3/24/2009

Why You Should Choose an at Home Job

People choose to work at home for many different reasons. There are a lot of benefits to having an at home job. These benefits may work out more from some people than others. Regardless of your personal situation though, they are definitely worth taking into consideration. Deciding to take an at home job is a big decision. It may mean losing some of the benefits you are used to having working outside the home.
 
While you may not find a company that offers their home agents medical insurance, there are other benefits that may make an at home job worth while. When you work from home you don't have more than a five second commute. You can roll out of bed, grab some coffee, and start up the computer. You don't have to drive anywhere and your don't even have to get dressed. This benefit sounds great to most people, but may be crucial for people who are disabled. Work at home jobs, may be the only jobs that some people can accept. It's also a great option for moms who aren't able to afford child care. Not having proper child care makes it almost impossible to work outside the home, working from home gives you the option to care for your children and earn an income.
 
You can work around your schedule. This makes a work at home job a great option for anyone who has prior commitments. If you need to work around a child's schedule you can. If you need to work around something in your own personal schedule, you can. Flexible scheduling makes working at home great for people with health conditions that require regular treatments, people who are starting a business but need income temporarily, or even those who simply like to travel.
 
You can get your housework done on your breaks. If you have a busy schedule this is an added bonus. When you have an at home job, it is necessary to make a schedule for yourself. The schedule helps to keep you focused, but you also need regular breaks. Use those break times to run the vacuum or throw in a load of laundry. This will help to free up your evenings allowing you to spend more time with your family.
 
There are numerous benefits to accepting an at home job, and you can even find some that will allow you to have the same benefits that you would receive if you worked outside the home. While some companies offer medical insurance and even retirement plans for home workers, not all of them do. Before selecting an at home job you should weigh all of your benefits to make sure the job meets your needs.

3/21/2009

Twitter from a Marketing Perspective

If you are dabbling in the online marketing arena than you are sure to have heard of twitter. Twitter is a micro blogging service, whereas you can post updates to your profile and it can be viewed by your followers. Basically the more followers you have the more you can send your message across to a potential audience, twitter has been a gem for online marketers, or has it. There are a few potential problems with twitter as a whole and now we will take a deep look at them.

Firstly I feel that the platform as a whole may turn into one big spam fest. The reason for stating this is because of the fact that there are no captchas in place for adding friends, something similar to what they have on Myspace would indeed be helpful, and secondly they do not have a limit on the amount of friends you can add, like for example Digg do. If you add to many friends on Digg then you will get a warning and will no longer be allowed to add until a time scale has passed. All of these aspects are looking likely to make twitter a follow up that caused the eventual death of Myspace. We all know that Myspace suffered because it could not control the sheer amount of spam that was being generated on a daily basis.

Looking past all of this, if you do decide to spend your time and effort promoting your brand on twitter then you will have a big shock in store. If you have not already heard most of the twitter users are very loyal to the site, so if you start constantly posting to them you are probably most likely to get classed as a spammer and eventually banned. More so if you do not get banned is it really worth the time and effort to drive useless traffic to your site. Twitter traffic is believed to have a massive 93% bounce rate to your business. I can tell you for sure that I would rather spend my valuable time building up my online presence in a more ethical way.

So from a marketing perspective it is warned that you should stay well clear from using twitter. Ok you may be able to get your brand name out but is that how you want your company to be remembered. "Oh I know that site, there the ones that spammed me on twitter". Do you want your company to be labelled as a spam business? I didn't think so. Stop using twitter for promotion and use it as a valuable tool to keep up to date with your friends and your websites subscribers.

By: Musa Aykac
Article Source: http://www.host4gain.com/articles
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