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There are 2 ways to make money at home online that I know of:

1. You can find a legit work at home job like Project Payday or CashCrate. I will go into more detail about these options in the next section of this article.

2. Build and optimize niche blogs and make money from Adsense clicks, affiliate programs, etc. I will also go into depth on this make money at home option as well.

First, let’s talk  about the work at home jobs like Project Payday and CashCrate. These, by the way, are the only 2 legitimate “get paid to fill out free offers for companies” ones that I am aware of. Project Payday and CashCrate are both free to join and free to fill out offers for. When you complete the offers, you get paid.

The downside to these is that they aren’t very passive. If you don’t fill out the offers, you can’t get paid. It’s like a job, but you do it based upon what you want to do.

The good part about Project Payday and CashCrate is that you can start making money right away. If you work at it like a job 8 hours a day, you can make a couple hundred dollars per day. You can do the work anytime day or night, so it’s easy to fit into a hectic schedule.

If you prefer the option to make money at home with niche blogs like I do, then you will need to read Nomad’s Guide to Make Money Online for all the ins and outs of how this is done. This Nomad’s Guide ebook is based on the teachings of Grizzly Brears and is the closest thing to a shortcut that you will find for those of you who are ready to get started with this method of making money.

The wonderful part about niche blogging is that it becomes quite passive after you get your blogs set-up with Adsense or however you choose to monetize it. All you have to do it keep adding more – and that’s only if you want to. I have hundreds of these types of blogs that earn me a full-time income online. That is how I make money at home and how I am able to continue being a digital nomad. I highly recommend this make money online method!

To Your Success,

Janet Smith

Micro Planning In Action!

If you are trying to build an Internet business in your spare time while holding down a full time job, the only way to keep up momentum will be to adopt good time-management practices and develop a micro-planning strategy so that you know what you have to do at any given time of the day and can mentally prepare for it.

To make good use of any dead time in your day, look at how much time you’ll have available to work on your business and how energetic – or not – you are likely to be. Then allocate the most suitable task to that slot in your schedule.

With micro-planning, it is neither advisable nor feasible to plan more than 48 hours ahead. That is not to say that you should abandon making weekly and monthly macro-plans. Micro-planning is all about filling in the gaps in your day with appropriate tasks in order to keep your sideline Internet business (or whatever) moving forward in spite of your main commitments. To do that successfully you need to be able to predict with reasonable accuracy how you are likely to feel and how likely your
schedule is to change.

To squeeze full value out of micro-planning, draw up a set of lists of the various kinds of job that can be done in different time frames and on different energy levels. For example, tasks that use up a lot of creative energy should be reserved for those days when you have generous periods of free time and are likely to have sufficient energy to get them done. Personally, I recommend early mornings for those kinds of tasks – things like writing articles, creating sales letters, designing websites and so on. Jobs like that should be placed on the “high energy/plenty of time”  list.

On the other hand, low input jobs that don’t require much time or energy to complete should be placed on a second “low energy/quick and easy” list. Tasks such as social networking, posting comments on forums and blogs, responding to e-mail, surfing traffic exchanges for credits, posting classified ads and so forth are ideally suited for those short, low energy time slots.

The photo of a page from my schedule earlier this month illustrates my micro-planning technique in action. I am a freelance English language teacher and teach various types of classes in various locations around town. Between the gaps in my teaching day I added various tasks that I thought I could realistically get done, and have checked them off as I did them. Okay, I admit I photographed one of my more successful weeks when I was able to maintain high energy and motivation levels for several days in a row.

Things do not always go so well, but even so, micro-planning makes it much more likely that you will do more to maintain momentum for your side-business during a busy week at the office, in the classroom, shop, factory, or coalface.

David Hurley
Increasing Time Management Skills for Achieving Goals

I’ve been working at home, full-time for about eight months now. It hasn’t been as easy I thought it would be. Its not just the realities of building a passive income business which has its challenges, its the issue of people’s reactions to the fact that I stay home all day and have no children or other  “obvious” reason to be there.   You need to grow a thick skin if you are planning on building your own business – particularly if you are doing it online.

Very, very few people understand how I make money online. Most people think the height of sophistication on the Internet is being able to use Facebook or Twitter. Most of my friends use neither and some haven’t really got a handle on email yet!

Therefore trying to actually make them understand that I make a living developing my websites and being paid by advertisers leave them at best thinking I am a webdesigner for hire, and worst – well I hate to think what dark and illegal things they think I do working form home all day.

Before you can get other people to take your work at home business seriously though – you need to take it seriously yourself. I have never owned my own business before. It took me quite a long time to understand the correct answer to when someone asked me what I did for a living was “I am an entrepreneur, I am starting my own online business”. Its not a hobby or an experiment – and until you stop thinking it of like that you will find it hard to get others to take you seriously. And you do want your work at home business to be taken seriously. First off it will make it a lot easier to control your time. Having worked away from home for most of my life I love the fact that I can take deliveries during the day and be there for the tradsmen. But you don’t want to become the social center of the neighborhood if you are trying to get some work done! Set boundaries with friends so they don’t just drop by when they feel like it and stay for hours.

Also remember to dream big – don’t talk about making some “pin money” or “a little cash on the side” – because oddly if you talk that way that is all that you will make – a little. Its called a self-limiting belief and they are alive and well for many people starting their own work from home business – particularly women.

So take your business seriously. Get yourself some business cards, a decent computer setup, a comfortable chair. If you can’t handle the accounts or the technical stuff- out-source them – buidling a business means that you will need to invest in your busines as well. That’s probably the single biggest way to take it to the next level.

Lis Sowerbutts is the owner of an opinonated self-titled blog which is all about her journey along the road to earning passive income online.

I see it, I hear it, I read it every single day. The top work at home job choice is non-phone jobs.

Through various work at home job forums a lot of people work in customer service because they are readily available and I suppose people really don’t mind all that much or why would they work in that field? What I also know is a lot of people work several work at home jobs to meet their income needs per month. When they aren’t manning the phones, they are working one or more of these non-phone jobs.

1. Data Entry
They are still very hard to find, but if you try freelance sites you can get temporary work for the time being which may lead to something more permanent in the future and if it isn’t permanent it can be recurring.

2. Transcription
Legal or general as medical transcription requires at least one year off-site work before telecommuting. Transcription is the next closest thing to data entry.

3. Mystery Shopping
It’s a fun thing to do and you can make some decent extra cash. It requires you to leave the house, but it’s still better than spending time on the phone.

4. Online Expert Answers
These are expert guides who get paid to answer questions. It’s like using Google search engine, but you have a human responding.

5. Search Engine Evaluators
Google and Leapforce have temporary contract positions. Quality Raters evaluate search engine results.

6. Texting
Texting is mostly adult-oriented. The client texts via phone and you answer back via computer. It’s not for everyone, but you can make pretty decent money.

7. Website Tester
You review websites based on the company’s requirements.

Other non-phone jobs include freelance writing, court research which requires visits to your county’s courthouse and some online teaching or tutoring positions. For some extra money on the side, you can involve yourself in mock juries and paid forum posting.

You can find a full company list of non-phone jobs and visit Sophia McIntyre at Work At Home Business Options for more work at home business ideas.