3 Rules for Working at Home

3 Rules for Working at Home

In my work with small business startups I run into myths that exist in the
world and in the minds of people, which stand in the way of their ability to
succeed at a home business. The three rules here will help you to see good
opportunities, and then to succeed at whatever you choose to do.

1.. If it is easy, it won't work. If you love what you do, you are more
likely to be able to do the work that a small business requires, but it is
still work. You have to learn about your business, set it up, and promote
it, no matter what it is. You even have to do that with a distributorship or
business package. If it is not work, it does not pay. There are no secrets, only skills, strategies and techniques. Anyone
promising to tell you Secrets, or teach you Tricks is on the shady side of
integrity. There are no secrets, and there are no tricks. There is
knowledge, time saving strategies, key bits of information that can
transform your understanding from unworkable to workable, and techniques
that make the job either simpler or more successful. You need knowledge,
tools, and experience. So look for that instead of looking for something
that does not exist.

3.. If you want to make money you have to work every day. Ok, so you don't
have to work EVERY day, but you have to work every day that you reasonably
can. That means you have to FIT IT IN! It has to be your priority. If you
are a weekend warrior, then you have to work the majority of the weekends.
If you are a work at home mom, then you need to find time each day around
your family and get in at least a few minutes of work. If you are committed
to replacing a full time income with working at home, then you'll have to
put in 4-8 hours a day more days than you take off. You have to give it the
same dedication that you would a standard job. You cannot just let the days
drift by, and not schedule in time when you HAVE to work. Just DO it... and
stop making excuses.

Working at home is very doable. It is often chaotic, frequently frustrating,
and always hard work. But I do it every day. It has become part of who I am.
I learn and grow in it, and I gain more understanding all the time.

Build on common sense, and keep these rules in your mind when you measure
your options, and you will succeed in ways you cannot see ahead of time.

Written by Laura Wheeler

Owner of Fabulous Frugal Websites - www.fabulousfrugalwebsites.com -
Laura writes instructional materials, produces infosites, and builds
affordable websites for her business startup and small business clients.
Laura works with small businesses in a way that no other website designer
does, and always with the business owner's best interests at heart. Laura is
a busy mom of eight, homeschooler, and home business owner.

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Working From Home - Telemarketing - Do You Have What It Takes?

More and more people every day are looking for ways of working from home. Working from home has never been so popular and the choice of types of employment seems endless. You might decide to start your own home based business and work long hours to achieve a dream of supporting your family from the profits of the business. Perhaps you simply want a job you can do at home, maybe just for a few hours a week to bring in a little extra money.

Up until a few years ago, work from home opportunities were rare and poorly paid. This type of work from home slavery still exists but technology has caused a dramatic increase in the number of genuine work from home opportunities available, both for the home based business entrepreneur and for the stay at home mom who wants a job she can fit in around the kids' schedule.

If you have a professional qualification such as being a Lawyer or Accountant you can quite easily set up a home based office. If you have a practical qualification such as being a hairdresser, beautician or nail technician you can build up your own mobile business. If you have no particular qualifications but possess a talent for something such as carpentry or sewing or welding, you can make things at home and sell them at craft fairs and art exhibitions. If you have no particular qualifications or talents but possess some imagination and drive, you can carve out your own niche by identifying a need in your community and providing a service to fill it.If you have no qualifications, no talent, no skills, no imagination, you could become a telemarketer. The only attributes a telemarketer needs are:

1. A phone

2. A friendly manner (optional in some circumstances)

3. The ability to memorise and recite a script

4. The ability to tell lies in a convincing way

5. A conscience on psychopath level

6. An inner radar enabling you to identify the least convenient time to phone people

7. the ability to talk for a long time without pause

8. Tenacity

9. A thick skin.

Recruitment advertising might mislead you by stating that a clear speaking voice is a requirement but I can tell you from experience that this is not so. Provided you can make your scripted speech without being sidetracked by questions from your prospective customer and have no qualms about the size or number of the lies necessary to close a deal, you will easily find employment in the field of telemarketing.

If you think this sounds mean, just think for a moment about telemarketers. You know, the people that make unsolicited phone calls to you when you are in the middle of bathing the baby or having dinner or when you are up a ladder trying to hang wallpaper. You dive for the phone trying not to drop a slippery baby or trying to swallow your food without choking or trying to control the gummy wallpaper that wants to stick to you, the ladder and everything else around you. You manage to pick up the phone without suffering a serious accident and find yourself listening to a complete stranger who wants to sell you something you don't need and don't want.

