Thursday, November 28, 2013

Work at Home Job Opportunities

http://buypersianrugs.blogspot.com/ I have worked from home for a while now and have found some fairly interesting positions.  Here are some of the available work at home jobs that I have found.  I have also included some resources to assist you in finding work at home jobs.  I have included information for sites that are not generic job application sites when possible.  My favorites are upload videos, secret shopper, and paid to read.  I have a few more to add as well but that is all for now.


Home Call Center Agent
 
A simple, yet revolutionary approach to customer care: rather than bring the people to the work, bring the work to the people.

http://www.westathome.com/
West at Home is an award-winning service from West Corporation, the nation's leading provider of outsourced communication solutions. We employ thousands of home-based agents located across the country as well as the industry's most robust and advanced infrastructure to deliver superior service to our clients' customers.


Home Medical Transcriptionist
 

Paid to Read
 
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We are changing the way the world reads e-mail. Now you can earn money just for reading e-mail advertisements and visiting websites!  You tell us what your interests are and we will pay you to read e-mail advertisements related to your selected interests. You can also earn money for visiting websites with our daily  program, playing our free $500 weekly lotto game, signing-up for interesting offers, receiving free samples and much, much more coming soon! Talk about making money the fun and easy way.

Thousands of people are earning honest money from home with just a click of their mouse. Companies worldwide are desperately searching for people to complete short and simple assignments for them. In exchange, the company will pay you good money for your time. It's simple. There is absolutely no risk. And best of all, you are guaranteed to make money with all of them.
 
http://www.learn4good.com/board/forum_work_from_home_jobs_1.html


Medical Billing and Coding

Information on starting your own medical billing home business


Information guide for Home Medical Billing

http://www.indeed.com/forum/job/medical-billing-specialist/Home-based-Medical-Billing/t5963

http://www.flexjobs.com/jobs/medical-coding

Data Entry

How would you like to earn a few extra hundred dollars per day entering data for online businesses? Wouldn't it be nice to sit at home submitting information for companies and quit your dead end day job?

Receive a job listing by industry, find a work at home job that specifically matches your work skills.
 
Start your own typing business at home and be your own boss.
 
 
 
 

Freelance Translator

How To Easily Turn Your Translation Business Into A Cash Generating Machine Literally Overnight
 
How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator

http://www.donanza.com/jobs/translation

http://www.sdl.com/aboutus/careers/freelancers/

http://www.freetranslation.com/-/desktop-translator/
Software to turn anyone into a professional online multi-lingual

http://www.freelance-translator-interpreter-jobs.com/
The companies in the WCS Group operate very successfully in a highly competitive market. Thanks to their client-oriented, flexible business model and strong focus on quality, they are the preferred supplier of many national and international clients.

http://www.translationdirectory.com/

Envelope Stuffing & Home Assembly
www.homeassemblyjobs.com
Home Assembly Jobs can be a fun and profitable endeavor. Most of the companies offer such positions use the skills that you have acquired previously. Some will even teach you how to assemble their products with step-by-step guides and easy-to-follow directions. Many will send you the required parts at little or no cost. You will not have to do the selling, simply send the finished product back to them.

The Home Assembly & Crafts Directory has over 250 companies offering work at home assembly jobs.  These companies need homeworkers to make crafts, jewelry, sewing, woodworking, mailing circulars, electronics and more.

http://voices.yahoo.com/five-work-home-craft-assembly-jobs-3983058.html
You can earn money making crafts at home. There are legitimate work at home crafts assembly jobs. You can work at home making $400 a week or more assembling crafts. Here are five legitimate craft assembly jobs you can do at home with websites.

Secret Shopper
www.paidshoppingproviders.com
Secret shoppers are needed to visit and rate various retail stores, restaurants and services throughout the United States of America and Canada.  Fun and easy part-time work in retail and restaurants. Flexible hours. No previous experience required. All you need is an eye for detail and a love of shopping and eating out!



 
Mystery shopping has a lot going for it. It's fun. You can make money while you're shopping. You can fit it around your life. There are great companies out to work for. What's not to like? Nothing. Except for the mystery shopping scams out there.  
 
Offers both secret shopper opportunities as well as paid surveys. 


Upload Videos
Upload videos onto youtube and other video sites for companies looking to market their products.  Select which companies you would like to market.  The company provides the videos.  All you have to do is upload them and make money.
 

Automatic Video Maker is a video creator software. This tool create videos with images,intro,watermark,background sound, custom slider timer and much more also this program uploads your videos in your channel of Youtube.  It is a program that makes automates making money by creating videos for youtube.

Paid Online Surveys
www.ecashopinions.com
Thousands of people from all over the world are earning substantial incomes from home just by completing simple online surveys.

www.realsurveysonline.com
High paying survey site that includes a $50 starting bonus. 

A guide to over 450 companies in need of people to provide opinions about products.





 
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How to Get a Home Typing Job

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Are you a fast typist? Do you want to work from home? A job as a typist could be for you. Here are some tips to help you get the position.

Steps

  1. Freelance. Freelancing is selling your services on a project by project basis. Many home-based typists are freelancers and there is plenty of work to be had. The competition for freelance positions can be fierce. Remember that if you do a particularly good job, you are likely to be hired on by the same client for future projects. The most successful freelancers have built up a loyal base of clients that they receive work from.
  2. Become an Ad Typist. This can be very lucrative (more so than freelancing), but requires some training before you get the hang of it.
  3. Start looking locally. Put the word out to your friends and neighbors that you are looking to take on clerical work from home. Let the "grapevine" take over. Also, ask local businesses if they could use help with overflow work and such.
  4. Look at online classifieds sites such as Craigslist and Backpage. The "gigs" section often has jobs like this that you can apply to.

