Today is Mother’s Day and this article is a praise to those moms who have stepped onto the path of combining raising children and raising a home business and an inspiration for those who are going to.

Despite the fact that men are managing a home-business better and their ambitions lead them to expanding beyond their home-office – world-known stories include Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple, Richard Branson of Virgin – success stories of mothers at home are also impressive and it is a strong tendency.

Do you know that the number of mom enterpreneurs in the US have doubled since the mid-1990 and now their ranks account for almost 8 million? That is a great step forward for those, who are to manage many different roles.

I have come across a beautiful website, which features women that launch at http://www.ladieswholaunch.com. It is a wonderful resources that presents women who have risked and attained their goals, their dreams have become a reality. They have pursued careers in different fields ranging from analytical writing to door-to-door selling of underwear and ended up founding their own business.

There are all kinds of stories here, but all of them are common in satisfaction and sense of achievement that is a reward to the women who ventured to go for it and developed their passions or hobbies. At first your idea may seem fragile and unlikely to be implemented, but as they say the best artist is not the one who paints like Picasso, but who is brave enough to reveal his/her own style.

The website offers you to join the Incubator, which is a training program for those who are ready to go out on their own and make their lives more fulfilling and creative. Meetings with and between women are organized in several cities around the US and you can learn the venue in your city at the website.

The subscription is free and you can post your own success story there to let the world know about your way of success, which so many work-from-home moms are hungry for.

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One of the ways to earn money from home is to join the world of Internet marketing. You do not need your own site, you can earn with helping others to promote their sites (and then start your own). One of the crucial points to achieve success with your website is to build links pointing to your website: both quantity and quality matter. As a result, a new profession has evolved – Link Builder. And it is a cool way to make your living at this moment in time.

Task is clear: to get other websites place links to the site of your customer. Below are some valuable article links thaht will teach you how to do it efficiently:

• Link training
• Advanced link building
• 12 Essential Strategies for Building & Structuring Inbound Links

Next question is where to search your potential customers – those people who are ready to pay for your work:

- freelance sites (rentacoder.com reviewed here. A great collection of other freelance sites is here)
- classifieds (good place to start: www.craigslist.org)

How much to charge? Reciprocals and directory links are not highly priced – 1-2$ per link. But once you are experienced enough to get permanent and valuable one way links you will get 10-30$ per link.

What skills do you need? You should be PC and Internet savvy. Plus some basic knowledge of HTML would be of great help. This basic knowledge is available here for free.

Would like to be updated on the latest link building techniques? I recommend you to read this and this blog and occasionally browse this section of webmaster forum.

I continue the series of successful drop ship sites that deal with all kinds of products and generate good income to their owners. They are all for sale due to miscellaneous reasons described by their owners.

As an option, you can enter drop ship business by means of buying a fully functional and profitable website (see below). You need some free funds to invest for that purpose. And you should be careful to avoid any sort of scam.

Cell phone accessories, no doubt, are popular products to sell online:

URL:
www.aftermarketcellular.com

Age of site (months): 64

Monthly revenue: 4500

Revenue details:
I had over $54,000 in sales for 2005 with over $12,000 gross profit. Sales have gone up approximately 20% every year since 2002.

Monthly page views: 300000

Traffic details:
I currently receive anywhere from 1-2.5 million hits a month. I have anywhere from 30,000-75,000 uniques visitors per month with 150,000-650,000 page views per month. I have top listings throughout Google, Yahoo, and MSN. 100% of my traffic is obtained through organic search results, links, or affiliates. I currently am not involved in any paid advertising or pay-per-click (someone with available funds and a marketing sense could really grow this site). Also, all of my links were obtained the hard way. I have never particiapted in link exchanges or link farms.

Description:
I sell over 4,500 different oem and aftermarket cellular phone accessories. I currently have a distributor in California who drop ships all my orders with my company name on the boxes and my company logo on all the invoices. My products are automatically maintained in my site through xml feeds which I spent over $10,000 developing. I also have access to my distributors database to check order status, obtain tracking info, and more. I pay $100 per month for hosting and $50 per month for a 1-800 number. I also pay $1.00 per call to a call center maintained by my distributor. The call center can take orders over the phone or provide technical support. My merchant fees are my only other real expense. I have prided myself on automation and I even have complex pricing algorithms setup to automatically price my products. I also have a fully developed affiliate program with decent earners, a coupon system, over 3,000 subscribed customers, a mailing system and more.

Type of site:
Established and functional website with traffic

Price (or starting bid): 25,000

Is an auction?: No

Indexed pages (Google): 65,700

Indexed pages (Yahoo): 50,700

Google page rank: 4