Virtual Assistants Needed For Real Estate Company

This is a Craigs List posting and if you are interested I would act quickly!

A real estate firm is looking for virtual assistants (does not specify how many are needed) to work from home answering calls and emails.

Responsibilities will include routing maintenance calls for existing tenants and transferring calls for existing tenants and transferring calls to proper departments, schedule showings, etc. Phone work is minimal (2 - 5 hours per week), and most support you will do will be provided via online.

Pay is $16.25/hr., with a minimum of 15 hours required weekly and a maximum of 40 hours a week.

If interested (hurry)email your resume to: frankpetersinvesting@gmail.com or to jobs@realestateinvestinglistings.info. Highlight any previous relevant work experience.

Good Luck!

Cutomer Service Work From Home Opportunity

I imagine this will have lots of applicants, but it's worth a try for anyone interested in working from home in customer support.

The company hiring is N.E.W, and they may sound familiar as I have posted about this company before. It looks like NEW is actively hiring again, and you may want to check them out.

As a customer care representative for N.E.W, you will answer customer calls from yout home, and help out with their questions, troubleshooting problems with their product and arranging service or replacement as needed.

I noticed that the company is offering online job fairs and meetings, and have some going on today as a matter of fact. If you do not get to join any meetings going on today, it looks like they will be offering them again August 1st.

There is an online application if you'd like to get started applying asap, with a note by the company that it will take approximately 30-40 minutes to complete the application and assessment tests.

Good Luck!

Make Money Writing Articles From Home

If you enjoy writing, this may be a good work from home opportunity to apply for. Conjecture.com is looking for writers to write at least 5 articles from home each week. But you can write as many articles as you'd like,it's up to you. According to Conjecture, most of their writers are writing 15-40 articles a week.

Conjecture starts payment for articles at $10.00, with a 400 word minimum.

Payments are made through paypal, usually within 2 days of an article submission.

You will work one on one with an editor and get feedback through an online system.

For topic ideas, you can choose from an open pool of choices, or focus on a topic/category that interests you.

To apply, email jj@conjecture.com with at least 2 writing samples that illustrate your writing ability, include the samples in the body of your email - no attachments, and your areas of interest.

Good Luck!

Work From Home As a Freelance Logo Designer

Have really no details on this one, but a logo design company has a note on their website that they are hiring freelance logo designers!

So here you go.... My Stock Logo.com...check them out and good luck if you apply!

Mystery Shopping With TrendSource

If you are interested in mystery shopping, you may want to check out Trendsource. I came across the review for Trendsource while visiting Earn On The Side.com, and I think Trendsource sounds pretty interesting.

Basically it is a mystery shopping company, however with a majority of their assigned jobs, you would actually reveal your identity to store owners or managers and do a short interview with them.

Basically you apply with TrendSource and once you are hired, you will get email opportunities periodically that you can either accept or not. According to the review of TrendSource on Earn On The Side, payment for jobs is usually in the $10-$25 range and will require about 30-60 minutes of your time. TrendSource will sometimes even pay for your gas if you have to drive far.

I have checked around a bit on the Internet today, and have to say I have seen positive comments on TrendSource thus far.

And from the TrendSource website:

TrendSource is a Colorado Corporation established in 1989 under the name Mystery Shoppers, Inc. Our name was changed to TrendSource® in 1999 to better reflect the services we offer including compliance audits, award programs, competitive surveys, inspections, phone surveys and other business intelligence services.
We have more than seventeen (17) years of experience in providing services to more than 75,000 business locations throughout the US and Canada. Our services have benefited more than 2,000,000 employees, supervisors, managers, and executives. We specialize in providing the highest quality work, 100% of the time, delivered to our clients in real-time.

TrendSource is a founding member of the Mystery Shopping Providers Association (MSPA) and an ISO 9001 certified company.

Go to the TrendSource Website, and read more about the company and their application process (all done via email only), and see what you think.

