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		<title>WAHS Podcast #71 Work At Home 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we start on work-at-home goals for 2010 You can listen online here: Or Download here: You can also subscribe through iTunes. Resources Mentioned On the Show The Success Principles Write It Down, Make It Happenk Think and Grow Rich]]></description>
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<p>This week we start on work-at-home goals for 2010<br />
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<h3>Resources Mentioned On the Show</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060594888/workathomesuccesA/">The Success Principles</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684850028/workathomesuccesA/">Write It Down, Make It Happenk</a><BR><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593302002/workathomesuccesA/">Think and Grow Rich</a><BR><br />
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		<title>WAHS Podcast #69 Dealing with Desperation During Tough Financial Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week is a discussion about dealing with feelings of desperation and how to overcome them to make money at home. You can listen online here: Or Download here: You can also subscribe through iTunes. Resources Mentioned On the Show]]></description>
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<p>This week is a discussion about dealing with feelings of desperation and how to overcome them to make money at home.<br />
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		<title>Get Out Of Your Business Rut</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Crissy Herron Are you feeling like you are stuck in a routine? Does it seem like tasks are piling up but you have no energy to work on them? Does working on your business seem like a chore or a drain – when it used to feel fun and energizing? If so, I]]></description>
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<p>Are you feeling like you are stuck in a routine? Does it seem like tasks are piling up but you have no energy to work on them? Does working on your business seem like a chore or a drain – when it used to feel fun and energizing? If so, I think you might be stuck in a rut.</p>
<p>Ruts can happen to the best of us, so if you got caught up in one, don’t feel bad. The point is to recognize the rut and figure out how to get out of it. Quickly! (Ruts can harm your business – so you really don’t want to stay in one for too long!)</p>
<p>Here are some tips on getting un-stuck:</p>
<p>Get out of your comfort zone!</p>
<p>This is probably the number one reason people fall into ruts. They spend too much time on doing things that are “comfortable.” So let me ask you a question: What is one thing you know you need to do for your business, but haven’t done, because it scares the hell out of you?</p>
<p>Guess what? I want you to start working on that thing … today! Don’t wait! Do it today!</p>
<p>Get out of your house!</p>
<p>If you work from home, it can be very easy to fall into a rut. In fact, your business rut can start extending into your life. It can be really easy to sit at home in your pajamas all day and never  get dressed, or fix your hair, etc. If you find yourself doing this everyday, that’s a rut, my dear.</p>
<p>If the above pajama person sounds like you, I want you to get out of your house. Today. And not just to go to the grocery store. I want you to pack up your laptop and head to your local coffee shop and work there for an hour or two.</p>
<p>If you have kids, you can schedule this activitiy for when you can fiind a sitter. But that doesn’t mean you get out of it completley! You still gotta break free from that rut, so you better find time to leave the house sometime this week! (you’ll thank me later.)</p>
<p>Find A Mentor</p>
<p>I am assuming that most of you reading this are “solopreneurs.” That means you are basically a one-woman show. When you work on your business by yourself, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture.  Have you ever wished you could turn to someone for advice? Someone who has been in the trenches and could give you insight on how to develop your business and succeed?</p>
<p>Finding a mentor can help you tremendously. They can help you figure out what pices of the puzzle are missing. This can breathe new life into your business and help give you the motivation to take things to the next level.</p>
<p><strong>About The Author:</strong><br />
Crissy Herron is the founder of <strong><a href="http://www.indiebizchicks.com/" target="_blank">IndieBizChicks.com</a></strong> and host of the corresponding podcast. In addition to managing her own website, she enjoys working with other business owners and teaching them how to market their businesses online</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Will I ever work at home?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[© 2009 Leslie Truex As the owner of several work-at-home related websites, I receive email daily asking about working at home. Most writers of these emails indicate they are hard working, can type, have a computer, and are desperate to work-at-home. Those are all nice things to have, but they are not the characteristics or]]></description>
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<p>As the owner of several work-at-home related websites, I receive email daily asking about working at home. Most writers of these emails indicate they are hard working, can type, have a computer, and are desperate to work-at-home. Those are all nice things to have, but they are not the characteristics or skills that make someone a success. Yes, everyone who works at home is hard working, can type and has a computer, but these are indicators of success.</p>
<p>Through my own experience and in talking with others, I have determined what I believe are the characteristics that determine who will succeed at working at home and who won&#8217;t. Before I go into the different characteristics, let me first state that I&#8217;m not saying that the people who fit the &#8220;unlikely to work-at-home&#8221; scenario are less smart or capable. Instead, they tend to be  uninformed about or fearful of what it take to work at home. But, if they are willing to learn and do the work, they too can find  success working at home.</p>
