Dear Reader,

Even though my daughter finished her senior year early in January, June is still going to be a very busy month for her. She turns 18 in a little over a week and is preparing to move to where she'll be going to college. Plus she's working full time and just had her wisdom teeth out-- ouch! It's a pretty stressful time for all of us, trying to get financing nailed down, looking for an apartment, worrying about whether or not she'll have everything she needs.

If I were still at my demanding, stressful job I'm quite sure this would be even more difficult--how would I find the time to do everything that needs to be done? It's times like these that I realize how lucky I am to be working at home. While it does mean that I may find myself working late at night (like now, for example) I know that I'm fortunate to have the choice to even do that.

With every issue that I put together each month, my goal is to give you the most useful articles, ideas and resources to help you to be able to work at home too. I hope that you'll find some inspiration in this issue.

Warmly,
Sharon Davis

Work at Home Scams!
© Karl Glantschnig

If you need to make money at home, you have no doubt starting looking for work at home opportunities. Every woman who wants to become a Wahm has traveled down the same path. Unfortunately, that path is littered with scams and traps to take money and time from honest women looking to make money from home. With a little common sense and extra research, you can find legitimate work at home opportunities.

The first step is to search for jobs in the right places. Don not simply click on ads to find work. Try to find helpful groups of Wahms who have successful work at home jobs to guide your search. You can try searching on message boards or finding e-mail groups for ideas of where to start your work at home job search. Many of these women can give you insight into which work at home opportunities are actually worth your time.

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A Fun Photo Caption Contest!
Each month at the Forums we're running a Photo Caption Contest. The funniest caption submitted wins. See the Contest Forum for details!

Sharon's going Web 2.0
You may have seen my work at home blog, but I'm also on MySpace. Be sure to check it out and send me a friend request.

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Custom Framing
As graduation and wedding season approach so the demand for custom framing of precious photos. A custom framing business could easily be run from home.
For more information, we recommend:
Home Book of Picture Framing.

For 100's more great ideas, visit the Ideas pages. We're always adding new ideas!

For more Business Opportunity ideas, visit the Business Opps section.

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In this issue:

1. Work at Home Scams!
   If you need to make money at home, you have no doubt starting looking for work at home opportunities. Every woman who wants to become a Wahm has traveled down the same path. Unfortunately, that path is littered with scams and traps to take money and time from honest women looking to make money from home. With a little common sense and extra research, you can find legitimate work at home opportunities.

   The first step is to search for jobs in the right places. Don not simply click on ads to find work. Try to find helpful groups of Wahms who have successful work at home jobs to guide your search. You can try searching on message boards or finding e-mail groups for ideas of where to start your work at home job search. Many of these women can give you insight into which work at home opportunities are actually worth your time.
   

2. What's New At 2Work-At-Home.com?

3. Do’s and Don’ts for Starting a Virtual Assisting Business
   Virtual Assistants (VAs) are highly skilled professionals who provide administrative support and specialized services to businesses, entrepreneurs, executives, and others who have more work to do than time to do it.

   Examples of services a VA can do include web design and maintenance, word processing, meeting and event planning, desktop publishing, internet research, e-mail coordination, business start-up consultations and so much more. This can be the perfect work-at-home opportunity for many with good computer and Internet skills. Following are several Do’s and Dont’s to keep in mind for starting and operating your Virtual Assisting business.

4. Working From Home With Your Family
   Many people think of working from home as a way to simply make the money that they need to make in order to pay the bills so that their family can live as comfortably as possible. Too many times when someone is working from home, they take their family for granted and the family starts to feel as if the work from home job might take up just as much of their loved ones time and energy than a job would if they were going to it.

   Also, it is way too easy for someone to take on too much work as they work from home, because they might be tempted to simply work all day and all night and will forget to take the time to be away from work. Having a job at home means that you are never away from your job, which can be very dangerous. There are several ways to make sure that your family does not get lost in the shuffle when it comes to you working from home.