Also, it never hurts to check out a company further on the Internet and get a better idea of what others who may have worked for a certain company thought about their experiences. Just google TrendSource and check out the responses that come up.

Good Luck! And if you have worked for TrendSource before, or have any experience with this company, good or bad, please share with us!

Write About Local Events For The Human Times

Human Times is a news service where people write about events in their home town and around the world.

Local content is displayed on local sites, and the highest ranking articles and content from all the local sites are displayed on the Global site.

You can write about local school sporting events and new restaurants in your city to politics, economics, or your experience in a hurricane.

Writers are paid a percentage of the revenue their articles bring in. Also, contributing writer can rate articles, and the articles with the highest ratings amd quality work will get the more exposure and potentially more revenue.

If you love writing and would like to try and earn extra income from home, then writing for The Human Times might be something you'd like. You can always give this a try and see if it brings in some extra cash for you and if you enjoy it. If not, then you'd just stop.

I haven't tried this myself so I can't give any personal pros or cons, but if you do try, let us know what you think of it!

Good Luck!

You may want to check out: Prevention Magazine Looking For Contributors, and Be a Freelance Writer For Mahalo, and Work From Home Resource-Greeting Card Universe

Health Blog Looking For Natural Health Blogger

eZoetic.com is looking for a natural health blogger to blog weekly. You will be assigned which products and subjects to write about, and will do research on new products and subjects, as well as present ideas for new posts.

They are looking for a writing style that compliments eZoetic.com (positive, informative, and easy to read, with a pinch of humor). All posts will be reviewed before posting and multiple revisions may be necessary.

To apply, email a brief summary of your writing experience, a sample blog post of approx. 150 words on any subject (but preferably a natural wellness topic), and your requirements for compensation. Email to : mail@ezoetic.com

Work From Home Writing About Lakes

This sounds fun and very doable if you like lakes (or can grow to appreciate them, LOL) have the Internet (which if you are reading this then obviously you do! Hehe-I am in a weird mood this morning--never mind me, just keep reading!), can commit about 15-20 hours a week, are very detailed and have excellent spelling, grammar and writing skills.

Lake lubbers.com needs part time freelance home based writers to help build their database of USA lakes in 2008, and then worldwide in 2009. Not so good at lake research? No worries. Lakelubbers will help you improve your lake-specific skills.

They need writers to do about 5-7 write-ups weekly, and will pay about $12.00 per hour.

Lakelubbers writers track their own hours, must submit invoices, and are paid by check or PayPal (your choice) once every two weeks.

Lakelubbers has a very detailed specific, format for applying with them (in a nutshell-you will write some sample reviews for them ), not difficult just kind of a step by step way of applying. No resumes are needed.

So go to Lakelubbers and check it out! Sounds like a good possibility for some work at home money to me (if I apply--thinking about it) I will report back.

Good Luck!

** Just my opinion here, but I would apply rather quickly if interested as I have a feeling Lake lubbers will get quite a few applicants on this one!

Work From Home as a Freelance Photo Researcher

Time Warner, Inc. is looking for freelance photo researchers who have a good eye for what makes a photograph work. Photoshop skills are a plus, specifically cropping, file resizing and basic retouching skills. Basic office applications skills such as Microsoft Word and Excel are also needed.

Apply online if interested. Good Luck!

Work From Home as a Customer Service Representative

Have you heard of Human Book.com? They are the world's first "living address book" and connections directory that employs patent-pending Web 2.0 wiki technology to help people manage all of their life's connections.

Human Book.com needs customer service representatives to answer email inquiries, and to respond to their feedback forum responses.

Representatives can work from home, but need to be able to commit to 35-40 hours per week.

Pay is 45-50k, plus benefits.

You can check out the site, and apply online at Human Book.com

Good Luck!

Bloggers Wanted For Home Town Style Fashion News

An online fashion magazine is looking for bloggers to contribute posts about fashion trends in their area.

Posts need to have original pictures -- pictures that you yourself have taken. Frequency of contributions depends on the city or town- can be one-time or ongoing.

