It may seem like you have a lot to do today, but one thing you should add to your list is voting. If you are in one of the 24 states holding presidential primaries today on Super Tuesday, take some time off from your home business to cast your vote. Working from home can get hectic, but it is important to make a choice. After all, who’s in office can affect the small business policies that in turn affect your home business.
Looking Ahead: Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day
This year, on February 11, marks the fifth annual Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day. The first thing I do when I get up is put on a robe and head down to my home office to get in some work. I just didn’t realize there was a day for it!
WebMomz is sponsoring a contest in honor of Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day. It looks like fun, so head on over and enter. And remember that working from home offers a variety of perks. Including the ability to get work done in your bathrobe!
Weekly Chances For Free Promotion For Your Business
The Flugpo Blog is now holding weekly contests every Wednesday. This provides an opportunity for free ad space if you are the winner. Here are some details about the weekly contests from the blog:
Every week, there will be a new contest. Nothing fancy or complicated, just some simple fun. Here is how it will work:
- Every Wednesday a new contest will be posted AND the winners from the prior week’s contest will be announced
- There will be three winners each week
- The three winners will get free ad space starting the Wednesday they are announced as the winners. Winners choice, 125×125 button or a text link. You will need to provide the button HTML or text link HTML once you are notified as the winner. Your free ads will be on the right sidebar which is currently identified as "Home of Future Wednesday Winners"
- Your free ad will end the following Wednesday when the next winners are announced.
- The contests will be different but the prize will remain the same
This week’s contest (it starts today) asks for a little creative writing. Check it out!
Google PageRank Has Been Updated
There has been a lot of speculation about when the next Google PageRank update would be. A lot of people have been talking about it this week and were wondering if it was taking place. Websites and blogs have been running more slowly and everyone thought it might have something to do with a PageRank update.
They were right! Google has updated PageRanks. Will this be good or bad for your sites? There is only one way to find out! Go take a look and I hope your rank is all that you hoped for.
Make Home Business New Year’s Resolutions — And Maybe Win a Contest
Everyone makes New Year’s Resolutions. And that’s great. Goals should be encouraged, especially when you work from home. And Pimp Your Work is having a great contest. You can create a blog post about your home business New Year’s resolutions and possibly win a great prize.
Here are my work from home New Year’s resolutions:
- Make more time for my family when we are together (limit my work from home activities).
- Increase efficiency by relegating email to certain times of the day.
- Write a book about writing.
What are your home business New Year’s resolutions?
Internet Game Or Business Networking?
On Friday, I wrote a post in Shak In Style. My post was tagged for a game of blog tag!
I took my turn in the tag game today. I would like to invite you to view it. You can find it in Shak In Style right HERE. I hope you enjoy it. I found it to be very fun!
P.S.- Although it was just a game, it is a great way to network!
I Was Tagged!
I am coming over to Shak In Style today because I was tagged here. Are you familiar with Blog Tag? I was not until I found out it was my turn!
I wrote a post here Featured Squidoo Lens: Organizing A Room and was tagged by a commenter. Here is what he said:
"I am tagging you so readers are coming to see Seven Weird or Random facts about the author of this blog! We can’t spend all of our time on StumbleUpon right? You can see the post on my blog Virginia Breeze and have a great day."
Here are the rules of this blog tag game:
Post these rules on your blog.
List seven random and/or weird facts about yourself.
Tag seven random [?] people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting on comment on their blog.
1) My favorite candy is a Snickers bar. It MUST be eaten the same way every time. First I eat the chocolate off of the sides of the candy bar. Then I eat the chocolate from the bottom of the candy bar and also from the top. This leaves the nougat and the peanuts. The nougat is eaten first and the peanuts last. I have done this since I was a child. The person who tagged me loves Snickers Ice Cream Bars apparently. By the way, these must be eaten in the same manner!
2) When I was a child, I believed that Dracula lived in a picture that hung in my basement. The picture was not scary, it was of a house at the end of a road. I don’t know why I believed that Dracula lived in the picture, but no one could convince me otherwise!
