WAHS is going through more changes. Eventually the whole site will be moved to a CMS system for better organization and easier upkeep. The blog is already moved and the next step is your newsletter. It may look different, but the information is still here! So enjoy this week’s news!
Contents:
Notes from Leslie: WAHS Challenge… Making Money At Home!
Work-At-Home Tips, Tools and Inspiration: Google is Giving Away Money…sort of.
Work-At-Home Jobs: 20 New Jobs!
Telecommuting News: Telecommuting on a Comeback.
Scam Alert: Watch out for Phishing Text Messages
Work-At-Home Opportunities: Businesses and affiliate programs to make money at home.
Marketing Your Home Business – Get free marketing on WAHS!!! Fast and Easy way to make money with Adsense and a blog.
ETC: Stuff you need to know! How to Use WAHS News, Advertising Policies, ETC.
Notes from Leslie
As I’ve already mentioned, you’re seeing a new look and format for the WAHS Jobs and News. I hope you’ll fnd it still enjoyable and helpful in your quest to work at home. This week there is lots of great news and information. Your 20 work-at-home jobs are posted below. Also, take some time to read about how my Adsense income grew 16 fold from 2006 to 2007. In the marketing section I’ll tell you how you can do the same! So lets get to it!
WAHS Challenge: I’m reading a book called Harmonic Wealth by James Arthur Ray which basically shows you how to use the Law of Attraction to find success in life. One passage that caught my attention was about integrating spiritual, mental and physical relms in order for success to occur. In essense you have to believe it, think it, and do it. That idea isn’t new, but I hadn’t quite heard it put that way before. Many people think it, but often the beliefe and the action are left out. I can’t help you believe in your goals, but perhaps I can help you take action.
Many people get bogged down in the “how to” and end up not doing anything. Making money online is actually quite easy if you take the right steps and do the right work. There is no money for nothing and you can’t set up a system that will do the work for you for ever. But you can easily set up a site and systems that through some basic management, can make you money. In the Work-At-Home Tips feature (below) you’ll read about how my Adsense income increased 16 fold in one year and why Adsense is a terrific way (its free!) to make money. In the Marketing feature you’ll read how to set up a content based blog (also free), add Adsence and start making money. This is the WAHS Challenge. I want you to take action to start making money with Adsence ASAP. Whether you have a business already (a blog is a great way to market your business) or are just getting started, I want you to take the WAHS Challenge. Even if you want to find a work-at-home job, I want you to take the WAHS Challenge. Here’s how it will work:
1) Read WAHS Tips, Tools and Inspiration below.
2) Read WAHS Marketing tips.
3) Follow the steps in the Marketing Tips article to set up your own information blog based on any topic you choose.
4) Contact WAHS and let me know the URL (website address) of your blog. I will list it on a special WAHS Challenge page at Work-At-Home Success (free advertising) and in a special blogroll at WAHS Blog.
5) Stick with your blog for 6 months (November 2008) and share your results with WAHS.
I’m looking at offering some prizes….that will be announced later!
Work-At-Home Tips, Tools and Inspiration
In 2006 I added Google AdSense ad feed to my site and made a few bucks. Not much, but something is better than nothing. Then I started hearing about people who were making several hundreds of dollars a day through the program. Wow! I had to find out how to do that so I went to the expert, Joel Comm.
Joel’s tips were easy to understand and impliment and in 2007 my Adsense income grew over 16 times than what it was in 2006. In fact, in 2007 nearly a third of my yearly income came from Adsense. In one year!
While Google is tight lipped about the forumla it uses to calculate Adsense earnings, basically website/blog publishers get paid when someone clicks on an Adsense link. Its probably just a few cents which seems hardly worth it. But the reality is that people are making good even obscene amounts of money through this program. And since its free to sign up and since you can design a web presence for free as well (see the marketing section for how to do this), its a great way for a beginner to get online and start making money with only time as an investment.
With that said, you’re not going to be raking in the big bucks tomorrow. There is a method to the madness that includes offering quality content people want to read, keywords that people are searching on, and basic internet marketing (see marketing section for details on how to do this).