<p><strong>People who are LESS likely to work-at-home:</strong></p>
<p>1. Focus only on data-entry, typing jobs, and other questionable sign-up &#8220;jobs&#8221; in their search for work.</p>
<p>2. Have paid hundreds of dollars or more to off-line and online companies suggesting one can send or place ads, process email, process rebates, do surveys, mail brochures, assemble earrings etc and make a living at home.</p>
<p>3. Spend only left-over time in their search for work or a home business as opposed to committing regular daily effort.</p>
<p>4. Have a fear of doing something different or stepping out the comfort zone, which limits their choices.</p>
<p>I was like that person listed above when I started my journey to  work at home. I&#8217;m not quite sure from where the idea that working at home and getting-rich on menial work originated. It probably came from scammers who saw money in people&#8217;s dreams. What I learned the hard way was that &#8220;work&#8221; is the key word in &#8220;work at home&#8221;. I haven&#8217;t met anyone who works at home who hasn&#8217;t worked very hard either in a telecommuting position or in a home business.</p>
<p>Here are the characteristics I have found in people who are successfully working at home.</p>
<p><strong>People who successfully work from home:</strong></p>
<p>1. Recognize that pay to get hired options are scams and that free work-at-home programs while they may be viable, don&#8217;t work by themselves.</p>
<p>2. Are proactive in their search for telecommuting jobs or researching a home business. They don&#8217;t expect the ideal situation to show up in their email. Instead, they send resumes regularly and follow-up&#8230;even to companies that might not be advertising a job but could use a contract or telecommuting worker. Neither do they expect any home business to be successful with haphazard efforts such as a single email or ad.</p>
<p>3. Spend time regularly, usually everyday in their search for work or a home business. This time is scheduled into their life just like all other activities because they know that life has a way of taking over unless you control your time.</p>
<p>4. Understand that there is no job or home business that doesn&#8217;t require work. While there may be good free programs, to earn money requires consistent work to earn a regular income.</p>
<p>5. Have a desire to work at home that is bigger than their fear. They are willing to step out of their comfort zone in effort to succeed at working at home.</p>
<p>As you can see, the only real difference between those who succeed at working at home and those who don&#8217;t is knowledge, consistent effort and a compelling desire. I know that is what made the difference for me. I got a telecommuting job by sending letters of inquiries out to potential employers outlining my experience and asking if they needed a part-time worker in my area. When I decided I wanted something more than telecommuting could offer, I researched home businesses and chose the one that best fit my needs and work habits KNOWING that I would have to put myself outside my comfort zone in whatever I chose to do. In other words, I didn&#8217;t waste my time on Internet gimmicks. I searched for a proven, reputable, yet achievable program. And then I jumped in and did it even when I was scared or tired or discouraged. My dream was bigger than the obstacles, which incidentally are usually all in the mind. Once I learned how to get out of my own way, it got much easier.</p>
<p>The question now is what are you willing to do? How big is your dream? Is it big enough to really learn the truth about working at home and stop wasting your time looking for the job or program that doesn&#8217;t exist? Is it big enough to commit time every day to achieving it even if its just 15 minutes? Is it big enough to step out of your comfort zone to do something different to reach your goal? Is it big enough to commit to for the long haul particularly when your dream seems out of reach? If it is, then you have what it takes to work at home!</p>
<p>Remember, <a title="Work At Home Success" href="http://www.workathomesuccess.com">Work-At-Home Success</a> is a FREE resource with information about telecommuting including how and where to search for jobs, and home business including ideas and resources to learn more. Plus the blog has additional jobs and work-at-home articles to help you.</p>
<p>I believe everyone can work at home IF they do their research, choose options that fit within their skill sets or passions, and do the work.</p>
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		<title>WAHS Podcast #55- How a WAHM Paid $72K in Debt thru Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I talk with Amy Bass who paid off her $72,000 debt through niche blogging. You can listen online here: Or Download here: You can also subscribe through iTunes. Resources provided in the podcast: The Niche Blogger My Debt-Free Goal]]></description>
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<p>This week I talk with Amy Bass who paid off her $72,000 debt through <a href="http://www.thenicheblogger.com/amember/go.php?r=2962&#038;i=l0">niche blogging.<br />
