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Tiffany and I have released two new high quality private label rights article packs for the natural family niche.

They are: Natural Skin Care and Healthy Food and Eating

These articles stand apart from other PLR articles you may have come across. You will find that you need to do precious little editing in order to use them, because they are already so well written. Just add your affiliate links and go!

To make things easier, we’ve even added a document to each pack with recommended affiliate products for you to use to monetize these, should you choose to.

The Natural Skin Care pack has 8 articles and two product reviews. Here is a sample of the topics:

* Chemical Ingredients to Avoid in Skin Care Products (615 Words)

* Dry Brushing for Skin Health (520 Words)

* Green and Natural Ways to Fight Cellulite (535 Words)

* Natural Beauty Ingredients That Work Wonders (510 Words)

* Natural Skin Care for Winter (520 Words)

The Healthy Food and Eating pack includes 5 product reviews and the following articles:

* Healthy & Frugal Eating Ideas (665 Words)

* Getting Your Child to Eat More Raw Foods (600 Words)

* Making Sense of Healthy Eating Advice (690 Words)

* How to Tweak Recipes for More Nutrition (615 Words)

We also have a bulk plr offer with a special low price that amounts to getting over HALF off!

Go to Natural Mom PLR to get your packs.

I grabbed this SEO Lies report the other day when Lynn Terry over at Clicknewz.com recommended it on her blog.

For $1, you can get it too.

It was a very interesting read. At the very least, it’s a basic guide to what SEO is all about. As I’ve said here many times, it’s not rocket science. Most of SEO is simply lather, rinse, repeat. It’s doing the same simple actions over and over again.

Once you get the basics, you hardly have to think about it anymore.

But what makes the report juicy is where he dispels some of the myths surrounding SEO – including the myth of duplicate content (he gives proof of his particular position on this issue and it’s compelling), and the “nofollow” tag myth.

This report is worth a LOT more than a buck. Go get your copy here.

I wrote a complete review of Steve Pavlina’s book on my other blog but I wanted to touch on some of the specific things in this book that apply to your internet marketing business.

Steve, unlike some other personal development authors I’ve read, actually seems to value hard work. His book deals with a lot of the practical aspects of meeting goals by changing your habits.

For instance, Chapter 3, which revolves around the principle of Power, suggests “Mastering the First Hour” in order to get control of the “rudder” of your day. It also introduces the concept of “Personal Quotas” and “Worst First“. These habits are pretty self explanatory and help you to gain mastery over your life.

I also love what he has to say about Goals, and not until I read this did I realize why I so often despise goal setting. In fact I’ve avoided setting goals for my business for a long time without really knowing why. Here is a quote:

“The purpose of goal setting is not to control the future. That would be senseless because the future only exists in your imagination. The point of goal setting is to improve the quality of your present-moment reality. Setting goals can give you greater clarity and focus right now. Whenever you set your sights on achieving something, always ask yourself, “How does setting this goal improve my present reality?”

If it doesn’t improve your present reality, then the goal is pointless, and you may as well dump it. But if it brings greater clarity, focus and motivation to your life when you think about it, it’s a keeper.”

That makes a heck of a lot of sense to me.

Goals that are long term and end focused but that don’t bring you any happiness or sense of purpose NOW are no fun because they make life a drudgery, always a striving for the future but not enjoying the present. Which leads to struggle, procrastination, and failure.

The concept of Triage is fantastic. Steve suggests you categorize tasks this way:

1. Projects that will fail to have a significant impact, whether you do them or not
2. Projects that will succeed anyway, whether you do them or not
3. Projects that will have a significant impact only if you complete them in a timely manner

Steve says that if you spend most of your time and energy on the tasks in the 3rd group, you’ll be most profitable.

Chapter 8 is my favorite because it gives you concrete examples (instead of abstract concepts) of things to do to improve your results and your life. One of these is the 30 Day Trial.

I’ve done a couple of these in my business. Most recently was the 30 articles in 30 days challenge. I’ve also done 30 blog posts in 30 days and other trials. These are fun because they’re challenging – but because you’re focusing on doing ONE activity for 30 days (instead of attacking a bunch of different things), they’re not overwhelming.

