Calgary-based virtual professional, Denise Willms is one of many work-at-home moms who are stamping out old ideas and turning to a more empowered way of creating the work-at-home life today’s mompreneur dreams of. Willms, owner of WAHM-Articles.com, had shared this when asked why she wanted to be a part of The Alpha WAHM Blueprint Virtual Book Tour, “Many moms I meet have such big dreams about working from home, but they often get waylaid by common fears. Karri helps women identify the fears that keep them from achieving success and address them head on.”

According to the Alpha WAHM Blueprint, today’s mother not only wants it all, but can have it all too, no apologies required. Flatla explains it like this: “More and more women are choosing to work from home as a way to blend their professional passions, their desire for wealth AND their role as a mother. Yet the self-help industry advises women to compartmentalize—to strive for ‘work-life balance.’ Yet we know this isn’t working! The Alpha WAHM Blueprint is going to open a new dialog for strong, passionate women who want to design a life that makes them feel whole.”

A complete schedule of The Alpha WAHM Blueprint Virtual Book Tour blog stops can be found at http://AlphaWAHM.com/booktour2010.

About WAHM-Articles.com

WAHM-Articles.com was created in 2006 out of a need for quality articles and information written specifically for the work-at-home-mom community. It has grown into an active and supportive writing community with a reprint article directory, blog and forum where members learn to market their own businesses online with articles, press releases, and ebooks. It is owned by work-at-home-moms Denise Willms and Corrie Petersen.

About Karri Flatla & AlphaWAHM.com

After the birth of her first child, Karri Flatla started a home based marketing business so she could parent flexibly and avoid re-entering a workforce that smothered her deep need for creative independence. Today, Flatla is the go-to coach-consultant for modern work-at-home moms and other small business entrepreneurs around the web. Her frank and sassy advice has been featured at Search Engine Guide, VAnetworking, Problogger’s TwiTip, Fuel Net, Alberta Venture, and Smart Company Magazine. Karri’s latest venture is the launch of AlphaWAHM.com, an online resource dedicated to both experienced and aspiring work-at-home moms.

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Contact:    Denise Willms
Email:        contact@wahm-articles.com
Website:   http://www.wahm-articles.com

Erika, the owner and freelance writer behind the screen of Her Articles is happy to announce her new website that caters to women. The articles she provides span topics such as; homemaking, Christian living, parenting, home based business, recipes, and cooking.  “The great thing about using my articles is that you’re getting original writing that’s only available in one place and each one is sold a limited amount of times. I feel this is important when publishing content.  It just doesn’t make sense to me to publish articles that have saturated the internet; your readers will get bored with repeat content that they might have already read on another publication.” Says, Erika.
Her prices are very affordable and there’s a nice variety of articles in the database, just ready and waiting to make your publication shine.

She also has authored two e-books just for women in home based business; The Four Step Program and How to Start Your Own Recipe Book Business. Both of which will help the reader in her home based business pursuits.

Concerning her e-books, Erika says, “Helping other women in home based business through my writing is very rewarding to me. One of my main objectives is to help ladies avoid the many pitfalls of starting or running a home business. I’m bringing years of experience to the table for my clients one word at a time.”

If you’re in search of articles for reprint, resources to help you with home based business, or encouragement in everyday life, Erika’s website should be added to your favorites and visited often.

To celebrate the grand opening of her site, she is running a series of specials and contests over the next few weeks.  Pay Her Articles.com a visit and tell a friend or two about this new site!

This holiday season, Make Mine Pink, a popular online shopping mall of boutique shops, is helping everyone get into the Christmas spirit by making their annual 12 Days of Christmas Shop Hop bigger and more exciting than ever before. Make Mine Pink has partnered with the boutiques at three other premier shopping malls to deliver their most fun-filled, prize-filled affair event ever, with more shops to visit and exciting prizes to be won November 27 to December 8.

