Welcome to WAHS Jobs and News where each week you'll find work-at-home job announcements, articles to inspire and inform, scam alerts, telecommuting trends and much more! 

Contents:

• Notes from Leslie
• Work-At-Home Tips, Tidbits and Inspiration
• Work-At-Home Jobs
• Telecommuting News!
• Work-At-Home Opportunities
• Marketing and Promotion for your home based business
• Scam Alert
• ETC... (Disclaimers, ad policy, subscription information, etc)

Mark your calendar for January 2007 for the Work-At-Home Success Expo. So far I've lined up several speakers for the Work-At-Home Success Expo including Ernie Zelinski author of The Joy of Not Working, Steve Slaunwhite author of Start and Run a Copywriting Business, and Nicole Dean of Ladypens and Show Mom the Money. The WAHS Expo will be a free virtual expo to help you learn about working at home and design a plan to make it happen. If you have a business related to working at home, find out how you can promote your products or services at the WAHS Expo!  Learn more here!

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Tips, Tidbits and Inspiration

Why The Holidays are the Best Time to Start a Home Business
© 2006 Leslie Truex

With parties, shopping and baking filling up every spare moment during the holidays, who has time to start a home business? You do. Not only can starting a home business make you extra cash for the holidays, it can also save you money as well. Here are the top four reasons why the holidays are one of the best times to start a home business. 

1)      Extra discounts on start up: If you are looking into a business opportunity, the holidays usually come with discounts or additional financial incentives for joining in November and December. But even if you start your own business from scratch, the holiday season is filled with sales that can allow you to get the materials and services you need for less than you'd get them at other times of the year.

2)      Save on personal and holiday shopping: Depending on what kind of business you join or start, you can save money on your personal needs and even gift giving for the holiday season. Business opportunities generally offer their representatives generous savings on their personal purchases so you can shop for yourself and get gifts for others at discount. If you start a business from scratch, offering your products or services as holiday gifts will allow you to save money on your gift buying and it’s a great way to market your business to friends and family.

3)      Make money faster. Getting started can be easier in the holiday season as people are in the buying and helping mode. People are spending more money now than at any other time of year, so why not take advantage of that by offering products or services that people can give as gifts? Use gift certificates if your product or service isn't easily wrapped. A great business launch will give you momentum to keep your business growing into the New Year.

4)      Tax savings for 2006. Having a home business means you are eligible for tax deductions. By starting your business now, you can deduct some of your business expense such as start up costs, Internet access (if you build your business online), utilities to run your home office and more in April.

 

While having a home business does take a good plan and time to build, the holiday season is a great time to get started. The season, filled with holiday parties, offers many opportunities to share you new business with others. And, because people are eager to buy unique gifts, they make great first customers to jump-start your business.  If you have wanted to start a business, but have put it off because the holidays are too busy, think again. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs got their start in November and December. So can you.

Want to know where I find these jobs? Get a list of over 100 work-at-home job resources plus a list of online companies that frequently hire in Jobs At Home: A Complete Guide to Finding and Creating a Work-At-Home Job!

To apply to the jobs listed below, please follow the directions posted in the announcement. DO NOT CONTACT WAHS TO APPLY TO A JOB LISTED HERE. Work-At-Home Success is not representing or affiliates with the companies posted here. These jobs are found by Work-At-Home Success or submitted for posting. Further Work-At-Home Success can make no guarantees about the jobs posted. Remember to never pay money to get hired. Please let me know if any job posted below asks for money or is otherwise questionable. Visit WAHS's Scam Alert page to get information on protecting yourself from scams.


Administrative and Clerical Jobs

Administrative Assistant (Smyrna, GA)

Seeking Virtual Office Assistant

Employee Relations Assistant (New York)

Interpreters, translators, transcribers, proofreaders


Body Shop Job removed.


Computer and Internet Jobs





Financial, Bookkeeping and Real Estate Jobs

"Quickbooks Wiz" Bookkeeper with construction bookkeeping experience


PR, Marketing, Sales and Fundraising Jobs

Client Service Rep (no cold calling)

Director of Marketing


Writing, Art, and Photography Jobs





Miscellaneous

Freelance instructors

Tutors needed - all subjects - set your own schedule (meet with students in their homes)



Search for more jobs!

Didn't find the job you want above? Here are some of the sites I use to find the above jobs. Most of these sites have 100's more jobs posted. Use the info posted at WAHS Job Search to learn great job search strategies.
 

Telecommuting Job Databases

• Telework Recruiting Work-at-home job database for US, Canada and the UK with over 1000 jobs. Very affordable!
• HomeJobStop has over 100 jobs in clerical, and more in customer service, writing, transcription,  miscellaneous plus 100's of others. Very affordable.
• VirtualAssistants  has 100''s of Secretarial/General jobs plus 100's more in other categories. Little more expensive but offers more jobs.
• Freelance Work Exchange offers over 13,000 jobs in many areas. It offers a 7-day trail for $2.95.
  

