Saturday, February 28, 2009

Tips in Finding a Legitimate Work at Home Income Opportunity

In today's global financial crises, it isn't enough to just have one source of income, either offline or online. Doing business offline is good provided you have ample capital to invest in a particular offline business. Having ample capital would mean bigger opportunity to earn bigger income. The disadvantage of offline business is that you have also to invest almost all of your time if not all of your time in it. One is robbed of his/her time freedom in an offline business that's why Network Marketing became so popular because it allows time leveraging.

We all want to achieve financial and time freedom, who doesn't? But how can we achieve it?

Since we are now in an era which we call "Cyberage", computers with internet connections are playing the key roles to businesses called "Online Business". Doing online business could let one achieve financial and time freedom all at the same time. Communication and research can be done in just few minutes by just a click of the mouse.

Part of having time freedom is doing anything at one's pace and one's own time and still be with your family and love ones while doing it. Isn't that amazing? Yes! that's the power of the Internet.

What about doing things at one's pace , at one's own time and at the same time earning a substantial income from it? It's more amazing and wonderful, isn't it? That's what Work at Home Income Opportunities offer to everybody.

With the proliferation of Work at Home Job Sites in the Internet, (scam or otherwise) that promise the moon and the stars how can one be assured of its legitimacy?

Here are some tips that could help you shun away from the so called SCAMS and make you a SUCCESS:

1. Not a Get-Rich-Quick Company;

2. Has a proven track record of success for at least 5 years based on factual testimonies of those who use the system;

3. Offers a complete guidance and tutorials on exactly how to do the tasks and how to make it work for you by providing the software, training, tutorials, research, companies, jobs and resources that are needed for FREE;

4. Must have an excellent team of support staff to answer any questions that may arise while performing the task;

5. A minimal membership fee;

6. Must carry with it some credentials like Web Assured Certified, Scam X Certified and Paypal Business Certified;

7. Offers BONUSES and 100% satisfaction or money back guarantee.

I am one lucky person who was able to find this diamond of a site and I would like to share it to all of you because I believe in the saying that " When one receives a thing of great value, it is his/her obligation to share it many times over."


By : Yvonne B. Setias
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Basic Truths About Working at Home Online

What Do I Know About this subject?
For two years I sat at my computer every day and tried to start an online business. Here are some of the basic truths I learned about online businesses.

What Kind of Online Business Do You Want?
Let's have a look at what kind of online businesses there are. I will talk about five types of internet businesses, three of which I recommend and the other two I have doubts about.

A. THE TYPES OF BUSINESSES I RECOMMEND

1. Selling Good or Services
Many people have made a respectable living on the internet by selling goods such as clothing, groceries, books etc. Others have successfully sold services such as job directories, writing services and training courses in fields as diverse as udon noodle making to university degrees. These businesses do not differ much from those down your main street except that you can see their wares displayed on their websites.

2. Selling Someone Else's Goods and Services For A Commission.
On the internet this is usually known as Affiliate Marketing. In this situation you find a business that is already running successfully, and you advertise and sell their product in any way that you can. When you make a sale, you receive a percentage of the proceeds as a commission - often as much as 75% or even more.
You can find affiliate programs that will suit you by googling 'affiliate programs' into your browser, or going to sites such as AffiliateSeeking.com or Clickbank.

3. Taking Surveys
There are a lot of programs on the internet that offer money for taking surveys or for testing a product and writing an appraisal of it. These are usually not big money earners, but can provide good pocket money.
I have only had one problem with these programs. I am retired and don't belong to the right demographic group. It seems that there are very few companies that are interested in feedback from retired people!


B. THE TYPES OF BUSINESSES I HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT.

1. Multi Level Marketing (MLM)
This is one of the main types of business offered on the internet, and in the real world too. It is basically a system of selling in which you sign up other people to assist you, and they, in turn, recruit others to help them. Any income earned from recruiting or from sales of the product is divided between the "levels" of agents that have been recruited.

However, there are many multi-level distributorship schemes that are nothing more than sophisticated chain letters, which we have probably all received and delegated to the "trash" file. They operate as a "pyramid," claiming participants can earn lots of money by concentrating most, if not all, of their efforts on recruiting distributors rather than selling a product.

"Multi-level marketing is system of marketing which puts more emphasis upon the recruiting of distributors than on the selling of products. As such, it is intrinsically flawed. MLM is very attractive, however, because it sells hope and appears to be outside the mainstream of business as usual. It promises wealth and independence to all. Unfortunately, no matter what the product, MLM is doomed to produce more failures than successes. For every MLM distributor who makes a decent living or even a decent supplemental income, there are at least ten who do little more than buy products and promotional materials, costing them much more than they will ever earn as an MLM agent. The most successful MLM scheme is Amway. It has millions of distributors worldwide with sales in the billions. At the turn of the century, the average Amway distributor earned about $700 a year in sales, but spent about $1,000 a year on Amway products. Distributors also have other expenses related to the business, e.g., telephone, gas, motivational meetings, and publicity material" Check out the full article at: http://skepdic.com/mlm.html. Also have a look at my blog: Doubts About Internet Marketing! - http://raym82.blogspot.com/ - As you can see, I am not recommending this type of "business".


2. Selling Websites
By this I mean those programs in which you pay a fee to be given a website, and your business is to get other people to link on to your website and pay a fee to get a website of their own. They then do the same thing and try and get people to their website to pay a fee . . . and so on!

Both of these are capable of bringing in an income of sorts, but you have to be an exceptional salesperson to make MLM work.


By : Ray Moore
Ray's journey has led him on many convoluted psychological, relationship, spiritual and geographical paths. Now he is flying free, and helping others to do the same. Anyone can learn to start an online business through the wealth of information he supplies on his website: http://flyfreeresources.com. This is his, now famous, 'Gateway' website. Take the time to browse. Through this website you can also access his Home Business Newsletter.

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