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How to Find a Job Working from Home

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Many people are overwhelmed with finding a work at home job. Hundreds of real work at home jobs are out there, as well as hundreds of scams. The following information is scam free.

Steps

  1. Check with web sites like Freelancer, iFreelance, and yes even Craigslist. The reasoning behind this is that hundreds, and even thousands of legitimate jobs can be found through these web sites. Sites that offer data entry, writing, editing, graphic design...the list could go on and on.
  2. Sign up for at least three websites. The more you sign up for, and monitor...the better your chances of finding a legit job. Chances are you could land a job before the week is over.
  3. Prepare a stunning portfolio of your own work. Don't have much of a portfolio? Create one. If you enjoy writing, put together a few articles. If you enjoy design, create a few business cards or logos. You get the idea.
  4. Apply for multiple jobs. Be patient and see what the feedback is. Be open to criticism or advice from the employee's feedback. Make sure you offer prompt responses.

Tips

  • Ask for secondary opinions on your portfolio.
  • Always double check your work for errors, it will up your chances of securing work.

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How to Find Legitimate Work From Home Jobs Stuffing Envelopes

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Ads for envelope stuffing jobs are often scams. Most large companies use machinery to send mail. The "work from home" scam has been so successful that the Federal Trade Commission posts fraud alerts regarding this online job posting. If you are seeking an entry-level position where you can work from home, you should contact local employers first. You can learn how to find legitimate work from home jobs stuffing envelopes, doing data entry and doing research by doing grass roots and online searches.

Steps

Part One: Home Office
  1. Set up your home office. You may need a computer, word processing programs, spreadsheet programs, a printer and a postal service scale. However, you do not need expensive models, so the investment should be fairly low.
  2. Create a resume that lists past professional experience and references. Make sure to include telecommuting jobs you have had in the past.
  3. Write a cover letter explaining the work-from-home opportunities you are looking for. Explain your flexibility, efficiency and low rates (usually minimum wage).
  4. Drop off or send your resume to businesses, printers, newspapers and any other agencies that do regular mailings.
Part Two: Local Work
  1. Follow up by calling these businesses to inquire if they have any occasional data entry or mailing needs. Reiterate that you are flexible, efficient and have plenty of references.
  2. Contact non-profit agencies in your state. These organizations often use volunteers to stuff envelopes, but they may be willing to hire someone at a low rate to work with their donor list.
  3. Network with business people in your community. Let them know that you are looking for work-from-home contracts. People are more likely to refer their friends and contacts than post in the paper, especially for occasional work.
  4. Increase your search before Thanksgiving and Christmas. More organizations are likely to hire seasonal work during their year-end sales and donation drives.
Part Three: Online Work
  1. Expand your search for jobs. Although envelope stuffing is seen as a good work from home option, you are more likely to find entry-level work at home jobs working on a computer, writing blogs, mining information or writing reviews. Apply for any legitimate job for which you have qualifications to ensure your success.
  2. Do a daily search of your local Craigslist board. Focus on the admin, etc. and part-time postings. Always vet each job according to the guidelines listed in the next section.
  3. Search legitimate work-at-home websites. The following are good places to start:
    • Work at Home Moms, wahm.com/jobs.html, posts jobs daily that include data mining, blogging, website reviewing and mailing.
    • Review listings at oDesk.com. This popular job search website lists more telecommuting jobs than Monster.com or CareerBuilder. You will need to sign up for an account to access most of the jobs and apply.
    • Use FreelanceJobOpenings.com to search listings. Many of the extremely low paying jobs are filtered out.
    • Sign up for guru.com or elance.com when you feel you are prepared to bid on work from home jobs. This marketplace allows businesses to post their job and freelancers to bid what they would like to get paid for doing it. Wait until you have a good amount of experience working with clients and meeting deadlines before you start to bid for work.
Part Four: Evaluate Jobs
  1. Search for each company that wants to employ you on the Better Business Bureau website. You should be able to see what their business rating is and start to evaluate whether or not they are a scam.
  2. Do not send money to any job, in order to get started working. Refrain from giving personal details other than your name, email address and phone number until you are sure that they are legitimate.
  3. Search online using the company name. If they have scammed other people, a quick search query should allow you to see what they have done to others.
  4. Ask for a job description and payment details. You should be able to clarify what you will be doing, how you will be doing it and the deadline to turn in your assignment and get paid.
  5. Make sure your first payment is in check form. After that, the company may ask you to send Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) information so that they can do a direct deposit; however, you should not do this immediately.
  6. Do not apply for jobs that look too good to be true. They are not legitimate. People who stuff envelopes or do data entry should expect a low paying position with some flexibility.
Part Five: Direct Mail Service
  1. Consider becoming a direct mail service in your region. These businesses handle mailing lists, remove duplicates, check addresses according to the postal service change of address list and more.
  2. Start your own business, including a name that identifies you as a mailing services company.
  3. Invest in computer classes, computer and printing equipment and mailing supplies.
  4. Advertise online, in print and with local businesses. Set your rates according to competitors or by evaluating a reasonable profit margin after the cost of goods sold.
  5. Learn the different rates for postal service mailings, including bulk and first class. Become an expert on all things mailing.
  6. Create partnerships with local printers. The next time they are printing something and the client wants it to be mailed, they can come to you to stuff and send it.

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How to Find Freelance Writing Work on the Internet

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One way to break into Freelance Writing is to offer your services for $5 on Fiverr, www.fiverr.com. Fiverr is an easy to use, easy to get started place to offer many services for $5 or more (after gaining some rank).

