Acronyms for business-to-business or business-to-consumer activities. Many websites focus on business-to-business relationships and services (like wholesale suppliers), while others focus on providing services and products to consumers.

An example of a B2B is my VA business. I provide services to other business owners and WAHM’s to help their businesses succeed.

There are TONS of B2C sites out there, but here are a few of my faves:

• ClassyMommy.com
• What’s That Smell?
• Pinch My Salt
  

As you can see from the above examples, they are mom bloggers who offer a product, service or both.

An icon that represents you on message boards, chat rooms, IM programs, 3-D chat rooms and virtual worlds. Your avatar can be whatever you want it to be. There are graphic elements, animals, cartoons and pictures used as avatars on the Internet.

Earlier on Profitable Mommy Bloggers, Kelly introduced us to Gravatars, which is just one type of avatar. There are thousands of avatar web sites where you can make an avatar of your own and/or choose one of theirs. Twitter is a great example of the different types of avatars being used. There are personal photos, logos, icons, cartoons, etc.

If your blog has a specific brand, an image that sets it apart from others, you probably want to use that as your avatar, like IM Sweetie does here. When I see that cute little heart, I know whose website or blog that belongs too.

An avatar can be a great way to set yourself apart from the crowd, if you have one that is uniquely you. If you don’t have a brand yet, I highly suggest using your personal photo. I know some people don’t like pictures of themselves, but it really helps people identify with you, and they feel like they know you, which will hopefully bring them back to your blog over and over again.

After all, isn’t that our goal as mom bloggers; to get people to read our blogs and then come back? Using an avatar of yourself or your brand will help people recognize you and bring them back time and time again.

Autoresponders have become one of the most essential tools for Internet marketers, affiliate marketers and others who do a large amount of business on the web. Essentially, they are automatic e-mail response programs.

The autoresponder program will send pre-entered e-mail messages instantly to people who request information from a website, newsletter or online merchant. If you have e-mail and have ever joined a new website, social network, forum, or entered a contest on-line, you most likely received an e-mail from an autoresponder.

One of the most common uses for autoresponders is to create a learning course to inform and educate potential customers about the benefits of a business or product. Some on-line businesses I know that use autoresponders for this purpose are:

• Mom’s Talk Affiliate Network
• VA Networking
• Tech Based Marketing
• Web Traffic Basics

Autoresponders also allow Internet business people to effortlessly follow up with their clients from time to time.

So, for mom bloggers, you may want to consider using an autoresponder for your blog if you have a newsletter, a form for people to request info, if you are on online merchant, or if you have a learning course.

Our Autoresponder Recommendation: Aweber