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Home Business :: Finding a reputable home business opportunity without
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Work at home business opportunity - Finding a reputable home business
opportunity without getting ripped off.
by: James R. Sanders
It never ceases to amaze me the sheer numbers of listings online for "work
at home", "home business", "business opportunity", "make money", "home based
business", "making money", "make money online", "home-based business", "home
business", and all the other terms you can come up with for researching work
at home business opportunities.
The competition is staggering, and it seems almost everyone wants to give
you information on his or her own business opportunity. What's worse is many
of these would be "good Samaritans" offer you information and links based on
the marketing materials provided by their chosen company to promote rather
than their own real life experiences promoting those companies.
Which would you rather have from these promoters, their companies marketing
professional's copy write touting the benefits of pushing the company
products/services or the real life experiences the promoters have
experienced and the success they have enjoyed through promoting the home
based business? Worse yet, what happens when you run into someone new to the
home-based business they are promoting who has nothing they can offer when
it comes to their success in promoting the home business and how well they
have done with their online endeavors of making money online?
In researching the "work at home" keywords mentioned above, there are 73,636
daily real world searches according to Web CEO for those keywords alone.
These statistics show that you can make money in work at home opportunities
and it is a driving force for would be entrepreneurs to flock to the
internet as a means to make money online. An even more
staggering statistic is that according to Web CEO there are 36,145,000
competing web pages for these terms.
That's quite a bit of information to sort out if you are researching work at
home opportunities to make money on the internet. With so much competition
out there and so many web sites wanting you to visit them for your work at
home needs, how can you know what home business opportunity works and which
home based business idea is a flop that will leech your hard earned cash
from you?
With all that competition, the nature of the web as a home for the
unscrupulous to take advantage of our naivety, and the lack of credible
information available through such web sites, it all adds up to a dangerous
combination for the would be work at home enthusiast.
Almost everyone has visions of the "Great American Dream". And there
probably isn't a one of you reading this article that hasn't been fed up and
sick with their present job. Faced with the hype of these work at home
hucksters combined with the get rich quick dream and more and more people
hating their jobs, more and more people are being lured to these sites as a
means to solve their making money from home needs.
People will sign up for every home business program they can, copy and paste
some text into their hastily built websites, add a signature line to their
emails and forum posts, add lines of text to their business cards, and then
sit back and wonder why they aren't too successful with their newly found
business opportunity.
All too often these home business opportunity seekers get scammed into
selfperpetuating programs or other get rich quick schemes. Most of these
schemes only pay off for those at the top of the chain who found the program
in it's infancy before everyone and their brother was promoting it, or are
the ones that founded the scheme and a way to entice people to promote it.
The reality is this. There are only a couple sure-fire ways to start a home
based business to make money at home through online endeavors. The first is
to create your own product or services and find ways to sell them online.
This type of work at home business opportunity is always a sure bet but,
like everything else, takes time, effort, and money.
You will make money at home quicker in a work at home business based on this
business opportunity model because you are the one receiving the profits;
not some other company you are promoting which decides what it is going to
give you in commissions.
You call all the shots, you own the products or services sold and you
determine what they should cost your customers. Best of all, you don't have
to worry about the credibility of the home based business opportunity.
The next best way to realize your dreams to make money from home in a work
at home business opportunity is to sell other people's products or services.
This is the tricky part where affiliate programs come to mind. This
particular home business can help you make money on the internet if you are
careful in the way you go about it.
The first thing is to check the company's credibility. Is it a realistic
home business opportunity where you can make money, or is the company's
information so full of hype and promises that it's just to good to be true?
Keep in mind that a realistic home business opportunity takes time, effort,
and money. But there are also limitations to spending that money too,
especially when a work at home business opportunity promoter wants you to
pay money in exchange for making money online.
Don't get me wrong; the old adage "It takes money to make money" is true.
But the money spent should be money spent in producing your products or
services, or spent in marketing you products or services for sale, NOT to
show someone you are "serious" about their work at home business. Be very
careful of these types of home based business opportunities where they want
you to pay for the "privilege" of promoting their products or services. From
my experience, most of these work at home or work at home opportunities are
scams, or self perpetuating programs.
