The Work From Home Blog

At Home Mom blog has a great post today on how to still get work done when you have a baby with you at home. There is some pretty handy advice there (I know I’ve been there) and it’s even broken down into age groups ie. working with a 0-3 months old etc. If you are expecting a baby and are wondering whether you will still be able to work from home, it is a good read.

Last week I was reminded how easily money can be made on Ebay by simply keeping an eye on what is selling in your favourite categories.
Around the time the Olympics began, McDonalds started offering BeiBei, the blue Olympic mascot as their promotional toy for the week (followed by all the other mascots in the following weeks). The toys cost $2 each or free with a Happy Meal.

This is how much BeiBei was selling for on Ebay within two weeks of McDonalds selling out. Read more…

Google Checkout Trends is a tool that displays the sales data generated by Google Checkout merchants. It can be used to get a general idea of how well certain products are selling. You can compare two products, for example here is a comparison of sales for the Xbox, Playstation and wii, or you can see how well sales are doing over a period of time. It won’t give you perfect guidance as to what sells best since not every merchant uses Google Checkout but as a quick (and free) tool it can give you a general idea as to what is going on in the world of ecommerce.

If you use social networking sites to promote your business on a regular basis you may know that it can take a fair bit of time, especially when you have to update multiple networking sites. Updating.me hopes to make your life a little bit easier by updating your statuses across many sites from the one place. So all you have to do is login to updating.me, type in your new message and it will simultaneously update any social networking sites you wish from a list. Currently they support Twitter, Facebook, Pownce, Plurk, Friendfeed and they promise to add more all the time. They are in invite only Beta still but invitation codes can be found on their site (on their blog).

When you run a business, particularly one that is brand new, it can be hard to get enough momentum to get it started. Below is a list of 10 free ways to get some traffic and with it hopefully new customers. (In no particular order)

1) Comment on popular blogs Find popular blogs that relate to your line of business and make helpful comments in their comments section. Read more…

Chances are you have used social networking sites before and have seen the possibilities they open up for your business. However as well as friendship/business type networking you can also network on social shopping sites to get the word out about your products. These sites are based around shopping but otherwise work in much the same way as other social networks. You can make connections, recommendations, vote, review etc.

Below are the top social shopping sites to get involved with (in no particular order).

1) Kaboodle – Active and engaging with lots of features.
2) Thisnext – Another rather addictive social shopping site Read more…

Pikaba is a new social shopping network that offers some opportunities for the person working from home.

Not for those who just want a job as there is an element of selling and promoting yourself involved.

This is best suited to those who would like to offer (or promote) a product or service. Firstly there is the opportunity to apply to become an advisor.

Advisors have the power Read more…