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Best Online JOBS

The 14 Best Online Jobs

They do exist! While some online job prospects are SCAMS, there are legitimate, well-paid opportunities available. The key is to think creatively about how you can adapt your skills for them.

All they require is a computer with a high-speed Internet connection, a telephone and your skills.

Follow this guide to discover the best online jobs to pursue, what you can expect to earn, and

how to land an online job that's right for you.

The payoff is a flexible workday that fits your schedule—and a job that might just afford you a better lifestyle.

Virtual Assistant

Someone who juggles her family calendar without breaking a sweat might have what it takes to become a virtual assistant. Clients could include a business owner looking for someone to handle e-mail, scheduling and travel arrangements or a busy executive who wants you to schedule her children's doctors appointments.

What you bring to the table:Administrative experience; excellent organizational and time-management skills so you can juggle a multitude of tasks and a pleasant phone manner. It also helps if you know Microsoft Office.

What you can expect to earn: About $10 per hour at a staffing agency; up to $30 per hour if you work directly with clients. Top VAs earn $60 an hour.

How to get started: Contact businesses in your area or advertise on Craigslist. Or register with an agency such as eaHelp.com or Zirtual.com, which assign clients to you.

Online Reseller

You can earn large sums of money selling items online by reaching out to people who want to get rid of their stuff but are too busy to do it themselves.

What you bring to the table:Experience selling goods through auctions on eBay and the business savvy required to promote your services.

Expect to earn: Sellers determine the price by the market and the value of items they sell. Some charge a flat per-item fee (often $5 to $25), or take a percentage (20 percent to 40 percent) of total sales. Depending on the volume of your business, reselling on eBay and other sites could become a lucrative full-time job.

How to get started: Active eBay sellers with high ratings and sales can register to be listed on the website’s directory of trading assistants at ebaytradingassistant.com. You need to be a self-starter who knows how to spread the word—to friends, family members, acquaintances and strangers.

Call-Center Employee

Customers used to call a company to complain or order a product, and they’d reach the main office. Now virtual call centers route incoming calls to a home agent’s phone; agents receive a script on how to answer possible questions so they can respond to routine customer-service inquires or sell products.

What you bring to the table:Professional, pleasant phone presence, the ability to read a script and make it sound natural, a quiet area in which to work and perhaps a headset attached to your phone.

Expect to earn: $7 to $15 per hour, with some jobs offering incentives for high sales.

How to get started: Enroll to become an agent at a call-center company website—such asworkingsolutions.com, liveops.com or alpineaccess.com—that offers extensive training.

Document Translator

As businesses expand globally, they need to communicate in more languages. That's great news for bilingual people who are interested in entering this flexible, fast-growing profession. From a virtual office (using Skype to join conference calls, say), people in this field participate in live conversations and translate documents and recordings. Spanish is the most in-demand tongue, followed by Japanese, Korean, Chinese and French. Deadlines are tight at times, but you are free to turn down anything. Gengo and similar agencies have a global client base—which means you can work in the middle of the night if that suits you.

What you bring to the table: The ability to read, write and fluently speak more than one language. You can find plenty of work in Spanish, French and Chinese, but the more obscure the language, the higher the demand.

Expect to earn: About $12 an hour. Translators working with technical or scientific content can earn up to $40.

How to get started: The website Translatorscafe.com contains a free online directory of translators and translation jobs. Just upload your resumé and list your rates and services. Jobs, which are posted daily, might include translating a tourism brochure or subtitling a movie. You apply directly to the hiring company. Or enlist an online agency such as the ones atgengo.com and verbalizeit.com. You select projects that fit your calendar and abilities.

Data-Entry Worker

Companies are always on the lookout for people to help them “go digital” by typing paper documents into a computer. Many outsource the task of inputting data to update their records on a regular basis.

What you bring to the table: A computer, typing accuracy and speed.

Expect to earn: $6 to $20 per hour.

How to get started: While jobs exist, demand is high and scams plentiful. The Work at Home Jobs page at homewiththekids.com lists companies that hire regularly. Also search Craigslist and Google (type in “online data input jobs”), and cold-call companies’ human resources departments to apply.

Answering-Service Employee

When you call your doctor’s office at 3 a.m., the person who answers might be someone just like you, at home in her pajamas.

What you bring to the table: After-hours availability, a cheerful and calm demeanor, a phone and a computer.

Expect to earn: $8 to $14 per hour.

How to get started: Look for listings on these job boards: indeed.com,simplyhired.com andcareerbuilder.com.

Interview Transcriber

Journalists and nonfiction writers conduct thousands of hours of interviews, and some have no time to transcribe them. But thanks to the Internet, it’s simple to e-mail a digital file of an audio interview. You just need to listen well, type it up and send it back.

