The Work From Home Blog

Chances are you have used social networking sites before and have seen the possibilities they open up for your business. However as well as friendship/business type networking you can also network on social shopping sites to get the word out about your products. These sites are based around shopping but otherwise work in much the same way as other social networks. You can make connections, recommendations, vote, review etc.

Below are the top social shopping sites to get involved with (in no particular order).

1) Kaboodle – Active and engaging with lots of features.
2) Thisnext – Another rather addictive social shopping site Read more…

Have you ever come across a person who is searching for a certain product, service or a job? Or maybe you know someone who is qualified and very good at a skill? Well now you can turn this knowledge into dollars at the newly launched leadvine.com.

How does it work?

To give you an idea here is an example from the leadvine marketplace:

“We are looking for a killer graphic designer – $2,000″

This means that if you know a fantastic graphic designer and you refer them you will get paid $2000 if they employ the referred designer.

Here is another one:

“Looking for companies or individuals who need an Electrical Contractor – $50″

If you know someone who needs the above service and you refer them, you make yourself $50.

There are some fantastic opportunities at the site, not only to make money but also to make things happen. Such as this listing:

“Looking to get on the HGTV show, Color Splash, and get my room remodeled. – $250″

So head on over to leadvine and take a look around, give someone a lead or list your business as one who is looking, you never know what you may find.

If you enjoy helping people troubleshoot their computer or software problems this is for you.
What is it?
With Crossloop you can take over your customers’ PC through yours and fix their software problems remotely without having to talk them through it or having to be there in person. You can choose from a range of fields that you are prepared to help in, for example “wireless routers” or even “web design”, photoshop or any other software for which you are able to offer help. As well as this you can use Crossloop to offer training on the software of your choice. Read more…

If you like to interact with others (or at least taking part in a discussion) you might like to look into making some spare cash by posting on discussion forums. This kind of work will not earn you a living but it is something that can be done in your spare time for a little extra money. Payment tends to average around 10-15 cents per post.

There are many places out there that offer a paid forum posting service. Some of them are:
Forumbooster
Ideal Posting
PostingDirect
Rock Your Forums
Wired Flame
Best Forum Posting
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
and no doubt there are others…

In addition to these you can also try offering your services independently in some forums’ marketplaces such as Digital Point and other webmaster forums.

Pikaba is a new social shopping network that offers some opportunities for the person working from home.

Not for those who just want a job as there is an element of selling and promoting yourself involved.

This is best suited to those who would like to offer (or promote) a product or service. Firstly there is the opportunity to apply to become an advisor.

Advisors have the power Read more…

What is it?

This is how it works: Users search for an answer to a question either at a search engine or via a text message to the company. This question then get passed to an available operator (ie. yourself). You research the question, find the answer and send it to the client with your computer.

The good and the bad

The great thing with this type of work is that you can usually set your own hours and work from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection. You don’t have to sit still for hours, Read more…

What is it?

Available to the US only. With Southern Living At Home you will be selling home and garden wares via parties.

Cost:

The start up cost at the time of writing this is $199. You will receive product samples and a subscription to Southern Living At Home magazine.
Full details can be found by Clicking here.

Please note that at the time of the writing this is position is not available to US or Australian residents.

What is it?
An Internet Assessor rates resources on the internet based on various criteria. This basically means you will be visiting a list of links provided by the company and giving the sites on that list a rating. Read more…

I’m very excited to be launching this blog and as it just happens it is 08/08/08! Yes yes so I’m competing against the Olympics…. :) Anyway I hope to create a resource here which is both entertaining and informative and will hopefully be a good source of inspiration to you all. working from home is something I am passionate about and have been for a long time. I look forward to being able to get some of my thoughts out there through this blog and connecting with my readers.