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		<title>5 Big Mistakes: Not Surrounding yourself with Positive People</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicoledean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi again, I&#8217;m Nicole Dean, and I&#8217;m your guest expert for the week, writing about “Big Mistakes you might be making in your Online Business”. Today I&#8217;d like to wrap up this series by talking about one of the hardest lessons that I&#8217;ve had to learn. Mistake #5: Listening to Nay-Sayers Instead of Successful People]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="nicole-dean-photo" src="http://workathomesuccess.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nik-small.jpg" alt="nik-small" width="105" height="116" />Hi again, I&#8217;m Nicole Dean, and I&#8217;m your guest expert for the week, writing about “<a href="http://workathomesuccess.com/blog/author/nicoledean/" target="_blank">Big Mistakes you might be making in your Online Business</a>”. Today I&#8217;d like to wrap up this series by talking about one of the hardest lessons that I&#8217;ve had to learn.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mistake #5: Listening to Nay-Sayers Instead of Successful People who Can Help You</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Do you have people in your life, perhaps a spouse or friend or sibling, telling you that this “Make Money Online” thing is a scam and doesn&#8217;t work?</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">You know, I can&#8217;t fault your loved ones. Their intentions may be good. They might honestly believe that it&#8217;s all scams and feel they are protecting you by voicing their objections.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">But, before I get into who you should listen to, I have to make a big time disclaimer, because sometimes your loved ones are right.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">When to listen to your loved ones&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">When you are investing large sums of money into your online business without seeing any profit. Or spending significant sums of money when your finances are tight and the money should be spent on things like groceries. If you are, then I think your loved ones have a right to be upset. Don&#8217;t buy another course until you&#8217;ve implemented the courses that you&#8217;ve already purchased.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">When you are sitting on your keister in front of your computer, getting overweight, depressed, and obsessed about your business to the exclusion of everything and everyone else. If you are&#8230; then get off your bottom and go on a walk with your loved ones and reclaim your life.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">When you&#8217;re unemployed and passing up job opportunities to pursue this online thing, while feeding your children bread and butter and waiting for the “get rich quick”.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Assuming you&#8217;re not spending gobs of money that you don&#8217;t have. And, we&#8217;re assuming that you&#8217;re not totally obsessed and ignoring everyone that you love and acting like this is some cult that requires you to be unshowered and gain weight and stare at a screen for 12 hours per day in a dark room. Right?</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">And, assuming you&#8217;ve talked to your loved ones and found their greatest concern is protecting you from us charlitins&#8230;</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Then, it&#8217;s time to surround yourself with people who WILL support you and who do understand what building this business means to you in the long run.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">I can relate. Been there. Done that.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">I can&#8217;t imagine where I&#8217;d be today if I had actually listened to my much-adored husband when I first started off. He&#8217;s a brilliant man, honestly, but a very sceptical one. His degree is in Physics, and he&#8217;s a scientist through and through. He&#8217;s the &#8220;I&#8217;ll believe it when I see it&#8221; type.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Example: He didn&#8217;t fully believe that I was pregnant until a baby came out. I don&#8217;t know if he thought the doctors were all in on the scam and it was a big party trick and I gained weight for fun or what, but he is that sceptical. I&#8217;m dead serious. Could I make that up?!</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Back to my online business. He said “Honey, it&#8217;s all scams. You&#8217;ll never make money online. I just want to protect you from wasting your time and being crushed when it doesn&#8217;t work.”</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Well, guess what? Less than 5 years later and he now works for me. Well, actually a better way to say it would be that he works for our company which is run by me. And, what does our company do? Internet Marketing! It&#8217;s a combination of active and passive income, and it is most importantly FUN. I get to make the internet a better place, meet fantastic people who are taking risks to become better people, and help moms and dads and grandparents to keep a roof over their heads in a scary time. What else would I want to do other than this?!</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Back to you. I&#8217;ve learned one thing over time that has been the most shocking to me about business in general.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> It&#8217;s not what you know. It&#8217;s the game in your head that&#8217;s the most important.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"> If you sit at the computer and feel defeated, you will be.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"> However, if you tackle your business with the gusto, confidence and finesse of someone who is playing to win – and knows she can, you will win.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> Ask any of my coaching clients or listen to my podcast. I share this story all the time.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> Would you like to know what I struggled with the most on my journey to success?</p>
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<li>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> <a href="http://www.easyarticlemarketing.com" target="_blank">Article marketing</a>? Nope.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Outsourcing? Nada.</div>
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<li>
