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May31
Top Eight Work-At-Home Posts
It's been a while since I've shared the top work-at-home posts, so I thought I'd finish the month off with some of the best recent posts.

Here, they are, some of the best from the work-at-home blogosphere:
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May30
How Fuel Prices Affect Home Business Owners (Part 4)
This is the fourth and final post in the series about high fuel, and this is the post that you (the readers) put together. Other posts in this series include:
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May29
Dealing With High Fuel Prices (Part 3 - Saving Gas)
For the past few days, we've been running a series on rising fuel costs. This is the third in the four part series.

Earlier installments in the series included:
Tomorrow, we'll run all of the comments on this topic. Today, however, I want to take another look at how to save on fuel prices.

Gas prices are affecting Americans across the board. In fact, some districts have decreased the number of days that children attend school. You can read the ABC News story here.
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May28
How Gas Prices Affect You and What To Do About It (Part 2 - The Grocery Game)
High fuel prices impact businesses directly, by increasing the cost of transportation. They also impact businesses indirectly by increasing the cost of goods (as the manufacturers increase prices to keep up with the fuel cost).

If you have a family, then this means that your grocery prices are increasing. More money spent on groceries means that your home business has to earn more to maintain your family's lifestyle.

I've found a neat way of dealing with the high cost of groceries that saves me about $5,000 a year. For the past for years, I've been using The Grocery Game to control my family's grocery costs.
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May27
How Will The Rising Cost of Gas Prices Impact Your Home Business? (Series)
(Important Note: Read to the end of this post for a way that you can participate in this series.)

In my look at how gas prices were going to affect Memorial Day Weekend, I included four sites that have sprung up to help consumers find the lowest gas prices:
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May26
Happy Memorial Day, 2008
Today is Memorial Day in the United States. This is a day set aside to honor those who gave their lives for the country.

Many towns and cities will have parades and picnics. For most U.S. workers, this is day off to spend with friends and family.

The Memorial Day holiday goes all the way back to the Civil War in the United States. Most of the National Cemetaries will have memorial services. If you homeschool, a study of the history of Memorial Day can  make an interesting school project.
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May24
Are High Gas Prices Going To Affect Your Memorial Day Weekend?

Gas prices are on the rise with no relief in sight.

Will high gas prices affect your Memorial Day weekend?

For a lot of Americans, the answer is "yes."

Gas prices have been increasing at record rates, and in many parts of the country the price for a gallon of gasoline is close to $4.00.

This means that fewer Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend. To make matters worse for those who would travel, American Airlines now charges for checked bags in an effort to offset fuel costs.

The rising price of gas has spawned a number of websites designed to help consumers find the lowest gas price. Existing sites are also adding this feature.
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May22
Do You Know How To Inspire Customer Loyalty?
Loyalty!!!

It's the gold standard of business. It's what keeps your customers coming back time and again.

Yet few business owners really understand how to develop loyal customers.

Do you?

I recently learned a lesson about customer loyalty from one of my own clients, believe it or not.
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May21
Battling Distractions While You Work: Top Tips From Twitter
I asked the Twitterosphere how they dealth with distractions today. I did it for this post, but I had a personal reason for asking as well.

First, here's my story:

Today was supposed to be an easy work day for me. I had my schedule set up (or, so I thought) and even had time worked in for an outing with my daughter. Then . . . it happened. I couldn't open a client's attachment and I had a project due for that same client. To top it off, Twitter kept going down. All of the sudden my easy day looked tougher.

Now, I don't know about you, but I find problems extremely distracting. If too much goes wrong I tend to get flustered and have trouble focusing. Well, all did end well. I got my projects done and I'm getting this post up. Still, I'm eager to learn some tips for dealing with distraction.
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May20
Happy Birthday Blue Jeans!
Today is the birthday of every home business owner's favorite uniform (or at least the favorite apparel of this work-at-home mom): blue jeans.

There's something about an old pair of blue jeans - the comfort just can't be beat.

Well, it's hard to believe, but blue jeans turn 135 years old today. That's right, the patent for blue jeans was obtained in 1873 by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis. You can read all about it on History.com or on the Wikipedia.

You can also learn about the history of blue jeans on the Jeans and Accessories site or the Levi Strauss site.
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Work From Home Momma - Featured Today

Work From Home Momma has been featured on Home Biz Notes blog!

Home Biz Notes blogger, Yvonne Russell, calls us "A Great Home Business Resource."  She then goes on to list some of the topics that I've blogged about.

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May19
Free Handy Links For The Work-At-Home Mom!
I ran across these links for free online utilities over at Rico Mossesgeld's ContractWorker blog.

