telecommute

In honor of Mother’s Day and all the beautiful spring flowers, I thought I would post a work at home job about working in the floral industry.

1-800-FLOWERS.com is hiring customer service individuals to work at home as Home Agent Specialists. The positions are for In-bound customer service calls. The positions are part-time (for all but their peak periods) and for individuals who live in Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, NY, Texas, and Virginia.

Requirements include having a dedicated telephone line for incoming calls. You must use a corded phone - no cordless, cell phones, or VoIP is permitted. The normal work week is 6-10 hours but during peak period they expect their Home Agent Specialists to work 25-40 hours per week. Peak periods occur around some of the major holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines Day, Mother’s Day were the workload increases tremendously.

Here is a unique way to make some extra money from home especially if you like taking pictures. Shuttershock will pay you to for every photo of yours that is downloaded from their site.

What is Shuttershock? It is a large subscription based stock photo agency. How can Shutterstock pay you for your photos? Well, magazine editors, web designers, and graphic artists purchase subcriptions to download photos from Shuttershock.

So, I hear you asking “how much do I earn for my photos”. You earn .25 for every download of your photo. That’s EVERY photo download!

There are other ways to earn money from the site too. If you refer a photographer to their site, you earn 3 cents of each of their downloads. Further, if you refer stock buyers (the people who buy the subcriptions to Shuttershock), you earn 20% of their subscription fee.

What I like most about this site is the fact that it is residual income. You upload your photos ONCE and each time your photo is downloaded you get .25cents over and over. Imagine if you had just one really cool and unique photo?! You could possibly make some nice money for just taking a photo and uploading it!

If you have tried Shuttershock, let me know how you are making out with it!