HJO -- Work at Home Articles

Mystery Shopping - Over the past few years it seems everybody has become consumed with mystery shopping. Companies, consumers and service providers are more involved with it today than ever before. Mystery shopping is known by many names: secret shopping, performance evaluations, service monitoring, anonymous customers, quality auditing, service investigations, trained consumers, service checks and frontline evaluations, to name a few...

9 to 5-Home Business Tug o' War - Perhaps the scarcest commodity the new home-business owner just starting out has is time. This is particularly so if you are also working a traditional, full-time job and building up your business "on the side" in your spare time...

Alternatives To Direct Mail - Many people will agree that a decent letter could be the most effective marketing tool. If used smartly, a bunch of folded sheets will be your treasured winner for many years. It can also be very expensive...

Building a Home Business Website Part 1 - As webmaster of a site dedicated to helping parents earn a living at home, I get lots of emails like this one: "I have a home business and am thinking of marketing it on the web. But I don't even know how to get started! Where do I begin?" ...

Building a Home Business Website Part 2 - The Internet has been a boon for parents who want to work at home, enabling them to set up shop and market themselves to a global audience - both quickly and cheaply...

Building a Home Business Website Part 3 - Work at home parents who opt to put their businesses online learn early on that it is not enough to get a domain name and put together a nice looking site. As in any business, eCommerce success depends upon how well you market...

Building a Home Business Website Part 4 - If you've followed the advice in this series, you are now the proud owner of a website and listed in the search engines. Are you finished? Probably not - in Part 4 we examine some options you may wish to add that will make your website more functional - more fun - and hopefully, more profitable...

Building a Home Business Website Part 5 - Unless your website is just a hobby, you probably expect it to bring in some revenue. And while it is possible to use your site as an advertising vehicle, it is way more profitable to actually accept credit card payments for your products and services while your visitors are there...

Create and Market Your Own Electronic Book - The Internet presents an amazing opportunity for anyone who knows how to research and write. There's masses of free information on the Web - all you have to do is gather it together and package it, and you have an E-Book that people will pay for...

Creating Your Own Home Based Business - If you're looking for a way to make money from home and you've been online for any length of time you will have quickly become aware of the preponderance of business opportunity sites and ads for many and varied business opportunities...

Don't Park in the Comfort Zone - Most of us have, in our house, a thermostat that regulates the temperature. When it gets a bit too warm, the air conditioning kicks on to bring the temperature down to an acceptable range. When the temperature drops below a comfortable point, the heater comes on to bring the room temperature up to a more comfortable level...

Do you have time to Work at Home? - So you've made the decision to work at home. Congratulations -- You're about to join a modern movement of over 14 million that grows by about 500,000 every year...

Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? - Fully one in ten adults in the United States today is an entrepreneur. This phenomenon is by no means restricted to North America. The leading country for entrepreneurship is Brazil with one in eight adults an entrepreneur. Australia is not far behind the U.S. with one in twelve...

Establishing Customer Loyalty - Human beings are used to making buying decisions using their senses, especially their sight and hearing. They read body language, want to make eye contact and hear voice inflection. As more and more business gets done in Cyberspace, there will be less and less of in-person contacts made. Although, the chances of online business development TOTALLY replacing in-person contact is slim, more and more clients will be found in Cyberspace, and the need to maintain them as clients is great. This can be very challenging since people do business with others that they know, like and trust...

Financing Your Home Business - So, you have a great idea for a business and, more importantly, the know-how to bring it into creation. The only thing you’re missing is the cold hard cash to get started. What are your options? ...

Taking Advantage of Free Business Supplies - It's funny how much money is thrown out the window without any second look. What am I talking about? Wasted boxes, labels, tape, wrapping, packaging, etc. Why buy it when you can get it all for free? Actually it's better than free, you can even have it delivered to your door for absolutely no cost! hmmm got your attention now don't I? ...

Freelance Writers - If you want a profile of a writer, you'll look long and hard -- and be very disappointed. Writers come in all shapes and sizes. The only common denominator they share is that they use ink and paper (or digital data) to communicate with others...

Raising Free Money For Your Business - Consider it Free Money! No interest! No monthly payments! How often have you heard experts talking about small and medium-sized businesses failing because they were 'under-capitalized'? But you don't hear too often the remark that failing companies are over-indebted! I suggest that the latter happens far more frequently than the former...

Starting A Home Business - The most frequently asked question I receive as an Internet home business consultant usually goes something like this; "I would really like to start my own home business on the Internet, but I don't know what." The short answer is - Start with what you know and enjoy...

Keep Your Visitors Coming Back - One of the keys to Internet success is traffic. Let me review the "deleted items" of my email: "1 million visitors to your site, guaranteed" "A swarm of traffic"...

Knowing Your Niche - It's a big internet out there! Have you discovered your niche? What is your particular talent that can bring success to your internet efforts? It may take some time discover exactly how to use your talents to your best advantage. Are you a web designer? Are you a writer? Are you an expert at promotion of businesses? You probably are the best judge of the talents that you offer to the internet challenge...

Work From Home Mom Defines Success - My one year anniversary of entrepreneurship is rapidly approaching in a matter of weeks. It was with great trepidation and fear of the unknown that I began my online venture...

Money Saving Tips - Seemingly insignificant items can add up to major savings for your business. Consider the following and watch your bottom line improve: ...

Motivation, They Key To Success - The word motivate means to urge, excite, drive, to have an overwhelming desire to accomplish a particular goal. If you want to build a successful business, you must have some motivating factor that will help you reach your goal...

Online Marketing Tales - How many successful "brick and mortar" businesses have been started without a business plan? I would say very few. Time and time again, I receive calls from businesses wanting to market their web site. My first question is always "Do you have an online marketing plan and budget?" I’ve never heard "yes we do"...

Starting a Profitable Home Business - In these days, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet with just one source of income. Thus, more and more people are investigating the possibilities of starting their own extra-income business. Most of these part-time endeavors are started and operated from the comfort and privacy of the home...

How To Spot A Scam - The reality is that there are hundreds of thousands of people coming online, for the first time, each year. Many of these people have simply not been exposed to scams like the ones that are constantly touted on the Internet before. Many of these people come online to try and find a way to make money with their computers and/or they're looking for ideas for making money from home...

Taking Care Of Business - There are two kinds of people in this world, those that build bridges and those that don’t. Bridge builders are mentors; they share their experience and build bridges of encouragement and hope for others to cross. They are people of tremendous character and strength that give unselfishly of their time and talents...

Want To Telecommute? Think Like an Employer - Want to Telecommute? It Helps if You Think Like an Employer An e-mail exchange with a telecommuting job-hunter brought the realities of finding home employment to glaring light. She wrote: "You should create a telecommuting classifieds much like newspapers do for regular job openings...

The Three R's for Opening The Door to Work at Home - No, the key words are not reading, writing and arithmetic!! They are *realistic*, *relentless* and the ability to be *resourceful*! If you keep these three critical elements in mind for the duration of your telecommuting search, success will be within your reach...

Got Weak Skills? Can You Still Work at Home? - Every week I receive dozens of emails from my readers posing these very questions. Generally they're from moms that have dropped out of the workforce for varying lengths of time to raise their family. Their data entry skills are rusty and they use their computer mainly for email transmission...

Professionalism - “Professionalism is a skill that must be practiced to be mastered; it does not need to be explained to yourself or others – it just is.”

10 Great Careers That Don't Require a 4 Year Degree - One of the great myths associated with the “American Dream” is that you need to have a four-year college degree to be successful. As the economy has shifted to the information age, with a greater reliance on technology and services, this belief applies less and less.