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AmeriPlan is a company that markets a discount medical plan (not health insurance) and offers two ways to make money from home, either by selling the discount plan or by recruiting others to sell the plan. There are start-up costs, but AmeriPlan has been in business 15 years and is a reputable company.
Inbound Call Agent with West at Home
West at Home is a reputable, 20 year old, Fortune 1000 company that hires at-home agents to answer inbound phone calls. Agents are thoroughly trained in the services and products for which they provide customer service and all calls are inbound.
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Okay, reading emails and completing online surveys will not make you rich, but it is a way to earn a little extra cash each month. Dozens of websites (or more) say that they will pay you to do this kind of work, but most of these are scams. We've found a company, though, that does what is says it will....pay you to read emails and take surveys.
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Pro Advantage Support hires people to work at home providing a variety of administrative services to businesses that need help but do not want to hire extra on-site staff. These administrative tasks include meeting planning, calendar management, phone and email correspondence and much more.
If you have a talent for embroidery work, then this work-at-home opportunity may be just the ticket. Beaded Casuals is a New York-based cottage manufacturer of beaded products, including jeans, caps, jackets and even picture frames and specialty tableware. Jeans with creative embroidery and/or bead ornamentation, though, are their specialty.
Are you a writer at heart? Okay, maybe you are not the next great American novelist, but perhaps you could write about travel or cooking or repairing cars? If so, your articles are needed by hundreds of thousands of websites seeking content. Associated Content is the place to upload your articles and get paid for them.
Off 12-7-08
The pictures on the billions of web pages across the Internet have to come from somewhere. Many are purchased from stock photo websites, and these sites need high-quality photographs of people, places and things. If you have a good eye and a good digital camera, you may be able to earn some cash by selling your photographs through these sites.
PrePaid Legal is a NYSE company that was founded in 1972 and uses Independent Associates to sell its legal insurance membership plans. These plans provide coverage for legal problems, from signing a contract to disputing a repair bill, and give members fast phone access to a local attorney. Associates are paid up to $182 for each $26 sale.
Off 12-14-08
When you signed up for this newsletter you were told that the topics would not include stuffing envelopes, but you actually can make money from home stuffing envelopes. You do it by working for yourself, not a scammy company with an ad in the newspaper. We will explain.
We've have compiled a list of reputable marketing research companies that pay you in cash and/or prizes for taking telephone and online surveys. None of these require any kind of upfront fee or payment, and all are easy to join.
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You have a lifetime of experience, and you are probably at an expert at something, maybe how to train dogs or how to repair cars or how to mediate child custody disputes. Whatever it is, JustAnswer is a website that pays people to become "experts" and answer questions from users. The application is short, and the pay can add up.
Earn extra money by becoming an online mock juror. You will review interesting legal cases from the comfort of your home, provide feedback through an online questionnaire and get paid for doing it.
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AdSmart is an outdoor advertising company that will wrap your car in eye-catching (some might say "loud") advertising and pay you to drive your attention-getting car around town. Or they might even give you a free car to drive (as long as you keep the GPS system on at all times).
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Accolade is a company that provides customer service for businesses that cannot or do not want to hire in-house customer service support for their customers and client. Accolade is hiring now, and the work is home-based.
This week we take a look at mystery shopping, also called secret shopping, work that involves visiting businesses (restaurants, retail outlets, etc.) undercover and then reporting your experiences with customer service, etc. to the mystery shopping company that has hired you.
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If you enjoy expressing your opinion, then this week's work at home endeavor is just for you. We've found a website that will pay you for starting discussions, responding to established discussions and submitting images.
Blogging is all the rage these days and comes in all styles, topics and designs. If you are not sure what it is or how it works, we will explain the ins and outs of this fun communication medium.
Last week we talked about blogging, what it is and how to get started doing it. This week we look at a few more (simpler) blogs and show ways to monetize the one you will soon be setting up!
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EQ is one's emotional intelligence quotient, which is the ability to perceive, use and manage the emotions of one's self and of others so as to achieve stated goals and objectives. EQ mentoring is helping others improve their EQ, which can be accomplished online, and baby boomers and retirees are the best EQ mentors out there.
Edit Fast is a company that provides clients with proofreading and editing services for their documents, articles, books, etc. The company is a marketplace for editors/proofreaders and authors to come together, and it is currently looking for people interested in editing and/or proofreading.
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Idapted is a respected international company that helps foreign students learn to speak English. Instructors work from home via an Internet connection and do not need to speak a language other than English.
