Five Steps to Get Your Priorities Straight in Business and At Home

August 26, 2009 by Proven Home Business.

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Operating a successful home-based business is a time-consuming endeavor. This is doubly true as work-at-home moms in that we are responsible not only for the success of our business, but for our family as well. We must be self-reliant, self-motivated, and discipline ourselves in order to attain success in both areas.

When running a business from home, it’s easy to let the phone calls, emails and paperwork keep you tied down, making you feel that you don’t have time to take a break or to spend quality time with your family. Maybe you’ve noticed that you spend a little more time than you’d like in front of your computer or on the phone. Maybe you see your kids acting out, trying to gain your attention. Perhaps you are seeing that this isn’t the work-at-home dream you envisioned. You started out with such noble intentions, but maybe the excitement of success in your business has caused you to lose sight of the REAL reason you do what you do each day. It happens to so many of us, but don’t worry, help is on the way.

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Below are five ideas to prioritize your life and business:

1. Be honest - You probably didn’t start your work-at-home career to climb the “corporate ladder” of your at-home business. Chances are that you started your business with the best of intentions - to be able to be at home with your children, to contribute financially to your family, or simply to have a little spending money of your own.

Take a moment and honestly ask yourself how you’ve been handling the time commitment of owning a business:

� Are you spending too much time on the phone, the computer, etc?

� Are your kids spending more time than usual in front of the TV?

� Do you snap at your children because of the stresses of your business?

� Do you worry about your business - to the point that it distracts you when you are with your family?

2. Make a list - Sit down and write out a list of things that you see that you’d like to change. This can be a list of things you can do differently to limit the time you spend on your business; or a list of ways you can “de-stress” so that you can deal kindly with your family.

3. Log your time - Buy a notebook or create a spreadsheet that you can use to log the time you spend on your business each day. Make a column for each day across the top and a row of half an hour increments down the side. Every time you sit down at your desk, write “IN” in the box that corresponds to the time and day. Every time you leave your desk (or complete a task), fill the appropriate box with the word “OUT.”

Tip! Be honest - You probably didn’t start your work-at-home career to climb the �corporate ladder� of your at-home business. Chances are that you started your business with the best of intentions � to be able to be at home with your children, to contribute financially to your family, or simply to have a little spending money of your own.

At the end of the week, total up the hours each day that you have spent on business tasks. Are you surprised or is it about where you thought you’d be? This can be a real eye-opener and show you in black and white if your priorities have gotten off track. Take special note for how much time you spend on e-mails and things that aren’t billable.

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Diana Ennen of Virtual Word Publishing, http://www.virtualwordpublishing.com also recommends that you plan ahead and schedule your time. Prioritize things and have the work that will require the most effort and concentration scheduled for your peak time. Try and not get sidetracked and stay on task focusing on what you need to do. You’d be amazed how much more work you can get done by simply changing how you work e-mails. If you only answer them at set hours, you save yourself from being online all day and not accomplishing much.

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4. Take a break - If you get to the end of the week and your time log has you in shock; it’s time to take a break. If you normally work during the weekend, make it a point to take this weekend off. Shut down your email, turn off the ringer on your phone and shut the door to your office. You’ll be surprised at how refreshing this will be.

Use this time off to re-evaluate how you need to be spending your time. Try to plan out when you can work on your business without losing out on time with your children. If your children are in school, make it a point to stop working when they get home. If your children are still small, maybe you can limit work hours to naptime or, if possible, have a grandparent watch them once or twice a week to allow you a bit more work time.

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5. Plan an activity - Now that you’re ready to make a change in your routine, why not plan an activity once a week? This can be an outing with your child or just something simple like setting aside time to make cookies together.

If possible, find another work-at-home mom and hold one another accountable to keep to your new schedules. Make a weekly play date where your children can spend time together - you can talk business if necessary or decide to make it a “no business talk allowed” discussion time.

Tip! Operate your home business in a professional manner. Never give fake claims about your home business product, or falsify your current income.

The years that you have at home with your children are a gift as is your business. The time necessary for each will be different for every family and situation. Take the time to find what works for you and set your schedule accordingly. Make it a point to evaluate your priorities every few months to make sure that your time is spent properly. The rewards will be well worth it, when your family not only is proud of your accomplishments in your business, but also more importantly your accomplishments as their mom.

Jill Hart is the founder of Christian Work at Home Moms, CWAHM.com. This site is dedicated to providing work at home moms with opportunities to promote their businesses while at the same time providing them spiritual encouragement and articles. Visit http://www.CWAHM.com for additional information. Jill and her husband, Allen of CWAHD.com (Christian Work at Home Dads) reside in Nebraska with their two children.
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Bookmarking Social Tools

August 25, 2009 by Proven Home Business.

Tip! Now the ping part of tag and ping comes in after you write your new content and tag it with a relevant tag, you need to let the social bookmarking sites that it is ready to be indexed. This is done different ways.

The old way of getting traffic to your website was getting on the first page of Google or Yahoo and waiting for people to search for your websites subject. Less emphasis is being put on search engines, nowadays and more emphasis is being put on social bookmarking sites. What is a social bookmarking site you ask. Social Bookmarking sites are a system where users store lists of Internet resources, which they find useful. These lists are accessible to the public and others with similar interests. The lists of subjects are tagged with keywords that relate to the subject of the content called “tags”. This system has many advantages over traditional search engine methods. All information and websites that are classified with tags is done by human beings who understand the content and not some search engine trying to figure out subjects of content through computer algorithms.

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To emphasize the importance of social bookmarking sites I want to give you a real example and testimony that actually happened to me. I wrote an article a few months back on the subject of lucid dreams and submitted the story to the social bookmarking site Digg.com. The story became very popular with over 2000 votes, and it made the front page of the site. Some of the results I received for the story making the front page of Digg:

� 18,000 visits to my site in one day (I normally averaged 85 per day).

� $80.00 in adsense revenue that same day.

� #11 in Google for a keyword with over 1.2 million competing websites within 2 weeks.

The next thing that you need to become familiar with is Tag and Ping. Tagging is a fairly new way to categorize information on the Internet. A tag is a simple but brief description of what the content within that tag is about. For instance if a user goes to one of the social bookmarking sites and searches for the tag “dog training”, then all of the content on that site relating to dog training will appear.

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Now the ping part of tag and ping comes in after you write your new content and tag it with a relevant tag, you need to let the social bookmarking sites that it is ready to be indexed. This is done different ways. There is bookmarking social tools on the market that will automate this process. Some social bookmarking sites will visit your website randomly and index anything new automatically, others will have to be submitted manually.

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So you can see the power of social bookmarking sites, also nicknamed Web 2.0 for it’s emphasis on the collaboration and sharing of the users of the sites. If you have a website or Blog that you would like to drive traffic to, don’t underestimate the power of social bookmarking.

Charles Hamel lives near Houston, TX with his wife and 2 sons. He is an avid technology junkie always staying up on the latest tech trends. To learn more about social bookmarking, tag and ping and bookmarking social tools visit His Website

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