Work from Home with Alpine Access

If You Want or Need to Work from Home, Alpine Access Will Pay You Well to Work for Them

By Erika L, published Dec 20, 2006
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If you are seeking a good work-from-home job and live in either Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah, or Florida, consider working with Alpine Access. Working for Alpine Access is a great way to earn a fair amount of income with the many comfortable benefits of being at home.

Alpine Access is a business located in Golden, Colorado that employs many citizens of the above-mentioned states with real work - at home. This company works with different clients, such as 1-800 Flowers, Office Depot, J. Crew and others, and hires home-based agents (people like you and me) to take the calls from customers wishing to place orders with these clients.

In 2003 when I worked for Alpine Access, I was able to make close to $10 an hour sitting at a desk in the spare bedroom of my home, while completing customer orders and wearing the pajamas of my choice (okay sometimes I got dressed before hand). Because I worked at home for Alpine Access, I was able not only to bank the money I'd normally spend on gas to drive to and from work, but also to save time by not making a lunch or primping before work.

To work for Alpine Access, I had to purchase a certain type of corded headset and get DSL (or obtain another phone line) to be able to connect to the Internet and be on the phone at the same time. My home had to be absolutely quiet, as Alpine Access does not allow dogs to be barking or children crying in the background. Without background noise, customers do not know that they're talking to someone who is at home, and that is important to Alpine Access.

Working at home for Alpine Access was a huge blessing to me. Of course there were times when working from home (not unlike other non home-based jobs) that weren't so wonderful, like when I would get disconnected from the switchboard and have to log back in maybe 2 or 3 times. Or when my computer would just refuse to cooperate. For both types of issues, though, I'd simply call the technical support that Alpine Access provided for me (and all its agents) and let technical support enable me to get back to work.

From the Comfort of Home

Credit: freepixels.com

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Takeaways
  • Alpine Access agents earn around $9/hour to complete customer orders at home.
  • You need a phone line, Internet access via DSL, and a corded headset to be set up for work.
  • Your home must be free from background noise to do your job correctly.
Did You Know?
Pre-holiday season is the best time to apply for a job with Alpine Access.
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Sounds like a great at home work opportunity for people living in these states

Posted on 05/01/2007 at 8:05:00 AM

 
Wendy - as far as I know it's only English, but you could definitely email them and ask them to find out for sure.

Posted on 01/27/2007 at 8:01:00 PM

 
Do you work only with english speakers?, or, do you need any other languages?

Posted on 01/24/2007 at 3:01:00 PM

 
Erin, no the photo is borrowed from freepixels.com. I cite that with the photo info. I like the look of it, too.

Posted on 01/09/2007 at 6:01:00 PM

 
Erika - I am assuming you took the picture for your artilce! Very relaxing picture.

Posted on 01/09/2007 at 5:01:00 PM

 
Melissa, if you work for Alpine Access you are an employee with them and not an Independent Contractor. I worked for them a few years back, but they'd send checks via snail mail. I don't know if that is still accurate or not. On my first phone interview, I had my window open. It was a really hot day, and for some reason a dog was barking outside that I had never noticed before. I told the person I was speaking to that that does not happen often, and I closed my window, but she was kind of concerned about it. So unfortunately I'd have to guess that if you can hear the dogs barking from the place you'd be working in your home, that would not be a good thing. I'm sorry to tell you that. :(

Posted on 01/03/2007 at 9:01:00 AM

 
I have heard really good things about Alpine Access. When you work with them, are you considered an "independent contractor" (so you have to pay your own social security/taxes) or do they take care of everything for you? How are you paid (direct deposit/paypal/etc.). I understand that you have to have a completely quiet environment with no kids crying and things like that, but how are you supposed to control for dogs barking? Our neighbors have two dogs that they leave outside all day/night and they bark all of the time..... I guess maybe this wouldn't work for me because of that which is really frustrating!!!

Posted on 01/03/2007 at 4:01:00 AM

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