When a hotel wants to measure how its front desk staff and/or sales staff is performing, it may contract with a hotel mystery shopper. This week we look at a company that hires people to perform this work as independent contractors.
Major U.S. companies today are often going overseas to find new employees and then needing to relocate those employees to the U.S. We look at a company that hires consultants to help with this relocation process in communities around the county.
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This week we look at a company that is hired by newspapers to increase customer loyalty and retention rates. Agents work from home contacting existing newspaper customers about their delivery and subscription service. There is no cold calling involved.
This issue profiles a company that pays independent contractors to collect public information located at local courthouses. This can be a full time or part time position, and no start up fees are required.
ClickNwork is an online company that hires home-based workers to perform research, and other functions, for businesses with which ClickNwork contracts. Currently, 50,000 people work part-time for ClickNwork.
As the Internet becomes more ubiquitous and more people use it to find information, search results need to improve and become more relevant. Lionbridge is a global company hiring people to help make that happen.
English1on1 gone
Using the Internet, English1on1 is a company that hires at-home tutors to help non-English speakers learn to speak English. If you are a native English speaker without an accent, you may apply for this job.
Most search engines utilize complex programming to locate information that corresponds to keywords entered by the user. A social search engine, on the other hand, employs humans to find the information. ChaCha is one such search engine.
All retail companies (most anyway) need to provide customer service, but not all want to do it in-house and instead outsource the job. Affina is a company that provides customer service to other companies' customers and hires people at home to do it.
For those with an artistic bent, CafePress is a place to sell products with your designs on them. The site provides the products (mugs, caps, etc.), takes care of payment processing and does the shipping. You have no inventory and pocket the difference between the base price and the mark up price on your sales.
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Writers Needed at Helium - All Topics
Have you ever wanted to be a writer? Even for people with little experience, Helium is a place to earn some extra cash (although you probably won't get rich). It is a marketplace of writers, publishers and advertisers where everyone shares in the revenue generated when articles are published on websites. Choose a subject and start writing, but the better and more popular your article is the more money you can earn. Earnings are based on article quality, how many readers are interested in the topic and advertiser interest. Writers retain all copyrights, and there are no fees to join.
Jurors Needed at Online Verdict
Lawyers will post a case summary and verdict questions to the OnlineVerdict.com website, with the option of having 25 or 50 jury-eligible people like you review the case facts and provide feedback on the case issues. Registered jurors in the venue the case was filed will receive an email invitation to review the case, and when completed, will receive payment for their time. Juror feedback is then tabulated and presented to the lawyer or legal professional who posted the case. You must be 18 and live in the U.S. to participate. No registration fees.
April 25, 2010
Magnum Contact Center Looking for Phone Reps
Magnum
Contact Center
is a company that manages in bound and out bound
calls for a variety of companies and
organizations, including political and
business-to-business. Representatives work
from home in the areas of customer service, sales, market
research and others. At least a home broadband
Internet connection is required (cable or dsl
preferred). Magnum is
based in Georgia and has been in business for 15
years.
May 12, 2010
Many businesses that need office help do not want to hire extra in-house staff. Instead, they hire Pro Advantage Support, a company that provides companies and entrepreneurs a variety of professional business services from calendar management to meeting planning. Pro Advantage hires people to work independently from home to provide these services, all of which can be performed with a computer and the Internet. Experience in your field (research, data entry, ghost writing, budget management, etc.) required.
June 6, 2010
Transcribers Needed at Tigerfish
TigerFish, is a reputable, established transcription service, a company that renders recorded speech into written form, and its past clients have included major universities, city governments, foundations and national media outlets. The company is currently in search of transcribers, people who are quick typists, have a good ear for language and are able to write well. These positions are home-based and do not require prior transcription experience, but applicants do need a high speed Internet connection, a phone and some software.
June 24, 2010
EQ is one's emotional intelligence quotient, which is the ability to perceive, use and manage the emotions of one's self and of others so as to achieve stated goals and objectives. EQ mentoring is helping others improve their EQ, which can be accomplished online, and baby boomers and retirees are the best EQ mentors out there.
July 8, 2010
ClickNwork is Looking for Help
ClickNwork partners with companies to see what work they can complete for them remotely (everything from research, report preparation and data entry to writing and analysis can be done remotely). Projects are then assigned to home-based workers, which include writers, web researchers, translators, analysts, interviewers and others. Interested applicants must register and pass a test.