The annual 12 Days of Christmas Shop Hop is the most anticipated of all the shop hops held by Make Mine Pink throughout the year. A shop hop is a contest where participants visit the member boutique shops to find as many “You Found It!” icons as possible. The more shopping bag icons a player finds, the better their chances of winning great prizes.

Through a partnership of Make Mine Pink, Shabby Lane Shops, Shabby Cottage Shops, and Victorian Heart Shoppe, this year there are bigger prizes available to be won and more shops to visit. Participants in the 12 Days of Christmas Shop Hop will be entered to win 12 valuable prizes, including one Ultimate Prize.

The MMP Shop Hop is open to anyone that would like to participate over 18 years of age. Limit one registration per physical address. There is no cost to participate in this holiday shopping and hopping event and no need to make a purchase. If you do find a product you’re interested in during the shop hop, remember to bookmark that page so you can come back to it later to make your purchase.

Please join Make Mine Pink November 27 – December 8 for the 12 Days of Christmas Shop Hop and celebrate the holidays in style!

Make Mine Pink is a pioneer in online shopping, known for providing the highest standards of quality and customer service, and is committed to making your online shopping experience as personal as the small town shopping trips you remember as a child. Founder Joyce Lucas was honored by Country Living in 2008 as one of the Women Entrepreneurs of the Year for her work with women in business through Make Mine Pink.

Shabby Lane Shops is an online shopping mall for romantic, Victorian, shabby and chic, cottage style, upscale boutique décor and accessories. Shabby Cottage Shoppe is the newest online boutique shopping mall. Victorian Heart offers gifts, antiques, vintage items and replicas from the Victorian era.

If you’re ready to get into the spirit and fun of the holiday season, as well as win great prizes, please join us for the Make Mine Pink 12 Days of Christmas Shop Hop. Come to http://www.makeminepink.com/shop-hop/ to see the prizes you can win and to register for the shop hop. There you’ll also find all the details on how to play. Then be sure to come back to http://www.MakeMinePink.com between November 27 – December 8 to look for as many “You Found It!” images as you can find and be entered to win one of the 12 prizes, including one Ultimate Prize.

Each year, domestic abuse forces hundreds of thousands of women and children to leave their homes and seek safety and healing in shelters across the United States. While shelters can fill basic needs and provide counseling services, often the most difficult challenges faced by those who use them are recognizing their own worth and feeling accepted by society.

This year, the Pink Slipper Project is making a difference in the lives of these women and children by warming their hearts and their toes with handcrafted slippers – practical reminders that someone cared enough to make something special just for them. A joint venture of Make Mine Pink, an online shopping and networking site for women, and Quilt n’ Stitch Marketplace, the premier quilting and needlework community on the Web, the Pink Slipper Project is working closely with Enchanted Makeovers, an internationally recognized non-profit organization that transforms shelters for women and children into places of peace and possibilities. Together, their goal is to provide warm and beautifully designed slippers to the residents of each makeover project this winter, along with as many other women and children’s shelters as possible.

Joyce Lucas, founder of Make Mine Pink and Quilt ‘n Stitch Marketplace was inspired to start the Pink Slipper Project while working with Terry Grahl of Enchanted Makeovers. Lucas states, “It was through Terry’s vision to help improve living spaces and children’s lives in shelters that I began to get a much clearer picture of what we could do to make a difference while at the same time filling a very basic need.”

Within hours of making the first slipper pattern available on the Pink Slipper blog in August, women from all over the US had downloaded it and wanted to take part. Some stitched slippers, some knit or crocheted slippers and others donated fabrics and supplies. The one common thread was they all wanted to help make someone’s life a little better.
The project is just slippers away from meeting its first challenge of supplying slippers for a large women’s shelter that houses 80 women and 40 children. Many other challenges have come into the program since its inception, including one for a girls’ shelter in Detroit that houses approximately 138 teenage girls.

