Back on October 7, I posted that it would be rather difficult to find work from home that did not have any up-front cost. That is still true.
HOWEVER, there are people who make hundreds or even thousands of dollars every month by working ads into their blogs. If they are skillful enough, the advertisers will pay them for what they wrote. Some only pay $5. Some pay w-a-y more than that. Remember when your English teacher made you learn punctuation and grammar? Remember when you protested because you would "never use that stuff?" Use your blog to apologize to your teacher once you start cashing those checks!
It does not cost anything to start up a blog. Once your blog has been active (posted several times per week) for at least 90 days, you can apply to PayPerPost. It does not matter what you blog about- there are categories galore! Once you have enough accepted (paid) posts, you can add another blog. You can add them one at a time as long as you keep the quality up and the quantity of posts up.
Word to the wise from the voice of the observant: you will want to host your blog on your own host rather than blogspot.com or wordpress.com because the advertisers that pay serious money don't accept blogs hosted on free sites. For information on very inexpensive web hosting, click here. For information on getting paid to post to your blog, click here.
Another no-cost way to make money from home that is taking the internet by storm (as "they" say) is My Power Mall. My Power Mall is a 9-Tier Shopping Rebate System. People are invited to have their own FREE online Power Mall. All they do is shop and then invite others to have their own FREE Mall. As people shop for things they are going to buy anyway, everyone receives a % of the shopping rebates. Buy stuff you would buy anyway and get a percentage back - 9 tiers down. The way I figure it, if you were going to buy the stuff anyway, why not try it? Have people sign up under you and they do their internet shopping from their own malls, etc. By the time you get down a few tiers with people just doing normal shopping, you could rake in a few hundred bucks.
So there you have two ways you generate income from home on your computer with no initial out-of-pocket expense at all. With PayPerPost you will eventually need to get your own web hosting, but I pay $6.95 per month (billed monthly - I do not have to pay for a year in advance) with AllWebCo. With My Power Mall you (theoretically anyway) don't spend anymore than you are spending now - you just spend it differently.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: SFI - Part 1 - Veriuni All-Purpose Cleaner
SFI (which used to stand for "Six Figure Income" and now - I think - stands for "Strong Future International") has been around for abiout 20 years. They are members in good standing of the BBB.
You make money through SFI two ways: you market the busines opportunity as you build a downline, and you sell products. Ideally your downline does the same thing! Because SFI is quite complex, there will be a series of posts on various methods of making the system work, and on some of the products.
You can be profitable with SFI by never selling even one product while you build an active downline. You can be profitable with SFI by totally ignoring the downline concept and marketing the outstanding products they feature.
Today I am going to talk about Veriuni All Purpose Cleaner, or VAPC for short. IMHO, it is the best all-purpose cleaner you can buy. It smells great, it works great, it is totally non-toxic. Click HERE to see some of what it can do.
I live in the San Diego, California, area and we have been through our own local version of "Hell Week," an unfortunate repeat of what we went through 4 years ago. Around half a million people were evacuated from their homes because of huge wild fires. Smoke and ash are everywhere.
To get the ash residue off the car, I hosed the car off, sprayed it all over with a diluted solution of VAPC, hand-watered the lawn while the VAPC worked its magic, went over the entire surface of the car with a soft micro-fiber cloth, hosed the car down again and dried it off.
Cost: pennies
Time: a few minutes
Appearance: like a $20 car wash (or better)
The product is outstanding. If you are good at marketing, you can make money with this product. If you like swap meets and flea markets, buy this at wholesale, (buy a lot!) and sell it for a profit. Do demonstrations - you'll see! Be sure to check about your local resale laws, etc.
This is just one of many ways to make money through SFI. I will be discussing others over time.
You make money through SFI two ways: you market the busines opportunity as you build a downline, and you sell products. Ideally your downline does the same thing! Because SFI is quite complex, there will be a series of posts on various methods of making the system work, and on some of the products.
You can be profitable with SFI by never selling even one product while you build an active downline. You can be profitable with SFI by totally ignoring the downline concept and marketing the outstanding products they feature.
Today I am going to talk about Veriuni All Purpose Cleaner, or VAPC for short. IMHO, it is the best all-purpose cleaner you can buy. It smells great, it works great, it is totally non-toxic. Click HERE to see some of what it can do.
I live in the San Diego, California, area and we have been through our own local version of "Hell Week," an unfortunate repeat of what we went through 4 years ago. Around half a million people were evacuated from their homes because of huge wild fires. Smoke and ash are everywhere.