If interested, send two-five sample posts, and a link to any published work you may have. Include your city and contact information. Email to : Contact: hometownstyleATgmail.com

And be sure to check out the online fashion magazine and see what it's all about.

Thanks to jobs@Problogger for this listing.

Get Paid For Sharing Your Stories

Orato.com was recently recognized as one of the top 12 news websites in the world by the 2008 Webby Awards (which have been called the Oscars of the Internet by the New York Times.

Orato has a mission-- to become the world’s leader in 1st person story-telling So if you have a story to share about an experience or event that you witnessed first hand, Orato is interested!

They want all kinds of human interest stories told with passion and a personal point of view. The more compelling the story, the more Orato will pay. If you have video, audio or pictures to go with your story--the better.

If you have a human interest story idea, you can submit the idea to Orato.com .

Prevention Magazine Looking For Contributors

Prevention.com is looking for contributors to write articles from home for their online magazine.

Contributors can write from home and share recipes, personal experiences, and stories.

Contributors to Prevention are paid up to $100 per month.

You can go to the Prevention.com and request an application by filling out a very short online request. You should receive a response within 24 hours to your email addres, and you will get an application to fill out and send in!

Thanks to Rat Race Rebellion for this posting.

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A Mom's Home Based Business Inspiration

This home based business really just awes the heck out of me! It's one of those "Why didn't I think of That?" ideas that is so great and has so much potential.

This home business was created by Karen Lefebvre-Christou who fell in love with a drawing her then three year old son drew of a cat. So for a friend's toddler's birthday, Karen hurriedly made a real stuffed version of her own son's creative drawing of "Scooby, the cat". Karen says it "was a quirky cute gift but was hard to give away!"

In the spring of 2006, The parents at the preschool where Karen's son went wanted to give the teachers a unique memorable end of year present. Just by having the kids all draw their own versions of creatures, Karen was able to bring all those drawings to life, and the parents were able to give the preschool teachers a basket full of "artlings" from the children’s drawings, and the response was overwhelming! The children could not believe their eyes when they saw their art ALIVE, and many parents urged Karen to turn her hobby into a business…Thus the artling was born…

How many times have your kids drawn cute or even scary looking creations and proudly presented them to you? My 4 year old is currently into drawing dinosaurs. Each day he is showing me his latest attempts, and I love each and every one of them. I would love to have one of his drawings made into a stuffed animal creation! These could even make great Christmas presents for grandparents, don't you think?

Karen has a website, Myart2life.com, and when you visit, she explains how you can have one of your child's drawings made into an 'artling.'

And Karen is also working on combining her 'artlings' with hospitals and foundations to bring children that are in the hospital a real life cuddly version of creatures they have drawn.

Visit Karen's website, and check out the wonderful 'artlings' she has made from children's creative drawings.

I am curious if any other mommies or grandmothers out there have already done this--created a stuffed animal based on their child's drawings? I am really thinking to myself how I could have never thought of doing this??? Ack.

Work From Home For Google As a Quality Rater

This is a temporary position for part-time workers for telecommuting assignments.

They are looking for people with excellent English skills, Internet savvy, broad range of interests, and excellent research skills.

Also required is a Bachelor's Degree, a high speed Internet connection, and valid U.S. or Canadian work authorization.

To apply, send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to :

temporaryjobs@google.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include Quality Rater - English Language, Part Time - Temporary.

Good Luck!

Blue Mountain Arts Still Looking For At Home Greeting Card Writers!

I posted about Blue Mountain Arts about a month ago, and their opportunities for working from home writing greeting cards. I saw today they are still looking for greeting card writers.

They are looking for highly original and creative submissions on friendship, family, special occasions, positive living, and other topics. Submissions may also be considered for inclusion in book anthologies. Blue Mountain Arts pays $300 per poem for all rights to publish it on a greeting card and $50 if your poem is used only
in an anthology. But take note they do not accept rhyming poetry.

