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WAH Business Options - Part 2
Providing a Service
If you don't want to sell another product online and are not interested in creating your own, you might want to
consider offering your services to others who make a living on the internet.
If you are a talented writer, you may be able to carve out a career running your own at home freelance writing
company. If you can design graphics, freelance graphics art jobs might be in your future. Programmers can also find
ways to make money online.
People get paid to type, proofread, answer customer emails, and a host of other tasks online. Providing services to
others is a low-overhead proposition that can produce a significant income.
One can market their services in a variety of ways. Some opt to start their work at home service business by
signing up with sites like Rentacoder.com and Elance.com. These sites attract customers who will place jobs in
front of freelancers who can then bid on a project. If the client likes your approach and your price, you can start
earning right away.
Learning to be a successful freelancer can take some time and effort, but it is one of many ways to run a work at
home business on the internet.
Telecommuting
You might not hate your job and may wish you could keep it while still gaining some of the advantages of working at
home.
You might not be ready to bite off owning and being responsible for your own business. You don't mind being an
employee, you just need increased flexibility.
If either of those two paragraphs describes you, telecommuting might be a great work at home option. Telecommuters
are those who work for someone else, but do so from the home.
They may take telephone calls, perform typing and other traditional office tasks, or perform a host of other
functions. They are handled as employees of the hiring company just as if they were on-site. The only difference is
that they connect with headquarters via the phone and internet instead of reporting to their desk each day.
This ebook is primarily focused upon starting one's own work at home business, as opposed to finding ways to hold a
traditional job in a nontraditional fashion. However, if telecommuting sounds nice to you, it is definitely worth
investigating further.
Mystery Shopping
Have you ever wondered how the big retailers really know what each and every one of their stores are up to? How
does the head of Mega Mart know if the store in Widgetville is up to par?
They may use mystery shoppers.
A mystery shopper doesn't necessarily shop at all. Instead, he or she wanders the store as if shopping were on the
agenda, but instead keeps eyes open for store strengths and weaknesses that are then reported so that the company
can have some outside, independent assessments of individual store performance.
Grabbing a mystery shopping gig can be difficult. It's a flexible way to make extra money on one's own schedule,
which has led many to pursuing the openings that do exist.
For those with a keen eye for detail and a desire to march through retail establishments, vying for a mystery
shopping job makes a lot of sense.
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