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Success Stories: Home Based Businesses Started for Less than $150

Monday, 16 August 2010 09:32

She started her successful work at home business for $40

 Babson College estimated it costs an about $65,000 to start a small business, including equipment and staff.

The Wall Street Journal took exception and wrote about successful home based business and small businesses in Successful Work at Home Businesses. 

These three companies profiled by The Journal were stared for $150 or less.  

  • Kael Robinson put $40 into her Live Worldly Brazilian bracelet company initially.

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  • Jeff Swedarsky with $110,founded the culinary tourism company Food Tour. He hopes to clear $300,000 in sales this year.

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  • Marc Ringel started Floor Works New York first as a part time job, finally going full time about 4 years ago.  He spent $145 on a website and business cards, doing most of the designs himself.

Most of the home businesses profiled were small part time businesses.  Also, they reinvested their earnings back into the business, buying more material or saving for slow periods.

They used low cost assistance online and built strong web presences to advertise their products and services.

The mort important factor: they all became passionate about their business.  They are their own best advertising.

SOURCE: http://www.inc.com/

Retailer to Open More Stores, Bring Call Center In-House

Saturday, 7 August 2010 01:58

Nice News about Call Center Jobs – excerpts below

Sur La Table, a Seattle-based seller of kitchen gadgets ranging from carving knives to casserole dishes, says its benefiting from Americas food obsession and will accelerate its store openings after a bit of a breather last year.

Also, the company will soon handle all of its customer service at an in-house call center in Brownsburg, Ind., its distribution hub. The company has outsourced its call-center operations for the past five years, Schwefel said. “I sleep better at night knowing that when a customer calls into our 1-800 number, they only speak with a Sur La Table employee,” he said.

SOURCE: http://www.contactcenterworld.com

7 Questions to Unravel Buying Office Headsets

Sunday, 1 August 2010 12:38

A Simple Corded Headset for Homeshoring, home based businesses 

With one chance to make a great first impression, the right headset makes all the difference.   Remote agents need to sound clear, knowledge and professional.  But the headset is often the last piece of equipment a remote agent considers. 

The range of options for headsets has grown along with their technology.  Prices have jumped as well, making this an important financial decision . We’ll walk through the key questions a homeshoring remote agent needs to ask and other factors to consider. 

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Why You Need a Regular Phone Line

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:37
Using Voice Over IP for Homeshoring is Mixed due to voice quality concerns

Using Voice Over IP for Homeshoring is Mixed due to voice quality concerns

It seems kind of dated and backwards.  You sign up to be a work at home, homeshoring agent and then required to use a regular phone line.

In this day of Unified Communications and Voice Over IP (VOIP) what gives?

The reasons is quality. 

You’re Breaking Up

VOIP converts your Voice to digital packets and sends it out over the internet in the same manner as data.  When you’re using VOIP, your voice is treated the same way your emails are treated.  And that’s the concern.

Voice needs a fast consistent network.  The Internet providers offer a mixed bag of quality, especially to homes.  Voice packets may not be consistent and that would lead to pauses and breaks that reduce the quality of the conversation.  The term used by network techs is QoS or quality of service.

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All Sides of HomeShoring

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:21

old-phoneI’m fortunate that my career lets me understand and appreciate what Homeshoring offers.  My experiences taught me Homeshoring isn’t always easy, but ultimately rewarding on many levels. 

Through high school and college, I worked in the newspaper industry, first in Southern California then in Seattle.  I did everything from subscription sales to customer service calls.  Dealing with irate customers in Seattle was always interesting – especially about wet papers.

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