While the baby howls, your dinner gets cold or the wallpaper dries in creases, this person talks at you relentlessly and seemingly without the need to take a breath. Only when the dripping soap suds or congealing food or the fact that your hand is glued to the phone finally drive you to interrupt, will there be a pause. This pause, however, is nothing more than a brief mini-second's respite before the script is resumed. You won't get the chance to say enough to turn the soliloquy into a conversation. You see, telemarketers are trained to capitalise on the fact that most people are polite. Most people in this situation don't like to interrupt and won't hang up the phone until the caller has finished speaking and goodbyes have been said.

The only ways to end a call from a telemarketer are to agree to purchase whatever he is offering you or to hang up the phone while he is still reciting his script. If you are too polite to hang up, you might as well just agree to purchase right away. There is absolutely no point trying to reason with a telemarketer; if you say you don't want to buy his elephant because you can't stand grey, he will ask you to tell him your favourite colours and then he will swear a solemn oath that the elephant he is offering you is yellow with pink polka dots. A tempting offer! By giving him that tiny bit of information about your personal taste, you have given the telemarketer his hook: he is offering you something in a colour-scheme you said you like, how can you reasonably refuse?

Even though the baby might be blue with cold or the dinner completely solid or the wallpaper glued to your shirt, don't accept the offer. A yellow with pink polka dots elephant might sound like a real novelty and acceptance might seem like a way to end this miserable phone call. The thing here is that, when you receive it, that elephant will be of the grey variety. I don't like to say this but telemarketers lie and, the more incredible the lie is, the more they will protest that the offer they are making you is genuine and too good to be true. Well, they get it half right: it will undoubtedly be too good to be true.

Copyright 2005 Elaine Currie

Elaine Currie runs a work from home directory at her Plug-in Profit Site at: http://www.Huntingvenus.com
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How to Balance Working at Home and Raising Your Kids

How to Balance Working at Home and Raising Your Kids

Most work at home moms start home based businesses because they want to be home with their little ones. And I was no different: I left a great corporate job to be around my two children.

But then, you put a lot of work in your business, and it works! Yes, you are getting orders, and making some money, but the flip side is that you don't have as much time for your little ones. How do you then balance your time? Do you still put your children first? Or do you go for the "just a minute honey!" line and hope they can't tell time?

It happened to me: one day, during my first Christmas season in business, I was busy with an order for 150 gift baskets. It was hard work, and stress was running high. The deadline was approaching, and I had no time to stop to even straighten the room.

There were boxes with product everywhere, there were empty boxes, and there was gourmet food everywhere: a true disaster area! And just then, my 4 year old daughter (now 11) came to me with her big brown eyes in tears: "Mommy, I am bored and I am lonely… Can we play a little?" What could I do? I was alone at home with her, and if I stopped to play, there was no way I could finish my order in time.

So, I thought quickly, on my feet, of how I could play with her and work at the same time. And I came up with the idea of building her an office right next to mine out of used/damages boxes. She was ecstatic! And SHE did all the work! I told her where to go and get the boxes, and made room for her by me desk. She built a desk, improvised a chair, and even had items to sell in her store.

With that in place, I was able to continue my work uninterrupted most of the time. She loved watching and copying me: when I picked up the phone to talk to a customer, she picked up her imaginary phone. When I needed to make a basket, she made one of her own. When I calculated the price for my baskets, she picked up a pencil and calculated her own prices.

In time, her office evolved: the old, damaged boxes were replaced with actual wooden drawers. Inventory I wasn't able to sell became her store's inventory. She even got an adding machine, and a couch. Now, her office is her favorite spot to play. And it's not just an office anymore: it's an entire building with different shops. She has a restaurant, a bath and body store, a book store, and a toy store.

The store has helped her in many ways:

• she learned about maintaining and ordering inventory


• she learned about phone etiquette


• she learned addition and subtraction


• she learned organization skills


• she learned to be creative (little bits and pieces of ribbon, irregular baskets, empty containers have become great assets to her business)

Could YOU be using your business to teach your kids business basics while having fun? I am sure you could. Just take some time and think how your situation can be used to plant some business seeds in your child.

Adriana Copaceanu is a busy mom of 2. Visit her Busy Moms Online if you are looking for ways to maximize your precious time. And if you are a new mom, you'll find everything you need to know at her Baby's First Year website.

