Monday, June 26, 2006

Work-At-Home Jobs for June 24, 2006

Work-At-Home Success Jobs and News is posted with 10 new work-at-home jobs and great articles on working at home. You can read it here: WAHS Jobs and News.

Leslie

Friday, June 16, 2006

Work-At-Home Jobs June 16, 2006

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Leslie

Make money cleaning out the kids' closet!

I just found this great website that lets you sell your kids' stuff withough having to ship or have a yard sale. You can list your items and local families can find you to buy it, or, if you want to sell them nationwide you can. Check out MyKidsCloset.com



Looking to make some income from home...not just from selling your stuff but affiliate income as well? Check out MyKidsCloset.com's partner program that pays three ways: 1) For each new registration, 2) Assist moms that have requested help to post ads and learn how to sell and 3) Pick up items from local moms in your area that are interested in selling their items on consignment.



Leslie

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Work-At-Home Jobs June 9, 2006

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To apply to the jobs, please follow the directions posted in the announcement. Do not hit reply to respond to a job in this announcement. WAHM Confessions is not representing or affiliated with the companies posted here in any way. Further, WAHM Confessions can make no guarantees about the jobs posted. Remember to never pay money for a job. Please let me know if any job posted below asks for money or is otherwise suspect. Visit Scam Alert to get information on protecting yourself from scams.



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.

Telework Recuiter 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.

VirtualAssistants is one of my favorite job search sites with 100''s of Secretarial/General jobs plus 100's more in other categories all at one site.

Here are other resources I use to find jobs everyday!

CareerBuilder
Freelance Work Exchange
Craigslist.org
Jobs.com
Monster.com

Leslie

Friday, June 09, 2006

I suppose this is good news:

"So far in 2006, U.S. employers have announced 369,282 job cuts, which is 14 percent lower than the 427,278 cuts in the first five months of 2005." (From Reuters)

But 369,282 people is still a lot of people who were working and then weren't. This is why having a little income on the side is so important. Today, there is no "job security". The reasons for pursuing a career are no longer valid. When I grew up, I was told to get a good education so I could get a good job that would give me a good retirement. It worked for my grandparents. Luckily it has worked for my parents who are baby-boomers and who's pensions could be in jeopardy.

But for me and my children, looking for a career as an employee doesn't offer the perks that it once did. Let's face it, most jobs aren't that great. Even if you like your work, there are aspects that make it no fun. For me it was having to show up every Monday through Friday 8 am to 4 pm and asking for permission to take time off. Then there were the "rules" to work by that often didn't make sense. And then, there are the people who are difficult to work with. In the past, we put up with all that for a steady check and promise of a nice pension.

Today, many companies are downscaling their retirement programs or getting rid of them altogether. And, as shown in the Reuters article, many are downsizing. We aren't talking about tiny mom-and-pop businesses. These are big companies like IBM, Ford Motor Company, Sun Microsystems, Blockbuster, Whirlpool, etc. So now, not only do we have difficult work situations, we don't have the security or retirement either.

Another, big problem is that people are having trouble living on what they earn. Some indicate this is because we live beyond our means. But for many families, the means doesn't pay for the necessities. So when a crisis such as illness or layoff hits, the family is left destitute. In fact, one source suggests that 70% of American's are 1 paycheck away from disaster. YIKES.

This is why financial gurus like David Back (Finish Rich Books) suggest developing a side income as away to generate extra cash that can be used to create savings and financial security. There are lots of ways to do this. You can do it in your spare time and with little to no additional expense. And if you stick to it, you can not only create security for you and your family, you can quit you job....like I did:)

Today, I get up when I want, work when I want, and don't have to deal with co-workers and bosses. Since I'm not likely to fire myself, my "job" is secure. I'm also not likely to discontinue my retirement plan, so that is pretty secure too. The only hard part about working at home is staying the course. You can't work on autopilot like you can in a job. But, the rewards...greater pay for more effort...security...freedom (time and money)... make it worth it!

If you are working a job, even if you feel that job is secure, you owe it to yourself to learn about how a home income can help create more financial security in your life. I recommend David Bach's book, Start Late, Finish Rich to help.Also, here is a free guide to earning an income from home. It offers info on everything from telecommuting to starting a home business.

