Diversify Your Home Career
Ask just about anyone who has successfully found home-based employment, and they are likely to tell you the same thing… you need to diversify! Very few people find a single home based job that provides them with all their needs (full-time, consistent pay, livable salary). Although there certainly are many people who are able to work for one company and earn enough for their income goals, the much more common situation involves working for 2 or more companies.
We call this “home income diversification.” Its actually a pretty simple concept. Often in order to just find enough work, a home-worker needs to take on 2 or 3 different projects. They may work as a Customer Service Agent taking inbound calls for 15-20 hours a week, and also work doing website reviews for 10 hours a week. They may also sign up for a home-based business to help supplement their home-income.
The trick to home income diversification is to find successful programs that work well together.
First, try finding one job that has a set schedule that requires you to be working during specific pre-set shifts. Customer Service or Call Center jobs often require such a time-commitment. This can provide you with a base income that is steady and something you can count on.
Second, look for other home jobs that allow you more flexibility with your schedule. Look for jobs that pay by the project, and work more on deadlines then specific work hours. Writing jobs, telemarketing, and data entry positions often offer this level of flexibility.
If you find that you still have time in your work-week, try looking for other income projects that can help you grow your income. Think about things like paid online surveys, or perhaps consider looking into a home based business.
Becoming a Virtual Assistant is a great way to supplement your home based income.
Another way you can diversify your home income is by becoming a virtual assistant. Virtual assistants take on projects on a case by case basis. Sometimes they may have several hours worth of work to do for a single client, but often their work load fluctuates. Finding work as a Virtual Assistant can take time… there are some job postings specifically for this type of work. However, most virtual assistants end up setting up their own “shop” and accept projects from multiple clients.
Some very successful Virtual Assistants have even been able to turn this line of income into full-time work. In fact, by performing tasks for multiple clients, you essentially have built-in your home income diversification!
Diversifying helps insulate you from the ups and downs of working at home
One of the problems with home based employment is often the lack of stability. Many projects or jobs are temporary. Some are on-going but don’t always have work available. Some may take longer to be paid for, especially if you are invoicing clients.
By diversifying your income and taking on multiple jobs or projects, you can help insulate yourself from the occasional downs. If one job or project doesn’t have work, hopefully one of your others does! Remember to keep busy, but be careful not to over-extend yourself. Eventually you’ll need to make choices and decide where your time is best spent!
Get help finding successful home based jobs!
There is a lot of information out there about home based jobs, but the truth is for each open position, there are likely dozens if not hundreds of potential applicants. Make sure to stay up-to-date with all new current listings, and then be one of the first in line to apply!
Searching dozens of websites and online listings takes time, and its easy to miss hot job leads. Try taking advantage of a home job listing service such as HomeJobster and you increase your chances of finding gainful home employment.
Categories: Home Income Tips Tags: Customer Service, extra income, Home based job, Home Income Tips
Career Blogging: Blogging for Cash
Career Blogging: Blogging for Cash by Suzanne Bucciarelli
Want to Work at Home? There are many ways to make money online working from home. Career blogging is one of those ways. Career bloggers are in high demand. Businesses realize the many benefits of a company blog. These companies are willing to pay you to blog, usually on a contract basis. In addition, there are numerous sites that pay you to host links and ads on your own blog or to provide a review of the site on your blog.
Getting Started as a Career Blogger
First you will need to create your own blog. This will serve as your portfolio or blogging resume. Two popular blog sites are blogger.com and wordpress.com. First you need to decide what to blog about. Since you will be blogging for businesses, you could show off your business-sense in your blog. If you are a marketer, you could blog about sales and marketing. Blog about a topic you are very familiar with or an expert in. If there’s a particular niche that you want to blog about for hire, show your expertise on the subject in your own blog.
Getting Your First Blogging Jobs
Now that you have your blog, you need to get hired. Use your About or Profile on your blog to advertise your availability as a career blogger. You can also Google blogger job or blogging jobs and browse the search results. You’ll likely find dozens of search results for blogging jobs. Other resources for finding blogging jobs are Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com and HotJobs.com. Just submit your resume and contact info to be contacted by companies looking for professional bloggers.
