Network Your Way To A Work At Home Job
hen you first start to
look for a work at home Message boards are a great way to
job, it s easy to get network with other telecommuters.
discouraged. Postings for work at Spend your time asking questions
home jobs can be scarce and when and answer the questions of other
they do come up, competition people. You may not see any
among applicants is fierce. What immediate return for the time
many moms new to telecommuting invested in networking on the
don t realize is that there is boards, but it will pay off in
another way to land a work at the long run.
home job Networking. Many
people get their work at home If you are a person that is
jobs either directly from or as a helpful and well liked on the
referral through other people message board, and one of the
they network with. other board members comes across
a position they are not qualified
When you are networking, you are for, or they just don t need the
not actively pursuing a work at extra work at the moment, they
home job. Your main focus should will likely think of you and send
be on making new friends in the the lead your way (and you should
Telecommuting community. Down the do the same).
road those friends may send you a
lead for a great job, but first Creating those types of
you have to make those friends. relationships are what you are
working to create through
Let s take a look at four networking on message boards.
different ways to network in the
Work at Home Community. Online Groups
Message Boards One of the biggest online groups
is the Ryze Network, but there organization to find some local
are also Google, Yahoo and MSN offline networking events. Just
Groups. Each of these networks like networking in the online
has groups on any topic under the world, you are there to meet new
sun. people and develop relationships
with them.
Search for Telecommuting groups
and lurk around a few for a Some of the best places to
while. You ll find one or two network online are WAHM.com - the
groups that seem like a good fit first work at home mom website
for you and then start with an active forum and of
participating. course TelecommutingMoms.com/BB -
the only message board devoted to
Instant Messenger telecommuting moms. Head over
there today and make some new
After you have gotten to know friends!
some other telecommuters on the
boards or in the groups, approach Be careful not to get too wrapped
them about exchanging Instant up with chatting though it s all
Messenger ids. You know have a too easy to get wrapped up in
fast one-on-one way to stay in message boards and spend hours a
touch with them and to further day networking!
build a relationship.
So please be sure to keep a good
Local Work At Home Mom Groups balance. If you network "right"
you will see the benefits of
Check with your local chamber of telecommuting networking!
commerce or the small business
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