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Becoming a virtual assistant (VA) can lead to a profitable home business or freelance vocation without a whole lot of training and expense for many people. Could you be a virtual assistant?

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14 Tips to Get Off the Schneid and Change Your Life

Thursday July 1, 2010
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If you've been wanting to change your life, maybe by starting your own business instead of "working for the man", or maybe by ditching a job you hate, or even if you've been out of work and getting nowhere fast, maybe it's time to "get off the schneid" and take matters into your own hands.

Wikipedia defines the phrase, "Get off the schneid" as:

"To break a scoreless, hitless, or winless streak (i.e., a schneid). According to the Dickson Baseball Dictionary, the term "schneid" comes to baseball via gin rummy, and in turn comes from German / Yiddish "schneider," one who cuts cloth, i.e., a tailor."

If you're in a scoreless, hitless or winless streak, if you're scared whitless or if you're just plain clueless and you want to change your life, just how can you "get off the schneid" and move on to bigger and better things?

Here are 14 tips (or steps, if you want to follow them in progression) that could change your life and help you get off the schneid:

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This Week's Work from Home Jobs

Tuesday June 29, 2010
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This week's work from home jobs have been posted. 13 new work from home jobs are featured in this week's list.

This week's opportunities to work from home include an in international flair with a position for a blogger who knows the job search market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Also included are positions for a work from home English Composition instructor as well as an Online High School Principal who has licensure in the state of Colorado.

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This Week's Bonus Work from Home Job:

Eldercare Advisor (Work from Home Sales - Multiple Locations Open)
This week's bonus work at home job is for a sales professional with a company called A Place for Mom. The company employs over 450 employees in over 40 states across the country. This is a full time (40 hour per week) position. Advisors are expected to work at least one evening during the week and work a few hours every other Saturday to make family calls.

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How to Use LinkedIn to Promote Your Business

Thursday June 24, 2010
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LinkedIn can be a great way to promote your home business. Here are a few reasons why:

  • LinkedIn is a network with 65 million business professionals around the world.
  • The average LinkedIn member has an average annual household income of $109,000.
  • One person creates a LinkedIn login every second.
  • Nearly 50% of LinkedIn members have decision-making authority for their companies.

It's easy to see why LinkedIn is considered the world's largest audience of influential, affluent professionals in one place. Like other forms of Internet marketing, marketing a small or home business on LinkedIn is relatively inexpensive and provides a lot of bang for the buck. If that's the market you are trying to reach, you need to get in the game.

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Work at Home Tip - How to Improve Your Quality of Life

Wednesday June 23, 2010
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Work at home for any length of time and you'll soon discover it's all too tempting to burn the candle at both ends. While it's fantastic to have enthusiasm for what you do, you need to remember to make time for yourself and your family, too in order to keep the quality of your life in balance.

Learning to schedule your time can be hard in a work from home situation. You can do it, however, and still enjoy the flexibility that is just one of the quality of live advantages of working at home. This work at home tip will you create a workable, yet still flexible schedule and take control of your life.

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