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Other ways to get involved and EARN FREE ADVERTISING for your direct sales business:

• Submit direct sales related content to our Sales MOMS Network blog/website.  Each article that is published on our website is given a full byline for each author.  This byline can include your contact information and up to 2 website addresses.  Email your articles with byline to success@salesmoms.com

For more information on how you can earn FREE advertising for your direct sales business or service please email us at success@salesmoms.com.

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The Sales MOMS Network is offering you 50% off any order for TODAY ONLY!

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Business card advertising doesn’t have to be expensive. You can make them yourself and avoid the high cost of creating and printing. Make them with some software on your own computer, and have fun creating at the same time. Another idea would be to get some made at vistaprint.com. You can get 250 made up for free.

Now that you know that creating business cards won’t break the bank, what about advertising? Where and how will you use them to promote your business effectively? And also do it for free? Some ideas are as follows. Yes, the ideas below are absolutely free of charge to get your work in front of others.

Restaurants - Don’t let your tip be the only thing you leave your waitress. Leave your business card as well. Always offer something for free, whether it be from visiting your place of business or website. Voice your freebies. Everyone appreciates free!

Hotels - When you’re vacationing, you of course leave your maid a tip, at least most people do, or should. Bored maids WILL read business cards, I guarantee it!

Public Restrooms - This is the perfect place to leave your cards for others to see. You can place a few on the sink countertops as well as in the stalls. You read stuff on those walls all the time, why not business cards!? You could tape them on the wall or leave a few on top of the toilet paper dispenser.

Day Care Facilities - The high cost of these places are forever rising! Most brick and mortar working Moms are consistently searching for an alternative to the outside-the-home work place. These places are excellent for leaving a generous stack of your work at home business cards.

Public Libraries - For libraries, politely ask the owner if you could continuously keep their front desk supplied with your cards. In addition, the below idea would work extremely well if your business is work at home. These are hard economical times! Skim over the home business section and discreetly leave your cards in a few books.
As you can see, free business card advertising ideas are fairly easy to come by! Be creative, and I bet you could come up with more.

Article Written By: Tammy Embrich
Tammy has been successful in the work at home industry for 4 years now. She is an Internet marketer, article marketer, and ghostwriter. She offers free job leads for the job seeker, as well as other work at home resources, work at home articles, tips, and more at Work At Home Jobs.  You can also find Tammy at Work At Home Job Leads, offering legitimate work at home companies, more free job leads, work at home articles, and much more.

frugal [ˈfruːg^əl]   adj
1. practising economy; living without waste; thrifty
2. not costly; meagre

As a small business owner we understand your advertising budget may be the last thing on your mind.  You have many other things to tackle before hitting the internet to drum up leads.  You have parties to plan and consultants to sign up.  You have a team to motivate and you have orders to place.

To help you be frugal with your funds and have a little fun we have decided to start Frugal Friday.  This is a link party that allows you to get FREE advertising and get to know other Sales MOMS Network readers.

Here is how it works.

1. Please link to the specific post, not your main blog!
2. Please only post direct sales related information.
3. Please include a brief description in link up.
4. Grab our Frugal Fridays button and include it in your post or a link to Sales MOMS Network so people can find us and your advertising.
5. Please check and make sure your link works. If it doesn’t you can delete it and try again.
6. Please no direct links to sales sites.  We urge you to use your blog/FB page, etc.

Email us if you have questions.  success@salesmoms.com

Here is the code for the Frugal Friday’s button:
<a href=”http://www.salesmomsnetwork.com” target=”_blank”><img border=”0″ alt=”Sales MOMS Network – Direct Sales” src=”http://salesmomsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/frugal-friday.png”/></a>

Use the links below to enter the Frugal Friday Link Party!  Have a great weekend!

Courtesy of www.usmemorialday.org and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

How did Memorial Day get started, and why is it on May 30? Here are some facts about the national day of remembrance for America’s fallen heroes.

1. Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day.
2. More than two dozen cities lay claim to being the site of the first Memorial Day commemoration.
3. Gen. John Logan officially proclaimed Memorial Day on May 5, 1868.
4. The first national commemoration took place on May 30, 1868, as flowers were placed on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.
5. In 1966, Congress and President Lyndon B. Johnson declared Waterloo, NY, as the “birthplace” of Memorial Day, citing a ceremony held on May 5, 1866 to honor Civil War dead.
6. It is believed that the date was chosen because by May 30, flowers would be in bloom all over the country.
7. Inspired by the poem “In Flanders Field” Moina Michael wrote a poem of her own, and came up with the idea of wearing red poppies in honor of Memorial Day.
8. Some Southern states have special observances specifically in honor of fallen Confederate soldiers, including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
9. In 2000, Congress passed the National Moment of Remembrance Act to encourage people to give back to the country, as well as promote commemorations of Memorial Day.
10. The National Moment of Remembrance Act urges all Americans to pause, wherever they may be, at 3 p.m. local time on May 30 for a moment of silence in honor of the country’s fallen heroes.

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Use the coupon/discount code:  MEMORIALDAY when reserving advertising and the 40% will be automatically taken off when checking out.

Have a very safe and HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

A very cute poem my child’s teach shared with me on Friday:

Dear Lord, it’s such a hectic day
With little time to stop and pray
For life’s been anything but calm
Since You called on me to be a mom
Running errands, matching socks
Building dreams with building blocks
Cooking, cleaning, and finding shoes
And other stuff that children lose
Fitting lids on bottled bugs
Wiping tears and giving hugs
A stack of last weeks mail to read
So where’s the quiet time I need?
Yet when I steal a minute, Lord
Just at the sink or ironing board
To ask the blessings of Your grace
I see then, in my small one’s face
That you have blessed me
All the while
And I stop to kiss
That precious smile

Wishing all of our Sales MOMS a Very Happy Mother’s Day!  To celebrate Mother’s Day we are offering all of our advertising 30% OFF TODAY ONLY!  Simply use coupon code:  MOM when reserving advertising on any of the following websites:

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