Having a basic knowledge of call center software solutions helps when reading ads for work at home jobs for moms. It also helps to have a basic understanding of the types of equipment needed for certain telephone jobs. Call center software solutions may vary according to what type of call center job one is applying for, but here are a few basics that are routinely used in the industry:

Call Center Software Solutions:

Predictive Dialers ~ As one of the most commonly used call center software solutions, this is a term you will hear often when applying for work. Predictive dialers automatically dial telephone numbers for a caller. By attaching a headset to a computer, call center agents are able to focus solely on the call without having to select and dial numbers first. Telephone numbers are pre-loaded into the software system in batches according to certain demographics, which have been determined by the employer.

Call Tracking Software ~ Just as it sounds, call tracking software is used to track numbers dialed, time spent on the phone, etc. This remains one of the most popular call center software solutions because reports are generated by which business owners can track the success of a telephone campaign, as well as employee progress.

3rd Party Monitoring ~ Often call centers will use monitoring software in order to listen remotely to calls while in progress. Work at home jobs for moms do allow you to work at your own pace and on your own time, but for call center jobs requiring particular shifts and absolute customer courtesy, 3rd party monitoring is one of the most trusted call center software solutions used in assuring that employees are performing according to the company’s highest standards.

While this is but a tiny sampling of call center software solutions currently used, these give you an idea of some of the equipment call centers will employ in an effort to maintain professionalism while employing remote workers. Be aware that you may be asked to download certain software on your computer before being hired and that it is your responsibility to thoroughly research this equipment, as well as your computer’s compatibility before accepting a position.

Do you currently work at home in a call center position? If so, what other types of call center software solutions have you encountered?

Work from home medical jobs aren’t as easy to find as other work at home jobs for moms, but job leads in this market do exist. If you are a registered nurse, a pharmacist, a doctor or if you are experienced in work from home medical billing, it is very likely that you qualify for a variety of work from home medical jobs. We feature some of them in our daily job leads HERE, but if you’re wondering how to search for work from home medical jobs on your own, this one’s for you.

Just like other work at home jobs for moms, these job leads  sometimes appear on CraigsList and other times they appear on job boards, such as Monster and Indeed. However, depending upon the exact type of work from home medical jobs you’re searching for, here are a few other sites you can bookmark and search for job leads:

Medco ~ Several work from home pharmacists have found Medco’s job leads to be helpful. You’ll need to regularly check their site for work from home medical jobs. (From time to time, we also discover job leads for work from home pharmacy jobs, so be sure to check our daily job leads, too. Click HERE to go directly to our latest job leads.)

Body1 Corp ~ Medical content reviewers are needed. Physicians are encouraged to apply, but they will also accept medical students. This is one of the more flexible work from home medical jobs, as there is no set schedule to adhere to. Medical content reviewing is perfect for those with a busy schedule who are also looking for an additional income stream.

eBilling Solutions ~ Looking for work at home medical billing? See what eBilling Solutions has to offer. A family-owned business, they are always looking for new people to add to their team of professional medical coders. (BTW, have you read our latest article on the truth about medical billing? This is one of the most sought after work at home jobs for moms, if you’re experienced.)

FoneMed ~ If you’re a registered nurse on the hunt for work from home medical jobs, do check FoneMed out. They hire nurses to do telephone triage from home after hours. The hours are flexible, but they do expect nurses to occasionally work weekends (this isn’t unusual in the grand scheme of work at home jobs for moms).

Pacific Interpreters ~ If you speak more than one language and are looking for work from home medical jobs, consider working as an interpreter. As one of the more unique work at home jobs for moms, your skills, expertise and services are sorely needed to help monolingual patients understand difficult medical issues.

RX Career Center ~ A general job search engine for pharmacists and medical professionals. While all jobs aren’t telecommute positions, they do feature work from home medical jobs as they become available. Bookmark the site and check often!

