Undress for Success: The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home
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- ISBN13: 9780470383322
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This book is for the bummed out, burned out, and stressed out professional, stay-at-home parent, or retiring boomer who dreams of a home-based job or business, but doesn’t know how to make that dream a reality.
Unlike the many “change-your-life” books that promise much and deliver little—Undress4Success provides expert, practical advice about: 1) what home-based jobs are available, what talents they require, what they pay, who’s hiring, and how to land one; 2) how to use the Web to search for work-at-home jobs and business opportunities without being scammed; 3) how to turn professional talents into a freelance business; and 4) how to convince an employer to adopt a telecommuting program.
Based on interviews with dozens of employers, home-based employees, successful freelancers, and leading telework researchers, this book shows readers the way home.
Undress for Success: The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home
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Finally a work at home book that’s written for the 21st century. So much of the other stuff that’s out there is pure junk. This book does as the title suggests, tells the truth.
The three sections of the book deal with home jobs, home businesses, and freelancing (which is really a home business but the authors make it a separate section because in it they cover stuff that only pertains to freelancers like which job boards to use when looking for work, how to document your freelance relationships, how to price your services, etc.).
They cover all kinds of stuff I’ve never seen in another book like what employers hire home-based staff, what they pay, and how to get a job with them. The give specific instructions for how to convince your boss to let you work from home (and offer other special book-buyer-only samples on their web site at http://undress4.success.com). They lay out what ought to be in a freelance contract and how to make sure you get paid for your work. And they offer a neat way of coming up with web-based business ideas and then show you how to go about figuring out if they make sense.
I was so sick of being taken by work at home scams (which they cover in depth in the book) that I was reluctant to buy yet another book about working from home. So I read who some of the people were that gave jacket endorsements and then I went to their web site and saw that they’ve been quoted in all kind of legit places like the Harvard Business Review, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and lots of other. I concluded that these guys are the real deal and now, having read the book, I can say I was right.
Rating: 5 / 5
I liked this book. The title could have been “E-work Options” and I think I would have liked the title better if it had been named as such. Of the 35 chapters in this book 7 of them had the term “e-work” included in their titles. I thought the book was well-written. I thought it could have been organized a bit better – a book with 35 chapters simply cannot be well-organized. It is split into 6 parts, but not well. Parts 5 and 6 only have 1 chapter each. And Part 2 had many chapters.
As I read the book I felt like I was reading a high school research paper written by an honors junior or maybe a senior. I won’t say the book is comprehensive, but it does cover a lot of ground. It not only covers working from home as someone else’s employee, but also covers self-employment from home, too. It probably would have been a better book if it had limited its scope to either W-2 or self-employment, but not both.
Although in this Internet Age that we live in it is possible to work from home as someone’s employee, in reality most employers don’t trust letting their workers work at home. And when they do it is usually on an hourly basis where work productivity is fairly easy to monitor. I’m not a fan of virtual assistants (VA). The work those people do is usually worth so much more than what they are paid to do. I always recommend to my SCORE clients to avoid being a VA and instead be an online consultant of some kind. Chapter 14 regarding teaching & tutoring was much more up my alley, but I think the authors were kind of shortsighted. They should have included consulting and coaching in this chapter, too. And Chapter 16 regarding writers was shortsighted, too. Writing as a freelancer is OK. But what about being an infopreneur? Selling information is where it is at today. And creating ebooks and self-publishing is inexpensive and easy now.
So this book has a lot of good content. It could have been better. It could have been made into two books easily. It’s definitely worth a read. It’s just not a masterpiece. 4 stars!
Rating: 4 / 5
Delivers even more than expected! In addition to detailed descriptions of actual telework jobs that are interesting and appealing (as opposed to all those MindlessTypingForLittlePay.com types of `jobs’ out there), the authors describe how best to format a resume using the most useful keywords so that webcrawlers will be more likely to find it. By adding keywords into the HTML on my small business’ website and listing myself on a single social networking site, I was able to move from non-existent on Google’s search to items #2 and #3 on page 1 in less than one week! I can’t wait to list myself on the freelance sites, so I can see what happens! Thanks so much for all the usable info!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Undress for Success – The Naked Truth about Making Money at Home by Kate Lister and Tom Harnish is an excellent resource to use when making that important decision.
Working from home is not as easy or glamorous as it may sound. If you`re unemployed, Undress for Success will open the door to discovering the possibilities, pros and cons. A home-based business is not for the unmotivated, the procrastinator or the easily distracted. Chapter 3 is entitled “Expose Yourself – Are You Right for E-Work?” This chapter explores the skills and traits required to successfully work from home. Not only is it necessary for you to be focused, but to also have the support of family and friends. First, is to provide assistance around the house to allow you time to work on your business. Second, you will need their support in leaving you alone in order to be able to get your work done.
Remember the cliché “if it sounds too good to be true…” One very important chapter in the book is devoted to the ever-growing scams in the marketplace. People will often respond to advertisements promising hundreds of dollars in income. As a result of these misleading or false advertisements, you spend more time, effort and money trying to undo the monetary damage as a result of participating in these “too good to be true” schemes. According to the authors, the “ratio of scams to legitimate home-based opportunities is almost 20 to 1.” These odds are exactly why Undress for Success is the perfect book to help you steer through the dishonest organizations which exist solely to rip off the unsuspecting consumer.
Not only does Undress for Success attempt to educate the reader on the pros and cons of working from home, it also provides information on various occupations that would do well in a home-based environment. The book covers various careers including teaching, becoming a virtual assistant, or a writer. The author has done a lot of the research on how to go about getting started in e-work as well as providing the reader with additional resources.
Working from home is not for everyone. Undress for Success – The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home is an excellent resource guide for anyone considering doing freelance work.
Rating: 5 / 5
What jobs suit me? How do I avoid the scams, how do I to get started? Its all there … everything I wanted to know to get out of my current “shirt and tie” traffic-snarl, nightmare. And its all presented in a fun, easy to read style. Thank you Kate and Tom! Glad I found you on the rack at Border’s.
Rating: 5 / 5