BlueZebra –formerly known as B2B– has been in business for 20 years, as a professional business appointment setting company.  They’re currently a “virtual” company, which means that they hire employees to work from home.

The appointment setting job involves cold-calling, and setting qualified appointments for Blue Zebra clients.  Starting pay is between $15 and $25 per hour, with a pay increase within 60 days.  For more information about this job, and to apply, click here.

The job of the virtual administrative assistant is to support Blue Zebra’s sales and marketing teams. The job requires the candidate to work a minimum of 20 hours per week.  They don’t list a pay rate on their site.  For more information, and to apply, click here.

During a recession, there are certain jobs that are considered recession-proof.   This means that no matter how bad the economy gets, people in these fields will still manage to hold onto their jobs.  Some of these require a lot of education (physicians, for instance), while others don’t require as much education or training.

One of these recession-proof jobs is also a work at home job:  resume writer. With the economy in a slump, thousands of people are losing their once-secure jobs, and finding themselves needing to search for new jobs.   A great many of these people either don’t know how to construct a powerful and effective resume, or they don’t have confidence in their abilities.  This is great news (and great business) for people who work as resume writers.

As a resume writer, you can control the amount of work you take on, and set your own hours.  AWAI’s Pro Resume Writing Program can teach you –in under seven hours– what you need to do to become a successful resume writer.  Search the any copywriters forum on the internet, and you’ll hear nothing  but good reviews about AWAI’s training programs.

I’m impressed with their resume writing program, and highly suggest that  you register for it if you have the means to do so.  For Just 48 hours (beginning right now, and ending at 11:59pm, on Wednesday, February 12, 2009), AWAI has agreed to give my readers a 50% off discount for their renowned work at home resume writing program.   The program is usually $99, but if you purchase within the 48 hour window they are giving my readers, you can purchase it for just $48.

I can’t fully express what a great deal this is, and what a wonderful, succeessful home-based career this can get you.   Borrow the money from a family member, or move some money around (don’t eat out for the next few weeks), in order to be able to purchase this program at the deeply discounted price.

This $48 can be the difference between you struggling to find a job and establishing a strong and sucessful career for yourself.

To start your work as a resume writer, order AWAI’s Pro Resume Writer for only $48 now.

Or learn more about becoming a work at home freelance resume writer.

A little over a year ago, someone on Cafe Mom told me a site she was using to earn money each month.   A little over $100 her first month, and over $800 her second month.   I wrote down the name of the site, adding it to my (very long) list of sites to research and review.

The Basics

Cash Crate is technically a GPT (“get paid to”) site.   The site’s owners pay members to “complete offers” that are listed on the site’s “Offers” page.   Basically, members visit other sites, register for newsletters, registration, or trial offers, and Cash Crate pays the members to do so.    Registration at Cash Crate is free.

Never Pay a Cent

While the offers that require a credit card (such as trial memberships) do have higher payouts, it’s not necessary to use your credit card at all.   In fact, the mom that I mentioned above made her huge $800+ checks without ever paying a cent to anyone.

Get Paid for Referrals

Cash Crate pays its members a generous $1.00 to refer others to the site.  To earn the $1.00 referral fee, just use your unique referral URL (provided to you by Cash Crate after you register).   There’s a $5 ebook that lists 20 ways you can find more referrals (which means more money) when you register with Cash Crate.  If you’re interested in learning 20 new ways to find more referrals, get your ebook to learn how.

How Cash Crate Pays

Cash Crate sends out checks every month.  There is a $20 minimum payout, which means that if you earn at least $20 in earnings in any given month, you will receive a paycheck the following month.    If your earnings fall short of the $20 mark, Cash Crate will hold those earnings, and roll them over to the next month until your earnings add up to at least $20.

Earning Potential

Cash Crate is not a job or a business.   There’s no guaranteed pay.  What you earn depends on the amount of time and dedication you put into it.    An easily-discouraged person will take a month or more to meet the minimum pay out, and will give up after a couple of weeks or month.   A determined go-getter will easily meet the payout minimum in an hour or two.    If you find clever ways to refer others to the site, you could find yourself earning hundreds or thousands of dollars per month.    Ultimately, the earnings are up to you: If you need $50 per month to treat your family to a dinner out, Cash Crate can provide that.   If you need to earn over $1,000 per month for utility bills or car payments, you can earn that with Cash Crate, too.

Final Word: Is Cash Crate a Scam?

In my opinion, in order to be classified as a scam, a company needs to have taken money from you without giving you anything of comparable or higher value in return.  Cash Crate is the exact opposite:  Registration is free, and they pay you to complete free offers and refer others.

If you’re interested in earning easy money with Cash Crate, register for your free account today.

Good luck and let me know how it goes.  Send your Cash Crate success stories to me!

My best friend’s niece recently moved into town. Her husband is a nurse, and I was surprised at how much money they seemed to have. With three kids, the family is still able to afford a nice condo, two new cars, nice clothes, and two vacations a year. I asked her how they managed, and she told me that she makes money as a medical transcriptionist at home. While her kids are at school or in bed, she works to transcribe doctors’ dictation tapes.

I asked her how she does it. Here’s a transcript of our interview:

How Did You Become a Medical Transcriptionist?

Believe it or not, I never went to school for it. We have a junior college and university in town, but I just fell into it. A friend of mine was doing it, and I watched her do it once. I figured if she could do it, I could do it. Now, I guess I’m proof that I was right.

What Tools Do You Need to Be a Medical Transcriptionist?

All I use is my computer, a transcriber, and a printer. I bought the printer and transcriber second hand. And I have a couple of books, like medical dictionaries, to help me if I get confused about spelling or something.

