MARKETING IDEAS and TOOLS
Business Card Design Ideas
Brochure Design Ideas
Die Cut Business Cards
Scented Business Cards
Cheap Business Card Ideas
Unique Business Cards
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Cheap Advertising Ideas
Business Card Layout
Promoting a Home Based Biz
Competitive Advantage
Email Marketing Tips
3 Ways To Spend Less
Selling With Color
Promotional Magnets
MARKETING STRATEGIES
Differentiate Yourself
Information Marketing
Building Customer Loyalty
Getting Customer Feedback
Testimonials
How to Define a Niche
Discovering Niches
Finding New Customers
Indirect Benefits
The Consumer's Perspective
Promotional Marketing
Pricing Products and Services
Viral Marketing Magic
Marketing Mix
STARTUP IDEAS and STRATEGIES
Home-Based Startup Ideas
Business Idea Brainstorming
Virtual Assistant
Internet Researcher
Event Planner
Wedding Consultant
Telecommuting Strategies
Freelance Job Strategies
WEBSITE MARKETING
Build Traffic to Your Website
Domain Name Ideas
5 Ways to Increase Traffic
Scavenger Hunts
Talking Avatars
Promote Your Web Page
Autoresponders
Internal Links
Link Exchange Tips
Viral Marketing and Email
Attract Your Target Market
Market Your Website Offline
KEYWORD TIPS
Keyword Competition
Keywords and Meta Tags
Prime Spots for Keywords
Keyword Phrases
AFFILIATE MARKETING
How To Get Started
Residual Income
Affiliate Agreements
ONLINE BASICS
Choosing Domain Names
Domain Name Extensions
Website Design Strategies
Learning HTML
Understanding HTML Colors
Are Your Colors Web-Safe?
How to Accept Payments
Bandwidth: Doing The Math
Find The Right Web Host
Publish Your Website
MARKETING YOURSELF
Resume Tips
Telecommuting Jobs:
How To Turn Your Job Into One
If you want to turn your current job into a telecommuting job, start thinking in terms of benefits for your employer.How To Turn Your Job Into One
Having that mindset and presenting your telecommuting job proposal to your employer from that perspective will greatly enhance your chances.
So, what's in it for your employer? Plenty.
Surveys have shown that most employees are more productive when they work at home rather than on-site. Phone calls from home and co-workers dropping by cubicles to chat are no longer productivity issues.
Being, or becoming, a valuable employee with good work habits will work toward your benefit in two ways:
- It gives you more leverage in turning your job into a telecommuting job. The more valuable you are, the more incentive your employer has to keep you with the company. That includes allowing a telecommuting job arrangement.
- Most employers will make a natural assumption. How you perform your job on-site is how you will perform if you work at home.
The more you are able to work without supervision, the better. Prioritizing assignments and other time management skills are desired traits for anyone who works from home.
Not every job is suited to be a telecommuting job. If your job requires frequent customer contact that can't be accomplished over the phone or by email, for example, telecommuting might not be feasible.
However, you still have options. If a telecommuting job is more of a necessity for you than a preference, be willing to make at least some temporary, possibly permanent, sacrifices.
Maybe some of your current job responsibilities can be performed working from home. If that's the case, a part-time telecommuting job might be your best alternative.
Once you establish yourself as being able to work from home effectively, you will be in a better position to pursue more work that can also be done off-site.
Even if your job is well-suited for telecommuting, your employer may still be hesitant. Another bargaining option is to compromise with a small pay cut.
Consider your transportation expenses, especially, and other work-related expenses. Depending on your commute, you could still realize a net gain.
That doesn't take into account another important expense - your time. If your commute is half an hour each way, that's five hours per week - twenty hours per month. Talk about zero productivity!
With a reasonable compromise on your part, both you and your employer can come out way ahead.
Nancy Richardson
CreateYourMarket.com publisher
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Quick Tips:
Enclose a business card promoting your website with each piece of outgoing mail.
Ask customers who frequently do business with you for a testimonial.
Promote your website URL offline on everything from bumper stickers to your answering machine message.
Want to reach the highest percentage of your target market?
Advertise in specialty publications including newspaper supplements devoted to a specific topic.
Marketing is crucial, but it doesn't always have to be serious.
Some of the most effective advertising campaigns rely on humor. Don't be afraid to make your customers laugh!