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Getting past the fear

The Fear is what holds us back.

The Fear is what keeps us from trying new things.

The Fear is what prevents from sleeping at night.

The Fear is what stops us from launching a new
product or business.

The Fear...

Sucks!

Too much of our lives is driven by fears. Some
big. Some small. A few are reasonable. Most are
not.

But we have a choice.

A simple choice really.

We get to choose whether the Fear rules our lives
or we rule the Fear.

That's right. We get to choose. You can wake up in
the morning and pull the covers over your head
and hide from the Fear.

Or you can jump out of bed to greet the glorious
day. And stomp on the Fear. Trample it out of
existence.

The Fear is only in control if you choose to let
it be in control. Your choice.

When researchers interview elderly folks about
their lives, they often ask a question like
"What do you regret?" The most common answers
are not focused on something that person did.

They regret the things they failed to even try.

Why didn't they even try? You guessed it.
The Fear.

So today and every day, you get to choose.
who is going to rule the day?

You or the Fear?

Choose wisely... bravely... and Rule The Day!

Working From Home - Could You Cope?

Copyright © Zoul-Kifl Pio

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It is a well-known fact that more and more people are choosing to work from home rather than face the daily agony that is otherwise known as commuting. There are many companies that are even encouraging this practise amongst their permanent staff as a viable alternative to travelling to work.

In most cities, workers will have to commute to and from the office, which depending on where they live could mean adding an extra one or two hours to their average day. At its very best commuting can be a tiresome and stressful activity made up of countless public transport delays, shoulder-to-shoulder contact with complete strangers and to a large extent, mind-numbing routine.

This sort of start cannot possibly be conducive to a productive working day and at long last there are a lot of companies beginning to realise this. However, it is worth mentioning those at the opposite end of the scale that actually thrive on running the commuter gauntlet morning and night and would never consider doing anything else, though I think they must be very much in the minority.

For many people, working from home has long been seen as the sole domain of freelancers, who many think get out of bed when they want to, start work and stop work when they want to and generally come and go as they please, which on occasion may be true, but more often than not it's exactly the opposite as one vital requirement of working from home is self-discipline; without it you may as well go back to commuting.

There are multiple distractions in the home that all too easily lure the unwary away from their work. There is no manager looking over your shoulder, nobody to tell you how long to have for lunch; you can wander away from your desk at any time you like. There might be a television programme you want to watch, the grass may need cutting, a visitor arrives or the dog needs walking. You can do all this if you want to and it sounds good doesn't it? - until at the end of the working day you suddenly realise that you haven't actually done much work at all whilst leaving a backlog to catch up on the following day.

However, once you are over the distraction stage it can be very rewarding to work in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of the home. You may find that you like the solitude in which to conduct your work, or welcome the fact that there isn't a colleague constantly taking up your time for one reason or another; you could discover that you can think more clearly without having photocopiers, fax machines and telephone noises constantly assaulting your eardrums. One of the foremost pleasures would be not having to travel to work, affording you the luxury of an extra hour or two in the day to do with as you please.

There is one piece of advice I would give to anybody who is thinking about working from home, and it is this: When you get up in the morning don't attempt to start work wearing your dressing gown. Get properly dressed as you would if you were travelling to work. This is more psychological than anything as it puts you in the right frame of mind for the day ahead - even if you are only working from the living room. If you slob around in a vest and shorts or your pyjamas you will not work to the best of your ability.

Working from home merits serious thought before you decide to take the plunge because it will not be to everyone's taste; ironically, some people who tried it found that they preferred the daily battle of commuting to the comparative peace and quiet of their homes, and subsequently returned to working at the office. To anyone working from home for the first time it will possibly be a bit of a culture shock but at the same time exciting, and once you adapt to the different rules, learn to manage your time effectively you will gradually begin to enjoy it.

John Sheridan is a professional proofreader of hard copy items and website copy. He also writes web copy and occasionally accepts small copy-editing assignments. He can be contacted at: john@textcorrect.co.uk website: http://www.textcorrect.co.uk

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Working From Home: Is Telecommuting For You?

Tip! #1: Get a good computer! I had an old computer, and it was miserably slow. I can remember waiting sometimes up to 5 mintues for a page to load, it was ridiculous! When you are working from home on your computer, you need speed.

Working from home sounds like a great option doesn't it? Certainly, you can read many articles on the Internet extolling the virtues of working from home and probably wish you could park your car in your garage and start telecommuting right away!

