Work at Home Jobs and Telecommuting Jobs:

Books to help the at home worker:
Resource:	Amazon Reviews:
Kick Start Your Dream Business: Getting It Started and Keeping You Going by Romanus Wolter	This innovative, hands-on guide demystifies the start-up process and puts small-business power in your hands. Author Romanus Wolter, a contagiously enthusiastic leader in the small-business community, offers cutting-edge strategies and proven formulas for taking a business idea from inception to launch to profitability. Amazon Reviewer
Working Alone by Murray Felsher	No big words and no B.S. This book fits the bill, to a tee. Lots of practical advice, given without the down-your-nose approach used by most "gurus" in the field. A definite must-read for anyone in business alone. Amazon Reviewer
You Need to Be a Little Crazy : The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business by  Barry Moltz	Moltz describes the ups and downs and emotional trials of running a start-up business and invites readers to let go of the myths and expectations that can hamstring them emotionally while getting their businesses up and running. In a helpful, heartfelt, and often humorous way, Moltz reassures entrepreneurs that they are not alone-whatever their form of craziness-and that they can retain self-worth and sanity as they ride the start-up roller coaster. Amazon Editorial Review

 

"Red Flags" and important cautions about work at home employers that allow or recruit workers to work from home: Required Sign-up Fee - You should be extremely cautious, if you are asked pay up front for the "privilege" of working for any employer.  There are many online scams that sound great (even unbelievable), promise great riches and then ask you to pay a small (often "reduced for a limited time") payment to get more information.  They may even offer an "iron clad money-back guarantee" if you are not 100% satisfied.  Remember that to get your money back, you may have to find them, file a law suit against them and then prove that they did not give you what they promised.  Especially with online "employers" like this, we recommend not sending them a single penny unless you are positive that you know up front who they are, why they need an up-front payment from you and that they are well-known in their community, by the Better Business Bureau and their local Chamber of Commerce. Commission-only Offer - Remember that when you accept a commission-only job, you are often accepting 100% of the risk.  That means that if you sell nothing, the employer has no obligation to pay you anything.  If an employer is willing to accept some of the risk by investing in training, supplies, travel expenses, employee benefits or other support services, as is common in the insurance industry, you are in a better position than if the employer accepts none of the risk.  If an employer bears no expense other than a percent of each sale, they will benefit from hiring as many people as they can talk into accepting a position.   Kit Purchase - This is very similar to a required sign-up fee (above) and should be approached with extreme caution.  If you are allowed to return your kit for a refund later, be sure that you know that you are dealing with a well-known company whose reputation can be independently verified.  Email Required - If you are required to provide your name and email address (or even just your email) before you can get to the page on a website that supposedly offers more detailed information, you are probably giving the information to a company that will simply sell your email address.  Since email addresses, especially highly targeted ones like yours, can be sold for as much as $10 per email, the website may be nothing more than an email-gathering scheme. Phone Call Required - If you can only get additional information by calling a phone number, even if it's not a 900 number that requires you to pay for the call, you may be subjecting yourself to a very slick sales pitch that is difficult for even the strongest personalities to reject.  You may find yourself signing up for something, before you even realize what's happening.  Keep in mind that legitimate companies who offer legitimate jobs do not need to resort to high-pressure tactics to find employees. Pyramid  and Related Schemes - If you make more money by recruiting people to work under you and then people to work under those people, you have the makings of a possible illegal pyramid scheme.  That is, by participating, you could be breaking the law.  As a general rule, if you are told the jobs is easy, requires no experience, will make you lots of money with little effort, can be done in your "spare time", and has made many other people rich, the chances are great that some kind of scam or misrepresentation is involved.  These too-good-to-be-true offers prey on the poor, the uneducated and the desperate.  They get rich.  You don't.  Read more about the many varieties of scams on the Better Business Bureau website Work-at-home Scams. Back to Work at Home Job Offers