I found them to be useful, and I thought that some of you would like them as well. (There are three in all.)
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May17
This Week's Top Ten Work-At-Home Posts You Don't Want To Miss!
We'll return to our series on business terms next week. However, I don't want to close out the week without highlighting the best recent work-at-home posts that you might have missed.


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May16
A New Danger To Worry About?
If you work from home and own your own business, then you may also have to deal with workaholism.

More than ever, home business owners are struggling with overwork. When your office is just a few doors away from your bedroom it's easy to get too caught up in your work and not even realize it.
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May15
Basic Business Terms: Accounting Basics (Part 3)
This is the third in a series on business basics. If you are following along, so far we've covered:
Today we're going to talk about money going into your business and money coming out of your business.
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May14
Your Turn: Which Jobs Are Most Flexible?
Some time back I asked for reader feedback on which job was the most flexible.

Then I got busy and neglected to follow through.

Well, today I've decided to take a break from our Series on Business terms and publish your answers.
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May13
Basic Business Terms: Accounting Basics (Part 2)

These is the second in a series on Business Basics. The first post in the series can be found here.

What method of accounting do you use for your work-at-home business?

If you've just started out, then odds are that you use a single-entry bookkeeping. A single-entry accounting system is pretty much the way that most people their checkbooks - they make an entry when cash comes in or goes out, and that's it. One entry per transaction - that's single-entry bookkeeping.

This is what most of us are familiar with, so this is how many of us start.
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May12
Basic Business Terms: Accounting Basics (Part 1)
We're starting a series here at Work From Home Momma on Business Basics. Several times a week we will focus on providing an overview of some business basics for the self-employed and small business owner.

I was inspired to start this series because I know that a lot of us who work at home started our business based on a particular skill. Often that skill is not what would traditionally be considered a business skillset.
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May 9
What is Mom Worth?
These surveys come out every year around Mother's Day. Basically, they add up all the jobs that mothers do and figure out how much you would have to pay to get someone to do all of that work.

The result is always a pretty impressive figure. This year the study is at WNBC.com.
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May 8
Work-At-Home Mom's Mother's Day Wish List
What do work-at-home moms want for mother's day?

I'm not sure that I can speak for all work-at-home moms, but I can think of a few things that I'd like:
  1. Stuff around the house getting done without me asking or anybody complaining.

  2. A "grownup" conversation with my darling husband with no interruptions from the kids asking for us to take them somewhere or for money.

  3. The chance to spend some of my hard-earned money on something that I want.

  4. A day with no responsibilities.
In terms of gifts that can be bought, I love books. I'd like a new digital camera. It would be great to see my office furniture upgraded. Of course, there's always chocolate. (I love chocolate!)
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May 7
Self Employment On The Rise in Non-Urban Environments
According to a recent article from The New York Times, the number of self-employed persons located away from urban areas has increased by 240% over the past forty years.

The same article goes on to say, "if the current trend continues, one in three rural workers will be self-employed by 2015."

The New York Times piece didn't specify which country the study applied to, but I'm assuming that it's talking about the U.S. since The New York Times is a U.S. newspaper. It would be interesting to see what the statistic is for other countries.
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May 6
Myanmar Cyclone: An Opportunity to Help
On Friday, May 2nd, Myanmar (a small country bordered on the right by Thailand) was struck by colossal winds and waves. Thousands of homes were destroyed. Thousands of lives were lost.

The destruction was the work of Cyclone Nargis, the most devastating storm to strike the tiny country in years.

Even now, the nations are rushing to help the tiny country. (You can read more about the relief effort in this article from CNN.com.)
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May 5
Are You Frustrating Your Customers?
A recent experience really opened my eyes to the importance of Customer Service.

This morning I had to contact a few businesses. In nearly every case, I was trying to get payment details so that I could send the business money. In every case, I was unable to get through to speak to a live person and had to leave a message so that I could get a call back.

Now, instead being able to wrap up my business in less than an hour, I will be interrupted this afternoon five times as each business calls me back at THEIR convenience.
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May 3
Dealing With Stress
This is my May goal-setting post.

I didn't manage to a goal-setting post in April at all. My last goal was posted in March and it had to do with be careful about the comments I made in e-mails and on blogs.

I thought that I did a pretty good job of being careful with my comments and e-mails in March and April.

(If you haven't been following this series, each month I've been posting a challenge and then reporting on my success in meeting that challenge. The whole series was inspired by this post over at Work It Mom!

May is a stressful month for me for a number of reasons. I'm starting the month sick. The kids will be getting out of school. Relatives are coming to visit.
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May 1
Work From Home Momma Celebrates The First Anniversary of Blogtipping
A year ago today Know More Media's own Easton Ellsworth invented blogtipping.

The idea of blogtipping is to spotlight three blogs that you feel are noteworthy. For each blog you list three reasons why they are noteworthy and publish a tip.

Here are my three blog choices:
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