<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><a href="http://wahsuccess.affnaire.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_blank">Affiliate marketing</a>? Not even close.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Sales copy? No.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Techology? Nah. I just outsourced that part.</div>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> The thing that I struggled with more than anything over the last few years?</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> Confidence.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> I&#8217;m not just standing on some soapbox talking out my ear. I&#8217;m talking from the experience of a person who has shed tears of frustration because she desperately wanted to build a successful online business.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> So, here&#8217;s how you can get your head in the game and start earning the big bucks, too.</p>
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<div style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> Find someone who inspires you. Sign up for that person&#8217;s lists and absorb everything that person sends you. For me, that person was Jimmy D. Brown. I just felt HOPE every time I listened to him and I felt confidence. You need to fill your spirit as much as you need to fill your mind. Amazingly, Jimmy does both, but the person who you choose is up to you. However, I do recommend you check out <a href="http://www.infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=wahsuccess&amp;pid=41" target="_blank">Jimmy&#8217;s blog</a> if nothing else to see what he&#8217;s about. He&#8217;s one of the good guys.</div>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Absorb success stories. Every week on my podcast, I interview someone who has become a success online. I hope you&#8217;ll come by and listen because I ask questions like “Have you ever fallen on your face and had to get back up?” It helps to show you that building an online business may not be easy but it is doable. Also, I never edit my shows. I want to be as real and genuine with you as possible. It&#8217;s just me and I&#8217;m a work at home mom. Sometimes things go wrong during the episodes. My dog might throw up or I&#8217;ll get interrupted by my kids. Big deal, right? Life happens. Even if you&#8217;re wonderfully flawed like I am, you can earn a good living online. So, swing by my <a href="http://nicoleonthenet.com/category/podcast/" target="_blank">Online Success Podcast</a> to listen to past episodes. You can also find me on Itunes. I also sell a great guide called <a href="http://wahsuccess.welike.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_blank">Full Time Work at Home Moms</a> for $15 that includes written interviews with 22 work at home moms.</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Join a mastermind or coaching group. I&#8217;ve been a member of <a href="http://momsmastermind.com" target="_blank">MomsMastermind.com</a> since 2005 and I really enjoyed learning there, especially when I was just starting out and had a ton of questions to ask. I&#8217;d been to the free forums and asked questions, but I wanted people to answer who actually knew what they were talking about. Going to forums online where anyone and their brother can hop on and give advice is dangerous. I recommend a closed group if you can possibly swing it.</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Go to offline seminars. Getting in a room with people who are also doing what you do, but more importantly understand your passion for your business – PRICELESS. Run, don&#8217;t walk, to the nearest one you can find. You can find <a href="http://nicoleonthenet.com/category/seminars-live-events/" target="_blank">pictures of me with awesome people like the NicheProf, Lynn Terry, and Bob Jenkins</a> on my blog – all from attending seminars. If you follow me on Twitter, I normally announce where I&#8217;ll be next. I try to attend a seminar at least every few months, if not more, just because it pumps me up and gets me energized – plus I get to meet amazing people and travel. AND, it&#8217;s fun!</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Read personal development books. Set aside some of the marketing ebooks and audios for a bit and take time to absorb several personal development books instead. I loved <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931866007?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=showmomthemon-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1931866007">Conversations with Millionaires: What Millionaires Do to Get Rich, That You Never Learned About in School!</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=showmomthemon-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1931866007" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> . It&#8217;s fascinating.</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Get Personal or Group Coaching. Of course, I have to give one more plug to <a href="http://www.workathomesuccess.com/wahsproducts.html" target="_blank">Leslie&#8217;s coaching</a>. She knows her stuff.</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Well, that&#8217;s it for me. My week here is done. Keep posting your comments and I&#8217;ll choose a couple of winners. Leslie will announce them on Monday and we&#8217;ll set you up with your prizes.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Thanks so much for following my <a href="http://nicoleonthenet.com/2009/nicole-deans-rockin-blog-summer-tour/" target="_blank">Blog World Tour</a>. I&#8217;ll see you at my next stop.</p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Warmly,<br />
Nicole Dean</p>