How Much Can You Make as a Medical Transcriptionist?

It depends on who you work for, and how you charge. My friend started out doing pool work for a transcription company. So the doctors would pay the company, and the company would pay my friend. Then she figured out she could do it on her own, and she’s making more than double what she used to, even though she is doing less work. Me, I started out charging 14¢ per line of transcription. I’m a pretty fast typist, so it came out to a good deal. Then I listened to other transcriptionists who told me I should charge a flat rate. So now, I charge doctors a flat rate. So I get paid the same, no matter what. Some weeks, they might have 100 patients, but other weeks they might have 20 patients. And no matter what, I get paid the same amount.

If you’re interested in learning more about how to make money as a medical transcriptionist at home, and how to find doctors who need your services, vist the Medical Transcription Work From Home site.

Opinion Outpost–one of the sites that I have included on my online surveys and focus groups page–just informed me that they are looking for new members. Registration is free and open to anyone. I have personally used Opinion Outpost (I ALWAYS test a site before I post it here for my readers), and it’s a very easy site to use and maneuver. They pay you with points, which you then redeem for money. They send you a check when you cash in your points. My friend takes surveys for them regularly, and uses the money that she earns there to pay for baby diapers and formula every month.

Note: They are accepting all applications right now for a limited time, but are particularly looking for male and Hispanic members. If you are male, register by clicking here. If you are Hispanic, register by clicking here. All other groups, click here to register.

I’ve found a place where you can work at home in the field of your choice, as a freelancer.  If you have skills in the fields of writing, photography, editing, web development, law, sales, engineering, and more, you need to check out elance.com.    Elance.com is a community-based site, where employers post jobs and projects and “providers” (freelance employees) make bids on the jobs.  Employers choose the provider they want to work with, and pay upon completion of the project.

Like eBay, elance has a feedback interface, so that potential employers can see how happy previous employers have been with a provider’s work.

In order to become an elance provider, you must complete ad Admissions Test.  The test covers concepts about elance, its terms of service, and their rules for employment.  This is so that elance can be sure that potential elance providers have a working knowledge of the site.

There is a free basic membership, which will allow you to bid on and complete projects for elance employers, but there are also different paid membership plans.  The paid membership plans rance in price from $9.95 – $39.95 per month.   The higher the monthly cost, the more benefits each plan has.  Again, you can find employment at elance with a basic free membership plan.  Paid memberships simply offer more perks and more job availablity.

I’ve said time and again that if you’re hurting for cash, one of the first places to look is around your own home.  There are probably countless items that you don’t use that you could sell for some fast and easy money.   Just this week, I made over $500 by listing a few of our unwanted items on craigslist.

Beginning June 16, eBay is doing its part to help out those who are hurting because of the economy.   Members can now list five items for sale every thirty days with absolutely no insertion fees applied to those listings.  I just tried it myself, and was tickled to see the message saying, “Your balance after this listing is $0.00.”

To learn more about this exciting new offer from eBay, you can read about it here.

If you don’t have an eBay sellers account yet, click here to open your free account today.

If you’re an eBay seller with a great success story, momportunity.com wants to hear from you!  Are you a Power Seller?  Tell us about it!    Did you buy something at a garage sale and found out it was worth big bucks on eBay?  Let us know!  Send your eBay success stories to me here, and use the subject “eBay success story.”

You’ve probaby heard of The University of Phoenix, when the topic of finishing your degree online comes up.   I’ve just found out that the University of Phoenix doesn’t just allow students to attend college at home, they also make it possible for people with advanced degrees to work from home.

Some of the University’s employment requirements:

• A master’s or doctoral degree from a regionally accredited institution related to the subject you would teach. Your degree must have been earned at least 2 years prior to appointment. (Some degree programs require more specific qualifications.)
• Five years of work experience related to the subject you would teach.
• Current, full-time employment in field of study.

For more information about this work at home job opportunity, please visit http://chronicle.com/jobs/profiles/9169.htm?pg=i

Chances are,  you’ve heard of Ipsos.  They’re a well-respected, well-known polling company.   Listen to a national news broadcast, and the anchor might just cite a poll by Ipsos.   Ipsos doesn’t just do political or news polls, though.  Their online presense uses regular people to participate in online surveys… they even send out products for users to test in exchange for compensation.   In addition to their regular compensation, they run in-house sweepstakes, choosing random participants to win large sums of money (right now the prize is $5,000).  They also give away a car each year, and only people who are registered with the site are eligible to win.   If you’re interested in taking surveys and/or testing products for one of the biggest names in market research, register for your free Ipsos account now, and start enjoying the perks of being one of their survey participants.

I know you’ve seen online ads and commercials promising to help you make  money fast online. With a small investment, you can be making upwards of $10,000 to $30,000 per month! I have been at this for a long time, and I am here to tell you that yes, you can make money online. But those ads are full of nothing but lies. If you fall for one of those ads, the only people who will make money fast online are the advertisers. They will make up to $1000 within the few seconds that it takes you to give them your credit card number.

I have people contact me often, asking how they can use the internet to make fast cash online. I have researched this for a while, and there are a few options that I have come up with.

How to Make Fast Cash Online within a Week

Sell unwanted or unneeded items on craigslist or eBay. If you need the cash fast, and don’t want to pay a payment processing company (like PayPal) a percentage of your earnings, go with craigslist.  In some cases, you can list an item for sale and have cash in hand within a couple of hours.

How to Make Fast Cash Online within a Month

Visit GPT sites, like Cash Crate to earn money within a month. Some people have reported income of over $1,000 per month with cash crate.