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Growthlab Ultimate Guide To Working From Home PDF
Growthlab Ultimate Guide To Working From Home PDF
You stroll into your boss’s office one morning and hand over your
two weeks’ notice.
But he says, “Wait, we’ll bump your salary 20% AND give you a
corner office.”
“25% more?”
Nope.
“I’m flattered by the offer, but I’m going to have to pass,” you say.
And of course, you found a new job that offers benefits that you
can’t put a price on.
This isn’t something that “other people” do. Forbes reported that
one in five Americans now works from home. And that number is
expected to rise in the next few years.
But it’s not all about lifestyle. It can be a great move for everyone
I’ll even show you the technology, tools, and skills you’ll need so
that nobody will even realize you’ve left the building.
Who Am I?
I’m Ramit Sethi, the New
York Times best-selling
author and founder of
GrowthLab and I Will Teach
You To Be Rich — a
business that I grew from a
dorm-room blog into a
multimillion-dollar online
business with over 30,000
paying customers around
the world.
Take me to Part 2
Take me to Part 3
Part 4: Make
“Working from Home”
One of Your
Company’s Benefits
If you’re employed full-time, working from home might be more
of a possibility than you think. I’ll teach you how to test the
waters with your boss. And I’ll also go through 10 common work-
from-home jobs and how to get the highest paying ones.
Take me to Part 4
Take me to Part 5
Part 6: Build a
Website that Pays
You in Your Sleep
Passive income — we all want it. But what does it take to pull
it off? Contrary to what gurus say, there’s more to it than just
slapping together an ebook and putting it up for sale online. In
this section, I talk about 6 different business models to build a
website that pays you in your sleep.
Take me to Part 6
Take me to Part 7
Anyone who ever tells people they work from home will often
hear, “Wow! I could never do that.” And it’s true, it takes
discipline to get up, log in to your computer, and work when
nobody is standing over your shoulder and directing you.
Distractions attempt to grab you from every direction.
And once word gets out that you’re home all the time, friends
and family start to ask if you “could do them a favor in the
middle of the day.”
As long as you get your work done, you can free up time to tend
to other things. Heck, my team can walk their dogs and pick
their kids up from school without asking anyone for permission.
Because I know they’re on top of their work.
Did you get tired just from reading that? Watch and learn how he
pulls it off with the Pomodoro Technique.
Once you sign up, you can make a commitment contract: “I will
nail the project deadline.” Then, if you don’t, stickK will take your
money and donate it to a charity you despise.
This is a great way to stay on track for work projects when the
living room recliner is calling your name for nap time.
You have to decide when to call it quits for the day. Because
sooner or later, trying to jam in another task at the end of the
And you can use the same exact principle to make exercise a
habit. Watch the video below to see how you can put it into
action as you work from home.
I don’t give a damn if I end the day with zero unread emails or
350. I only care about getting the right things done.
I like to have canned scripts for the most common situations I’ll
encounter. That way, I can read an email, mentally categorize it,
and reach into my vault of scripts to select the best response.
How to communicate
effectively so nobody
realizes you’re gone
It was only a few years ago that people would gather around a
conference table with a device like this in the middle:
The quality wasn’t always the best. Video feeds cut out. People
inched closer to the phone in order to talk and they would still
sound fuzzy.
Now team members can communicate with each other with just
a laptop from a coffee shop. The sound and video quality are
also top notch.
And many other tools have come along so you don’t even need
to dial in and use video to collaborate on things anymore.
Zoom
A great way for everyone to have face-time together. We’ve
run entire company meetings with dozens of employees, and
it’s great to see everyone rather than just hearing voices and
following along with presentation slides.
Slack
This reduces the amount of internal emails in a company. You can
direct-message team members. You can also set up channels by
subject matter like tech or sales.
This is also free to get started. Paid plans depend on the number
of active users in your company.
Trello
Trello is a great tool for project management.
Here’s what a simple board for a writing team might look like:
Once the project team starts working, it’ll move to the “drafting”
stage. After it’s completed, it’ll be shepherded through the
remaining three steps.
Managers can view a Trello board and get status updates and
due dates on things without having to hound people for them.
Basecamp
Basecamp has studied highly productive groups for 16 years and
bundled the 6 core things they all do into an amazing product.
They also found that productive teams don’t let questions linger.
Their chat feature makes it easy for anyone to ask questions and
get instant feedback.
And the study revealed that every great team has a leader who
makes sure things are moving along. Which is why they created
an automatic check-in to keep project managers up to date.
Team members don’t have to create progress reports or anything
like that.
To-do lists make it clear who is responsible for what and all the
deadlines.
Headset
A headset is must have when dialing into Zoom. It blocks out any
background noise from pets, screaming kids, or the landscapers
outside. Having one will help you get through your meetings in
peace.
