Karen Paiyo

This book is for the bummed out, burned out, and stressed out professional, stay-at-home parent, or retiring boomer who dreams of a home-based job or business, but doesn’t know how to make that dream a reality.

Unlike the many "change-your-life" books that promise much and deliver little—Undress 4S uccess provides expert, practical advice about:

1) what home-based jobs are available, what talents they require, what they pay, who’s hiring, and how to land one;
2) how to use the Web to search for work-at-home jobs and business opportunities without being scammed;
3) how to turn professional talents into a freelance business; and
4) how to convince an employer to adopt a telecommuting program.

Based on interviews with dozens of employers, home-based employees, successful freelancers, and leading telework researchers, this book shows readers the way home.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jack Nilles.
Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. E-work, The Bare Essentials.

1 Who E-works and What Do They Do?

2 What’s in It for Me?

3 Expose Yourself—Are You Right for E-work?

4 Dirty Underwear—Uncovering the Scams.

2. Pyjama Paychecks: Jobs You Can Do in Your Jammies.

5 Who’s Paid to Work at Home and What Do They Do?

6 Take Your Job and Love It.

7 The Naked Truth about Your Boss.

8 What’s in It for Your Employer?

9 Making Your E-work Pitch.

10 Best-Bet E-work Employers.

11 Work as a Call Center Agent.

12 Work as a Virtual Assistant.

13 Work as a Medical Transcriptionist.

14 Work as a Teacher or Tutor.

15 Work as a Remote Tech.

16 Work as a Writer.

17 Work In Telemedicine.

18 How to Navigate the Web in Search of E-work.

19 Using the Job Boards to Find E-work.

20 Your Digital Resume.

21 Collaboration and Social Networking for E-work.

3. Freelance in Your Frillies.

22 Who Freelances and What Do They Do?

23 Putting Your Best Slipper Forward.

24 What Am I Worth?

25 Proposals and Contracts.

26 Finding Freelance Work.

4. Bedroom Businesses.

27 Who’s Running Home Businesses and What Do They Do?

28 The Right Fit.

29 Designing the Perfect Business.

30 The Business Model.

31 Best Bet Businesses.

32 Business Planning.

33 Naked Truths about Home Biz.

5. Does It Come with Batteries?

34 Home-Based Technology.

6 What If Everybody Did It?

35 Let’s All Undress.

Resources Available at UndressForSuccessOnline.com.

Notes.

Index.


About the Author

Kate Lister is an authority on small business marketing, finance, management, and growth. She has owned and operated three successful home-based ventures, including a consulting business that helped hundreds of entrepreneurs raise millions of dollars and an aviation business with seven aircraft and twenty-five pilots.

Tom Harnish is an expert on the technologies that make home-based jobs possible. As a consultant, project director, company president, and business owner he learned what it takes to make money using computers and telecommunications from over thirty years of successful and not-so-successful business development in fields as diverse as health care, home banking, and elec-tronic publishing.

For more information, please visit UndressForSuccessOnline.com