Only a few weeks old, the Pink Slipper Project has already gained international attention. Lucas was recently contacted by Renee Glass whose Australian organization, Slippers with Soul, provides slippers to women who are ill or in assisted living facilities. In 15 months, Glass’s program has provided 8,000 pair of slippers, with a goal of a million.
Lucas hopes to see the same success here. She states, “As long as we’re able and as long as we have loving and giving participants, we’ll continue to grow this wonderful program. A project that unites women all over the nation for the good of others has to be a success. There’s no other possible outcome.”

If you are involved with a women’s shelter that would benefit from the Pink Slipper Project, please contact them at info@thepinkslipperproject.org with your shelter’s needs.

If you would like to help warm the hearts and toes of women and children this winter by providing slippers or donating suplies to make slippers,  please visit www.pinkslipperproject.org for details on how you can help or contact Joyce Lucas at info@thepinkslipperproject.org

Best of all, no need to link to our main page and make your audience dig to find your articles. You can link right to your articles or author’s profile.  It is all about you, after all!

Here’s more information on getting your button and claiming your report.

Did You Know that Most Businesses Fail Within the First Five Years?

The Work at Home Girls share their Simple Secrets to make your business a SUCCESS! For your business to succeed you need to find a specific need and fill it. Successful business owners  are very focused and many (if not all) have a mentor they can turn to with questions and challenges.

If you work from home-or want to-the Work at Home Girls can be your mentors. Together, Jill Hart and Mary Byers have over 20 years combined experience running a business from home. One is a techie (Jill, founder of Christian Work at Home Moms and author of So You Want to be a Work-at-Home Mom) and the other is a wordsmith (Mary, freelance editor and author of five books, including Making Work at Home Work).They’ve teamed up to share what they wish mentors had shared with them when they started their businesses over a decade ago.
Why do you need a mentor?

Why do you need a mentor?
1. Mentors shorten the learning curve.
2. Mentors stimulate new thoughts and ideas.
3. Mentors have learned from the school of hard-knocks and are willing to pass along what they know, saving you from making frustrating-and possibly expensive-mistakes.
4. Because they have walked in your shoes, mentors understand like no one else does.
5. Mentors push you to achieve more than you thought possible.
6. When you need someone to bounce ideas off of, mentors rock!
7. Mentors can help you make more money.
8. Working from home can sometimes be lonely. Mentors make it less so.
9. Mentors encourage you to pay attention to what’s important.
10. Mentors believe in helping others succeed.

If you’re thinking about starting a home-based business-or you’re currently running one but feeling frazzled, overwhelmed, overworked, and underpaid-you’ll benefit from spending time with Jill and Mary. And you can do it at your convenience, depending on your schedule.

About the WAHG Teleseminars!

Yes, there is lots of good free information available on the internet today. However, if you are serious about the success of your business you’ll be making a great investment. We’re going give you specifics, examples and personal business experience that you won’t find anywhere else!

Beginning October 12, The Work at Home Girls will share what they know via a series of four weekly teleseminars. Register today and receive a 50% discount! You can join them live during each program, listen to the MP3 after the seminar, or both! It’s your choice. Either way you’ll benefit from learning about how to start, run, and grow a successful home-based business from women who’ve been doing it for a decade each. Here’s what you’ll discover:

* Making Your Business Work for You: How to Choose, Launch and Run a Winner

* Realistic Expectations: What You Need to Know About Working from Home Successfully

* Marketing Your Business Online

* The Business of Business: Rev Up Your Profit!

Let’s face it: a lot of people want to work from home. But many aren’t willing to do the work or gain the knowledge that’s required to do so successfully. If you’re serious about making money from home, you’ll do what it takes – including investing in your own learning-either to get your company off to a strong start or to help you move to the next level more quickly. The Work at Home Girls Profitability Program is designed to help you do both.

About Mary

Mary M. Byers successfully juggles both a freelance writing and speaking business and her responsibilities as a wife and mother of two school-aged children.

