Work-at-Home: Two New Customer Service Job Opps - Pro Support and StarTek

It's two for Tuesday!#1 ProSupport, LLC is seeking work-at-home independent contractor customer service agents to do lead pre-qualification, then transfer to a closing agent.  You will be using your home computer to make these outbound calls.  Compensation is $.20 per call minute.  Agents generally average $9 to $10 per hour.For more information on this telecommute job opportunity and to apply, visit the job page at Pro  Support.  Good luck!#2 StarTek is currently seeking work-at-home customer service agents who are fluent in verbal German.  You also must be fluent in written and verbal English.  The experience...

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Now available with Google Apps: Google Alerts

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.Welcome to Google AlertsNo organization is an island. If you’re in business, it’s critical to be connected to what’s happening in your market and to hear what your customers are saying. If you’re in education, you need to stay on top of the latest announcements and innovations within your field. But given the immense amount of data being created every day on the Web, how can you possibly keep track of...

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Work-at-Home: Transcription Jobs with Court Reporting/Transcription Agency

A court reporting/transcription agency is seeking part-time work-at-home transcriptionists.  You must have experience transcribing witness statements, depositions, or interviews, and you must own a computer with high-speed Internet.  You also must possess excellent grammar and spelling skills, and be detail and deadline-oriented.  References will be required. This is an independent contractor position with a compensation rate of $10 to $20 per hour, depending upon experience, and is based on audio minute or page rate.  If interested in this telecommute job opportunity, please respond to this email with your resume,...

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Tell Us Your Biggest Wish for 2011

Today the Google Small Business team is kicking off a conversation about the hopes and wishes you have for your business next year. We are working on a project to help small businesses succeed in 2011 and we want to hear from you.We’ll start by asking, if you had one wish for your small business in 2011, what would it be? This is just the beginning and we’ll be looking for common themes to share with everyone. We'll pull out the common themes from submissions all over the web or via the form below and share them, anonymously, in aggregate.Think big and audacious, or be more practical – but narrow it down to just one single wish. We're trying to understand what's most important to small businesses in general, so your wish doesn't have to be specific to Google. It might be something that helps...

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Now available with Google Apps: AdWords

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.Welcome to Google AdWordsEvery business wants to connect with its customers and this is often one of the goals that a business spends the most time on. Now, your business can more easily use the power of Google AdWords to connect with your customers using your Google Apps account.AdWords gives you the ability to reach more than 80% of Internet users* as they are actively searching for information about...

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Work-at-Home: Tips on Taking Time Off When You're the Boss

When you work for yourself, you can take time off whenever you like.  Right?  Not necessarily, as this article by Liza Porteus Viana on Fox Business makes clear: "Holiday Vacation Tips: When You Work for You." Being your own boss sometimes means working more during the holidays, when others are taking more time off.  After all, you will be the one paying the piper if, in the end, your clients are disappointed, or you don't meet a deadline.When you work for yourself, there's no passing the buck.  I know that I, personally, won't be taking much time off during the holidays.  I can't afford to make less money during one...

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CSS template for golfers website

Free 2 column SEO friendly css template suitable for golfers blog or business website. Template has main content in the left column, sidebar on the right tabbed navigation bar and footer.This lightweight, fast loading free css template has fixed width and it is css and xhtml valid.Download free css templa...

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Work-at-Home: Customer Tech Support Jobs with Teleperformance

Teleperformance is seeking work-at-home customer tech support agents for full time positions.  Compensation is $9 to $11 per hour, with available overtime and paid time off.  You must have at least one year of tech customer support experience, and you must be comfortable on the Internet and navigating the Web.  You will receive three weeks of paid training.You must have a quiet home office, high-speed Internet access, and a traditional home phone line.  For more information on the job requirements and to apply, visit the job ad on Careerbuilder.  Good luck! Other Posts of Interest:Work-at-Home Nasco Medical Coding OpportunityThis...

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How I’m Using Hotpot to Plan My Thanksgiving Weekend

[Cross-posted from the Hotpot Community Blog. We recently announced the availability of our new local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends, called Google Hotpot. Read on about how folks in your local area can find your business through the ratings, reviews and recommendations on Google. - Ed.]The word “Thanksgiving” conjures up images of my family gathering around the table in Pennsylvania, passing the turkey and mashed potatoes to one another. But not this year. While my family's off on a surfing trip in Mexico, I'm staying in New York to spend time with my boyfriend Wes.But I don't want to spend the next several days lazing...

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Work-at-Home: Remote Legal Assistant Needed at NY-NJ Law Firm

A New York/New Jersey law firm is seeking a remote legal assistant to work on a project-by-project basis in the areas of real estate, business, estate planning, and litigation.  Projects will be emailed to you.  The weekly workload can vary from 15 minutes to a few hours.  Compensation will be commensurate with experience.  If interested in this telecommute job opportunity, please provide in a cover letter: A. Your hourly compensation rate B. Explain why you would be able to provide this type of support for at least two years C. Why our client information would be secureD.How frequently you respond to emailE. Familiarity...

