Who is Patti Walbridge?

I’m a very active entrepreneurial mother of 3, happily married to my high school sweetheart for over 25 years.  I’ve worked at home since 2004, worked the phones for over 20 years, since 1989.  Since 2005 I started branching out into Virtual Assisting, or doing phone marketing/admin/sales consulting tasks from home for clients.  I'm on both Guru & Elance as well.  2010 I consider myself "semi-retired" from phone work.  I've only got 1 client I market for, not looking for more.

 For fellow wahms who are looking for things data entry/general transcription/anything nonphone, not only should you watch/haunt the various forums that specialize in this but also have the wah jobs come to you in a search alert. It can take a long time to snag a general transcription job. On the bright side, with the internet expanding, jobs are constantly being created, as opposed to what's referred to as “B & M” or “brick and mortar” or outside the home jobs. To set up a Google search alert go to www.google.com, go to search for just “news”. You shouldn't need to click on anything in the search field, your link should pop up in the upper left. I'm doing this as I type this out to make sure it works for you. Click on “news” in the upper left. Mouse over “more” at the top, at the drop down menu click “even more”. Click on “alert”. It'll be the first item in that list. You'll get “create a Google alert”. Search terms need to be “telecommuting is ok”. Keep the quote marks around that phrase. That tells the search engine to pull up that particular phrase, to not break up the three words. That will pull up anything you can do at home, most of which will be Craigslist. Don't be scared of Craigslist. I know of many Virtual Assistants that found their clients on there. The next term you should put in is “transcription” without the quotes. And the most important term should be “-medical” also without quotes. The “-” in front of medical tells the search engine to omit that word so you're looking for general only. It should look like this: “telecommuting is ok” transcription -medical. You'll want a Comprehensive listing to pull up listings from most any source, news, blogs, web, video. Video transcription is neat! The frequency can be once a day, as it happens or once a week. Also try a similar alert for voicemail transcription.  Variations for office type work include office/virtual/sales/consultant assistants.  Hope that helps!

My work at home blog is here.  This website you're on now may go down to just a redirect I guess you call it probably next month for about a year til I'm able to send people to the new one.

I’m strongly conservative, Christian, Baptist in fact.  A Navy brat by birth, redneck Vermonter by choice.  I love the outdoors, love to stay active in most any form.  I have a passion for customer service, for people, believing strongly in a consultative sales approach.