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Teach Online While Working From Home

Learning how to teach online can be a game changer. Are you looking for a work at home job that won’t keep you tied to a desk all day? Teach online. Do you genuinely want to help others learn a new skill? Teach online. Are you looking for ways to supplement your existing income, but don’t know where to begin? Teach online!

Thank goodness we live in an age where online learning is possible. Such creates an opportunity for teachers and regular people, like you and me, to share what they know in a relaxed environment that allows students to work at their own pace. While many hard academic courses can be taught online, you can just as easily teach courses like how to write children’s books, how to train your cat or even how to start a blog or a website.

Some work from home teaching jobs do require a bachelors degree or higher, but you can just as easily teach online with no experience at all! It’s an open landscape for anyone looking to share information and knowledge on a part-time or full-time basis. In many instances, courses are prerecorded, which means you can create a course one time and continue to earn an income from it for years on end!

Learn How to Teach Online

Here are a few places where you can learn more about teaching online and how to get started:

Finding Online K-12 Jobs

Where to Find Online Tutoring Jobs

Teach a New Skill Online at Udemy

For more info on how to start teaching at Udemy, check out this video by Dream Home Based Work:

Now, Over to You

Do you currently teach students online or is this a work at home job you’ve held in the past? We sure would appreciate your input on this opportunity. What did you like most about online teaching and what did you dislike about it? What can you share with our readers about getting started and sustaining a long-term online-based teaching or tutoring business?

If you’re completely new to the idea of learning to teach online, what questions do you have? What would you like us to post on in the future? Any and all of your comments are welcome as we turn it over to you to finish this post!

Teach online while working from home with no experience necessary. Learn more at workathomemomcenter.com

How to find jobs you can do from home

How To Find Jobs You Can Do From Home

If you’re looking for jobs you can do from home, you’ve come to the right place. Where we used to share daily job leads here on our site, we now focus more on educating you about work at home jobs for moms (and others!), as well as sharing tools for productivity and success. From time to time we do still share work at home jobs on our main Twitter feed though, which includes everything from freelance writing gigs and social media jobs to attorney jobs and work from home pharmacist jobs!

Gone are the days of stuffing envelopes (were those gigs even real?) or seamstress jobs, as we live in a time when a number of respectable careers can be of the home-based variety. On the days that we do share leads on Twitter, we’ve found that searching for jobs you can do from home isn’t nearly as hard as it once was. Yes, it takes a little know-how, but with the tips we’re about to share you can begin searching for your own work at home jobs today.

Finding Jobs You Can Do From Home

There are a ton of places to search for freelance work on the web, including bidding sites like Upwork.com. While we don’t have anything against bidding sites, we mostly use free job boards and and so we’ll focus on these. Some of the best places to find jobs you can do from home include:

Problogger Job Board

Freelance Writing Gigs

Dream Home Based Work

Mashable’s Social Media Job Board (you may also find jobs you can do from home on their general job board)

HootSuite’s Social Media Job Board

Then, of course there are the usual haunts like Monster and Indeed where you can use filters to search for jobs you can do from home.

A Word About Craigslist Jobs

While many scoff at finding jobs you can do from home on Craigslist, you’ll find that we source a number of the leads we share on Twitter from there. This is because much of my own success in finding new clients has come from Craigslist and I have very few bad stories to tell. In my entire 10+ years as a freelancer, I’ve only not been paid once (and that was at the very beginning when I was still learning the ropes) and have mostly had great experiences with craigslist jobs.

Here’s a little tip for you: Don’t search for jobs you can do from home on an actual Craigslist site, but use Google to search for Craigslist jobs, instead. Sound a little puzzling? It’s not. Actually, it’s very simple. See, if you search Craigslist’s sites city by city, you’re missing most of the opportunities available to you. Remember, you work from home (or you want to!), so there’s no reason to limit yourself to a particular location. I literally have clients as far away as Amsterdam who could care less where I live as long as I can do the job.

