Work
AT Home or Work FROM Home
by Linda Sikut
Copyright 2002
Do you know the difference? A lot of women
work FROM home but not very many actually work AT home. Working AT home means working for
someone else but doing the work at home. It might be that you have worked for someone for
a long time and when you decide that you want to work from home your employer will allow
you to telecommute. You might also have worked as a medical transcriptionist and the
company has decided to have their employees work at home instead of paying the overhead of
an office. You might work for someone doing sales who prefers that you work at home, once
again to save the expense of an office. These situations do exist but telecommuting
positions are very, very difficult to find.
There are also lots of women who work AT
home by developing web sites and selling ads that provide an income. These ladies work at
home but they own their own business. They must have sales and administrative skills, as
well as web site development and promotion skills. Some people develop promotion skills
and earn an income promoting other people's web sites. Working AT home requires
specialized skills that entices others to pay for work that is done. Many of the ladies
listed in my Friends & Resources section have
developed businesses that they work AT home.
Working FROM home generally means that you
own a business that sells a product or service. Normally sales are generated on the phone,
at home shows, at business shows, through word of mouth, through catalog sales, etc. There
are two types of work from home business that I'll include here. With one type you start a
business based on something that you already do. For example if you are a crafter, you
might start a business selling crafts. If you love to garden, you might start a business
gardening for others as a service. There are a lot of great businesses that you can start
using the skills you already have. The other type is by becoming a distributor for a
company that provides you with the products or services. There are many companies that
offer distributorships and most offer a multi-level marketing plan. For example, if you
start an Watkins business there is the direct selling part where you sell to your
customers and there is the multi-level part where you earn a commission when you help
others learn to gather their own customers and sell to them.
Whichever type of work FROM home business
you choose, the key word is work. Nothing happens and no income is generated without work.
You will need to carve time out of every day to work on your business. You may need to
learn phone skills or sales skills. You will need knowledge of the product or service that
you sell and you'll need to be ready to answer the questions of others.
I invite you to learn about my Watkins
business at my Watkins web site www.watkinsonline.com/lsikut.
Click on Business Opportunity for all the details. If you would like to talk to me
personally, complete this form by clicking here.
Linda Sikut owns http://www.bakingabusiness.com which is
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