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 of this week's newsletter:

• Notes from Leslie - Apology from  Leslie and PJ Mama Squidoo
• Work-At-Home Tips, Tidbits and Inspiration - Sorting through the Hype
• Work-At-Home Jobs -  20 New Jobs! 
• Telecommuting News! - The Success of Telework
• Scam Alert - Envelope Stuffing Scam Investigated
• Work-At-Home Opportunities - Affiliate programs, home business and more.
• Marketing and Promotion for your home based business - Marketing through forums and discussion groups
• ETC... (Disclaimers, ad policy, subscription information, etc)

I want to apologize to everyone who attended last night's teleconference call on "How To Get Your Boss to Say 'Yes' To Telecommuting'.  I can't imagine how frustrated you must have been to make time for a call, and not have the speaker show up. It wasn't for a lack of trying. For 20 minutes I hit the redial to get into my own call, but all I got was "circuits are busy'. Hopefully you did get my emails and I will be rescheduling the call once I hear back from the conference call service about why the problem occured.  


How to Use WAHS Jobs and News: On occasion I get an email from someone who can't find the jobs posted in this newsletter, so I thought I'd give a quick overview on how to use the ezine.  In the section above this one, you'll find the contents of this week's ezine. Each feature (Notes From Leslie, Tidbits, Jobs, etc) are separated by a color divider which the section contents indicated in the divider. For example, if you scroll down you'll find a blue divider that says, "Tips, Tidbits and Inspiration". Below that section you'll find a green divider that says "Work At Home Jobs".

I also want to point out that the only jobs (employment) listed in this ezine are listed in the Job section.  Any other work-at-home opportunities you come across will be affiliate programs, home businesses or work-at-home resources. So if you are hear solely for the jobs, you'll want to stick to the Work-At-Home Job feature.



Have Leslie speak to your group or organization! Leslie is now offering her teleseminars to live groups from Maryland to North Carolina and points in between. Seminar/workshop topics include:

• Online Employment: Finding or Creating a Work-At-Home Job
• Developing a Telecommuting Program to retain and recruit the best employees for your business.
• Online Income - How to turn your Interests into Income Using the Internet!
• Internet Marketing for Small Businesses
• My Name isn't Mommy - Helping moms find balance in their lives.

If your group, association, or organization is looking for informative and practical seminar and workshop presentations, email Leslie for details (website coming shortly).

Have a terrific weekend!
Leslie Truex


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Tips, Tidbits and Inspiration

Sorting Through the Hype of Many Work at Home Ads by Audrey Okaneko

Over the last 10 years the amount of people who want to work at home has climbed tremendously. Each year the Direct Sales Association makes public its statistics and every year the amount of people involved in direct sales goes up.

These figures are for direct sales only and do not include all of those who sell on ebay, sell through wholesalers, offer a service or telecommute.






The fact is folks would rather work at home if there is a way to earn the same amount a part time job would pay them.

So what are the things to watch for when reading the many ads out there?

1. Any ad that tells you that you don’t have to work is not telling you the truth. Sometimes I’ve seen these ads say “earn while you sleep”. Other times I’ve seen these ads say “we’ll do all the work for you”. If you just step back and recognize that we have a terrible poverty problem here in the U.S., you’ll realize that if folks truly could make money doing nothing and with someone else doing all the work, there would be no more poverty or unemployment.

2. A home business with no sales. I see these types of ads daily. A business sells either a product or a service. When you think of all of the businesses in YOUR town, you’ll see that each one sells either a product or a service. A home business is the same. In order to make money you’ll need to either sell a product or a service.

3. Look at the ad itself. Are the words spelled correctly? Does the ad writer use way too many question marks and exclamation marks? One is plenty. Six or seven is a bit excessive. Does the ad writer use the dollar sign instead of the letter “S”? For example “Join my bu$$ine$$” I always chuckle when I see the dollar sign substituted for a letter. Is the ad written in all capital letters?

4. What is the website in the ad? Is it a free website, or does the ad writer have their own domain? I am always very leery of those who use free websites for business. I’ve had a geocities website for many years that I use to play with. My business site has always had its own domain. Today, a domain can be purchased for under $10 and web hosting can be found for well under $10 per month. So, for under $150 a year, a domain can be bought and hosted. Why is this person claiming you can earn millions using a free site?

5. Who wrote the ad? Does the person who wrote the ad let you know how to reach them? Is there a real person’s name? Does the person have a free email address or a paid email address? Remember, this ad spoke of earning millions. Certainly the ad write can afford their own email address.

6. Finally, where does the website they provided lead you? Is there information on a company? Is there information on products or services being offered? What is on the website when you do click?

By following the above tips, you should be able to sort through the hype and toss out those “too good to be true” offers.

Audrey Okaneko has worked at home since 1983. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or visited at http://www.recipe-barn.com

Article Source: www.ladypens.com




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READ FIRST! 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 affiliated 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 Support and Clerical Jobs

Research/Customer Care - IL (3 mos onsite then telecommute)

Customer Service

Data Entry/Research (40 wpm)

court certified transcriber

Transcriber/Part-time assistant

Medical Transcription



Computer and Internet Jobs

Web designer

Forum Writer



Financial, Bookkeeping and Real Estate Jobs


Bookkeeper (20 hours/week)

CPA




PR, Marketing, Sales and Fundraising Jobs

Educational Advisor/High School Presenter

Event Planner (Englewood, NJ)

Copywriter for E*Trade Financial



Writing, Art, and Photography Jobs

Freelance interviewer

Food blogger

academic writers

Proofreader for real estate appraisals



Miscellaneous


Vocational Consultant

Travel Counselor (onsite for 2 week trainin in Cleveland, then telecommute)

Tutor (Master's or PhD)



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. Please note, the listings below are NOT jobs (jobs are posted above). These are services that provide work-at-home job announcements. Some are free and others aren't. While you never want to pay a company to hire you, its is okay to invest in a service that can help you find a job. The services below are the ones that I use and know to be reputable.

Telecommuting Job Databases (fee required to access these services)

• 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 (you need to search by keyword to find work-at-home jobs on these sites).

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

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

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Work-At-Home in the News

The Success of Telework

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

Scam Alert

Envelope Stuffing Scam Investigated

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