Steps

  1. Join Fiverr by signing up on their website. www.fiverr.com
  2. Follow their instructions to offer a "GIG". These are simple steps.
  3. Offer a reasonable length of time to complete your gig, it goes against you if you deliver late.
  4. Plan to offer extras as you gain rank to Level 1 and Level 2.
  5. With patience and your own promotion on social networks, hundreds of dollars can be made from this service.

Tips

  • Search the Fiverr site to see all the writing gigs offered from Ad copy to Product Reviews and see what appeals to you, then offer you own gig in that field, in fact offer several gigs.
  • Check to see if there are requests for your type of writing.

Warnings

  • Fiverr doesn't allow direct contact with clients or direct payments or asking for direct payment. All funds must be through their system.

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How to Earn from Home by Blogging

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Blogging is one of the best ways to earn money at home. I will recommend you blog-spot for blogging platform as it is free and easy to navigate. Or you can buy domain or hosting from a secure and cheap hosting company and can develop a website or blog.

Steps

  1. Choose a good domain name. There are several things that you need to consider to select a good domain name.
  2. Put your blogging keyword in the domain name.
  3. Make it short and reader friendly. A .Com extension is good for blogging.
  4. So everything is now ready to go, so now select your keywords. There are also some high CPC keyword. You research on keyword. Select a good keyword. Here is a good keyword research tool that you can use for keyword researching. Select the keyword which has large "Global monthly Searches" and also whose CPC (Cost per click) is handsome.
  5. Write down some articles on your keyword and post it to your blog. Write your article "SEO friendly". You can check out my another post on "how to write a killer seo friendly article" to learn it. Put ads in your blog from ad-serving network as Google Ad Sense, Clicksor, Chittika, Bidviser etc.
    • These ad-serving network pays in two ways those are pay per impression and pay per click. If a visitor clicks on your blog's ad, then you will be paid by the ad-serving network. You can earn up to 10$ per day only from pay per impression if your visitors are really good.
  6. Use high CPC keywords. Write killer article on the keywords. Make sure your articles are qualitative because Google PANDA and PENGUIN emphasis on quality, not on quantity. Google ranked the website based upon it's importance. Google is very clever. Google changes their algorithm every day.
  7. Do some "SEO" for your blog. But do it manually because if your content is good then your blog is worthy to Google. As early as you can rank up your blog or website in Google on a specific keyword because the you will get huge amount of visitor from Google.

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How to Earn a Legitimate Living Working from Home

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There are many ways to earn a legitimate living working from home, whether you are a stay-at-home parent with small children or you just like the solitude. Take the first step today to find employment you enjoy and make it a success. These ideas also work well if you seek extra income.

Steps

  1. Assess your strengths and talents. Hidden somewhere within you is the skill or skills that transfer well to proficiencies needed by employers.
  2. Write down ideas as they come to you. Mull over the suggestions you have given yourself.
  3. Think about the probabilities of success for each idea. There are many ideas that sound great at first, but you may have difficulty making them come about due to various issues.
  4. Push forward with the best of these ideas. Success awaits and it all depends on your creativity and knowledge. Some websites can help you find your niche.
    • Writing for pay is a wonderful option. You can write fiction in the form of short stories. Non-fiction opportunities are available to write how-to manuals for products or reports that need statistical data transformed into readable text.
    • Short-lived administrative support tasks are listed for people who can use a computer with no problem and research the Internet to find what they need.
    • People who are talented in arts and crafts can find the answers to their search when someone places an ad for a project needing their particular skill set.
    • An old standby for moms has been selling cosmetics from home. This job can often be achieved with website assistance. Avon and Mary Kay Cosmetics offer easy access to a representative's site.
  5. Create a spreadsheet to track the opportunities that come up and try to group them as to your interest and abilities. The websites mentioned above have a variety of employment needs.
    • List those that interest you with the name of the company, contact information and the job information they provide.
    • Get on any mailing lists that look interesting. You can always unsubscribe if you don't like them.
    • Refer back to those that have jobs you like.

Tips

  • Keep an open mind and explore your options. It costs nothing but time to request information and form your own opinion.
  • Start the job of your choice and add to it if you wish you had gone in another direction. You are most likely capable of tackling two areas of interest.

Warnings

  • Beware of work from home sites that request money for information.

Things You'll Need

  • Internet Access

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How to Excel As a Work from Home Transcriptionist

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One of the most popular work from home jobs out there is transcription work, when people will normally transcribe, or type out, voice notes from doctors as medical transcriptionists, though there is all sorts of different kinds of transcribing work. How can you excel at being an at-home transcriptionist?

Steps

  1. Have a distraction-free office area. Just like with any other job, you will need a quiet, distraction-free area to call your office in order to excel at transcribing.
  2. Study up on a certain industry/niche. Most transcriptionists will have a niche they fall in, if not all of them. One of the most popular is medical, which means knowing medical terms, acronyms, and protocol. To be a transcriptionist, have the know-how to do your job.
  3. Be familiar with repetition. Become accustomed to repetition, including words that will come up often. This will speed up the transcribing process so you can get more work done!
  4. Become certified. One of the best ways to ensure work from home transcription jobs come your way is to get certified. One of the most popular is a Certified Medical Transcriptionist (CMT) certificate, and there are online transcription training courses to help you succeed.
  5. Keep up with new technology. Don't forget to keep up-to-date with all the latest technology in your field of expertise. Excel by staying routinely updated for more work.

