Work At Home = Lots of Work
I used to Dream About Working From Home!
When I used to spend hours a day commuting, I dreamed of working from home. I’d drop the kids off at daycare, spend an hour in the car, and arrive at work feeling as if I’d already done half a day’s work! Then I’d rush out of work, hit the freeway, and swoop into the kid’s daycare, sometimes seconds before they closed at 6pm. Any little problem - car trouble, a work meeting, etc. that would delay my afternoon commute practically caused me heart palpitations. Of course, it didn’t help that I was in a marriage where my spouse felt like it was a favor to me if he ever picked up the kids, but it was really my duty. O! A post for another day!
Work at Home IS WORK!
Anyway, I have gone past that marriage and my normal day job. It took me a long time, but now I feel comfortable telling people I have established a home business. But I want to make it clear that in order to be successful, I have exchanged a day job for a 24 hour a day obession. Yes, you can start a home business, and if you have time and persistance, you can make it work. But remember, the keyword here is work. Also not the title of this blog: Woman Work!
I will post later about the kinds of projects I have that allow me to make a living at home, and I want to tell you that I’ve helped all kinds of people set up home businesses. I have also known many people who telecommute a large majority of their time for other employers. I’m here to tell you that it takes a certain personality, and it requires discipline.
Home business IS BUSINESS
I hate those ads that promise a turnkey income, and show some guy sitting on the beach whil collecting fat checks. If that ever happens, it’s probably because some guy sells a book telling other people to advertise his book that contains nothing, except how to advertise a book. I have investigated some of these ads, and really, that’s what many of them contain. They advise you to set up ads for a work at home business, and explain how to collect money. Then the whole businesses is passing this garbage onto the next naive person.
Online Auctions and Sales Sites Are Good Places to Start
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If you don’t have a job where you can telecommute now, but you’d love to work at home, I would advise you to steer away from anything that promises easy money. However, you might start investigating how sellers make money selling on auction sites like EBay and Yahoo Auctions. I have met lots of people who make a living selling goods on EBay or Amazon, and I have gotten a few people started, including members of my family and neighbors. Some sold their crafts, and some supplemented their brick and mortar store sales. I knew a couple that would travel around to visit library sales, and they would take the books they bought for pennies, and resell them at Amazon where their is a brisk market for used books. Others use drop shipping suppliers. |
I have done those things, and I think it’s a good way to get started. Right now, I am more involved in affiliate marketing. I build websites around various interests I have, and I use companies that sponsor those websites. It works like this. When a client reads an article or uses a resource on my website, I will have a company link that offers to either sell, provide more information, or just show them their website. If one of my visitors performs the action, then I earn varying amounts of money.
What is Affiliate Marketing
If I am promoting another site that sells good then I may get a small percentage of the sale, just like any commission sales job. If I am promoting a site that wants a client to sign up for more information, then I am usually paid a fixed amount for each of my visitors that does this action. If I have pay per click ads, then I will get a small, fixed amount for every one of my surfers that clicks through to the other site.
This is usually how it works, though there may be other schemes as well. Some advertisers whill pay a website for impressions of their ads. However, your site usually has to generate a lot of impressions to make more than pennies from an ad like this.
I prefer to concentrate on topics I can provide useful information about, and find a quality visitor who will benefit from my site, and actually return for more. I’d rather have 100 people visit my site, and actually spend a few minutes reading what I have, then 10,000 visitors who got here by mistake and just want to leave! That’s my approach, but it takes time to build this, and with a GaZillion websites out there, the work never stops!
More About Home Business!
If you are interested in affiliate marketing, you may want to start with another one of my blogs: Affiliate Underdog. It is aimed at people who are trying to get started online without a lot of money upfront.
I also publish an Ebay and Dropshipping Blog about my experiences as a dropshipper. If you spend a little time there, you will get an idea of what you need to do to sell on EBay. You don’t have to use dropshipping either. I concentrated on that topic because many people were interested.
Anyway, I will get more specific later. This is, hopefully, just to whet your appetite about working at home. Enjoy!
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- Earn Money At Home - Ways To Make Money Online
- Home Business Start Up Plan
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- Drop Ship Money Book
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