Sales and Marketing Work at Home Jobs

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Nov
9

Sales and Marketing is a deceiving category and one I stayed away from for a long time when I first started working at home. The title itself seems to related to many work at home scams that people have encountered when trying to find an honest online job.

The truth is the Sales and Marketing category is one of the easiest and sometimes most fun of all the work at home categories to start in. Again, don’t let the title deceive you the jobs posted still pay an hourly wage. Let’s take a look at the variety of opportunity…

A list of job categories for work at home sales and marketing jobs:

• Advertising
• Email Marketing
• SEO – Search Engine Optimization
• SEM – Search Engine Marketing
• SMM – Social Media Marketing
• PR – Public Relations
• Telemarketing & Telesales
• Business Plans & Marketing Strategy
• Market Research & Surveys
• Sales & Lead Generation

The number of companies posting jobs looking for at home workers in this category is astronomical. If you were to combine the total number of open sales and marketing jobs on the three major outsource networks (oDesk, Elance & Freelancer) the number reaches over 7000! When was the last time you had a chance to sift through 7000 open jobs looking for people to work from their home?

The job skills and duties vary per job listing. As you can see from the sub-categories above there are many types of projects that can be listed and the category names sound very technical but reading between the lines…

The sub-category Advertising could involve anything from Google adWords, link building to craigslist ads.

Do you…

• Live in the United States
• Available every day 1-3pm PST
• Have Computer Skills
• Experience with Craigslist

If you said yes, check this out (title is deceiving but job is easy)

Online Marketing Specialist

I need someone to post online advertisements for my company. I have created all of the ads, I just need you to post them online on a daily basis. You must live within the UNITED STATES and have access to a computer around 1-3 pm Pacific time EVERY SINGLE DAY. The work is super easy and all you have to do is post online ads every single day. It should take 45-minutes-to 1.5 hours. Very simple.

Skills Required:
Craigslist, Free Classified, Posting, Computer Skills

Another category that is very popular and growing by the day is Social Media Marketing, SMM. This might sound scary but basically it’s promoting a business through various social media outlets, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, ect. The employer will want you to know what you’re doing so researching some of the latest techniques in SMM will give you a good head start. There are many free resources available on how to search Twitter for targeted users or how to create a Facebook business page that you will be able to easily develop a great skill set for this category.

Here’s a great example from Elance…

2,000+ TWITTER FOLLOWERS

Our client would like to increase their Twitter account with an extra 2,000+ followers in a 4 week period. It is a brand new account.

Followers must be real accounts, no robots or software

Followers must be manually derived and be 100% reklevant to the target audience required.

Followers must not be SPAM accounts, or those at risk of being quickly suspended

The Target market of followers will be revealed to the winning bid

The 2000 followers must be added gradually over a period of 4 weeks with approx 67 new followers per day. The followers per day should increase incrementally and some days you should add less followers.

Followers must follow the client account name, the client account name will follow them too.

The last category I’m going to touch on is Internet Marketing. Many people don’t realize that this category will hold the bulk of the work and much of it’s the overflow from what the company doesn’t have time to handle.

This is a wonderful and easy opportunity for any person that has previously bought into a program that “will make you money at home”, essentially internet marketing.

Here’s a listing of the first job postings under Sales & Marketing > Internet Marketing at Freelance.com. (794 total open jobs)

• Facebook Friends
• Wikipedia Links
• 1000 YouTube Subscribers
• Virtual Assistant
• Article Writer

Now although I haven’t mentioned the actual Sales part of the category there are many job openings for the salesperson out there looking for a work at home job. Everything from lead generation, appointment setters to telemarketers.

The Sales and Marketing work at home jobs are a perfect place to start looking for an honest job that you can get paid hourly working form your home. Many outsourcers choose to stay in this category due to the overwhelming amount of job openings.

It’s also very easy to find a ton of free resources on the internet to build expert skills in one of the sub-categories such as social media or search engine optimization.

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