Choose a work at home career in public relations!
If you’re one of the many stay at home parents shopping for a way to work from home and you have experience in public relations, you can take your knowledge and expertise to the Internet and create a profitable home based business.
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"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
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Basically what you would do is assist other PR companies, advertising and marketing companies and communication professionals with a variety of tasks such as proofreading, pitching, writing, press releases, media updates, and more public relations activities as required by your clients, which are primarily start up businesses, small businesses and small corporations.
It is more important to market yourself, than it is your work at home career. It's a good idea to have a website that you can direct potential clients to. Just because you work from home doesn’t mean people should perceive you as someone who is working out of a home office.
You can email and send letters to existing businesses who could benefit from your services and to other PR agencies that may need some help. Many businesses seek to outsource this sort of work, which is just what you want.
Send out business cards and information to PR agencies and other potential clients and let them know you are available to help make their lives easier.
It is imperative that you can compartmentalize your time between work and spending time with your family. Learning to manage your time accordingly will help you stick to your primary goals of being able to spend time with your family and children while maintaining a work at home career.
The biggest hurdle to overcome is that work is always right there in front of you. Because you work from home, it is always accessible, so it's very important to realize that you have to be able to walk away from it and maintain a good balance.
Spend time, happily, with your spouse and children and let your work take a back seat as needed. It's important to set goals and stick to them, but not at the expense of spending time with your family.
Maintaining your web presence is very important, especially if you plan to outsource your work from geographic areas outside your hometown. You can live anywhere in the world and still work in public relations, provided you have a fax, computer with Internet connection and some basic knowledge of the Internet, email and word processing programs.
Starting your own business if you already have most of the hardware and software is quite inexpensive. You will find yourself spending the majority of your time making contacts with public relations personnel that you wish to work for and offer your services to.
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"Money is a good servant but a bad master."
- Francis Bacon |
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