Remember that the only ones that prosper from these types of home business
opportunity are either those that start them, or those that find them before
everyone else is promoting them and before people begin to learn the truth
behind this type of scam.
Think of it this way. It's like going to a job interview at a local
corporation for a job you feel you are qualified for. Common sense says that
you are already interested in this job. You have done the research, dressed
the part, and you have spent your valuable time to get there; not to mention
the amount of time you will be spending in the interview. The interviewer is
professionally dressed in a business suite and shakes your hand firmly when
you arrive.
Before sitting down to interview you, he suddenly states "Before we can
start this interview process, I need to collect $10.00 from you just to make
sure you are serious about this position. We've had allot of 'tire kickers'
coming through here lately and this is the only way we can make sure that
you will benefit from our job position and ensure that you are really ready
to accept this position".
Would you hand over the $10.00 to "prove your sincerity" or would you be
insulted? Personally speaking, I would be insulted, but you are welcome to
your own feelings on this subject.
The point is when you decide to promote another person'sproducts or services
as the choice of your work at home business, you become an employee of
sorts. Although you set your own hours and choose your own means of
promoting their products, which makes you an independent contractor or
anaffiliate by definition, it's still the same concept as the $10.00
interview.
If a company has to ask you to pay money for their business opportunity so
you can make money from home, then how good is the business opportunity to
begin with? Legitimate and successful businesses offering a home based
business opportunity have already figured expenses into their marketing
budget and know that budget is tax deductible.
They realize it's a cost of doing business, and absorb that cost instead of
passing it on to their work at home affiliates. The business opportunities
asking you for such fees more than likely make their living by charging
those fees and NOT selling the products, or services, they want you to
promote. If they aren't making their money from their own products or
services then how do you expect to make money on the internet by promoting
their products or services?
There are many business opportunities that will offer you additional things
for their fees; like your very own hosted website. Although you are getting
a website, you are getting a cookie cutter website that you can not control,
and you are stuck with their design and layout. If their products or
services don't make you money, you have no means to insert additional work
at home business opportunities into that site as a means to help make money
online.
But there's another thing they don't want you to know about this process,
and that is that the website will not be indexed by the search engines, or
if it is, it will show up in hundreds of pages listed for the same business.
Worse yet, it is likely that NONE of your pages will even be shown close
enough to the top to get you any real benefits from your spending; if you
see any benefits at all. The other problem is that your page will look just
like everyone else's page who are promoting the same product or service.
What benefit does that give you for the cash investment? You'll do much
better hosting your own web site where you can post as many work at home
business opportunities as you want. By building an interesting, content rich
web site, you will bring visitors to your cyber doors while being found and
ranked decently by the search engines.
There is only ONE work at home business opportunity I have even found online
that I have made money from, and they provide the same kind of cookie cutter
web sites for free. They aren't a get rich quick scheme, and promoting their
products and services takes time, effort, and money, but they do not charge
a fee for the "privilege" to promote their products.
This same work at home business opportunity is one that I have actually made
money through at home. Have I retired yet? Am I a millionaire? Do I drive a
big fancy sports car or own my own mansion? None of the above. A slow,
steady process takes time, effort, and money to pursue. Have I aggressively
promoted it? No. I have sat back, placed a couple links in my site, and left
the sponsor above me place some people in my downline. Yes, it is MLM.
The money I invested in this home business or work at home business
opportunity? I've invested roughly $30.00 per month in things that my
business needed already. It qualified me for the next income level for the
business opportunity, and it gave me valuable tools to tweak my web site and
learn to market that web site and home business opportunity more
affectively.
This investment was money that I was going to spend on the same tools, but I
chose to buy those tools from a company I promote that was going to give me
something in return for my investment; and that was affiliate checks based
on sales volume.
Did I mention that the cash spent was normally covered by the affiliate
checks I received? That's like getting FREE tools to promote my home
business. Did I also mention that my downline is growing in this home based
business? Will I tell you how much money I made? No. I won't do that because
then if you don't make the same kind of money I do, or more, then you will
say that I lied to you and that my information is just from another person
pushing work at home business opportunities to make money. You will probably
even think that I haven't even really made any money using any of the
programs I promote.
