Virtual Assistant Board – http://www.virtualassistantboard.com
Bestjobs Philippines – http://www.bestjobs.ph

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blogtechguy.com
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wordpress.org

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Seen those websites with cool striped background? Well, you can make your very own here: Stripemania – Striped background generator — here’s another one that’s not as capable: Striped Backgrounds, and a third one Stripe Generator – ajax diagonal stripes background designer

Four background makers to ensure that all the visitors to your website are impressed: Dotted Background Generator, Seamless Pattern Background Designs (the best), Tartan Designer – Tartan Maker – Tartan Background pattern generator (scottish kilts anyone?).

When you click on something and it loads slowly, you often see one of those spinning thingies that means it’s loading, be patient — well, you can design your own one here: Web Script Lab » Ajax Loading Gif Generator and here Ajaxload – Ajax loading gif generator

This one I use absolutely all the time — generate badges that you can put on a website to spiff it up and make it look cool Web 2.0 Badges – Useful collection of stylish web 2.0 badges and badge generator.. And when you need buttons that look just right, I use Buttonator to make them for myself,

Need a logo for the website? Here’s several online generators: web 2.0 Logo Creator Online. Design and Create Free Logos, Web2.0 – Logo Creatr (love this one), Logo Maker : Web 2.0 Stylr.

Not just for kids! When you need a graph, go here: Create A Graph. If you prefer to work on your desktop, you can download this XML/SWF Charts > Introduction

Need to color your website? Here’s several pallete generators: slayeroffice | tools | color palette creator v1.6.1 and Color Combinations Tester – Combo Tester – ColorCombos.com.

That’s it – if you have any that do a better job, or a different job, let me know in the comments.

I don’t think there can be any doubting the legitimacy of working from home while answering phones for a large established company that just wants to tap in to the more flexible, and usually cheaper, WAHM or retired market. A professional job without the overheads for the company or the travel costs for the telecommuter. In fact, with a spare room, a desk, and a computer monitor, you can have your home office up and running relatively cheaply.The problems arise when the company isn’t in the FTSE or NASDAQ.

If ‘Bobs Gardening’ in Vegas wants an out-of-hours customer support agent he can put a post on a site like ours and reach the very people he needs. But is Bob evil? Will Bob take a months worth of your work and then decide to fire you without pay? Is Bob legitimate?

Here are a few litmus tests to use when asking are work at home jobs legitimate -

1. What kind of email is the job poster using? Is it a free gmail account or is it acompany.com? If it’s acompany.com check that the address has a website. If its a gmail or yahoo don’t fret, they may not want their company inbox jammed up, just send them an initial message or resume but after reaching the negotiation stage make sure you do so through their bona fide email address.

2. Once you’ve checked that their methods of communication are legit then check that the company itself is. You can go through government bodies to check credentials but this is usually overkill. Just google the company name and see if any red flags go up.

3. Get paid fast. The above suggestions are fine when working for people that have some sort of registered company, but what about those that need you most. The one-(wo)man-band that is juggling 10 different aspects of his/her business at once that desperately needs a flexible hand. They may only have a gmail account! The simplest test is to get paid early and often. If you’ve just started working for someone insist on getting paid weekly, or even daily, until you build that trust between each other. This way if Bob is evil you’ll only have lost a little time and cash.

So – are work at home jobs legitimate? Yes, but take a few initial steps to make sure your employer is the good sort, they’ll understand, and as the trust grows you’ll become their telecommuting right hand and there’s nothing like being indispensable.

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Most people are not like me.

“Well duh!”

But what I didn’t fully realise was how unlike me people were. You’re all a bunch of wackos! Freaks!

I discovered this when I actually bit the bullet on a task I knew I was going to hate but had been told by so many respected webpreneurs I had to do. Testing.

‘Oh God! He’s going to talk about testing. Disengage brain‘

Hey – I know – it’s boring as hell. But you HAVE to do it. It’s the way I went from massive credit card debt to writing crap like this for a living. This stuff is golden.

I am not going to tell you how to do it, you can suffer that yourself, but I am a complete convert to it now after seeing the smallest changes take my various websites from loss to crazy profit with the change of a sentence or graphic.

The human brain is a very strange thing and instead of trying to guess what turns a surfer into a customer, won’t happen, you have to give your traffic various scenarios to click ‘buy’ and then go with the winning setup. And guess what? You then test that!

Take a look at google’s free website tester – website optimizer – great for testing one page against another, it’s all you need, but if you really want to start testing the smallest of changes I highly recommend Visual Website Optimizer – very easy to use and a breath of fresh air to anyone that usually inputs all that code manually.

When you start seeing your conversions go through the roof, trust me, testing will no longer be boring.

Related articles:

• A/B Testing With Visual Website Optimizer (appreaders.com)
• 7 A/B Testing Resources for Startups and Solo Developers (mashable.com)

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