Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Women's Grammar




My husband claims he has finally analyzed women's grammar.

What do you think?







Sunday, April 15, 2007

Experts make money - a comprehensive list of experts site

Now, more than ever, there are opportunities to make money working at home by offering your expertise over the web.
I want this to be the most comprehensive list of experts sites on the web ;-).
It took me a while to gather these links. If I miss any site - please tell me.
If you have any experience with these web sites - please leave a comment!

How does this all relate to working from home?
  • Get paid for sharing your expertise - In the $ fee based expert sites you earn money by answering question in your field of expertise.
  • Promote yourself as an expert in free communities - In the free expert communities you can build your recognition as an expert, which can of course attract income opportunities.

Get paid for sharing your expertise:
Bitwine Get paid using Skype for the conversation and paypal for the payment.
chacha Get paid for helping people search.
experts If your expertise can help the legal and insurance industry as a witness, you may want to consider listing yourself in this directory
expertbee Get paid for answering. Based on bidding.
Guruza Get paid to answer question using various communication channels. Asker sets the reward in advance.
justanswer Get paid to answer questions. Only "accepted answers" are getting paid for.
Kasamba A very large collection of advisers. Fee based.
mechanical turk a fee based service formed by amazon, based on experts from various fields.
nownow Fee based answering service for mobile / pda users. Based on a partnership with mechanical turk for the professional service.
uclue experts provide a fast, professional, and inexpensive research service.
xooxleanswers A team of researchers who provide a professional research service mainly in the fields of "business, law, health and academic research"

Promote yourself as an expert in free communities:
able2know Free knowledge exchange, a large collection of forums
answerbag Free. 140k members.
answerway Free. ~12k users. ~4k experts.
askmehelpdesk Free, 60 k members
askeet A relatively small database
allexperts A veteran experts site. Owned by about.com
askbar A relatively small, and unsearchable data. You can become a "bartender" and potentially earn cash. Not sure how...
Askville Amazon's experts community. Read their blog
ask an expert Kid-friendly expert site. Free, hundreds of experts.
crowdrules Free, video based experts community.
expert-answers Experts networks, as a small wiki alternative.
experts-exchange A large community of experts. Free for basic membership. Fee based for premium membership. If you become a recognized expert you can earn a free premium membership.
koonji An interactive "guiding community" for online activities.
linkedin answers Build your recognition as part of the growing professional network of linkedin.
live qna Mircorosfts Q&A network, part of the windows live initiative. Free.
metafilter An interesting concept of "hive community", including answers section.
oyogi Relatively small and new. Nice interface. Free.
pointask Free. Includes a categorized knowledgebase.
what should i say Free. Geared toward personal advice. Nice user interface.
say-so Looks more like a fun project for Q&A
simply explained Free, including forums and categories.
theanswerbank A UK representative. Good quality. A European flavor of the content.
yahoo answers Nothing to say. The largest and most comprehensive experts site.
yedda Interesting and large community of experts. Free.

How to make money at home

I want to break the traditional thinking of working at home, as something that must involve
filling forms, applying for credit cards, and clicking unconsciously on various links.
I think that the fact that I am a mother working from home does not necessarily mean that I cannot use my brain. Actually I believe the opposite is right.

In my opinion working from home forces you to maximize your skills. There are things which I like to do. such as writing.Today there is a great opportunity for making money at home just by writing.For example - as unexpected as it may sound - writing a blog these days may serve as a decent source of income. Of course - such a blog as mine, which is somewhat in the beginning of it's road cannot be considered as a decent source of income.

However - here comes the part which I believe is most important for working at home - to believe in yourslef and in the road. It is well known today that setting your goals is a major step towards achieving them, even beyond your initial expectation.
No matter what you want to focus on, or what are your precious skills, there are many opportunities out there for making money online with your skills.
I want to keep here a large and most updates list of web sites that enable experts to make money by answering questions. I think these kind of services can be a great source - not only for income - but rather for personal development and satisfaction.

Monday, April 2, 2007

blogossary

A lot of us out there are bloggers.
Thought this blogosphere dictionary one might interest some of us...

blogossary

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

inspiration

Take a look at this site.
You can find here 1788 inspirational posts for work at home opportunities

Saturday, February 10, 2007

work at home schemes

Beware of "work at home schemes"

A lot of info can be found here -
Federal Trade Commission

and here -
Work at home moms - under cover

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Get Paid to

There are plenty of opportunities for getting paid at home,
while completing certain activities over the internet.


Get paid to:

  • write blogs
  • Fill up surveys
  • Play games
  • Review Products and services

An interesting approach to finding these opportunities can be found here