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And in the beginning... The What's New Archives:
- All homeworking.com or homeworking.co.uk email is now working again but was out of action from yesterday until 12.00 GMT today. If you sent an email or joined our Mailing List during this time you may have to send your email again. Please bear with us and thank you for your patience.
- Updated: Nearly free advertising gives low-cost ideas for how you can promote your homeworking or small business activity.
- Welcome to all the visitors to Homeworking.com who have come as a result of the BBC Breakfast News programme "Your Money" which went out live yesterday morning.
- Don't forget that our Forum is lively and friendly and just the place if you are a homeworker or if you want to be one. Here you can chat and discuss about all aspects of homeworking or just come along for a gossip :-)
- There is a mailing list on the home page for you to join to keep you up to date with major changes on this site.
- There is too much information on this site to take in in one go so why not bookmark this site making it easier to visit regularly.
- Any enquiries about this site can be made to the editor admin@homeworking.org Full contact details can be found on the About Us page. The editor is currently on vacation this week but your enquiry will be dealt with as soon as possible.
- All the very best and we look forward to meeting you on the Forum.
- This last week or so has been fairly fraught with sorting out the problems with the free email service we offer: incoming mail was not being received! This involved emails flying around the world before the problem was identified: the server hosting the domain did something at their end which lost our settings. These have now been reset and although the email service was regularly checked by us we will set up some sort of daily check so that if there are any future problems they can be identified more quickly.
- We are so sorry to all the users of the @homeworking.org email service for this major inconvenience, and are promised it shouldn't happen again.
- Thought about starting your own business at home? See our "Starting a Business" section for some excellent new resources including our partnership with ebay.
- If you haven't visited the Job Search page for a while then do take a look and try it out as it is now more streamlined and easier to use.
- The Company Director is now part of our Case Studies of Homeworkers. Read Ian Jone's compelling story and then find out a bit more about the rare children's condition SCIDS.
- Page for Employers has been updated with Work-Life Balance Case Studies.
- More links added to the Contacts page which is a list of ideas for work that can be done at home or from home.
- There is an article about a great new website for working mothers on our Family Life page.
- A list of ideas for work that can be done at home or from home can be found on our Contacts page. Some of these ideas have links to other websites for relevant information to help you get some ideas of how to start, or what other people are doing in that particular field, or for some useful contacts.
- We now have a secure server in place for online credit card payments for advertising on this site. The secure page is accessed from the Ratecard. The prices listed here are aimed at homeworking and small to medium sized businesses. Individuals looking for work can advertise free of charge. All other enquiries should be addressed to admin@homeworking.org
- e-work awards 2000 have been launched and nominations for best practice in the field of teleworking must be given as soon as possible. See our Events Page for more details and an overview of the Teleworking and e-work events this year.
- The Home Page has been re-organised to try to keep it fairly clear. There is still a lot on the Home Page so it may be in for some more modifications. Sorry if it is confusing with the links moving around. Any feedback from users is welcomed at admin@homeworking.org
- A number of links to sites specialising in Venture Capital for your great start-up can be found in our Small Business Section.
Fun things added for your tea or coffee breaks. All linked from the Home page:
- Why not send that special someone a free e-card. From 'Happy Accountants Day' [I kid you not! - ed] to 'Congratulations' you are bound to find something for everyone. The card site we are linked to is reliable so you can count on your card getting to its destination.
- Check out the Laughin humour site. Not only a great selection of wit but also reviews of other sites of interest. They gave Homeworking.com a good review earlier this year :-)
- Homeworking.com has always had a charitable ethos so it only makes sense that we bring some of this stuff together on one page: Charity Policy as well as adding some great new things you can do online right now to help others and that do not cost you a penny, cent, pfennig, centime......!
- Free Email@homeworking.org is lauched on our Home Page today. Use your free email address for all your homeworking activities.
- Furniture Is It Really Homeworking For You? is an excellent article covering some of the basics about what you should take into account when organising your home office, and allows for the fact that not everyone would have a large budget for furniture. There are also some great tips about minimising the problems associated with long hours at the computer.
- The Mortgage Business has been added to our Case Studies of Homeworkers. Sarah has been working from home for 8 months on her Mortgage Business which helps people to cut the costs of their mortgages. Sarah enjoys this way of working and finds it productive and that it fits in well with her young family.
- Healthy Debtors Pay Creditors is the latest article added to our personal debt collection. If you are in debt this article should help you realise that you will only be able to repay your debts if you are healthy. Although you may already be in debt this article helps you to realise that there are certain items of further expenditure that are justified because it could save you money in the long run and therefore help to reduce your stress levels. One thing though, this is not a free for all to justify all forms of luxuries!
