There are tons of great work at home opportunities out there, which means that there are a variety to choose from. Today, I'm writing about one popular job idea, called "Freelancing." Basically, with a freelance job, you are an independent contractor who bids on job projects, and then gets paid after performing the job. There are tons of these freelancing jobs out there, from writing, to translating, to even photography. I even saw one person who was willing to pay $100/day just for someone to call him every morning and tell him what his weather forecast would be for the day, as well as current news! (O.K. I'll admit that's a little strange.)
Still, you can make a good amount through this.
Here's how it works:
1. You sign up to a website that is a marketplace for listing and bidding on these jobs.
Here are two of the biggest:
Elance - This one has a membership fee to bid on jobs.
Guru -Guru is free for some limited bidding, but small fee for most jobs.
2. Search for jobs that interest you.
3. Once you find a job that you would like, you will have to bid against other job seekers, to see who would be willing to do the job for the lowest cost. (Though cost is a large factor in being picked for the job, the employer will also be looking at your reputation, as well as the messages you send them.)
4. You get the job. If you win the job the employer will send your payment to either Elance or Guru (whichever you use.) Next, you will be expected to perform the job, and only when you have successfully completed the job will the company release your payment to you.
Is this job easy? No it is not, but there is usually a higher amount of pay per job than with other work at home jobs. Before you decide not to do it, at least take a look at the type of jobs offered on the site. There might be something there that you would really enjoy!
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Thursday
Strange Update on Liveops Lawsuit
Liveops has Prevailed in the lawsuit! To read the article, click here!
This post is in response to the original post on a Liveops Lawsuit. To view the original click here.
Though I find the Livops lawsuit a very important topic to cover, I have said my share, and this will be my last post on the topic. (Except for the results, of course!) From now on, my posts will be about working at home, how to get started, and basically everything in general on the topic (with some interesting additions thrown in! Just wait and see.) Ok. Now on to a Liveops update. While browsing Yahoo, I decided to do a search on "liveops lawsuit" just for curiosity. I saw two things that surprised me. For one, my post wasn't even on Yahoo results, while it is #1 on Google. Shame on you Yahoo! The second thing that I noticed was even stranger though. In the area where the search advertisements usually are, I saw this ad: (image below)
When I clicked on the image, it took me to this site: http://www.overtime-flsa.com/
The site appears to be a lawyers website, since the title bar says "Unpaid Overtime Pay and Claims Lawyers." Additionally, the site says "Michael D. Lore, P.C. is a Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated law firm that focuses its practice on representing workers in claims and lawsuits involving unpaid overtime wages." The reason I found this strange, was that at the bottom of the website, it says "Not Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization." So, then who and what are they? Also, the site has a form with which you are supposed to fill in your information, if you think that you are entitled to overtime pay and submit it to them. The site also provided a phone number in the toolbar. As I was curious, I called. The person who was on the other end answered the phone as "the law firm." What law firm? Who are these people?! When I said that I had been an agent, the person told me that they were collecting information, and that there currently was no class-action lawsuit against Liveops. Hmmm. So apparently, it looks to me like other firms are testing the waters, to see if they can make some cash off of Liveops as well. Whatever it is, I would have liked if the site, as well as the person on the phone, gave more information on who they were.
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This post is in response to the original post on a Liveops Lawsuit. To view the original click here.
