Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

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 […]

Here’s a free online list, recently updated, comparing 77 work at home customer service companies in the US and Canada!
They do a fine job of comparing them and it was just updated this month.
It’s important to recognize that work at home Customer Service jobs are NOT the same as telecommuting positions
which can exist in a […]

Publicity Expert Bill Stoller sent out this email about how to get the first year’s membership for PRNewswire waived… a $195 value.
Bill is an expert on using publicity to build your business, so you’ll want to read this carefully, but it expires TONIGHT.
Anyway, you can always get a free sample of his publicity newsletter here […]

This is an excellent post on how to find work at home jobs on Career Builder.
My main complaint about them is that lots of “work at home business opportunity” spam lurks in their search results.
They tell you how to avoid some of it, at least until the biz op promoters figure out how to spam […]

Take 1 Transcription
We are regularly recruiting experienced, freelance audio typists to join our high calibre team. If you have a PC, broadband internet connection, and typing speeds of 80wpm, read on!
Take 1 only recruits the best transcribers who are sufficiently skilled to transcribe not only one to one interviews, but also programmes with multiple voices, […]

From the Nova Scotia News:
Prudential Consulting Inc., a Toronto information technology consulting company that also offers computerized medical transcription services to the health-care industry, will set up an Atlantic Canadian division to organize trained medical transcribers to work from home.
If the workers complete two years with Prudential Consulting Inc., they would be reimbursed a […]

Social networking is important for employees to share ideas and encourage one another. But the free standing social networks like MySpace, Facebook, etc. aren’t what companies need. Instead they need customized social networking space for their own employees. That’s why Alpine Access with 7,500 teleworkers chose HiveLive to create their own specialized social network.
Here’s a […]

Antone Roundy is an RSS Whiz. He sent me this email so I’ve decided to pass it along.
I’ve been using CaRP to display Amazon.com affiliate ads in my blogs for quite a while, and I’m frequently asked how to display RSS feeds in a WordPress blog. The other day, I was considering posting the […]

Mark Horne, freelance writer and friend asks an important question… could people who work at home do better if they dressed better, even if nobody else were around?
 Now I am a freelance commercial writer. I can dress down as much as I want on most days. Yet I increasingly find I hate being too casual. […]

I got a frantic call the other day because a home based medical transcriptionist got one of those frightening calls.
Unless she got high speed internet in 3 months, she’ll lose her job.
She lives in a rural area however, and all the big telecommunication companies are too busy raking it in from the easy pickings customers.
Here’s […]