Google Apps
Just about everyone is familiar with Gmail, but we also use
their documents and sheets apps. This eliminates the need for
attachments. You just copy and paste a link and send it around
on Slack or email, and everyone can view it without downloading
anything.
Click here for instant access so you never again have to waste
time writing these...
Your current job might be the best way to embark on your new
work-from-home lifestyle. Even if it’s not a common practice at
your company.
But you can’t just stand up on your desk one Friday afternoon
and declare, “From now on, I will work from home!”
The key is this: If you’re great at what you do, you have A LOT
more leverage than you think.
Instead, offer to do it on a trial basis. You can use what I call the
ARMS techniques to make it easy to get your boss’s stamp of
approval.
Big Win!
Tech Support - Are you the person who all your friends and
family come to whenever their computer craps out on them? If
so, you might find yourself at home working tech support for a
company.
The average salary is $55K. But for people who are really good,
the sky’s the limit. Commissions and bonuses can add up. It’s not
uncommon for top sales reps to be the highest paid people in
a company earning multiple 6-figure paychecks. They can even
make more than the CEO.
You can make anywhere from $50K - $60K and work from home
depending on your experience.
The boom in big data means this isn’t slowing down anytime
soon. If you can run SQL queries like nobody’s business, you may
be able to command a $70K job working from wherever you
want.
Finding jobs like this could free up time and money. The hidden
costs of office work can creep up on you. Most people don’t even
realize it.
Are you thinking, “No way, I would never give up my job to take
that kind of pay, even if I got to work from home”?
The truth is, if you’re a top performer, you can find the best jobs
with awesome perks, and ask for MUCH more than you think
possible.
What do they know about getting their dream jobs that you’re in
Had I rented office space in some New York City high rise, I
would’ve never been able to attract this caliber of talent.
If you’re great at what you do, we might have a spot for you.
Quiz time!
None of that stuff matters! The so-called experts who talk about
these tactics drive me nuts.
Are you the math whiz who everyone copied their homework
from in school? You can probably find parents whose kids
desperately need help, and they’d be willing to pay you for it.
So they try it for a few months… and hear nothing but crickets.
The trick is this: Figure out if your idea will ever make money
before you invest tons of time in it.
When you apply the Pay Certainty Test, you can quickly score
ideas to see if they have any possibility of being successful
before you dive too deep into developing them.
Take each of your ideas and write them on a piece of paper. Next
to each idea, write down who would pay you for your service.
For each person who would potentially pay you, ask yourself:
• Does a law firm partner have the ability to pay? Sure. Law
firms have deep pockets.
• Does a law firm have the willingness to pay for social
media? Heck no. Law firms don’t care about social media.
They recruit and market through other means.
The Pay Certainty Test lets you rapidly eliminate bad ideas that
would have never earned you a cent and focus on the most
promising ones.
In other words, “do awesome stuff and let people come.” Sure,
this can work for some people. But in my experience, it’s neither
reliable nor particularly effective compared to your other
Make a short list of prospects and email them with your offer.
You’re not asking them to buy — just if they’d be interested in
hearing more (over the phone, in a meeting, etc.).
Here are just some of the thoughts that run through my head
when I receive an email from a stranger:
Anyone can land a single client. You get lucky, or your friend
knows someone who hires you. But if you can land 3 paying
clients, that’s when you know you’re on to something.
Don’t worry about what to charge at this point. Even if you get
$50 bucks for a full day of work, that’s not a problem. You can
always adjust the price later so that you’re making $50, $100, or
even $200 an hour.
SUCCESS STORY
Most people don’t believe they have skills they can charge
money for. Then I tell them how in college I used to show Silicon
Valley venture capital firms how people were using social media
— and got paid for it. That’s something anyone can do.
I have a free tool that can show you that you’re sitting on a
goldmine of business ideas right now. I want to send it to you.
Click the button below.
Use this free tool to find your first profitable idea and earn your
first $1,000...
Some give you huge profit margins, take minimal time, and
scale easily. Others require a lot of time, overhead costs, and are
difficult to grow.
Here’s how they work: As you get traffic, some people will click
those ads. When they do, you get a few cents, or even a few
dollars per click.
But let’s face it, even venture capital firms know that most of the
companies in their portfolios will go belly up.
IWT Notebook
If you click that link and sign up, the credit card company is
going to pay that blogger an affiliate commission. Sometimes it’ll
be $50 or $75.
Over time, that can actually add up to a lot of money. And there
are affiliate programs for everything — from audio books to
weight-loss products.
You can create one that sells for $49 fairly quickly. But more
expensive, high-end courses take a lot longer. For example, when
we built Dream Job, we spent months on research, outlines,
testing, creation, and design.
SUCCESS STORY
Now I want to help you dive deeper into the area that interests
you most.