Get Paid To Blog
The following sites pay you to put links/ads in your blog or to place a site/product review for the company in your blog.
Bloggerwave.com
An opportunity awaiting all bloggers! Give your valuable feedback to advertisers with respect to their web sites, products, services, and companies and get paid for it.
blogitive.com
* Earn money with every posting
* Get paid weekly via Paypal
* No advertising required, just your opinions
* Only post the stories that interest you
* Create multiple blogs to earn more
* Does not conflict with ad campaigns on your site
PayPerPost.com
Get paid for blogging. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.
BuzzByBlog.com
BuzzByBlog pays you to place ads on your website or blog. Just register as a blogger, receive offers, write, and get paid. They allow you to decide the minimum amount you will accept per entry, make counter-offers, and easy blog acceptance.
BloggingAds.com
Pays you to post an ad on your blog. Blogging Ads provides the ads and the money … you just place the ad on your blog. You must have a paypal account.
Blogsvertise.com
Get paid to write a review for advertisers in your blogs. Reviews in blogs create a buzz about a site or product and you’ll be getting paid to create this buzz in your blog.
CREAMaid.com
Place a widget on your blog and an ad and get paid via Paypal within 24 hours.
InBlogAds.com
With InBlogAds you can buy simple, direct HTML links on blogs. Increase both your traffic and natural search engine rankings. Get Bloggers to review your products or website. Generate buzz and get some links all in the same time.
ReviewMe.com
This new company was launched on Nov.9! They pay between $20.00-$200.00 for a review! Submit your blog. Once you are accpeted and receive an offer, you must write a post with a minimum of 200 words. You can receive payment by check or paypal. They pay on the first of every month. This is the highest paying company!
LoudLaunch.com
Earn more with your blog. Get paid to independently review LoudLaunch Campaign Releases. You’ve earned your audience, now be compensated for your opinion.
Smorty.com
Get paid for blogging. Write your opinion about peoples products, services and websites on your blog. Get paid weekly. No advertising, just write your opinions
* Earn top $ with every opinion post
* Select the subjects that interest you
* Post in multiple blogs to earn more
* Build interesting, unique content in your Blog
* Get paid weekly by PayPal
PayU2Blog.com
Make money blogging. Earn quick money by completing easy assignments in your blog. They pay you to mention products, services and companies, on your blog.
WeblogsInc.com
Apply to blog for one of their 90 blogs or suggest a blog topic and maybe they’ll start a new blog! WIN bloggers are paid to blog as little or as much as they like, are unfiltered, and can shift from blog to blog within the network. Their only requirements are that you be totally honest with your audience and passionate about the subjects you cover. Talk to their editorial team if you’re interested!
CreativeWeblogging.com
Get paid to blog with Creative Weblogging! They are one of the largest blog networks, with over 90 blogs in five languages.They will help grow your online reputation, establish you as a thought leader — and pay you, too.
CreativeWeblogging.com Compensation Package:
* Monthly compensation: $225 (US) — paid via PayPal or Moneybookers
* 7 to 10 posts per week are required.
* Traffic bonuses for aggressively growing traffic are available, up to $50 per month additional.
* Access to their vibrant community discussion group with 80+ bloggers, where you can share tips and network.
* They take care of all the technology, with an advanced blogging platform.
* They also provide marketing support.
* Virtual shares program: blog with them for a year and you can earn virtual shares in the company.
BloggerParty.com
Welcome. Join the party, where people from around the world join together to share their thoughts, ideas, rants, daily journals, reviews, and lives with each other each and every day. Write about what you want, when you want, meet people, and have fun. Plus, make some money doing it, too.
b5media.com/b5media-music-channel/
b5media is looking for writers to cover a wide range of genres, geographic locations, bands and interests. They’re also looking to cover specific bands who are newsworthy and blogworthy such as U2, the Beatles and Justin Timberlake. How to apply: Fill out a blogger application at: b5media.com/jobs. Please be sure to include any URLs of your writing samples.