September 4, 2010
Sell Your Artwork on CafePress
CafePress is a fun, high-traffic website where you can buy products and have them personalized with a design you upload. It is also a place where you can sell t-shirts (and other items) that have your design and/or artwork on them. CafePress provides the products, prints them and ships them when an order is placed through the free online CafePress store that you establish (or you can pay $4.99 a month for a premium store). You earn 10% commission on all sales.
September 26, 2010
Times change. Not too long ago, when a student needed help with his school lessons, he called upon a tutor in his hometown for a little one on one assistance. These days, tutoring is done online and is a great way for those with a lifetime of experience, a college education, a computer and an Internet connection to offer academic help to kids nearly anywhere. You must reside in the U.S. and have a college education to apply.
October 24, 2010
In Bound Call Agents with West at Home
West at Home is a part of a reputable, 20+ year old Fortune 1000 company that hires at-home agents to answer inbound phone calls. Companies in a wide variety of industries, including retail, healthcare and travel, outsource their customer service to West at Home, and West at Home then hires agents to work from home to service the customers of these clients. ALL calls are inbound; agents make no outbound calls. Average pay is $8 to $10 per hour.
November 12, 2010
One on One English Instruction
Idapted is a respected, international company that provides one on one English instruction, live over the Internet, to students around the world, helping them improve their speaking and listening skills. The majority of the students are young professionals and employees of foreign companies, many of whom want to one day live and or work in the U.S., Britain or Canada. Idapted is currently in search of instructors to join their team, and applicants do not need to know a language other than English.
February 11, 2011
The Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia University's Business School, located in New York City, is conducting research on decision making and is looking for online study participants. English fluency is required, as is a Paypal account (which is easy to set up if you do not have one). To receive email invitations to participate in studies for the Center for Decision Science, you must register with the CDS Virtual Lab Online Panel. Registration does not guarantee participation, but if you do participate, compensation is approximately $16 per hour.
March 20, 2011
Lionbridge (Nasdaq: Liox) is a leading provider of translation and localization services for clients around the world (they test their clients' software, websites, etc. and interpret them to ensure that they function in other languages). The company is 15 years old and is based in Massachusetts, employing 4,200 people in 26 countries. A variety of work at home opportunities are available, listed under "Global Crowdsourcing," and qualifications vary according to the job.
March 28, 2011
The Writers Network is a company that accepts articles from freelance writers and then publishes them on its network of websites. Writers must apply to be accepted into the writing community, but if accepted, writers may select assignments from a list of topics. Once an article is submitted and accepted, payment is made via Paypal. Articles range from 300 to 1,000 words, and payment ranges from $10 to $25 per article. There is no limit on the number of articles a writer may submit.
April 15, 2011
Jellybean Services is a family owned company that hires people part-time to perform court research, which entails visiting courthouses and collecting public information records (some of this can be done from one's home computer). No experience is required, but applicants must have a laptop and be able to type 45 wpm. Pay is per record, but the average pay is $12 to $16 per hour after one month. This company is based in Michigan and has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau.
May 13, 2011
DionData Solutions is a data management company based in the U.S. It works with clients such as governments and insurance companies and transforms their data, from inventory lists and handwritten notes to legal documents and insurance forms, into organized digital systems. The company is hiring work at home vendors to assist with this data organization.
May 24, 2011
LivePerson is a reputable website that has thousands of experts available in all kinds of fields to offer advice for a fee. Visitors find an expert with whom to work, either via chat or email, and the expert sets the pay rate. LivePerson takes a percentage, but work-at-home experts set their own hours. Click on "Become an Expert" at bottom of page to apply.
June 1, 2011
AccuTranGlobal is a Canadian-based financial transcription service that works with international clients. The company is hiring part-time, work at home transcriptionists. Qualities needed are a strong command of English, listening skills, grammar skills, computer skills, Internet skills and typing skills of at least 60 wpm. Pay is by the word, and compensation is sent once a month.
June 6, 2011
It will not make you rich, but Cash4Books is a website that buys good condition, used books. Just enter a book's ISBN number (all books have one) and then click "Price My Books." You will get a price quote and can ship your books to Cash4Books for free (by printing a shipping label). Get paid via Paypal within 3 days of receipt of your books. This company has a BBB A+ rating. (P.S. Free books to sell can often be found on Craigslist). Note: We are an affiliate of this program.
June 13, 2011
Remilon is a reputable U.S.-based company (Mountain View, California) that is hiring at home writers. The company stresses quality and focuses primarily on education and career topics. Hours are flexible and the work is steady. Fifteen hours minimum per week are required. Compensation is $8 per hour and is paid via Paypal. Remilon has an A+ rating with the BBB.
