May 15th, 2006
Every person interested to work from home needs a list of resources where she/ he can search for open jobs. The list can be long or short, but it is definitely a must. You should add only valuable resources to the list: those that update their latest job openings and meet your requirements.
I suggest designers as well as programmers include 37 signals on their list. Unfortunately, not all posted jobs are home based (it is the case with most of other job sites also), but new openings are regular and I would check the site occasionally for my life chance.
Just have a look at their last openings – you will discover many big names (that need to get full time workers – why do not they think of cutting their operational costs and switching to outsourcing model?)
Latest Job Openings
Design
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TBWA\Tequila
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Interactive Designer
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Marina del Rey, Los Angeles CA
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Facebook, Inc.
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Interactive Designer, Product Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA
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Arena Solutions
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User Experience Designer
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Foster City, CA (Silicon Valley)
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GameFly
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Art Director
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Los Angeles, CA
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Indeed.com
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Visual/Interaction Developer
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Austin, TX
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CollectiveX Inc.
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UI Master / Chief Designer
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Maryland
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Arktyp
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Senior Graphic/Information Designer
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Toronto
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Wall Street On Demand
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Interface Design
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Boulder, CO
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Networx Online
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Web Designer
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Anywhere
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Six Apart
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Interaction Designer for Blog Applications
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San Francisco
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The Motley Fool
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Front End Web Developer
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Alexandria, VA
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precious
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User Interface Designers
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Hamburg/Berlin/Anywhere
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The Motley Fool
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User Experience Designer
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Alexandria, VA
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EDS
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Senior Web Interface Developer
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Plano, TX
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Scheffey Integrated Marketing
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Website Developer
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Lancaster, PA
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Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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Senior Interactive Designer/Flash Developer
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New York
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Astral Brands
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SEO/PPC Specialist
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Atlanta (Vinings area)
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Digitas
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Lead Interaction Designer
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Chicago, IL
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Zehno Cross Media Communications
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Web Design/Production Specialist
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New Orleans, LA
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eBay
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Web/Graphic Designer
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Santa Monica, CA
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Spring Digital
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Calling Web Designers!
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Central London
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Everypoint
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Senior Designer
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Boston, Ma
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MyFamily.com
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International Senior Interaction Designer
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Provo, Utah
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MyFamily.com
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Senior Interaction Designer
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Provo, Utah
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EH Publishing
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Web Designer/Developer
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Boston, MA
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[tag]freelance designer, freelance, freelance coder, freelance programmer[/tag]
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May 14th, 2006
Now you have chosen what to do for home business, arranged your home office and determined the product or service to offer. What is next? Sitting and waiting for customers to trickle in and for money to start flowing is one thing. The result can be different if you try to market your product.
There are several simple marketing methods to promote your business, including:
Word of mouth. One of the cheapest, most effective and easiest ways to represent your skills and mastery is by word of mouth. You can use a certain opportunity, why not a party, to announce what you are up to to the people that you know. You can find a humorous way to do that and say that you will appreciate if they place your advertisement in a foreign country every time they chance to visit it.
Internet advertisement. Another way of getting yourself in the spotlight is through various advertising Internet sites. If you are a freelancer, go to one of freelancing resources, form a resume (they usually have some aid for it) and leave it there for a potential employer to find and contact you.
Free branded samples. One of the marketing methods that are welcome by potential customers. If you are a freelancer, you can be helpful and do your first job at a discount. Or you can use a two-week trial period for your product. Or, you put your URL on the stationary that you give out or leave in coffee shops or local day centers.
Classified ads in local titles. You should not skip this opportunity, most local newspapers and magazines have a special section reserved for ‘home-business opportunities’ where you can advertise your business. Contact the editor and tell him/her that you have a home-biz running, you can jump into a limelight of a feature article or be in ‘a guest column’.
There are other ways to market and advertise yourself and they are limited only by your imagination.
[tag]home+based+job, home+job, internet marketing, home+business[/tag]
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May 14th, 2006
Today is Mother’s Day and this article is a praise to those moms who have stepped onto the path of combining raising children and raising a home business and an inspiration for those who are going to.
Despite the fact that men are managing a home-business better and their ambitions lead them to expanding beyond their home-office – world-known stories include Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple, Richard Branson of Virgin – success stories of mothers at home are also impressive and it is a strong tendency.
Do you know that the number of mom enterpreneurs in the US have doubled since the mid-1990 and now their ranks account for almost 8 million? That is a great step forward for those, who are to manage many different roles.
I have come across a beautiful website, which features women that launch at http://www.ladieswholaunch.com. It is a wonderful resources that presents women who have risked and attained their goals, their dreams have become a reality. They have pursued careers in different fields ranging from analytical writing to door-to-door selling of underwear and ended up founding their own business.
There are all kinds of stories here, but all of them are common in satisfaction and sense of achievement that is a reward to the women who ventured to go for it and developed their passions or hobbies. At first your idea may seem fragile and unlikely to be implemented, but as they say the best artist is not the one who paints like Picasso, but who is brave enough to reveal his/her own style.
The website offers you to join the Incubator, which is a training program for those who are ready to go out on their own and make their lives more fulfilling and creative. Meetings with and between women are organized in several cities around the US and you can learn the venue in your city at the website.
The subscription is free and you can post your own success story there to let the world know about your way of success, which so many work-from-home moms are hungry for.
[tag] home-based business, home job, work from home, mom enterpreneur, home business [/tag]
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