The point is you can make money on the internet through a work at home
business opportunity IF you know which home based business to promote, how
to promote it, and what to watch out for in choosing how you begin making
money from home. You also need to be realistic. There is no one work at home
business that is going to make EVERYONE rich. If that was the case, then why
are there so few people out there that are rich? It simply doesn't exist.
Everyone is different. I will make money in ways that you will probably not.
Then again, you will make money in ways that I will probably not. The point
of this article is using care in the work at home business or make money at
home business opportunity that you choose. Spending the time to make sure it
is a good fit for you, and is something that you believe in. Failure to
realize that a home based business opportunity is like any other business,
and requires time, effort, and money, will almost assure that your dreams of
making money at home will be fruitless.
You need to realize that making money online also requires spending money,
but knowing where to spend that money to affectively market or produce your
products or services is the important part. Do these things right and you
will find a work at home business opportunity you enjoy, believe in, and can
promote to gain you the money online.
For those of you wondering what that one company is that I have honestly
made money with, feel free to drop by my web site and drop me an email. I'll
be more than glad to give you a bunch of links to information that will give
you the pro's and con's, educate you on the home business opportunity, and
help you make an INFORMED decision.
Till next article, may your work at home business opportunity come true, and
may the information presented in this article help you to make money online.
PERMISSIONS TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in its entirety
free of charge, electronically or in print, provided it appears with the
included copyright and author's resource box with live website link.
Courtesy of http://hombyz.com
About The Author
James R. Sanders is the owner of Sanders Consultation Group Plus. He has
been a webmaster and web site designer since 1997, and involved in
self-employment ventures since 1992. He is presently a contributing author
of NewbieHangout, and has been published through WebProNews. You can email
him at ***@sanders-consultation-group-plus.com.
________________________________________________
Start Your Own Home Business And Work at Home at: http://hombyz.com
getting ripped off.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Work at home business opportunity - Finding a reputable home business
opportunity without getting ripped off.
by: James R. Sanders
It never ceases to amaze me the sheer numbers of listings online for "work
at home", "home business", "business opportunity", "make money", "home based
business", "making money", "make money online", "home-based business", "home
business", and all the other terms you can come up with for researching work
at home business opportunities.
The competition is staggering, and it seems almost everyone wants to give
you information on his or her own business opportunity. What's worse is many
of these would be "good Samaritans" offer you information and links based on
the marketing materials provided by their chosen company to promote rather
than their own real life experiences promoting those companies.
Which would you rather have from these promoters, their companies marketing
professional's copy write touting the benefits of pushing the company
products/services or the real life experiences the promoters have
experienced and the success they have enjoyed through promoting the home
based business? Worse yet, what happens when you run into someone new to the
home-based business they are promoting who has nothing they can offer when
it comes to their success in promoting the home business and how well they
have done with their online endeavors of making money online?
In researching the "work at home" keywords mentioned above, there are 73,636
daily real world searches according to Web CEO for those keywords alone.
These statistics show that you can make money in work at home opportunities
and it is a driving force for would be entrepreneurs to flock to the
internet as a means to make money online. An even more
staggering statistic is that according to Web CEO there are 36,145,000
competing web pages for these terms.
That's quite a bit of information to sort out if you are researching work at
home opportunities to make money on the internet. With so much competition
out there and so many web sites wanting you to visit them for your work at
home needs, how can you know what home business opportunity works and which
home based business idea is a flop that will leech your hard earned cash
from you?
With all that competition, the nature of the web as a home for the
unscrupulous to take advantage of our naivety, and the lack of credible
information available through such web sites, it all adds up to a dangerous
combination for the would be work at home enthusiast.
Almost everyone has visions of the "Great American Dream". And there
probably isn't a one of you reading this article that hasn't been fed up and
sick with their present job. Faced with the hype of these work at home
hucksters combined with the get rich quick dream and more and more people
hating their jobs, more and more people are being lured to these sites as a
means to solve their making money from home needs.
