Sales isn’t for everyone, but I thought I’d give it a shot. Money was tight and I had promised myself that I would not take another job outside of my home. So, when I saw the ad for a work at home telemarketer, a work at home job after two weeks of training in Atlanta, I was more than thrilled. The work at home telemarketer job carried an hourly pay and benefits after a few months. Not only had I found a work at home job, but I had found a stable work at home job. Although I was not thrilled that it was a telemarketing job, I couldn’t wait to apply. Needless to say, I got the job. I didn’t have previous telemarketing experience in sales but I did have experience as a customer service representative and I had a job calling graduates from my alma mater, asking for money to support the university. I had experience telemarketing. I knew that it was somewhat unpleasant to call people at various times during the evening, asking for donations. I didn’t know that the work at home telemarketer job was going to traumatize me!
I went through the training and was scared to death when they put me on a live call on the first or second day. I remember that there was a lot of information to remember, but basically, I read a script and called someone else to clase the sale. We had a list of questions that people may ask and rebuttals for most questions or comments. Since I was a telecommuter, I had to bring my computer in to the office, and software was downloaded on it. The software enabled me to see essentially the same screen as what other workers saw in the office. Phone calls were also routed to my home phone. After I ended each a call, I clicked a link on the computer, indicating that I was available. In essence, the job sounds easy and fun, but I had to deal with adults cursing me out, little children cursing me out, people using a blow horn or a whistle or something to make loud noises in the phone, people putting the phone down and not responding at all to me, and elderly people who could not understand what in the world they were signing up for! I couldn’t respond to rude comments because supervisors listened in on the calls.
The people were so rude that I began to look at people in the grocery store and imagine how they would answer if I called peddling my wares on the phone during their dinner. I began to think that people were basically mean and obnoxious, and I knew that was against my personal believe system so I had to quit. To this day, I hate the thought of telemarketing for outbound sales. Some people are great at it. I was awful.
Remember that eventhough you may desperately need the work and you are working at home, some work at home jobs are just not as perfect as they appear.
Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 12:57 AM UTC
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Now that the Christmas holiday has come to a close, it’s time to get back to work! Sort through your spam comments. Post to your blog. Now is a good time to set up a schedule for posting, too. When do you write? Do you write a bunch of posts over the weekend or do you write daily? Do you have a specific time to write posts for you blog? Although it’s more organic to post when the spirit hits you, if you don’t have a schedule, you will soon find yourself getting behind on your posts. It takes about 30 days to form a habit, so try to stick to your schedule for at least 30 days in a row.
The more you post, and the more consistently that you post or work on your blog, the more likely search engines will seek out your work and quickly index it.
Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 4:53 PM UTC
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I found the Pinecone banner while surfing on 12/29/07 at the Tree Men web site. The banner is at the top of the page. The Pinecone banner appears on certain sites for a limited time. People who click in the banner have the opportunity to register for surveys with Pinecone, and they pay $5 per survey. People spend a lot of time looking for the Pinecone banner, and I just happened to come across it! If you see the banner, register right away because it may soon be removed.
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Oh my goodness! For the last several days, I have been visiting my parents in sunny Florida. Although they do have a computer, Thank Goodness; they have the slowest internet connection on earth. They use a dial-up connection. I’m not a patient person. Using their slow internet computer connection is like torture. My surfing experience goes something like this: I click on a link. The little bar thing moves to a half of a square. I go get something to drink. The bar moves to a full square. The internet connection is so slow that it makes me want to run screaming from the room. I chastise my dog for wanting to go out when I’m trying to surf. The page appears to have frozen, so I let him go outside. I watch him run. We go inside, the bar has now moved to the second square. My mother asks me how long I’m going to be on the computer. It’ll probably take me a week to load one page. I give up.
Most work at home jobs which require you to use a computer expect you to have a high speed connection. There are a few that don’t require high speed. You will certainly get more work at home opportunities if you do have a high speed connection, though. You have to make sure that you will be earning enough to pay for the connection. The companies usually require you to have your own equipment.
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Did you make enough money from your blogs, ads, and work at home jobs to help pay for Christmas gifts? It’s not too late to get that second or third job. You can expect to make a couple of hundred of dollars a month, depending on the job and the availability of work. We are living in a different world. There are legitimate work at home jobs and business opportunities.
Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 4:41 PM UTC
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It can take months or years, most likely before the average blogger earns $100 or more per year by relying on the use of contextual ads like Google Adsense. Why not work with a company or a blogging network that will pay you to blog. Blogging networks consist of several different blogs owned by a single company or a group of people. The nice thing about blogging networks is that you don’t have to worry about a lot of the backend drama that you have to deal with when you own your own blog. You write and you are paid to blog. In most cases, you simply have to blog and upload pictures to get paid to blog. Though, you probably have to write with length minimums and with a focused topic for paid to blog writing gigs. Some blogging networks pay more than others. So although you may be paid to blog, you may not make as much as you think from one opportunity.
About.com pays its bloggers at least $725 per month for the first two years that they work with the company. I blogged for About.com, and I must say that you must go through a lot to blog with them! You will spend about two weeks building a try-out blog on their server for free. There is a lot to learn, too. It’s like taking a mini college course. If you don’t get the position, you would have done all of the work for nothing (except the cool experience, of course). Although they don’t tell you how many articles you need to have, etc. The more articles you write and post to your tryout blog the better. I can’t remember how many articles I had to write, but I do know that I began writing them even before I was accepting into the try-out. I’m thinking that I had maybe 15 articles, or so. I didn’t have any social life during the try-out period and after I was accepted into the position. The money is good, though. Yes. I was paid to blog, and I was paid well. They want you to write about certain topics; you have a format to your blog; you have an editor, and you have to write a certain number of posts.
451 Press has a network of blogs on general interest topics. They used to pay by splitting a share of money earned through advertising. Now the company pays per post. According to the 451 Press website, you can earn .50 per post if you are new to $2 per post if you have been with the network for at least a year. Everyone earns $1.50 for the cost per thousand impressions. You must apply on the 451 Press web site to be considered for a position.
B5media, that’s Problogger, Darren Rowse’s network, pays its new bloggers $50 per months; stay for a year and you can earn $150 per month. Add to that $1.65 for every thousand views your page receives, according to an article by Ensight.org. Jobs for b5media are posted on the job board at Problogger.
There are several other blogging networks to which you may apply if you are interested in being paid to blog. I found a list of blogging networks in an old issue of the Blog Herald.
Posted by Claudine as Make Money at Home at 10:53 PM UTC
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