Suzanne Bucciarelli is the owner of Million Dollar Dame, a website which provides free articles and advice for people who want to start an online business. For more online business opportunities, articles and advice and tips, please visit: Million Dollar Dame
Categories: Guest Blogger, Home Income Tips Tags: blogging, extra income
Extra Income Alert: Local Data Entry Jobs
Here’s a new program submitted to us: Local Data Entry Jobs. We tried it out ourselves, and found several positions in our local area. Here’s how it works:
1. Visit their site and submit your email address and ZIP code.
2. Immediately you’ll probably see a home business ad. This probably pays their bills. If you’re interested, check out the offer. Otherwise, just close that screen.
3. You’ll be prompted to view your job matches, make sure to accept.
4. You’ll be brought to a page that shows positions that are available in your area. We noticed there were both traditional jobs and home based jobs mixed together.
5. They will also email you further information.
Editor’s Review: This isn’t the best place to find home based jobs, but its worth a shot. We don’t find too many sites that bring up listings based on your location, so you are likely to find additional positions that you might not find anywhere else. Its free, so that’s a big plus. We also liked that we didn’t have to enter a phone number, which means we aren’t going to be getting tons of calls from people trying to sign us up for their home business. We found a handful of jobs that looked interesting, as well as lots of traditional job openings in our area.
Categories: Typing Tags: Data Entry, extra income, work at home job
5 Voice Over Roles that Will Make You Money
5 Voice Over Roles that Will Make You Money by Stephanie Ciccarelli
While there are many ways to communicate a message, the art of voice over is tops for delivering the human touch.
Over the centuries, the art of communicating with other people about a given purpose and the transmission of the spoken word, the most powerful, persuasive, and distinctly human tool in any marketers arsenal, has evolved to the degree that you don’t have to be in the same room to get a message across, even the same country for that matter.
Geographic locations and time zones afford little to no obstacle for communicating with others in a meaningful and cohesive way.
With all of the advantages this new world and new media bestows, it is very important that a message received is a message that is understood, believed and acted upon.
Much of this depends on the copy writing and voice over skills of the messengers, which brings us to five different character roles you can perform as a voice talent to get the message of your client across in a direct and effective way.
1. Instructor (formal, didactic voice over)
2. Real Person (informal voice over)
3. Spokesperson (advocate, authoritative voice over)
4. Narrator (omniscient storyteller)
5. Announcer (sets the stage and calls for action)
Let’s explore these types of character roles in detail.
1. Instructor
When teaching someone on what to do, for example, a corporate training video or children’s game, the voice over best suited for this kind of project is a straightforward, didactic and educated voice. The role of this particular voice talent is to instruct or provide information to fulfill a specific goal or purpose.
2. Real Person
Projects requiring a more casual approach often benefit from relatable, genuine voice overs. These voice overs are referred to as “Real Person” voice overs, commonly known as the “regular guy” or the “girl next door”. The character is homegrown, sensible, and friendly with a touch of familiarity and provides a more intimate interpretation that instills trust.
3. Spokesperson
A Spokesperson can be on camera or off camera depending on the medium you are using. The role of a spokesperson is generally played by a confident, charismatic person able to promote a cause, product, or service with ease and authority. A voice over of this nature needs to be driven, optimistic and assured.
4. Narrator
Storytelling is where the Narrator is most at home. Omniscient, courteous and honest, a Narrator’s job is to provide an audio landscape for a listener, briefing them on background information, posing questions, and providing solutions as they guide their audience through a program or documentary. Narrators can be male or female, and the most important factors are that they can communicate clearly and engagingly.
