One thing that all businesses have in common is a need for marketing.  It doesn’t matter if a business was started yesterday or several years ago, the business owner needs to make sure they are being exposed to potential customers, and being remembered to old customers. Start-up businesses, however, have special marketing needs.  Many start-up business owners find marketing an essential task.�...

Pop under traffic is considered to be very low quality traffic. The average cost for pop under traffic is about $15 for 10,000 visitors and $90 for 50,000 visitors. With such low prices you can estimate that the quality of this traffic would be poor. In fact it is not uncommon for every single pop under visitor to result in a non-action - that is they will not buy or click anything on your site. T...

If you are a work at home mom, you probably became one so you could spend more time with your children. However, there will most likely be times in your business when you will need to arrange for childcare. The following are some creative solutions to your childcare dilemmas. WAHMs in direct sales are very often faced with childcare predicaments. A main portion of their business is conducting sale...

Many people assume that work at home moms have it easy; however, if any of those people have ever lived a day as a WAHM they would know it isn’t so simple. There are children to take care of, a house to clean, a dog to walk, groceries to buy, dinner to cook and dishes to wash. Oh, and then there’s that business to work! It may not be easy, but it isn’t impossible, either. By using some simpl...

Hello everyone. I’m in the middle of a big website design change for wahmwannabe.com So things may be a bit messy around here for the next few days. So please excuse the ugly logo and annoying “image pending” spots on the site. I’ll have it all fixed up soon and looking purty… Thanks for understanding, Gina ...

You bravely took the first step and started a business. Entrepreneurship is rewarding but also scary. Just as many things can go wrong as can go right. The biggest “wrong” is losing money. The first question anyone asks is, “How can my business be losing money? It was doing so well.” Losing money is not a matter of just one thing. Usually it is a combination of things that somehow go...

Everyone loves to get something for free. Run your favorite search engine using the word “free” and you’ll have thousands of hits. It is just a matter of fact, people like receiving things and they also love the challenge of a good contest. You can use both of these facts to promote your direct sales business. Giveaways: What can give away to promote your business? Pens – Wherever you g...

Having a website for your home based business is almost a necessity in today’s high tech, internet-crazy world. Having a website might not be enough, though. Take a look to see how a web log, or “blog”, can help grow your direct sales business as well. Many direct sales businesses offer their sales associates a website that links directly back to the parent company’s site. You might even...

Almost every product or service sold in the world today falls under the principals of marketing. Even people who are in the public eye all of the time have to find a way to market themselves. This is why it’s important for any new business or service provider to understand the principals of marketing. You cannot simply put your information up and expect people to come flocking to your product. T...

Marketing on the Internet and How it Affects Your BusinessWhat happens when you search on the Internet? How do you get to what you want? Most likely, you’ll skip all the banner ads, and enter your own search term. You’ll skip the “sponsored search engine results.” Maybe at this point, you can’t even see them. You probably don’t even see the shaded results on the right, or any of the ad...