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Two weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised when I saw a surge in my affiliate earnings in one of the networks. It was such a thrill for any work at home mom to see an upsurge in your affiliate earnings, isn’t it? I mean you set up your niche sites, work on it for a while and sometimes, you wonder when you will start to earn real money from home.

Before you embark on your home business journey and work your way towards earning money from home, you would need to start a niche website. For that, you will need a domain name. Most people think their company name is the best way to go when choosing a domain name. The SEO expert will say otherwise. A domain name with keywords associated to your product or service you are marketing will be more effective better. Some people will register the company name as a domain name and point it to the website with better keywords, but it is not necessary. A domain name with related keywords can help you with search engine traffic. You need to find a good domain name registrar as that can make or break your home business. For instance, if you are an auto company promoting extended service plan, then you want to have some of the related keywords to help with your search engine optimization.

Next comes a reliable web hosting service. Again, cheaper is not better. There are good hosting services for $100 per year and there are also many cheap ones. When it’s too cheap, you need to be careful about it as cheap doesn’t mean good. Anyone that is offering you hosting for less than $80 a year should raise a red flag. Choose a good one if you are committed to your plan to work at home.

Now, you have your domain name and the hosting for your new website, but how do you go about with creating a website? You can learn html and build your own if you are tech savvy work at home mom. You can use a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage to build your own website. But seriously, if you know that isn’t your strength, invest some money and hire someone to build your website for you. You are better of using your strengths and skills in other areas instead of wasting months trying to design your own website.

Well, the only thing I know about Amazon.com is that it sells 1,001 things since this is the place where I shop for hard-to-find books, baby care products, skincare, apparel…etc. But this afternoon, I found out that I could actually store up to 10,000 documents at Amazon.com’s Simple Storage Service (S3) at only 15 cents per gig per month and 10 to 18 cents per gig for data transfer and what’s best is that you only need to pay for what you used, plus there won’t be any minimum monthly fee. Read the rest of this entry →

Sometimes the marketplace can be a confusing one. We are surrounded by lots of promotions and reviews on products and services we use daily in our place of work and home. Whether it’s buying a new TV, add a new piece of furniture for the bedroom, purchase educational material for our kids, look for a good contractor to fix our broken pipes or source for good and reliable designers to design our marketing material, we are faced with choices and options around us. Read the rest of this entry →