Sunday, July 20, 2008

YOUR HOME BUSINESS ATTITUDE

by: Nicole Taylor
Let me put this to you nice and sweet: Attitude predicts your future. Honestly.

If you tell yourself that you’re not going to succeed with a home business, you won’t. If you think you’re going to lose, you already lost.

I remember as a little girl in school, we had a Christmas fundraiser. The person who sold the most candy out of the entire school won the grand prize, a TV. I kept telling myself over and over again, “I’m going to win that TV.” It wasn’t the prize itself that I wanted so bad because God knows I had everything as a child. It was being number one. I had to be number one and I was determined to succeed!

Before starting a work from home business, take some time and write a list of goals. What is it you want for yourself? What is it you want for your family? What are the things you want to accomplish with a home-based business? Some of your goals may include the following:

- Put a child through college
- Pay off your bills
- Buy a new home
- Buy a new car
- Take a nice vacation

YOU CAN reach your goals, whatever they happen to be, if only you have the right attitude and support. I know how friends and family members can be. Negative at times, huh? UH HUH! Let them know what your goals and plans are and tell them you’d like some support with your new home business.

If ordinary people around the world are succeeding with their home business, so can you! What makes them different from you? You don’t need “skills” or a college degree to make a 6-figure income when it comes to a home business. All you need is the right attitude and you’re half-way to success!

By the way, I won that TV.


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Nicole Taylor
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TIPS FOR FINDING "TYPING" JOBS FOR COMPANIES

If you are self-motivated and have exceptional speed and accuracy then a home typing online career may be for you Work at home typing jobs include data entry, providing clerical services and customer service. Work at home typing jobs also include information processing and ad typing. If you have some skills in spreadsheets and word processing then you can really benefit from this. Medical billing is an extremely lucrative market. You have to get some experience before you can tackle this job. However there are other types of transcription type jobs out there besides Medical. If you have the equipment and great listening skills, then perhaps you can give it shot. As a test project, I applied to a lot of companies that were looking for transcriptionists. With not much experience I got a reply back from an agency that was willing to hire me just because of the writing sample I had submitted. So if I can do it so can anyone else.

You can search the classified ads such as Craigslist and UsfreeAds (which in this case would be the best form of search) to look for work at home jobs in those areas I mentioned above. Some are actual positions that do not require any fees. If you are doing freelance work, then you could advertise your services (don’t forget to sell yourself and be fair about it) for FREE. Or you can find other “Free Lance” sites and check out how they are selling their services in order to get projects and assignments.

However sometimes (or shall I say most of the time) you might come across a lot of ads stating you can work from home by typing ads. Please avoid the paid surveys online unless you are really planning to do some legwork and soul searching. You really have to find a great sponsor in order to get paid somewhat of what your worth. On a more creative angle, some companies require work at home typists to type out Ads, sometimes just a paragraph or title in length or small classified ads to place all over the internet. Companies will usually offer training and information on where to post the ads and how to answer queries. However I never recommend Ad typing… For most companies you get paid a commission when someone buys the products being advertised from your posted ad. The more you sell the more money you make. But you really have to have a lot of discipline to do this. This is a beast to conquer. But if you are up for the challenge by all means go for it.

All in all, you have to know that there are always risks when it comes to being self-employed. But if you find the right opportunities for you, it could be a gold mine. You have to know what is comfortable for YOU!

If you would like more information on other online opportunities, please feel free to visit my blog. Or I would love to just hear some input from you.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Transcription vs. Copy Typing - What are They and How Do They Differ?

Transcription vs. Copy Typing - What are They and How Do They Differ?
By Anne Hickley


Many people are confused as to why transcription (audio typing) apparently costs more than copy typing, as both are typing services. This article aims to explain the differences between the two services and what makes up the costs for a transcription service.


Firstly let’s take copy typing. This normally refers to the typing of written ‘copy’ – this maybe a previously typed document (perhaps typed on a typewriter and needing to be input into a Word Processor) or a hand-written document. The cost will vary depending on the ease of readability but with basic copy typing there is no editing or interpretation required; the typist simply types what is written in front of them. The cost of the typing services will vary according to how difficult the writing is to decipher – it will be relatively cheaper if the original document is very clear handwriting or type-written.


