Christine Olson (wife of Steve Olson) has written of her success from starting an online book business at home. The post has a great title: “How a Stay at Home Mom Lives Her Dreams Selling books Online.” She lists the actual steps she took to build her business. Included are great shots of her workspace. She buys her books wholesale and has been in the book business for 12 years generally working 3-4 hours a day and makes $70,000.00 per year. One of the responders to the post,

Even though the people she buys from have businesses online also, she has build her business by good customer relations and attention to detail. She mentions at the end of the post that she wants to continue learning ways technology can become her surrogate employees.

Tim Ferress’s book, The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich , introduces to surrogate employees–virtual assistants. He gives several suggestions for choosing them.

“Get an assistant–even is you don’t need one. (pg. 135) He lists these sites as resources:”

1. “US and Canada ($20. per hour)+): assistu.com, yourviritualresource.com,ivaa.org, canadianva.net, and onlinebusiness manager.com.”
2. “North American and International ($4.00 per hour+: elance.com (search virtual assistant).” Elance is including a podcast from Tim explaining how he uses elance with information from his book.
3. “India:b2kcorp.com ($15.00 per hour+).” Tim states that Brickwork can handle all types and sizes of business needs. “yourmaninindia.com ($6.25 per hour+) handles both business and personal tasks and can work with you in real time as they work 24/7.”

Resources for freelancers:

Forms and downloads for freelancers:

http://www.creativelatitude.com/links/resources_downloads.html

Ten absolute “nos” for freelancers:

http://www.wakeuplater.com/freelance-lessons/10-absolute-nos-for-freelancers.aspx

Jobs for freelancers: http://www.getafreelancer.com/

http://www.elance.com/p/landing/buyer.html

Design and development job network: http://jobsandgigs.com/

Work at home jobs: http://www.wahm.com/jobs.html

10 Things I Have Learned From Working At Home. | My Two Dollars

What I use for my daily calendar 30 Boxes | it’s your life

Absolute Write: freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, novels, non-fiction

Anywork Anywhere Home Page – Seasonal, Temporary & Permanent Jobs And Resources For Work & Travel Throughout Europe & Worldwide

Bad Language / How to work from home

Christian Work at Home – Christian Work at Home Moms

ClickNwork: Home

Convince Your Boss to Let you Work from Home at Productivity 501

David Seah

eMoms at Home – The Internet Home Business Blog for Moms & Dads

Fire your Boss! The Successful Home Freelancer’s Guide

Fog Creek Copilot – Home

Freelance Graphic Designers, Web Designers, Programmers Work Jobs

Freelance Jobs, Freelance Work Exchange, Post Jobs Free

Freelance Parent – Running a Home Based Freelance Business | eMoms at Home

Freelancers Union :: Home

Freelance Work: Freelance Projects: Starting Small Business: Free-lance Jobs Search: Home Business Opportunities Ideas

Get organized and stay organized: Backpack

Getting Off the Treadmill of Life – lifehack.org

Getting to Done: The Ultimate Home Office – Lifehacker

Home Based Working Moms. Work At Home, Home Business Central

Home Business – Home Based Business – Work From Home – MLM – Work At Home – Home Business Magazine Online

How to manage kids while working at home:

http://www.productivity501.com/convince-your-boss-to-let-you-work-from-home/122/

How to Successfully Get Work Done in a Home Based Business – Thoughts on Entrepreneurship, Business, and Success

Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers

Lulu.com – Self Publishing – Free

Main Page – FreeMind – free mind mapping software

Make Money Online | Research Work at Home Jobs

Meetup: World’s largest community of local Meetups, clubs and groups!

Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more

OnlyOnce

OpenOffice.org: Home

Outsourcing to Freelance Programmers, Web & Logo Designers, Writers, Illustrators on Elance

Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management

Scott H Young » Twenty Ways to Stay Productive When Working at Home

Self-Discipline

Seth’s Blog

Should You Start Your Own Work at Home Business?

Six Effective Tips to Work from Home – lifehack.org

Start a home based business, find a home business idea, and work at home with the perfect home based business

steve-olson.com

Technophilia: How to get things done working inside and outside the home – Lifehacker

Telecommuting Jobs. 11 Years building the Work at Home Workforce.

The Bing Blog Working from home? «

To do list, simple, easy, fast, sharable: Ta-da List

Web Worker Daily How Do You Work? «

Where everyone works at home: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110216

Workaholics4Hire: Connecting the Work at Home and Telecommuting Community With Jobs

Work at Home Forum

Work at home with WhydoWork.com! Many work from home jobs available!

Work From Home – HowTo.Lifehack