Tips

  • Clear your work area of any clutter or objects that may distract you as you work. As a transcriptionist, you need to put your full attention into your work, or risk missing a small detail. Organization is essential to accuracy and efficiency.
  • Although you have the flexibility of choosing your own work hours, consider creating a schedule for each week. Without proper discipline, you risk finding yourself falling behind or rushing through audio files, likely missing details in the process.
  • There are a variety of tools designed specifically to aid a transcriptionist. A foot pedal to stop and resume audio, and proper headphones are two tools that can vastly cut down the amount of time you spend on each audio file.

Warnings

  • Don’t spend too much time sitting in one position as you do work. Take frequent breaks to stretch or even to jog lightly in place to improve blood circulation.
  • You may become bored of your work. To overcome this, take breaks to do something you enjoy before coming back to finish work.

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How to Earn Money on the Web

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Steps

  1. Offer your professional expertise in an online marketplace. These days, you can do more than just sell your old books via Amazon and your old Coach handbags via eBay—now you can sell your professional capabilities in a marketplace. No longer are you limited to looking for a permanent or contract job on Web 1.0 style job sites like Monster or CareerBuilder. The new breed of freelancing and project-oriented sites let companies needing help describe their projects. Then freelancers and small businesses offer bids or ideas or proposals from which those buyers can choose.
  2. Sell photos on stock photography sites. If people regularly oooo and aaaaah over your Flickr pics, maybe you’re destined for photographic greatness or maybe just for a few extra dollars. It’s easier than ever to get your photos out in front of the public, which of course means a tremendous amount of competition, but also means it might be an convenient way for you to build up a secondary income stream. Where can you upload and market your photos? Try Fotolia, Dreamstime, Shutterstock, and Big Stock Photo.
  3. Blog for pay. Despite the explosion of blogs, it’s hard to find good writers who can turn around a solidly-written post on an interesting topic quickly. GigaOM is always looking for bloggers with great content ideas and solid writing skills. How do you get noticed? Comment and link to blogging network sites. Write blog posts that are polished and not overly personal (although showing some personality is a plus).
  4. Start your own blog network. If you like the business side of things–selling advertising, hiring and managing employees, attracting investors–and have the stomach to go up against the likes of Weblogs, Inc., GigaOmniMedia, b5media, maybe you should make an entire business out of blogs. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’ll get a lot of time to write yourself though.
  5. Provide service and support for open source software. Just because the software is free doesn’t mean you can’t make money on it–just ask Red Hat, a well-known distributor of Linux that sports a market cap of more than four billion dollars. As a solo web worker, you might not want to jump in and compete with big companies offering Linux support, but how about offering support for web content management systems like WordPress or Drupal? After getting comfortable with your own installation, you can pretty easily jump into helping other people set them up and configure them.
  6. Do some Online life coaching. Who has time to go meet a personal coach at an office? And don’t the new generation of web workers need to be met by their coaches in the same way that they work: via email, IM, and VoIP? You could, of course, go through some life coaching certification program, but on the web, reputation is more important than credentials. I bet Tony Robbins isn’t certified as a life coach–and no one can argue with his success. For an example of someone building up their profile and business online as a coach, check out Pamela Slim of Ganas Consulting and the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog.
  7. Virtually assist other web workers. Freelancers and small businesses desperately need help running their businesses, but they’re not about to hire a secretary to come sit in the family room and answer phone calls. As a virtual assistant, you might do anything from making travel reservations to handling expense reimbursements to paying bills to arranging for a dog sitter. And you do it all from your own home office, interacting with your clients online and by phone. You can make $20 and up an hour doing this sort of work, depending on your expertise.
  8. Build services atop Amazon Web Services. Elastic computing on AWS is so cool… and so incredibly primitive right now. Did you know that you can’t even count on your virtual hard drive on EC2 to store your data permanently? That’s why people are making money right now by offering services on top of AWS. Make it easier for people to use Amazon’s scalability web infrastructure like Enomaly has with elasticlive, a scalable web hosting platform built on AWS.
  9. Write reviews for pay or perks. If you blog for any length of time on a particular topic–parenting, mobile phones, or PCs, for example–you will likely be approached to do book or product reviews. You can get free stuff this way, but are you selling your soul? Is there any such thing as a free laptop? These are decisions you’ll have to make for yourself, because no one agrees upon what ethical rules apply to bloggers. Even less do people agree on services like PayPerPost that pay you to write reviews on your blog. Check out disclosure rules closely and see whether such a gig would meet your own personal standards or not.
  10. Become a virtual gold farmer. A half million Chinese now earn income by acquiring and selling World of Warcraft gold to gamers in other countries. If you’re not a young person living in China, this probably isn’t a viable option for you. But what’s intriguing about it is the opportunity to make real money working in a virtual economy. People are making real-world money in Second Life too.

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How to Decide Whether Working at Home Is for You

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Working from home is an attractive option for many people. However, not all of those people would be successful at it. If you are interested in transitioning into a home-based work situation, take some time to evaluate the decision. And when doing so, reflect on the steps that will help you better decide whether working at home is for you.

