Work From Home - 5 Tips to Get You Started

By Zhenya S

Wanting to work from home may not prove to be the answer for everybody. You need to be a very organized person, as well as self-motivated and self-disciplined. What about your family life? Can you separate your work from them for the required number of hours each day? Your family, friends and relatives will have to respect your hours of work as well as your workspace. If you are a social person with many friends and contacts, you may find it difficult to cope with isolation.

Advantages are many. No more getting ready for the day job, or travel time and traffic. Costs associated with commuting to and from work, expensive clothes, and bought lunches are all gone.

Opportunities to work from home include:

1) Customer service agent
There are many companies that outsource telephone calls to customer service. You would need good customer service skills and a pleasant telephone manner, as well as a computer, Internet access, and somewhere quiet to work.

2) Audio transcription
There are many people in various industries involving lectures, radio and television work, and interviews requiring typists to transcribe their audio recordings to text. You would need to have excellent grammar and English skills, as well as a typing speed of around 80 words per minute.

3) Elance.com
You can also visit Elance.com to find work. Business owners outsourcing all manner of work post their projects here, and in return, people who have the required skills, place a bid to complete the project -- rather like eBay. Your bid may or may not get accepted. If you write articles, it helps if you have built up a name for yourself. Business owners will then recognize your work quality and potential, and accept your bid.

4) Article writing
There are millions of website and blog owners who outsource their article writing. They need these because the more articles they have, the better their website's search engine ranking, as well as their exposure to the general public together with subsequent sales. It takes time to produce articles, and time is something they haven't got. This is where you come in. You would be given the subject matter of the article required and a time frame in which to complete it.

5) Your own website
If you have got the inclination to write articles for others, why not write for yourself? This way you can work at your own pace, and the sales and earnings achieved can be all yours instead of someone else's. If you can write, then all that needs to be done is to learn how to build your own website. There are free tutorials and website builders on the Internet to help you. You can then monetize all your web pages that contain your own articles and work from home for yourself instead of somebody else.

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