How to Search For Craigslist Jobs

Here is the exact search term that I start my Google search with (I keep it bookmarked):

writer -floppy -insurance -automotive -service -room -screenplay -comedy -cd -film -intern -roommate -share -dvd -song -actor -actress -script -apartment -type -desk site:craigslist.org

You may highlight, copy and paste this exact search term or you can modify it in anyway that you see fit. I often start with “writer” and then perform subsequent searches using other terms like “social media”, “remote position”, “remote job”, “work at home”, “work from home”, “freelance”, “distributed team”, “telecommute”, “data entry”, “contract job”, etc. You don’t need quotes if your leading search term is a single word (i.e. writer), but you definitely want to use quotes if it’s more than one word (i.e. “social media”). Also, the minus sign before each keyword tells Google to eliminate any results with those words in them, which I find useful in sorting through a lot of the results I don’t want to see. There’s some CRAZY stuff on Craigslist, so you’ll for sure want to use this filtering method, too!

The most crucial part of this search string is remembering to add

site:craigslist.org

so that it will pull everything from all of the sites across the nation.

More On Searching for Craigslist Jobs You Can Do From Home

Once I’ve pruned my search results, I narrow it all down to a specific time frame by clicking on Search tools at the top of the results page and then clicking on the Any time menu, which will offer a number of time options or allow me to customize my own. This also comes in handy since, if I don’t find a lot of gigs to apply for in my first search, I can come back later in the day and just search by the hour. In addition to checking the Past hour option on the pull-down menu under the Any time tab, I usually also pull the Sorted by relevance menu down and change it to Sorted by date, which will give me the most recent listings first. I confess to feeling a little giddy upon finding a good lead that was just posted 20 minutes ago! 🙂

Don’t Let “Telecommute” Fool You!

Most listings for jobs you can do from home will be very clear about the offer within the ad itself. On Craigslist, don’t be fooled by those who pre-select the “telecommute” option in their listing as these aren’t always work from home jobs, though. I’ve had the feeling for a long time that some employers don’t really know what the word means, which can be frustrating. I’ve literally seen bartender and truck driving jobs listed under telecommute options. Here’s to hoping that someday Craigslist will replace their “telecommute” box with a clearly stated “work from home” option, instead.

Still, most jobs you can do from home will say so in the ad. For those who don’t, you can read between the lines. If a listing says that you must have the latest computer operating system installed or that you should be comfortable communicating via Skype or something along those lines, these are good indications that it is a work from home job. Ditto for scheduling your own hours, setting your own rate, etc.

ABC – Always Be Checking

The best time to look for new clients and jobs you can do from home is when you are already at capacity and don’t necessarily need a new gig. I say this because, as a freelancer, your clients can sometimes come and go in a snap. That new startup that you love working for can go belly up tomorrow. Or that client that you’ve had for a year or more can suddenly decide to assign your services to someone in-house. My point is that, as a freelancer, we can never get too comfortable with our client list, so it’s a good idea to always have your feelers out there just in case. Submit your resume, take those interviews and keep the spotlight on yourself! If you have to turn jobs down, do it…but that’s a heck of a lot better than having no offers at all when your income takes a dive!

How Do You Find Freelance Work?

Do you have a certain technique for finding freelance work? Know of any better places to find jobs you can do from home? Hope the methods shared here are useful to you and feel free to comment below if you have questions or need additional help.

Looking for jobs you can do from home? Work at Home Mom Center can help!
Looking for jobs you can do from home? Work at Home Mom Center can help!
Advice on Setting Freelance Rates

Strong Advice on Setting Your Freelance Rates

Not sure what to charge for services like freelance writing, photography or web design? Have you been told that your rates are too low or too high? Are you considering branching out into other freelance areas, but have no idea what to charge for your services? Today, we want to share some resources to help you decide what to charge as a freelancer.

Examples of Freelance Writing Rates:

How Much Should I Charge?

Professional Copywriter Rates

Web Content Writing Rates

How to Earn $250 Per Hour as a Freelance Writer

How Much Are Freelancers Being Paid By Magazines and Other Publications?

Journalism and Photography Rates

Who Pays Writers?

Examples of Web Design Rates:

How Much Does a Website Cost in 2015?

How Much Does a Small Business Website Cost in 2014?

How Much Does a Website Cost?

Examples of Social Media Rates (Consultants, Strategists and Service Providers):

Online Marketing and PR

How Much Does Social Media Cost Companies in 2012? (A little dated, but good info)

So How Much Will a Social Media Strategy Cost? (A little dated, but good info)

What to Charge for Social Media

Share Your Advice

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received on setting freelance rates? Do you charge per project, per hour or per word? How much thought do you give to setting your freelance rates and what helps you arrive at a final decision? Your wisdom, advice and questions are welcome below.

