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More and more women are choosing to work from home as a way to blend their professional passion, their desire for wealth AND their role as a mother.

Yet the self-help industry advises women to compartmentalize—to strive for “work-life balance” in order to achieve a sense of meaning and order in their lives. This advice leaves the modern work at home mom feeling frustrated, lonely, and confused. Why? And what can you, the work-at-home mom do about it?

Finally the guesswork’s been taken out of becoming a successful empowered Alpha WAHM (work at home mom).

Karri Flatla, author of Alpha WAHM Blueprint: An Empowerment Guide for Work-at-Home Moms, has agreed to answer three burning interview questions about her recently released book and becoming the work-at-home entrepreneur you’ve always wanted to be.

Check back here on Tuesday, February 16th for her interview at and leave a comment to enter Karri’s Comment Contest Giveaway.

The winner will receive a free copy of Karri’s eBook: 99 Web Marketing Tips and Aha! Moments to Grow Your Online Business (Rocket Science Not Included).

I recently spoke at the Niche Affiliate Marketing System Workshop (NAMS) and I was asked to write down my secrets to success to share with the attendees.

NAMS is fast becoming the premiere event in the U.S. where expert instructors actually teach students to build businesses in just three days. I highly recommend you attend the next NAMS workshop if you can.

And if you can’t attend? Then at the very least, invest in your business by getting the NAMS4U 2gb Flash Drive containing all the recordings, text material and more.  It retails for a ridiculous bargain of $297. But until the 51 Custom Flash Drives are sold out, you can still order these for just $97 which is a real steal.

The Secret To My Success

The secret to my success came to me from a cereal box of all places. Some people claim high power people like Donald Trump or Oprah have given them the secrets to success. To me it came from three little Elf Chefs named Snap, Crackle and POP.

It’s quite simple, you don’t need to work out long complicated plans and flow sheets.  It all comes from inside, and you just need the tools to get started, after that the wheels of momentum and the knowledge of experience (whether gleaned from self experience) take over.

So let’s get back to my three little friends from the Kellogg’s Rice Krispies box…

SNAP! This is easy to understand, you have the dream, you have the skills, and you have the desire to change your life. So … SNAP TO IT!  It won’t happen until you start, and has been said by someone wiser than I, “All journeys start with a single step”.

CRACKLE! Ok, I changed the word a little, but you need to CRACK the whip every day. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but seeing as you’re most likely starting your empire alone, you need to crack the whip on yourself every day, especially when it seems that the building process will never stop.  Little secret here, it won’t. Because as with Rome, you’ll always need another street or another shop, or most likely, in your case a another website!

POP! He’s a little different as he is the anchor in your marathon to the top and he has several jobs for the long haul. So let’s break POP down to its core.

P is for Perseverance.  You have the passion, now believe in yourself enough to persist through the tough days, there will be many, but the rewards will come.

O is for Outsource. You know what you’re good at so outsource the rest, there is no point you spending time on something you don’t like or know how to do. Do what you know how to do and love doing best, and get others to do what they’re good at.

P is for Populous. Surround yourself with people that think the way you do (This does not mean find “Yes Men” either). This means find people with similar skills, to learn from, with similar dreams to aspire with and similar goals to work towards. And don’t forget to hang with the people you wish to be like one day too!

So go pour yourself a bowl of success, add a little milk, and just a touch of sugar to sweeten it up, and go get em’ Tiger… Oh that’s another box of cereal and other story, but that will come later.

Here’s one of my best kept secrets from 2009 that I’m going to share with you this New Year…

I’ve often been asked, “Tawnya, how do you keep up with fresh content on all of your websites you have?”

It’s not as hard as you may think. I have over 75 websites that all require regular new content to help entice loyal visitors to come back for a visit. Content is still KING online and users want information. These returning visitors to my blogs and websites produce passive income sales for me through my affiliate links so that when I wake up in the morning, money is in my email box!