Though I find the Livops lawsuit a very important topic to cover, I have said my share, and this will be my last post on the topic. (Except for the results, of course!) From now on, my posts will be about working at home, how to get started, and basically everything in general on the topic (with some interesting additions thrown in! Just wait and see.) Ok. Now on to a Liveops update. While browsing Yahoo, I decided to do a search on "liveops lawsuit" just for curiosity. I saw two things that surprised me. For one, my post wasn't even on Yahoo results, while it is #1 on Google. Shame on you Yahoo! The second thing that I noticed was even stranger though. In the area where the search advertisements usually are, I saw this ad: (image below)
When I clicked on the image, it took me to this site: http://www.overtime-flsa.com/
The site appears to be a lawyers website, since the title bar says "Unpaid Overtime Pay and Claims Lawyers." Additionally, the site says "Michael D. Lore, P.C. is a Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated law firm that focuses its practice on representing workers in claims and lawsuits involving unpaid overtime wages." The reason I found this strange, was that at the bottom of the website, it says "Not Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization." So, then who and what are they? Also, the site has a form with which you are supposed to fill in your information, if you think that you are entitled to overtime pay and submit it to them. The site also provided a phone number in the toolbar. As I was curious, I called. The person who was on the other end answered the phone as "the law firm." What law firm? Who are these people?! When I said that I had been an agent, the person told me that they were collecting information, and that there currently was no class-action lawsuit against Liveops. Hmmm. So apparently, it looks to me like other firms are testing the waters, to see if they can make some cash off of Liveops as well. Whatever it is, I would have liked if the site, as well as the person on the phone, gave more information on who they were.
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Wednesday
Update on Liveops Lawsuit Post...
Liveops has prevailed in the lawsuit! To read the article click here!
To view all posts related to the Liveops Lawsuit click here.
A few days ago, I made a post on how Liveops, one of the largest known work at home companies, is being sued by two of it's agents. In one day, my blog received more hits that I have seen the whole month. At the same time, I have noticed that people have had a few misconceptions when reading my post, so I want to clarify it now.
Though I side with Liveops and hope that they win, there is an extremely fine line between an independent contractor and an employee. The IRS uses three categories to determine the difference: Type of Relationship, Behavioral Control, and Financial Control. Liveops could be on either side of the fence with these. For example, Liveops does control how its agents behave. An agent can't say random things to a customer, scripts must be followed, sometimes verbatim. Secondly, as I said in my last post, signing a contract saying that you understand that you are only an Independent Contractor does NOT always mean that you are one. For example, in 1996, someone filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for almost the exact same reason. Microsoft had been hiring people as independent contractors who had to sign a contract saying that they were such. The U.S Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit heard the case. One of the main arguments was that people had their jobs defined by Microsoft, and worked for long periods of time (usually years.) Many agents at Liveops have been doing the exact same thing. In that case, Microsoft settled before a decision was reached, for almost $100 million dollars! Similar things have happened to Time Warner and other large companies.
So basically, it is up to the judge to decide on this one, and he could go either way. If Liveops loses the case, they might have to change all of its agents to employees, and as I said in my last post, most of them probably will not want a set pay, as it could be a lot less than what is made now. This could be a landmark case for all call order work at home companies, so let's hope for the best!
Want more info to decide for yourself? Check out some of the links below!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp
http://www.contingentlaw.com/Costly_legal_myths_in_contract.htm
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa121800.htm
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa121800_2.htm
http://www.businesstaxrecovery.com/Independent_contractor_employee
http://www.vault.com/nr/newsmain.jsp?nr_page=3&ch_id=400&article_id=52996&cat_id=1088
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To view all posts related to the Liveops Lawsuit click here.
A few days ago, I made a post on how Liveops, one of the largest known work at home companies, is being sued by two of it's agents. In one day, my blog received more hits that I have seen the whole month. At the same time, I have noticed that people have had a few misconceptions when reading my post, so I want to clarify it now.
Though I side with Liveops and hope that they win, there is an extremely fine line between an independent contractor and an employee. The IRS uses three categories to determine the difference: Type of Relationship, Behavioral Control, and Financial Control. Liveops could be on either side of the fence with these. For example, Liveops does control how its agents behave. An agent can't say random things to a customer, scripts must be followed, sometimes verbatim. Secondly, as I said in my last post, signing a contract saying that you understand that you are only an Independent Contractor does NOT always mean that you are one. For example, in 1996, someone filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for almost the exact same reason. Microsoft had been hiring people as independent contractors who had to sign a contract saying that they were such. The U.S Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit heard the case. One of the main arguments was that people had their jobs defined by Microsoft, and worked for long periods of time (usually years.) Many agents at Liveops have been doing the exact same thing. In that case, Microsoft settled before a decision was reached, for almost $100 million dollars! Similar things have happened to Time Warner and other large companies.
