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Last month I took a poll about whether I should start a Job Board here to try to help people who were looking for a Work at Home situation. The response was not what I expected, but I launched the Working at Home Job Board on my gut feeling that it would helpful to some of my readers.
Good Intentions
I launched the Job Board on April 2 without much fanfare and with almost no potential employers thinking more would sign up once word got around. I started out using a WordPress version of the RecruitPress template. I chose it mainly because it was adaptable, I was already familiar with the WordPress setup and I was able to use my theme to keep everything looking alike on the site (my ego at work).
The Disappointment
Well, that didn’t work out too well. I got plenty of people registering as employers, but almost all of them were bogus offers and spammers who never followed through with the goods. I ended up having to delete almost everyone of them. I was almost to the point of giving up, but still felt that the Job Board was the right thing to do. Especially when I started getting e-mails from potential employees, wannabe work at homers and telecommuters looking for that ideal situation for a home business.
Suggestion of a Friend
After rethinking a suggestion Liz Strauss gave me a while ago, I decided to give Simply Hired a try. The reason I hadn’t tried it before had more to do with my ego than anything else. I lost track of why I wanted to set it up in the first place, to help any readers that were looking and not finding work at home opportunities anywhere else.
Happy Ending
I signed up with Simply Hired yesterday and by last night there were plenty of reputable employers posting positions on the site. Although the Job Board isn’t as pretty (in my eyes at least) as the rest of the site, THERE BE JOBS THERE. And that was the whole point from the beginning.
Please check it out and let me know if there are other types of positions you think should be added.
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May 13th, 2008 at 11:56am |
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Well, my desktop has finally had a fatal crash!
The end was a bit drawn out. Tuesday night, it had a minor crash, but I was able to revive it with a little tender loving care and maybe a little name calling.
Yesterday, it rebooted on it’s own as I was in the middle of typing something, but when it came back, it couldn’t find the hard-drive. I went into the extreme back end of the setup and convinced it that it should boot from my backup disk and reintroduced it to the hard-drive.
Today upon booting up, it wanted to do a check-disk test, so I let it go through and everything was fine for about an hour. Then I started smelling something electrical. You know that pungent smell of ozone. Well, I think it was the hard-drive taking it’s last breath. All the power went off and stayed off!
I knew the end was coming and even made plans to go out today and get another desktop. The lappy is fine for travel, but it doesn’t have all my everyday files etc. just the things I use while I am away from my home office.
The plan was to get the new computer, transfer all my files from my old baby to the new guy and everything would be just honkey-dorey. Well, we all know that saying about “The best laid plans…” nothing goes the way you want and it definately never goes smoothly.
So, even with having a really good plan and a backup of files I need, this is just going to be a pain to accomplish a simple little task that should have only taken an hour.
I’m off to get the new desktop in a couple of minutes, wish me luck!
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May 8th, 2008 at 10:31am |
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I’ve been pondering for a couple of days about what SOBCon 08 meant to me and what I could share with you about the experience of being among Professional and Amature Bloggers and how that could relate to Business.
All of the presenters were quite informative and full of information that could be used in a Home Business, Online or Offline. But, the One Thing that they all shared and every one of the participants was full of is…
PASSION for What They Do!
Saturday was basically for the nuts and bolts of how to use Blogging as a Tool to enhance your business. Still the Passion of people like Wendy Piersall (and all the rest) came through in the way they talked and how they shared Their experiences to try to help the rest of us! (Wendy actually inspired Brian Clark of CopyBlogger to write a post about how he ended up where he is today)
The same Passion came through at the get togethers both before and after the Main Event. Although lots of great information was shooting in all directions, My biggest take-away was some of the casual conversation that had nothing to do with Business.
These People are Passionate about their Businesses, their Families, their Cities, their Pet Projects. They are Real people, just like you and me and they Love what they Do. If you had a question, they had an answer. If they didn’t have the answer, they would help you find the answer. It’s almost like we always knew each other, friends helping friends and sharing because that’s what friends do.
So, I’d like to introduce you to My Friends…
This post was going to be more about Networking and how that would relate to building a Small Business, but PASSION for what you do is At Least as Important. And if you have the Passion for Your Business, Networking will come naturally.
Do you have the Passion to make Your Business a Success?
(Before you ask, Yes I Did use Liz’s list)
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May 6th, 2008 at 03:29pm |
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