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The NZPCS Million Dollar Blueprint program is now open to new members. With this in mind I’ve actually created a new blog solely dedicated to that program. While this blog will remain as part of my journey to working from home, the new blog will cover all aspects of the program, from joining to what I’m learning when it comes to creating my online business through the program.

It will also be used as a guide for those I mentor within the program to help them with any problems they or I might have as well as providing the solutions, tips for how I have set up certain aspects of the program (niche/portal sites, article directories or the countless other income streams provided through the program) along with any other Million Dollar Blueprint related topics.

You can find this new blog here: Working From Home I’m really looking forward to both the new things I learn and being able to share my experiences with those I mentor through the program.

For members of the NZPCS program (along with other regular readers of this blog) I wanted to give you a quick reminder to check out the Blogging Tips Blog - I’ve recently added some cool and very useful plugin links and tips to it that I think you might find handy as you build your blogs, these cover such things as:

Editing your wordpress 404 page (so it’s much more viable and useful to your readers)

Changing the default NoFollow attribute of blogs to DoFollow

Keeping track of where you have left comments on other blogs

Adding a paypal donation plugin

Easily adding videos and amazon products etc

Plus a whole lot more

Getting involved in either social networking or bookmarking is all the rage at the moment (along with other web 2.0 platforms) and more and more online business owners, affiliate marketers and those just wanting to meet and share with others all over the world are getting involved.

And it seems that not only are more people joining, digging, stumbling etc but with each passing day a new network or bookmarking service pops up online. Some are niche/topic specific while others cater to everyone and every subject. The key at least in my opinion, especially when it comes to the social networking side of things is to not spread yourself too thin -by all means join a few but don’t become a part of so many that you can’t appreciate and get the benefits out of them.

What is Social Networking?

For me, in a nutshell, social networking is where you’re joining sites and communties of like minded people where you can share, discuss, debate etc your field of expertise: whether that’s adding your blog to a community, promoting an affiliate site or just chatting with others to answer questions and offer advice etc. As I mentioned above there’s hundreds of these sites around and while many work along the same guidelines, some offer little differences; be it they offer some sort of monetary reward or different ways to promote your site or blog etc

Some of the top social sites (again in my opinion and I’m sure others will vary) are:

MyBlogLog - there’s a link to this in my sidebar (you can, if you’re interested, join my community from there)

BlogCatalog

Apsense - a business social network

BUMPzee

Facebook

Twitter

Friends Win

MySpace

myLot

I know there’s a whole lot more, but they’re probably some of the more well known ones and are all easy to join and use for those just starting out.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking in a nutshell is a way for people to share their favourite sites, articles, posts etc with others throughout the online world - whether it’s with friends in their community or through random clicks etc. Again there’s literally thousands of these sites around and while you don’t need to be as involved with these as you do with the social networks they can be a great way to get involved with others.

StumbleUpon - my favourite - I’ve stumbled across some really cool websites just by clicking a button

Digg

Technorati - also a link to this in my sidebar - Technorati is a bit of a mix of things but I highly recommend you sign your blog(s) up there

Bluedot

There are also sites like OnlyWire and Social Poster - where rather than having to submit one article etc to several different bookmarking sites they will do around 20 of the more popular ones for you in one go (can save a lot of time)

Those are just some of the social networking and bookmarking sites available as I said there are hundreds more but it’s up to each individual to decide what works best for them and how much time and effort they are prepared to put in to maintaining them etc. As with all things, don’t go overboard and spam or do other things that are only going to end up getting you banned or giving you or your site a bad name etc. Just make sure you have some fun - with the networking sites they are a great way to meet and interact with others.

I just came across a new affiliate program that will be launching next week (Sept 18th) and I decided to say - what the hey - I’m going to get in early for a change

DealDotCom is the place to find the internet marketing products you want at great prices

What Makes this different from all the other similar programs?

Not only will the products be at greatly reduced prices there will only be one item for sale per day and they don’t announce what they are going to sell - adds a bit of mystery to your life.

The affiliate program also offers a lifetime two-tier commission - 35% and 15%.

It’s free to join so why not take a look now - DealDotCom

I’ve just created a new forum aimed specifically at mums who work from home; whether it’s offline or online sometimes as a mother we need that extra little bit of encouragement when it comes to balancing our work commitments with looking after our kids.

This forum will not only offer help and advice to those mums interested in working from home for the first time or those that already have a home business of some form but it will also give mums the chance to meet and interact with others to share their experiences, how they manage their time, what they do when it’s time to take a break from work and have some fun with their family etc.

The forum is still only very new and will hopefully continue to grow as new members join and new points of discussion are raised. If you’re interested in joining please take a look here: Work At Home Mums