How to Start Working at Home and Earn Money

If you are looking for a way to make money at home, you may consider becoming a virtual assistance. A virtual assistance is a person that works at home for a company, business or enterprise using his or her own equipments such as computer, scanner, fax, high speed Internet connection, software, telephone, email and more. Unlike a full-time employee, a virtual assistance is a self-employed enterprenuer that provides administrative and technical support or other business services to a company on a contract basis.

Virtual assistances typically negotiate their own terms with their clients or companies. The amount that virtual assistances can earn will depend on their level of skills, expertise and experience. The rates usually are anywhere between $5 to $50 per hour. Virtual assistants provide different types of services and here are some of them:

- Data entry
- Accounting services (bookkeeping)
- Writing, editing and proofreading
- Website optimization and administration
- Organizing meeting
- Online Customer Service
- Travel arrangements
- Billing
- Mailing services
- Secretarial services
- Web design
- Office management
- Coordinators

You don't need to have high qualification to become a virtual assistant. To get started, all you require are the necessay skills & equipment and few years of experience. Below are a list of websites that contain virtual assistance job opportunites.

Sohojobs.org - A place to find and apply virtual assistance job opportunities. Opportunties available to US residents.

Guru.com - Contain virtual assistance job opportunities (most for US) and tons of worldwide home based and freelance projects and assignments.

Wahm Forums - VA opportunities are posted in the Virtual Assistance section of the forum. Meet other home based workers and discuss everything about work at home.

If you want to be trained first before entering into the virtual assistance industry. Here's a two websites providing virtual assistance tranning courses and programs:

http://www.cyberstarva.com
http://www.virtualassistanceu.com