(Flickr, Sean MacEntee)

3 Sites Where You Can Find Work at Home Jobs Right Now

Do you want to work at home, but are having a difficult time getting started? Not sure where to look for jobs that match your skill set? Well, if you’re a writer, a blogger, a social media enthusiast or all of the above, bookmark these sites and check them daily:

Problogger Job Board
Freelance Writing Jobs
Write Jobs

Bonus: Looking for something other than writing, blogging or social media gigs? Try Dream Home Based Work.

Of course, these aren’t the only places featuring work at home jobs, but they are the ones I most often recommend to budding freelancers. The usual job search engines and classified sites can be good, too. Just filter your search parameters by those that include a telecommute option, broaden your location choices and you’ll find plenty. Be forewarned, however, that there are a ton of work at home scams floating around the web, so be certain to research an employer before giving up too much personal information and before committing yourself to a job. Oh, and never EVER pay to work!

The Work at Home Mom Center is always here to help assist with your progress, so if you ever have a question about your path or even about a specific job offer, just reach out and ask for help.

Never Held a Work at Home Job Before?

Don’t fret, everyone had to start somewhere. Speaking as one who’s done everything from direct sales to mystery shopping before finally discovering a freelance career path, I’ve learned a few things about landing work at home gigs or even starting a business from scratch. Ditto for our faithful readers, so stay tuned to this blog as we continue to grow and share. I also highly recommend that you do a little prep work starting with our Ground Zero Tips so you’ll be ready for the opportunities heading your way.

It All Starts With You

It’s also necessary to put on a fresh coat of confidence each and every day. Working from home presents you with a brand new learning curve, which can feel overwhelming. More than one work at home mom has felt the sting of rejection, self-doubt and fear that sometimes accompanies working with new tools, demanding clients and even acquiring new skills. Then there’s the funny looks, off-handed remarks and questions that will sometimes be presented by friends and family members who don’t quite understand the concept of working from home and who may even try to convince you to get a “real job”, instead. You can do this, though. Working from home is a legitimate way to earn money. You are also just as smart and capable as the next wahm and, with time, you will become the seasoned professional you strive to be.

Where Do You Find Work at Home Jobs?

Work at Home Mom Center is all about networking, sharing and learning. Before you go, if you’re already working from home, please share your best advice for finding new clients and gigs. If you’re brand new and have any question whatsoever, we welcome any and all in the comments section below.

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Guest Post: Try Etsy For Work At Home Jobs For Moms by Lisa Shoreland

Why search for work at home jobs for moms when you can create your own? Today’s guest post, brought to us by Lisa Shoreland, is one that you don’t want to miss if you’re into crafting or if you know someone who is.

Work at Home with Etsy

When it comes to working, the enlightened advice always seems to be, “Do what you love.”  Unfortunately, people believe that they don’t have the luxury to do so (many of them are right), and opportunities for moms to work at home seem lacking.  If you love to craft, however, Etsy may be able to help turn you from a crafty mom to a work-at-home mom.

For those of you who have yet to discover Etsy, my advice is to go there now and see the wonder for yourself.  It’s a charming website that gives anyone who tries an equal opportunity to work from home and sell their wares to people across the world.  Your wares—be they clothing, candles, accessories, or even baked goods—sell based on who wants them.  This means you’ll have to do your part in advertising to improve your chances of sales, too.

Do you knit or crochet?  Do you make jewelry?  Do you sew?  Can you make soap or lotion?  Are you well-versed in web or graphic design?  Are you a photographer?  Do you want to work from home?  Consider selling your products or services on Etsy.

If you’re met with a positive response, you might even go through your neighborhood and inquire local boutiques if they’d like to sell your wares.  Having a successful Etsy store may give you increased credibility.

Preparing For Business

Becoming a work-at-home mom via Etsy isn’t just about crafting, though.  You’ll need the following materials to successfully advertise, present, and send off your wares to buyers.

  • A computer to access Etsy and communicate with buyers
  • A camera to take well-lit, clear, and high-quality photographs of your wares, which you will upload via computer onto your Etsy store
  • An inventory of products already made to present to potential buyers
  • A business plan to keep you on track with your goals.  How much money do you hope to make?  What is your spending budget?  Who are you selling to?  How will you advertise your business?
  • Enough funds for the monthly membership fee for owning a store on Etsy (generally under $20 a month).  The site has a built-in shopping cart system and payment/fulfillment structure.
  • Access to transportation to the post office, as you will be shipping your products out to people across the country yourself.