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Now available with Google Apps: Google Finance

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.Welcome to Google FinanceFinancial market data is some of the most time-sensitive and important information that many businesses track minute by minute. Portfolios, stock charts, and up-to-the-second market news are all central to understanding investment options, making business decisions, and tracking suppliers, partners, and competitors. How is the market reacting to the press release you just issued?...

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Spreading holiday cheer and regional cuisine through AdWords

[Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog.]When we here in the U.S. think of Thanksgiving, many of us think of our favorite foods: perhaps a fresh-from-the-oven pumpkin pie, a sweet glazed ham or a succulent turkey. But thanks to Charlie Hohorst III of Lafayette, La., tens of thousands of Americans dream instead of a turkey... stuffed with a duck... stuffed with a chicken.For the past 15 years, Hohorst has run food shopping site Cajun Grocer, which specializes in more than 1,000 different authentic Louisianan foodstuffs and delicacies. The “turducken”—a Cajun dish consisting of a de-boned turkey filled with duck, chicken and stuffing—is “the...

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Work-at-Home: Communications Specialist Jobs with MDS Communications

MDS Communications is seeking work-at-home communications specialists for its @Home Agent Program.  The company provides phone fundraising services to a variety of conservative organizations.  This is a telecommute job.  Schedules are flexible and available for both full and part-time.  Compensation is $10 to $12 per hour base wage, with up to an additional $7 per hour performance bonus opportunity.  To apply for this telecommute job, please visit the MDS website, click on Careers, and fill out an application. Good luck! Other Posts of Interest:Work at Home for Caption Colorado5 Tips for Saving Money on Groceries...

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Now available with Google Apps: Blogger

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.Welcome to BloggerHow do you let the world know what's important to your organization on a day-to-day basis? You may have a Web site, but when was the last time you added fresh content? You may have advertisements and media placements, but how interactive can you make those conversations? Many companies solve these problems by using blogs to connect in more meaningful ways, sharing up-to-date information...

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Work-at-Home: Call Rep Jobs with Service 800

Service 800 is seeking work-at-home calling representatives in the following states: FLORIDA, MINNESOTA, TEXAS, and WISCONSIN. You must be bright, articulate, and have excellent writing skills. Previous customer service experience, computer knowledge, and telephone skills are mandatory, as you will be conducting interviews with people who have had a recent customer service experience. You must have Windows XP or Vista and high-speed Internet service. For more information on this telecommute job opportunity and to apply, please visit the job listing.  Other Posts of Interest:Work-at-Home Debt Settlement Consultant How Google Alerts...

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Driving toward better ROI: How one small business uses the Conversion Optimizer to increase sales

Elliott Antal, eMarketing Manager from the Richard Petty Driving Experience, recently won the Google AdWords Conversion Champion Challenge. His sweet, sweet reward was one-on-one time with the Conversion Optimizer team (and a free trip to Google headquarters). While Antal was here, we gained more insight into why the Conversion Optimizer, an automated AdWords tool that manages bids to achieve conversion targets, has become an important part of his small business marketing strategy. “We don’t have a large marketing budget so we have to optimize everything we have,” says Antal. “Using the Conversion Optimizer makes perfect sense because it allowed...

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Now available with Google Apps: Google Voice

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.Welcome to Google VoiceTelephones make our lives easier every day, but we’ve all met with the limitations of what the existing technology can do for us. Maybe it’s missing an important call because you were away from your office. Maybe it’s juggling multiple voicemail inboxes or struggling to listen to voicemail in a crowded conference room or on a noisy train. Maybe its wishing you could set up a conference...

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A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog and the Google Docs Blog]Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it’s 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade. Of course, we know that many more of you still use Microsoft Office, because until recently, there weren’t many tools to help you collaborate and share with others. Now there’s more choice.To help smooth the transition from Office to the cloud, my teammates and I founded a company called DocVerse, which was acquired by Google earlier this year. Over the last 9 months, we’ve been hard at work moving...

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Work-at-Home: Instructional Designer Job with Clarity Consultants

Clarity Consultants is seeking a part-time work-at-home instructional designer.  You will be working with course developers to ensure that courses meet client standards. You must have five or more years of instructional design experience for the virtual classroom, experience with the Centra delivery tool,  and basic editing skills.  You must also be an excellent communicator who is detail-oriented.  Samples of your previous work will be requested.  This job is completely virtual and will last approximately three months (20 hours per week or on "as needed" basis).  You must be available during normal business hours...

