Work at Home Solutions

January 19, 2008 | By Kristen | In Chaos of Life

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Work at Home solutions are available scam free, but it is still work, and you must be a bit of a workaholic like me to make it profitable.

Trying to understand where to start is often one of the hardest steps for people, then getting up the guts to “Just Do It” is a close a second.

Below are a few ideas to help you identify a potential work at home solution that will fit your lifestyle.

First, if you have a job already and you are a good employee, have a conversation with your managment to see if a telecommuting job would be possible. Depending on the company you work for they may have strict rules about what is allowed or not but it’s worth a conversation.

Ebay, everyone knows you can sell your own household items or your friends for some extra cash. I personally have become a bit dischanted with Ebay, once upon a time I made some good extra spending money but with fee increases and the number of “ebay businesses” that have saturated the auctions I find I don’t make much money there. But there are plenty that do and if you find yourself in a good niche, give it a whirl for awhile and see what you can do.

Blog it baby, it’s all the rage! Build a loyal enough following and generate some traffic and you can make extra money with multiple income streams including paid membership areas, google adwords, selling advertising space, product reviews and affiliate programs (you get commission on any readers following your recommended product/service). You need traffic, traffic, traffic and make a commitment to post good quality content on a regular basis.

Create and offer your own product, I offer my own product the Tubby Bundle baby bath towel apron on my own website as well as with retailers. Of course, there is a lot more financial commitment and logistics to offering your own physical product when you consider manufacturing, legal, and distribution channels but if you can make the numbers work it’s well worth it.

Perhaps you don’t want to deal with manufacturing and production, an info product may suit you fine if you have expertise in a niche area. This can be created and sold online with various techniques - google auto marketing for a wealth of information and programs to help you get your product in front of cyber customers.

The next option- mail order- for an ecommerce site includes a full catalog of products that are dropshipped for you. This means you find products from manufacturers who for a higher price then wholesale but lower then retail will ship their product to your customer. You will need a good tracking system since one customer may order three items from three different manufactures so you need to work out your pricing to take shipping cost into consideration and you need to be sure they are good manufacturers that will do as they promise since it’s your business reputation on the line with the customer.

Work at home as a customer service representative. This option may be tricky if you have small children (or barking dogs) since you need a quiet environment and it often requires you to purchase additional tools like a seperate phone line.

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