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Why should you work from home? After all, you get a regular paycheck now, and your commute is not really so bad. You get along with most of your coworkers, and you could have a worse boss. But, the truth is, you can work from home, and make it work, and here is why. Who Gets Paid Your training and expertise is a valuable asset to your company. They may have even paid for your training. But, have you looked at what your company charges their clients for your work? You are getting paid a portion of that pay. You have to weigh the benefits. The company you work for has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars on software, computers, consultants, and other infrastructure in order to build a successful business. Can you compete with that, and attract big customers? Probably not. But, you can sell your own skills yourself. You can find smaller clients that your company overlooks, and they will pay for your skills. That is why working from home can really work for you. You get paid, your client gets his goods or services, and everyone is happy. You Utilize Your Own Time You may wish for a part-time job, or to have more time to spend with your family. A home business can afford you that luxury, if you are disciplined. You have to mark off time to work and time to play, and make sure you discern between them, or you may find your home business suffering. Or, if you are a work-aholic, your family may see even less of you. But with a...
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If you are considering starting your business at home, you are not alone. Starting a home business is the solution to an economic downturn in all parts of the world. Anyone who has skills can sell them, and can often make more money working for themselves than for others. What you may not realize is that most people change their careers two to three times during their lives. With that in mind, here are 5 business ideas with low startup costs that may offer great rewards. Copywriting I suggest this from personal experience. As an English minor in college, I never expected to actually make money from my understanding of grammar rules. I wrote curriculum guides for every school district I ever worked for, and decided to turn those skills to use for my own benefit. Textbook companies publish new books every year, and someone has to write them. The great thing about this is that startup costs are negligible – I already had a computer and internet. I found clients online who needed copywriting, and went to work from the kitchen table. You can do it, too, if you have an understanding of punctuation and grammar. What does it pay? Not as much as my job as an experienced music teacher, but it pays the bills, and is much less stressful. Teaching Which brings me to my next suggestion. If you have a special skill, teach it to others. I do not have a private studio at home, and have no desire to allow strangers into my home so that I can teach music lessons. But, I found...
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Many people consider working in a home business to be the ideal. Images of sitting on the back porch in your pajamas, sipping hot cocoa, and languidly answering emails come to mind. Oh, if only…..! The truth is, setting proper work hours at your home business will really get more done, and may insure that you get to continue to work at home. Satisfy Clients Regardless of the kind of work you do from home, you will have clients. You may be in sales and have an online shopping cart that requires you to fulfill orders. Or, you may mow yards, or clean houses. No matter what you do, you will have clients. For that reason, you need to set work hours. While you may be able to work after hours, your clients may need you there during the work day. Be prepared to set hours that will serve your clients the best. My business, right now, is copywriting. I can write as early or as late as I want to. What I can’t do is miss a deadline. So, I set hours that will get the work done in time to satisfy my clients. In some cases, they are a half a world away, and I need to Skype them. In those instances, I’m on Skype at 3:00 a.m. Work with the Family Working your hours in around family demands is trickier if your family is young, Small children need you, and many stay at home moms come to realize quickly that working from home is not possible for a few weeks, if not longer. Work with the...
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Are you good about expressing your ideas? Do you have an area of expertise that would benefit the general public? Perhaps you are a natural wit, and often entertain people with your observations of everyday life. Well, if any of these apply to you, you may be able to make money with an online blog. PPC PPC, or pay per click advertising, is a way of making money on the internet that works very well for bloggers. The top search engines use it, including Google and Yahoo!. With PPC, you sign up with search engines and add their HTML or Javascript coding to your pages. Then, you activate the advertisement. You don’t have to do anything else, except maintain your blog. The company you sign up with will maintain the advertisement, keeping track of how many times the ads have been clicked. You then get a check each month for the number of clicks the company received. About the only caveat with this is that your blog already has to be pretty popular. If you have built up a strong following with your blog, and post regularly, now may be the time to contract with companies to place PPC advertising on your blog. Some other companies that offer PPC are: Microsoft PubCenter Google AdSense Yahoo! Publisher Network Clicksor Chitika WidgetBucks AdToll Any of these will pay you for each click, generating income from your blog. CPM Another way to generate money with your blog is with CPM ads. This brings in money based on how many people actually see the ad. It stands for “Cost Per Thousand”, with the...
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Working from home is a dream that millions of people achieve every year. The ability to avoid a lengthy commute, endure abuse from bosses or coworkers, or watch the results of your talents and hard work line someone else’s pocket is quite appealing. For others, working from home may have been the next logical step after being surplussed from a job. But, without proper precautions, working from home can be counterproductive. “Staying Home” Often, the idea of “staying home” to work is a myth. The demands of your home life may actually make it impossible to run a home business. Many new parents experience this as one of the parents transitions to work at home in order to keep the children. They find that taking care of children is, in itself, a full-time job, and work in the business often takes a back seat. Planning to work during children’s nap times is a very poor way to run a business, and unpredictable at best. If one of the parents is intending to stay at home to keep the kids and work from the house, that parent needs to set aside a certain number of hours a day to dedicate specifically to the business. The other parent needs to help with that scheduling, making productive work possible. Cyber Loafing Old habits die hard, and if you spend a lot of time on social media or playing online games, that will not change just because you open your own home business. Being in front of a computer all the time without a supervisor overlooking your work can be very counterproductive, as...
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Home business is becoming more popular in just about every country, but why? Well, there are a lot of reasons, and most of them have to do with higher profit margins, personal control of the business, and less stress. In fact, roughly 20% of Americans work from home, now. Here are some of the reasons you should start your own home business. Clients, not Bosses When you have your own home business, you have clients, not bosses. Now, your clients must be happy, but usually that means providing them with the goods and services that you are prepared to offer. Bosses, on the other hand, often trap their employees in hopeless political office drama. In the office, there are also regular reviews that cause dreadful – and often unnecessary – stress. With clients, the feedback is direct and immediate. However, most clients also realize that, when they work with an individual working out of their home, there may be some needed flexibility. Communication is key here, while in the office setting, a boss doesn’t usually care whether you are a great communicator. He just wants to win. Direct Profits Are you tired of watching someone else get rich off of your skills? Mechanics, teachers, architects, and people of all skills and education levels experience this problem. You have an impressive set of job skills, but you watch the majority of client’s hourly pay go to the company, while you get a fraction of the money. In some cases, this works out. After all, the investment of office software and equipment is often restrictive to going out on your own....
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