Steps

  1. Rate how important working from home is to you. Transitioning from a job onsite to one in your own home is a big transition that assumes a lot of responsibility. Ask yourself if you are prepared to make that big of a change in your life. You should be really sure that this is something you want to do before making such a big move.
  2. Sit down with your spouse and discuss your interest in working from home. You will need the support of your family if you do decide to go ahead with this endeavor. So make sure that everyone is in agreement with you before going ahead with it.
  3. Understand that when you work from your house, you are managing yourself, and in doing so, you need to be disciplined if you want to be successful. If you slack off, the affect will be more substantial than if you were part of a team, and your income comes directly from you.
  4. Realize that working at home means you are on your own all day, unless you have your children with you. Either way, you are the only adult in the home. Consequently, you need to decide whether you can handle being alone all day. If you are an extrovert or you enjoy being social, then the isolation that comes with working from home may not be something you can tolerate. If, on the other hand, you enjoy the quiet and are more productive when you are alone, working from home may be the ideal work situation for you.
  5. Determine whether you can take yourself and your work situation seriously. If you don't, then no one else will either. Taking yourself seriously means establishing work hours and treating them as such. You may have to filter your calls, tell family and friends not to disturb you when you are working, and decline invitations to be social during your established work hours. If you are finding that people are just not taking your work hours seriously, then you may have to be blunt and then live with the possibility of them becoming offended. That might be the price you have to pay in order to be taken seriously.
  6. Be honest about whether a home-based career is really something you can do successfully. The idea of working from home is very attractive, but if you make the transition but don't put in the effort, then you will fail. You have to be passionate about working from home, but you also have to be disciplined, organized and determined.
  7. Decide whether you really want to work at home and live at work. Some people need a change of scene. When you work at home, you don't get that diversity. So ask yourself if you are prepared to give that up. Additionally, you need to be able to separate your work from your home life. You need to know when your work day ends and when your home life begins, especially if you have a family. Don't allow your work to consume you because the office is always there. Doing so may cause resentment in your personal life.
  8. Figure out whether you can afford to work from home, especially if you are freelancing and just starting out. You may have to sit down with your spouse and go over your finances to determine whether you have enough saved up to keep you afloat until your regular income kicks in or whether a single income will be enough in the interim.

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How to Blog for a Home Business

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The Internet can be a great tool to advertise your home business and increase public awareness of the services or products you offer. It's important to know how to use a website or blog to give your home business the image that will be most lucrative. Learn how to blog for a home business to be a stay-at-home success.

Steps

  1. Write what you know.
    • Write about the details of your business that you know for sure when you write blog entries for a home business. Discuss trends in the market, new products or technology or ways that your home business is changing and evolving. It's important to only state facts that you know to be true, not assumptions or guesses. If a reader proves you wrong, he won't trust your business savvy.
  2. Stick to the business.
    • Blog for your home business by writing about aspects of the business, not about the rest of your life. Your blog should be friendly and enjoyable for the reader while presenting you as a knowledgeable professional with a legitimate business. Keep your business blog for business topics only and save discussions about childcare, household issues or other personal topics for a private, personal blog.
  3. Link yourself to social networks.
    • Use a blog for a home business by linking the blog to social network sites like Facebook and Twitter. Linking your blog to a profile on one of these sites will increase the presence of your business blog online and help you notify readers when a new blog entry has been posted.
  4. Update often.
    • Write updates for your home business blog on a regular basis. Plan to update your blog at least once a week to keep content fresh and appealing. Blogs with old or inconsistent content will not attract a regular readership, but readers will return to a blog that is updated regularly with new and informative content.
  5. Offer email alerts.
    • Offer to add regular readers to an email list that will alert them when a new blog post has been published. You can create a group list of readers in your email account and quickly send them a notification each time you update, which will increase readership and keep readers routinely checking out your blog.
  6. Check spelling and grammar.
    • It's important to proofread your blog posts before you publish them and verify that you've used correct spelling and grammar. Use a spell-checking program on your computer or have a trusted business associate read the post before you publish it. This is vital to ensuring that your blog looks professional and polished.
  7. Include media.
    • Incorporate videos or pictures related to your home business in your blog entries. These can be pictures of new products or recently completed projects, interviews with industry leaders pertaining to your business or any links that will increase professional traffic to your blog. Multimedia add-ons make your blog more entertaining and attractive to readers.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

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If you work in a conventional office setting, but your circumstances have changed you may want to explore the possibility of working from home. Whether you’ve become a parent or your commute has become too stressful or expensive, working from home provides numerous benefits for both the worker and the company. However, if your company has never allowed employees to telecommute and you have to blaze the trail, you will need to get your facts and persuasive argument in order before presenting the notion to your supervisor.

