Devoted to WAHMs -Work at Home Moms

• Suzanne Wells of the eBay selling coach blog shared the following:
  
  "I ABSOLUTELY barter when ever possible! Here are some trades I have made:
  
  I sell on eBay, mostly clothes. I barter with my dry cleaner - she gives me free cleaning, I trade clothes.
  
  I barter clothes for babysitting - teenagers LOVE clothes and will work for them.
  
  I barter advertising for design services. I have an eBay blog and trade ad space for graphic design work.
  
  I have traded eBay consulting services for products. Last year, I bartered eBay consulting services for a company who wanted an escort to the eBay live convention, and got a free trip out of it.
  
  I have also bartered ad space for help in writing a press release.
  
  Once you get a busy blog with lots of traffic, you can leverage that ad space for all kinds of things! Get creative girls!"
  
  
• Lillie Amman of A Writer's Words, An Editor's Eye left this advice:
  
  "I started bartering at least 20 years ago in my interior landscape business, and I have continued to barter throughout the eleven years I have been a freelance writer.
  
  I seldom make direct trades because it isn't often that a client and I need something of equal value from each other. I wrote about bartering through trade exchanges in a post: Connecting - Part III: Trade Exchanges
  
  I report barter income just as if it were cash and take business deductions for barter expenses when applicable. My CPA, who has won numerous professional awards and honors, is a member of a trade exchange and has done my taxes for many years on trade."

Mind Mapping

On the Mind Mapping or Idea Mapping - The Key to Great Home Business Ideas?  several of you left even more information about mind mapping:

• Mark McClure left a link to his helpful YouTube video about mind mapping
  
  
• Vic of the Mind Mapping Blog left several helpful links, including a link to a mind-mapping focused search engine!
  (Work From Home Momma's note: I haven't quite figured this one out, but it looks interesting!)
  
  
• Jamie Nast of the idea mapping blog stopped by to leave information about her Idea Mapping lens on Squidoo.  Jamie also left a challenge for Work From Home Momma Readers by saying, "I would love to post some maps from some WAHMs and their children!"