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Some of you who operate a home business have submitted profiles of your business to me. That process essentially involved answering a set list of questions and sending me your responses by email. For those profiles I approved, the home business profile was placed on the Home Business Profiles page.

Of course, technology has improved since then. If you’ve never submitted your home business profile the old way, you still can. However, now there’s an even better way to do it, by way of a new feature on About.com called “Show and Tell”.

The Show and Tell feature allows you to tell your story, include a link to your home business site or blog and even upload a photo or two – maybe of yourself, your logo, or whatever is appropriate for your story.

Even if you’ve already submitted your home business profile the old-fashioned way, you’re still welcome to tell your story with Show and Tell. And if you haven’t submitted info on your home business yet, now you have an even better way to do it.

Just go to the Tell Us About Your Home Business page and click the Submit a Home Business Entry link to complete the form.

All submissions are moderated by me and are subject to approval. All submissions must be in English. Otherwise, all you need to do is follow the instructions on the form.

To see the entries that have already been approved, click the See Published Submissions button near the upper right of the form page. I submitted an entry for my own home business to get the ball rolling so you’ll get an idea of what your entry will look like once it’s approved.

It’s a great way to get your home business in front of other people, and also an opportunity for you to tell us how you did it and offer advice to others who are thinking about starting a business.

Submit Your Home Business Story
See Approved Submissions
Submit Your Home Business Profile the Old-Fashioned Way

Show and Tells Coming Soon: Watch for these Show and Tells coming soon: Submit Your Blog, Tell Us About Your Work at Home Job, and Tell Us About Your Home Office.

Tell Us About Your Home Business originally appeared on About.com Home Business on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 01:47:04.

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Freelancing is one way to work from home and start earning money fast without getting hung up in a lot of preparation and planning, like you would if you were going to start a full-blown home business.

As a freelancer, you offer services in which you’re already skilled.

Examples include:

• Freelance writers
• Freelance web designers
• Freelanace graphic artists
• Freelance programmers

And more.

One of the advantages of freelance work is that there are a number of freelance network sites out there that match up employers with freelancers. The one I’m most experienced with is Guru.com, and over the years it has provided several jobs for me.

Read more…

Time to be a Freelancer? originally appeared on About.com Home Business on Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at 00:02:41.

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New jobs on a Saturday here on About Home Business? Who knew?

Just goes to show ya – expect the unexpected around here. That’s why it pays to stop by as often as you can!

Jobs include work at home opportunities from GE, Aetna Insurance, Microsoft and the Centers for Disease Control, among others. So without further adieu, here we go:

• Work-from-Home Customer Service Representative – GE Capital – Part-time. You must live within a 65-mile radius of Tempe, AZ.
• Contract Web Developer – Cold Fusion – Telecommute possible after initial meeting and setup. Based in Riverside, CA.
• 
  Instructional Designer (Private Equity, Investments, Hedge Funds) – Mostly telecommute, up to four days per week. New York City area.
• 
  Programming Writer – SQL Server – Telework eligible at Microsoft in Redmond, WA.
• Community Outreach Specialist – Texas Medicaid and CHIP – Aetna Insurance. Home based. Lots of travel. Texas.
• Provider Network Manager – Aetna Insurance. Any U.S. location.
• Quality Assurance Specialist – Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA. Telework eligible. To be discussed during interview.

More Telecommute Job Search Links

• Search for Telecommute on About Job Search
• Search for Telework on Indeed
• Search for Work at Home on About Job Search*
• Search for Work from Home on About Job Search*

* – NOTE: While you should always use caution in weeding out work at home job scammers, these job search terms are especially prone to job listings that are less than legitimate, so use extra caution.

7 New Telecommute Jobs on a Saturday originally appeared on About.com Home Business on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 12:32:58.

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Need inspiration? Need mechanical knowledge for a project? Want money making ideas? 137 years of Popular Mechanics are freely available online according to Wired.

It is available through Google Books. I’d embed one here, but couldn’t find an embedding link on these publications.

If you’re trying to  START a business but can’t find seed capital you may be wondering … “could one of those ‘peer to peer’ lending outfits help?”

But you’ve hesitated because, well, you don’t know what to expect…

Here’s a great article about someone going through the “peer to peer lending” process for the first time. His goal to pay off credit cards with a fixed interest, fixed term loan to get out of debt.

