As the workplace contributor on ABC's Good Morning America, I report on just about every imaginable career related issue. So when anchor Diane Sawyer challenged me to find ways for our viewers to make money from home, imagine my delight when I discovered the Elance community.
There are so many great elancer stories out there to tell. In fact, I featured one Elance provider, Erin Bocherer (ErinKB1), in a recent GMA segment. She's a mom of three kids under six who, one morning when not watching cartoons, tuned into GMA and discovered Elance. Now she's making $50 an hour through the site, providing media relations services to her clients. And I recently included Elance CEO Fabio Rosati as a guest in webinar I hosted on this topic: It's Women For Hire's first-ever Work From Home Webinar.
But, of course, elancers like you already know this since you are leading the way when it comes to remote work. But as you can imagine once we started covering this topic on air, we heard from stay at home moms eager to contribute to the household budget. Retirees were looking for ways to compensate for a shortfall in savings to make ends meet. Professionals in traditional careers wanted ways to supplement their incomes.
Basically, everyone wanted more control over their time and their earning potential. So much so that my observations and learning on working from home have come together in a brand new book, Will Work From Home: Earn the Cash Without the Commute.
But this is just the beginning, as we all know. Have a tip on how to make the most of working from home? Leave a comment below; who knows, it may also end up in a future book.
About Tory
Tory Johnson is the CEO of Women For Hire, which produces high-caliber recruiting events and online career services to connect professional women with leading employers nationwide.