Steps

  1. Identify a concrete reason why you would like to work from home. If sleeping in or being able to come to work in your pajamas is the basis of your argument, give up now and keep hitting the office every day.
    • Point to value added reasons to telecommute. Look for value not only in your work life, but more importantly the company’s in order to establish a strong case. Situations that may be enticing to a company is if you are constantly having to leave work to care for a sick child or parent and could remedy that interruption by working from home. Instead of having to leave and possibly leave your work at home, you could continue to work while caring for your child or parent.
    • Consider your position at work. Another bargaining chip may be if your job is productivity based (your performance depends upon your work production) and you find that the surrounding environment to be clogged with disruptions. Finding a haven (at home) where you can have the room to think and produce without the loud, sustaining boom of machinery or the employee next door may increase your productivity level and work quality.
    • Explore aspects of your job you can use to save the company money. Examine your benefit structure to determine if you could swap certain benefits for the ability to work from home. For example, if your husband/wife has great health insurance and the insurance you receive from your company is subpar, consider trading that expense. Or you could use trade sick days or the pre-paid gym membership (for example) as leverage. Before chipping away at any benefits, be sure you discuss your plans with your partner/spouse.
  2. Determine if it’s even possible to telecommute to work. If you are a supervisor or a teacher that needs to be hands on with the employees/students, going virtual may not work. Examine your job to make sure you could perform all the duties remotely before approaching your boss.
    • Evaluate the main core of your duties. Do your primary duties surround production such as design, writing, computer analytics or sales? If your performance is measured by your individual production you may be a good candidate for telecommuting.
    • Do you have the equipment and space at home to telecommute? Are there specific pieces of equipment that are housed only at the office or could you effectively perform every aspect of your job from home? If part of your job involves meeting with certain employees, with the introduction of online software tools like Skype and Go to Meeting, connecting with other employees shouldn’t be too difficult. Also, if you are going to maintain a level of professionalism, you can’t work from the dining room table--you will need a designated office space in your home.
    • Could your company’s infrastructure support a telecommuter? Is your company set up to accommodate your physical absence, but continued connection? Do employees already use Skype for meetings and are projects submitted electronically? You may have a harder time convincing your boss to let you telecommute if the entire company still functions on paper and in person.
  3. Decide if you are truly worthy to work from home. If you tend to slack off, deliver projects late and turn in a mediocre performance you may laughed right out of your boss’s office. However, if you have a proven track record with statistics to back up your reasons, you may have a shot.
    • Create a resume of your “highs” with the company. Dig back into the past few years (or months) and create a resume or list of your accomplishments and how those feats have positively impacted corporate growth.
    • Identify ways you’ve saved the company money. Money typically talks at any company so if you can add up how your presence has saved the company money (and if going virtual will save even more money), you will be even more valuable.
    • Have a list of facts and statistics to back up your position. Research both national and local telecommuting statistics such as using studies by other companies like Cisco. The company conducted a 2009 survey and found that telecommuting not only increased employee productivity, it saved the company $277 million a year in overhead costs and lost productivity.
  4. Evaluate your relationship not only with your boss, but other employees. In order to make this work, you must have a bond and strong communication with everyone around you.
    • Does your boss “get you” and respect you as an employee? Does your boss trust your opinion and see you as an expert in your field or does he/she micromanage your work and second guesses what you do? Only if you have a relationship built on mutual respect and open communication will a telecommuting position work.
    • Do other employees understand your job? In some cases, if other employees are disconnected from you and/or do not understand your job jealously may form, which will not only impede what you are trying to do but will put pressure on your boss to eliminate the program. A well-connected employee who clearly demonstrates his/her contribution to the company will be able to maintain harmony at work even in his/her physical absence.
  5. Approach your boss in a non confrontational manner. Gather your facts, reasons and a description of the ideal scenario before making an appointment to talk. If you approach you boss in a friendly, easy manner, backed up with hard to ignore facts you’ll set yourself up for success.
    • Create a presentation packet that he/she can review. Generate a professional, comprehensive report backing up the reasons why you should work from home and most importantly, why it will be beneficial for the company.
    • Ask your boss if he/she has ever worked from home or has had a previous employee who telecommuted. Your boss may be a huge proponent of the idea and you may not even know it. Ask him/her questions about how he/she feels about the idea and any experiences he/she has had in the past.
    • Spin the idea so that it will provide a bigger benefit for the company. Although working from home will provide a huge benefit to you, your goal is to hit home the major positives your physical absence will have on the company and your boss’s position. Don't leave out the reason why you want to work from home, however accentuate the productivity level and money saving positives for the company.

Tips

  • Be flexible and open minded to the possibility of a flex-schedule where you come into the office a few days a week and work from home the rest.
  • Re-present your idea if it’s initially turned down. Wait for an opportune time such as when you cannot finish a project because of the commotion surrounding your cubical or having to be at home when your babysitter bails. Your boss may need to see firsthand how working from home could be a better situation.
  • Discuss work hours with your employer. Is it necessary that you are available between specific work hours or is it possible for you to work nights and/or weekends instead?

Warnings

  • If you are allowed to telecommute, treat your workday as you would when you were in the office. Don’t “play hooky” because no one is looking over your shoulder. Doing this will negatively impact your productivity levels and could put you out of a job.
  • Avoid becoming overly frustrated if your boss says “no” to your initial plan. He/she may need to get used to the idea and may come around eventually. If you become angry or irritated he/she may see this as a negative and could disregard the idea altogether.

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How to Become a Home Medical Transcriptionist Without Taking a Course

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If you already have a background in medical terminology, you can become a medical transcriptionist without taking a medical transcription course. Here's how to do it.

Steps

  1. Leverage your background in medical terminology. If you've already built up experience working in a doctor's office or hospital, use this to your advantage. Make sure you understand a wide variety of terms and classifications; if not, now's the time to brush up.
    • If you don't have medical terminology experience, consider getting a part-time job in a local medical office.
    • Or, if you don't have experience but you have a friend who's a home transcriptionist, ask him or her to show you the ropes. Sit in on a typical day and find out how the job is paced, what's expected, how doctors are invoiced, and so on.
  2. Know the odds. Most of the large agencies that hire at-home medical transcriptionists simply will not hire a person who has not had a course and/or real-time medical transcription experience at a hospital or doctor's office. Therefore, if you have the freedom to work outside the home for a couple of years it may well be worth looking for medical transcription experience outside of the home before attempting to start your home-based transcription business.
    • You can get into transcribing locally without training or real-time experience, but it will probably pay significantly less.
  3. Network with local doctors and hospitals. Visit offices and let them know you're picking up new clients. Leave your business card or a neatly printed slip with your contact information on it.
    • If you know anyone who works in the medical field, ask him or her to pass your name along if someone's looking for a transcriptionist.
    • Go the extra mile to make your visit memorable. Instead of simply walking into a doctor's office and demanding time, leave a nicely written note and a small token, such as a small office plant or a specialty treat, such as toffee.
  4. Highlight your transferable skills. Present your prior medical terminology experience or training in a way that makes it easy for a potential client or employer to see that you have medical familiarity. A "Skills" section at the top of your resume that clearly lists medical terminology, typing speed, and any transcription experience is vital.
  5. Perform your audition transcript with utmost care. This is your opportunity to shine and it is the most important stage of the hire process. If you are provided with any instructions for the audition make certain you follow them exactly. Proofread your transcript several times and double check every medical term online or with a good medical dictionary.