Transcription, on the other hand, has no copy for the typist to look at, only an audio recording, which may be an audio tape, video, DVD or audio digital recording. This brings with it a number of issues that copy typing does not have: is the speech clear; is the content comprehensible (e.g. highly technical content might be full of words the transcriptionist is not familiar with); is the recording quality good (e.g. is there any background hiss on the tape or background noise from the surroundings the tape was recorded in); do you need verbatim transcription (word for word with all ‘ums and ers’, speech patterns and fillers such as ‘you know’, ‘know what I mean’ or ‘kind of’ repeated often through the recording; do you want the transcript edited to improve the grammar and sentence structure?


Clearly transcription is much more involved than copy typing. Another thing to bear in mind is that an hour of recording is not equivalent to an hour of transcription time. Even an experienced transcriptionist will be able to average four times as long for a good, clear one-to-one interview – so an hour of recording will take an average of four hours to transcribe. ( Industry standards obtained from the Industry Production Standards Guide (I998), published by OBC, Columbus, OH, USA) A group, or a poorly recorded transcript, will take commensurately longer. Thus when you receive a quote per hour of recording it may seem like a lot of money, but remember this is NOT your transcriptionist’s hourly rate but rather a quote for a minimum of four hours of her/his time.


Transcriptionists also have to make sense of what’s being said, punctuate the speech correctly and use the right homophones (words like there/their/they’re that sound the same but are spelt differently.)


Many transcriptionists specialise in a particular area so that they are familiar with the technicalities e.g. medical transcription, legal transcription. Others are more generalist and work on less technical transcripts such as research interviews and market research focus groups, video or telephone conferences, seminars and conferences. These may all, of course, contain technical data and if they do it’s helpful to provide your transcriptionist with a list of keywords or, at very least, some background information about your work. Otherwise Google is a wonderful tool if used properly to research the topic but that will add to the total time taken to produce your transcript, and therefore the cost.


Hopefully it is now clear that transcription requires more skill than ‘straightforward’ copy typing with no editing or formatting involved, and therefore commands a higher hourly rate.


There are a number of things you can do to reduce the cost of the transcription though, and these are detailed in some of my other articles. (See below).

Penguin Transcription (http://www.penguin-transcription.co.uk), part of Penguin Office Services (http://www.penguinofficeservices.co.uk), offers an affordable transcription service by tailoring each quote to the exact requirements of the client. The more information the client can provide us with, and the better the quality of the recording for transcription, the more affordable the transcription service will be. Why not visit our site and fill in an enquiry form at http://www.penguin-transcription.co.uk/PTS_enquiry_form.html to receive a quote for your transcription requirements. More information about transcription is available through other ezine articles listed at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anne_Hickley.


This article is copyright, Anne Hickley, 2007.

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Language Typing

Language Typing
By Pawan Bahuguna

Language Typing as a very distinctive and refined typing process, offers growing and progressive opportunities to data entry operators, formatters and indexers. It has earned the status of an industry, and with globalization taking quantum swing, the industry is expected to rise unabated zillion times in near future. It is both a work of skill and a language art.

Typing in other languages as opposite to normal typing requires knowledge of the target language besides, good typing speed on QWERTY keyboard. The typing work is bound to fulfill the localization demands, therefore error free typing is required and expected. This in turn puts responsibility on the shoulders of language typist to undertake the work under tremendous pressure and maintaining the quality consistently. Working in the area, a language typist should exhibit efficiency in different language.


Typing in other language is a lucrative industry, which provides secured career, besides rich incentives. The typing is undertaken in variety of languages such as Hebrew, German, French, English, Korean, Pushto and much more. Price quote varies with amount of data to be typed. Various customized software packages are available in the market today to speed up the work, apart from, checking the accuracy as per international quality standards.


Language typewriting is usually carried out under the supervision of language expert who also carries out subsequent editing and proofreading procedures to maintain the quality. Of late, it has come to follow international conventions and norms that dictate regulations to prevent any duplication of matter, besides conforming to standard formatting procedures.


Language typing has vast scope in times to come with ever-burgeoning needs of allied areas of language translation, interpretation and transcription. In addition, globalization is further providing impetus to increase demands of language typing.


All Translation Services provide language typing service and translation service in over 130 languages. Please visit All Translation Services to know more about our language solution.


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