What you bring to the table: Typing accuracy and speed, a good pair of headphones (which makes interviews easier to understand).

Expect to earn: From $5 to $40 per hour.

How to get started: Look for regular work with a transcription service such as the ones at verbalink.com andscribie.com, or branch out on your own by contacting local newspapers, magazines and TV news stations. One enterprising way to find nonfiction writers is to check book publishers’ author websites (there are hundreds at harpercollins.com/author/websites.aspx). On the author’s site, look for an e-mail link or mailing address.

Content Writer

Companies often don’t have the staff to create content for their websites, so they outsource the job to freelancers. With new sites springing up every day, writers are in huge demand.

What you bring to the table: A talent for expressing yourself concisely, putting an idea into words and meeting deadlines reliably. Companies often want content pertaining to a specific field of expertise, so it helps to sell yourself in your areas of strength.

Expect to earn: There is a vast range of pay for writing Web content, from nothing up to hundreds of dollars per assignment. The median pay for a full-time content writer is $35,200. You can earn as much as $66,000.

How to get started: Check listings at indeed.com. If you think you're a fit for a specific company, e-mail a sample post and offer your services.

Expert

Many websites offer how-to advice on just about everything. After registering as a guru on a specific topic, you answer questions from the public.

What you bring to the table:Documented professional expertise (or you can take a test to prove your knowledge).

Expect to earn: You won’t work full-time answering questions, but you can get more inquiries over time. At sites such as justanswer.com, more experience and positive feedback earn you more money per question, within a range of $2.50 to $25. Other sites, including ether.com, take a commission on the rate you set.

How to get started: Go to justanswer.com and ether.com to find out whether you are qualified to be an expert at their sites.

Affliliate Blogger

If you have a blog that attracts numerous visitors, many companies will pay you (or give you merchandise) to run advertisements that link to their websites.

What you bring to the table: An audience that has a connection with the potential affiliate. If your blog centers on parenting issues, it's a perfect match for companies selling children’s clothing or toys, for example.

Expect to earn: The pay scale depends on the number of hits the ads on your site generate, often between $10 and $50 per 1,000 hits.

How to get started: Two excellent websites, earnersblog.com andbloggingtips.com, offer many ideas and resources for the aspiring affiliate blogger.

Social Media Market Consultant

Not only has social media changed how friends engage, it also has transformed the way businesses reach customers and build brand loyalty. Companies need people for whom Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram and Twitter are second nature. Sound like you?

What you’ll need: Experience in communications, journalism, public relations or marketing gives you a leg up. What’s most important is a facility with social media so that you can communicate with consumers to build brand awareness and drive traffic to a company’s website, tweet about special deals and keep a company’s Facebook page current. For $25 per month, you can access courses in social media marketing at lynda.com.

How to get started: Show potential bosses your Web skills by including links to your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts on your resumé. Maintain active, creative social accounts. If there is a cause you support, highlight it on your Facebook page and Twitter feed. Show how you created links to relevant stories and gained followers. Submit your resumé to sites such as jobsinsocialmedia.com and elance.com.

Expect to earn: $10 to $25 per hour. But some pros get as much as $75.

Online Tutor or Teacher

Tutoring centers have been around for years, but many busy families prefer the convenience of online coaching. That makes this field a great work-from-home option, especially if you love a particular subject—math, say, or reading—and have a gift for imparting that knowledge.

What You’ll need: Most tutoring firms want you to have a college degree or at least two years of completed study in the subject you wish to teach. But you typically don’t need to have experience as an instructor. '

How to get started: Create an ad or flier with your credentials and contact information and put it up in libraries and grocery stores and on community bulletin boards. Ask the administrative assistants at schools in your area if they will place your flier in teachers’ mailboxes. You also can register with a company such as Tutor.com, which assigns students to you based on your schedule. Keep in mind that most of the work will occur in the afternoon or evening, when pupils are out of school.

Expect to earn: $9 to $40 per hour. Certified teachers and those with expertise in advanced math or science might command more.

Tech Support Representative

Do your friends often turn to you for assistance with their cell phones, computers and video game systems? Then you are clearly a whiz at navigating—and explaining—technology. Tech support reps help customers find and use the right product for their needs (laptop or desktop?) via phone, e-mail and online chats. Most support pros log 20 hours or more each week, much of the time on weekends.

What you’ll need: Patience to deal with frustrated consumers who want to toss their new devices out the window is important, as is the ability to explain solutions to customers’ problems. Hiring firms often provide training. Apple’s at-home advisers, for instance, take a four- to six-week online class.