Now, there’s no way I could keep up with writing all fresh content on my own for all my websites, blogs, autoresponders, newsletters, etc. AND that is where PLR comes in handy for me!

What is PLR?

PLR is short for “Private Label Rights” articles. PLR Articles are a fantastic way to add new content to your website or blog and fill up your newsletter or autoresponder easily and quickly without much effort on your part.

Example: I have a blog for our new bichon frise puppy dog which serves two purposes:

One it keeps my family and friends up to date on our puppy’s goings on.

Second, it makes passive money selling ebooks through Clickbank to help pay for our family pet. It’s amazing how much a pet can cost your family budget and this blog helps pay for all the expenses our family incurs from having a dog (including a $1800 operation awhile back when Roscoe broke his leg).

You can find PLR on just about any topic too from dog training to Internet
marketing training. It also comes in many formats from articles to videos for
you to use almost any way you wish.

One of my favourite places to buy PLR is through a dear friend and business partner Nicole Dean.

Nicole Dean’s EasyPLR is 100% original content that is professionally written and edited.

One reason I love Nicole’s PLR is because it is sold in very limited quantities with no commitments required. Basically what that means is the content will only be sold to a limited amount of people (you can be confident that a only a few other website owners are using the content too). Plus you can use or edit the articles however you wish to make money from them.

If you really want to have a few nest egg websites online producing passive money while you sleep, consider PLR for your content needs like I do.

BONUS: Here are a couple of videos, my friend Nicole has put together that answers the two main concerns most have about PLR.

Is it Ethical to use PLR Content?

How to Avoid Bad PLR Content:

I highly recommend checking out Nicole’s Private Label Rights articles.

I know you will love them as much as I do if you don’t have time to write but you have websites, membership sites, autoresponders, newsletters or blogs that need content.

ENJOY and to a success 2010 with your virtual business!

VAinsider Club Summer Twitter Giveaway!

I’m giving away a VAinsider Club 1 Year Membership (value $249) the 1st of every month during the summer of 2009 to one lucky follower of mine on Twitter because I think everyone should have an opportunity to be part of this remarkable club.

Being a member of the VAinsider Club will help you kick things up a notch in your Virtual Assistant business taking you steps closer to reaching your ultimate dreams of success. The VAinsider Club membership not only includes business templates, marketing resources, weekly educational webinars, VA mastermind discussions but it also has the most popular job board online today for VAs to find work at with RFPs submitted on a daily basis. VAinsiders are a step above the rest and with competition becoming fiercer each day, you’ll relax knowing you are a club member with clients knocking on your door. Click to read more about this VAinsider Club prize which will be drawn on the 1st of each month.

So Tawnya, How Do I WIN???

It’s simple, just follow the 2 steps below…

STEP 1 – Follow me on Twitter by clicking here @VAnetworking. If you don’t have a Twitter account yet you can get a FREE one by clicking here STEP 2 THEN Retweet this EXACT message on Twitter: CLICK HERE TO RETWEET MESSAGE OR simply copy and paste the text below in the box and post it to your Twitter account. RT @VAnetworking is giving away a VAinsider Club Membership ($249) this month, go here to learn more: http://bit.ly/q6Uhh

THAT’S IT! As soon as you complete both of these steps, I will automatically enter you into my monthly random draw to win a VAinsider Club 1 Year Membership to be held the 1st of every month! Winner will be posted to this page.

GOOD LUCK and hope to be sharing tweets with you soon on Twitter!

Follow Tawnya’s Twitter Streams…
#VAtip – Daily tips for clients on how to best utilize the services of a Virtual Assistant
#VAjot – Connection & Accountability to our Virtual Assistant social nights
#VAinsider – Up-to-date information for VAinsider Club members including daily job board details

Tawnya Sutherland
Founder of VAnetworking.com

Monthly Winners:

Contest ends August 31st, 2009

August: @ivettemuller01

July: @emilyrobe

June: @amandadugas

May: @savvyva