May 2011
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Posterous hi
hey Posterous I think they are still taking applications http://email.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=email&zu=http://cnbc7.comCheck out our blog about flexible working for parents
November 2010
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Authority Pro
URL: http://authoritypro.com/live/index/4?hop=hiremy Loving this. Attention all wordpress’ersSee this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/f2m9 via Amplify.comCheck out our blog about flexible working for parents
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Loving this. Attention all wordpress’ers
October 2010
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Moms and Dads looking to bring one work at home parent to stay with their children in an age when 2 incomes are vital for a family’s survival are finding their inspiration through activist and motivator, Ally Loprete, your radio host of This Little Parent Stayed Home. A weekly radio show on Toginet.com, Fridays at 6pm EST or available to download on iTunes, This Little Parent…...
March 2010
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Freelancing and More
Great site for freelancers - BS free zone http://amplify.com/u/3cw9Check out our blog about flexible working for parents
Freelancing and More →
Great site for freelancers - BS free zone
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Flexible working - can the SME Sector cope?
Recently the UK government gave the green light to legislation that extends the rights for a greater number of employees to request flexible working hours. The objective is to allow employees a better work life balance and improve family cohesion. Noble sentiments you might say that the government hopes to take away the pressure of conflicting work and home commitments especially with a growing...
How Google marketed itself
Great step by step guide to world domination http://amplify.com/u/2w5eCheck out our blog about flexible working for parents
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Great step by step guide to world domination
Home business asscociated with AOL
will take a look at this one - might go on the recommended list at hmp http://amplify.com/u/2w1uCheck out our blog about flexible working for parents
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will take a look at this one - might go on the recommended list at hmp
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What You Need To Know To Succeed in Mobile...
In November 2009, AdMob released a report indicating that iPhone and Android users currently account for 82% of US mobile web traffic. There’s no doubt that the two platforms have radically changed mobile advertising. Here are the things you need to know about how iPhone and Android have changed mobile advertising and why you, as a job seeker or marketer, need to make the call now. Your...
Tax headaches with your affiliates
don’t base your entire business on it, I’ve not tested it yet, but this looks like a godsend for vendors. It’s a Filsaime company so don’t give out your best email http://amplify.com/u/2co8Check out our blog about flexible working for parents
Tax headaches with your affiliates →
don't base your entire business on it, I've not tested it yet, but this looks like a godsend for vendors. It's a Filsaime company so don't give out your best email
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The myth of work/life balance
Another day, another article or blog about the ever-elusive work/life balance. The problem with work/life balance? It doesn’t exist. It’s a black and white term that doesn’t acknowledge the grey of life and serves only as eternal fodder for the media and puts continual pressure on people trying desperately to achieve it. Think about what the term ‘balance’ means to you. Are you picturing a...
February 2010
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Family Leave Insurance – Really?
President Obama has slipped a little gem into his proposed budget - family leave insurance. Having a baby is a leading cause of poverty traps in the USA, the extra cost combined with time off can cause a down spiral that can put families over the poverty line. What Obama proposes is a fund that would help states launch family leave insurance programs by covering start up costs, and it’s a...
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Online Video Marketing – Nothing Works Better…And...
Anyone that’s a member or reads the blog knows that I occassionally have a spirt of tech play and create a video to show a process or method that I use to promote, build or start a home business. These videos are pretty bad, I admit it, but they’re only there as a ‘how to’, simply to inform, they don’t need to look good. However, if you’re trying to sell a...
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Online Video Marketing – Nothing Works Better…And...
Anyone that’s a member or reads the blog knows that I occassionally have a spirt of tech play and create a video to show a process or method that I use to promote, build or start a home business. These videos are pretty bad, I admit it, but they’re only there as a ‘how to’, simply to inform, they don’t need to look good. However, if you’re trying to sell a...
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Telecommuting & Data Protection
Telecommuting, whether full or part-time, is becoming increasingly popular in the United States & Europe. According to a 2008 survey from the Society for Human Resource Management, 57% of HR professionals indicate that their organization offers some form of telecommuting. The potential rewards are many – from increased productivity and cost savings to happier employees and greater appeal...
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Optimising your website/blog for the search...
Well I may have bitten off more than I can chew here. I’ve spent hours pondering how to present this post and give you some really useful stuff for optimising your website. The final result? My best advice? Don’t. Specifically, you don’t. I’ve spent years, literally, learning the fine art of SEO (search engine optimis(z)ation), if they had a degree in it (they probably...