Of course, these are but a few of the companies regularly offering work from home medical jobs. We present these to you so that you can become familiar with what companies are looking for and so that you know that legitimate work from home medical jobs exist (we’re on a bit of a crusade when it comes to raising awareness about the existence of work at home jobs for moms). If you currently work from home in a medically-related career, we’d love to hear any tips you have for finding work from home medical jobs.

So, tell us, what methods do you use or have you used in the past to find work from home medical jobs or work at home jobs for moms, in general? Any good job leads to share?

Heads up, work at home moms!

There’s a massive hiring event for work at home customer service associates going on next week. Here are the details:

Who: HirePoint

What: Work at Home Customer Service Associates same day hiring event

When: 8a – 4p; September 13, 2010 – September 15, 2010

Why: Due to the company’s growth, they need 1000 new work at home employees!

Where: 10035 Peoria Street, Parker, Co  80134

For more information, visit http://www.hirepoint.com/events-centers

Do you know of other similar events? If so, please share them in the comments below. Thanks!

Work at home jobs for moms don’t get much better than writing and selling website content at Constant Content (C-C). No, Constant-Content.com is not an actual employer, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t good money to be made on the site. If you are a freelance writer or thinking of becoming one, you owe it to yourself to continue reading.

We’ve already discussed how freelance writing is one of the best work at home jobs for moms who are serious about making legitimate money online. Easy to break into without paying a dime, writing website content is literally a career you can begin today. We routinely post freelance writing leads in our work from home job listings and we’ve even offered a few tips on how to start a career as a freelance writer for those who may not know where to begin. This is because we know that, with a fair amount of writing skill and a drive to succeed, writing website content is one of the most lucrative work from home careers we can introduce you to.

Outside of operating your own site, Constant Content is among the creme de la creme of freelance writing sites. For sure, it is the best third-party site allowing freelance writers to sell website content such as articles, reviews and blog posts.

When freelancers initially hear about Constant Content, they scour the web for feedback about the company. Due diligence is important, after all, and time is money in a freelancer’s world, so there’s no room to waste either one. With this in mind, however, freelancers should also know that there are more than a few misconceptions floating around about the company.

A few of these misconceptions include:

Misconception: Website content doesn’t sell on Constant Content.

Truth: Website content is definitely moving at Constant Content. Anyone able to access the Recently Sold Content area of the site is able to see the last 20 sales that have taken place on the site on any given day. Bear in mind, the system only displays the last 20…there are generally a lot more. Also, depending upon when the transaction closes, it may or may not be recorded on the recently sold list (it’s not uncommon for an article to sell on a particular day, but not actually clear payment for a few days more and, by the time it does clear, it has been topped by more recently sold articles and so it’s never seen on the list of the top 20 sold).

In fact, last year, a fairly detailed analysis of the site revealed that 70% of all content at C-C sells. The reason why this misconception persists, we suspect, is because website content can take a while to sell at Constant Content. Those who are used to the wham bamness of being told what to write, writing what they are told to write and being paid whatever the client is offering are sometimes turned off by the Constant Content process of being able to write what you want, setting the rate that you want and…waiting for a sale. Some make the mistake of comparing Constant Content to these other sites and, when the expectation of fast money isn’t met, they end up giving up too quickly because Constant Content doesn’t work in the same way. Admittedly, Constant Content takes more time, but, admittedly, it’s worth it.

Also, posting one or two articles and waiting for a sale doesn’t work too well at Constant Content either. Often authors do exactly this and then complain that C-C just didn’t work for them. Well, to be successful at Constant Content an author must write frequently, build up a healthy content portfolio and allow time for sales to begin (doing this for at least three months is advised if you want to create steady sales). While a sale may happen immediately (and for some it does), one sale isn’t enough to support an author and so this advice serves to help Constant Content authors learn how to work up a decent income on the site.

Simply put, the more website content you submit to Constant Content, the more you sell.

Misconception: Constant Content authors are only allowed 3 mistakes or errors before they are fired.