So basically, it is up to the judge to decide on this one, and he could go either way. If Liveops loses the case, they might have to change all of its agents to employees, and as I said in my last post, most of them probably will not want a set pay, as it could be a lot less than what is made now. This could be a landmark case for all call order work at home companies, so let's hope for the best!
Want more info to decide for yourself? Check out some of the links below!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp
http://www.contingentlaw.com/Costly_legal_myths_in_contract.htm
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa121800.htm
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa121800_2.htm
http://www.businesstaxrecovery.com/Independent_contractor_employee
http://www.vault.com/nr/newsmain.jsp?nr_page=3&ch_id=400&article_id=52996&cat_id=1088
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Tuesday
Upsells, Downsells, Affinities, Oh My!
Hi again!
Today I'm writing about one of the bad sides of working with some of the work at home phone order companies. Most people think "Oh, I'll just have to process someone's order and get paid for it!" Sorry, but it's not that easy, and I want to clear up this misconception now. In addition to selling the product that the customer has called in to order, you also will be trying to get that customer to buy multiple other items, from additional items similar to the one that the customer is purchasing, to different magazines and membership clubs.
For example:
If Linda calls in to order a juicer, it could then be an agents job to try and sell her another juicer, some cookbooks that she could use with that juicer, and maybe even a fitness program or a magazine subscription.
So in addition to Lisa just buying the juicer, we would be offering her upsells (additional items along with her juicer), downsells (reducing the price of the additional items if she turns it down), and even affinities (magazine subscriptions, free vacation getaways, and membership clubs.)
As an agent, most companies require us to offer her every single item, since there can be a large profit made from these items. Because there can many items to offer, a call that could take five minutes might even reach half an hour. This can make the customer very frustrated if they do not want the items, and they sometimes might start yelling at you that "No, for the last time, I DO NOT want anything other than what I ordered!" The only way that you can usually skip all of the offers is if the customer says that they will hang up or cancel. Usually, you finally get to the end of these call with the customer frustrated and you tired from saying that you're sorry but you are required to read these offers. Though I still think that working at home is great, I just want people to take this into consideration before applying.
(Additional Note: Not all work at home companies do this with the calls they take. With the ones that do, not every call is this way. What happens is the call company's clients (the ones who are actually selling the product, will decide whether or not they want to add additional offers to the product they are selling. Also, you will usually receive an incentive per additional offer sold.)
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Today I'm writing about one of the bad sides of working with some of the work at home phone order companies. Most people think "Oh, I'll just have to process someone's order and get paid for it!" Sorry, but it's not that easy, and I want to clear up this misconception now. In addition to selling the product that the customer has called in to order, you also will be trying to get that customer to buy multiple other items, from additional items similar to the one that the customer is purchasing, to different magazines and membership clubs.
For example:
If Linda calls in to order a juicer, it could then be an agents job to try and sell her another juicer, some cookbooks that she could use with that juicer, and maybe even a fitness program or a magazine subscription.
So in addition to Lisa just buying the juicer, we would be offering her upsells (additional items along with her juicer), downsells (reducing the price of the additional items if she turns it down), and even affinities (magazine subscriptions, free vacation getaways, and membership clubs.)
As an agent, most companies require us to offer her every single item, since there can be a large profit made from these items. Because there can many items to offer, a call that could take five minutes might even reach half an hour. This can make the customer very frustrated if they do not want the items, and they sometimes might start yelling at you that "No, for the last time, I DO NOT want anything other than what I ordered!" The only way that you can usually skip all of the offers is if the customer says that they will hang up or cancel. Usually, you finally get to the end of these call with the customer frustrated and you tired from saying that you're sorry but you are required to read these offers. Though I still think that working at home is great, I just want people to take this into consideration before applying.
(Additional Note: Not all work at home companies do this with the calls they take. With the ones that do, not every call is this way. What happens is the call company's clients (the ones who are actually selling the product, will decide whether or not they want to add additional offers to the product they are selling. Also, you will usually receive an incentive per additional offer sold.)
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