To request a copy of their writer’s guidelines (which include contact/submission information), please send a blank e-mail to writings@sps.com with “Send Me Guidelines” in the subject line, or write to them at: Blue Mountain Arts, Inc. Editorial Department P.O. Box 1007 Boulder, CO 80306.

Visit the Blue Mountain Arts Web site to get inspired!

Tips On How To Work at Home

I just finished reading a great article on Slacker Manager called 8 Tips on How to Work at Home. I found myself really enjoying this article ( and guess what--I drank a cup of coffee as I read it, aaaand-- I read the whole article, all at one time, with no kids around! Nope--all 3 munchkins are still sound asleep, hehe, so mom got some much needed alone with my coffee quality time!!)

Anyway, I digress. Back to the article I read. David Zinger has worked at home for about 28 years, including a period of having 3 children under 2 years of age. Wow-- this is a person I am very interested in getting advice and tips from.

I can relate to much of what David writes about in his article, and a couple of point he made really hit home for me as well.

I agreed wholeheartedly when David brings up the all too true scenario of kids gone crazy and driving me nuts. I would much rather be here at home with my kids driving me nuts than stuck in my car with traffic driving me nuts. Thank-you David, for that perspective!

Read David's 8 tips, and enjoy his wisdom gained from 28 years of working at home.

For me, the best tip I have right now is this: Get up early before anyone else and get some quality alone time in with your coffee cup and lap top. I can probably make this time, short as it may be, more work-related productive than all the rest of the hours in the day combined.

Full Time/ Part Time Travel Agents To Work From Home Office

This could be a great way to get started as travel agent working from home. A full service, NYC/internet based travel agency is expanding and is currently seeking agents nationwide to work as outside sales reps. Experience preferred but they are also willing to train motivated and success driven individuals. Agents will work from home utilizing user friendly online booking engines.

Must be friendly, detail oriented and have excellent communication skills.
Knowledge of Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico is also a plus.

As a travel agent working from home, you will earn commissions for booking trips for friends, family, and even yourself Plus, qualified agents receive fabulous travel benefits.

Easy Escape Travels is a full serviced, licensed, insured and legitimate travel agency operating since 1999.

If you are interested in getting more information, you can either e-mail your resume and/or a brief note describing yourself, destinations you've personally traveled to
and why you'd make a good addition to the easy escape travels team to:

Info@EasyEscapesTravel.com,

or you can call
Tabitha for more details 800-294-6643 or 212-201-1611.

Good Luck!

VIP Desk Accepting Applications Again

VIP Desk is accepting applications again for their work at home positions. VIP Desk is a great resource for work at home jobs, and I know many people are very happy working for them.

Right now VIP Desk is looking for applicants for their home-based travel services. The Home-Based Travel Agent/Concierge position is the focal point of VIPdesk’s Concierge platform. Successful candidates will serve as Travel Agent/Concierge experts by assisting and responding to customer/client requests for information via phone, email, and chat. The Travel Agent/Concierge will fulfill the request through a variety of resources (Internet, team member or personal experience, partners, VIPdesk resources, etc.), and communicate responses in a prompt and concise manner.

Since VIP Desk VIP desk operates 24/7/365, part time and full time positions are available. Standard operating hours for full-time and part-time Travel Agents/Concierges are currently Monday through Sunday, 7:00am-12:00am Eastern Time. Overnight hours are Monday through Sunday, 10pm-8am Eastern Time.

Full-time Travel Agents/Concierges will be required to work 35-40 hours weekly, currently broken into 8.5-hour shifts. Part-time Travel Agents/Concierges will be required to work a minimum of 16 hours per week, currently broken into shifts between 3.5 and 8 hours in length, not to exceed 34 hours weekly. Weekend and holiday work is required. Fluency in English is required. Fluency in one of the following languages is a plus: French, German, Spanish or Italian.

Here is the website for VIP Desk. Check it out and if you decide to apply--Good Luck!

You may want to check out : Convergy's is Expanding it's Home Agent Program and Customer Service From Home Opportunity

Christmas in July--Start Making Extra Christmas Money Now!

