Office distractions can disrupt productivity for both corporate and stay at home workers. When I was working in the corporate world, I found it very hard to concentrate in my cubicle as the co-worker next to me talked loudly or laughed at some silly joke. We have all probably been on that important conference call when the co-worker next to us has some loud and annoying You Tube video playing.

Working from home has been fantastic for me and I love the opportunity it gives my family. I still do have occasional office distractions with the kids that make me want to hide in a closet and work on my laptop. When I was at my corporate office I could reserve a conference room or login from another desk to remove myself from the distraction. What do you do when your kids are the office distraction?

1. Work offline. Take your laptop or notebook to the park while your kids are playing. This will work best if your kids have a friend or two to keep them busy. Call a friend and set-up a play date.

2. Go to the library. My kids love to read and look at new books. Most libraries have internet access and you can easily spend 1-2 hours at a library. Best of all, you can teach your kids the importance of being quiet at the library. When you get home you can read the new books they picked out.

3. Utilize nap time. If you kids still take a nap, make every second count. My kids can take a 2-3 hour nap still. This is the time to follow-up on calls, and get productive. I can always find myself distracted by house projects or thinking about food. Don’t fall for this trap. Stay productive!

Do you have any office distractions that you have overcome at work or at home?

Earning money from affiliates is getting easier for beginners because of websites and forums that teach you the basics of marketing, making sales, using the banners, graphics and other links available to you.

There are websites that offer groups of affiliates to chose from. One that I recommend it MoreNiche. They have health, business to business, gaming and make money products. Joining a site like this provides options as well as support.

Another website that offers diversity is AllPosters.com. You can earn money by selling art prints, tin signs, images and of course posters of movies, sports teams, celebrities, collectibles, religion, culture, fine art and much, much more. When your site visitors click on your links and make purchases at AllPosters.com, you earn 25%-30% of the sale.

If you want to specialize in one area you can always do a search for a particular item or store that you’d like to work with. Then do some homework. Ask your friends who work with affiliates if they’ve worked with this company before. You can also check in forums, or blogs. Read, ask questions and read the fine print before you sign up.

One thing in particular to look for is when payment is to be made. For example, do you have to wait until you make $100 or $25 for a check or payment into PayPal? Is there a cut-off on payments if you don’t reach their set goal? Some people get scammed because they work to make $100 only to learn that it had to be made in three months not a day over.

Also, check into the products. Is it something that you would buy? Something you feel comfortable putting your name behind? You still have to promote these products in order to make sales. You also may want to work on having other members sign up under you so that you can make a percentage of their earnings. This is possible with both MoreNiche and AllPosters.com.

Working with affiliates takes time but you can earn money. This can be a full time work at home position if you chose. Research and learn and see if this is a good fit for you.

There are different reasons that people choose to work at home. Some have to do with with family issues like wanting to be home with your children. Some have to do with health reasons. For others working from home is better financially.

Let’s not forget about the fun side of working from home. Yes, there’s a lot of things you can do when working from home to have fun. You can make paper clip chains without anyone knowing. Why not email yourself a funny photo? Call your friends at work, you know the ones that keep talking when you tell that even though you’re home, you’re working. Call them back when they hang up on you because their boss is there.

There’s always YouTube where you can find funny videos about working in an office. These will instill your reasons for working at home!

Take a look at this video and thank your lucky stars that you are a person who doesn’t work in an office:

Working from home often means that you run the show. Be grateful that you are your own boss:

When blogging from home, I write my posts, blog hop, visit forums and then do what I want. Know that when work is done it doesn’t matter what time it is, you can do your own thing and not have to worry about this:

Having a Blackberry or cell phone can be a very productive tool for your business, but at times my attention can be torn between my kids and cell phones. I use a Samsung Blackjack for work and personal use and my wife uses a Blackberry for work. Many times we find ourselves looking at the screen and reading email when our kids are trying to engage us in conversations. As a work at home dad, how do I draw the line between business and family time, when kids and cell phones, require attention?

Here are some work at home guidelines I try to use when mixing cell phones and kids:

1. Establish a routine for checking email on your device, and don’t tell children to go away or snap at them. I am addicted to email and my phone, so I try and limit it, to once every 30 minutes. It can be easy to cheat and carry the phone during playtime. This isn’t fair to either your business, or more important, your kids.

2. When you receive good or bad news from your business, share that with your children and tell them how it makes you feel. If I have a great day at work, I tell my kids what made me happy and got me excited. Share a story with them. If you lost a deal or had an upsetting email, use that experience too. But, try to limit emotional outbursts that children may think they caused. I have seen dad’s at the park swear and get upset and the children are watching during the outburst. Do the kids think they caused it?

3. Turn off your phone or move your phone during meal times. My kids deserve and need interaction during meals. It’s a fun family time to reflect on the day’s activities and to talk. Even if an important email is going to come at any second, it can wait a few minutes until the meal is over.

4. If you do have an important call or email that must get out, communicate with your kids. Tell them that you need to make an important call and that you will play with them for an equal amount of time. If your call is 10 minutes, devote 10 minutes of quality playtime. This will establish a fair expectation and seems to work well with my daughter. I have also utilized a fun decoy for my 2-year-old son that works great. I gave him an old cell phone and he thinks he’s on the phone too. I also purchased a kids cell phone at Walmart that makes some great annoying beeping sounds. Keeps him busy for a few minutes, and it lets me get my call out of the way.

If you have any other suggestions for managing your kids and cell phones while working at home, please share them with us.

WAHM Talk Radio is a podcasting site devoted to interviewing work at home Moms.

Podcasting refers to using audio and video to transmit (generally) prerecorded sessions. They might be interviews, monologues, drama, whatever. I never liked the term podcasting much, because it’s specific to the iPod (the device it all was targeted for originally).

Talk radio, now, is a term that has a bit more real world connection. Not all podcasting fits into the talk radio model, but WAHM Talk Radio does. One of the common themes in the posts here at doWAHdiddy lately has been the sense of isolation that many people feel when they first start to work at home.

What better way to combat that than to hear from work at home moms in their own words?

The Show Archives on the site is where you want to go to listen to recorded versions of the shows. Various issues involved in working at home are covered in the shows, from regaining your work at home motivation, to taking your hobbies to the profitable level, to dealing with websites and business issues. You could easily spend days with the archives.

The site also features Work At Home Idea Vault. This is a bit sparse right now, but worth a look. Some of the ideas, particularly the Santa Letters Business show that you don’t need a million dollar idea to get started online.

I highly recommend WAHM Talk Radio for anyone working at home, even the Dads!