Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

I originally saw this on Craigslist and pass it along…
VIPdesk Connect provides contact center solutions for national brand leaders- providing premium customer experiences- within the retail, financial services and travel industries. VIPdesk has established a nationwide network of home-based contact center service representatives- Service Ambassadors. This highly skilled experienced network of independent contractors, help companies [...]

From the Sydney Morning Herald
What if you work from home, but just don’t have a spare room to use as your home office? There are lots of clever ways to sneak an efficient workspace into your existing living areas. The best way is with custom-designed cabinetry. You can create a compact home office in all [...]

That was the gist of the ad for work at home moms/dads on Craigslist.
Read it carefully and you’ll find it’s like the old mail order scam…“How I get $20 bills in the mail every day! Send $20 to….” (And the last time I checked, 35 x $20 = $700 not a thousand, but why demand [...]

Bob Leduc of BizTipsLetter.com 
“What was the best response you ever got to a marketing postcard and is it something that is still working now?”
* Answer:
To be accurate, I have to answer your question twice …first for postcards sent to existing customers then for postcards sent to complete “strangers”.
(1) The best response I got (and still [...]

I found this interesting as someone who purchases dozens of used books on Amazon.com and to a lesser extent Half.com. I find that many of the books can be purchased for the price of media mail shipping $3.49 + a few bucks making my average book purchase $6 to $10 and most of that going [...]

From AuctionBytes Via PowerSellerKing
Outraged at auction fee increases for eBay Stores… one ebayer tries to demonstrate the “Core” of the problem.
One listing stated that the auction for “eBay’s ear” is the seller’s contribution to restore the magic store sellers seem to have taken from eBay, referring to eBay CEO Meg Whitman’s comments to analysts on [...]

What a relief, someone actually said what we knew all along… working at home can be hard work.
It requires discipline we wonder if we have.
It demands compartmentalization in an uncompartmentalized environment.
The 30 second commute offers little time to put on our “business face”.
The distractions in the cubicle which are only daydreams floating through our minds [...]

Telecommuters find that the loneliness and isolation of always working at home may make working from home less attractive in the long run unless human contact can be created to offset the problems of “working remote”.
From EMarketer
When Chuck (Tom Hanks) was stranded on a remote island in the movie Cast Away his only conversation was [...]

Mainland Chinese are moving to home employment by the score thanks to the Internet and a growing internet auction access.
From Fast Company
Mchael Cai grunts as he rummages through a pile of 500 stuffed animals in his Shanghai storage locker. “It’s in the back here!” he says, pushing through a stack of plush Winnie the Pooh [...]

Here’s one vendor who’s mastered the art of selling how to videos and product on Ebay.
Selling for $199 + shipping, this package regularly sells out.
As you browse the store you see they have an excellent array of products focused on a particular niche.
Would you believe these are so popular?
What do you know that others want [...]