Another big help is to get Joel’s book which provides his tips and tricks that earn him $500 a day at Adsense. Joel just updated his Adsense Secrets for 2008 AND he slashed the price 90% to only $9.95.
Its not very often that I’m adement about products or services. But for anyone who’s serious about making money online, I absolutely think you should get Joel’s Adsense Secrets resource.
Work-At-Home Jobs
READ FIRST! To apply to the jobs listed below, please follow the directions posted in the announcement. DO NOT CONTACT WAHS TO APPLY TO A JOB LISTED HERE. Work-At-Home Success is not representing or affiliated with the companies posted here. These jobs are found by Work-At-Home Success or submitted for posting. Further Work-At-Home Success can make no guarantees about the jobs posted. Remember to never pay money to get hired or use your personal bank account or credit card to help a company do business!! Please let me know if any job posted below asks for money or is otherwise questionable. Visit WAHS’s Scam Alert page to get information on protecting yourself from scams.
Adminstrative Support and Clerical Jobs
Assistant (Napa, CA)
Customer Service 1-800-Flowers
Translators/Proofreaders/EditorsTranscriber
Customer
Service (For disabled persons)
Computers/Internet/Techical Jobs
Financial/Bookkeeping/Real Estate/Insurance Jobs
LTD Claims Specialist (training onsite then 100% telecommute)
PR/Marketing/Sales/Fundraising Jobs
Travel Agent (2 weeks onsite training PA)
Writing/Art/Photography Jobs
Freelance Investigative Journalist
Miscellaneous Jobs
Search for more jobs!
Didn’t find the job you want above? Here are some of the sites I used to find the jobs listed above. These resources list hundreds of jobs in a variety of categories. Please note, the listings below are NOT jobs (jobs are posted above). These are services that provide work-at-home job announcements. Some are free and others aren’t. While you never want to pay a company to hire you, its is okay to invest in a service that can help you find a job. The services below are the ones that I use and know to be reputable.
Telecommuting Job Databases (fee required to access these services)
HomeJobStop has over 100 jobs in clerical, and more in customer service, writing, transcription, miscellaneous plus 100’s of others. Very affordable.
VirtualAssistants has 100′’s of Secretarial/General jobs plus 100’s more in other categories. Little more expensive but offers more jobs.
HomeWorker - Provides many great jobs in a variety of areas including virtual assistance, customer service and more. Very affordable.
Free job search sites (you need
to search by keyword to find work-at-home jobs on these sites).
Scam Alert
Identity thieves using text messages…
To get more information about scams and how to avoid them, visit Work-At-Home Scam Prevention.
Work-At-Home Opportunities
Here are some work-at-home opportunities currently used by visitors of Work-At-Home Success.
Please note that Work-At-Home Success does not guarantee or endorse any of the opportunities here unless otherwise stated. These opportunities are offered to you as a resources. It is up to you to research companies and find the best opportunity for you. For more information on protecting yourself, please visit WAHS’s Scam Alert
Advertise your opportunity here for only $7.00!
Are your finances going down with the marke thttp://www.achievefinancialbliss.info/ (41808)
Love to read? Why not get paid?
Get Paid to Give Away TV Satellite Systems $110 for each Dish given away!
Sell Your Stuff for Quick Cash on eBay!
Click Here to Discover How to Become a Mystery Shopper
Click Here to Discover How to Become a Travel Consultant
Free online business
(WAHS Approved programs are those that WAHS has either personally used or at least checked out. Note that these are business opportunities, affiliate programs, or educational resources and may have a fee. In any work-at-home venture, always do your research before joining.)
Marketing Your Business
Up in the Work-At-Home Tidbit section, I raved about using Adsense and picking up Joel Comm’s tremendous resource on using Adsense to make money. I wanted to also show you how easy it can be to set up a website (blog) to add Adsence and start making money. In fact, I want to challenge you to test it out. Its free and doesn’t take long to set up and manage. (Check out the WAHS Challenge in the Notes from Leslie Section above).