The chapter on Money is also fantastic for business owners to read. Steve is obviously a person of integrity, you can tell that right away if you read his blog for any length of time. In the world of internet marketing and blogging especially, people with integrity are more likely to build long term businesses.

What he has to say about creating value by being a “Contributor” instead of a “Moocher” is thought provoking for us as online business owners too.

There is a lot of great stuff in this book and I enjoyed reading it very much. Personal Development for Smart People is available on Amazon.

I love having an online business, and will preach that from the rooftops to anyone who will listen. But there is a problem.

Sometimes people come to me because they need money NOW. Perhaps someone has lost a job or there is illness or whatever, there are different reasons for it but the solution is the same: Right Now Money.

Building an online business takes time, and for it to truly be a lifestyle business, you often have to reinvest your initial profits.

That won’t cut it for some people. There are circumstances that make that not doable. While I highly recommend building up a more passive income model alongside whatever else you’re already doing, if you need Right Now Money, there are several ways to get that.

That is another quick way of earning income.

If you need Right Now Money, VA work or transcription are a great way to go.

Two sources of information I recommend to help you get started making money now.

One is the How To VA guide put together by three gals I trust implicity for their knowledge: Nicole Dean, Jen Houck and Nell Taliercio.

Find it at: How To VA

These ladies all earn money offering their services to other business owners and have awesome advice for you. This guide even includes 5 templates to make it super easy to build your own website to showcase your services. Everything in one package.

There is another one I read that was created by the women over at Moms Talk Biz: Guide to Starting a Virtual Assistant Business

This one is a more “quick and dirty” info guide that you could read in an afternoon and get going. Great if you already have a website set up.

The second idea to generate Right Now Money is general transcription.

Not medical transcription which requires specialized knowledge. General transcription only requires ears and fingers and keyboard.

General transcriptionists are hired to transcribe all kinds of audio into text. For example, I hire a transcriptionist to type out my podcast interviews.

A nice transcription guide is also found at the Moms Talk Biz website: Guide to Starting Your Own Transcription Business

Don’t let your need for quick income deter you from working from home! It’s also not necessary for you to search for a work at home job either.

I think it’s easier to start your own service business and go out searching for clients rather than slogging through scammy work at home opportunities to find a real one.

Of course, once you decide to start offering your services you will need to market yourself and find clients. One of the best ways to do this is through networking. All of the people I’ve ever hired to do various things for me in my business came through word of mouth and networking.

I’m hearing great things about SheLancers to get more clients for your service based business. And of course, Mom Masterminds is a wonderful place to network with serious minded business owners. Get out there and do some offline networking too.

Now for your comments. What did you do when you needed Right Now Money? Share your tips!

There are a couple of resources I mention here over and over again. And perhaps you’ve thought in the past about using one or both of these resources.

Well, now would be a great time to get off the fence and make a decision, because both of them are going to go up in price soon.

I’m talking about Mom Masterminds and WahmCart.

Mom Masterminds is going through some exciting changes. For one, the “graduate” program is expiring, and this means that members will no longer enjoy free membership after one year or 18 months like they do currently.

JOIN NOW if you have been considering joining! You’ll be grandfathered in at the current structure, meaning you’ll graduate after 18 months and get free membership for a lifetime.

Another change at MM is the resources that will be available. MM has long been one of the best deals on the Internet (read: it’s a STEAL). The Premium learning resources will no longer be available as part of membership. These are a few tools that are available for purchase outside MM.

JOIN NOW if you have been considering joining and you will be able to download these resources – collectively worth hundreds (thousands? I haven’t done the math) of dollars – before they disappear.

Note: The price of the monthly subscription to MM once these changes take effect will actually go DOWN… but since the graduation program will be no longer, your actual lifetime price will go UP. Clear as mud?

WahmCart is experiencing a price hike on August 15th – from 29.99 a month to 39.99 a month. Good grief, 39.99 is still a great price for all that WahmCart offers, but again:

JOIN NOW if you’ve been considering joining and you’ll enjoy the current price forever.

Read more about what I’ve said in the past about WahmCart and Mom Masterminds and feel free to ask questions below: