Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

In Australia that is. From the Liverpool City Champion. Check out the amazing statistic about the percentage of home businesses to small businesses in Australia - 70%! (Could it be just another politician’s exaggeration?)
“People in small business are very hard workers and 70per cent of them in Australia are home-based,” said Mr Adams, whose business […]

A survey designed to gauge interest in raising taxes to add lanes to the local highway network found out something interesting.
Besides the fact that most people STRONGLY opposed the new proposed taxes, 26% of survey respondents say they telecommute! Somehow that came as a surprise to people even though California is one of the more […]

AvivLife.com has gone live to provide a free work at home jobs database.
Here’s what the site’s founder told me about her goals and aspirations for the site.
Like many in the ‘work at home’ world, I am a stay at home mother. I spent a year going through one work at home job after another. […]

If you want to make your living online, but you’re sick of the sales pitches, perhaps this letter is just what you’re looking for?
“I want you to have this rave review now for your next class. I want others to know how good you are. You are free to use it as you please.
I was […]

Matt LeBlanc helps job seekers in the Nashville area find new work. He shares this story with job seekers, but it’s just as true in the work at home field because, increasingly, people are being interviewed by phone for the “phone presence”.

The story below is from a HR person:
I was calling candidates to schedule interviews […]

Since we’re trying to be honest here and not just sell you a load of baloney about the work at home lifestyle…
This is from Saving Advice
They’re worth noting but I find some of them technically inaccurate and sometimes short sighted like the first one “Self Employed People pay more taxes”. They also tend to be […]

Oddly enough (to a guy at least!) one business that maintains and actually can pick up during a recession is: cosmetics!
Here are some example articles though I originally heard this on CBS news: here is one example from Japan, and here’s a quote from TIME on the subject…
One reason is that cosmetics companies are suffering […]

Here’s how this great work at home business idea got started…
From BoomTownUSA
Who would be better to teach English to foreigners than native born Americans, was an idea that Kent Holiday and his wife had when they met in Seoul, Korea. Marry that idea with the increase in broadband connectivity and you could probably do […]

My most recent revelation about home office safety was a crash course in “ergonomics” after I found my computer’s screen height was too low and it was hurting my back.
But there are other occupational safety issues involved that work at home business people should consider. How do you measure up based on these questions?
From the […]

Now that  you’re working at home, what do you do if a client needs to meet with you face to face? Here’s a helpful post on the Virtual Assistant’s blog.
They state several options themselves which you can read, but here’s what we’ve done.
Basically we’ve arranged space at an office “in town” that’s open anyway.
It’s usually […]