Aurelia Williams, the real life coach for the work at home mom is offering an entire week of tips to help WAHMs get and keep their home and business in order. You can read more about her Journey to Joy tour here.

She will be talking about focus, health and wellness, stress, the empty nest and organization. She will be stopping at a blog near you so don’t hesitate to stop by and ask her a few questions or comment on her posts. At the end of the tour Aurelia will be giving away a great prize package.

One lucky commenter will win the Journey to Joy Gift package that includes:

1. A free session with the Real Life Coach, Aurelia Williams
2. A copy of the Journey to Joy e-book
3. A $25 Bath and Body Works Gift Card

All you have to do for your chance to win is comment on this post and the others in the Journey to Joy blog tour. For each comment that you leave your name will be entered into the drawing for the prize. Comments must be more than 15 words long and relevant.

A winner will be chosen at the end of the blog tour and announced on Monday March 1, 2010. Be sure to provide your email address in the provided space so that you can be contacted in the event that you win.

You can follow her this week one the following blogs:

ourney to Joy Blog Tour Schedule

Day 1: Monday February 22

WAHM Talk Radio – Kelly McCausey

Day 2: Tuesday February 23

Mother Knows Best – Marguerite Wright

Day 3: Wednesday February 24

Multi-Tasking Mama – Melissa Smallwood

Day 4: Thursday February 25

Dinker and Giggles – Alaina Frederick

Day 5: Friday February 26

Mom’s Prime Years – Sharon Mc Millan

Join us for what will truly be a journey to joy as Aurelia keeps it real and paints an authentic picture of balance in your home and business.

If you are trying to bring your business online or even if you have been online for sometime but you are still not quite getting this internet marketing thing, some training may be needed. Online marketing is not something that just happens. You have to work it every chance you get.

I have had the privilege to learn under some great people like Nicole Dean, Regina Baker, Kelly McCausey, and one of my favorites, Jimmy D. Brown.

Jimmy was a light to my dim path when I was confused about many things having to do with online marketing. Reading his great reports just made is a little more clear and took away many of my fears about business online. With the fact that his morals and values matched mine, it was easy to fall in love with this products because he is who he says he is and there is not apologizing for it.

So when I got an email that Jimmy was retiring it threw me for a minute until I opened up the email. That is when I realized that he was retiring all of his current products…and there are tons. I myself am a member of Affiliatenaire and took the Membernaire course as well. I learned a great deal that I apply to the work I do with my clients from both courses.

Jimmy is retiring his products and he is starting with his SRZone where he sells small reports. The prices on the reports were already good but now they are only $10 each and that is a steal. I made sure to grab the ones I did not have in my business tools files. I use them as tools because the reports are very applicable to my business structure.

Let me break it down for you:

In life, there are two commodities that are very limited: TIME and MONEY.

In marketing and online business, there are also two commodities that are limited. Guess what? They are TIME and MONEY.

You only have so many hours in the day to invest in your business and learning. And, you only have so much money to invest in your business and learning about how to make more money online.

So, when you’re looking somewhere to learn how to be a more effective marketer, you want something AFFORDABLE and CONCISE.

The bottom line is this: you want information that is relevant to your current needs – and you want to understand that information so you can actually use it – and you’d rather not have to get a second mortgage to pay for it!

With these reports you get juicy useful information that you can start applying immediately.

Take the time to glance at what is available because for only $10 per report you can get online marketing training for under a hundred bucks.

Jimmy will be shutting all sales to the SRzone February 26; so don’t drag your feet. If you are looking for some great affordable training this is the way to go!

Disclosure: Yes, these links are affiliate links and if you chose to click them I will get commissions. However know that I truly admire Jimmy D. Brown and it is not my goal to just get money but to see your business grow!

This weekend is full of goodies for you to read. I have read some already; while others I have yet to have a chance to chew on.

What are you reading on the internet this weekend? Share your great reading finds by commenting on this post.

Here is the Social Savvy Weekend Wrap Up for this week:

The Social Impact of Friendships and Lies -I found myself laughing as I read this post. Jason hit on such a relevant point of how watered down friendships have become as a result of social media.  Does that mean that social media is the cause. No, I don’t think. Read it to find out Jason’s take.

How Sticky Is Your Site? – Lexi uses her own client as an example of how to make your site sticky. Great read!

The Most Powerful Marketing Tool – Pat shares how the art of story telling can serve s strong component to your marketing strategy.