Peer-to-peer loans: Writer explains what it’s like to borrow from strangers

Find out what it takes…

Every day hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs get online lookingfor how to build a success MLM business. While there is not onesecret to starting and building a successful business, it is acombination of several different facets. Here are a few tips to helpyou build a successful business.The first part to having success online is developing a plan. It isamazing how many entrepreneurs jump into

As an affiliate marketer you are bombarded with recommendations about what you MUST do in order to succeed in the affiliate marketing world.

These recommendations (commandments, orders?) come in abundant numbers from every corner of the Internet. And they come relentlessly every day of the week. Mind boggling!

If you tried to implement every new “YOU MUST” recommendation into your affiliate marketing business each day, you’d need a 48-hour day!

Here at Affiliate Classroom we operate on the premise that the K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple Silly) principle is always the best policy. That doesn’t mean that we think the easiest way is the best way…it rarely is…but we do always try to un-complicate the process needed to reach a desired objective.

We’ve discovered that in affiliate marketing sometimes knowing what NOT TO DO is just as important (and often more important) than knowing exactly what TO DO.

With that in mind, we’re starting a five part series, “5 Not-to-dos for Affiliate Marketers” beginning Monday.

Stay tuned!

NOTE: Even though Lurn, Inc. receives compensation for products and services promoted in our blog posts, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences about those products and services.

Are local governments shutting down home based Independent Contractor positions?

Government entities (state and Federal) have a vested interest in making sure as many people as possible are classified as “employees”.  That makes sure

1) Withholding taxes are collected for state and federal income taxes “off the top” from the employer.

2) Social Security and Medicare taxes are collected “off the top” from the employer.

3) State unemployment trust funds collect money from a larger base of employees.

Having said that, this comment makes sense.

We already know that Amazon.com and Zappos.com don’t allow residents from Rhode Island and North Carolina to participate in their affiliate programs because of these states’ attempts to line their pockets.

It was unsolicited and attempts to contact the sender were not successful. But if this is correct, you can tell why…

So take this for what it’s worth. It may be true.

Mark wrote:

Because of changing state laws and changing enforcement by state and federal agencies against Independent Contractors, Liveops isn’t a good bet for now.  Liveops classifies agents as Independent Contractors which is getting harder to do as the state and federal government are going after IC’s to get the extra tax revenue.

Liveops canceled all contracts in New Hampshire without warning in December of 2009.  This will be happening more and more as different states change their laws or increase enforcement against wrongly classified Independent Contractors.

Liveops is also changing many internal policies in an attempt to continue saying agents are IC’s.  Being able to say we are IC’s vs employees is a big money saver for LO.  Many agents are getting let go without any clear reason  becasue LO is afraid to control the work that we do or tell us what the criteria is for keeping our jobs.  Generally, to be considered an IC by the IRS, the bossman can’t exert control over the worker or tell the worker how to do the job.  The bossman can only measure the result of the completed job.

This is making the working conditions very poor and agents don’t know when suddenly they’ll get an email saying they’ve been let go!  Don’t count on LO for regular income.

HomeBusinessBug.com aspires to be a comprehensive Home Business directory listing both information and a wide number of business opportunities for review in a variety of price ranges. Popular searches on the site are “Business Opportunities under $5,000″ and “Business Opportunities under $1,000″. There are articles like “What is the difference between a liscencee, distributorship, and a franchisee?” to help people understand basic home business concepts.

In addition to articles and information, this is also a venue for people wanting to advertise their Work at Home business opportunities on what is hoped will be a highly trafficked authoritative site. There are no upfront advertising costs at present or set up fees. More information is available from the site owner on this.

Finding a legitimate Work from Home is elusive for many people. Hopefully as HomeBusinessBug.com grows and provides a large variety of actual opportunities and informative articles, it will become an even more valuable resource for people seeking useful information on how to start a home business without “losing your shirt”.

Note: Thanks to HomeBusinessBug.com for sponsoring this post!

Every day hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs get online lookingfor how to build a success MLM business. While there is not onesecret to starting and building a successful business, it is acombination of several different facets. Here are a few tips to helpyou build a successful business.The first part to having success online is developing a plan. It isamazing how many entrepreneurs jump into