| Once you have set up your home office and have all | | | | and perform 200 tasks in that day, then you are being |
| the basic tools you require; such as some web hosting, | | | | paid 50 cents for each thing you do at work. |
| file storage facility, virtual phone or VOIP and have | | | | So think about that when you see assignments like |
| signed up for free basic accounts on a few of the | | | | email monitoring for $2.00 an hour or provide online |
| popular work from home job sites such as Odesk and | | | | customer service support for $3.00 an hour; don't just |
| Elance for example; you are well on your way. | | | | skip past it in disgust, think about it first. |
| There are many highly qualified and specialised skills | | | | How many emails are there likely to be in an hour? |
| out there that command high end salaries; hourly rates | | | | How many online support requests will there be? |
| of pay that do not differ by much, regardless of | | | | The answer is usually one or two an hour on a busy |
| whether they are performed in full-time employment or | | | | day because the overwhelming majority of these |
| on a freelance and work from home basis. | | | | kinds of work at home assignments are for small |
| Unfortunately, although most of us possess an eclectic | | | | companies that want to pay a small amount of money |
| array of skills and knowledge we don't all hold the | | | | for the support just being there; rather than there being |
| certified qualifications that command high-end salaries | | | | a whole lot to do. |
| positions. | | | | What you should be thinking is; at $2.00 an hour for |
| The most abundant type of work at home jobs | | | | email monitoring as long as there are no more than 4 |
| available to a virtual assistant are those that require | | | | an hour it's no different for what I would be paid for |
| basic admin skills - skills that all of us have. The | | | | that task in a regular employed position. |
| perceived downside there is that those work at home | | | | The right and positive thing to be thinking is that you |
| jobs also have the most number of freelancers going | | | | are being paid $2.00 an hour for just being there just in |
| for them. | | | | case; when, let's face it, if you are working from home |
| Anyone that has had a desire to be a virtual assistant | | | | then you are sitting there anyway. |
| or has browsed any of the popular websites that | | | | So why lose out on $2.00 an hour - $16 a day - $80.00 |
| advertise work from home jobs and assignments | | | | a week for sitting in a chair by your PC in your home |
| would have found that the payment offered by many | | | | office; which is where you would be anyway if that |
| employers for basic admin type work at home jobs, | | | | money was there or not. |
| ranges from poor to mediocre. | | | | And... |
| Not ALL but definitely many! | | | | There is no reason why you cannot be doing five |
| The secret to earning $45 an hour as a virtual | | | | assignments exactly like that for five different |
| assistant working at home is a simple one. | | | | employers all in tandem with each other and your main |
| A structured working week, with a set number of | | | | niche assignments. |
| hours that you dedicate to work and targeting multiple | | | | Do not focus on the payment for each individual task |
| small projects from multiple employers | | | | you perform during your working day in your home |
| Firstly decide on what those skills are that you | | | | office and focus on what you end up in the bank with |
| possess that you will market and apply for | | | | at the end of the week or month. |
| assignments that are directly relevant and will be your | | | | You don't work out your salary like that in a regular |
| main focus of work at home jobs that you will apply | | | | employed position; based upon each thing you do. You |
| for. It is around those assignments that you will build | | | | just look at your pay-check at the end of the week |
| your structured working week and earn $45 an hour | | | | and know that's what you have been paid for that |
| working from home. | | | | time at work. |
| For example your main skill could be blog writing or | | | | This is an example of how you can structure a 30 |
| customer services or telesales or transcription - | | | | hour week as a virtual assistant working from home - |
| whatever it is, that is where you focus your energies | | | | it's based on actual assignments that I was doing within |
| first and apply for assignments that pay a rate that | | | | two months of setting us as a virtual assistant working |
| works out at no less than minimum wage. | | | | from home. |
| Your goal here is to always have sufficient | | | | It comes out at $1090 a week - just over $36 an hour; |
| assignments in your main niche that are paying you for | | | | so I hadn't quite achieved the $45 an hour target by |
| every hour you are dedicating to your work from | | | | then; but it did show me very quickly though that a |
| home career. | | | | disciplined structure and multiple low impact projects |
| So that if you have decided to dedicate 8 hours per | | | | gave me a good income without the stresses and |
| day, then you have an assignment or assignments that | | | | strains of the corporate rat-race |
| is paying you at least minimum wage for each of | | | | Posting 50 simple one or two line blog comment $25 |
| those 8 hours. | | | | per week X 4 |
| From there, the trick is to now go for very low impact | | | | Manage and approve posts on my blog $30 per week |
| and low paying assignments (and there are lots of | | | | X 1 |
| those) which you can perform in tandem with your | | | | Manage and approve posts on my blog $25 per week |
| main daily work. | | | | X 1 |
| Some good examples would be email monitoring, online | | | | Submit 10 pre-written ads to Craigslist daily $20 per |
| chat support, basic blog commenting, calendar | | | | week X 3 |
| management, bulk email and the list is really endless as | | | | Manage my email inbox $35 per week X 3 |
| there are literally thousands of different simple tasks | | | | Appointment setting by email $60 per week X 1 |
| out there that you can get paid for and attach to your | | | | Online customer chat support - 4 hours per day $40 |
| work at home income to accumulate $45 an hour. | | | | per week X 1 |
| Basically, what you need to do is imagine an average | | | | Online customer chat support - 6 hours per day $80 |
| working day in an average office anywhere in the | | | | per week X 3 |
| world and all the tasks that are performed in that | | | | Email customer support - 6 hours per day $65 per |
| average working day. Imagine the average customer | | | | week X 2 |
| service agent working in any service based company | | | | Telephone Customer services - inbound $115 per |
| for $15 an hour; what does he or she do in their | | | | week X 1 |
| average working day. | | | | Audio Transcription $135 per week X 1 |
| Make and answer fifty telephone calls, read and | | | | Opinion and survey sites $50 per week |
| respond to fifty emails, chase up ten unresolved issues | | | | If you think you are able to be organized and have |
| and do any number of other duties they are given | | | | good time management then you can easily attain |
| during the day; all of that for one employer for $15 an | | | | your desired income by working from home. |
| hour. | | | | Try the method for yourself and you will see that it's all |
| Add up all the tasks you do in the office, the emails | | | | down to logistics - managing a mixture of different |
| you write and end, the calls you make and receive, the | | | | things that can be done in tandem with each other - |
| memos and letters you type; if you make $100 a day | | | | try it for yourself. |