- Marketing a Small Business is in our Starting a Small Business section and explains how you can market your small business or your services. Full of helpful pointers it will help you avoid making costly mistakes. It also explains the difference between advertising and marketing.
- The Amazon Affiliate Review has been updated with the latest quarterly payment, which is the best yet! The Affiliate page gives the low-down of what is really involved in being an affiliate. Being part of an affiliate program should be seen as an addition to your other homeworking activity and not as an entire income in its own right.
- Classified ads added or updated.
- Our new page Employers has just been updated with further information and ideas for sources of reliable and excellent homeworkers that would be a boon to any employer.
- See the Jobs Page for a new link to a freelance job site. Worth taking a look wherever you are in the world, including the UK. What's more, Homeworking.com gets a small referral fee if you register and it's free to do that. See the Jobs page for more info and then check out their site. There will be a new discussion thread in our Forum for anyone to feedback about the Elance site.
- Calling all employers! Our new page Employers aims to encourage and help employers to move towards more flexible ways of working. We have compiled together some excellent sources of on-line information and will expand this into a more comprehensive section in due course.
- Another new Case Study of a Homeworker is for anyone considering network marketing as an option. Louise and Ian have recently signed up with their choice and have agreed to share their experience with us. We hope to update their Case Study as they develop.
- If you have more than one PC at home you may want to consider networking them together. Networking a PC? looks at the benefits.
- Another Case Study of a Homeworker "The Special Interest Website" has been updated since the homeworker in question now works full time at home. No prizes for guessing the website being referred to ;-)
- The UK Government are to introduce new rights for part-time workers including homeworkers. Employers have just 6 weeks to implement these new regulations. See our UK Government Proposals page for a brief overview, comment and a link to the government site to read the full regulations.
- A couple of new News articles have been posted on the News Clip section. One is about creating your own home office space and the other is about those Too Good To Be True homeworking schemes that we see advertised.
- New classified ads posted, especially Jobs Offered.
- Just to blow our own trumpet we are collecting together snippets written about Homeworking.com The link is from the Home Page but you can Click Here if you have looked at everything else on this site!
- The review of AllAdvantage affiliate program has been updated again with earning details for the last three months. Click on the link to go directly to the payment details.
- We are lucky to have two more Case Studies of Homeworkers to share with you. Full of some great tips, they are both Freelance and both successful:
- Apart from the Forum, which is always active, the site has been a little quiet for this last few weeks. I'm pleased to say that we are back in full swing and you should expect to see a good deal more activity from now on!
- We have three new Case Studies of Homeworkers to share with you. The Case Studies continue to show, time and again, that homeworkers do not rely on dodgy homeworking scams but develop work at home that is an extension of their skills or training. Check out:
- Over 30 UK Homeworkers Urgently Needed. See our Classifieds page ~ Click Here
- Our Case Study of The Independent Communications Contractor has been updated in our Case Studies of Homeworkers. Homeworking is an organic way of working which means that we will soon be seeing some more Case Studies updated.
- New classifieds of homeworkers available for work have been added to the Classified Section.
- Another major new section has just been started! See Starting a Business which contains information from points to consider, to tips to writing a business plan. There is even an example of a business plan. Plenty more will be added over the coming weeks.
- Two great new Case Studies of Homeworkers have been added. Read about a real life children's author who is nearing 70 and has the disability of Multiple Sclerosis to contend with. Our other case study has to deal with a teenage child with ADHD and has written widely on the subject. Read what she is up to now and the new business she is developing.
- The News Articles about homeworkers has been moved off the home page to make that page quicker to download. So you can now go to News Articles for a round-up of articles from The Guardian newspaper.
- One of our readers speaks out about being scammed by Meridian/Caltech USA. Read about it on our Soapbox Page.
- Our new Gizmo is uploaded throughout the site to make navigation even easier! If you find you have problems with the Gizmo then see our special Help Page.
- Letters to Send to Creditors shows plenty of sample letters and when to use them. This is the latest article in our comprehensive Debt section to help people who are in debt and think homeworking is the way to solve their problems.
- The review of AllAdvantage.com affiliate program us been updated again with details of their new terms of operation and a quick look at their new upgraded View Bar.
| Thursday 17 February 2000: |
- Sorry, this link was removed on 16 March 2000! Homeworkers needed right now to take part in a student research project. See a copy of the questions and how to take part.
- Survey of Homeworkers carried out by Tolson Messenger shows some interesting results...