To get the ash residue off the car, I hosed the car off, sprayed it all over with a diluted solution of VAPC, hand-watered the lawn while the VAPC worked its magic, went over the entire surface of the car with a soft micro-fiber cloth, hosed the car down again and dried it off.
Cost: pennies
Time: a few minutes
Appearance: like a $20 car wash (or better)
The product is outstanding. If you are good at marketing, you can make money with this product. If you like swap meets and flea markets, buy this at wholesale, (buy a lot!) and sell it for a profit. Do demonstrations - you'll see! Be sure to check about your local resale laws, etc.
This is just one of many ways to make money through SFI. I will be discussing others over time.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Ignotius Associates Program
From the keywords people use to find my website, it seems that a lot of people are looking for real "work from home jobs" rather than "home businesses."
If this is you, seriously consider signing up for the Ignotius Associates Program. Once you sign up you have access to a wide variety of employers who are looking to hire people to do assorted office work from home. There are also other ways that you can make money from home without actually starting a home-based business.
More and more employers are realizing that "offshoring" their customer service is not good for their own business image, is not good for the local economy, and is not good for the customers, who often wind up frustrated. Ignotius puts you in touch with companies who have elected to provide excellent customer service through "homeshoring" options.
Sign up today and see all the ways you can make money from home without starting a business!
As a bonus, if you sign up for the Ignotius Associates Program through THIS link, you are eligible for an EXCLUSIVE INSTANT REBATE! 
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Make Money Taking Surveys
The ads would have you believe that you can actually make a good living. or at least make your car or house payment or send your kids to college or . . . . by taking surveys on line.
Don't believe it.
Ironically, those who need the money the most stand the least chance of making it taking surveys. Why? Because those conducting the surveys are interested in the spending habits of people who spend money on their type of product. The people who most need to make money don't have any money to spend, so if they are honest in their responses, they don't qualify for many if any of the surveys.
In other words, the people who conduct the surveys ask questions like "Do you plan on buying a new car in the next 2 years or did you buy a new car in the past 2 years?" Or they ask about electronics purchases, furniture purchases, home remodeling, your investment accounts (!), how many credit cards do you have, all the prepackaged groceries and snacks you buy, how often do you eat out, etc.
People who are struggling to get to the end of the month before they get to the end of the money do not spend what little money they have on those things, so they don't qualify for the survey. Instead, they get a sweepstakes entry or some such. Nobody can pay any bills on that.
People who qualify for most surveys already have money to spend, and the survey takers are most eager to find out how they spend it so they can manipulate the market and get more of it! But unless they get into a focus group (this is rare) the pay-off is still $1-$5.
So just what happens when you buy a list of survey companies and start to sign up for them? I can't speak for everyone, I can only tell you what happened to me and it wasn't pretty.
First of all I used an email address designated only for surveys. That was good, but not good enough. I should have had a different unique address for each one. I immediately began getting spam e-mails from "affiliates" and "associates" and "partners" (oh, my!) of the people I signed up with. My inbasket overfloweth.
Some of the companies were only interested in trial offers and samples of products I had no interest in or use for. I opted out of them right away, but somehow even though I got into the company immediately it took weeks to opt out! There is no legitimate excuse for that. I was especially annoyed at having to opt out of lists I had not opted into but who had gotten my address from someone else who "shared."
It gets worse. After I began opting out and was actually off a few lists, I began to receive the most vile of pornographic spam. I suspect at least one if not more of the people I opted out of sold my e-mail address to a pornographic spammer so they could at least make some money off of me, but I can't prove it.
Remember I said to use a different unique address for each company? This is why. If each survey company uses a different address to send communications to you and passes that address on to a spammer, pornographer, or both, you can nail them dead to rights because NOBODY else had that address!
I contacted the people I bought the list from, but they were useless. They claimed they had anonymously signed up for each offer before they put it on their list. Maybe they did, I don't know. It sounds good, anyway. I suggested they opt out of some as I had done to see what would happen. I never heard from them again.
My recommendation? Go ahead and sign up to take online surveys if you want. Once you have your list, be sure to use a different address for each company. It can be fun to influence market choices such as newly designed labels for familiar products, but don't expect to get rich.
For more and better ways to make money working from home visit
123 I Work From Home 4 Me or
123 Home Based Business Works 4 Me
Don't believe it.