Free job search sites 

• CareerBuilder 
• Monster.com 
• Job.com
  
• Yahoo! Hot Jobs
  

• CraigsList.com (Search jobs under the city nearest you. Click on the "telecommute" option in the job search. Search other cities as well.

• NEW.... CrazedList lets you search all of Craigslist on one site! Click on Jobs, and the "telecommute" option. Be sure to fill in something in the keyword list like "telecommute okay".

Work-At-Home in the News

Study's conclusions could push telecommuting

A survey of 1,400 CFOs said offering telecommuting as an option is the second-best way to attract top job talent. The best way is offering more money.

Get more current news on telecommuting at WAHS Telecommuting News Page.

Scam Alert

More and More - The Jefferson Scandal Does Appear to be a Nigerian Fraud


To learn more about scams and how to avoid them, visit WAHS Scam Alert page.

Work At Home Opportunities and Resources

Here are some work-at-home opportunities currently used by visitors of Work-At-Home Success. Please note that Work-At-Home Success does not guarantee or endorse any of the opportunities here unless otherwise stated. These opportunities are offered to you as a resources. It is up to you to research companies and find the best opportunity for you. For more information on protecting yourself, please visit WAHS's Scam Alert

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Marketing Tips

The Basic Marketing Plan

By Diana Barnum

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is an outstanding resource for the small business owner. Whether you are thinking of starting, or are already running your own company, it is one of the essential websites to visit for information and tips on nearly any issue that you are likely to come across.

Back to Basics

To increase your business, the SBA offers a “Tools” section that is extremely comprehensive and offers a wealth of advice. For example, a good marketing strategy is essential for any business to be successful so the SBA emphasizes the importance of a sound marketing plan. Three basic features to include in your business marketing plan are:

(1) Description of the business

The description of a business encompasses a number of items; for example, staffing, company profile, industry overview and more, and should be as detailed as possible. This is essential to help you to establish what the unique selling point or USP is. This will be what puts you above your competition, and as such, your USP will involve analyzing the competitors’ products and their methods of promotion.

The key to define your USP is to perform as much research as possible at this stage to really give your business the edge. And regardless of the size of your company and your location there are numerous opportunities for research. The local Yellow Pages are a good place to start your search for competitors. And the Internet also gives you a valuable insight as to what is available in your area as well as in other geographic locations.

(2) Definition of customers

Your customers are the most important part of your business. Without them you have no business. So it is important to narrow down who your customers currently are and who you want to target in the future. This will help you assess how you need to promote your products and services.

Also assess the qualities that keep your existing customers ordering from you. You can then use this information to discover what you need to develop to attract new customers.

To attract new customers and bring back previous clients, there are many popular means of advertising like classifieds, direct mail, online promotions, etc. However, keep in mind the one that is often underestimated is the power of ‘word of mouth.’ Happy customers are likely to tell others about your company but so are unhappy ones. So use surveys if you need to so that you can get feedback regularly and monitor how your company is doing.

(3) Finalization of plan and budget

Finally, you reach the stage where you are ready to begin finalizing your marketing plan and your budget. There may be so many marketing plans and strategies that you want to address, but realize it is impossible to do so within the constraints of most budgets. So you need to prioritize where you will spend your money.

To help out, there are low cost methods of assessing the effectiveness of current marketing campaigns and project results or ROI (return on investment) via new avenues of advertising. For example you can use tracking links and special promotional codes, both with offline and online marketing, to monitor response rates and sales.

In addition, the Internet offers many areas of promotion that are free, including discussion boards and link exchanges with complimentary businesses or services. It can very well be worth spending time investigating other avenues at no charge before spending your budgeted dollars on any one particular method of advertising before testing it online here first.

Helpful Marketing Plan Resources

For more help with your marketing plans, you can head to the SBA website, chock full of plenty of suggestions and useful links to give your business marketing plan the best chance of success. Contact them at:

SBA Answer Desk
6302 Fairview Road, Suite 300
Charlotte, North Carolina 28210
1-800-U-ASK-SBA (1-800-827-5722)
Send e-mails to: answerdesk@sba.gov
Answer Desk TTY: (704) 344-6640
Visit them online at: http://www.sba.gov

For more help, grab a copy of “MAP: Moving Ahead Plan,” an easy all-in-one business, marketing and advertising plan jam-packaged with lots of information. The new book features tips, downloadable tools, SBA-based worksheets and special sections from Tom Hua’s eBookWholesaler™ online program and Internet Marketing Expert Willie Crawford to and more to advance your business. It’s available at http://Booklocker.com: http://www.booklocker.com/books/2715.html or check soon with http://Amazon.com and http://BN.com (Barnes and Noble) and your local library.

About the Author: Diana Barnum is a freelance writer and the president of Moving Ahead Communications, offering affordable business support services since 1984. Contact her at: (614) 529-9459 EST and sign up for her ezine at: http://movingaheadcommunications.com

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