Sparkplugging is continuing our tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where [...]

Every where you go for current marketing information you’re told to join Twitter and tweet your way to riches. But like many other forms of social networking too many people don’t understand or purposefully misuse the service much to the annoyance of everyone else. And if you annoy people they won’t do business with you. [...]

Interns Leigh Anne Wilkes and Sherra Humphreys have been top direct sales business leaders for 18 and 16 years respectively. As a WAHM, have you taken your blog training wheels off? Are you feeling pretty good about your blog and you’re creating quality content regularly? Are you ready to take your blog to the next [...]

I’m organizationally challenged. One of the biggest problems I had early in my work-at-home life was keeping all my marketing strategies organized and working. I’d write an article, post it, and then be done. I may not write another article for months even though article marketing was part of my promotional strategy. The same thing [...]

Today I had a complaint from a customer that an order he made wasn’t received. The email was terse, demanding that I ship the product immediately or refund his money. Knowing that I had shipped the product I went to my postage/shipping file, pulled the receipt, searched the tracking code, and got the date and [...]

Mom’s Talk Radio, a long time paid membership association for mom podcasters has just made the jump over to a free membership – making it easier for new mom podcasters to join and benefit from the extra exposure and cross-promotion with other Mom’s Talk Radio member programs. Mom podcasters who produce family friendly content are [...]

All the mom bloggers have been talking about BlissDom for months and the actual event is going on right now.  250 obviously cool mom bloggers are gathered in Nashville, learning and networking and having huge fun. I knew I wouldn’t be able to swing the trip to BlissDom myself – but I haven’t let that [...]

This is a guest post by April Jones of Advantage Online Solutions I’m sure you’ve probably signed up for all of the social media staples by now – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, FriendFeed – but how much time are you actually spending on them? I get a lot of emails and see a lot of tweets [...]

I did it!  I completed an entire month of podcast episodes in three hours time.  Everything from planning to recording to pre-publishing four weekly episodes. I’m talking about the new Mom’s Talk Affiliates Podcast that I’ve just launched with my Affiliate Manager, Tishia Lee.  We’re doing it to equip our affiliates for success and hopefully [...]

This is a guest post written by Kelli Claypool of Briefcase Diva.  She has found a very creative way of applying nuggets from the Bible to our every day business life. The strategies that we will discuss today can be useful in all areas of your life.  Whether you are a business owner, a PTA [...]