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Telecommuting? How to keep your benefits working...
At last! You clever thing. You’ve landed that flexible job and you get to build your work around your life. But take care! This new position may be new for your employer as well and you don’t want to blow any benefits working from home. Below are a few tips to keep that flexibility a reality and your new lifestyle on an even keel: Read More…Check out our blog about flexible...
January 2010
19 posts
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Is Your Business Idea A Good Idea?
This is the big one. This is the question that you just can’t ignore if you’re going to invest in your own business. Unfortunately, you can’t answer it, no-one can. I was watching a bit of TV last night and there were a couple of Irish entrepreneurs selling genuine Irish dirt, bits of earth, in a nice bag to the American market. They were selling tons of the stuff. Can you...
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Wake Up Call: Parents Walking Out Through Lack of...
UK parents are leaving work due to the lack of flexible working opportunities available to them, according to a new survey for Family Friendly Working. The cost of childcare is also forcing parents to stay at home. The survey reveals that just over a third (34.6%) of parents who had left work after having children had done so because of lack of flexible work opportunities. Three in 10 (30.7%)...
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Can't see the home business wood for the scamming...
I have several ‘google alerts’ set up (if you don’t know what these are…uh…google it) that keep me abreast of every aspect of what could be called ‘the flexible world’. As part of that daily research I have an alert that brings me all the ‘home business’ news from around the world, from newspaper articles to blogs, and quite frankly I’m...
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HR departments fail to bridge the gap between...
The majority of businesses claim to have a flexible working policy but 61% of employees never or hardly ever work from home. According to a poll of 1,200 small and medium-sized businesses, over half (55%) do not see how remote working could increase employee productivity, for example, by allowing staff to utilise more of their day or by enabling greater opportunity to concentrate on...
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Caregivers and Flexible Work
One of the groups of people often overlooked when shouting the benefits of flexible work, on both sides of the pond, are home/family carers. These selfless people help and care for old and sick loved-ones, at no cost to society, and often miss out on working a full time job. Over 2.6 million caregivers will benefit from the right to request flexible working in the UK alone, with a further 50...
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6 Steps To A Flexible Work Policy
The lightbulb has finally gone off in your head and you can now see clearly the benefits of flexible work, but what do you do about it? Here are six steps to help guide you through the successful implementation of a flexible work policy at your worksite. Step 1: Review Organizational Policy See if your organization has written policies on compressed workweeks or flextime. If so, read them. If...
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Telecommuting Saves The World
Been surfing the telecommuting web and came across Telecommuting Could Speed Economic Recovery by undress4success.com where it’s written that Business Week reported that, based on interviews with a number of esteemed economists, the lack of worker mobility was significantly stifling our economic recovery. It turns out that mobility in the workforce is essential to prosperity but with the...
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Using RSS to Explode Your Business Leads – Part 2
Following on from Using RSS to Explode Your Business Leads – Part 1 the real fun begins when we introduce ping.fm into the mix: http://www.youtube.com/v/lY3jUyg3iJo If you need any further info or questions answered then please ask in the comments. Related Business Leads Articles … Important Ways To Boost Business Sales Leads For Your Business … In order to survive in the business...
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Using RSS to Explode Your Business Leads - Part 1
Another quick video of a technique that has brought hmp many of its members - this one’s twitterfeed and this is a brief explanation on how I am using RSS to explode business leads. http://www.youtube.com/v/NIhYuLUiw1c&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b”,”allowfullscreen”:”true””...
A technique to spread your business message
If you spend hours writing a blog post, that will hopefully bring some traffic to your site and ramp up your authority, then it’s a good idea to spread your business message as far as you can and get the maximum exposure. Below is a very quick technique I use to get my posts on 5 or 6 different sites straight away. Related Spread Your Business Message Articles … SIMPLE TOOLS THAT...
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Why you'll never get 'that' flexible job on a job...
From the title you may suspect that I’ve shot myself in the foot here. Yes hmp has a job board but not the type I’m talking about. I was reading Seth Godin’s blog post Career fairs… and how they are the last resort for companies and job-seekers alike, and I realised that the giant job boards on the internet are just the same. A company needs to fill some drone position...
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Home Business v's Home Job
Image by Kaptain Kobold via Flickr You have to make a change - you know this. Kid number 4 has come along or the commute is killing you, whatever, you want to work from home but what the hell do you do about it. There are 2 broad camps, as inferred by the title - start a home business or work from home on someone else’s business. Now for some of you the choice is simple, that little...
