Real Companies That Will Hire You to Work at Home Now
Most of the time, people want to tell you how you can work at home, but they never give any specifics. I ran into this problem multiple times when I was searching for work at home opportunities and found stuff like this:
"Affiliate Marketing is the way to go. You can make a bunch of money online selling other peoples stuff!"
"Become a home telephone representative. Companies will pay you to be a customer service representative out of your home office."
"Do freelance work online. Write articles, blog posts, reviews and other materials for other websites and get paid for them"
So, what are we missing here? How and where would someone who is new at this get started? The ideas are great, but how can you help me by telling me what to do but not how to do it? I have taken this into account and I am giving actual names and income sources to help the real work at homers out there. I have complied a list of qualified companies and leads that you can try.
Afflilate Marketing: Takes a lot of work, but you can potentially make a lot of money selling and referring other people's products. here are a couple companies that make it easy (all are networks of affiliates, rather than single, free sign up). Learn about Affiliate Marketing.
Linkshare- Great affiliate networking company with tons of reputable companies.
Twittad- This one is a little different. If you have a twitter account, you can make money running ads on it. Advertisers borrow your twitter background. The more followers you have, the more you get paid!
Logical Media- Earn revenue with your site by providing leads to this companies advertisers. They optimize by offering only the best and highest paid campaigns out.
Shareasale- Boasts over 2,000 merchants with a wide variety of products you can choose from to promote
Commission Junction- One of the biggest ones out there. Millions of links and banners to choose from, has Commission Junction University to help educate affiliates and promote higher sales.
Clickbank- Choose from thousands of products to promote and make a commission on each sale.
Home Telephone Representative: With a home office, dedicated phone line, and customer service skills, you can work as a telephone representative out of the comforts of home. The following companies hire at-home workers
Ignotius- Informational software program. The have a large network of independent home contractors. Affiliated with clients that are in need of data entry, virtual assistants, call center agents, and other clerical positions.
LiveOps- Hire independent agents to work in virtual call centers for companies around the world. They are looking for multiple types of agents, including inbound and outbound sales, licensed insurance, financial, casual dining, and bilingual. There is an application and qualification process.
West at Home- This established company allows you to design your own schedule and receive paid training when you are hired. You are given a skills assessment test and an interview over the phone. Pay is either an hourly set wage, or per minute by call time.
Alpine Access- Become a customer care professional with this company and receive competitive pay, helath and 401K benefits, career advancement opportunities and more. Call center takes inbound calls.
Freelance Work: Tons of freelance work can be found online. Here is a list of the legit providers that are my favorite (all with free memberships):
Elance-For people from all walks of life. Writers, designers, artists, coders and many more positions are listed here. Bid on jobs and get selected by the company, do the work, get paid. One of the largest.
Guru- One of the largest freelance marketplaces online. Larger scale jobs are posted here. Create a personal profile, submit quotes on projects and companies find you based upon your qualifications to do freelance work.
Odesk- Instead of bidding on projects, you bid on hours. Employers can list the amount of hours they need per week and the number of weeks they need out of a freelancer.
Suite 101- An article/freelance site that invites writers into their network. Get paid a share of what they make off of their huge gallery of articles. Get paid royalties based upon the popularity of your articles.
Craigslist- As always, craigslist has a bunch of freelance opportunities. You can find something local to you and there are so many different opportunities.
Hope you find some of these names useful. It took me a while to research each one. I wish someone could have laid it out this easily for me!