I've worked from home for close to two years now and absolutely love it.

This article will not list the benefits of working from home. Anyone can quickly figure out on their own that having no commute, no office politics, flexible work hours and closer proximity to your family are just four possible benefits that are achievable when you work at home.

You can figure out the benefits of working from home that are important to you without me telling you.

What I believe is more beneficial is a brief discussion of what you need to consider before thinking about setting up a home office and working from home. These are all things I've experienced and noticed since I started telecommuting:

1. Can you balance your work and your personal life?

In other words, can you easily take off your work hat and put your family hat on, and vice versa? It's easy to say but sometimes hard to do. I have found it difficult at times to leave work behind for the day because when you work from home, you don't leave the office to go home as before because you're already there! Don't underestimate the importance of being able to switch from your work persona to your personal life persona. It can be hard to do sometimes and can cause grief in your personal life.

2. Are you self-motivated?

Since you won't have your boss or co-workers to motivate you, you'll have to do it yourself. Working from home requires someone who can work on their own without a lot of direct supervision. Can you maintain a high level of work output on your own?

3. Do you have a dedicated work space that you can use for your home office?

You will probably find that your best bet to help separate your work and personal life is to have a dedicated work area (ie. a room solely used as your home office) to really set out your work space. If you simply work at the kitchen or dining room table, not only can things get messy quickly it can make it harder to separate work from home. If you have a room in your house that you can use strictly for work, you'll probably find it easier to walk away from work every night and concentrate on your personal life for a few hours!

4. Do you have a job that lends well to working from home?

If you have a job that requires frequent meetings or that requires you to work closely with other staff face to face, you might find it difficult to work from home without having to pop into work frequently which might end up defeating the purpose of telecommuting in the first place. Having said that, your employer will probably help make this distinction with you and working from home several days per week to start might be an option you could look at, if possible.

Tip! With the advent of the computer and associated equipment more and more people are changing career, deserting the corporate world and joining those of us who have successfully started our own businesses working from home and who continue to reap the benefits of being our own boss.

5. Do you need social interaction with other people?

If you need a great deal of face to face contact with other people, working from home may not be in the cards for you. Some people simply need the social interaction that working in an office provides and if you do, you might find yourself calling people on the phone for no reason other than to hear someone else's voice, which can really harm your productivity.

6. Are you easily distracted?

If working from home means that there is a chance you will spend a great deal of time watching tv, running personal errands and otherwise wasting time during "work hours" then telecommuting might not be for you. Depending on your job, you will most likely find your powers of concentration tested every single day.

Carl Mueller is an Internet entrepreneur and professional recruiter who wants to help you find your dream career.

Visit Carl's website to separate yourself from other job searchers: http://www.find-your-dream-career.com

Sign up for The Effective Career Planner, Carl's free 5-day course: http://www.find-your-dream-career.com/effective-career-planner.html

Tip! For many people, specially for the women working from home is the solution to the work-life balance. Work at home jobs for mom it is the best way to work and to continue being a great mom, without neglecting your family.

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Internet based business Opportunity

Taking Advantage of an Internet Based Business Opportunity

If you don’t have your own concept of an Internet based business in mind, there are plenty of opportunities available for the taking. If you’re a good sales person, reseller and network marketing opportunities abound. How successful you may be with an Internet based business opportunity, however, is contingent upon how much time you wish to devote and how hard you want to work. Isn’t that true in any business, though? Isn’t it also the reason some people are content to work for others, because they don’t want the extra work that is involved in having their own business. This is perhaps the reason some people are very successful and others fail to achieve any degree of success on the Internet.

If you have an idea of your own such as crafts that you want to sell, or even a book you have written that you desire to market and sell from a website, you are far ahead of those who don’t have a concept of what type of Internet based business opportunity interests them. However, that doesn’t mean that without your own concept, you cannot be success, but you do need to think about what you would like to do. For example, the Internet is infiltrated with affiliate programs, but you don’t want to go in blind and start signing up for all of them with a dream of making some serious money. You want to choose a product line that you find interesting and work with that. If you enjoy books, you may want to work with some of the booksellers such as Borders and Barnes and Noble. Remember, the concept behind these is to draw people to your website, so it’s not enough to submit your site to the search engines and expect that everyone will come running to visit your site. No matter what Internet based business opportunity you choose, you will need to advertise constantly in order to be a success.

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