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More About This Title Undress for Success: The Naked Truth About MakingMoney at Home
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Unlike the many "change-your-life" books that promise much and deliver little—Undress4Success provides expert, practical advice about: 1) what home-based jobs are available, what talents they require, what they pay, who’s hiring, and how to land one; 2) how to use the Web to search for work-at-home jobs and business opportunities without being scammed; 3) how to turn professional talents into a freelance business; and 4) how to convince an employer to adopt a telecommuting program.
Based on interviews with dozens of employers, home-based employees, successful freelancers, and leading telework researchers, this book shows readers the way home.
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Tom Harnish is an expert on the technologies that make home-based jobs possible. As a consultant, project director, company president, and business owner he learned what it takes to make money using computers and telecommunications from over thirty years of successful and not-so-successful business development in fields as diverse as health care, home banking, and elec-tronic publishing.
For more information, please visit UndressForSuccessOnline.com
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Foreword Jack Nilles xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction xxi
1 E-work, The Bare Essentials 1
1 Who E-works and What Do They Do? 3
2 What’s in It for Me? 7
3 Expose Yourself—Are You Right for E-work? 12
4 Dirty Underwear—Uncovering the Scams 21
2 Pajama Paychecks: Jobs You Can Do in Your Jammies 31
5 Who’s Paid to Work at Home and What Do They Do? 33
6 Take Your Job and Love It 35
7 The Naked Truth about Your Boss 38
8 What’s in It for Your Employer? 44
9 Making Your E-work Pitch 55
10 Best-Bet E-work Employers 59
11 Work as a Call Center Agent 63
12 Work as a Virtual Assistant 73
13 Work as a Medical Transcriptionist 83
14 Work as a Teacher or Tutor 90
15 Work as a Remote Tech 101
16 Work as a Writer 105
17 Work In Telemedicine 114
18 How to Navigate the Web in Search of E-work 118
19 Using the Job Boards to Find E-work 126
20 Your Digital Resume 137
21 Collaboration and Social Networking for E-work 142
3 Freelance in Your Frillies 145
22 Who Freelances and What Do They Do? 147
23 Putting Your Best Slipper Forward 153
24 What Am I Worth? 156
25 Proposals and Contracts 162
26 Finding Freelance Work 167
4 Bedroom Businesses 183
27 Who’s Running Home Businesses and What Do They Do? 185
28 The Right Fit 189
29 Designing the Perfect Business 197
30 The Business Model 203
31 Best Bet Businesses 207
32 Business Planning 212
33 Naked Truths about Home Biz 217
5 Does It Come with Batteries? 223
34 Home-Based Technology 225
6 What If Everybody Did It? 235
35 Let’s All Undress 237
Resources Available at UndressForSuccessOnline.com 243
Notes 245
Index 257
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-Bob Fortier, President of InnoVisions Canada, and The Canadian Telework Association
“I wish I'd had this book when I first started out-it's like having your own personal career coach. Reading this will save many new freelancers a lot of grief!”
-Allena Tapia, About.com: Freelance Writing Guide and Editor of Garden Wall Publications
“If you're an old-fashioned manager who's obsessed with face time, hide this book now. There is no way your employees will commute to their cubicles Monday morning after reading this entertaining manifesto for ditching the panty-hose and actually enjoying work.”
-Laura Vanderkam, author, Grindhopping: Build a Rewarding Career Without Paying Your Dues (McGraw-Hill, 2007)
“You could spend years with focus groups, assemble cross-functional internal teams to study and recommend organizational changes, or simply read Undress for Success to obtain the practical knowledge necessary to better serve your customers; increase loyalty and productivity; avoid layoffs; and improve your profitability for whatever comes your way. Kate and Tom are the 'guiding hands' for self-reliant control of your future success from home!”
-Jack Heacock, SVP and cofounder of The Telework Coalition, Washington, D.C.
