Make Money by Taking Calls at Home

Patti Winters
So many people are looking for legitimate work from home options. Due to companies reducing their full time staff, they are now looking for individuals to perform some of these tasks from their homes. Becoming a home based customer service representative or completing administrative assistant duties from home could be the option you've been looking for.

There are many companies who are recruiting for these home based opportunities. Each company had different requirements and focuses on different clientele. First spend some time looking at each of these companies and see which is the best fit for you. One company may be more flexible on the number of hours per week or time of day they need someone to work, and another company may be looking for a special skill you have.

LiveOps - Describes themselves as "...the world's most flexible and cost-effective solution for call center outsourcing. Since 2000, we've been perfecting best practices and developing powerful on-demand tools to ensure that we provide our customers with the highest quality independent at-home agents.They have been in business since 2000, perfecting best practices and developing powerful on-demand tools to ensure that we provide our customers with the highest quality independent at-home agents." 80% of their agents have previous sales experience.

West - West states they are, "The Best Work from Home Package: Schedule Flexibility. Guaranteed Pay. Premier Companies. What could be better than an exciting customer support opportunity with a Fortune 1000 company? How about earning guaranteed hourly pay without leaving home? If you are looking for a home-based career opportunity, then consider West at Home."

Convergys - As a Convergys Home Agent, you'll interact with customers of leading companies. You may answer questions, determine product opportunities that best meet your callers' needs, place orders on their behalf, provide technical support, or enroll callers in health or entertainment plans. You'll have the opportunity to design a benefits package that matches your lifestyle. Convergys Home Agents can select from applicable benefits that include paid time off, paid training, company holidays, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, life insurance, medical coverage, dental coverage, vision coverage, and more.

Arise - Arise makes it easy for you to operate your customer interaction business from home. Arise offers opportunities for work in technical support, sales, and customer service with some of the most exciting companies in America. We offer the certification courses you need to become an Arise Certified Professional, which signifies that you have the basic skills and knowledge to be a customer interaction specialist. As an employee of your Virtual Services Corporation, once you are certified as an Arise Certified Professional, you choose which clients to serve, when you work, and how many hours each week to work.

VIP Desk - VIP Desk identifies themselves as, "...the innovative pioneer of home-based virtual contact center and loyalty solutions for global brand leaders committed to the retention and growth of their high-value customers. A proven premium service provider with 20 years of experience, VIPdesk specializes in delivering Concierge and Virtual Call Center Services for national brand leaders in several industries that include travel, auto, financial services and retail, by providing high-touch, high-tech branded service platforms that deliver real results and real return on investment."

Working Solutions - Working Solutions was created in 1996, to provide more legitimate work-at-home opportunities for those caring for family members, looking for supplemental income, and wanting or needing to work from home. What started as a very small in-house operation has grown steadily and solidly ever since. The Working Solutions process is very similar to that of a bricks and mortar temporary agency, but our agent workforce is made up of highly qualified independent contractors who work solely from their homes. We partner with clients from many different lines of business, providing them with a very capable and flexible supplemental workforce, as well as a talented project management team.

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