Truth: Constant Content does have a 3 strikes rule, BUT authors who consistently submit quality website content needn’t obsess about it. The rule is a bit arbitrary in that it exists solely as a way to weed authors out who may have slipped through the initial hiring process, but are not truly a good fit for Constant Content for the long haul. Figuring this out can take time and so the 3 strikes rule stands as a sort of back up for when this truth becomes obvious. Authors who take great care in submitting their best unique website content, who implement the advice given by an editor on any articles returned for editing and who play by the rules needn’t worry too strongly about this. Take care to avoid mistakes or strikes, yes, but stress about them, no.

Misconception: Authors at Constant Content set their rates higher than what buyers are willing to pay.

Truth: There are really 2 types of customers: Those looking for cheap website content to help them turn a quick buck and those looking for quality website content to help them maintain a lasting business. The latter expects to pay more than $5-$10 for website content and understands the value of what they are receiving in return. These are the buyers that frequent Constant Content. The fact that 70% of all content on Constant Content sells is proof that there is a market for quality website content that is NOT sold at discounted prices. (Also, while most of what is sold is website content, Constant Content buyers also visit the site to purchase content for print use. Print content is often expected to cost more.)

As you can see, there’s more to what you may have heard about Constant Content. It really is a great work from home opportunity and one that we encourage you to explore. If you’re thinking about applying at Constant-Content, here’s a further rundown on what you can expect:

Applying at Constant Content

Constant Content is known to have very high editorial standards. Many writers find this to be rather intimidating, particularly after working for sites offering website content at discount prices and which pay writers roughly the equivalent of a venti latte for a 500 word document. Some of these sites give the appearance of having high hiring standards, but after viewing the work that some produce, most will agree that this is not always the case. We won’t name names, but if you’ve worked for one of these sites, you already know that it’s more about the bottom line than in it is about offering top-quality website content (and it’s even less about hiring and paying good writers what they’re truly worth).

To be welcomed as a Constant Content author, however, a writer must have impeccable writing, editing, grammar and spelling skills. Of course, everyone puts her or his best samples forward when applying for work, but Constant Content actually requires writers to also take a brief skills assessment. They’re serious.

How Constant Content Works

After applying and being accepted into the Constant Content family of authors, writers are allowed to write on pretty much any non-fiction topic of their choosing. Of course, the usual rules apply in that the site will not accept articles encouraging illegal activity, pornography, obvious promotional material, etc. They will, however, accept website content on a wide variety of subjects ranging from home gardening and relationship topics to more sophisticated medical articles, finance articles and everything in between.

Another of the fine perks of being a Constant-Content author is having access to client requests for website content, also known as public requests. Requests are made available for authors to review and authors who have already had at least one article accepted by Constant Content are then able to either submit new articles for client requests or notify a client of an existing article that fits his request. Of course, there are several authors competing for each request and there is no guarantee on which one(s) will be accepted, but submitting for private requests is a good way to make money on Constant Content.

Submitting for public requests is also a good way to find private clients who may then begin to request certain authors to write for private requests. Some of the highest paid Constant Content authors have risen through the ranks in precisely this way. Many end up writing for private requests the majority of the time they are on the site.

Submitting for private requests is also a good way to build a portfolio. Submissions that aren’t purchased by the requesting client automatically go into the author’s public portfolio where other customers may view and purchase it. While a rejected public request for website content may not sell right away, most do sell eventually.

Approval and Rejection

Articles uploaded to the site must be approved before they are available for public viewing. It doesn’t matter how long an author’s been with the site, how many articles she’s sold or how finely tuned her skills are, each and every single article goes through the same review process. It is not unusual for even the most seasoned authors to occasionally have an article rejected for technical errors such as formatting issues, or for having grammatical or spelling errors. To avoid this, Constant Content authors should carefully proofread articles before submitting and as soon as work is deemed suitable for submission…proofread it again!

