Doesn’t it just burn your butt when you go to the store to buy printer cartridges for your printer?!?  A full set of color ink cartridges for my HP Photosmart C5180 All-In-One costs a quarter of the price of the printer itself!  That’s just plain crazy!

Each of the 5 colors that I need costs about $9.99.  You could buy a color combo pack for $35.99 that has all five colors and prints about 150 photos.  But if you want enough ink to print a lot of documents, or heaven-forbid more than 150 photos, you “should” get the combo pack with larger quatities of ink for $44.99.  (Oh… You didn’t know that the cartridges come with different quatities of ink either?)  Only some of the HP packages tell you how much ink is actually in the cartridges.   In the larger combo pack, the color cartridges have about 3.0 ml of ink.  (Whatever that means.)

So I just stood in the store trying to figure out if it was even worth buying the cartridges.  Finally an associate directed me to some store brand remanufactured cartridges that were only $40.99 for the color combo pack.  Each of those cartridges contained about 7.0 ml of ink.  NOW we were getting somewhere, but I still didn’t want to pay that much money.

Compare that to the color cartridges at 123Inkjets.com.   Their compatible color printer cartridges hold between 7 and 12 ml of ink for only $6.50 each.  More ink.  Less money.  Imagine that. 

I was going to name this post “I Love Nicole!”, but didn’t figure it would be a big traffic draw, so I went with the next best thing I could think of: “Help For Your Online Business“.

I have been networking with Nicole Dean online for years now. I have watched her grow from a struggling work-at-home-mom to a professional business woman. She never ceases to amaze me with her caring personality and knowledge.  So when Nicole posted What are Successful WAHMs Doing that you Aren’t?, I paid attention and finally decided that I needed some coaching from this woman.

One hour into my coaching with Nicole Dean and I am PUMPED and feeling optimistic about the future of my work-at-home career.  I already have a better understanding on things like finding a profitable niche market, why I need aweber email services, how to draw and keep website traffic, and what to do with all my not-so-successful endeavors so far.  Most of all, I know she will hold me accountable and make me stay focused.

You may be wondering why networking with and watching Nicole grow her business didn’t help me learn all these things before.  Yeah, well, me too.  Her answer to me was “because you weren’t ready”.  Now, I’m ready!!

My friend Nicole blogged about her home office and asked her readers to share pictures of their offices.  Here’s mine:

There is a bookshelf and filing cabinet behind my chair and a small child’s table and chairs to the left of my desk under the window.  (The idea behind the child’s table was to keep my children occupied and with me while I work, but it never quite worked out that way.)

What is your home office like?

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I’ve been promoting the same company as the best website hosting company for a couple of years now.  I never thought I would change my opinion… but I have.  Why?  Because my needs have changed with the times.  I have gotten involved in affiliate marketing and addicted affiliate marketers like me need space…  Lots and lots of space…  And lots and lots of domains.   

You may want to look into this hosting company if you are paying more than $6.00 a month for your hosting.  Or if you expect to be building multiple websites.  Or if you have a lot of content that people will be downloading.  I’d be more than happy to help you transfer hosts if you need assistance.  (I’ll be honest here… This is NOT the plan for you if you only plan on having one or two small static websites.)

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