With today’s uncertain economic climate, moms across the country are seeking ways to offset the economic downturn with flexible work options. From starting their own home businesses to freelancing and telecommuting, thousands of moms — many of whom are highly educated and experienced — are jumping back into the workforce and choosing to work at home.
These moms now have a new ally and free resources to help them start and market their home businesses. Home Based Working Moms (HBWM) is a professional association and online community of parents who work at home and those who would like to. HBWM.com’s new interactive website provides a variety of tools and resources to help moms network, learn and grow in their role as a home-based working mom, including free business profiles, member directory and networking opportunities.
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“We are seeing a stronger interest from moms wanting to work from home. Many of them are trying to offset lower salaries and/or higher household expenses. Others are seeking to help their family through a layoff or potential layoff. And starting a home business makes sense, as many of these moms can take their past experience or career and begin freelancing from home or start a home business. Our website aims to give them ideas, support, tools and connections to help their businesses flourish,” Lesley Spencer Pyle, HBWM Founder and President says.
The website features interactive profiles allowing members to post their profiles and business information for free. In addition, they can learn from other moms what has worked and what has not in regards to types of businesses, marketing approaches and even parenting challenges.
“I’ve just started my online business and thanks to HBWM, I have received so much help and support from other moms — it’s just overwhelming,” Marcolina Gonzalez, owner of Payless Home Decor & Gifts says.
Pyle is the author of The Work-at-Home Workbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide on Selecting and Starting the Perfect Home Business for You, a columnist with Entrepreneur.com and is also featured on DrPhil.com. She lives in Houston with her husband and four children.
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There are many benefits that are directly gained through the use of telecommuting, especially for the worker that starts doing it. The most obvious direct benefit is of course the money being saved through not having to buy gasoline as often. It is important to note that this is not only money that is saved on the extended price of gasoline, but it is also money that you now have free to spend that you used to spend on gasoline happily when it was $1.20 a gallon instead of the $4+ a gallon that it costs right now.
However, there are indirect benefits to telecommuting as well. These indirect benefits can benefit both the employee (not purchasing coffee and a donut every morning on the way to work) as well as the employer (saving money on computers and infrastructure since the employees are now working from home). It is quite clear to anybody that takes a direct look at it that the benefits of telecommuting are so great and the downsides are so small that every business that can allow it should be allowing it to go on as soon as possible. It’s already started, but Bloggy Biz believes that it should be revamped to the point of being a serious way to get to work.
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The big question behind telecommuting at the current moment in time has to do with the amount of money that you can save. Well, in order to answer this question, it is important to figure out exactly how much money you spend each week on fuel purchases directly related to your work commute.
In order to do that, you need to keep track of how much you drive to and from work as well as how much you drive during your working day if driving happens to be a part of it. Once you have that information, you should have a good idea of the amount of money you can save through telecommuting.
However, for most people, gas prices are not the only prices associated with that daily commute to work. At least part of the maintenance costs of the car are a direct result of commuting to work and should be included as well. In addition to that, many people stop at a restaurant on the way to work to get a coffee and maybe even something like a bagel or a donut. When all of these costs are added together, most people find quite to their surprise that they can save more than $200 a week through telecommuting.
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For some reason, the mental block that a lot of people seem to have with telecommuting is a strong one and for that reason many people have been looking for alternatives to telecommuting. As some that telecommutes to work all the time, I don’t particularly understand the objections to it, but I dutifully tried to examine the problem in order to see if any alternatives were available.
Off the top of my head, the only other viable alternative I could think of was sleeping over at the office. If people brought a week’s worth of clothing with them and had access to a shower close to their office, they could conceivably sleep over at the office from Monday night to Thursday night, coming home on Friday in order to spend the weekend with their family. This would cut down their weekly fuel consumption by 80% (they would still need to commute one-way on Monday morning and Friday evening) and ostensibly save them a lot of money in the process.
Personally, I think that as a solution this is nowhere near as good as telecommuting. Telecommuting allows you to spend all of your evenings with your family and it allows you to be around for family emergencies that might happen. It brings families together rather than forcing them apart and for these reasons and more is simply a much better solution to a person’s current gasoline woes.
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Telecommuting is going to be a big part of solving the energy crisis and indeed at the moment it appears as though it is going to be the primary means of getting to work in the future. While there are a number of industries that are going to need to be reworked in some ways in order to accommodate that, at the same time there are many jobs where you can begin telecommuting right away.
Any desk job you work at where the primary thing that you use is your computer is a job that you can immediately begin telecommuting to. This includes middle management positions, customer service positions and secretarial positions as well. With the great communication lines facilitated by the internet that are available today, all of these jobs can be immediately switched to telecommuting and in the process allow the person doing the telecommuting to save hundreds of dollars a month on gasoline.
In addition to that, any job that requires small scale assembly work is also a job that can allow you to start telecommuting right away. This work can usually be done just as easily at home as at the factory if you have the materials to do so and because of this there is no sense in spending the money on gas for everyday driving when you can just make deliveries on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.
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So what is next for most of us looking up to hyped
jobs as far as demand is concerned? We can see from each year, there is one
job specialization that will stand out above the rest and most of them cater to the same
law of demand and supply to which it will experience an overflow of talent. Just consider these job trends we have experienced throughout the years:
- 1990- The Information Technology and Real Estate Boom
- 2000- Nursing and Medical Technologists Boom
- Present - Call Centers
Today, freelance writers and individuals are slowly rising to the occasion. The difference is that people can do their work from home. Normally, this type of job is suitable for the mothers or parents who stay at home. But today, we can notice that even the full-time workers have their share of using this as their sideline for added income.