Setting Rates

When submitting unique website content, authors also have full control over their rates, as well as the rights that they’re willing to sell along with the article. Constant Content authors can agree to offer customers full rights, unique rights or usage rights. The rights offered are described as follows:

Full Rights ~ Usually priced to cost more, full rights are the equivalent of ghostwriting for a client. The purchasing buyer outright owns the website content and can make whatever changes she chooses to make. She can even post her name as the article’s author! Website content sold for full rights is only sold once.

Unique Rights ~ Unique rights are usually more moderately priced. With these, the buyer is not allowed to make changes to the article and the author receives a byline. However, unique rights are only sold once and the article is then removed from the author’s list of content for sale.

Usage Rights ~ Website content offered for usage rights on Constant Content is usually priced lower than the other two options. Usage rights allow the author a byline, the article remains in the author’s library of content for sale and can be sold repeatedly. (NOTE: The author can also sell or post website content sold for usage rights  elsewhere, which adds to an article’s overall profit potential.)

Most Constant Content authors offer three separate prices according to the different rights being offered, while some will only offer one or two of these options. Authors can also offer customers the opportunity to make an offer on articles if they feel the price is too high. Constant Content authors are not, however, bound to accept an offer.

What’s in it for Constant Content?

Whichever price is set, authors should be aware that Constant Content receives 35% of the sale price. Therefore, authors are encouraged to set their prices a bit higher in order to pocket what they believe their work is worth after paying Constant Content their cut for advertising and facilitating the sales transaction (no more chasing clients down for payment here…Constant Content handles the entire transaction). Some feel that the 35% cut is too high, but considering that Constant Content is a PR5 site with regular traffic flow and a good reputation, most authors are more than happy to pay the site to bring customers and authors together.

Payments

Payments for Constant Content sales are made via PayPal either monthly or twice per month, whichever the author chooses. Usually, payments arrive on the 1st and the 15th of the month unless one of those dates falls on a weekend or a holiday (Constant Content also observes Canadian holidays).  PayPal fees are never deducted and payments over $500 can even be transferred via bank wire.

Finding Success on Constant Content

The most successful authors at Constant Content are the ones who write quality website content well and often. Throughout the blogosphere, there are discouraging posts complaining of a lack of Constant Content sales or slow sales that don’t produce enough income to make the site worth an author’s time. Usually these complaints are lodged by individuals who submitted a 1 or 2 articles and expected them to sell within 30 days of submission. Constant Content, however, takes time, effort and patience. It is not a site for overnight website content sales, nor is it a site that will immediately change a writer’s life. It is a site where a writer can build a steady income and where one can build a healthy stream of private clientele.

Apply Now

If you or someone you know is interested in selling website content, do give Constant Content a worthy try by APPLYING HERE.

Questions or comments about selling website content at Constant Content? Comments are open, so fire away!

I’m a regular subscriber to Steven Atchinson’s blog, Change Your Life (and you should become one, too).  A point he made in last week’s post about 40 Rules to Live Your Life By struck me as something that, as women, we need to really take to heart. Actually, his entire list should be taken to heart, but #33 stood out as one of the absolute best reasons to become a work at home mom. Simply put, Steven advises us to love our partners, while maintaining our independence.

While I’m certain he didn’t intend for this most salient point to become a work at home mom mantra, it really should. I don’t know about all of you reading this, but in my personal and professional experiences, I’ve seen women wiped out by love. Divorce, death, injury and a host of other life upheavals have left women stranded financially and personally shattered. In fact, it’s often said that one of the largest contributors to poverty among women and children is divorce.

I’ve even seen some women in seemingly perfectly stable relationships be financially controlled by a spouse who insists that his wife stay at home with their children instead of going to work. In several of these women, I’ve seen self-esteem plummet and depression take root while they go about their daily routines feeling unfulfilled and helpless to do anything about it.

