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Working from home is a great idea if you are motivated enough to keep yourself on track. Too many people fall by the wayside because they fail to treat their work at home job like a real job. It does not matter if you work from home with a company who pays you hourly or if you have a home based business of your own.

Working from home can be fun and rewarding if you make yourself a plan and stick with it. Staying motivated is a big key to work at home success. Once you begin making a decent income you will find yourself getting hooked on work. It is important to remember that you must set limits on your work time and family time. You must have a good balance of both if you are going to remain happy in your life.

Here are 5 amazing reasons everyone needs to work from home…

1.    Working from home is great for the person who hates to get up each morning and get dressed. When working from home you can stay in your pajamas all day if you like, but you should keep in mind that this might be detrimental to your production.

If you fail to get dressed you may feel that you can slack off since nobody is going to see you anyway. If you find yourself not being productive because you just are not in the working mood one way to overcome this problem is to put on some comfortable clothing and maybe even apply some light mineral makeup, so that you feel like you are actually working instead of having a pajama party.

2.    You will save money on commuting. With the price of fuel today this could amount to a substantial savings. You won  have to have the daily hassle of rush hour traffic and you will save wear and tear on your car. Saving commute time can help you become more productive with your work time at home.

3.    Get a tax break by turning one room of your house into an office or workspace. The IRS will allow you a tax deduction for the room, a portion of your utility bills, and any equipment you use for your business can be depreciated over a several year period. The only catch is this room is supposed to be used only for business. If you were to get an unexpected visit from the IRS they might want to see the room where you do your business. If you have toys all over the room where you are running an accounting business it could get sticky.

4.    Spend more time with your family. In many work from home jobs you will be able to choose the hours you wish to work and if you have your own home business, you still get to pick your own hours! This is especially true if your business is done on your computer. When running a brick and mortar store you have to stay open during the hours when people are up doing business. With a work at home computer business you can automate your system to run at times when you are not even home. This gives you additional time you can spend with the kids or more time for family outings.

I think this is my favorite part about working from home! I work when I feel like it and can keep up with my busy family!

5.    You can give yourself a raise any time you want…. This is soooo turn! if you have your own home business, to give yourself a raise, all you have to do is dedicate more time to your business!

You can put some extra effort into your job and earn extra money. They key to earning the max possible with a home based business is learning your product or service 100%, completing all training offered that can help you advance within your business and keeping a “Go Getter” attitude!

What do you think? 

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I was over at the Search Engine Guide today reading a new post where they brought up a really good point many people over look with their websites.

Do you use http://yoursite.com, http://www.yoursite.com, http://www.yoursite.com/home.html?

Actually many people use both and do not even realized that it will hurt their SEO efforts.

Those urls above may seem like they are the same page, but to a search engine they are actually different pages. Even though they all may access your main page, they are considered different.

You may not think it is a big deal, but it is! If people access your website with and without the www, search engines may index both versions and you could be penalized for duplicate content. The search engines could also pick one version to rank and drop all others for duplicate content.

Also, any links pointing to your domain should be checked to make sure they all use the same address. This way your page rank and link juice can all be allocated to one page and not divided.

This blog uses http://thewahmblog.com, however I have found people linking to the site with www in the url. When that happens I generally ask them to please correct it and remove the url to alleviate any confusion for seo purposes.

I did not use the www for a few reasons…

1. It is shorter to use.
2. WordPress installs automatically on non www and is configured on non www. Instead of changing it, I left it alone. Ok I admit, I was being lazy and did not feel like configuring it.

Now, I have run into the issue that many people automatically add www, and when they do that it does make the search engines look at the blog as a different page.

Google currently only has http://thewahmblog.com indexed.

So, I would advise you select which version you want top use for your website address and stick to it. Make sure you use the same address in all marketing efforts on and offline.

What do you use for your website? Have you ever checked to see if you had more than one version indexed by the search engines?

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I decided last night to take the next few days off. I have been working pretty hard the last few weeks to build our residual income and I need a break. My website design business has been much slower  than normal so it has been great I could work with Mr. V on building our other business. AmeriPlan came out with a  new trainer program and we have really been trying to grow our team.

Last night was the 1st night Mr. V and I have actually been able to sit down together and hang out child free. All 4 kids were n bed by 8:20 last night and we cuddled up on the couch and watched some movies. It was so nice to not worry about customer, clients, and email for a few hours!

We watched PS I love you and First Sunday. P.S I love you was by far the best movie I have saw in a long time! I laughed and cried the entire movie. Actually cried for about 20 minutes once the movie was finally over. Very good movie! I am not normally into comedy/drama, but it was excellent.

Since Mothers Day is this weekend, maybe some of you can talk the hubby into watching a good Chick Click!

This weekend will be a mommy weekend! I feel like being pampered and spoiled a bit. HA HA No, on a serious note, we will be doing some stuff with the kids. It is in the 90’s here so we will probably go down to the beach and try to plan some outdoor activities.

I will try to keep up with the blog this weekend, if I can. But I will not be working at all. I need a break and need to spend some time with my kids. The last few weeks have been really busy and we have not had as much family time as normal. So I am sure my kids are really to have all of my attention for a few days!

For all of you that will be working this weekend I hope you have a successful weekend and make allot of money!

For all of my mom readers…Happy Mothers Day! Don’t forget your business can wait for you! So take some time and relax and enjoy your family this weekend!!

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