Archive for Work at Home
Generating Lots of Great Content
Posted by: | CommentsIf you’ve been following my series on the importance of educating your readers/customers you might be worried that you are not a writer. Of if you’re already writing you might get occasional writer’s block because you’ve run out of ideas to talk about.
Here’s a blog post about finding great content and avoid writer’s block. Once you have your idea, write without editing yourself first, then go back and edit later. This is one of the key secrets to great writing!
How to Get Started Being Self-Employed
Posted by: | CommentsWhether you want to supplement your income, or work at home part-time or full-time via data entry jobs or freelance writing jobs, or selling your own or other’s products and adsense sites you can consider yourself to be self-employed. While that can be scary in some situations (you don’t have a day job for example), it is a really exciting way to go, and will provide you with the freedom that most of are looking for.
Building any type of business or getting more work requires persistence. In other words, there are a lot of mental challenges as you try to grow your income from home. In most cases you need to educate your market, by writing lots of educational content for them, or even selling your own (or other’s) educational content via how-to courses or membership sites. Here’s a great free guide (blog post) on how to get started being self-employed from ZenHabits.
Leo talks about whether you should quit you job or do this on this side. It’s a personal choice of course. I’ve chosen to do this full-time from home for various reasons, including the fact that I love working on my online businesses and writing so much I don’t want to do anything else.