5. Announcer
The Announcer, often heard live at events, on commercials, promos or introducing segments for podcasts, is a product of the broadcast age, most celebrated at its height in the Golden Age of Radio and early television broadcasts. Announcers can introduce an idea and assertively make a call for action at the conclusion of a commercial advertisement or short video. One common misconception is that an announcer has to sound like an announcer from decades ago, however modern announcers act more like Narrators, and in many cases, adopt the Real Person approach.
Discovering which role suits your voice best is very important, because more often than not, you’ll be hired again and again for the same kind of role.
Why is that? Your “signature voice” is at the heart of your business. It’s what you sound like without pretending and is your greatest asset as a performer.
A professional voice over and branding coach can help you to develop your signature voice and maximize what it can do for you. Once you know where your strengths lie, you can do anything!
Stephanie Ciccarelli is the VP of Marketing with Voices.com, the voice over marketplace hosting more than 10,000 professional voice talents. Stephanie is also the author of The Definitive Guide To Voice-Over Success.
Categories: Guest Blogger, Home Income Tips Tags: extra income, voice over
Make An Occupation Playing Games, Be A Video Game Tester
Make An Occupation Playing Games, Be A Video Game Tester by Sean Tan
If you think like me, then playing games is just about the most amusing thing that can be done with the computer. Well, I know that I spend almost all my non working time trying out some or the other games on my PlayStation or on my Xbox. Now think, how it would be if you could actually gain some money out of playing games? Sounds incredible, does it? Let me tell you, being a Video Game Tester is all about that!
For those of you who are uninitiated to this field, let me explain what being a Video Game Tester actually entails. There are currently several games coming in the market, what with the surfeit of game platforms available. Each one wants to do better than the other, and there is almost cutthroat competition. Add to that the necessity of being the first to come out in the market with what are called as ‘concept’ games, and you have scores of games releasing worldwide each day.
However, this sort of productivity does hamper quality. Game designers do make high end graphic games, but there could be bugs in the game. There could be places in the game where the player could just not be able to go ahead. If such a thing happens, you can very well imagine what a colossal failure the game will turn out to be. In order to prevent such problems, every designed game needs a tester, and that’s where the Video Game Tester comes in.
Video Game Tester are people common folk like you and me, who play the games from scratch, covering all possibilities, and try to find out if the game designers have bunged up anywhere. For this purpose, they can earn a hefty check at the end of each month. The above site itself promises incomes of $10 to $80 each hour just testing games, which makes game testing one of the highest paying freelance jobs around.
But there’s a catch. You cannot enter into this profession for free. Gametesterguide requires a normal registration fee of about $60 for a lifetime membership on the field. That means, once this payment is done, members will be able to test new games from their developers for as long as they wish. There are also some kind or the other of discounts always going on, and this price of $60 is often slashed to even half its value.
Most people become skeptical due to the initial upfront fee that is to be paid. This makes them baulk away and miss out on even genuine opportunities. However, one cannot be sure of anything without giving it a try. If genuine, then it is a very small investment to make in order to get a lifetime of a highly paying job.
Sean is an avid gamer who has tried out his hand at most game titles big and small over the years. Recently, he has found out a way to convert this passion of his into a profession. He is now a full fledged Video Game Tester, and is really falling in love with his life all over again. You can read some more of his reviews on his own website, available at:
http://www.videogametesterreview.com
Categories: Guest Blogger, Home Income Tips Tags: extra income, gaming, Home based job
Extra Income Opportunity: Test Website User Friendliness – Earn $10 per test!
Would you like to earn a little extra spending money? If the answer is yes, Userlytics.com would like to invite you to become a member of our growing community of usability testers.
By becoming a tester you’ll be providing valuable feedback to our customers while making some extra money!
You will need a computer (PC or Mac), a webcam, and a microphone
To become a tester:
- Go to http://www.userlytics.com/tester/?rcr_akey=d363c63603728525b3f910768e34898e
and..
- Sign Up to be a Tester
- Look for our email and follow the instructions to activate your account
- Wait to be notified of New Testing Opportunities*
Questions? Please contact tester@userlytics.com
*Only approved testers with complete demographic information entered will receive invitations
Categories: Extra Income Tags: extra income, home opportunity, website tester
Do You Have What It Takes To Work At Home?