She is the author of Making Work at Home Work, The Mother Load: How to Meet Your Own Needs While Caring for Your Family and How to Say No . . . And Live to Tell about It. Byers is also a columnist for two professional trade journals and edits two others. She lives in Chatham, Illinois.
www.marybyers.com

About Jill

Jill Hart is the founder of Christian Work at Home Moms, and co-author of So You Want To Be a Work-At-Home Mom. Jill is the co-host of the live internet radio show, “The CWAHM Network,” and the publisher of RadiantLit.com. Jill has published many articles on sites like DrLaura.com and MomLogic.com. She is a contributing author in Laundry Tales, The Business Mom Guide Book, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, and Faith Deployed.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies. She resides in Nebraska with her husband and their two children.
www.cwahm.com

Learn more about the Work at Home Girls at http://www.theworkathomegirls.com
To schedule an interview with the Work at Home Girls please email amy@thewahgirls.com

The Work at Home Girls are also offering an affiliate program! Interested? Email amy@thewahmgirls.com for an info packet!

On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EST, Michael Port will present Beyond Booked Solid – How to Simplify and Systemitize Your Business

About Michael Called “an uncommonly honest author” by the Boston Globe and a “marketing guru” by The Wall Street Journal, Michael Port is a New York Times Bestselling author of four books including Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect and The Think Big Manifesto.

He writes a monthly column on sales and marketing for Entrepreneur Magazine, is a regular guest on MSNBC and CNBC and receives the highest overall speaker ratings at conferences around the world. Michael’s mission is to rally you to think bigger about who you are and what you offer the world… and to show you why it pays big to take typical sales advice and do the opposite.

Please join us at VAnetworking.com on Wednesday, On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. EST, Michael Port will present Beyond Booked Solid – How to Simplify and Systemitize Your Business

VAnetworking is the largest business network for aspiring and successful Virtual Assistants and Virtual Achievers to share, learn, and succeed! At VAnetworking, industry experts and Virtual Assistant newbies mix it up to uncover all things new and exciting in the world of Virtual Assistance, while supporting one another and striving to promote the Virtual Assistant industry.

So join the fun and stop by the VAnetworking Forum today at http://www.vanetworking.com or just go ahead and upgrade to this exciting new VAinsider membership at http://www.vanetworking.com/vainsider/index.htm. You’ll see just how much better your business can become and also have a great time doing it.  And for those looking for a VA, you won’t be able to beat the professionals you’ll find here.

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Tawnya Sutherland, founder of VAnetworking (http://www.vanetworking.com) and author of the Virtual Business Startup System (VBSS), is a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist sharing her expertise to help aspiring and successful VAs turn website clicks into cash for them.

Denise Willms, a work-at-home-mom who publishes articles and tips written by moms for moms at her website WAHM-Articles.com, offers seven tips for work at home moms who want to keep their summer sales sizzling, even in the current economy.

1. Write and distribute articles on a regular basis. Any business owner can write articles that build their credibility and maintain visibility, then have those articles published where their target markets will find them.

2. Give your website a good once-over. Are you losing sales because your website visitors can’t figure out what to do next, or how to contact you? A website review can be as easy as asking your grandmother or a non-Internet savvy friend to do a specific task on your website then watching which obstacles they run into.

3. Create and sell your own information product. Cost-conscious shoppers are looking for ways to save money by doing things themselves. You can benefit by packaging your own expertise into a product that helps them, and then selling it.

4. Review your paid advertising. Advertising online and off is an important component of branding your business and staying visible to your audience. However, even in an age of cost-cutting, cheap advertising is not always better. Make sure your paid ad space is where your potential customers will find it.

5. Add another revenue stream to your business. Having multiple streams of income, whether you’re selling your own product or someone else’s as a direct sales consultant, will help ensure your revenue never dries up.

6. Add Virtual Assistant services to your current business. Many businesses are laying off employees and turning to Virtual Assistants, administrative professionals who provide a myriad of support services from their own home offices on a contractual basis, for help with their business needs.