June 20, 2011
ChaCha is a social search engine, meaning that instead of using an algorithm to find information, a la Google, it uses humans to do the same thing. A user types in a question, along with his cell phone number. A human ChaCha guide researches the answer and sends it via text to the user. ChaCha guides must live in the U.S. and have a high speed internet connection. Pay is not a lot, $.10 to $.20 per question answered, but it can add up. P.S. Do not be put off by the 20-something on the next page.
Working Solutions is a reputable 15 year old company that is hired by companies such as Travelocity.com and Hotels.com to take customer service calls and work with customers online via chat or email (each block of time working for a company is called a "project"). There is no fee to apply, and training is provided. Pay varies from minimum wage to $30 or so an hour. The company receives a lot of applications, so hearing back may take some time.
Amusement Advantage is the exclusive mystery shopping provider to the amusement industry and provides a critical look at guest services through custom-tailored mystery shopping programs. Shoppers are always reimbursed for their amusement park tickets and expenses, but they are not always paid on top of that. This won't make you rich, but it is a free way to enjoy a day at the amusement park (maybe with the grandkids). This company has an A+ BBB rating.
July 11, 2011
ARC Call Performance Monitoring
ARC Consulting, LLC is a Connecticut-based company that provides call monitoring services for businesses that offer telephone customer service. In other words, they listen in on calls to ensure that call centers are properly doing their job and maintaining high quality interaction with customers. ARC also has a telephone mystery shopping program, and it hires at home workers from all over the U.S. The BBB gives ARC an A+ rating.
September 16, 2011
InteliChek is a market research company specializing in collecting data to analyze what is happening in different industries (primarily automotive). The people that work for Intelichek do this by calling businesses and gathering information about the products and services they offer (how much is an oil change, warranty information, etc). At home workers earn $.30 to $1.90 per task and are asked to work at least 20 hours per week.
September 28, 2011
Mechanical Turk comes from Amazon (yes, that Amazon) and is a website where companies that need tasks done find people to do them. These tasks are called HITs (human intelligence tasks) and can be anything from labeling photos to participating in a forum. Most HITs pay anywhere from $.01 to $.50 and are fairly fast and easy to perform. There are currently 209,000+ HITs available. These HITs will not make you rich, but they are a way to make a little extra money. Tip: Avoid HITs that ask for personal information.
October 9, 2011
Cloud 10 is a virtual call center company that hires work at home employees (not contract workers) to receive inbound calls from customers needing assistance with their account Custom software allows calls to be routed directly to the agent’s home computer via the internet. Cloud 10's customers range from Fortune 500 companies to small local businesses. Cloud 10 offers employees set schedules, an hourly wage and paid training.
October 14, 2011
eJury is a way for lawyers to test their cases with real people, i.e., mock jurors, before heading into court. Jurors are contacted by email to read cases and then answer questions and provide feedback about each one. Feedback submissions are taken until the quota of reviews is reached (usually 50). Juror feedback is then tabulated and presented to the lawyer or legal professional who posted the case. People must live in the U.S. to join eJury as a juror, but there are no registration fees. Payment is usually between $5 and $10 for each mock trial in which you participate.
UserTesting is a website that pays people to test websites and verbally record their impressions. Why? Because once a website is designed, the owner/webmaster needs to know that it is easy to navigate and that it provides a good visitor experience. UserTesting workers are paid $10 per test, and each test takes about 20 minutes. You will do a pre-test when you apply (if you do not have a microphone for your computer, you may apply via phone). The better you are at relaying your impressions of websites (this company likes testers to give a lot of feedback), the more websites you will be asked to review. UserTesting is open to applications worldwide.
Ghostbloggers is a relatively new site but has gotten good reviews. With millions, if not billions, of websites needing content, freelance writers are in demand, and Ghostblogger is a place where you can post and sell original articles. The normal payment for writers is $3.50 USD for every 100 words, but you can set a different price if desired (the site makes its money by adding a 30% commission to the sales price of any article). Payment is made via Paypal.
Dion Data Solutions is a data management company based in Iowa and Missouri and has been around since 1999. It is hiring "home contracted vendors," people who take customers' raw data and enter it into a computer program (the newly formatted data is then returned to the customer). Applicants need to be able to accurately type 60 words per minute and have solid computer skills (internet navigation, downloading files, etc.). The company does not disclose pay rates, but most workers seem happy with their compensation.