I just signed up with "Swag Bucks" and I'm really excited! The way it works is simple- You register with Swag Bucks, and then use the swag bucks search engine when you do your normal searching on the Internet.

Every time you do a search, you have a chance to win "swag bucks." You can win amounts of $1.00-$5.00. Right after I signed up, I did my first search and voila! I won $2.00!! I was so excited--you'd thought I won the jackpot at Las Vegas, hehe. Anyway, the bucks you earn go into your account, and whenever you have enough swag bucks, you can visit the swag bucks store and buy merchandise. They have a lot of gift cards for various places, so my goal is to start earning some gift cards for Christmas.

Another feature with swag bucks is if you shop online at a participating store, you will get back $1 swag dollar for every $5 you spend. So if you were going to shop online anyway for some item you need, it's worth it to see if the store is a participating swag bucks retailer, and earn some swag bucks!

You can also earn swag bucks by referring friends. When they sign up and win swag bucks, you will too.

You can only win swag bucks each day for the first twenty searches, so it doesn't work to just sit and try doing different searches (yea--I admit I thought about that, LOL). The winning swag bucks will show up only periodically--you never know when a search will win. So it's best to just search with the swag bucks whenever you would normally find yourself searching for something anyway.

Check out swag bucks ( I have a button on the side column you can click on to go directly to the site) --it really is easy and fun, and is a good way to start earning extra Christmas money in July.

Telecommuting Opportunities in Market Research

Troy Research is a marketing research company that offers market research services to other established and just starting out companies. Troy Research's primary goal is to help clients get the most value from their Internet research in a sales, customer service, or support role.

Troy Research has several different independent contractor jobs that are work from home positions. What I like about this company is that on the careers page, they offer a resource for interested applicants to speak with independent contractors already working with Troy Research.

From looking at their list of telecommuting jobs, they seem to have phone interviewer jobs available, as well as online research positions available.

There is no salary/payment information listed however, so I guess you will find that information out as you go through the application process.

To get started, you select the Independent Contractor opportunity that interests you, and then proceed to the online application on the Troy Research Website.

Good Luck if you apply--and please share your experiences if you have worked with Troy Research!

Virtual Assistants Hiring Resource

Have you heard of Team Double Click? I have heard their name mentioned a couple of times lately, and today I checked out their website. It seems Team Double Click is like a Kelly Temporary Services, only it's a virtual staffing office.

The basics of Team Double Click are pretty straight forward--

There are no listing fees to sign up with them;

Opportunities are emailed to you;

You would be working on projects for Team Double Click clients, and Team Double Click will handle billing and collections from clients;

They offer free training and ongoing coaching;

As far as pay goes, the website states that payment will depend on each particular project:

"Some pay by the job, some pay by the hour. What we do when a project comes in is contact our qualified people, like yourself, and let you know what the project entails, what the pay is and check your availability. You always have the opportunity to turn down a project. But once you accept it, we expect you to follow it through to completion. There are no fees for you to pay for projects or to set up with our company. Whatever we negotiate with you for the project pay is exactly what you receive upon completion."

The website cautions that it will take a virtual assistant applicant approximately 4-6 weeks to get through the entire registering and testing process.

Check out Team Double Click, and if you know any more about them, or have worked for them, please share your comments!

Good Luck!

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Teachers Wanted For Freelance Writing From Home

BrightHub.com is looking for teachers from K-12th Grade Level who can write original content about lesson plans, educational methods, subject tests, assessment and other material.

Bright Hub pays $10 per article and also gives 80% of revenue share. If you are interested, send a writing sample, lesson plan or other writing document, your resume and a paragraph detailing why you would be ideal for the job to maryam@editors.brighthub.com.

They are also need writers offering their guidance to help people understand how technology impacts their work, their play, their lives. If you feel you are have a lot of guidance and knowledge to share in any subject matter under one of their many technology channels, you might want to apply as well. There is an online application form on the Bright Hub website for technology writers.