Do You Have What It Takes To Work At Home? by Jennifer Lavoie
Working at home … it has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Many see being able to set their own hours as a dream come true.
For those who have little or no self-discipline, that dream can quickly turn into a nightmare.
There may be times when a deadline is approaching as well as your favorite sports team on television. Without the discipline to set your priorities to your work, your home business will fail.
When you make the commitment to work from home, you are telling your clients or customers that you are ready to do whatever it takes to get the job done within the promised time. If fail to do that, you are telling them that you do not care about their needs and your time is more important to you than their project.
This also rings true if your work at home option is to start a home business, an internet marketing business or a online store. You need to dedicate time and resources to make it happen … without distractions.
If there is no one around a majority of the day then there should be no distractions to keep you from getting your work done. But be careful. Those first weeks of freedom can lend more to procrastination than working. The first few days may be wasted as you get up in the mornings and think about not having to go anywhere. How nice it is that you can work whenever you feel like it .. and soon enough you find yourself not working at all and finding all kinds of busy work that keep your days full but not productive.
You might start struggling to hit deadlines and having trouble finding new projects. These are all serious danger signs for your new business venture.
Here are some tips to help you get started on the right foot.
1. While you can work in your pajamas, until you are settled into your routine of working at home, get up in the morning and get dressed for work.
2. Set a schedule. Plan to hit the office at a specified time and establish regular hours. Once acclimated to getting your work done on time, then you can play with your schedule and your dog during the day and finish your work in the evening.
3. Plan your priorities. There can be competing requests for your time so set a priority schedule and don’t let distractions like phone calls or emails pull you away from those priorities.
4. Set aside time for business housekeeping, like invoicing, returning non urgent emails or phone calls and touching base with clients. If you set the time aside to do it, it will be less tempting to interrupt a priority task for these activities.
5. Celebrate successes. Working at home can be lonely if you let it. So connect with others, go out for networking lunches and celebrate your business achievements. It will make the work more enjoyable.
In addition to discipline, another key attribute for successful work at home entrepreneurs is organization. This ensures that little details, or big jobs, are not overlooked and forgotten. Nothing worse than missing a critical meeting or deadline because you forgot about it.
Once you are organized and disciplined, be prepared to work more hours than normal. It takes time to build a successful business and get yourself established, but in the long run, the effort is worth the reward. And, the reward for you is time freedom and more disposable cash.
One final tip for you: finish all the hard projects at the beginning so if you get behind, the easy ones can be done quickly.
Jennifer Lavoie is a home-based business coach. Using Robert Kiyosaki’s teaching, she helping others to build passive income businesses and retire early and free. http://www.retirefree.ws
Categories: Guest Blogger, Home Income Tips Tags: extra income, Home based job
Deciding How To Earn Extra Income
Deciding How To Earn Extra Income by Obinna Heche
Everyone wishes they knew how to earn extra income. Even the richest would not mind having a little extra pocket cash and discretionary income and the reality is that if you want extra money, failing to win the lottery you will have to work for it. One of the hardest things about earning extra money is deciding how to do it. There are many opportunities, especially online, that offer ways for you to pick up some extra change. First, you have to decide if you want to earn extra money online or offline and then take a close look at your capabilities.
By blending your desire for extra money with what you know how to do, you can find a way to bring home more income. Online opportunities present themselves in many ways but they will all require time and effort on your part. Many believe that simply starting a website will instantly bring them vast amounts of money and all they have to do is get it up and running and let nature take its course. Unfortunately, it does not work that way. Even the best online business will require daily work and those that claim they are making tons of cash working only an hour or so each day are not being totally honest.
With the best site on the internet it takes constant nurturing to keep it in front of customers and keep it looking fresh and new. While many people visiting a traditional store want to find things in the same place every time they visit, online visitors want to believe they are looking at new items every time. They can conduct online searches to find what they want but they want to believe there is something new and different available as well.