The key to success with Adsense is (all will be explained in detail):
1. Create compelling content people want to know about on a regular basis.
2. Use keyword rich writing.
3) Promotion
Compelling Content
Compelling content is information that people want to know about. (Details on chosing a topic are below.) There are some blogs and websites that are set up to make money with Adsense but when you visit them, all they have is adds. There is no information people want to read about. The search engines frown on this. You don’t need to be Hemingway to create compelling content. You do need to be knowledgeable or passionate about the topic. You also don’t need to write a book when create your content. 300-500 words is all it takes. Your content can:
1. Be your personal review.
2. An update on a current trend.
3. A news flash.
4. Tips.
5. An essay.
6. A link to another blog or article.
7. An article.
8. A rant (but be careful… you can be controversial but don’t offend people.)
9. A journal … but keep it interesting. Like reality TV.
10. Advice
One thing that can help you organize your ideas is to have each day (or 3 days a week) be a specific topic or type of post. For example, Monday can be a news day and Wednesday can be a rambling day.
At Moms At Home Success I have Money Making Monday, Tuesday’s Tips, Tricks and Tools, Wacky Wednesday, Transformational Thursday, and Freebie Friday.
Set a schedule to blog regularly at least three days a week.
Keyword Rich Content
Keywords are the words that people use search for information. At WAHS the most commen keywords are “work at home”, “work from home”, “work at home jobs” etc. So when I write, I want to be sure to use these types of words. For the most part, this is easy. You can’t help but use keywords when you’re writing about your topic. But keyword are important for search engine listing and ranking, so you want to be sure to use a variety of keywords that are related to your topic.
Promotion
Just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Aside from regular posting, your biggest job will be letting others know about your blog. Will go into detail on how to do that below, but for now I just want to point out the importance of marketing your blog. Search engines will eventually find it, but you can’t sit back and wait for the hits to come. Not if you want to make money anyway. Marketing
your blog doesn’t have to cost money. It simply takes time and a strategy. As you set up your blogging schedule, also set up time, everyday to promote your blog.
How to set up a blog to make money
Below are the step by step details you need to set up your blog, monetize it with Adsense, and promote it.
1. Choose a topic. If you already have a business, choose a topic related to your business. If you sell health and wellness products, set up a blog about health and wellness. If you have a gardening business, set up a gardening blog. If you don’t have a business, brainstorm a list of topics that you are either knowledgeable or passionate about. It can be related to your skills or experience, but it might be more fun to make it related to a hobby or cause. Ideas include gardening, politics, children’s issues, women’s issues, book or other reviews, ‘life as’ topics, quests, scrapbooking, parenting, aging, and so on. Make a list of all the things you go through, deal with, love, hate, have experience in.
2. Choose two or three of the topics and visit Keyword Discoveryto find out how many people search for information on the topic you’re interested in. This will give you a variety of keywords that people search and tell you how many times those keywords were searched over the last month. It can help you narrow your topic as well as give you ideas on what to blog about.
3. Visit your favorite search engine and search you topic using a few of your keywords to see what others are doing. These people are your competition, but don’t worry too much if there is a lot of competition. Mostly you want to see what they are doing. Are they selling stuff? Simply providing information? Is there something they aren’t doing that you can do?
4. Choose a topic and brainstorm all the keywords and types of things you can blog about. You don’t want to start blogging and then run out of ideas. You can get more ideas by using Google Alerts to send you news items related to your topic, read other blogs related to your topic, and read books and articles about your topic. Keep a list handy to add ideas when they come to you.
5. Go to Blogger.com to sign up for a free blog account. There are other free blog accounts but Blogger is owned by Google (which runs Adsense) so its easy to integrate the program into your blog. Wordpress is another good option except the only way to run Adsense is to download the script and run it on your own servicers. If you understand what that means and you want to do it, then its a good option. But here were going for speed and ease.
6. Choose a theme for your blog (template). You can do a search to find more Blogger themes, but for now, you may want to stick with the options available from your dashboard. Fancy isn’t always better. Content is the real cash cow online so focus on that.
7. In your dashboard area, set up your profile.
8. Set up a Google Adsense Account. READ THE RULES CAREFULLY. If you break the rules (ie click on your own links) Google can terminate your account. And its notoriously hard to reinstate it.