Tips

  • Remember, if you have the basic skills then getting medical transcription work is really a matter of being in the right place at the right time and presenting the right information (a good professional resume, cover letter, and a painstakingly-performed audition).
  • Keep contacting potential clients and employers until you find someone who recognizes your potential and gives you that first break. Fast, reliable transcriptionists with good language skills and an excellent grasp of medical terminology are always in demand!

Things You'll Need

  • A fully-equipped home office with computer, word processing software, high speed Internet connection, digital foot pedal, and good quality headset.

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How to Become a Home Call Center Agent

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Call center work is highly valued in many of today’s major service industries. In financial centers, call center workers help customers handle their financial products and deal with questions about banking policy. In medical groups, they help process insurance claims and inform patients on the status of a claim. Retail call center agents may field calls about a product, handle complaints, or talk to customers about payment. There is generally no formal education required to become a home call center agent, as most of the skills a call center workers uses are things that he or she learns on the job. An independent contractor working as a call center agent combines these skills with some business knowledge to develop a client base that will provide them with ongoing work.

Steps

  1. Set up reliable telecommunication services. As an independent contractor, you will need telephone and Internet service to communicate with potential clients about assignments, conduct telephone interviews and, assuming you build a client base, communicate with your clients’ customers.
    • Sign up with a telecommunications provider that offers both land line long distance and high speed Internet for package rates that could save you some money.
    • Make sure your work space is free of distractions. A quiet, professional work space is essential to become a home call center agent.
  2. Look for call center work on job search engines. Be sure to focus on looking for contracts that include the word “telecommuting,” “work from home” and “freelance.”
  3. Review any contract that a potential client offers you to be sure it spells out all the terms of work, including task description, rate of pay, invoicing procedures, and payment timetable.
  4. Complete the necessary paperwork. Paperwork requirements vary from country to country, but, for instance, in the United States, independent contractors must supply clients to whom they contract a completed IRS W-9 Tax ID form. At the end of the tax year, U.S. independent contractors receive an IRS 1099-MISC form that documents the income earned for tax reporting purposes.
  5. Manage your client base. Once you’ve developed a client base, pay careful attention to record keeping and time management. Use productivity software and other tools to securely maintain client records, keep track of billable hours or units, fulfill your contractual obligations to your clients, and invoice and track accounts receivables.

Things You’ll Need

  • Late model laptop or desktop computer with sufficient word processing, spreadsheet and Internet capability
  • Printer and fax machine, if necessary to fulfill the job requirements
  • Office supplies (paper, pens, etc.)
  • A high speed Internet line and unlimited long distance on a stable land line
  • A standard headset for talking on the phone while typing

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How to Be Successful Working from Home

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It is a great luxury to be able to work from home, but if you don't have the necessary discipline, success may be very hard to achieve. Here are some tips and guidelines to assist you in getting the best outcome for your work day, and ultimately, your success.

Steps

  1. Have A Dedicated Work Area. Choose an area in your home that has good natural light, and is well ventilated. Working in the basement or closet will really start to close in on you after a few hours’ work and will not serve as much encouragement to ‘go to work’ each day. A desk and chair is essential. Although you may not be in an office environment, you are still doing an income producing activity and therefore you should set yourself up as professionally as possible. Working at the dining room table is a viable option if you do not have a separate study or office area in your home, so long as you are preparing your work area daily and its not cluttered with household items (dishes, magazines etc.)
  2. Dress For Success. Working from home has many comfort benefits, but working in your Pyjamas is not one of them! Sure, check your emails with a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, but when your work day begins you should be dressed appropriately. Its all the about your posture. Think about how different you feel in the evenings after a hot bath and your are in your comfy PJ’s – relaxed and winding down. This is not the posture you would want to project on the phone when speaking to clients or prospects. Keep it professional all round, and your results will reflect your professionalism.
  3. Organisation Is A Top Priority. Getting organised is the first step to a really productive day. The last thing you want is to get to the end of your work day and realise nothing of importance has been done due to shuffling paper all day. Arrange your work area with all the ‘office’ type tools you need (printer, PC / Laptop, stationery etc.) A carafe of water, phone chargers, a great filing system etc is essential. And of course a diary / day planner. ie. Set yourself up to win!
  4. Prioritise and Plan Your Day. In your day planner / diary, write down all the things that need to be done – everything from doing the washing to making those important calls etc. Block out times for them as accurately as possible. A little trick I learned from Brian Tracy was to put a number next to each task in order of importance. For example – the top priorities of the day would get a number 1, the least priorities would get a number 5. This will assist you in ensuring you have great time management and are productive in your work day. Preparation is key to getting anything done to the best of your ability. My suggestion would be to prepare your work day the night before, that way you already know what to expect when you begin your work day and are not wasting precious time with non-income producing activities.
  5. Decide On Your Office Hours. Take into account your household chores, kids (if you have any), personal commitments etc. and plan your office hours to suit. Your business / work from home job is your main priority so make sure you set your office hours and commit to working within this time slot. Its best to keep your office hours as consistent as possible, which takes me to my next point..
  6. Get Into A Routine. The sooner you get into your routine, the better and more productive you will become. Call it what you will, but training your mind to become most active at certain parts of the day will assist you tremendously. You will be surprised at how your creativity and concentration increases having set specific working hours and routines when you need it most, and in the evenings when it is time to wind down, your mind will be more relaxed and therefore a good nights rest is more likely.
  7. Leave The Washing Alone! This is something I needed to practice for a while before I got it right. The home distractions… Avoid them! If there are home chores that need to be attended to, diarise and prioritise. Sure, if its storming outside and all your windows are open, you may want to attend to that ASAP, but everything else can wait. Watching an episode of your favourite TV show, or taking your suit to the dry cleaners is not going to put money in your account.
  8. Limit The Number Of Times You Check Your E-Mails. If at all possible, only read your mails first thing in the morning, just before lunch and hour before you end your work day. Most times we get so caught up in our mails that we spend hours sifting and reading through them and this is not productive. Respond to Aunty Sue’s mail about her new roast beef recipe OUT of office hours.
  9. Give Yourself A Break. Yes, you are working from home, but you are entitled to a break. Walk away from your computer a couple of times during your work day – stroll around the garden, or take a walk around the block. Some fresh air will do you the world of good and refresh your mind so as to serve you more effectively. I would suggest avoiding watching TV or getting stuck into a hobby as this is a very easy way to lose track of time and lose the drive to return to your work.
  10. Get Moving! Join a gym, or take up yoga from home. Whatever your pleasure, but exercise is important. Not just for your physical health, but mental health too. Sitting at your work area for hours a day will eventually lead to fatigue and then it all becomes a downward spiral of demotivation and disinterest.