Good Luck!

Freebies For Your Birthday!!

Yea!! I love this site I came across today. Lately I have become more focused on coupons, give-aways, freebies, and just everything related to frugal living. And I'm happy to find out it is actually fun!

So today I found Free Birthday Treats-- a free site where you can find all kinds of fun and free birthday treats for you, your kids, and even your pet. How great is that?

You just enter your state and a list of businesses offering freebies ( like a free meal, dessert, coupons, bowling, movie rentals, free manicures, etc) will be displayed. Just click on whichever links interest you, and you will be taken to that business's website. There you can sign up to receive their birthday freebie! I happily and unashamedly report that I hit the Baskin Robbins one first thing. Yum.

Now this also got me to thinking that mompreneurs with wonderful products that they sell online might want to consider being a provider of a birthday freebie on this site. Maybe offer a secial discount, or sample, or whatever. Since I am not a mompreneur of any wonderful products, I don't know how/if this would work out, but I thought it could be an idea worth throwing out there.

But definitely check out Free Birthday Treats-- The site now has over 4,000 unique visitors a month and over 2,000 nationwide listings for birthday freebies and discounts. You'll also find frugal birthday tips, featured businesses and weekly product reviews/giveaways.

Work From Home Opportunities in Blogging

Happy Monday Morning!

I pretty much took the weekend off and spent time with my family. But got a few things to get started with this Monday morning--

Food Bloggers are wanted at Orble.com. They are looking for blogs on cooking, recipes, dieting, restaurant reviews, or other food related topics. Your writing willgain exposure to a significant audience as Orble is one of the largest blogging communities with over 100,000 readers every day. Rate of pay is 50% of the advertising revenue generated by your blog.

According to the Orble team, many Orble writers are attracting jobs from the mainstream media after writing for Orble and it looks great on your resume. It's interesting work and can be a lot of fun as well.


To apply create a food blog on Orble.com and write three posts of at least 200 words.

To create a blog go to Orble.com and click on "Start a blog" at the top of the screen.

You will then automatically be considered for a blog on a separate domain name which Orble will pay for and set up.

Starting a blog on Orble is quite simple and requires no training, however you may find the following links useful:

www.orble.com/blogging-tips/

and

www.blogadviser.com


And another blogging oportunity--

A new women's blogging network is about to launch-"Spice"--and they are looking for bloggers to blog on topics such as finance, frugal living, health, fitness, food, family,and more.

Bloggers are paid a generous share of revenue generated from the sites (70% split among each site’s writers for the first year, for bloggers who sign up by the end of July), and are expected to post at least 5 short articles per week.

To apply, Contact Haidn Foster at haidn@hefmedia.com with past experience, attached writing samples, area of interest, etc.

Thanks to jobs@problogger.net for these listings!

How Our Fourth Of July Became a Pain in The Neck

Happy Fourth of July!

Our Fourth of July is definitely not what we had planned. My daughter woke up with an extremely painful sore neck--you know the kind of neck pain you get when you sleep wrong on your neck and it is excruciating to move? Because we have been painting her bedroom, she has been sleeping on the couch the last couple of nights. Unfortunately last night she got into some position where her neck must have been angled wrong, and ouch! this morning she awoke screaming in pain.

So we have been putting icy hot on her neck and gave her some tylenol, and she is now resting more comfortably and watching tv. But it looks like our plans for watching fireworks tonight is out.

My daughter has been begging me to get her a new laptop, and today she tells me that we could just use a credit card to buy one with. Ack. I can see where she gets the idea that credit cards and charging stuff is so easy--the commercials on tv make it look like nothing--order now and just pay later!

I checked out a site online about student credit cards and it really has a lot of articles and information about using credit cards responsibly, how to apply, how to build a good credit history, etc. I let my daughter read some stuff on the site so that hopefully she'll get the message that credit cards are really to be used for emergency type situations, not buying something just because you want it. I get the feeling that she thinks of credit cards as 'free money' somehow; I don't think she gets that a nice little bill comes every month, and you will have to pay back the money you spent and then some.