7. Consider hiring a business coach for one or two coaching sessions this summer. The right business coach can help keep your business on track through the summer months by holding you accountable for your results and offering a different perspective on what you’re currently doing.

To help stop summer slowdown now for your work-at-home-mom business, visit http://www.WAHM-Articles.com and click on the link to enter the Saving Summer Giveaway. When you enter, you’ll be eligible to win prizes to help you stop summer slowdown. You’ll find more business tips and advice by reading the articles published at http://www.WAHM-Articles.com . Or sign up for your free author’s account and discover how writing and submitting articles can help you get more customers and clients for your WAHM business.

As CEO of Ziglar, Inc., Tom Ziglar not only shares a last name with his father,  Zig Ziglar, but he also carries on his philosophy, which is simply, “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

Prior to being named CEO, Tom initially began his career in retail and direct sales. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987, learning every aspect of the business as he climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to seminar promotion, to sales management and then on to leadership.

With the last name Ziglar, Tom has had a lot to live up to. But rather than try to fill his father’s shoes, Tom has created a whole new pair of his own! He is boldly taking Ziglar, Inc., into the world of social communities, Twitter, blogs, and webinars to present the tried and true message of hope, integrity and positive thinking to a whole new audience.

While the content has remained consistent, the method is ever-changing; as Ziglar’s leader, Tom is positioned to do just that – lead.

Please join us at VAnetworking.com on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. (EST) to revive the Ziglar Philosophy and Success 2.0.

VAnetworking is the largest business network for aspiring and successful Virtual Assistants and Virtual Achievers to share, learn, and succeed! At VAnetworking, industry experts and Virtual Assistant newbies mix it up to uncover all things new and exciting in the world of Virtual Assistance, while supporting one another and striving to promote the Virtual Assistant industry.

So join the fun and stop by the VAnetworking Forum today at http://www.vanetworking.com or just go ahead and upgrade to this exciting new VAinsider membership at http://www.vanetworking.com/vainsider/index.htm. You’ll see just how much better your business can become and also have a great time doing it.  And for those looking for a VA, you won’t be able to beat the professionals you’ll find here.

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Tawnya Sutherland, founder of VAnetworking (http://www.vanetworking.com) and author of the Virtual Business Startup System (VBSS), is a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist sharing her expertise to help aspiring and successful VAs turn website clicks into cash for them.

Self-published authors who pour their hearts and wallets into publishing their books frequently turn to the internet and its promise of prosperity for marketing help. Some of these authors waste thousands of dollars and hours on internet marketing programs with no results, while others experience wild success. Article marketing expert Denise Willms of Cassidar Ink, a Virtual Assistant business that specializes in writing and publicity services, recently launched an author marketing survey to determine which types of free internet marketing authors are using, what their results have been, and where their strategies could be falling short.

“Many new self-published authors believe selling their books on the internet is an easy path to riches but they struggle to sell even a few copies online,” says Willms, “This survey was created to find out which internet marketing strategies are being used by self-published authors and what unique challenges authors encounter when they promote their books on the internet. By collecting this information, I’m hoping to educate self-published book authors on how to better utilize the internet to sell more of their books.”

The survey focuses specifically on free internet marketing techniques such as writing and distributing articles and press releases, which are popular with self-published authors because they’re easily accessible. It will also reveal what results authors typically gain from their internet marketing endeavors and common challenges faced by authors who market their books on the internet.

Authors who participate in the survey are eligible to win an author marketing package from Cassidar Ink worth nearly $600.

Denise Willms is a Virtual Assistant and article marketing expert who for the past five years has helped business owners and self-published authors gain publicity and build a following for their books and services by utilizing a combination of traditional media and internet marketing.

Self-published authors are invited to take the author marketing survey at http://CassidarInk.com before July 15, 2009 to be eligible to for the draw for the author marketing package. Visit http://CassidarInk.com for a free step-by-step guide to writing and distributing articles that sell products and services.