Working From Home in 2008

Last month I started as a distributor with a company called Send Out Cards. I signed up as an entrepreneur and got my kit about 2 weeks later.

It cost $400 to get the entrepreneur license and is well worth it. This program is one of the best I have seen. If you want to try it out, just click on the link above and you can send a card for free to try out the system.

If you are interested in promoting Send Out Cards, let me know and I can coach you on the program.

Take Care,

Michael

Home Business BLOG Moved

I moved the BLOG from blogspot to hosting on my server. This is something I should have done a long time ago.

The RSS feed should transfer. I'm going to work on that next.

After all the set-up is complete I want to start working on the design.

If you experience any problems with the transfer let me know.

Michael

Buy And Sell Websites

I made a video on a new FireFox plug-in that helps me evaluate websites to buy.

There are other uses for this plug-in that can benefit anyone.

Watch the video on the link above to see the power of this neat little tool. And if you are not already using the FireFox browser, now is a great time to get started.

Michael

Start Your Own Home Business

I was going to do an article about virtual assistants tonight. But then I saw this post "Should You Start Your Own Home Business?" by Guy Kawaski.

You don't always need to start your own business to work at home. Do you think that your current job could be done remotely? How about twice per week?

That was a real eye opener when I read that in The 4 Hour Work Week. Working from home isn't for every job, but you don't have to start your own business to work from home.

That said, if you work from home for a business you will not have the same freedom that running your own business from home can bring.

Just something to think about.

Michael

Working By The Hour vs Fixed Income

Do you get paid by the hour or a set amount for completing a project?

Getting paid by the hour makes it easier on the home worker just starting out. This is because figuring out how much to charge for a project can be difficult.

Once you can figure out how much time it will take then you may want to consider charging by the project.

The only problem with a set price for the project is that the customer may change what they want after you already started. It is best to have a defined outcome with exact specifications before starting. Then adjust your price each time the customer changes what they want.

Be very detailed in your documentation. Fixed project pricing can have benefits, but so can hourly billing.

Michael

How Many Work Days In A Year

I am listening to the 4 hour work week for the 6th time. I love the concept.

Lets look at a working year.

52 Weeks in a year. How many vacation, sick and holiday days do we get off. Starting off with 2 weeks is common, plus some sick and holiday pay. So lets say we get 3 weeks vacation, 5 sick days and 6 holiday days. Since we can't do anything when we are sick lets not count the sick days. Better yet, lets say we are very healthy and don't ever use sick days.

So that comes to 48 weeks a year that we work. Getting 3 weeks for vacation and a little over 1 week for holidays.

48 x 5 = 240 work days a year

Not bad.

But what if we could work 4 days a week instead of 5. It could be longer days to make up the 40 hours or it could be you just don't work full time.

48 * 4 = 192 work days a year

So you can get an extra 48 days a year for yourself if you can work 4 day work weeks.

Michael

Virtual Assistant Shout Out

I owe Kathie of VADirectory.net a big Thank You for pointing out that I have comments turned off. I am going to return the favor and point out something that should help Kathie. If you hover over the link to her site you will notice the ?p=199. That is not a SEO friendly link. If Kathie goes into Options and clicks on the permalinks tab, she will see options for links that work much better with the search engines.

I am working on an Ebay project and might have some info to post shortly on that.

Looks like I will also have to re-post my message from last week where I was asking a question in one of my posts.

Michael