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It’s natural for a new work at home job seeker to have tons of questions before they begin their search, and also often during their search. There are scams scattered everywhere you look on the Internet and one has to be extra cautious.

Perhaps a job seeker has already been scammed and wants to be reassured they won’t be a victim again? Or maybe they just need to know exactly where to start? The answers to the below questions and the following tips will help.

Q – Do I have to have experience in order to work at home?

A – For work at home in general, one does have to have basic Internet navigation skills and basic typing skills. For a lot of the telecommute jobs that are available, one does have to have certain skill sets. However, it depends on which company you are applying for as to what skills you need to get the job. For each job listed, it usually states “specifics of experience needed” and often times will require a resume from you. A few of the companies will train you on the job and if so, it will be stated on the company’s website. Also some of the companies will require you to train on site for so many months of said company before you are allowed to work at home.

Q – Can I make enough money to pay my bills from working at home?

A – Yes, it certainly is possible. For telecommute jobs, it all depends on what company you apply for. The pay varies for each job/company. For best results and if possible, try to work for more than one company to help secure your income.

Q – Does a telecommute company require any fees to get started working?

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It doesn’t matter if you have income from a spouse or if you work outside the home, when you need to add more money to your existing business to support your family you need to find an easy way to make this happen. The best way to do that is to have multiple streams of income. You may feel that’s not easy to do, but when you find the right one, you can make it happen easier.

The best way to decide on how to do multiple streams of income is to decide how much time you have to dedicate to a new business. When you have this information you’ll know what type of business you will have the ability to run with success. If you don’t have the time to work it, you won’t have success, so it’s important to find something that requires only the amount of time you have to give.

When you’re deciding on a way to increase your income, you need to make sure you choose something that goes with what you’re currently doing. There is no point in trying to work with more than one market. When you choose multiple streams of income that have the same market you’ll be able to market everything to the same group and you won’t have to find different places to be online.

If you don’t have time to host parties and give presentations, you may not be able to do direct sales type businesses. If you don’t have time to make phone calls during the day, then you may not be able to do a business that would require this task. This is why it’s important to choose something that fits your needs, wants, and the time you have to dedicate to it.

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Today is WAHM Resource day and I’m excited to share with you a resource that only lasts for 10 days. It started yesterday and will only be valid through May 15th. This is one of those resources you must take advantage of quickly or you won’t be able to in the future.

Kelly McCausey offers a special deal for WAHM’s and others during the month of May and it’s an awesome thing. She has numerous business owners that get together and offer certain products or services for the low price of $5. If you make the purchase during these 10 specific days $5 is all your pay and some of these products or services on her site are worth a lot more than that regularly.

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You’ll see business owners offering PLR packs, newsletter templates, advertising, and cut and paste PR templates for just $5. When you go to the site you’ll find a lot more than those four things, so you need to go check it out now.

This program started yesterday and when May 15th rolls around it’s done, so don’t miss out. Click here to see what the 10 Day May Madness is all about and what products you can use to grow your business.

HomeParty Plan Success

The home party plan business is a great business. It provides schedule flexibility, the chance to be your own boss and the opportunity to make good money.

However, it is a business that requires you to be constantly moving forward to achieve success. If you are standing still while everyone else is growing, you are actually moving backwards, and backwards is the wrong direction!

5 Ways to Keep Your Business Moving Forward

Have a daily goal. It can be anything from cleaning up your desk to scheduling two new parties. Having daily goals keeps your mind focused on your business and makes certain that you accomplish something productive each and every day. Having daily goals can also take you out of the normal daily routine, which sometimes becomes a rut. Business ruts mean stagnation and you can’t move forward when you are stagnating!

Start off each month by researching and possibly implementing a new marketing strategy. The success of your business depends on consistent and creative marketing. You will not know if a marketing strategy works until you try it. New marketing strategies are the lifeblood of a growing business and perhaps your most important task. Even if you have a few promotional strategies in place that work, finding new ones will make sure that your business is moving forward.

Start Conversations

Make a point to start conversations with people. Whether you are in a store or at a vendor event, initiating conversations with people may lead to potential contacts or customers. Once you have begun a conversation, you can eventually tell them about your home party plan business. You never know, they just might be interested in what you are selling.