Marketing Your Business

  • Evaluate other Etsy stores.  Which ones are popular and what do they sell?  What are other stores selling similar items to yours?  What’s working and what’s not?
  • Choose a niche.  As with blogs, it’s easier to market your business if you do or sell something specific, like painting or photography (but likely not both).
  • Make a memorable logo and store name.  If you’re having trouble with these, you can browse Etsy for people who will do this for you.  Some will even design and print your business cards.  Luckily, most reputable Etsy storeowners are prompt on shipping (something for you to heavily consider when opening your business).
  • Advertise on other forms of social media, like your Facebook page or Twitter feed.  If you have a blog, be sure to add a link to your Etsy store.  Hand out your business card to friends and family like candy on Halloween.
  • Don’t expect to make it big at once.  As with any work-at-home opportunity, success will likely be slow and gradual.  The harder you work and the more avenues you push, however, the sooner and bigger success will arrive.

Bio: Lisa Shoreland is currently a resident blogger at Go College, where recently she’s been researching physicians assistant scholarships as well as occupational therapy scholarships. In her spare time, she enjoys creative writing, practicing martial arts, and taking weekend trips.

 

Be sure to also check out our growing directory of companies that offer work at home jobs for moms. ~Work at Home Mom Center

Announcing Our Directory of Work at Home Jobs For Moms

We’re in the process of building a directory of companies, leads and websites offering work at home jobs for moms. Please visit the directory here and feel free to contact us if you know of other places where telecommuting jobs are offered. Our work at home jobs for moms directory is a work in progress, so remember to bookmark and check it frequently.

So far, we’re offering places to find call center and customer service jobs from home. As well, we offer leads on where you can make a few dollars as an online juror and find other assorted work at home jobs for moms. Moving forward, we hope to also share where you can find work at home attorney jobs, at home pharmacy jobs and more. Telecommuting jobs are gaining in popularity and, as we learn of new opportunities, we have every intention of sharing them with you.

If you’re new to the site or if you’re looking for specific information on work at home jobs for moms, be sure to visit our article archives for a vast selection of topics covering the world of telecommuting. We know that it’s easy to get discouraged when looking for work from home opportunities, but we want to encourage you that real work at home jobs for moms do exist and we’re here to help you find the one that’s perfect for you. If you ever have questions or comments, please contact us on our contact form.

So, what are you waiting for? There are legitimate work at home jobs for moms out there and the perfect position is waiting for you. Take a deep breath, focus and visit our growing list of possible work at home employers, now!

The 411 on the InfoBarrel Income Opportunity ~ A Guest Post by Chris Hinton

The Problem

Over the decade I’ve worked with dozens of friends and family in an attempt to help them build a passive income stream using the Internet.  Throughout these attempts I’ve noticed two common problems.

Problem #1

People are very optimistic with the idea of making money online, however when they don’t see instant gratification and coupled with the monetary and time investments required in maintaining and promoting a web site, most people tend to quit before they ever start seeing any income.

Problem #2

Because it is human nature to get instant gratification, people tend to spend less time on the things they don’t know much about and wind up producing something that provides no end value to their users.  The web site winds up being covered in ads essentially dragging down the overall quality of the Internet instead of making it better.

By not creating value for end users, regardless of how much time you spend marketing, it will be nearly impossible to create return visitors and even harder to get people talking about your web site or business.

The Solution

Create a space where users would not have to be burdened with the financial costs of owning, maintaining and marketing a website and could simply focus on producing quality content to share with the world while still earning a substantial passive income.  By removing these problems we hope to increase the quality of content found on the internet and making it once again a safe place to find information.

In July 2008, with these ideals in mind InfoBarrel was born.

How it Works

InfoBarrel is a shared revenue crowd sourced community.  Essentially what that means, is the content of the site is entirely created by the users who frequent the site.  To compensate writers, we provide them with a minimum of 75% of the advertising impressions from Google Adsense, Chitika and Amazon.  We also have an escalating revenue share percentage that allows writers to earn up to 90% revenue share if they hit certain criteria.

