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Summer is almost here but don’t let the learning stop for you kids. Right now, BookCloseouts is having a 99cents sale on selected children’s educational books. I love those kind of books. They combine both entertainment and education.

99cents! What a great offer. You better get over there now coz’ their inventory for these books are limited. Click the affiliate banner below and start grabbing like crazy.

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Mother’s Day is coming soon. How about taking up this special offer of 3 free cards by Tiny Prints and get your children busy designing a personal card for grandma!

Let your children choose which picture they want to use. Then let them craft out a special Mother’s Day message for grandma. Kids love to play around on the computer. Why not give them an opportunity to create something meaningful on the computer rather than play senseless, violent games. Click on the affiliate link below to learn how to get your 3 free cards. Do it before their offer ends.
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Whether your kids are being homeschooled or not, you should sit down to educate your children. My children go to school but I know what they are learning there do not fuel their love for learning. The problem is I sometimes wonder “What should I teach them?” Are you like me? There are so many things that we can teach our children, it is difficult to know where to start or what to choose.
Well, as you know, the internet is a great resource. I found a site that has lesson plan ideas from grades K-12. The site is by Scholastic. Go to their homepage and you’ll find a button for teaching resources. Great stuff there. I also like the “top news” section they have. For example, currently there is the Icelandic volcanic ash issue. Did you tell your children about it? you can actually branch off to learning about volcanoes.

I’m going to browse through that site some more. Hopefully my children will be as excited to learn about these stuff as I am. Here is the website’s link: Scholastic’s Teaching Resource

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Many of you out there have blogs and are making some money with it. Do you wish you could turn that passion for blogging into a real money maker and quit your day job? Well, there is a pool of customers waiting for someone (like you) to help build their online presence. Read the following account by Kelly McCausey. She shares how she took advantage of this need and how you can too.
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Do you realize that most local brick and mortar business owners feel lost and overwhelmed by the idea of marketing themselves on the internet? It’s true.

As a long time internet marketer, I have a good understanding of how the web works. I can create a website that attracts relevant traffic and makes a profit. I realized a few years ago that I could take this knowledge and apply it to serving a local market – offering my services as a website creator and marketer.

There’s no lack of providers out there offering to help the local business owner take their business online, but the sheer volume of options is confusing and the price point is often far outside of the small business budget. So when I opened my doors to provide affordable services from a local source, I found clients who were hungry for what I had to offer.

I used the knowledge I have about building a simple website to set up a WordPress blog for a local consignment shop. We publish pictures of some of her new products and pipe the RSS Feed into a Facebook fan page. These are just some simple promotion strategies that come as easy as pie to you and me – but to her, it was like magic!

Imagine her delight when a lady walked into her shop with overflowing bags of great product to consign, saying ‘I found you on the internet and decided to bring my things in!’. The cool part? The lady drove almost an HOUR to get to her shop – passing many other similar stores along the way.
My client is now totally sold on the power of the internet to accomplish her marketing goals.

Before she met me, she was scared stiff to even think about doing something online. Most local small business are and that’s why they need YOU!

When you focus on a local business community, you have home field advantage. If you’re good at what you do and deliver real world results, word of mouth travels fast among these business owners who regular network together.

A phone call came in to my office a few weeks ago. So and so had mentioned me to so and so and now another so and so wanted to meet to discuss a project. I setup a time and looked forward to learning about their needs. I admit my jaw dropped a tiny bit when I learned the client was a famous food brand that has its home here in northern Michigan. (Of course I quickly hid my surprise and pretended that I consulted on major brands every day of the week.

When local people ask me what I do, I say that I do web design and consulting. If the conversation progresses, I go on to tell them about how I help businesses develop powerful, interactive websites with simple tools that help them attract more clients and customers.

It all sounds very professional, right? And of course it is – but the reality is that I work from my home, usually in my slippers. I rarely meet clients face to face and I choose my own work hours. I love what I do and thoroughly enjoy seeing how my skills benefit my clients.

If you have even some of the skills that I do: If you understand how search engines work, how to create a website with WordPress, how to set up a simple mailing list, a Twitter account and a Facebook page; you could be running your own consulting business.

Even if you lack some of these skills, if you delegate well and enjoy serving as a project manager, you can outsource the work that falls outside of your expertise and still provide all of the necessary services to your clients.

The needs exists. Local business owners know they should be taking advantage of the internet. They just need you to show them how to make it happen.

Kelly McCausey shows you step by step how to create, launch and grow a local business consulting business at Become a Blog Consultant

p.s. Click here to read more about this Blog Consultant course: Earn Money As A Blog Consultant

If you’re out of ideas and need something interesting for your children to do (learn), then browse over to http://www.tlsbooks.com/. You’ll find free printable worksheets for kids from preschool – 5th grade. There are worksheets on different subjects such as math, geography, science, English, history, music etc….They also have coloring pages to keep the very young kids busy.

Introduce to your children the countries of the world with this song.