Attend Business and Vendor Events

Attend as many vendor events, expos or fairs as you can fit into your schedule. These events are great places to make business and customer contacts. This is one of the best ways to promote your business. Though you should try to schedule as many as you can, you should schedule wisely as travel costs, time commitments, and booth fees can add up quickly.

Network Your Direct Sales Home Business

Get out and network. Networking is an essential component of most home businesses. Join as many neighborhood, community and business groups as you can. These are great places to meet new contacts and friends. Group meetings and events are the perfect places to promote your business in a casual yet professional environment. Don’t look at networking as a chore; look at it as fun that leads to more business!

In the home party plan business it is important to keep moving forward. Moving forward means that you understand that last year’s success doesn’t ensure success in the new year.

When you move forward in your home party plan business, you will be passing all those other businesses that are standing still.

I’ve had various people to email me asking for work at home job opportunities for newbies. I always try and help and guide them as best I can. That is my business; to help the average work at home opportunity seeker find a legitimate way to make money from home. For most newbies, this can be a daunting task. Simply because they don’t know where to even start their search.

Well, I’m about to make the life of a newbie online job seeker a little less difficult. However, there is one area you will need to have a skill. With general transcription jobs, you will need to have good and accurate typing skills. And let’s face it, anyone can acquire accurate typing skills. It’s called practice. There is a lot of free software out there that will teach you how to type accurately, and also increase your speed.

Below are 3 work at home transcription job sites for newbies

Are these sites always hiring and do they pay good? This is something YOU will have to find out for yourself by contacting the right person within the transcription websites. However, I will say this; the bulk of these sites below do not pay enough to make (each one) a good source of full time income. Although, you can work for all three and make enough to supplement your income nicely.

1. http://www.scribie.com/
They pay is $10 per audio hour and with Paypal

2. http://www.quicktate.com/
Payment will range from 1/4 to 1/2 cent per word and payout is with Paypal

3. http://www.accutranglobal.com/jobs.html
According to your availability, they pay anywhere from $0.005/per word and $0.0066/per word. I’ve heard pay is monthly via check or wire transfer.

I hope the right people read this article and find it to be of some help. Also know that transcription work is not for everyone. As I stated above, you will need excellent typing speed and accuracy. There are others, however, these above are the most popular and newbie user-friendly.

Article By Tammy Embrich

Tammy has been successful in the work at home industry for many years. She is an Internet Marketer, Article Marketer, and Ghostwriter. She offers free job leads for the job seeker, as well as other work at home resources, work at home articles, tips, and more at Work At Home Jobs.

Tammy is also a passionate blogger. You can find more articles by Tammy at her Grandparenting Articles and Tips blog, offering grandmother’s experiences, grandparenting articles, parenting articles, brags, recipes, tips, photos, and more.

Is it really that time of year again? Time goes by so fast, especially if you’ve been relatively busy with your home business within the past year.

There are so many things to remember when preparing your tax returns, as well as knowing exactly what is considered taxable. Let’s take a quick look at what may be taxable in your work at home situation.

Here are just a few that I’ve listed below:

1. Monthly Internet bill. I know this is the number one item on my list since I work at home and I have to use the Internet to make my income.

2. Monthly hosting bill if you own your own domain name. This is another important write off for your business, especially if you own several domains/websites and your hosting bill is considerably high.

3. Monthly phone bill. If you own a business and you use your phone to run your business, then yes, you need to write off your phone bill.

4. Business transportation mileage. If you use your automobile for business, such as home parties, this is another important taxable write off. Fuel prices has went up considerably. You need to keep careful track of all your transportation expenses (including gas receipts), and file anything and everything that you can.

5. Advertising expenses. Some people pay for advertising for promotion purposes and some do not. If you do pay for advertising, then you need to file these expenses on your taxes. Depending on the type of advertising, it may or may not be taxable, but it’s always safe to file all expenses.

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Continually communicating with your market is the best way to always be in their mind. There are several ways to do this, such as blog posts, newsletters, and social networking. While those are great ways and they should be used often, there is yet another way you should always use and have in action all the time. That way is an autoresponder.

Autoresponders are automatically sent out as people subscribe to your list. You can write them on just about anything you want and they can be of any length you choose. You can charge for them or they can be free. You’ll need to take all of these things into consideration when you’re preparing to put your autoresponders together.

When you’re trying to come up with topics for your autoresponders it’s a good idea to think about your market and what they need and want. Always have them in your mind when you create these and only include information they’d need. When you do this they’ll want to subscribe and read what you have to say.