There is no cost to the writer, and the site has had extensive marketing time invested into it resulting in great organic search engine results.  To date we have many writers making over $100 a month and a few making over $1000.  InfoBarrel has become one of the top destinations to earn money writing on the Internet.  Because of our passionate users and extensive marketing plan InfoBarrel has grown from a small site consisting of a few users to a thriving community with 31,000+ members that is growing on a daily basis.  We are also very dedicated to supporting our writer community by allowing them to personally email us with any issues that they may have encountered while at the site.  With one of our goals being to improve the quality of material found on the internet InfoBarrel also manually approves all new article submissions checking them for article quality and duplicate content among many other factors. The site been touted as the next best revenue sharing site by popular web entrepreneur Pat Flynn.

Why it’s Great for Work at Home Moms

Because of the opportunity to generate money while working from home, we have had an enormous surge of WAHMs publishing on InfoBarrel.  Since InfoBarrel requires much less of a commitment than running your own website, mothers are able to sit down and write an article when they have a free moment before returning to their busy lives.  We have a number of successful WAHMs most notably MommyMommyMommy.

Community

One of the things that I am most proud of in terms on InfoBarrel is how supportive our community has become.  The InfoBarrel Writers’ Community is one of the most tight knit, friendly groups of people online.  If you need advice on how to do something, even extremely simple, the community is there to help and there is never a stupid question.

Success Stories

InfoBarrel has been around for just over two years now and has already garnered several success stories, with at least two members making over $1000 a month, and a number of users making over $100.

The following are  just a few success stories of members:

JCMayer ($1000+ /moth now)

Travis_Aitch ($1000+ /month now)

ChezFat ($500+ /month now)

A forum post talking about earnings

Work at Home Attorney Jobs

Attorney job leads weren’t at the top of our list when we first started posting work at home jobs for moms on this site. Admittedly, there was an assumption that attorneys either weren’t interested in work from home lawyer jobs or that they weren’t having a problem finding work and didn’t need our help. Instead, we focused our efforts more on freelance writing, social media, call center and transcription work at home jobs for moms. While we’d post work at home attorney jobs here and there, they were sort of an afterthought. We admit our mistake and we humbly apologize.

See, we now realize that attorney jobs are just as difficult to find in this scarce job market as other jobs– work from home or otherwise. New law school graduates are having a particularly difficult time finding work as inexperienced attorneys. Unfortunately, student loan debt, living expenses and other financial obligations still must be met and without a huge amount of lawyer jobs to choose from (and with stiff competition, in general) many are having to take jobs outside of the legal realm just to make ends meet. In this USA Today article, economist Richard Vedder warns that “we’re entering the age of the overeducated American”. In other words, more and more Americans with college degrees are being forced to take lower paying positions outside of their training realm just to get by.

Here at the Work at Home Mom Center, we feel your pain. If you are a lawyer, jobs may be a little scarce right now, but please consider some of the work at home opportunities posted in our job leads section, as well as across the web. Granted, for a lawyer, jobs that allow you to work from home aren’t as readily available as some of the others we share here, but as we do come across them, we will gladly do our best to bring them to your attention.

If you’d like to work at home as an attorney, jobs are available, so don’t give up! Keep checking our daily job leads and keep an open mind to the possibility that you can earn an income working from home. Aside from our job leads section, consider also searching on LinkedIn, Indeed and CareerBuilder.

10-4-2010 Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Freelance Writing and Editing Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Looking for Copywriters

Bloggers Wanted

Blogger/Activist

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Social Media, Web and Tech Work at Home Jobs for Moms

SEO Specialist

Customer Relations and Tech Support

SEO Help Needed

Help Desk IT/Customer Service

RAW File Processor for Photographer (Washington D.C.)

Javascript Programmer Needed

Video Editor

Telephone and Customer Service Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Appt. Setter Wanted

Call Center Verifiers

Appt. Setter

Clerical and Virtual Assistant Work at Home Jobs for Moms

Front-End Administrator (Seattle)

Transcription Help Needed

Administrative Assistant (New Jersey)

P/T Administrative/Research/Accounting Help (Chicago)

Personal Assistant/Bookkeeper (Chicago)

Secretary/Assistant (Washington D.C.)

P/T Administrative Assistant

Misc. Telecommute/Work at Home Jobs for Moms

“Of Counsel” Attorney

Licensed Escrow Officer

Translators Wanted

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