My Favourite Business Tools
ONGOING EDUCATION, SUPPORT AND RESOURCES
If you would like some truly focused, practical help and support from other mom's who work at home, you should check out Mommasterminds.
I joined a few years ago, quit because I didn't think I had time, then kicked myself and rejoined. 
I get so much out of it in so many areas, it is a true WAHM community with plenty of hands on help by WAHM's who have been doing it successfully for years.
Very open, friendly and most importantly - helpful.
You can try it free for 7 days to see how you like it. I encourage you to try it out.
There is nothing to loose by giving
Mommasterminds a try, but everything to gain!
ORGANIZATION AND TIME MANAGEMENT
I was very happy to find this time management ebook and it couldn't have come at a better time.
With the kids back in school, I am getting back in gear and looking at rebooting and refocusing my schedule too.
Jeanette Cates is on of my favourite online resources, everything I have ever bought from her has been something I've loved and found to be extremely useful and practical in helping to organize, streamline and make my business work.
So I was thrilled to see that she had Time Management for Internet Marketers in her list of products. I especially like that it is geared specifically to Internet marketers and online businesses.
I bought it and and of course was totally blown away by it.Even though I thought that I had already read everything that there was to read about time management, I still found some very useful tips that I will be implementing myself.
There is even a chapter specifically about Learning to Schedule Your Business Day, as well as many others (Identifying your Most Common Time Wasting Habits, another one on overcoming them - these are very specific such as email and procrastination, two biggies for me - Organizing Your Systems, Automating Your Business, Learn to Delegate, Establish Routines and tools you can use, it goes on and on with very solid time management information in this book.
I highly recommned it, in fact I am positively gushing :0) Can you tell I like it
As you know, time management is one of the primary challenges and keys to your success, especially important to the Work at Home Mom. This is one investment that will pay you back in spades if you implement the knowledge in this book.
It is called Time Management for Internet Marketers but it is good, useable, solid time management advice for everyone.
Want to conquer your office clutter once and for all?
Ever wondered how you can have a happy, organized, clutter-free desk?
Do you want to know the secret to finding anything in your filing cabinet in seconds? (I do! I definitely do!)
What about keeping up with your business reading, making every second you spend in meetings count, or how to delegate without stress or worries?
It's time to get organized!
Get 1,875 simple organizing ideas to help you organize your office, every minute of your time, and every aspect of your office life.
Another great resource by Maria Gracia.
Looking for a complete organization system? Maria Gracia, a work at home mom herself, of "Get Organized Now" has been a favourite source of organizing information for me for a long time.
You can use it to record your To Do list tasks, goals, grocery list items, cleaning schedule, movies you want to see, exercises you plan to do, and all the other stuff.
The excel version can be filled in on your computer - nifty! Or you can get the PDF version to print out and fill in by hand.
Place all of these things in your binder with your TAKE 5 - Home Base ACTion Plan notes and you will have everything you need in one place, that is a load off!
Or you can get the printed version which comes with a binder, dividers and all the fun stuff.
So often, these types of things end up on scraps of paper, sticky notes and in a stack of notebooks.
I highly recommend you get everything together and consolidated in one place, once and for all.
I highly recommend you get everything together and consolidated in one place, once and for all.
It's really one of the best things you can do to get organized right from the start, and save your sanity (not to mention a lot of time searching and a lot of frustration when you loose those notes that grow legs and walk away!).
Find out more about "Easy Organizer" by Maria Gracia.
If you thinking that you've got so much to do that you just want to skip the piles and go back to bed, this guide may be just what you need.
Practical, from the trenches advice on how to organize your life for more time for yourself and your family. The "Mom's Talk Guide to Organizing Your Life and Finding More Time", is packed full of ideas to help you out.
Hey, it's written by moms, for moms. They won't steer you wrong.
But wait.
Don't buy an ebook if you are not going to use it? Information and knowledge are key, but you need to ACT on it or it is just more clutter.
What's the best way to use it?
Pick your favourite tips, and write them in your ACTion planner so that you are sure to do them!
I have been a huge fan of Brian Tracy for a very long time. Although he doesn't "do housework", he does do personal development, organization and motivation, and he does it very well.
Since that is the motor behind our willingness to ACT, I thought it important to include him in our list of resources.
I own several of his products in my own personal collection - there are so many to choose from that I don't know if I will ever have them all, but I'm trying!
I listen to them again and again. There is so much information that I never bore of them and learn something new every time.
You can see a listing of many of his personal success ebooks and programs to choose from - "Eat That Frog" being one of my favourites - and it's true although not very tasty!
PRODUCT CREATION TOOLS
When I first started the queen of kaos site, it was supposed to be quite simple, I wanted to do an ebook called Queen of KAOS to help women stay organized.
After years of "KAOS" and bucking a "system" I really did finally see the light as to how having a system and routines made all the difference in me and my family's life.
Fast forward a few years, I still don't have the book out! But I've done a lot of other things, it just keeps growing.
If you have a website, you probably know that the hot thing right now for search engines is content, and one of the best products to offer is information.
Yesterday I stumbled on something that I am so excited about I can hardly believe it. I purchased a membership to Nell Taliercio & Melissa Ingold's "Mom PLR ebooks".
They are both Mom's of course, who work at home.
I have long admired Nell and was really interested to see what she was up to.
So I thought I'd give it a try to be able to use the content for "mom stuff" for my site.
But I wasn't expecting to be totally blown away by the quality, it truly is as good as something I could have written myself, only I didn't have to!
And the support materials that it comes with - very professinal graphics, an ecourse, a sales page as well as how to information and a check list to make it so easy - and more - I really can't believe the value.
In less than one day, I will have a quality product that I can put on my website.
I plan to add to it (you can do that and anything else you want to do) to create an upsell and make it even more unique (you will recieve an idea sheet on ways that you can make it your own). But I can do that at my own speed, the bottom line is that I have a really good ebook that will be very helpful to mom's and their families for $20 and less than 1 days work.
And I can do it over again every single month!
Incredible.
The price right now is introductory and membership is limited, to you should hop on now if you are thinking about it. This is one of those things that I whole heartedly recommend, without reservation, if you are building an info product base for mom's.
You can get more information here... Mom PLR eBooks
PS - In case you are wondering this month the eBook is Meal Planning Made Easy.
Full of solid info to help mom's plan family meals - a very timely issue with the kids back to school and always important both for our stress and to ensure our kids get good nutrition and family meal times. I am devouring it myself!
WAHM BUSINESS START UP GUIDES
I wish that I had been able to look at these guides before I started my first internet business. A series of legitimate home business ideas that are in large demand right now. Doable and practicle how to start from scratch and run many businesses, here are a few...
- virtual assistant business
- internet research business
- proofreading business
- transcription business
- medical transcription service
- making money with eBay
- guide to copywriting
- guide to press releases
- and more...
What do I like best about Mom's TalkBiz Guides?
Not only do they give step by step information on the specific business start up, they include specific information and tips about how to work at home as a mom or dad, real, practical information including time management.
You can have a look for more details about the guides at Moms TalkBiz.