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Work-At-Home Parents Can Create Successful Online Writing Businesses


© Sara Webb Quest

Jun 15, 2004


Work-at-home parents are using increasing cyber-world opportunities to start and run successful online writing businesses. Benefits of running the online business include:
  • No set-up fees. If you have a computer with Internet access and email (chances are you do), you're ready! You will need to know how to use your computer's Disc Defragmenter and cookie-removal function every few weeks for a smooth-running computer, but these aspects are easy to learn - Just go to your computer's Control Panel, click on Help and Support and do searches under "Disc Defragmenter" then "removing cookies."
  • Grow-at-your-own pacing. The 24/7 accessibility of email and the Internet lets parents work whenever they want. With such flexibility, time is easily allotted for household chores and attention to kids. I work 9:30-11:30 p.m. each night (after the toddler goes to bed) and a couple 7:00-9:30 p.m. shifts each week (when the husband watches the toddler).
  • Achieving clients through free online groups: Freely-usable professional sites like Mompreneurs Online, run by the authors of Mompreneurs Online: Using the Internet to Build Work@Home Success, offer home-career tactics, new job markets and like-minded groups / clients. Of the Top Ten Businesses for Mompreneurs [a.k.a. all entrepreneurs] Online here are some writing-related ones:
  • "Coaching and Teaching." Career training is always in-demand and mixes well with online training jobs and the increased demand for work online.
  • "Communications/Information." Informative columns at high-traffic sites will gain you lasting clients.
  • "Work-at-Home Support." Business tools like inexpensive e-books for home-workers offer the information / support necessary to hone (or start) online businesses.

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9.   Jun 26, 2004 6:32 PM
In response to message posted by dequizq:

Hi Donna,

Thanks SO much for sharing this profound (and global!) informatio ...

-- posted by WebbQuest
8.   Jun 26, 2004 1:47 PM
In response to message posted by WebbQuest:

I did some research for an article on Telework and I did have a website on an ...

-- posted by dequizq
7.   Jun 25, 2004 5:43 PM
In response to message posted by dequizq:

Donna,

Your input to this article was essential, as you run a successful on ...

-- posted by WebbQuest
6.   Jun 25, 2004 1:50 PM
Sara, great article, from someone with experience in teleworking I can only vouch that it is worth the time and energy you put into it. Marketing, marketing, marketing is the way to make it work the b ...

-- posted by dequizq
5.   Jun 21, 2004 6:43 PM
In response to message posted by humorous_sage:

Hank, I hadn't heard of "Lake Country, MN" till you spoke of it -- Did yo ...

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