sharon on October 22nd, 2009

Work at home forums can be a terrific way to get free traffic to your site, meet and network with other home business owners and make valuable connections.  I’ve put together a list of great forums for you to visit (including, of course, my Work At Home Forums).  A big thanks to Shelly at Classy [...]

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sharon on October 20th, 2009

A new study has disclosed that half of fathers are choosing flexible or part-time working hours to spend more time with their families.
Research conducted by The Children’s Mutual, a U.K. provider of child trust funds, shows that as many as 14 per cent of the 2,000 fathers surveyed said they chose to [...]

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Sheryl Hefner, director of management operations, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, began telecommuting to help cope with an unexpected health crisis. She was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, which required her to spend a month in the hospital followed by six months of chemotherapy. Her department sent a computer-support specialist to Hefner’s home [...]

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sharon on September 3rd, 2009

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sharon on August 17th, 2009

My latest investigation is on a popular craft assembly program, Disciple’s Cross™. I had seen their ads all over the Internet and since I get so many questions about craft assembly companies, I thought it a perfect fit for an investigation.
Overview…
For me, craft assembly is one of those things that I lump in with “data [...]

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sharon on August 5th, 2009

I recently purchased a work at home directory that said that it had “over 150 businesses hiring home employees”. I downloaded it, looked it over thoroughly and wanted to report my findings.
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I saw an ad for a work at home directory that promised that I could make up to $500.00 per week from home. I’ve [...]

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sharon on August 3rd, 2009

This month I’ve decided to focus on investigations into work at home ads.  I hope my posts will help you to avoid some of the more prevalent scams.
I received an email this morning and I immediately knew what it was. It’s one of those “we’re a financial company and we need you to receive money [...]

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sharon on June 19th, 2009

One way to increase your chances of working at home is to be open to making some sacrifices.  Rather than focusing on finding the perfect work at home job, think about changes you could make to widen the net.
Take a pay cut.
A recent Citrix Online report on “the World Wide Workplace” cited a forecast from [...]

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An executive at a small start up figured out how working at home could save their foundering company.
At one point in my career I found my self Chief Information Officer of a small start up company, struggling to make ends meet. We were burning $50,000.00 to $75,000.00 per month and not quite making that in [...]

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sharon on June 5th, 2009

Whenever I meet new people, it seems that when I tell them what I do they inevitably ask how I came to work at home.   It occurs to me that hearing stories about how people ended up working from home would be not only interesting, but also might help others to find their way [...]

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