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Liz Pulliam Weston from MSN Money wrote another great article for MSN Money and also for us. Her article, “4 Real Jobs that you can do from home” is really a great article to read if you want to start a home base business or building your income from home. Here is the first job that she recommends to us:

“A call center in your home
You hear a lot about companies routing their customer service calls to workers overseas, but a less-noticed trend is the growth in home-based call center workers. The number of such workers in North America has tripled since 2000, according to an estimate by research firm Yankee Group, with more than 670,000 phone agents in the U.S. and Canada now working at home.

Thanks to the Internet and better call-routing technology, more companies are finding they can outsource their order-taking, sales and problem-solving calls to home-based workers, said LiveOps CEO Bill Trenchard. LiveOps not only runs an outsource operation, but it provides the technology for companies that want to set up their own home-based call centers “since only about 10% to 12% of call center work is outsourced,” Trenchard said.

Home-based workers tend to be better educated and more loyal than their call-center counterparts, Trenchard said. Most of LiveOps’ workers have college degrees (Opara has a master’s), and turnover is low.

The flexibility that Opara likes also benefits companies. Home-based operators are typically contractors who are paid for each minute spent on the phone, so companies can quickly gear up to meet high demand without having to pay for idle workers during slack times.

The job isn’t without drawbacks. Pay usually starts around $8 an hour, assuming you get enough calls, which can come slowly at the beginning, Opara said. The jobs that simply require order-taking often pay the least, while the better-paying jobs typically require that you have sales skills.

all centers usually have no tolerance for audible distractions, so a crying baby, barking dog or ringing doorbell could get you fired. (Some companies require their workers have dedicated offices with doors to minimize potential distractions.) Operators also need a dedicated phone line, a computer and high-speed Internet access.

Some call centers that say they are currently hiring include:

• Alpine Access
• LiveOps
• Willow CNS
• West at Home “

First idea : Call center from home. As the article indicated, we really must thanks to our technology. Because of our communication technology, we really can sit in our house and make some income or even build a business. Call center from home besides concentrate on customer service, I think we can try to make it as a center of telemarketing. We can use our phone or internet and cold call some customer and share with them some of the products and offers that they might interested. You can approach more customer by phone than visit them physically.

Source : MSN Money

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