Work At Home Success: News Room

Work-At-Home Success News Room

Work-At-Home Success strives to offer practical advise and quality resources about working at home including assistance to media and press sources looking for current work-at-home news.

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About WAHS and Leslie Truex, The Pajama Mama

Story Angles and Talking Points

Work-At-Home Success News Releases

Work-At-Home Success In the News

Work and Family Statistics

Contact Leslie Truex:
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Phone: 434-591-1172 (eastern time zone)

About WAHS and Leslie Truex aka The Pajama Mama

Debuting January 1998, Work-At-Home Success was one of the first websites to provide free information on all aspects of working at home including starting a business, telecommuting, and avoiding scams and was the first websites to offer legitimate telecommuting job posts.

One of the aspects that makes Work-At-Home Success unique to other work-at-home websites is the diverse work-at-home experience of its founder, Leslie Truex aka The Pajama Mama. She has successfully worked at home as a telecommuter, online freelance worker, and home business owner, and is able to offer information and assistance based on her experience.

Since its first posting in January 1998, the site has been regularly updated and revamped adding unique features such as The Cost of Work and International Telecwork information.

Delivered each Friday, WAHS Jobs & News is Work-At-Home Success' free online newsletter that offers articles about working at home and marketing, current world news on telecommuting and home business, recent work-at-home job posts, and scam alerts.

As the aspects of working at home or online change, Work-At-Home Success strives to offer up-to-date information and resources in a straight forward, easy to implement format. It is Leslie's belief that anyone can work at home if they have desire strong enough to survive frustration and disappointment, and a commitment to never quit.

About the Founder of Work-At-Home Success

Leslie Truex truly knows how to combine comfort with making a living. Fordecade she has been working at home often in her pajamas, and helping others do the same.

Before finding success working at home, she ran into many of the same problems other work-at-home wannabes encounter. She fell for a variety of scams and schemes. She invested in a business opportunity that went belly-up weeks after she joined. She attempted several other business ventures and found she couldn’t motivate herself to leave her comfort zone and make the businesses work.

But Leslie persevered and eventually found herself working at home not just in one job, but several. She has telecommuted as a school program coordinator, social worker, sales woman, and real estate agent. In recent years, she has worked as a freelance researcher and writer for several Internet companies, as well as a freelance web site
manager.

In 1998, Leslie started sharing her real life experiences and tips to other work-at-home wannabes through her website Work-At-Home Success. Today the website has over 100,000 visitors a month, and has been recognized by telework and small business associations as a quality resource for work-at-home information. Leslie’s articles
appear all over the Internet and many more resources quote or mention Leslie’s website in their articles.

Leslie remains to committed to providing as much information and resources to anyone who wants to work at home. "I believe any one can work at home, but its not something that will come easy. Sometimes I think people suspect that I and other work-at-home experts are hiding the list of work-at-home typing jobs. The truth is, there is no sign-upwork-at-home-doing-menial-work program. Anyone looking for fast or easy is not likely to find success at home. Working at home isn't necessarily hard, but it is work."

Her current home-based income comes from a part-time telecommuting position as an adoption social worker, her work-at-home information websites, and her home business. Recently she has added public speaking and upcoming author to her list of credits. Her book, The Career Woman’s Guide to Working At Home was recently sold to Adams Media.

Leslie is a guest expert in Telecommuting, Home Business and How to Get what you want in Life at AllExperts.com

Story Angles and Talking Points

Story Angles

How working at home can save families thousands of dollars.
Why so many people fail to find legitimate telecommuting jobs and instead become victims of scams.
Why working at home is the answer to economic hardship suffered by families and business.

