How to Find Work from Home Typing Jobs

If you've got excellent typing skills that combine both speed and accuracy, have the discipline to complete projects with little supervision and want to make money while working at home, consider work from home typing jobs to boost your income. By finding several typing jobs at home through multiple clients, you'll be earning extra money and keeping yourself busy with skills and techniques you already have. Use these tips to get work from home typing jobs.

Instructions

1. Take a typing course or use free online typing classes to brush up on proper typing techniques. When trying to get work from home typing jobs, you may need to verify your typing speed in words per minute (WPM) and the accuracy percentage, as well. Consider using typing tests (offered free online) to get accurate numbers and to improve your speed.

2. Prepare a cover letter if you'll be trying to get work from home typing jobs from local businesses, schools or business professionals. In addition to your educational background and work experience, mention any accreditations you have relating to typing (such as certificates from online typing classes or continuing education courses). Discuss your typing skills in WPM and accuracy and list the word processing program you prefer to use, as well as any others that you're proficient in using. Above all, proofread your letter carefully to ensure there aren't any typographical errors.

3. Seek typing jobs at home through local colleges-the administrative staff may need assistance, students may want papers typed or professors may need help with lesson plans, lecture notes or other projects. Post business cards in the student union (with a general rate you'd charge per page), cover letters in the career guidance center or ask if you can leave a stack of letters or flyers in the faculty lounge.

4. Call neighborhood businesses and real estate offices that may need press releases, flyers, business proposals or company manuals professionally typed. You can also visit local data entry companies that may offer work at home typing jobs and data entry to independent contractors (call ahead to determine type of data entry software the company uses to ensure you're able to use it efficiently).

5. Consider trying to get work from home typing jobs to earn money typing for online clients who will send you assignments (and payments) via email. Look for legitimate typing jobs at home or data entry companies through trusted sources, such as word of mouth on work at home forums, former clients or family and friends. Many online advertisements boasting simple methods to earn money typing at home only solicit up front payments for photocopied lists of potential work at home typing jobs.

Tips & Warnings

• If you find a company online that offers what seem to be legitimate work at home typing jobs, avoid the opportunity even if they provide testimonials from contractors who earn money typing if they charge a "sign-up fee," ask you to complete a lengthy "sample project" or make you pay for a typing refresher course before you get your first job.