This actually kicked off some years back and now even the companies that contract such people have become wiser since quality content is still the important thing when providing this kind of service.
Here is a good article to read on further: Probloggers and Blogging Jobs: The Next Boom for Job Hunters at the Associated Content.
To find out which jobs are currently open in this industry, you can check out this site: Blogger Jobs World
[tags]real_estate_boom, law_of_demand_and_supply, job_specialization, quality_content, freelance_writers, information_technology, jobs[/tags]
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Posted by Damien on Jan 30, 2008 in
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Blogging 
Body language says a lot about a person at work, at home, in relationships, friendships or just talking or watching people in general. Your body sends out signals or messages to someone without you having to say a word. You could be talking to someone and your body language will convey something else entirely. In a business setting, your boss, your co-workers, other people coming and going can all see what you may or may not be saying to someone, whether you use words or not. Observing people is a great way to learn about body language communication and how you talk to people.
1. Eye contact is very important in body language communication. Make eye and try not to stare. When you look at another person and make eye contact occasionally you show an interest in that person and in what he or she is saying. Staring could mean aggression and recommended often, unless you are interested in someone.
2. Facial express is another form of body language communication. Smile and laugh. A smile sends a positive message. Smiling adds warmth and confidence about you. The position of holding you head straight, however, is not the same thing as holding your head on straight, will make you appear self-assured and authoritative. People will take you seriously and take notice. Tilt your head to one side if you want to come across as a friendly and open person. Nodding your head occasionally affirms that you are indeed interested in what the other person is saying.
3. Your arms and legs talk volumes in communicating body language. How you use your arms can help or hurt your image as well. Arms crossed or folded over your chest say that you have shut other people out and have no interest in them or what they are saying. Placing your arms at your side can make you look and feel confident and relaxed to other people around you.
4. Expressing leg movements indicate body language. Excess leg movements indicate nervousness. How you cross them tells other people how you feel. The best professional sitting position is to have your legs crossed at your ankles or both feet on the floor when you are sitting down. Standing too close to someone’s space can indicate aggressiveness or unapproachable. Everyone has a different space and if someone backs away from you then you know you were too close to that person and try and remember not to step that close if you talk to that person again.
By improving your body language communication, you can make a big difference in people skills, attractiveness and in your overall general mood. Remember to be aware of your body language and that what you are saying to others is the same message. Make sure it is the right message you want to send.
[tags]body_lanuage, communication, language[/tags]
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Bloggy Business Today is currently looking for a business blogger who is adept with the current business trends and management practices being used today. The blogger will be required to post 2 posts of 300 words per week. Pay shall be pegged at $5 per post and will increase upon proven ability to live up to our standards.
Some things we are looking for:
Good English Grammar Skills
Business focused writer
Knowledge in use of SEO and Keywords Techniques
Basic Hyperlinking and listing of reference materials
Familiar with Wordpress
Use of images and cropping as well
Experience in Blogging and some sites worked for both current and past
If you are interested, you can send you applications at webmaster@bloggybiz.com with “Business Blogger on the Header”
Please provide two attached sample articles on “The Relevance of Blogging Towards Strategic Management”.
[tags]blogger, grammar_skills, english_grammar, blogging, management_practices, strategic_management, business_trends, reference_materials, business_today, wordpress, seo[/tags]
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Popular Fidelity is looking for a Multi-topic
bloggers:
Looking for half a dozen bloggers who can fill specific roles in a new venture launching in January!
General blogging topics:
* Unusual “offbeat” news
* Tech
* Nation and World
* Business and Money
* Entertainment
* Science and Health
These are broad roles we are trying to fill. We’re looking for people who are passionate about things INSIDE these topics. For example, if you’ve been writing about video games on Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation, that fills the “Tech” role.
This job DOES entail extrapolating news to broader applications. Example: If you’ve been an avid video game blogger looking to fill the “Tech” role, be prepared to also write about Gadgets, General Tech News, Web, etc.
So in other words, if you’re passionate in this area of content, you’re probably following this stuff already!
Requirements:
* A deep passion and opinion for news in your area of expertise. We expect you to be able to form an intelligent viewpoint and convey new information. Be a strong voice!
* Must be able to post at least twice a day (200-400 words).
* Must be able to post between the early morning and mid-afternoon hours.
* Must have prior experience. (Team blogging is a plus.)
* Basic image editing skills also required.
These positions are paid per post at the end of every month. For the first six weeks or so, expect to post only once a day. This is an exciting Internet venture from people who have been active in this area for a while at other prominent web destinations. So get ready to launch something new!
Email bloggerwanted@yahoo.com and include:
1) One or two paragraphs telling us about yourself, your blogging background and why you’re qualified.
2) AT LEAST one link to a site where we can find your previous work.
3) One writing sample of current news for one of the blogging topics.
Interested bloggers can apply here.
Original post can be found here.
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The
River News-Herald, a California Delta-based weekly community newspaper is seeking a talented
staff writer to provide a variety of articles on local politics, the environment, sports and lifestyle features.
Applicant must be a strong copy editor and headline writer; proficiency in the AP Style is crucial. Experience in Quark and Photoshop (using a Mac) is preferable. Position also requires photography.
Opportunity for growth within this paper or its sister publications.
This is a full-time position.
Send resume, references, raw clips and links to published articles to rvads@citlink.net SUBJECT: EDITOR. No phone calls, please.
Interested writers can apply here.
Original post can be found here.
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