Talking Points

Is it possible to “have it all”?
How were you able to achieve work-at-home success?
Why did you decide to leave your job to work from home?
Who is working at home suited to?
Can working at home really help people find balance or do they spend too much time working or watching TV?
Are moms the only group of people looking to work at home?
How does one get their spouse to support their desire to work at home?
What are the best home businesses for working at home?
What are the biggest challenges to working from home?
What steps would someone take to start a business or find a job to do from home?
How does one start a business or telecommuting job without risking their regular job and income?
How does someone find the money to get started?
How much does it cost to work at home?
What are some of the key benefits to working from home?
What skills and characteristics are needed to successfully work at home?
Do people need the formality of a business and marketing plan when starting a home business?
What should be included in a business plan?
What are some of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make that can ruin their business or telecommuting career?

Work-At-Home Success News Releases:

Jan. 2007 - Can Working In your Bathrobe Help You Attain Life Balance? - Leslie Truex, the Pajama Mama says Yes!

Dec. 2006 - Work-At-Home Expert is Giving Away a Website!

Nov. 2006 - Work At Home Success Expo is Coming!

Nov. 2006 - The Fluvanna Review: The “Pajama Mama”: A Stay-At-Home Working Mom

Nov. 2006 - New Toolkit Helps People Work From Home

Oct. 2006 - Free Jobs Online Teleseminar

New Resource Helps Telecommuters Find Legitimate Work-At-Home Jobs (6/2006)

At-Home Jobs Are Easy to Find According to Telecommuting Mom (2005)

Local Mom Can't Afford to Work January 2004 (PDF)

Jobs At Home Now Available 2001 February 2001

Work-At-Home Success in the News

Work-At-Home Success is recognized around the Internet as a reliable resource for working at home. Here are just a few of the sites and media resources at which WAHS is listed:

Books/Articles that mention Work-At-Home Success or Leslie Truex:

Work-At-Home Success is listed as a resource in "I Love My Life!" by Kristie Tamsevicius
Work-At-Home Successes Scam Alert page is listed as a resource in PCMag.com
Work-At-Home Success is listed as a resource in Lillie Ammann's "How to Get Started in a Home-Based Business," part of the Dream Jobs to Go series from Intellectua.com.
Leslie is interviewed by Patricia L. Fry for Silicon 2.0!
Leslie is interviewed in Tech Living.
Leslie is interviewed by John Riddle for Internet Career Resources.
Work-At-Home Success is listed as a resource in an article at Information Week
Work-At-Home Success is listed as a resource at Eye On Business and Finance
Work-At-Home Success is listed as a resource at McGraw Hill Learning Tools: Sociology

Websites that mention or refer to Work-At-Home Success:

Canada Telework Association http://ivc.ca/part14c.html
Wyoming Women's Business Center http://www.wyomingwomen.com/Links.html
Nevada Small Business Development Center http://www.scs.unr.edu/nsbdc/links2.htm
Utah State Library Divison http://www.pioneer.lib.ut.us/work.html
Reno Area SCORE http://www.unr.edu/sba/score/related_sites.htm
Park Forest Public Library http://www.sls.lib.il.us/PFS/careercentertext.html
Help Resource http://helpresource.com/homes_-_home_office.htm
E.Q. Marketing International http://www.eqmoney.com/workhome.htm
MT Daily http://mtdaily.com/faq.html
Adirondak Green http://www.adirondackgreen.com/links.html
Build Today http://www.buildtoday.com/servicedesk/0-contractordesk.htm
Advanta Lease http://www.advantalease.com/b_links_content.htm
Master Success http://mastersuccess.com/MSB/course/lesson6r.html
Indianapolis Regional Small Business Development Center http://www.indysbdc.org/links.cfm
PMC Capitol http://www.pmccapital.com/non-hotel-resources1.html
Entrepreniural Resource http://steigeisen.com/er/Publications/Small_Business.htm
Best of Cyber Top 10 Home Office Sites http://www.bestofcyber.com/bestofcyber/top10homeoffice.html
All That Women Want http://www.allthatwomenwant.com/workathome.htm
Saigon Bao http://www.saigonbao.com/baochi/baochiquocte.htm
See Jane Jump http://www.seejanejump.com/careers.html
Saxakali http://www.saxakali.com/communitylinkups/saxclupjobs.htm
Business Answers UK http://www.businessanswers.co.uk/home-business-soho.htm

Leslie Truex's Articles have appeared in ezines and websites all over the web and are syndicated through Best Syndication. Here are just a few sites that have featured Leslie's articles:

To get copies of Leslie's articles, visit LadyPens.