9. From your Dashboard you can click on “Adsencse” in the Related Services box.
10. Under “Template” click on “Adsense” to set up Adsense on your blog.
11. Go to Feedburner and sign up for an account there. Use all the services you can there. This site will help promote your blog and keep track of stats. Once you’ve signed up, go back to your Blogger account and add your Feedburner URL under “Settings”, “Site Feed”,
12. Start posting to your blog.
13. Ad your blog to major search engines. Visit the search engines and find the “Add URL” or “Add Your Site Link”. You may need to poke around a bit to find it. Here’s Google’s.
14. Promote your blog.
- Email your friends and family about your blog. Add your blog URL to your email signature line.
- Visit blog directories (do a search online for them) and submit your blog.
- Add your blog to Technorati.
- Post to your blog regularly. Search engines love this!
- Visit Ping-o-matic.com to set your blog to ping the major blog sources. This lets everyone know when you’ve added new content.
- href=”http://www.workathomesuccess.com/contactWAHS.html”>Contact WAHS and let me know about your blog.
- If you belong to social networks or online discussion groups, tell them about your blog (if allowed). Add your blog URL to your discussion group signature line.
15. I’ve said it before but it is so crucial I’m going to say it again. POST AND PROMOTE REGULARLY.
If you’re really serious about making money with a blog and Adsense, I’m going to give you some resources that will be worth the investment:
ETC
<How to Use WAHS Jobs and News: On occasion I get an email from someone who can’t find the jobs posted in this newsletter, so I thought I’d give a quick overview on how to use the ezine. Each feature is marked by a header describing it. The jobs are under the header that says “Work-At-Home Jobs”. Any other opportunities listed elsewhere in the newsletter will be affiliate programs, home
businesses or work-at-home resources. So if you are hear solely for the jobs, you’ll want to stick to the Work-At-Home Job feature.
Important Reminders:
If you share an email account with someone, please let them know you have subscribed to this ezine. It is a double opt-in newsletter yet some seem to wonder how they got on the list. It’s usually because
someone who shares the account subscribed but didn’t let others know.
Spam filters can filter out the email you want so be sure to set your filters to accept email from workathomesuccess.com.
Many jobs and other links in this newsletter are set to open in new browsers. Some pop-up blockers prevent these windows from opening. Turn your blocker’s to “off” or set your blocker protection to
accept this webpage’s opening of a new browser window.
Quick note on ads: I just want to remind readers that Work-At-Home Success does accept advertising. Every attempt is made to check ads to make sure they offer legitimate opportunities. I have refunded or refused ads in the past that were found to be suspect. The site also feeds ads from
Google Adsense. I do try to screen ads run through this service and block the scams; however, new ads are added all the time and they rotate making it difficult to always find the duds. If you find an ad
that is questionable, please email me so I can remove it ASAP. Also, while WAHS runs ads, that doesn’t mean it endorses the product or service offered.
Disclaimer: Work-At-Home Success is a free website and ezine providing information and resources to people who want to work at home in a home business or job. Work-At-Home Success does receive compensation through advertising as well as affiliate programs. While every attempt is made to insure the quality and legitimacy of offers, listing here does NOT constitute an endorsement by Work-At-Home Success unless otherwise stated. You are encouraged to research any product or program you see here. Further, Work-At-Home Success and Leslie Truex make no guarantees that you will work from home. If you have questions about the site, newsletter or this disclaimer, contact Leslie.
Advertising Policy: Work-At-Home Success is committed to helping small and home based businesses by offering affordable advertising on the website and in the ezine. However, Work-At-Home Success does reserve the right to refuse advertising. Ad that will not be accepted include those that involve known scams or questionable work-at-home programs such as envelope stuffing and assembly work. Other ads that will be refused include jobs that require fees (it is understood that home businesses may require an investment), programs with a history of complaints on consumer
protection sites, or other programs WAHS feels are in contradiction to legitimate work-at-home opportunities. Further, Work-At-Home Success will not send ads that suggest they are personally from WAHS or endorsed by WAHS. Any program that WAHS endorses or recommends will be clearly identified.
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