It’s a good idea to use a paid service for these so it’s easier to personalize them and make sure they go out when they’re supposed to. Autoresponders are a good way to provide quality information to your market while being in front of them regularly.

Teleseminars are a great way to grow your business and reach out to new people. They give you the ability to share information you wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.

Teleseminars are done over the phone and can include the internet if you feel the need. You can have people call in and you can send them documents to look through on the computer or printed out or you can rent a conference room that gives you the ability to share your desktop.

Deciding on the content for your teleseminar needs to be based on your business and the needs of your market. When you come up with your topic you need to write down what you intend to say on your call. No matter how well you know your topic, the nerves will arrive when you get on the phone and it’s possible the thoughts will run right out of your mind.

You’ll need to find a conference line that will accommodate the number of people you’re estimating to attend. These lines can be free or paid, so you’ll want to check into both so you know which option you need to go with. If you decide to use a conference room, you’ll need to check on those as well. There are paid and free versions here as well.

Teleseminars can be a great way to share information with people all over the world. It’s a low cost way to grow your business and take it to levels you would have thought weren’t possible before. While they do take some time to prepare, it will be worth it in the end.

Working at home is not easy to do. It takes a lot of time and hard work. It also requires you to do a lot of the work yourself and that includes making money. Advertising what you offer is important, but may be hard to do.

I have found an awesome site that will be worth it to every WAHM. It’s one you should check out and consider using for your business. The name of it is WAHM’s Gigs. This is a site where you can offer a product or service for a certain amount of money.

There are so many different things you can add to the WAHMsGigs website to help you grow your business. These posts could be products you offer, services you do for others, and tasks you’d be willing to do. You set the price and give a description of what you’re offering and post it to the site.

Once you have your posts created you’ll want to make sure you promote it so others see what you offer. You can promote it through Twitter, Facebook, forums, and possibly creating a button that links to your profile page. All of those are great ways to show others what you offer.

If you are looking for a way to grow your business and increase your income, you should consider using WAHM’s Gigs. You’ll find it will be a resouce you’ll continue to use over and over again.

A beginner looking for an Internet home business may think it’s an impossible task. The question of what to do and how to start often comes to mind. In my experience, my home business idea came about in a different, but a common way and it kind of fell into my lap.

You see, I started the same way many inexperienced people did. I thought I found a way to work from home through an honest business opportunity. It was not. Through my search, I found there were real work at home jobs where you would get paid by the hour and have set hours. There were loads of different ways to make money online from home and in an honest way. That’s how WorkAtHomeSpace.com was born and it became my home business.

If you’re new to the online home business venture, here is a good starter idea to explore.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius

Find your passion, utilize your skills and training, know your strengths and create a home business for you. That part is easy. Now you have to bring it to life and it’s really not that difficult. Just take it one step at a time.

Homemade Products – You can set up shop at Etsy.com. Create an account and upload your listed items to your Etsy shop. You don’t have to worry about learning HTML or creating a website because it’s done for you.

Digital Products – If you don’t have a website, you can use Clickbank.com or PayDotCom.com. If you have a website, you can use E-junkie.com, a shopping cart for your digital and tangible products. It’s much easier for you to control and your customers can get their products immediately after paying.

If you’re selling a digital product or offering your services, you should consider having your own website. Buying a domain name and self-hosting is very affordable. Hosting companies like Hostgator.com offer a free site builder and free website templates in a variety of categories and they are very professional looking. You can then use their many software they offer like chat, forums, content management system and e-commerce systems.

You can also easily and quickly install WordPress as your site’s platform and there are many plugins you can choose to implement. Once you get the hang of WordPress and how to use it, it’s really quite simple and if you have problems, there are a lot of free tutorials.

You can also use your website to sell advertising space, sell your own digital products, become an affiliate marketer by helping others sell their digital products and use Google AdSense, Amazon or other programs to earn more revenue.

Once you have established your first Internet home business and you’re earning a good income, you can diversify by pursuing your other interests to complement or expand your online business into different niches.

Sophia McIntyre is an Internet Marketer, Article Marketer, Ghostwriter and founder of WorkAtHomeSpace.com, a free resource focusing on work at home companies and jobs, home business ideas, money making opportunities and other work at home related topics.