘Internet’ came into use in 1974. Gore was
first elected in 1976.

Gore himself may be the cause of this Urban Legend or
Internet myth – during a Wolf Blitzer CNN interview on
March 9, 1999 – Al Gore did say: “During my service in the
United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating
the Internet.”

Causing himself some ridicule but also paving the way for
such future one-liners as: “I invented the environment!”

10. Who coined the phrase ‘information superhighway’?

Wikipedia says Nam June Paik coined the phrase “information
superhighway” in 1974.

Al Gore popularized the phrase in the early 1990′s.

11. Which decade really saw the explosion of the net?

The 90′s. The Internet exploded into the mainstream with the
release of the first popular web browser Mosaic in 1993.

12. How fast is the Internet growing?

Very fast! It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users,
13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet. Source:
CyberAtlas.com

13. Number of Internet Users and Breakdown.

The Internet is roughly 35% English, 65% Non-English with
the Chinese at 14%. Yet only 13% of world’s population,
812 million are Internet users as of Dec. ’04. North America
has the highest continental concentration with 70% of the
people using the Internet.

14. Country with the highest percentage of net users?

Sweden at 75%.

15. How big is the Internet’s surfing world?

Google’s index now stands at 8 billion pages.

16. What was the Net’s first index called?

Archie, other than library catalogs, this was the first
index created in 1989 by Peter Deutsch at McGill in Montreal.
Although it spouted such others as Veronica and Jughead, Archie
was short for Archiver and had nothing to do with the
comic strip.

Backrub was the original name for Google. Larry Page and Sergey
Brin used this term for their search engine in 1996, Google as we
know it debuted in 1998. The name Google is a twist on the word
Googol, a number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros.

17. Who coined the phrase ‘The Web might be better than sex’?

Bob Metcalfe in 1995.

18. What does HTTP stand for?

HyperText Transfer Protocol — it’s the protocol used to transfer
content across the net; it requires two client programs. The HTTP client
and the server.

19. What is an ISP?

Internet Service Provider — This is the service or company you use to
access the Internet.

20. What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language — it’s the coded format language for
transmitting and creating hypertext web pages.

21. What are your average surfing habits according to Nielsen
NetRatings?

Each month you usually visit 59 domains, view 1,050 pages allocating 45
seconds for each page and spend about 25 hours doing all this net activity.
Each surfing session lasts 51 minutes.

One last thought — Henry Edward Hardy in his Master’s Thesis (1993) on
The History of the Net stated “The Net is Immortal”. Ever wonder what
this baby will be like in a 100 years? a 1000 years? Just something
to think about as you keep your eye on that cursor.

Copyright ? 2005 Titus Hoskins