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A Flexible Workplace is a Happier, Healthier...
Image via Wikipedia Annie Toro is the Associate Executive Director for Public Interest Government Relations, American Psychological Association. This blog originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Years of psychological research provide a strong foundation for flexible work arrangements, demonstrating the benefit to employees’ physical and mental health, as well as their family life. To...
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Telephone Interview Secrets
Telephone interviews are becoming increasingly popular as a means of narrowing down candidates for a more traditional face to face interview. In the ultra competitive society we now live, a job advertisement can attract hundreds of resumes from candidates with similar set of skills and backgrounds. The recruitment process is all about finding the one perfect candidate among the basket full of...
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Win a Professional Resume & Cover Letter
Our friends at redstarresume.com have kindly offered to write a free professional resume and cover letter to the winner of our twitter based competition this month. I won’t repeat the deal as you’ll find it all on the hiremyparents contest page - so give it a go and thanks again to redstarresume.comCheck out our blog about flexible working for parents
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What is Residual Income?
A very quick post today because I was going to write about residual income and during my research I came across Tina Adams’ blog. Residual Income: What It Is and How to Create It is a great blog post by Tina that gives details of what residual income is and her other blog posts go deeper into how to get it. Residual Income has got a bit of a bad rap over recent years with certain unsavoury...
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Exclusive Business Opportunity At...
hiremyparents is now advertising positions on it’s job board for eCommerce Advisors for winweb.com, an international software provider for small and SOHO businesses. This is a great opportunity to start your own business with support from a large organisation - current positions are for the UK only but USA positions will arrive soon on hiremyparents. Get your free membership to hiremyparents...
Winter weather promoting flexible working...
Image via Wikipedia Yes - once again the blue moon has risen and the UK has been brought to a halt by a bit of snow. Schools have closed and parents everywhere have to stay at home and send those ‘sorry I’ve got children’ emails to their boss. By the way, get it while you can - I’m writing this post and its snowball time for me. In turn those bosses and business owners are...
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2010 - The year for flexible work?
Image via Wikipedia All of a sudden it seems the world has gone flexible work mad. The South Korean government has outlined plans to increase labour market participation among women, the Aussies have just thrown up their hands and given some of the most pro-flex legislation I’ve come across - probably a bit too ‘pro’ in my view, I’ll get to that in a future post - and...
December 2009
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Promoting A Home Business
Image by Ed Yourdon via Flickr So you’ve decided to make the giant leap and start a home business, slowly at first - for God’s sake don’t quit your job - and then work on the goal of making it a full time income replacer. Through various hmp members I’ve seen that choosing a business to start and doing the day-to-day is often the easy part. You may have the sweetest...
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Finding wholesalers for your home business
An important element to creating a long-lasting profitable business is finding good wholesalers willing to work with you. But, after a while, things slow down and you hit a wall. You find yourself chasing after prospects and wondering why it is taking so long to convert prospects into clients. However, the process of finding a good wholesaler is not easy. There are a lot of scams out there, such...
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How connectivity and broadband will shape the...
This is an eye-opening piece about how connectivity and broadband will shape the future of not just work practices but the population flow - Mobile giant Orange’s research shows that better access to both mobile and fixed line broadband could shape the workforce of the future. Orange has created an interactive map of the country to pinpoint the connectivity hotspots of the future and work...
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Resume Tips – Something to think about…
How many times have you picked up a magazine while waiting for an appointment and flipped through the hundreds of pages of articles? How long did it take you to decide whether or not to turn the page? Studies show that most people make this decision in less than 5 seconds. This is the exact same scenario with your resume—it can be discarded within a matter of seconds. An example I always use to...
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Original Methods Of Gaining Flexibility
I’ve found a great story from Rosalind Mays on how to Negotiate Your Way into a Telecommuting Job and a couple of original methods of coaxing your boss into gaining flexibility at work. Related Resources… Take Three Steps Closer to Telecommuting From Home Flexible work adviser and pay raise coach Pat Katepoo equips career women to negotiate for more time and money at their current...
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Flexible Policies Work - If You Do It Right
Image via Wikipedia Although American and British families can take some comfort in the recent reforms to flexible policies at work there seems to be a familiar rumble coming from business on both sides of the Atlantic. Over the last week business groups have written to Yvette Cooper, the UK’s work and pensions secretary, warning against further legislation to force companies to accept...