Undress for Success : The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home

by Lister, Kate; Harnish, Tom; Nilles, Jack M.

• ISBN13: 9780470383322
• ISBN10: 0470383321
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-23
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Undress for Success is not your average small business book. Unlike the many outdated books that promise riches on eBay, treasures in antiques, and fortunes from cookies, Undress for Success is aimed at the modern educated professional. It draws on the authors' three decades of working in their pajamas, as well as from interviews with industry experts, employers, and pajama professionals from companies such as IBM, Best Buy, Intel, and American Express. It reveals insider information about legitimate home-based jobs and freelance work. And, to keep readers from losing their shirts as they undress for success, it exposes the many scams and the miscreants who peddle them.

Author Biography

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.
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Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xxi
E-work, The Bare Essentials	p. 1
Who E-works and What Do They Do?	p. 3
What's in It for Me?	p. 7
Expose Yourself-Are You Right for E-work?	p. 12
Dirty Underwear-Uncovering the Scams	p. 21
Pajama Paychecks: Jobs You Can Do in Your Jammies	p. 31
Who's Paid to Work at Home and What Do They Do?	p. 33
Take Your Job and Love It	p. 35
The Naked Truth about Your Boss	p. 38
What's in It for Your Employer?	p. 44
Making Your E-work Pitch	p. 55
Best-Bet E-work Employers	p. 59
Work as a Call Center Agent	p. 63
Work as a Virtual Assistant	p. 73
Work as a Medical Transcriptionist	p. 83
Work as a Teacher or Tutor	p. 90
Work as a Remote Tech	p. 101
Work as a Writer	p. 105
Work In Telemedicine	p. 114
How to Navigate the Web in Search of E-work	p. 118
Using the Job Boards to Find E-work	p. 126
Your Digital Resume	p. 137
Collaboration and Social Networking for E-work	p. 142
Freelance in Your Frillies	p. 145
Who Freelances and What Do They Do?	p. 147
Putting Your Best Slipper Forward	p. 153
What Am I Worth?	p. 156
Proposals and Contracts	p. 162
Finding Freelance Work	p. 167
Bedroom Businesses	p. 183
Who's Running Home Businesses and What Do They Do?	p. 185
The Right Fit	p. 189
Designing the Perfect Business	p. 197
The Business Model	p. 203
Best Bet Businesses	p. 207
Business Planning	p. 212
Naked Truths about Home Biz	p. 217
Does It Come with Batteries?	p. 223
Home-Based Technology	p. 225
What If Everybody Did It?	p. 235
Let's All Undress	p. 237
Resources Available at UndressForSuccessOnline.com	p. 243
Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 257
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