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Customer service is one of the most popular work at home jobs. The main job requirement is talking and helping customers over the phone. Other requirements could include: high speed Internet, a quite working environment, computer hardware (such as certain CPU speed and RAM) and software (anti-virus software), a land-line telephone line etc..Many companies have testing and training processes.

The type of customer service jobs includes general customer service, call centers, taking orders, airline reservations, telemarketing, help desk and others jobs involve phone work. Generally you can make anywhere from $6.00 to $15.00 doing home based customer service jobs.

One of the obstacles many people encounter is the requirement of quite working environment. For moms have young children or pets (such as dogs), often times its hard to avoid the background noise. To overcome this, you can try a good noise cancelling headset. Another tip you can try is if you have touch tone phone, press *2*, this eliminates all background noise except your own voice.

Also, many work at home moms work the phone jobs while the kids are sleeping, such as early in the morning or late at night, or on weekends while there is someone (such as spouse) that can help with the kids. Some companies have flexible schedules you can choose from such as West and LiveOp.

Below is a list of legitimate companies that hire home based customer service representatives. They don’t charge you a fee to apply for the job, some make you pay background check ONLY after they decide to hire you.

1. 1-800-Flowers.com
   (customer service, regular and seasonal)
2. Accolade Support
   (help desk)
3. ACD Direct
4. Alpine Access
5. American Airlines
   (reservation agents, Fort Worth, TX & Tuscon, AZ areas)
6. Answer1
7. Arise.com - (formerly Willow CSN, must incorporate, cost may be prohibitive)
8. ARO, Inc.
9. AuraLog - (some location restrictions)
10. Blue Zebra - (appointment setting, administrative assistant)
11. Brighten Communications - (telemarketing)
12. Channel Blend - (call center agents)
13. Cloud 10 .
14. Customer Loyalty Concepts
15. eCallogy
16. Fil-Can Communications
17. Grindstone
18. HirePoint
19. Hotpoint Marketing
20. J.Lodge - (call center)
21. Jet Blue (reservations, Utah)
22. LiveOps
23. MicahTek, Inc.
24. Niteo Services
25. O’Currance (inbound calls, sales)
26. onPoint@Home
27. Overflow, Inc.
28. SCI Live
29. Secure Call Management
30. Service800.com - (call center)
31. TeLCare - (telephone satisfaction surveys)
32. TeleLink Call Centre
33. TeleReach - (appointment setting)
34. TeleTech
35. TelExpertise, Inc. - (call center)
36. Time Communications
37. Ver-A-Fast Corporation (newspaper subscriber customer service)
38. VIP Desk
39. VoiceLog, LLC - (verification agents)
40. West At Home Agents
41. Westat
42. Working Solutions
43. XAct TeleSolutions

Before you start looking for work at home jobs or home based business opportunities, you should know what are the work from home options, meaning:

1. Work at home job market - what kind of jobs that you can do from home and what companies offer home based employment opportunities;

2. Home based business opportunities - there are many business opportunities that can be operated from your home, but you need to know which ones is a good fit for you.

Work at home jobs and home based businesses are totally two different concepts - one is a job meaning you working for someone else and work from your own home, another one is a home based business meaning it’s a business and operated from home.

However, sometimes there is a ‘grey” area between the two - many work at home jobs are actually independent contractor “job” - you will get a 1099 and file your tax return as a sole proprietor.

Here are some popular work from home options based on work type:

1. Customer Service
2. Data Entry
3. Virtual Assistant (secretarial service)
4. Accounting and Bookkeeping
5. Transcription (including General, Legal and medical)
6. Medical Coding Billing
7. Writing
8. Research
9. Online Tutors
10. Daycare Operators
11. Event and Party Planners
12. Crafting
13. Web Site Design
14. Real Estate Agents
15. Home Organizer and Housekeepers
16. Direct Sale or Sale
17. Affiliate Programs
18. Mystery Shopping
19. Paid Surveys
20. Blogging

Johnny was playing with the LeapPad while I was cooking dinner in the kitchen.

Suddenly Johnny said: “Hi Mom, I know where Georgia lives!!”. (Georgia is the little girl in Johnny’s kindergarten class, also ride on the same bus with him.).

I was little surprised and I said really?

Then Johnny said yes mommy, come on, let me show you!

So I went over and saw Johnny was playing with the Leappad’s “Unites States of America” map, Then Johnny pointed his pen to the state of Georgia, and the Leappad said “Georgia”!