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		<title>5 Big Mistakes: Comparing yourself to the Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicoledean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hi agan, I&#8217;m Nicole Dean, and I&#8217;d like to welcome you back to my series about “Common Mistakes You May be Making when Working from Home and How to Avoid them”. Today, I&#8217;d like to talk about something that&#8217;s a huge mistake for many many entrepreneurs.  Mistake #4: Comparing yourself to Others  Let me preface]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p style="page-break-before: always; margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="nicole-dean-photo" src="http://workathomesuccess.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nik-small.jpg" alt="nik-small" width="105" height="116" /></strong> Hi agan, I&#8217;m Nicole Dean, and I&#8217;d like to welcome you back to my series about “Common Mistakes You May be Making when Working from Home and How to Avoid them”. Today, I&#8217;d like to talk about something that&#8217;s a huge mistake for many many entrepreneurs.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mistake #4: Comparing yourself to Others</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"> Let me preface by saying “There is only ONE you.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"> We can be so cruel to ourselves. We&#8217;d never be as cruel to anyone else, usually, as we are to ourselves. It&#8217;s so sad.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"> Have you ever said these things to yourself&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"> “I&#8217;ll never be as good as she is.”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">“I can&#8217;t believe she&#8217;s launched another site and I still don&#8217;t have this one making money.”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">“I suck at this.”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">“I obviously am not cut out to do this. She&#8217;s so much better than I am.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">OUCH. Those words hurt, whether someone else says them to us, or we say them to ourselves. Either way, they cut like a knife and do serious damage to our work days. They can kill your productivity faster than a hard drive crash or getting a site hacked for sure.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">I&#8217;ll tell you a secret. It really does not matter what others are doing. The only thing that matters is what YOU are doing. YOU make an impact on your own business. You are responsible for your own success, not for anything else.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Would you like to know what happens when you focus on other people&#8217;s successes? You waste your time and prevent yourself from focusing on your own business.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">How do I know this? Well, because I&#8217;ve done the same thing. Remember? I&#8217;ve been in the trenches just like you and I&#8217;ve struggled and fought my way to where I am, earning a very nice income online. I&#8217;m human and very imperfect and wonderfully flawed&#8230; just like every other person on this earth.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">I have a few recommendations at this point. But, first, let&#8217;s name this “other marketer” so that it&#8217;s easier to write the rest of this article. Let&#8217;s call her Maxine the Marketer. Ok? Onward.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">First of all, how do you even know what Maxine is doing in the first place? If you&#8217;re subscribed to her lists … unsubscribe now. I don&#8217;t care how good her information is. If your gut twists and you feel less than you are every time you receive an email from her, it&#8217;s not worth it. Find someone else to learn from.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Second, take a minute to consider why Maxine is getting more done. Is she outsourcing? Is she recycling and repackaging her content? Is she partnering with others? Is she more focused? Is she networking better? Is she using a tool to help her that you can also use? Whatever it is, consider whether you can learn from her.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Third, stop beating up on yourself, my friend. YOU are learning at your own pace. You&#8217;re applying at your own pace. And, I would like you to reach your hand back right now, and give yourself a pat on the back for being here, reading this, and trying to build a better life. You&#8217;re working towards a goal of building a profitable online business and hopefully a lifestyle of freedom. That deserves a HUGE congratulations. So many others just think about how nice it would be – but they don&#8217;t take ACTION to get there. You are moving ahead. So, be nice to yourself and be proud of that.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Fourth, if you&#8217;re learning and applying and aren&#8217;t reaching your goals, then it&#8217;s time to get a coach to walk you through the process to see where you&#8217;re losing money, where you could be more productive, and maybe help you to find some promtional opportunities outside your own circle of friends. Again, Leslie does offer coaching.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">I know that I&#8217;m moving quickly in these lessons. It&#8217;s hard to cover so much in so little time. If you&#8217;d like more information you can click on the related links:</p>
<ol>
<li>Productivity: <span style="font-weight: normal;">If you are ready and willing to learn how to get more done during the day and earn more money, I highly recommend <a href="http://www.infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=wahsuccess&#038;pid=16" target="_blank">Homepreneur Habits</a>, a course by my mentor and friend, Jimmy D. Brown.</span></li>
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<p style="font-weight: normal;">Partnering: I co-created a course with Kelly McCausey about how to work with others to get more accomplished. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.easypartnerships.com" target="_blank">Easy Partnerships</a> and it talks about ways you can JV with others on projects to mutually benefit.</p>
