Make Money From Home
A Step-by-Step Guide to make money from home with work from home jobs
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Make Money From Home
A Step-by-Step Guide to make money from home with work from home jobs
About This Book
Are you sick of your office job? Sick of office politics? Then consider working from home
This book can solve your problems. Work-from-home jobs have been on a steady increase over time. This has been due to the internet revolution that has brought about better and cheaper technologies that have made it possible to have virtual offices. Workers are able to work remotely from home or wherever they do feel at home. This book aims to provide you with great information as a potential work-from-home employee. It also provides a glimpse to work-from-home employers about the immense benefits that they can gain from using it. For both remote workers and employers, the book demonstrates the benefits that each gets and sheds more light on the kind of jobs that are better done remotely, and more so, from home. The book goes further to advise the would-be home-workers on how to find work-from-home jobs. Definitely, despite professional training, each work environment requires a set of unique skills. A work-from-home environment is not an exception. This guide provides you with information on the skills you need to succeed as a remote worker. Building an online portfolio and networking online are great ways to prepare yourself to find those well-paying work-from-home jobs. This book teaches you how to build your online portfolio and network online to be able to fish out more work opportunities. At the end, you desire to have paid clients for you to be able to finance your lifestyle. This book guides you on how to get your first paid clients. Much more importantly, you would spend less time and effort maintaining your clients than easily losing them and keep on looking for others. In this book, you are guided on how to maintain long-term, productive and sustainable relationships with your clients. Enjoy reading!
Here's a Preview of What You'll Learn from This Book:
Benefits of Working from homeTypes of Work from Home JobsHow to Find Work From Home OpportunitiesImportant Skills to LearnBuilding Your Online PortfolioNetworking OnlineGet Your First Paid ClientMaintaining Relationships with Your Client
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MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR CLIENTS
- Mindfulness – This refers to being consciously aware of your thoughts, words, and deeds. More so, being aware of their impact on others.
- Trust – This refers to being able to have faith in others honesty and ability to honor their commitments.
- Mutual Respect – This refers to holding each other in high esteem. Thus, you value each other's opinion, perspective, effort, and input. You deliberately seek not to dominate others but work together towards achieving set goals.
- Openness – This refers to an attitude that allows you to be free from fear, suspicions, and worries about how others take your thoughts, words, and actions. It is being free to express yourself without reservations. Openness thrives in a climate of trust and mutual respect. It is in such an environment that you know that even if you are wrong, you will be understood and be corrected without your respect being compromised.
- Love for diversity – It is almost inevitable that when you work from home, more so, in a global environment, that you will interact with people from diverse backgrounds. Each of these backgrounds has its own cultural filters such that things are bound to be interpreted differently from one cultural background to another. Sometimes you may make an innocent joke, which in your culture will cause laughter and lively talk, but in some other cultures, it may be interpreted as rude, obscene or in bad taste. Learning other people’s culture and appreciating their worldviews will greatly help you to cope with such situations.
- Develop Your People Skills
- Identify your relationship needs
- Schedule time to build relationships
- Focus on Your Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- Be optimistic
- Manage boundaries
- Keep off gossiping
- Smoothen out difficult relationships
- Get to know your clients – It is important to know your clients. Studying their profile, contacting their previous employees, going through their previous assignments and having an interview with them are just but some of the ways by which you can learn about your clients. Sometimes you may find out that you are not compatible with your potential client. It would be better to avoid further engagement than disappoint each other later on, with serious repercussions to your very own reputation. Having a small talk with clients can help in shaping your understanding of them. They too can have a better understanding of you.
- Share testimonials and work samples – Your previous work tells you a lot about how you perform. This can help your clients manage their expectations of you.
- Email like a professional – The way you present your communication with your client can easily tell whether you are professional in your undertakings or not. It is not so much about being formal (though necessary) but more about being relevant, clear and concise. Converse with your client as you would with a colleague. Present a warm, friendly tone yet not too casual. Whenever you have a phone conversation, be sure to make a follow-up with an email outlining key points discussed so that both of you can be on the same level of understanding.
- Be respectful of their time – Keep in mind that both you and your client are busy. Stay on schedule. Respect appointments. Be on time. If you are unable to make it and thus must reschedule the meeting, inform your client soonest possible.
- Do not flake from jobs – Sometimes, it happens that, due to unavoidable circumstances, you are ...
Table of contents
- BOOK DESCRIPTION
- GIFT INCLUDED
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- DISCLAIMER
- INTRODUCTION
- BENEFITS OF WORKING FROM HOME
- TYPES OF WORK FROM HOME JOBS
- FINDING WORK FROM HOME OPPORTUNITIES
- WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I LEARN AND USE?
- BUILDING YOUR ONLINE PORTFOLIO
- NETWORKING ONLINE
- HOW TO GET YOUR FIRST PAID CLIENTS
- MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR CLIENTS
- CONCLUSION