Woke up at 5 and lounged there in bed. While lounging I reflected on my Wednesday as the birds chirped, made a mental gratitude list and and gave thanks for another day. Each morning I  grab my Blackberry to check the time and I unconsciously start reading the emails and text messages that popped up while i slept.

The sun never sets on our world. While I am sleeping someone else is typing on a keyboard somewhere in the world with the goal their message reaching me and it does. How did we get so plugged in to a wireless world. One thing I noticed in the long list of message was that none of them were from my family. So I asked myself, what is wrong with this picture?

Rolled out of bed at 6 to start my day. My answer came in the following way. Slow down. Unplug. Connect with your kids. The world can go on without you, but your family cannot. So I sent this message to my family by text message on that same Blackberry:

“This is my home number save it in your phone  123-456-7890.  I will be turning off my phone to set new office hours with my business so call me on the home phone if I do not answer the mobile number.”

The answers came beeping back in and I got this one from my first born. “ok. Someone stole my computer from my home. I will call u shortly gonna take a quik nap”

I believe more in my mom intuition more than ever now.  Allow yourself time each day to reflect and listen to yourself. You have the answers. My family is first to me.

My daughter was at this park today and shared this photo with me. Thank you Allyson.  Enjoy everyone!

This is what I spoke into the phone for those of you without audio capabilities on your computer or smart phone.

This is amazing! I just discovered that I can now blog by voice. Yes blog by voice by calling a phone number and I will be posting to my wordpress blog. Oh my goodness. Techology is wonderfulThis is a test. This is a test. This is also going to help me complete the Ultimate Blog Challenge with ease. Wow you gotta love technology. The End.

My mind is racing now with new ideas of how to use my new found feature of wordpress. I like emailing a post for my photos and now I will be able to speak my thoughts and voila, instant post.

Well, this is my post for today! Mmmm, I think I should rephrase that, this is one of my post for today.

Back to the challenge. Blogging is sharing so today I’m not talking about business but life. This is why I am in business to enjoy by life. Working from home affords me the pleasure of working anytime and anywhere I choose. Today I choose to bike ride. I’ll be back tomorrow.

Thanks to the power of technology and prospecting, there are now many ways through which you can make money through your blog. For instance, you can get commissions through paid advertising on your site. There are two ways that you can do this: you can either solicit offline and get brick and mortar companies to pay you to post their ads on your site, or you can join an affiliate marketing network and get paid for each click that visitors make on your ads. You can also blog for a living, and get paid for each entry that you write.

Either technique, however, demands that you have a lot of people visiting your site every single day. This can be a daunting task: you will need to be able to market your site so that it stands out amongst the millions of other blogs online. You will also need to sustain this onslaught of people reading your site by constantly adding to your content, keeping your content useful and fresh, and of course, never lagging in your marketing efforts. One way that you can promote your blog is to post in forums with subjects that are related to your blog posts.

If you are interested in promoting your blog and getting more people to read your work, then you may be interested in posting in forums and knowing how to go about it. Here are a few tips that you may need when posting in forums.

- Always pick a forum that has something to do with your blog. You may think that this is common sense, but you need to know why it’s the best practice for any blogger. Many bloggers make the mistake of spamming blogs in an effort to spread themselves throughout the forum and have their news spread faster. This can be a costly mistake: you do not only alienate your potential market, you will make yourself appear desperate. This air of desperation makes you appear like a hard-selling puppet of capitalism, and in the world of the Internet, where free and open source rules, you can work against your own potential.

- Avoid text lingo and spell like a pro. You may think that your audience is young and on the go, and would not care about your spelling. However, if you cannot even spell well, how can anyone trust you to blog well? How can anyone trust you as a credible source of high quality information? Spell well, check your grammar, and look at your punctuation. You need to look like you are someone who is meticulous and knows what people want, so don’t risk damaging your reputation by taking the shortest cut.

- Help people. Put your blog address in your signature, but start out by helping people with their problems. If you allow people to feel that they are important, they will be interested in you.

First you need to have a constant appearance online. You can visit other blogs as well, in that manner bloggers will see your blog entries as well. It’s more like a give and take relationship. You can also participate in blog forums and recommend your blog to those people who are seeking information that your blog provides.  Aside from forums, you can also chat with other bloggers online everywhere, including social networking sites.

Advertise your blog online. There are many ways to advertise your blog for free. Advertising online is easy to do. In most cases it only takes a few minutes in most cases, depending on what type of ad you’re promoting. You can take the first step in starting your free advertising by doing a simple search for “free advertising” on your favorite major search engine such as Google or Yahoo.

In short, social networking is the key to improve your blog’s traffic.

Well I am now practicing what I preach. I started this blog a long time ago and forgot about it. I was so busy living and enjoying my retirement that I neglected this blog and this blog is what got me to where I am today. The concept of this blog for sure, Networking 5 to 9.

I worked at the post office from 9 to 5 and I worked my MLM business from 5 to 9. It is just as simple as that.

I am back because of The Ultimate Blog Challenge. Please go to http://ultimateblogchallenge.com for more details and stay tuned or join me this month. It is going to be great!

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