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<li>Outsourcing: I co-created <a href="http://wahsuccess.nocost.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Outsource Weekly</a> with Jimmy D. Brown. However, the course is a misnomer. I got myself in a pickle because my integrity wouldn&#8217;t allow me to teach people how to outsource marketing strategies and online business tactics until I first taught what the strategies were and how to use them properly. Otherwise, you could outsource work and not know it was being done properly. I can&#8217;t send people out to be swindled or to throw money into the wind. So, Outsource Weekly is almost a complete A-Z intro course to online business, including efficiency tips and how to outsource each task. If you&#8217;re interested, you can check it out here: <a href="http://wahsuccess.nocost.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Outsource Weekly</a>.</li>
<li>Coaching: As I mentioned, you can check out Leslie&#8217;s coaching here: <a href="http://www.workathomesuccess.com/wahsproducts.html" target="_blank">Get Coaching with Leslie</a>.</li>
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<p style="font-weight: normal;">Thanks again for reading. I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed this lesson and I&#8217;ll be back with my last guest post for the week tomorrow.</p>
<p>Warmly,<br />
Nicole Dean</p>
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		<title>5 Big Mistakes You May Be Making: Lack of Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicoledean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi. Nicole Dean here. In case you&#8217;re just stopping by and wonder why I&#8217;m here, I asked Leslie if I could come on as a guest expert to share lessons that I&#8217;ve learned working successfully from home. (I was interviewed on Leslie&#8217;s podcast recently. I invite you to listen here.) Of course, being the wonderful]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="nicole-dean-photo" src="http://workathomesuccess.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nik-small.jpg" alt="nik-small" width="105" height="116" />Hi. Nicole Dean here. In case you&#8217;re just stopping by and wonder why I&#8217;m here, I asked Leslie if I could come on as a guest expert to share lessons that I&#8217;ve learned working successfully from home. (I was interviewed on Leslie&#8217;s podcast recently. I invite you to listen <a href="http://workathomesuccess.com/blog/online-business/wahs-podcast-40-beginning-internet-marketing-with-nicole-dean/" target="_blank">here</a>.)</p>
<p>Of course, being the wonderful person she is, and knowing that I&#8217;m one of the good guys and I actually know what I&#8217;m talking about, she agreed. I let her choose the topic for my guest posts and she asked me to write about “common mistakes that people make when working from home and, more importantly, how to avoid them”.</p>
<p>Her wish is my command.</p>
<p>Yesterday, I shared my frustrations about those budding entrepreneurs who spend money on ebook after ebook after ebook and, after a few years, still aren&#8217;t making money. They&#8217;re frozen (almost paralyzed) from a mixture of information overload, combined with a massive lack of confidence, so they don&#8217;t take ACTION.</p>
<p>That leads me to today&#8217;s common mistake&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mistake #2: Being Scattered in too Many Directions</span></p>
<p>The mistake that I&#8217;d like to talk about today is another common one and is kind of the opposite of the one that I discussed yesterday.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s mistake is following too many different mentors and taking too much differing advice about what is the “latest and greatest” thing to do. Basically these people are taking action, but are running in circles so quickly, chasing the next “must-do” thing they hear about that they never get momentum from following one course of action.</p>
<p>Shhhh&#8230; I&#8217;m going to tell you a secret.</p>
<p>The methods you hear about? They pretty much all work.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.showmomtheadsense.com" target="_blank">Adsense</a>? Yes, you can make money with that.</li>
<li><a href="http://wahsuccess.affnaire.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Affiliate marketing</a>? It works.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=wahsuccess&amp;pid=5" target="_blank">Creating your own infoproduct?</a> Oh yeah.</li>
<li>Podcasting and <a href="http://wahsuccess.welike.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">blogging</a>? Certainly.</li>
<li>Teleseminars? For sure.</li>
<li>Direct Sales? Of course.</li>
<li><a href="http://wahsuccess.welike.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Becoming a Virtual Assistant</a>? Absolutely.</li>
</ul>
<p>I could go on and on and on about the million and ten ways that you can make money online. Pretty much all of the reputable ones work.</p>
<p>And, traffic generation? Yep, all of these work&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.easyarticlemarketing.com" target="_blank">Article Marketing</a></li>
<li>SEO (Search Engine Optimization)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=wahsuccess&amp;pid=5" target="_blank">List Building</a></li>
<li>Press Releases</li>
<li>Offline Networking</li>
<li>Buying Advertising</li>
<li>and a bunch of other methods of generating web traffic that I teach in my <a href="http://www.webtrafficbasics.com" target="_blank">How to Get More Web Traffic</a> course.</li>
</ul>
<p>BUT!</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t possibly learn and implement them <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span> at the same time or you&#8217;ll go crazy.</p>
<p>So&#8230; choose one or two mentors who are doing what you want to do and follow them. Unsubscribe from everyone else&#8217;s emails. Completely unplug from them. It&#8217;s the best thing that you can do for your business.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Want to build a huge team and residual income in your Direct Sales business? Find one person whether he/she is on your team or in another business, follow that one person&#8217;s system.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Want to be a successful podcaster or blogger? Find one mentor with one system and learn from him or her.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Want to be an author or speaker? Find one mentor and follow him or her.</p>