People will sign up for every home business program they can, copy and paste
some text into their hastily built websites, add a signature line to their
emails and forum posts, add lines of text to their business cards, and then
sit back and wonder why they aren't too successful with their newly found
business opportunity.
All too often these home business opportunity seekers get scammed into
selfperpetuating programs or other get rich quick schemes. Most of these
schemes only pay off for those at the top of the chain who found the program
in it's infancy before everyone and their brother was promoting it, or are
the ones that founded the scheme and a way to entice people to promote it.
The reality is this. There are only a couple sure-fire ways to start a home
based business to make money at home through online endeavors. The first is
to create your own product or services and find ways to sell them online.
This type of work at home business opportunity is always a sure bet but,
like everything else, takes time, effort, and money.
You will make money at home quicker in a work at home business based on this
business opportunity model because you are the one receiving the profits;
not some other company you are promoting which decides what it is going to
give you in commissions.
You call all the shots, you own the products or services sold and you
determine what they should cost your customers. Best of all, you don't have
to worry about the credibility of the home based business opportunity.
The next best way to realize your dreams to make money from home in a work
at home business opportunity is to sell other people's products or services.
This is the tricky part where affiliate programs come to mind. This
particular home business can help you make money on the internet if you are
careful in the way you go about it.
The first thing is to check the company's credibility. Is it a realistic
home business opportunity where you can make money, or is the company's
information so full of hype and promises that it's just to good to be true?
Keep in mind that a realistic home business opportunity takes time, effort,
and money. But there are also limitations to spending that money too,
especially when a work at home business opportunity promoter wants you to
pay money in exchange for making money online.
Don't get me wrong; the old adage "It takes money to make money" is true.
But the money spent should be money spent in producing your products or
services, or spent in marketing you products or services for sale, NOT to
show someone you are "serious" about their work at home business. Be very
careful of these types of home based business opportunities where they want
you to pay for the "privilege" of promoting their products or services. From
my experience, most of these work at home or work at home opportunities are
scams, or self perpetuating programs.
Remember that the only ones that prosper from these types of home business
opportunity are either those that start them, or those that find them before
everyone else is promoting them and before people begin to learn the truth
behind this type of scam.
Think of it this way. It's like going to a job interview at a local
corporation for a job you feel you are qualified for. Common sense says that
you are already interested in this job. You have done the research, dressed
the part, and you have spent your valuable time to get there; not to mention
the amount of time you will be spending in the interview. The interviewer is
professionally dressed in a business suite and shakes your hand firmly when
you arrive.
Before sitting down to interview you, he suddenly states "Before we can
start this interview process, I need to collect $10.00 from you just to make
sure you are serious about this position. We've had allot of 'tire kickers'
coming through here lately and this is the only way we can make sure that
you will benefit from our job position and ensure that you are really ready
to accept this position".
Would you hand over the $10.00 to "prove your sincerity" or would you be
insulted? Personally speaking, I would be insulted, but you are welcome to
your own feelings on this subject.
The point is when you decide to promote another person'sproducts or services
as the choice of your work at home business, you become an employee of
sorts. Although you set your own hours and choose your own means of
promoting their products, which makes you an independent contractor or
anaffiliate by definition, it's still the same concept as the $10.00
interview.
If a company has to ask you to pay money for their business opportunity so
you can make money from home, then how good is the business opportunity to
begin with? Legitimate and successful businesses offering a home based
business opportunity have already figured expenses into their marketing
budget and know that budget is tax deductible.
They realize it's a cost of doing business, and absorb that cost instead of
passing it on to their work at home affiliates. The business opportunities
asking you for such fees more than likely make their living by charging
those fees and NOT selling the products, or services, they want you to
promote. If they aren't making their money from their own products or
services then how do you expect to make money on the internet by promoting
their products or services?
There are many business opportunities that will offer you additional things
for their fees; like your very own hosted website. Although you are getting
a website, you are getting a cookie cutter website that you can not control,
and you are stuck with their design and layout. If their products or
services don't make you money, you have no means to insert additional work
at home business opportunities into that site as a means to help make money
online.
