There are 10.1 million women-owned businesses in the United States, not all of these business are work from home opportunities, but more and more of them are either changing the options available for moms and dads to be able to make a choice in Telecommuting or they started as a work at home business and have grown into large companies with multiple locations. These smart game changers are becoming professional Bloggers or Journalist, opening Research Companies, becoming full time Mystery Shoppers, providing Virtual Call Center Opportunities or doing some of the Virtual work themselves, and even Selling Online Products or making products to sell. What is their secret to successful work at home choices? Happiness, Demand, and Flexibility. If you can have a peaceful work environment, choose when and how you work and for who you work for; would you not change your lifestyle to become the parent you always wanted to and the spouse your relationship needs. We are not saying that you can not do this from a corporate office, factory, or on location jobs. But if you could take either what you do now, or what you have always wanted to do and become your own boss why wouldn't you. Millions of parents are making this choice everyday. Some not of their own accord but due to cut backs or changes at the company they currently work for. Some because they have more and more reason to be at home. In the past, granted we are going back sometime ago, children were raised by neighbors, family members, and their surrounding communities when their parents demands at work would not always allow them to be there. More companies have now switched to longer hours and the inability to allow workers to take time off for family needs. I remember a company I once worked for paid us $34 an hour and said we need a plan A-Z for those occasions when our children or family may need us, because we were unavailable during work hours. To the parents, moms especially, we stood up and have answered that enough is enough. Creating our own paths and foundations for our children to grow upon. Selecting options that give us more control and even leaders in our fields and helping others seek and start this path of their own. So how are we doing this? Let's explore some options that can and have changed the lives of millions of business owners to date.
Professional Bloggers/At-Home Journalist
In 1983 with the boom of the Internet the bloggers started as a forum of online sessions ran by groups and communities as a way to communicate and allow their customers or members to communicate with other members. It later evolved into what we know today by 2001, where people started using blogs to log their online dairies or to help individuals looking for like services, or explanations for services or a process they were trying to complete. The more blogs one does and the higher their viewer listing climbed, the more sponsors and money they could start making for interesting content. Since 2005 more and more people started blogging for cash and making enough money to support themselves as well as their household. Some of the blogs that people were contributing online started to become so popular that they have been asked to contribute to online news papers or even the journals that are delivered. Opinions and Fact finding have become tools that most of us live for here on the Internet more so than news reports, if you have the flare for great articles or can create interesting topics together, a few hours a day is all you need and you can jump in on this ever increasing system of blogging. Take +Clarissa Silva for example, she keeps winning awards for her blog and she is gaining more and more fans of her work.
Research and Documenting are no longer just for interns
Most moms have time during their kids naps, school time, or after hours to help others who might not be able to hire a full time employee. Even interns are not as reliable. Once they have enough credits, or are hired full time they may not offer the company they were interning for any additional assistance and even leave a job before it is completed. More firms, reporters, inmates, collages, and detectives; are hiring off site researchers to assist them with projects or assignments for lump sum pay. Before considering this line of work, you want to make sure you not only have a computer to do the job, but a well functioning printer and maybe a fax machine. Assignments are generally faxed to you and once completed you can email or fax the completed work back and the more efficient and timely you are the more jobs and higher pay you will receive. Skip tracing is among the best for new comers. It is a fast paced world but it will allow you to work with detectives, repo agencies, and law firms. The pay can be between $65-$110 per job and most firms pay weekly. You can start your own business in doing this and even qualify for tax right off's for equipment and office services,(i.e. phone line, internet, a % of your monthly rent/mortgage, and stamps).
Mystery Shopping is not a Myth
I was just as surprised as you to see that the mystery shopping world not only exist but is a thriving business for individuals as well as forming your own business to take on such work. People are making hundreds and thousands of dollars a month doing what they normally would do and sometimes thinking outside the box just by stopping in a few stores a week. This is awesome because you can take your kids with you, or perform these task while they are at school. Some jobs may have you pretend to be interested in products or services then come home and fill out a report about your experiences. Others may have you go and get your car's maintenance completed and supply the receipt for reimbursement. I have even seen some that would have you wear a camera and do a apartment or house hunt and submit the footage without filling out any additional reports. Here is a list of actual companies that pay monthly for their task and we can confirm that they are not scams and are available throughout most states: Sassy Shoppers Person to Person
Satisfaction Services BestMark Ace Mystery Shoppers
These companies do not charge a membership fee to become apart of their program and usually make payments to you through paypal, pay quicker, or check. You can sign up as an individual but some will allow you to sign up as a business. Tell them +Latisha McDougal sent you and get jobs quicker and paid faster.
Virtual Call Center Reps
As some of you may or may not know, I am the owner of a company who partners with reps to take calls from their home for fortune 500 companies. +May We Help You? is contracted with Arise Virtual Solutions to bring you these at home opportunities and you can sign up with May We Help You as a business or individual. If you want to partner with Arise directly you must be an LLC or Corp in order to do so but thousands of businesses are doing this because its a way for us to take the jobs they have been out sourcing and re-in-sourcing these jobs. People who are working as reps make anywhere from $9-$19 hourly and can schedule themselves for any hours, with any company of their choice. Arise is not the only company that is offering these awesome opportunities. Other companies like this is Alpine Access, Convergys and West Corporation. All are rated high amongst the BBB and are A-A+ accredited businesses. This is a great way to get a business started and growing a down line that starts managing itself.
Selling and Making Products to Sell
If you are a craftsmen, then you want to explore making your products and using social media, trade shows, and websites to sell and profit from no to low overhead. But if you are looking for companies to sign up with and becoming an at home agent, the oldies but goodies are always the best to follow. +Avon , Mary Kay, and Arboun are great places to start. They are well known and are becoming more and more easy to sell since they can offer you a website and you can just direct people their anytime they want to place or refill an order. They offer incentives and gifts, and Arboun also offers a Mercedes. Another alternative is to become a at home agent for life insurance health insurance or IRA plans. The great folks at Heroes Academy can teach you how to make an save money. They offer training online to learn how to help others with services they may already have by offering a less expensive alternative and most of the time with greater coverage. This line of work for each person you help can generate, $500 - $50,000 monthly.
To all the great moms out there who have decided to make a living while being able to be at home and enjoying your kids being the awesome mom or dad that you are just remember, to do something that will keep you happy. A "happy you", ensures a happy household. Check for the demands, you don't want to involve yourself in a service that demands weekly meetings, this is the reason you left the work place in the first place. And flexibility is everything when working from home. If what you are considering doesn't offer the flexibility you need to continue being the parent you want to be, then look for an opportunity that will.
Do you have other suggestions or know of other companies that can help with work from home opportunities, well comment and share. Learning is growing and earning.
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