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 - The Six Pound Cake, Telecommuting Teleseminar follow up!
• Work-At-Home Tips, Tidbits and Inspiration - Work At Home Guaranteed!
• Work-At-Home Jobs -  20 New Jobs! 
• Telecommuting News! - Upper Management Distrusts Telecommuters...but still see value
• Scam Alert - Counterfit Check Scams
• Work-At-Home Opportunities - Affiliate programs, home business and more.
• Marketing and Promotion for your home based business - Getting Testimonials!
• ETC... (Disclaimers, ad policy, subscription information, etc)

The Six Pound Cake! My son likes to bake. He particularly likes to bake cakes and experiement with ingredients. This week was his birthday, and he decided to bake his own super-duper cake. It was a white cake with Mint Oreos and gummy worms baked inside. Between the two layers he had icing, whipped cream, and cookie dough. The whole thing was covered in icing, crushed Oreos, gummy worms, red licorice, and Butterfinger sprinkles. Now, I'm on a diet and have lost 10 lbs, but even I couldn't refuse a bite of cake. When I pulled it out from the fridge, I thought it was a bowling ball. It was so heavy, I couldn't resist weighing it. Six pounds! Of course, I'll gain more than that from just one little piece, but fortunately, its so rich and dense that you can't eat very much.

Thank you to everone who attended last night's teleseminar, "How To Get Your Boss to Say 'Yes' To Telecommuting...and What To Do If He Says 'No'" Members of the Teleconference Announcement list, watch your email for details on accessing the recording of the call!


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 now has a link so you can easily find the information you are looking for.  Each feature (Notes From Leslie, Tidbits, Jobs, etc) is 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

Work At Home Guaranteed! by Leslie Truex

Don't worry, this article isn't going to tout the next great do-nothing-make-money-at-home opportunity. Instead, its going to tell you exactly how to successfully work at home...guaranteed. If you follow these steps, there is no reason why you can't be earning an income from the comfort of your home.

Step One: Give up the idea that you'll sign up for a job or home business, and the money will follow. Jobs require skills and experience, and you must go through an application process. Home businesses require marketing, providing a product or service, and more marketing. Any ad you read that tells you 'We'll build your business for you' or 'sign up to make $100's doing surveys' (or typing, stuffing envelopes or anything else) are going to be scams or deceptive work-at-home offers. Ads are designed to entice you to spend your money now and so they aren't going to tell you how much work it is to be successful. So I'm going to tell you. Everyone I know who works at home, works hard. They don't lick envelopes, surf the net, or type ads. The do real jobs they earned or run real businesses like the CEO they are.

Step Two: Decide how bad you want to work at home. I used to ask people to rank how big their desire to work-at-home was. A ten was "I absolutely HAVE to work at home and will do anything to make it happen". A one was "Working at home would be nice, but not necessary".  When we begin to process ideas all I would hear was "I can't do that" which I usually translated into "I won't do that". Part of the problem was alluded to in step one which is the idea that finding and succeeding at working at home is easy. (Its simple, but not always easy.) What I have learned is that most people (90-98%) don't want to work at home bad enough to challenge themselves. If they can't sign up and make money, then they don't want it. If you REALLY want to work at home, you have to be willing accept the challenge and do what it takes. It doesn't mean you have to be a salesman and cold call, although it might. But it does mean that you need educate yourself, invest time and money WISELY, and keep your eye on the prize when the going gets tough. Success doesn't happen when you find yourself making money at home. It happens the moment you decide that you will become a success no matter what, and then never give up. Only those who truly want to work at home actually keep their commitment and achieve their goal.

Step Three: Make progress not excuses. "My son is sick," "My father-in-law was hospitalized," "My computer crashed," "The weather is bad," "The economy is bad," "I have no time," "I have no money." Everyone, you, me, the neighbors, everyone has challenges in their lives. I can guarantee that stuff will happen that will get in the way of your goal because it happens to everyone. The difference is that some people use these excuses to let go of their goals and dreams while others figure out how to work around them. Monday I had an appointment to get my car fixed and then ran errands. Later that day I had to return to town to buy my son's birthday present. But I still got an hour or so of work done. Tuesday I had to supervise while my children baked cakes and had a phone conference with a company I do contract work for. Still, I was able to get a few emails out for my business. On Wednesday it was my son's birthday and my husband took the day off, so I had to too. I got up early, did an hour or so of work, and then spent the day with my family. Today I had to teach a class, take my kids to business day at school, and run some errands. Yet I'm writing this article and preparing for my call tonight. If I blow off my work, I won't get paid. The same is true for everyone. So if you really want to work at home (see number 2), find a way around the challenges. Work on goals or marketing tactics while sitting with a sick child. Carry a book that can teaches marketing or running a small business with you and read it during waiting times (I brought  The Secrets to the Millionaire Mind with me to my kids doctor appointment this morning to read in the waiting room). Find a computer at the library you can work on. Take a day with your family, but make sure to fit in time later to make up the work you missed.

Step Four: Make a plan. Its easy to let challenges stop you before you start (see number 3). This is particularly true  if you don't know exactly what you should be doing. Life is busy.  So you need to schedule time for your work-at-home goal. Take an hour before work or during a baby's nap to list your goals, determine the action steps needed to reach that goal, and set dates for completing the steps. I use a planner on my computer and write down EVERYTHING I need to do in my life...personal and professional, and I assign it all a date by which it needs to be done. This way, every day I'm getting something done and always moving toward my goal or at least maintaining my momentum. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. You don't want to fail, so make a plan.

In working at home, its not about what you choose to do. As long as you choose something legal and that will actually make money, it doesn't matter if you sell stuff on eBay, join a network marketing company, get a work-at-home job, or anything else. Successfully working at home isn't found in the program. Its found in YOU! I'm a success because despite the set backs (and there were and continue to be many), I kept on keeping on. I studied, learned from mistakes, kept working my plan and never quit. So as you continue your quest to work-at-home, keep in mind the four steps above because they are the key to your success.








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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

Medical transcription (Wellesley, MA)

Administrative Assistant

General/Corporate Transcription

Customer Service- Homebased Consierge

Customer Service - Brand Ambassador

Customer Service

Computer and Internet Jobs


SEO Specialist




Financial, Bookkeeping and Real Estate Jobs

Part-time bookkeeper (Southern CA)

Fund Accountant (fulltime or parttime)

Tax Attorney

PR, Marketing, Sales and Fundraising Jobs

Professional Fundraiser


cyber copy editors

Business Plan Writer


Writing, Art, and Photography Jobs

Writers/Editors

Ugly Betty Blogger

Reporters, feature writers and news digester positions



Miscellaneous

Tutor

Courthouse Specialist

Courthouse Researcher

Spanish translator/Proofreader


Search for more jobs!

Didn't find the job you want above? Here are some of the sites I used to find the jobs listed above. These resources list hundreds of jobs in a variety of categories.  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

Upper Management Distrusts Telecommuting but Cites Benefits

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

Scam Alert

A warning about work-at-home, counterfeit check scams

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