- More job sites added to Job Search Page. Particularly smarterwork.com which is a new freelancer job bidding service soon to be launched.
- SoHo 2000 is a UK exhibition relevant to homeworkers and the employers of homeworkers. Details and link on our Home Page.
- Four books about writing business plans have been reviewed on our Book Page. Take a look and see if one or two would suit you.
- Our in-depth review of One and Only Dating and Personals has now been added to our affiliate review section. This is one review that was particularly dear to our hearts ;-)
| Thursday 10 February 2000: |
- Forget the APR - How Much is the Insurance is another must-read article for everyone. It is all about the insurance you are often persuaded to take out at the same time as arranging a loan. This is relevant to everyone and especially to those in debt and new homeworkers considering a small loan to start out in business.
- The review of AllAdvantage.com affiliate program us been updated with our latest earning figures and with the experience of a US affiliate who was not too impressed with them last year. Both items have a red flash showing todays date.
- The review of Amazon affiliate program has also been updated with our latest earning figures.
| Thursday 3 February 2000: |
- Two new articles on writing for money can be found on Writing which together with the first article Writing For Magazines by Gail Miller will inspire and advise. Thank you to Gail Miller for sharing her knowledge.
- More links added to our Links page!
| Thursday 27 January 2000: |
| Saturday 22 January 2000: |
- Another article from our excellent debt series Utility Debt has just been posted. Colin Duguid, our Debt Specialist who is kindly providing this information for the benefit of potential homeworkers has recently released his excellent credit to cash (CTOC) software free in return for signing up to their extremely useful newsletter - that's all, no strings attached. Even if you are not yet at the stage of having many clients and being able to offer credit (this CTOC package explains the legal jargon in easy terms) you will finds lots of sample letters for helping you to deal with clients who owe you money and how not to get into debt in the first place. You can also see our in-depth review or go directly to www.credit-to-cash.com and download your free copy now.
| Thursday 20 January 2000: |
- Just to let you know that the news articles on the Home Page continue to be updated and today we have removed the small amounts of banner advertising on the site as it delays the loading of some pages. More about this will appear in the affiliate section in due course.
| Thursday 13 January 2000: |
| Wednesday 12 January 2000: |
- Background development work and new logos have kept us busy. More coming soon!
- Yesterday we reviewed the AllAdvantage.com affiliate program and today we add a review of the Amazon affiliate program. Check them both out in the Affiliate Section.
- Read the latest news stories on homeworking. See the Links on the home page.
- The start of a major new section on Affiliate Programs begins today. The Affiliate Section will review and test out some major programs, and give you an honest and realistic assessment of each one and their usefulness to homeworkers. If we can, we will also give you the bottom line on what they actually pay and what it costs you in terms of time and side costs!.
| Tuesday 21 December 1999: |
- News breaking on 20 December says that 4 people have pleaded guilty in the US to a web fraud which cheated job seekers out of £35 dollars each for the chance to work at home. The total scammed out of people amounts to some $150,000 to $200,000! Read about it on http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991220/tc/internet_fraud_1.html.
| Thursday 16 December 1999: |
- Since posting the latest debt article (see below), the Halifax Building Society has just announced that it would not take action against any mortgages/debts older than six years. See the latest update in House Repossession and Debts Now Being Demanded.
- The Ancient Historian has been added to our Case Studies of Homeworkers. Peter is neither ancient nor a stuffy academic! He talks frankly about being a homeworker and offers a useful insight. Follow the link at the bottom of his page to check out the books he has written.
| Wednesday 15 December 1999: |
- Colin Duguid, our debt specialist comments and advises on House Repossession and Debts Now Being Demanded in our debt section. This is his last article for this year and we thank him for sharing his expertise with us. If you are a small business why not check out his web site and purchase his excellent and low-cost Cash Flow Management Program. There is a review on our page Small Business Resources and Homeworking.com has secured an extra discount on the already low price.
- Personal Bankruptcy in our debt section talks about the implications of becoming bankrupt in the UK.
- The Paralegal has been added to our Case Studies of Homeworkers. Nancy does this work part time at home and is a good example of someone who has found work that provides a 'bit of extra income'.
- Another article has been added to our excellent debt section: How do I Get My Credit Card Back?.
| Thursday 25 November 1999: |
- The Software Project Manager Consultant and The Mail Order (Condoms and Adult Fashion) Case Studies of Homeworkers have been added. Also, the section has been put into easy to find categories such as Teleworking, Network Marketing, Part Time and more!
And in the beginning... The What's New Archives:
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