Reality Check: A Blog Is Not a Business – This had to be one of my favorite reads of the week. It is a good read for anyone looking to become a profitable blogger. The advice is practical and makes a great deal of sense. David Risely talks about getting real and understand how you really make money blogging. You have to read this!

I hope you enjoy reading these posts. Do me a favor. Come back here to this post and let me know what you read and your thoughts.

A virtual blog tour is a way to use content to spread your message. It is much like guest blogging but it usually involves more components. A blog tour can work well for anyone seeking to get their message out about a product, service, or book.

The main component of a blog tour is the Blog Host. The blog host is important because it is their blog that will serve as a core portion of the tour. Without the blog host, there can be no blog tour.

The blog host will open their blog to the “guest blogger” for a specific amount of time so that the guest blogger can share the message they wish to convey with the audience. The benefits for the blog host are well worth the time it takes to give someone your platform for a brief period of time.

Here are some of the benefits

• You get to take a rest from creating content. Better yet you have less content to create for the month because you are a part of a blog tour and the guest blogger may be on your blog anywhere from a day to an entire week.
• You get perks like free products and books. Most blog tour contributors will offer some sort of thank you to the host for their generosity. For example, I allow book blog tours over at my lifestyle blog, Mom Unplugged and as  thank you I receive a copy of the book. Now while I try to review them, just knowing that they are a gift from the contributor that I allowed to post to my blog is a great incentive. I guess it doesn’t hurt that I love to read too
• As the blog host you are able to benefit from the traffic that will come to your blog. Again, I will use Mom Unplugged as an example. I am currently a part of a blog tour for a book titled Sistah Faith and the conversation surrounding the tour has not only brought traffic but sign ups to my newsletter list as well. Because the tour is a week long and has about 15 blogs included, that brings traffic from not only the guest blogger but from the blogs on the tour as well.

Now after reading this you may be wondering how you can participate. Of course I am going to tell you.

• Locate blog tour event coordinators and get on their notification list. A good blog tour coordinator will have a list and if they don’t ask them why. Tell them you want to be on a notification list. It may turn on the light bulb in their head!

• Let people know that you are available for blog tours. On your site in a prominent spot on your site (think about creating a page) you can outline what type of tours you are interested in, how to contact you, and what your current schedule is like. You may find that people will seek you out when they know you are available.

Speaking from my own experience, I can say that blog tours have benefited my lifestyle blog in a number of ways. I even have people seeking me out who stopped by my blog on a tour date contacted me constantly to make Mom Unplugged a stop on their tour.

If you are looking for a fun way to gain traffic that is targeted, hosting a blog tour is a good idea.

If you are looking to get your feet wet, take a look at the blog tours I am coordinating. If one (or more) sound like it is a fit for your blog, sign up. But make sure you register quick because the tour spots fill up fast.

This week I want to share a resources to will help make your blog reading more enjoyable. Sometimes hopping from blog to blog can become tedious and it can keep you from participating in communities that can help your bottom line.

Feedly: I discovered this great feed reader two months ago and I have not looking back. Feedly is just a pretty feed reader. There are many that are simply eye sores and I am a rather visual person so when I found Feedly I was sold. What feedly does is organize your favorite sites into a magazine-like start page with some great visual appeal.

If you use Google Reader, Feedly exports all of your post over to their interface without a hitch.

Here is a sample of what the cover page of a Feedly reader looks like:

With Feedly you can organize all of those blog post that you want to read into handy little categories to make it easier for you to locate your favorite posts.

Here is another showing how you can organize your favorite blogs or websites into pages. If you need to move one from one category to another, you just drag and drop. Really easy!

In addition to the cover, you can also view the latest content from your favorite spots on the web, or you can view it in digest style.

The one feature that I think any social media geek will love is the ability to search for topics, twitter streams and hashtags. Feedly’s Explore feature you see a twitter stream of someone you follow along with the post or web page they tweeted about. Now that is cool!

Here is an image:

You can see where I did a direct reply through my twitter stream and where I commented on someone’s blog via Disqus and it went into my twitter stream. This is a handy feature because it helps you to find new site and blogs and explore cyber spots that you have have otherwise never knew existed.

I have to say that reading blogs is such a joy now because it is all so pretty with Feedly

Do you use Feedly?

If so what do you like about it? What are you favorite features and why?