Anyway, after our discussion, and after she read on the website about credit cards and how you actually pay more back than what you spent in the first place, she seems to have a better understanding of how credit works. I hope so anyway.

So that's about it for our holiday--not an exciting one, but at least we are all together and finding some quality time in just hanging out watching tv and talking.
Funny how plans can change in a blink of an eye. But I am actually enjoying our mellow family day together (of course I wish my daughter felt better though)--who knows what other interesting discussions may come up!

Work From Home as a Freelance Writer For Mahalo

Mahalo is looking for $10 an hour freelance, work-from-home writers to help them build excellent search result pages. Candidates must be excellent writers capable of writing perfect copy at a fast pace. Familiarity with online research, journalism, and wiki markup language are all definite pluses.

Mahalo is a human-powered search engine dedicated to delivering carefully curated search results featuring the highest quality, spam-free links available, alongside helpful and informative Guide Notes and Fast Facts about these search terms. Their motto is ”We’re here to help.”

This is what their site says about their work at home positions:

1. All positions are freelance
2. Four hour shifts up to 48 hours a week
3. $10 per hour
4. No benefits

If you are interested, check out the Mahalo Website and read about their process for applying for their freelance writer positions. Good Luck!

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Freelance Opportunities In Editng, Writing and Proofreading

A New Bathroom For This Work at Home Mom?

Yes, I want to redo our master bathroom. Of course want and need are two different things, and the truth of the matter is that we really do not need to redo our bathroom just yet. But I have a bad case of bathroom envy because my neighbor up the street just redid hers and it's beautiful! Sigh. So I went looking online today anyway to look at ideas for when and if we ever do get to do a bathroom suite makeover.
And while it was fun doing my fantasy online shopping, I realized that our bathroom is really fine ( of course it could be better with a jacuzzi bathtub, hehe), and I was just being consumed by "wanna have" envy. My neighbor works full time, as does her husband. And that is fine. But I realized as I surfed the Internet checking out gorgeous bathroom fixtures, that everything is a trade off. Yes, I could work outside the home full time and maybe have the extra money to redo a bathroom or get new carpeting, or whatever. But the trade off would be of course being away from my kids and for me, a new bathroom is not worth it.
So, I can live with my master bathroom, and I can live with my choice to be a stay at home mom and a work at home mom.
Remodeling can wait.Jacuzzi bathtubs can wait. My kids are only little for a minute in time.

Tips For Making Your Home Business Successful

I came across an article today that offers some suggestions to help make a work at home business successful. The points made in the article all very good, but a couple really stood out for me, such as prioritizing my time (ack!--I need time to prioritize time--kwim?), and staying on task! Those are probably my two biggest challenges in trying to work (successfully) from home. Here are the main suggestions from the article--

1) Time management. You will need to prioritize your time ruthlessly in order to stop yourself wasting time on things that don't earn you money. Running a business means you are self employed, and not paid by the hour. So you have to make EVERY hour count. You will need to sacrifice something in your routine to fit time for a home business in. I can recommend TV time is the first place you look for that extra time you can use!

2) Believe! Know it can be done. Have the belief in yourself that you CAN run a business from home. And that people are doing it successfully in far worse situations that you currently are. If you don't believe you can do it - you're probably right.

3) Work on yourself harder than you work on your home business. Chances are you are in a home business where people are successful. That means the business works, the only difference in your situation is YOU.

4) Become Task Orientated. Know the tasks that produce you income. And do these first. If you have time for others great. If you don't no problem as long as you've done the income producing ones first your home business will still succeed.

5) Accept that to get a 'yes' to your product / business you HAVE to also have no's. Its impossible not to. Its part of any business whether its work from home or not. Don't take it personally and accept its part of the process.

6) Be prepared to step up and be your own boss. Be responsible for your own actions. Would you hire or fire yourself for the day's activities? Be honest with yourself!