This does not mean that everything on your site has to undergo daily changes but information that flows along with your products, to help them understand what the item is and what it does, will help them make an informed decision. Even something as simple as adding a news feed to keep your visitors updated on what is going on in the world may make a difference to your customers. If your site becomes a destination instead of an interruption it can mean increased income for you.
If you can find a news feed that offers information about the type of business you are in, it will be that much more interesting. Many sites offer extra money just for sending customers their way and referral fees can generate a lot of cash. You will want to be careful, however when choosing these sites as not all will fit into the values of your site. By hooking up with a site that goes against the morals of your visitors, it can detract from your credibility.
Obinna Heche. Los Angeles – California
Delivering the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home successfully..
http://www.homeincomeportal.com/obhmy365
Categories: Guest Blogger, Home Income Tips Tags: extra income, Home Income Tips
Site Review: Next Job At Home
We’ve been monitoring the site Next Job At Home (www.nextjobathome.net) for quite some time now, and have found mixed results. While it does have some good resources for finding legitimate home based jobs, one needs to be as diligent as ever at sorting through the ads, business opportunities and other money-making schemes to find the actual home jobs.
Some Real Jobs
We have found many jobs on the site that we know to be legitimate, open positions. However, many of these are posted over and over on lots of other sites (including many of ours) so they aren’t exactly listings that are difficult to find. Their site accepts submissions from employers, and they claim to review jobs for legitimacy prior to posting.
Not Very Fresh
One problem we have with the site is they post the same jobs over and over. As mentioned above, many of these are jobs that are posted on just about every home-job site out there. For a serious home-job-seeker, visiting this site daily looking for jobs can get frustrating.
The Jobs Listed Are Often Very Specific
A lot of the jobs listed are for people with very specific skill sets, such as transcription or financial services. Although these can be legitimate jobs, for the most part our experience is the people looking for such work already know where to find it. For the average person searching for work at home, it can become very tedious to sort through all these jobs to find the few customer service, virtual assistant, call center etc. positions available.
Lots Of Other Biz-Opps
There are also lots of other “work at home” websites listed, many of them mixed in with the actual job results. This is understandable, as the service itself is free to use, so they pay the bills with advertisements. However, be extra careful of each link, and don’t assume something is an actual job just because it was included with the job listings.
Summary
In summary, Next Job At Home may be worthwhile for a serious home-job seeker to visit once or twice per week. Make sure to do your due diligence on any listing you are interested in. You may even find your next home-based job there!
What do you think?
If you have experience with using the Next Job At Home website, share your experience (good or bad) by leaving a comment below.
Categories: Work At Home Site Review Tags: extra income, Home based job, home based jobs, home employee, home employment, Home Job, Home Jobs, work at home
Home Job Lead: Response Agent
Response Agent
JobID: 2001-HJ48
Category: Call Center, Customer Service
Location: Home Based USA
Compensation: $8-$15/hour
Category: Call Center, Customer Service
Location: Home Based USA
Compensation: $8-$15/hour
We are looking for qualified candidates to join our team of work from home agents/representatives.
Work part time 20-30 hours per week from the comfort of your own home.
We offer:
* Compensation based on experience and skill level
* Great work environment (your own home!)
* Paid training
* Bonus programs and incentives – easily earn $8-15 per hour
* Absolutely no sales or appointment setting calls (no telemarketing)
* No commute
* No expensive work wardrobe
* No traffic jams
Requirements:
* A professional and articulate phone voice
* Ability to establish rapport, and follow a script as a conversation
* Strong interpersonal skills
* Quiet home work environment during scheduled work and training hours
* Personal computer with Pentium 4 processor (1500 MHz or greater) and 512 MB RAM
* High Speed Internet Access via hardwire connection
* Moderate computer skills
* Available to work 20+ hours per week
Categories: Call Center Tags: Call Center, Customer Service, employment, extra income, Home based job, HomeJobster.com, work at home, work at home weekly
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