But there's another thing they don't want you to know about this process,
and that is that the website will not be indexed by the search engines, or
if it is, it will show up in hundreds of pages listed for the same business.
Worse yet, it is likely that NONE of your pages will even be shown close
enough to the top to get you any real benefits from your spending; if you
see any benefits at all. The other problem is that your page will look just
like everyone else's page who are promoting the same product or service.
What benefit does that give you for the cash investment? You'll do much
better hosting your own web site where you can post as many work at home
business opportunities as you want. By building an interesting, content rich
web site, you will bring visitors to your cyber doors while being found and
ranked decently by the search engines.
There is only ONE work at home business opportunity I have even found online
that I have made money from, and they provide the same kind of cookie cutter
web sites for free. They aren't a get rich quick scheme, and promoting their
products and services takes time, effort, and money, but they do not charge
a fee for the "privilege" to promote their products.
This same work at home business opportunity is one that I have actually made
money through at home. Have I retired yet? Am I a millionaire? Do I drive a
big fancy sports car or own my own mansion? None of the above. A slow,
steady process takes time, effort, and money to pursue. Have I aggressively
promoted it? No. I have sat back, placed a couple links in my site, and left
the sponsor above me place some people in my downline. Yes, it is MLM.
The money I invested in this home business or work at home business
opportunity? I've invested roughly $30.00 per month in things that my
business needed already. It qualified me for the next income level for the
business opportunity, and it gave me valuable tools to tweak my web site and
learn to market that web site and home business opportunity more
affectively.
This investment was money that I was going to spend on the same tools, but I
chose to buy those tools from a company I promote that was going to give me
something in return for my investment; and that was affiliate checks based
on sales volume.
Did I mention that the cash spent was normally covered by the affiliate
checks I received? That's like getting FREE tools to promote my home
business. Did I also mention that my downline is growing in this home based
business? Will I tell you how much money I made? No. I won't do that because
then if you don't make the same kind of money I do, or more, then you will
say that I lied to you and that my information is just from another person
pushing work at home business opportunities to make money. You will probably
even think that I haven't even really made any money using any of the
programs I promote.
The point is you can make money on the internet through a work at home
business opportunity IF you know which home based business to promote, how
to promote it, and what to watch out for in choosing how you begin making
money from home. You also need to be realistic. There is no one work at home
business that is going to make EVERYONE rich. If that was the case, then why
are there so few people out there that are rich? It simply doesn't exist.
Everyone is different. I will make money in ways that you will probably not.
Then again, you will make money in ways that I will probably not. The point
of this article is using care in the work at home business or make money at
home business opportunity that you choose. Spending the time to make sure it
is a good fit for you, and is something that you believe in. Failure to
realize that a home based business opportunity is like any other business,
and requires time, effort, and money, will almost assure that your dreams of
making money at home will be fruitless.
You need to realize that making money online also requires spending money,
but knowing where to spend that money to affectively market or produce your
products or services is the important part. Do these things right and you
will find a work at home business opportunity you enjoy, believe in, and can
promote to gain you the money online.
For those of you wondering what that one company is that I have honestly
made money with, feel free to drop by my web site and drop me an email. I'll
be more than glad to give you a bunch of links to information that will give
you the pro's and con's, educate you on the home business opportunity, and
help you make an INFORMED decision.
Till next article, may your work at home business opportunity come true, and
may the information presented in this article help you to make money online.
PERMISSIONS TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in its entirety
free of charge, electronically or in print, provided it appears with the
included copyright and author's resource box with live website link.
Courtesy of http://hombyz.com
About The Author
James R. Sanders is the owner of Sanders Consultation Group Plus. He has
been a webmaster and web site designer since 1997, and involved in
self-employment ventures since 1992. He is presently a contributing author
of NewbieHangout, and has been published through WebProNews. You can email
him at ***@sanders-consultation-group-plus.com.
________________________________________________
Start Your Own Home Business And Work at Home at: http://hombyz.com