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Tips on Making the Work-at-Home Life Work for You

I've said it often.  Working from home isn't for everyone.  It takes a particular type of person to not only succeed, but enjoy the telecommute life.  I wanted to share a link to a great article on just this subject - "Making it Work at Home" by Beth Wood.  The article highlights the stories of two women who have started successful home businesses, and the challenges they faced.I especially like Ellen Goodwin's Words of Wisdom regarding the telecommute life: "I have a savings account I can tap during bad months.  During good months, I put a little more away.  It's important to have that safety net."  And I couldn't...

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Now available with Google Apps: Google Reader

[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]Editor’s note: Yesterday we launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.Welcome to Google ReaderWe all have favorite websites. The ones that we keep returning to day after day – or even several times a day – to check for new content. Whether you follow company press coverage on a set of news websites, track industry-related developments through trade journals, or follow what people are saying about your organization in the blogosphere, you can now do all of this in one place...

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Work-at-Home: Freelance Copywriter for Financial Services Company

A Newburyport, MA financial services company is seeking a freelance copywriter on a project-to-project basis. You will need to meet face-to-face a couple of times, but most work can be done remotely. The current project is to start immediately and be finished by mid-December.The ideal candidate for this work-at-home job will be professional and creative. Please submit your resume, as well as any electronic examples of your direct mail experience, to: job-z9kbc-2067542556@craigslist.org.  This job is unresearched, so please do your own due diligence.  Other Posts of Interest:American Airlines Work-at-Home ReservationsTips on Getting...

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Great tech support and good karma found with Google AdWords online

When Uday Challu noticed a growing dissatisfaction with avenues for technical support, he was inspired to create a better way for people to get help with their tech troubles. So in 2007 he founded iYogi.com, India’s first direct-to-consumer remote technical support company. Founded on a belief in good karma, iYogi aims to mitigate frustrations with technical products and services by delivering a high-quality customer service experience.iYogi Founder Uday ChalluiYogi provides round-the-clock, 24-hours service on a wide variety of technical products and issues, in Australia, Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Uday uses Google AdWords to reach these...

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Work-at-Home: Data Entry Job with Growing Online Company

A growing company in Glendale, CA is seeking a data entry inventory manager to assist in keeping products up-to-date online via many different retail channels. This is a part-time work-at-home position of 20 to 40 hours per week.  Compensation is $10 per hour.  You must have a computer and high-speed Internet connection.  The job ad does not specify that you must live in the Glendale area.Duties (from job ad): Daily updates of online auction sites Daily online receiving of products Daily pricing and repricing of products Inventory upkeep. Experience in data entry is preferred.  If interested in this telecommute job opportunity,...

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Biztree's Google AdWords Success Story

Here on the Small Business Blog, we occasionally share the successes of our customers by letting them tell their story in their own voice. Today, we’re happy to feature Jonathan Defoy and Bruno Goulet, founders of Biztree, who have found success using AdWords.Biztree’s relationship with Google started in early 2003. We had just taken a loan of $25,000 to invest in advertising and we spread it across seven channels including affiliate programs, mass email, forum advertising, content and search advertising. After 30 days we lost all our money in all channels – except one. The small investment we made in Google search returned almost three times our investment!At that point we went back to the bank to borrow $100K hoping to replicate the results. After much fighting with investors, we finally...

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Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers

(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog and the Google Enterprise Blog)As customers begin to recognize large productivity gains with Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of Google Apps, they frequently ask when they’ll be able to use services like Google Voice, Reader, Blogger and AdWords with their Google Apps accounts. We’ve steadily added new functionality to Google Apps and recently added support for third-party apps, but we’re thrilled to swing the floodgates of new functionality wide open now. Starting today, customers worldwide can access a full spectrum of services from Google—including more than 60 productivity-boosting applications that extend far beyond any traditional software suite.Coupled with the ability for administrators to provide different sets of applications to different...

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Work-at-Home: Seasonal Phone and Chat Customer Support Jobs with Intuit

Intuit is seeking seasonal work-at-home customer support via phone and chat for its TurboTax product.  This is a full-time 40-hour per week position.  Flexibility in scheduling is a must, as the company's needs may change throughout the tax season.  You must have a minimum of a high school diploma or its equivalent, and you must have customer service, team, technical, and analytical abilities. Two to five years of previous customer support experience is preferred. Expertise in taxes and utilizing tax software is desired.  For more information on this telecommute job's requirements and to apply, see the job ad at Monster...

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The Connected Kingdom

At Google we’ve always believed that the Internet is an engine of economic growth, but until now no one has ever quantified who, how, why, where and what was behind this growth. So we asked The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a well-respected adviser on business strategy, to conduct an analysis of the impact of the Internet on the UK economy.And we were surprised by the results: In 2009, the Internet contributed £100 billion to the UK economy. That represents 7.2% of GDP. The UK is the number one country in the world for e-commerce and is a net exporter of e-commerce goods and services, exporting £2.80 for every £1 imported. The Internet economy is expected to grow by 10% per year.The Connected Kingdom videoBCG researched the impact that being online has had on overall businesses sales,...

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