Work-At-Home/Family Statistics

Family Statistics

Two income families today earn 75% more than their one-income counterparts of a generation ago BUT have less discretionary income. (Warren and Tyagi, The Two Income Trap)
Number of dual income families declined last year (2002) for the first time. However, this was not a by a choice to have a stay-at-home parent but rather the result of massive layoffs. (Blanton, Boston Globe 9/23/03)
Over 10 million moms stay home to raise their children. (Census Bureau)
According to the Bureau of Labor, nearly 50% of married women with infants do not work outside the home.
189,000 dads stay home full-time to raise children. (Census Bureau)

Work-At-Home General

Survey results from the July/August 2006 Working Mother magazine revealed that 75% of the respondents wanted the ability to work from home.

In another survey, 80% of the participants claimed telecommuting would make their lives less stressful (2004 Flexible Working Survey by Netilla Networks)

Working at home helps protect the environment. Burning just one gallon of gasoline produces 19.64 pounds of carbon dioxide? Use AT&T’s Carbon Monoxide calculator to see what you can save by working at home. http://www.att.com/telework/calculator.html

In 2004, the number of employed Americans who worked at home any where from 1 day a year to full-time grew 7.5% to 44.4 million. (ITAC)

Telecommuting

Employers offering telecommuting increased 22% in 2004 (Lori Rosen, CCH workplace analyst, HR Networking: Work-Life Benefits)
The number of employees who telecommuted at least 1 day per month increased from 23.5 million to 24.1 million in 2004. (ITAC)
Medium sized businesses (100 to 199 employees) showed the greatest increase in telecommuters - 57%. (ITAC)
Bureau of Labor and Statistics – In 2001 19.8 million people did some sort of work from home in their primary job. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/homey.nr0 .htm
ITAC found 28 million people teleworked in 2001 including from home, satellite or mobile office. http://www.telecommute.org/telework/twa2001.htm
By 2003, there will be an estimated 137 teleworkers worldwide. (Gartner Group)
From 1999 to 2000, for example, teleworkers said their productive time increased about 30 minutes, to a little more than 7 1/2 hours in an 8 hour day, while office productivity remained unchanged at 6 hours a day. http://www.att.com/telework/article_library/alltime_high.html
Employees who telework can save their employers $10,000 each in reduced absenteeism and job retention costs. http://www.telework.org
51% of North American Companies allow some from of home-based work (William Olsten Center for Workforce Strategies).

Home Business

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports there are 18 million home-based businesses.
Home businesses generate approximately $427 billion a year in revenue (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
5% of businesses with $1 million in receipts are home-based http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs194tot.pdf pg XI
20,000 home based entrepreneurs have grossed more than $1 million a year. (SBA)
52% of small businesses are home based http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs194tot.pdf
25% of home businesses provide 100% of owner’s personal income http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs194tot.pdf
14% of mothers are self-employed up from 2% a decade ago. (Harris Interactive Survey)
47 million direct sales representatives worldwide grossed sales of $88 billion in 2003 (DSA)
According to the National Foundation of Women Business Owners (NFWBO), in 1997 home-based, women-owned businesses in the U.S. number 3.5 million and provide full or part-time employment for an estimated 14 million people. http://www.onlinewbc.gov/docs/starting/hometrend.html
According to Home Business Magazine Online, in 2001 21.8 million homes had income producing home offices http://www.homebusinessmag.com/4c.html
89% with household incomes greater than $80,000 have a home office compared to 14% of those with incomes below $25,000 (Find/SVP). Home Business Magazine Online http://www.homebusinessmag.com/4c.html
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are now more than 18.3 million home based businesses in the United States. (1997)


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