AMWC Polls

Check out our polls to the left-hand side of the page. We will be changing them every week or so to reflect different WAH options, opinions, and ideas.

If you'd like to see a certain poll just drop us a comment and we'll put it up. Having an interactive site is important to us as it will lend support to the WAH community.

Stop by and tell us what you think!

QualityGal Needs SEO Writers

QualityGal is a web page building service. They need ghostwriters to dish up SEO-content on a variety of subjects.

I applied to QualityGal last week. If you choose to apply you will need to use an email server other than hotmail or comcast. I heard back right away (well, except that this was an email account that I never use so I didn't know that I'd heard back. When I remembered to check there I had all of her other emails but not my test assignment email...it was in the spam folder) and I am now ready to do my test assignment (if they'll still have me).

Every article of 500+ words is worth $10. I feel that a lot of the content is similar so you don't need to do a lot of research. QualityGal actually states that she would rather you stuck to your area of expertise so that you didn't have to go searching around. Time is of the essence.

I'll let you know how things are going with this lead. Just check back to this post!

Residual Income, Passive Earnings With eHow

Okay, Folks, I have to admit that I nearly missed the boat on this one. As you know I currently write How-To articles for Demand Studios at $15 a piece. I've made $555 in about two months time as I started on 8/6/08. Really, this isn't bad money, right? But what if I told you I could have kept the rights to my articles and made a consistent amount of money that actually grew month after month? Well, I still can, and after I use the immediate, upfront pay from Demand Studios to pay October's bills I will be doing just that. I kick myself that I've already given away 37 articles that could have been earning me passive income for years to come.

Here's How It Works
The Writer's Compensation Program (WCP) at eHow will pay it's writers a share of ad revenue for each page impression. So each month the writer will earn residual income that they didn't have to do any extra work for. You can't make more hours in a day for working, but you can make your completed articles work for you. Passive earnings are the top way to boost your work at home income because you can be doing other things while your articles are sitting there.

How To Make Your Money Faster
I wouldn't have thought that this would be an entirely lucrative solution but fellow WAHM has shown me the light. Maria over at My Work At Home Mom Blog as simplified this process and the payoff has been great for her. She's also written an ebook well worth its cost about how to be successful at eHow and earning passive income there. Just take a look at her month-by-month stats. She started out low but the articles grew for her each month. Keep in mind that all of that income is residual. She did no extra work to earn that money.

With Maria's ebook you will avoid her own learning curve and earn your residual income that much faster. How does an extra $900 per month sound to you?

Daily Routines

This is when of my biggest downfalls. I have no day-to-day routine. I just do things when I see they need to be done and move on. I have no predictable plan of attack or reasonable structure to my day.
So far, this works for me. It may not work for you. And, it may not be the best thing that works for me either. I may be (okay, definitely would be) more productive and focused if I had a routine. Eventually I'll get there.

I think that talking to other work-at-home professionals is a good way to get started. Ask them how they structure their time and activities. It's a great way to figure out what will and will not work for you.

Experiment a lot. Move your schedule up, down, and all around until you find something that works for you.

As for me, I'm trying. I've started substitute teaching again and so each day brings a new work time and that makes it difficult to pin down a good work-at-home schedule. As I delve into this a bit more I'll post the resources I'm using and whether or not they're working for me.

The Well-Fed Writer

This is a great read for anyone considering freelance copy writing as a career. Copy writing includes online articles, business brochures, ads, headlines and so on.

Peter Bowman's easy style will help you get your idea off the ground...even if you think you have no clue what you're doing. Right now, I have this checked out of the library, but I will be buying a copy second hand when I have to return it.

Oh, and he endorses what I've thought all along, you don't need to be the best writer. Just be persistent and put yourself out there. There could be writers better than you but they may not be getting their names out to the big clients. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The early bird gets the worm. Just trying to see how many euphemisms I can squeeze into this post. That would seem to be all.

Good Morning!