I even recall a neighbor many years ago whose husband, a truck driver, was the sole breadwinner of the family. He was in a near-fatal crash one night while on the job and took years to recover from his injuries. During the first few months after the accident, to say that the family struggled financially would be an understatement. Following a lengthy investigation into the accident and an arduous fight with insurance companies, the family was eventually able to regain a sense of stability, but while taking care of a young child and a husband who’d been completely sidelined by the accident, my neighbor had to make immediate sacrifices and adjustments in their lifestyle just to keep food on the table at one point. I don’t know if things would have been different had they had a second income (or even if she would have been able to keep it up between hospital visits and taking care of him when he came home), but I suspect that even the smallest amount saved or trickling in would have been greatly appreciated when things got super tight.

I’m not here to meddle in anyone’s private relationships, but I do think that Steven’s point carries incredible merit. As women we sometimes lose ourselves in relationships. Even when we enjoy doing so and even when we have spouses worthy of us doing so, being solely dependent on another person has consequences for us and them. We really must endeavor to love our significant others with every fiber of our being, but be smart in the process of doing so and maintain a sense of independence at the same time. This is also a good lesson to pass on to our children, particularly our daughters.

Today, more than any other time in history, work at home jobs for moms allow women to have broader choices. We really can stay at home and manage the household and micro-manage the kids while, at the same time, maintaining a sense of financial independence. Whether we choose to use money earned to help pay off debt, contribute to a family vacation or just to create a rainy day fund, earning an income…and especially doing so form home…is nothing short of empowering!

You deserve to have outside interests, just like you deserve to be able to stay at home while pursuing them. And your families deserve to have a mom who feels fulfilled and a part of the family’s economic function. So, women take heed, the absolute best reason to become a work at home mom is…YOU!

Agree or disagree below, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on the matter.

(Pssst…while we’re discussing relationships and working from home, be sure to check out our thoughts on what to do when your spouse doesn’t support your work at home job search. And don’t forget to check out today’s job leads…thanks for stopping by!)

Ok, while they’re not specifying work at home jobs for moms, over the past several months, I’ve read several articles suggesting that the U.S. government is largely in favor of telecommuting jobs. Seems there is real concern about natural disasters shutting certain government agencies down when people need them the most. Allowing employees to work from home, however, goes a long way in solving such problems. In cases of severe snowstorms, flooding and other incidents, which make it impossible for employees to commute to work, allowing for work at home setups makes perfect sense.

Not to mention that working from home saves on energy costs. As Representative Gerald E. Connoly puts it

Now, if we could get 20 percent of all Americans to telework one day a week, we could reduce our dependence on Persian Gulf oil imports by up to 48 percent. But we have to move one step at a time.

Here here!

Read the rest of the article and discover for yourself just how open the U.S. government is to work at home jobs:

Lawmaker Touts Telework as a Win-Win Situation

And, before you go, be sure to check our job leads.

Enjoy!

Resources:

Need help figuring out what type of work at home job is right for you? Check our “How To” business guides and see if you can find a good fit.

Work at home jobs for moms are advertised everywhere. As you know, many of them are scams, but a good deal are also legitimate telecommute opportunities. If you’ve spent any time at all on our site, particularly viewing our daily job leads, then you’ve noticed that we cruise CraigsList on the regular.

This may leave some of you wondering “why CraigsList?” In an industry rampant with scam artists, why continue to use a site widely considered to be a preferred portal for predators, dishonest hucksters and, basically, scam central?

The answer is pretty simple. Amongst all of the bad guys, CraigsList actually offers really good work at home jobs for moms and their community works very hard to police the place to help keep the riff raff in check. If you’ve ever posted an ad on CraigsList only to have it flagged 15 minutes later, you know what we’re talking about. Seriously, though, if not CL, then who?

Sure, we like SimplyHired, Indeed, Monster and the rest of the major and minor job aggregators out there. But, truth be told, it takes more time to field the fluff on those sites than it does on CraigsList! Don’t believe us? Take a gander over to any of those sites and search for work from home jobs for moms using “telecommute”, “remote”, “virtual” or, if you’re really feeling adventurous, “work from home”.