Find work: Scan the websites of computer manufacturers such as Apple and Dell. Consider signing on with a customer management company, like Cloud 10 or Convergys. Such companies help businesses handle their customer-support issues.

Expect to earn: $11 to $21 per hour

Beauty Product Seller

Do you love makeup? Consider joining Alcone at Home to earn extra money by selling their products. This program has a great reputation in the beauty industry and provides those who join with tools that can help them become successful.

What you bring to the table: A love of beauty products and a social network that's interested in purchasing them.

How to get started: Create your own personalized website to sell products or buy a starter kit, which is essentially a "business in a box" and includes marketing materials, makeup samples and more.

Expect to earn: As a seller for Alcone at Home, you receive 10-30% sales commission, making this a potentially lucrative way to earn additional income.

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Dear Mom Who Wants to Stay Home With Her Kids,

I see you.

Getting up each morning and leaving your babies.

You want to stay home, but just can’t afford it.

I see you.
I have even been where you are.
I promise you that it is possible for you to be a stay at home mom.

After I had my first kiddo, I felt that tug... that grip that was almost choking me. I knew I wanted to be able to stay home with her.

However, I believed it was just a “pipe dream”, something that we could NEVER afford to do. Only rich people were able to stay home with their kids. And we were far from rich….

Then...when we became pregnant with baby #2, I knew deep in my heart how hard it was going to be to go back to work and leave two babies behind.

I did though. I went back to work. I sucked it up each and every day and left my babies. I missed my first child's entry to pre-school. I missed drop offs and pick ups.

This is where I knew I had to make a change. I had to find a way to be home. I had to be there for my family....

So, the HUNT was on.

I scoured the internet.
I searched the help wanted pages.
I stayed positive and hopeful.
I did NOT give up.

My kiddos were Five and Three when I finally "Got the Job" and was able to create my home office. A Company had faith in me, my reference were spot on and I was finally...

H O M E.

The job was tough, but I muddled through it, giving it my all, putting my best foot forward. I had recommendations that fell on deaf ears, I had process improvements that were unappreciated, I even stayed five steps ahead of management, but it wasn't enough. The market was closing in on our small the inevitable finally happened after one, short year.

During that year, things were good.

I had sick kids, no problem. I took them to the doctors and flexed my work schedule to accommodate.
School functions, it's OK. I was a good worker, I documented my time and was super accountable, just for the sheer fact that it was a work at home position.

With one door closing and another opening...which was not a work at home position, I rolled with the punches. But, it was like God was trying to tell me that there is so much more out there for me.

My heart longed to be with my family.
My kids missed me. (Not that Hubby did not rock out mornings and after school routines)
I missed them all. Seeing my Hubby on the weekends is not my cup of tea and leaves me moody and miserable.

I needed to change our life.
I needed to get back home.
I needed a plan of action so that we could live comfortably with me back home.

So, naturally, being the planner that I am it was time to figure it out...

How was I going to be a work at home mom again?

I sat down with my Hubby and here is what we did, and

Dear Mom, I believe you can do it too!

1. We wrote out our Budget: The fact of the matter is that you cannot cut expenses and manage your money without a budget.

2. It was time to cut our expenses: Believe me-you can do this! There is SOMETHING you are spending money on that you don’t have to. How about eating out? If you are home, you will cook more, meaning less money buying out. You will also have more time to price match, and even clip coupons. Gas will be less because you will not leave the house ever day. You will also save money on child care, work wardrobe, and other purchases that may be related to your job.

3. We talked about saving the money from our paychecks: After you have made a budget and you know what you can cut out, designate a set amount each paycheck to go directly into a savings account. This will help give you a “cushion” when you quit your job. This is not the same as an emergency fund (which you should also have).

4. Then I started looking for a way to earn a little extra income from home: This will ease you or your spouse’s mind, or if you are coming up short then this is a good option. I have a business, It Works!, in which I went Ruby earning a $500 bonus and currently earn around $1500 a month. I am a Marketing Network Rep and I literally work from my Cell Phone utilizing Instagram. I do this while my kids play, in a matter of seconds. It is that easy and I am making half of what I made with my State Job, and I have the potential to grow bigger and bigger. I am making my dreams of being a stay at home Mom reality and I am here to help you make your dreams reality too! I would love to coach those who have the same goals in life as I do. Don't get me wrong, I work hard, I hustle, but to me, my goal, my dream is to be home with my kids, to watch them grow, to have financial freedom and to not miss a thing. I don't want to earn a paycheck, I want to live a life with a great paycheck to match.

Dear mom, if you truly have a desire to stay home then I hope these financial tips will help encourage you to take that first step. For me I spent $99 dollars and now I have my own business!