Site Review: telecommute-jobs.com

Loking for a telecommuting job (i.e. a job to work from home)? Got $39 to pluck down? If you do, there is a site called telecommute-jobs.com that seems on the up and up.

Did some checking and couldn't find anyone calling telecommute-jobs.com a scam. In fact, the site has the Better Business Bureau stamp of approval. Ditto for the Internet Trade Bureau.

You can post your resume for free there. And if you are an employer (in which case you likely wouldn't be reading this blog) you can post job listings there, also for free.

However, if you are hunting for a job and want to submit aps thru the site's job bank, you will have to subscribe for the $39 fee, which is for a three-month subscription.

A good thing is that telecommute-jobs.com offers a money back guarantee in the first thirty days if you are satsified with them. At the site's FAQ, they say that "only 3 out of every 200 purchasers ever request a refund from us." Take that for what it's worth.

I searched but could not locate a testimonial link from satisfied subscribers who landed telecommuting jobs through the site.

To be honest, by clicking on the links to the site above, I have an affiliate link affixed to them. What that means is if you go there and decide to subscribe, I'll receive a little $$. Would appreciate that. And if you want to keep me out of the loop because you don't trust me, click here to go to the site sans affiliate link. No problem.

Swollen Pickles and Goal Setting

Goal setting is a good idea. And it's an especially good idea for us work-at-home folks trying to make a go of things online.

I came across a site called Swollen Pickles. Can't recall how or why I came across the site. In any case, the bloggist here has kept track of his online earnings for 2007. He has set specific goals regarding the amount of money he wanted to make from his blogs and the number of site visitors he was hoping for. He also set a goal for his body weight. He then month by month posted updates on this progress toward his goals.

This got me thinking that I should set some goals, post them here, and update my progress. Not a unique idea in the blogoshphere but worth a try.

Even if you're not interested in goals, check out Swollen Pickles for some ideas on how he made money online in his own work-from-home scenario.