Looking for a work-at-home job or business? Are you tired of torturous commutes, endless meetings, and countless interruptions? Do you want a better balance between work and life? For thousands of people just like you, a work-at-home job, freelance career, or home business is the road to freedom, control, and happiness. But what kind of work is available? And, how do you separate real opportunities from the thousands of bogus work-at-home scams that dominate the Internet?

Undress for Success offers honest, real-world information on home-based jobs, businesses, and careers that can change your life. Based on the authors’ three decades of experience working from home, this comprehensive guide explores and explains everything you need to know to about how to simplify your life with a work-at-home job or business. It’s the perfect guide for anyone who’s sick of the office lifestyle and ready for a change.

This practical step-by-step guide details the who, what, why, and how of working from home: the advantages and disadvantages, the skills and traits you’ll need to succeed, and how to avoid losing your shirt as you undress for success.

This have-it-your-way handbook is crammed with proven approaches for earning a living at home. If you’re an employee, you’ll discover how to successfully pitch a work-at-home program to your boss or find a new employer who loves the idea. If you want to freelance, Undress For Successoffers a guide for how to find, price and be paid for your work. And if you want to run a home business, it reveals the motivations, talents, and resources you’ll need to get started; it identifies best-bet home businesses; and it offers true stories about what it’s like to work where you sleep. If you’re an employer or government leader, you’ll find a fascinating look at how at-home workers are more productive, help reduce traffic, and even slow global warming.

Undress For Successoffers work-at-home hope for everyone from high school grads to PhD’s, secretaries to programmers, Gen Y’ers to Baby Boomers. From interviews with people who work at home you’ll learn about the techniques, technologies, and strategies that make them successful. Undress for Successis the ultimate guide for making the road less traveled your way to work.

Kate Lister (San Diego CA), is an Incmagazine Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, former banker, venture capital advisor, and business consultant. For the last twenty-five years, she has owned and operated three successful home-based businesses.

Tom Harnish (San Diego CA) has led new business development efforts for large corporations as well as venture-backed start-ups, and he has founded several home-based businesses. Over the last 17 years, he and Kate built their start-up company into the nation’s largest of its kind—from home.

This book is for the bummed out, burned out, and stressed out professional, stay-at-home parent, or retiring boomer who dreams of a home-based job or business, but doesn't know how to make that dream a reality.

Unlike the many "change-your-life" books that promise much and deliver little--Undress4Success provides expert, practical advice about: 1) what home-based jobs are available, what talents they require, what they pay, who's hiring, and how to land one; 2) how to use the Web to search for work-at-home jobs and business opportunities without being scammed; 3) how to turn professional talents into a freelance business; and 4) how to convince an employer to adopt a telecommuting program.

Based on interviews with dozens of employers, home-based employees, successful freelancers, and leading telework researchers, this book shows readers the way home.

Undress for Success is not your average small business book. Unlike the many outdated books that promise riches on eBay, treasures in antiques, and fortunes from cookies, Undress For Success is aimed at the modern educated professional. It draws on the authors' three decades of working in their pajamas and as well as from interviews with industry experts, employers, and pajama professionals, including IBM, Best Buy, Intel, and American Express. It reveals insider information about legitimate home-based jobs and freelance work. And, to keep readers from losing their shirts as they undress for success, it exposes the many scams and the miscreants who peddle them.

Undress For Success will offer real solutions based on dozens of interviews with leading companies, expose the widely available scams, explain the personal and technical requirements for success, and show readers the way to go home.

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Introduction.

SECTION 1: eWORK, THE BARE ESSENTIALS.

Chapter 1: Who eWorks and What Do They Do?

Chapter 2: What's In It For Me?

Chapter 3: Expose Yourself—Are You Right For eWork?

Chapter 4: Dirty Underwear—Uncovering the Scams.

SECTION 2:PAJAMA PAYCHECKS: JOBS YOU CAN DO IN YOUR JAMMIES.

Chapter 5: Who's Paid To Work At Home and What Do They Do?

Chapter 6: Take Your Job And Love It.

Chapter 7: The Naked Truth About Your Boss.

Chapter 8: What’s In It For Your Employer?

Chapter 9: Making Your eWork Pitch.

Chapter 10: Best Bet eWork Employers.

Chapter 11: Work As A Call Center Agent.

Chapter 12: Work As A Virtual Assistant.

Chapter 13: Work As A Medical Transcriptionist.

Chapter 14: Work As A Teacher or Tutor.

Chapter 15: Work As A Remote Tech.

Chapter 16: Work As A Writer.

Chapter 17: Work In Telemedicine.

Chapter 18: How To Navigate The Web In Search of eWork.

Chapter 19: Using The Job Boards To Find eWork.

Chapter 20: Your Digital Resume.

Chapter 21: Collaboration / Social Networking for eWork.

SECTION 3: FREELANCE IN YOUR FRILLIES.

Chapter 22: Who Freelances and What Do They Do?

Chapter 23: Putting Your Best Slipper Forward.

Chapter 24: What Am I Worth?

Chapter 25: Proposals & Contracts.

Chapter 26: Finding Freelance Work.

SECTION 4:BEDROOM BUSINESS.

Chapter 27: Who’s Running Home Businesses and What Do They Do?

Chapter 28: The Right Fit.

Chapter 29: Designing The Perfect Business.

Chapter 30: The Business Model.

Chapter 31: Best Bet Businesses.

Chapter 32: Business Planning.

Chapter 33: Naked Truths About Home Biz.

SECTION 5: DOES IT COME WITH BATTERIES.

Chapter 34: Home Based Technology.

SECTION 6: WHAT IF EVERYBODY DID IT?

Chapter 35: Let’s All Undress.

Resources Available at UndressForSuccessOnline.com.

Endnotes.