<p><strong>Got questions? I thought you might. </strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">How or Where Can I find a Real Mentor? Not a phoney?</span></p>
<p>One place to look for mentors is my <a href="http://nicoleonthenet.com/category/podcast/">Online Success Podcast</a>. In every episode ask each guest who their mentors are and why. It&#8217;s very interesting how different people really connect with different mentors.</p>
<p>Also, of course, <a href="http://www.workathomesuccess.com/wahsproducts.html">Leslie offers coaching</a> and all kinds of teaching here. So, if you&#8217;re already hooked up with Leslie and enjoy learning from her – then focus on what she&#8217;s teaching and she can be your one person. And, you will have chosen well.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">How do I know if I&#8217;m choosing the right person?</span></p>
<p>You can always switch if it&#8217;s not a good fit or if you outgrow that person. But, don&#8217;t make that decision on a whim. Make sure you&#8217;ve gone through their system before switching to someone new.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">What if I love two people?</span></p>
<p>Unlike in a marriage, this isn&#8217;t a problem. Go for it. As long as the two mentors are teaching similar methods, you&#8217;ll do fine.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">If I choose one person, how will I learn everything else?</span></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll never be able to do everything in online business efficiently and effectively. Choose what you love and do well and do it. Let the noise pass you by – at least for now. Yes, most of it works, but&#8230; no one has the time to do it all the right way. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to find a mentor who you resonate with and have similar skills set with. You can always learn other skills once you&#8217;ve mastered the one and are making money.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Example: If you find someone who is promoting their products by speaking, and that&#8217;s what you want to do, and they teach how to do it, then start learning from that person. If you outgrow him or her or find that you enjoy something else like making videos and promoting that way, then you move to someone else, but not until you&#8217;ve accomplished the first goal.</p>
<p>It seems kind of obvious, I know. BUT, if it&#8217;s so obvious, then why is your inbox so cluttered with offer after offer – keeping you hopping in ten or twenty directions each day?</p>
<p>Does your inbox make you jump from one guy&#8217;s interesting product launch video, to a new free teleseminar that sounds really great, to a “must have” free ebook, to a new article about what&#8217;s hot, to a blog post that everyone is talking about – and keep you from accomplishing the money-making tasks in your business?</p>
<p>Get a mentor who you trust. Learn from him/her. Get rid of the excess noise.</p>
<p>Your business will thank you.</p>
<p>Warmly,<br />
Nicole Dean</p>
<p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/nicoledean" target="_blank">Follow Nicole on Twitter</a>| <a href="http://twitter.com/ltruex" target="_blank">Follow Leslie on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/" target="_blank">Nicole&#8217;s Blog &amp; Podcast</a></p>
<p>PS. If you are ready and willing to learn how to get more done during the day and earn more money, I highly recommend <a href="http://www.infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=wahsuccess&amp;pid=16" target="_blank">Homepreneur Habits</a>, a course by my mentor and friend, Jimmy D. Brown.</p>
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		<title>5 Big Mistakes You May Be Making When Working from Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicoledean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi. I&#8217;m Nicole Dean and I&#8217;m here as a Guest Expert this week, to talk about 5 of the biggest mistakes people make when first starting to work from home. Why am I here? Well, I am doing a Summer Blog World Tour where I hop from blog to blog as a guest expert all]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1850" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="nicole-dean-photo" src="http://workathomesuccess.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nik-small.jpg" alt="nik-small" width="105" height="116" />Hi. I&#8217;m Nicole Dean and I&#8217;m here as a Guest Expert this week, to talk about 5 of the biggest mistakes people make when first starting to work from home. Why am I here? Well, I am doing a <a href="http://nicoleonthenet.com/2009/nicole-deans-rockin-blog-summer-tour/" target="_blank">Summer Blog World Tour</a> where I hop from blog to blog as a guest expert all summer long. It gives me the chance to reach new people and it brings blog owners like Leslie the opportunity to add even more great information to her blog. Both Leslie and I will be promoting this blog tour, so she&#8217;ll have new viewers stopping by and I&#8217;ll get to meet her readers, too. She wins. I win. And, most importantly you&#8217;ll win, too.</p>
<p>Each blog owner along the way got to choose their topic for the week. I&#8217;ve got to say that I was very excited to see the topic that I received from Leslie about “Common Mistakes People Make When Working from Home”.</p>
<p>Last week, I taught about <a href="http://mylifeshift.org/tag/nicole-dean/" target="_blank">productivity when working from home</a> at Lexi Rodrigo&#8217;s blog, and had a great response so I anticipate that this topic is one that people can relate to, as well. In fact, when I started to draft my list of big mistakes that people make, I ended up with more than 10, so it looks like I&#8217;ll start this series here on Leslie&#8217;s blog and finish it on anther blog. How fun is that?!</p>