Tips

    1. These tips and guidelines may seem very simple and are quite easy to follow but they are very effective in assisting you achieve success working from home.

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How to Avoid Online Work at Home Scams

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The following are tips on how to avoid being scammed when looking for an online home-based business. Scammers rely on psychology and prey on the most vulnerable among us, including the sick and unemployed, as well as those with little or no income. Scammers take advantage of desperation, so be vigilant when searching online for a home-business opportunity. Perhaps you can't leave home, or you want a change in the kind of work you do. You've been looking for work-at-home jobs but are afraid to commit, because you're worried about scams. Not all work-at-home sites are scams, so consider the following ideas:

Steps

  1. Avoid business opportunity sites that claim unrealistic income possibilities. 5,000 dollars in 5 days is most unlikely.
  2. Do your research. The first thing to do is to learn to View an Advertisement Effectively.
  3. Look for logos on the site indicating endorsements from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Better Business Bureau or Truste.org.
  4. Check that the site has contact information from independent sites. Then check on those sites and their testimonies. Check email addresses, so you can contact them. Check if there is a physical address. This adds credibility. If you are interested in a particular business, contact them stating your interest and await a response.
  5. Research any company you're interested in. At the very least, it should have a listed telephone number and be available during normal business hours.
  6. Search for work-at-home jobs using legitimate sources. Don't search online for "work at home". What you're likely to find are scams. Instead try well-established job boards such as Net-Temps.com or authoritative books like "The Work-At-Home Sourcebook."
  7. Educate yourself. What kinds of jobs and industries really use home workers? With a little bit of research, you will quickly learn, for example, that working at home is common in the medical transcription industry, but there's no legitimate job known as "envelope stuffing."
  8. Avoid "start up fees": Real work at home jobs are like any other jobs, except they are performed in home offices. You don't have to pay a fee to work at Starbucks or Hewlett Packard. Likewise, legitimate work-at-home job offers do not require registration fees or payment for "instructions". In other words, if you have to pay them anything in order to go to work for them, they're probably not legitimate.
  9. Don't expect a money-back guarantee to protect you. Some people will try to sell you a get-rich-quick scheme, but 99% of them are scams. Talk is cheap. Scammers will promise you your money back if you're not satisfied, but they won't deliver on their promises.
  10. Understand that working at home does not require a "program" or a "system" that you have to pay to learn. As with any other employment, either you already have the required job skills or you don't. If you need skills to get a job, enroll at the nearest college, vocational school, or technical school.
  11. Use your head. If it were really possible to earn $1,000 a week assembling products at home, wouldn't everybody be doing it? The old adage still holds true: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
  12. Look up Domain name on Domain Tools. There you can check registration details.
  13. Look for guarantees on the site. Be sure to read the guarantee carefully.
  14. Type in the company name in Google. If people have been scammed, they are very quick to broadcast that fact online.
  15. Scrutinize carefully any testimonials. Are the photographs too professional? Are the reviews too good to be true? Chances are they may be false.
  16. Avoid pyramid schemes and lotteries. Learn about such things online.
  17. Tell your family and friends about any opportunities you're considering and ask what they think.
  18. Take your time before signing up for anything. There are some legitimate online home-business opportunities. Keep your eyes open. You will soon be able to distinguish between the scams and the legitimate businesses.

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Tips

  • Avoid start-up fees.
  • Do your homework.
  • The U.S. Small Business Administration gives facts and legitimate resources.
  • Put away your credit card. Wait until you are sure before parting with your cash.
  • Do not make impulsive decisions. Sleep on it. Situations often look different next morning.
  • Google the name of the company followed by "reviews" or "scam".
  • Don't get discouraged. It takes time to find a good work-at-home job.
  • Check business resources and Entrepreneur Centers at about.com for information.

Warnings

  • Do your research about the company and the owner to see if it's a legitimate business.
  • Do not be fooled by attractive websites and offers of great income. Be cautious.

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