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Sometimes, some of my work at home women friends ask me if it’s tiring managing dozens of niche sites and blogs. The answer is a resounding ‘yes’!

I’m no super woman so yes, it is tiring and lots of hard work. Every week, I start off looking through my project files and listing down the things that needed done for my niche sites. Since most women working from home are multi taskers, you can understand what it is to sit in the home office for a couple of hours and running to the kitchen to wash some vegetables or spend a few minutes to air your laundry. It is common. It’s a busy day for me every day but it’s fun. Working at home is meaningful and fulfilling but it takes discipline.

Everyday at 4pm, I put aside my home office work and spend some moments with my son. We do activities, learn maths, play computer games, read books, do some coloring and even eat snacks together. In the past, the television is a convenient babysitter. Eversince limited his TV hours at 12 a week, we’ve been doing more fun things together. Since none of us play piano at home, we’ll head to the yard some ball games or badminton on some evenings. The splash pool is a weekend favourite too. It takes sacrifice… lots of it. And I believe many women working from home can share the same stories and feelings about balancing work and parenting.

As I took some time to look through some of my boy’s baby photos, I realized that I was missing his baby years. He has grown so fast and so much over the last couple of years. What I’m saying is that, time spent with our children is valuable and precious. Do whatever it takes to spend a few more minutes with them. The sacrifice you make today will be well worth it in years to come. This doesn’t apply to those of us who can work at home but to every parent who has a child in their care. It’s summer time – do something with your children

Over the last few months, I have been telling many women working from home the importance and benefits of building niche blogs. If you are planning to write a blog out of fun or personal inspiration, then by all means, go ahead and start a generic one. But if you are serious in building your blogs to earn some decent money from home, then you can’t avoid going niche.

A “niche” refers to a targeted topic with possible profit potential that may or may not be saturated with competitors. Some niches are not so profitable and some are filled with keen competition. The whole idea is to find the niche markets in the worldwide web and start building your online business. For that to succeed, you should continue to publish posts or pages regularly to your niche blog. People tend to start niche blogs and then their blogs are left unmodified or updated after some time. Once you pick a good niche, it’s a matter of publishing and writing blog posts and pages regularly. Updating your blog once or twice will send the search engine spiders to your niche blogs if you target on the right keywords.

Search engines love blogs (wordpress is great!) and they will rank higher in search engines as compared to websites. After your niche blogs are properly set up, you may want to improve and work on your rankings using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. This involves placing links of your niche blogs onto other relevant sites, directories and article submissions. Other popular social bookmarking applications that can bring popularity to your niche blogs include hub pages, squidoo and delicious to name a few. As for me, I don’t spend alot of time with social bookmarking as my primary objective for my niche blogs is to improve my SERPs. I have personally found Linkvana and Unique Article Wizard to be very useful in this respect to build my online business. Do keep in mind that these two applications are only recommended for those who are serious in earning money from home as it involves a small amount of investment.

So go on and start building your niche blogs. There are thousands of niches to consider, from something as specific as Danze faucets to football jerseys. The more specific your niche is, the more targeted your market would be. Starting a niche blog doesn’t take you alot of time, it’s maintaining and the regular updating that do. But for women working from home, building niche blogs is the way to go for your affiliate and online business. If time is an issue for you or if parenting takes a tow on you, then college helpers may come in handy to help as sitters or other chores. Need part-time help? Hire a College Student!

Last weekend, I attended a creative maths workshop conducted by a reputable educator. The speaker is also a work at home mom when she isn’t teaching in seminars and conferences. There were some valuable lessons I took with me when I finished that 3 hour workshop. And I would like to share with all the women working from home.

If you are a parent, chances are, you pay close attention to your children’s progress in school. Sometimes we get too overwhelmed with the education system that we can focus too much on the academics and not the well being of the child. Ask a parent which is important: Academic Performance or Life skills acquisition and they tend to answer the former.

I too am guilty of that at times. Being a work at home mom, I can have more time to develop good values and character traits in my child by taking time to teach and guide. But sometimes, I am too busy in my home office that I can end up choosing the easy way out of letting the television be the babysitter.

I recalled one occasion when my little boy started to take a crayon and doodled on my new glass tile and I got really mad at him. Little did I know (at that time) that I should have taken that time to educate instead of reprimanding my child. We parents make mistakes too, don’t we.

As women working from home, we need to be prepared for interruptions when our children come home from school. One way is keep them busy while you sit in front of your PC is to engage them in some activities. Recently, I printed out some activities from Playhouse Disney channel for my son and he was happy. There are many free activities in the web for children of all ages. I do allow computer games time but only educational ones.

For me, this is one way to work on my online business while keeping an eye on him. It’s better than letting the television be his companion. I’m not a perfect work at home mom in many ways but I desire to do my best to educate, guide and help him be a better person each day. Few days ago, my work at home hubby got him to fix his IKEA work table together… it was his time to imitate Bob the Builder. They had fun.