<p>ok. Let&#8217;s get crackin&#8217;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll start with my biggest frustration. And, that is when I see people who&#8217;ve invested thousands of dollars into learning about internet marketing and are still not making even $100/month in their online business. I see it all the time.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mistake #1: Investing without Taking Action</span></p>
<p>If you find an ebook that you think will help your business, ask yourself the following questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Am I ready for this information?</li>
<li>Will I take action on this information?</li>
</ul>
<p>If the answer is yes, go ahead and buy it. BUT – only if you can afford and will actually take action on what you learn. If not, pass. Don&#8217;t buy it.</p>
<p>Did you hear the two important pieces of that? You&#8217;ve got to be both <em>READY</em> and <em>WILLING</em> to take action before getting out your credit card.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The exception is at the end of the year if you&#8217;re trying to run up expenses to lower your tax burden. Here&#8217;s a post on my blog that explains more about that:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://nicoleonthenet.com/2008/decrease-your-tax-burden-quick/" target="_blank">End of Year and Panicking about Taxes? Read this.</a></p>
<p>What do I mean by READY and WILLING?</p>
<p>Well, if you see a great offer for an ebook all about starting a membership site, but you&#8217;re in the process of setting up your podcast, then hold off on the new course until you&#8217;ve successful completed the one that you&#8217;re working on.</p>
<p>FOCUS = Follow One Course Until Successful</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll hear me mention that a lot and I&#8217;d love to give credit where due, but I have no idea who first said that. I know many have said it since then. Let me know if you know who originally came up with that phrase.</p>
<p>The other part – Willing to Implement – means just what it says. Please do not buy my courses unless you&#8217;re going to take the information and use it. Seriously, I&#8217;d love to have you as a customer, but only if you&#8217;ll read my courses, apply them and benefit from them – and then you&#8217;ll be a fan for life! I don&#8217;t want my courses or those of my client, Jimmy D. Brown, to sit on your hard drive collecting virtual dust bunnies after you buy them.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Side note: If you&#8217;ve never heard of <a href="http://www.infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=wahsuccess&amp;pid=41" target="_blank">Jimmy D. Brown</a>, click on his name and check out his blog. I&#8217;ve got one word to describe him: Inspiring.</p>
<p>So today&#8217;s mistake is investing in product after product without taking action on what you&#8217;re learning.</p>
<p>Learning is wonderful and I endorse it 100%. BUT – don&#8217;t become an infoproduct junky while letting your business (or business ideas) sit.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">It&#8217;s story-time&#8230;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I have a friend. Let&#8217;s call him George. Everyone say “Hi George!”</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">He is a gifted writer. And, he&#8217;s a top-notch SEO expert. I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; WOW! He&#8217;s that good.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Yet, he doesn&#8217;t have his first website up yet, making him money. I beg and plead and gamble with him as his coach and friend and he keeps coming up with reasons why he isn&#8217;t ready.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“I don&#8217;t know enough about that yet” he&#8217;ll say.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“YOU DON&#8217;T HAVE TO! You can <span style="text-decoration: underline;">change</span> it later!” I&#8217;ll say.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">And, the next time we speak&#8230; he&#8217;ll tell me about another course he&#8217;s bought. I kinda want to smack him a little.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I just wish he could see him through my eyes. He&#8217;s smart. He&#8217;s talented. And, he&#8217;s a gold mine waiting to happen. ((sigh))</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll never know everything – and you don&#8217;t have to. Just work on what you&#8217;ve got on your plate and move ahead. Dust off the courses on your shelves that you haven&#8217;t read yet before buying more.</p>
<p>And, I&#8217;ll be back tomorrow with more.</p>
<p>Warmly,<br />
Nicole Dean</p>
<p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/nicoledean" target="_blank">Follow Nicole on Twitter</a>| <a href="http://twitter.com/ltruex" target="_blank">Follow Leslie on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.nicoleonthenet.com/" target="_blank">Nicole&#8217;s Blog &amp; Podcast</a></p>
<p>PS. If you are ready and willing to learn how to get more done during the day and earn more money, I highly recommend <a href="http://www.infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=wahsuccess&amp;pid=16" target="_blank">Homepreneur Habits</a>, a course by my mentor and friend, Jimmy D. Brown.</p>
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		<title>WAHS Podcast #34 Tax Benefits to Working At Home &#8211; Nicole Porter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Work-At-Home Success News and Reviews Podcast I interview Nicole Porter, The Tax Coach who explains the tax benefits to working at home. You can listen online here: Or Download here: You can also subscribe through iTunes. Resources provided in the podcast: The Tax Coach]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>This week&#8217;s Work-At-Home Success News and Reviews Podcast I interview Nicole Porter, <a href="http://www.thetaxcoach.com">The Tax Coach </a>who explains the tax benefits to working at home.</p>
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