3) My family used to go camping to a place called Buggs Island. We went there year after year and loved it. There is a little graveyard there inside the campground. The first time I saw the grave of Little May Land, I was convinced that I was her reincarnated. (I used to read a lot of horror books back then!) To be honest, I still think that!
4) I am a Day’s Of Our Lives junkie! I have watched the show since I was a kid. I tape it every day and watch it every evening.
5) I love Nascar! I acquired the love for it two years ago. Prior to that, I couldn’t understand how anyone could watch cars going around in a circle. I happened to win a bet which paid me $90 and I was hooked after that. Congratulations to my drive Jimmie Johnson! Go #48!!!!!
6) My son and my husband have a joke about me. They claim that if I stay up past midnight, I will explode. I admit that I am not a night owl. I used to be but having children has made me tired! At the end of the day, I am ready for bed. BUT, give me a party and I am one of the last people standing!
7) I am happy to say that I am typing this without the aide of glasses or contacts. I had laser eye surgery back in April and it was a huge success!!!!
I had to tag seven other blogs in this game. Here I go!
Kerith at The Flugpo Blog
Peter Morrow at Peter Morrow’s Online Money
Jack Payne at Six Hours Past Thursday
Kristina at Mama Divas
Jon at Freelance Folder
Scott at Father Speak
Shakadoo’s very own Kathylynn at Love Shak, Baby
That completes my game of blog tag! It was really fun!
Black Friday
Black Friday
Black Friday
What does this have to do with working from home? It shows that selling on the internet can be a viable option for a home based business. You can sell your own product if you have one or sell through affiliate marketing. The options are endless and the costs can be relatively low depending on how you do it.
My other point is to point out the marketing brilliance of Black Friday. At one point in time, a very smart person recognized the fact that Americans do a lot of shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. The term Black Friday was coined and merchants realized the profit potential. They devised every incentive possible to lure shoppers to their store and product.
Sometimes it just takes a little creativity to increase your profit margin. Stay on top of what consumers want and go with it. Who knows, you might be the next person to come up with a brilliant strategy like Black Friday
Free Exposure For Freelancers
I would like to tell everyone about an opportunity I am offering on my blog Freelancer For Hire. I have decided to start featuring different freelancers on this blog.
This would be great exposure for you as a freelancer. You can see what a post about you might look like by visiting yesterday’s post about a public speaker freelancer. The next post could be about you!
I am not charging a fee for this. It is just a free service that my blog would like to offer to freelancers. Of course, some kind of link would be appreciated although not required. I would like my blog to become a place where freelancers can find job listings AND where clients can find freelancers for hire!
If you would like to be the next Freelancer featured here, send me an email to kellybax@msn.com. Make the subject line of the email request "request for freelance bio". Please include any information you would like to be shown as well as a picture for the post. Requests are not a guaranty of inclusion however all requests will be given equal consideration.
Win The Contest And Get A Free Plug For Your Business!
This is from the Flugpo Blog. If you participate and win, you get a free plug for you business on the blog!
Flugpo Challenges YOU! Are You Up To It?
I think everyone can relate to this acronym regarding the rising cost of gas. Now, let’s not dwell on that outrageous subject any longer today. I want to have some fun!
I am starting another Flupo contest! I want to make an acronym out of the name Flugpo. Who is up for this challenge? I will make it worth your while……
First, we need to remember what Flugpo is all about. I will make a list to help you out:
- Free classified ads
- Fun online community
- Interesting forum discussions
- Groups that share interests
- Meeting new friends
- Personal ads
- Housing listings
- Job listings
- Buy and sell
I could go on and on but I think you get the picture. Submit your entries here in the comment section. Please keep it clean! The winning entry will be announced next Saturday Nov. 17th so you have one week. The winner will get a free plug on the Flugpo Blog!
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What can you do with it? Click Here To Visit The Flugpo Blog!