What you’ll find are several pages of ads requiring you to register before you can apply for a job; Ads from bidding sites; And ads placed by recruiters and agencies interested in collecting applicants. Now we’re not saying that any of these are dishonest approaches, but we are saying that real, straight up and down work at home jobs take some serious sifting to find on these sites.

We find CraigsList easier to cull leads from. Most ads are hand-written and offer more direct ways of applying for available positions. We don’t know why this is, but it seems that bidding sites aren’t too keen on CraigsList either, which makes them infinitely easier to avoid. It’s not that bidding sites are bad (they’re actually a very good resource for freelancers and contract workers), it’s just that we try to avoid them as often as possible and, instead, post work at home jobs for moms that don’t tempt moms to ask for less (salary-wise) than a job is worth.

While we never guarantee that scam artists can’t slip past us, we do do our best to spot them before you do and even flag them ourselves when discovered (and we encourage you to follow suit). That said, never just take our word for it. Whether it’s CraigsList or another job source, you MUST diligently research all ads for work at home jobs for moms before offering your personal information, know how to spot scams…and never, EVER pay for a job opportunity!

CraigsList often gets a bad rap, but we wanted to put why we favor them for work at home jobs for moms right out front. So, what do you think? Feel free to agree or disagree below. Also, please share which job board or classified site you favor for work at home jobs and why. Thanks!

It’s Friday! After you check out our job leads and before you take off for the weekend (if you’re able to), here are a few interesting work at home articles and blogs you should thumb through:

Most of us can relate to this one. In fact, we’ve written a few posts about how little our time is respected. Well, one writer has finally had enough and here’s what she has to say:

I may work from home. But I’m not your errand monkey

Continuing in this vein, here’s another example of how frustrating it can be when people attempt to invalidate our work from home status. Felicia at No Job for Mom expresses her strong feelings over coming face to face with an “unenlightened one” and we applaud her for handling the situation so politely. How would you handle someone like this?:

Oh No She Didn’t!

Many of the leads we offer here are contract positions. This article helps explain what being a contractor means in terms of tax status:

Contractor Vs. Employee: Decoding the Tax Differences

Even if this week has been a breeze, work at home jobs for moms can be quite stressful. Here’s solid advice on how to release and relax so as not to become overwhelmed:

4 Simple Steps for Letting Go of Stress

Have any interesting news, resources or advice to share that other WAHMs can benefit from? Please feel free to share in the comments section below.

Have a great weekend!

Work at home moms everywhere can relate to the dilemma of keeping kids busy while mom works. Of equal concern is the guilt that some feel over not being able to spend quality time with children during work hours. Moms are resourceful creatures, however, and here are a few of the tactics some are using to balance entertaining the children while working from home:

1. Move the office to a kid-friendly location. Don’t take working at home so literally. You are a location independent professional, after all, so pack up the laptop and take the kids to the nearest “fun zone”. Most major cities offer indoor playgrounds for children and many are even equipped with Wi-Fi. So, while the kids tire themselves out amidst a sea of colorful balls and intricate jungle gyms, mom can work nearby and everyone’s happy.

2. Visited your local YWCA or YMCA lately? Many offer structured activities for kids and, even better, Wi-Fi connections. While the kids will only likely be occupied for an hour or two, many moms are using this time as a way to hammer out important assignments…or at least get a head start on important tasks.

3. Join or start a childcare co-op. It’s likely that other work at home moms in your area are struggling with the same issues. Why not join forces and create a schedule that works for everyone? While a few moms work, other moms can help with childcare and vice versa.

These are just a few of the ways work at home moms are creatively juggling kids and work, what are some of yours?

Also, feel free to list a few kid-friendly places in your area offering Wi-Fi and space for moms to establish temporary offices.