Leslie

Link Exchange Scams to Avoid

(C) 2006 Leslie Truex, Work-At-Home Success

Link exchanges are a good way to help increase your traffic and improve your page rankings in search engines. But it’s only true if your link can be found not just by site visitors but by search engines as well. More importantly, link exchanges can actually damage your reputation and hurt your Google page rank, in fact, it could lead to a penalty by Google if you link with the wrong sort of sites. Unfortunately, there are more and more these sites using deceptive link strategies that not only don’t help your traffic but can hurt your reputation.

Everyday I get several emails from webmasters asking me to exchange links with them. In their emails they are very complimentary about my site and “remind” me how important reciprocal linking is to a website’s success. They have already, in good faith, added my link to their site and provide a page URL that I can check to make sure its acceptable. In return, they ask that I provide a link to their site from my website.

Lately, nearly every link request I’ve gotten has been deceptive. For a link exchange to be fair, there not only needs to be a link to each other’s sites, but visitors need to be able to find those links preferably with a link to a “links” page from the home page. What I have discovered is that the link to my site is posted at the URL the webmaster sends me, but when I visit the home page, there is no link to the links page. There is no way for the other site’s visitors to find my link.

I feel certain that other sites are getting the same types of emails, but I wonder, do they check out the link? Do they verify it can be found from the other site’s home page? In a Google search, I found just a few articles related to dishonest link exchange schemes. Nevertheless, I was shocked (although I’m not sure why with the rampant dishonesty on the Internet) to find several other ways dishonest webmasters trick people into linking with them. Since web traffic and internet marketing is a must for online success, it’s important that all good webmasters know how to protect themselves from link scams.

Here are some tips to avoid a bad link partner:

1) When you receive a request to exchange links, check that the site is one you want to be associated with. If you are building a business online, you need to protect your reputation, so don’t accept any and all exchange request. What is the quality of content on the site? Does the site offer information relevant to your visitors? What is its Google page rank? (You can use the Google tool bar to find this out.) A “0 “ isn’t necessarily bad as it could be the site has not been indexed, but it could be under a penalty, so you should research the site carefully.

2) Verify your link is actually on the page. Deceitful webmasters may hide the link so it can’t be seen and therefore can’t be used by the site’s visitors. You can hit ctrl-a to highlight a page to find any hidden text. Other times, a dishonest webmaster may just not add the link at all.

3) If your link is there, click it. Verify it goes to your site as some deceitful webmasters have it link back to their homepage.

4) Check the code of the URL. Right click the link and choose “properties” from the drop down menu to see how the link is coded. If you see a java script, other coding other than htm or html, or if the link has “rel” in it, don’t do the exchange. These tactics are used so that the search engines will ignore the link and therefore it won’t help you with link popularity and page rank.

5) Also check the page code (Choose “View” from your browser task bar and then click on “source”) to make there is no direction to a robot.txt file telling the search engines to ignore the page by having “No Follow” or “Disallow”.

6) Go to the home page of the site and find out how visitors can access your link. Most of the bogus exchanges have pages and pages of links, but they aren’t actually connected to the main site, so people can’t find your link. If you can’t find the page your link is on from the home page, no one else with either.

Having many sites link to you is a good thing not just in generating traffic but in improving search engine page rank as well. Nevertheless, you need to be cautious of the company you keep. When you are asked to exchange links, watch out for the six tactics listed above to insure you are getting a fair exchange and not hurting your page rank.

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Work-At-Home Jobs June 2, 2006

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

To apply to the jobs, please follow the directions posted in the announcement. Do not hit reply to respond to a job in this announcement. WAHM Confessions is not representing or affiliated with the companies posted here in any way. Further, WAHM Confessions can make no guarantees about the jobs posted. Remember to never pay money for a job. Please let me know if any job posted below asks for money or is otherwise suspect. Visit Scam Alert to get information on protecting yourself from scams.


Admin Asst.--Great Opportunity for Independent Worker--Flex Hours, Fairfax City, VA
Home Based Call Center Representative
Transcription
Medical Transcription
Bookkeeper (Part-Time) Silversprings, MD
Telephone Initiator
creative writer for our TV show review column
We are looking for a freelancer writer for our Tools -- Power Tools -- Hand Tools etc.
Technical Writer
Voice Over Talent


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.

Telework Recuiter 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.

VirtualAssistants is one of my favorite job search sites with 100''s of Secretarial/General jobs plus 100's more in other categories all at one site.

Here are other resources I use to find jobs everyday!
Craigslist.org
Jobs.com
CareerBuilder
Freelance Work Exchange
Monster.com

Leslie