Ironically, those who need the money the most stand the least chance of making it taking surveys. Why? Because those conducting the surveys are interested in the spending habits of people who spend money on their type of product. The people who most need to make money don't have any money to spend, so if they are honest in their responses, they don't qualify for many if any of the surveys.
In other words, the people who conduct the surveys ask questions like "Do you plan on buying a new car in the next 2 years or did you buy a new car in the past 2 years?" Or they ask about electronics purchases, furniture purchases, home remodeling, your investment accounts (!), how many credit cards do you have, all the prepackaged groceries and snacks you buy, how often do you eat out, etc.
People who are struggling to get to the end of the month before they get to the end of the money do not spend what little money they have on those things, so they don't qualify for the survey. Instead, they get a sweepstakes entry or some such. Nobody can pay any bills on that.
People who qualify for most surveys already have money to spend, and the survey takers are most eager to find out how they spend it so they can manipulate the market and get more of it! But unless they get into a focus group (this is rare) the pay-off is still $1-$5.
So just what happens when you buy a list of survey companies and start to sign up for them? I can't speak for everyone, I can only tell you what happened to me and it wasn't pretty.
First of all I used an email address designated only for surveys. That was good, but not good enough. I should have had a different unique address for each one. I immediately began getting spam e-mails from "affiliates" and "associates" and "partners" (oh, my!) of the people I signed up with. My inbasket overfloweth.
Some of the companies were only interested in trial offers and samples of products I had no interest in or use for. I opted out of them right away, but somehow even though I got into the company immediately it took weeks to opt out! There is no legitimate excuse for that. I was especially annoyed at having to opt out of lists I had not opted into but who had gotten my address from someone else who "shared."
It gets worse. After I began opting out and was actually off a few lists, I began to receive the most vile of pornographic spam. I suspect at least one if not more of the people I opted out of sold my e-mail address to a pornographic spammer so they could at least make some money off of me, but I can't prove it.
Remember I said to use a different unique address for each company? This is why. If each survey company uses a different address to send communications to you and passes that address on to a spammer, pornographer, or both, you can nail them dead to rights because NOBODY else had that address!
I contacted the people I bought the list from, but they were useless. They claimed they had anonymously signed up for each offer before they put it on their list. Maybe they did, I don't know. It sounds good, anyway. I suggested they opt out of some as I had done to see what would happen. I never heard from them again.
My recommendation? Go ahead and sign up to take online surveys if you want. Once you have your list, be sure to use a different address for each company. It can be fun to influence market choices such as newly designed labels for familiar products, but don't expect to get rich.
For more and better ways to make money working from home visit
123 I Work From Home 4 Me or
123 Home Based Business Works 4 Me
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wise Ways To Multiply Your Home-Based-Business Sales
By: Sandi Moses
When you are in marketing, no matter what your product or service might be, and no matter whether you work from your home, from an office, or from a brick-and-mortar store front, you need to make sales. Studies show that once you have made a sale to a new customer it is wise to maintain a good and trusting relationship with that customer in order to keep that customer for the long term and have that customer make repeat purchases from you. It is also much cheaper to keep an existing customer than to acquire a new one. With that in mind, here are a few ways to maintain the relationship and bring that customer back for more of what you have to offer.
1. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. Send a "thank you" email or post card and make sure they are happy with your product. Include an advertisement in your email signature or as the picture on the post card for other products you sell. Follow-up every few months to see if they need more of what they bought. Keep the lines of communication open; make sure you are always on their mind - in a good way, or course!
2. Gently upsell to your customers without being pushy or obnoxious. Make sure you tell them about a few extra related products you have for sale, such as matching or coordinating accessories, nail polish, etc. If they like what they see, they can add it to their original order. If there is some ancillary product they will need to make what they just purchased produce at it’s best, make sure to offer it. (Have you ever purchased a new computer printer only to discover at home that the clerk did not bother to make sure you had the right cable and ink or toner? Ever bought something that needed batteries but nobody thought to make sure you remembered to buy some? Gr-r-r-r-r!) Upselling is more than just asking if “you want fries with that.”
3. Give incentives for referrals. Companies that sell products through home parties discovered this gold mine years ago. If enough product is sold at the party, the hostess gets a freebie from the product line. The more product sold, the better the freebie. Sometimes if a guest decides to book a party, both that guest and the hostess receive an incentive, and so it goes. Some internet web hosting services give free hosting or actually pay for referrals. With a bit of creativity, you should be able to make this concept work for just about anything.
4. When you sell a product, consider giving your customers the option of joining an affiliate program so they can make commissions selling your product, thus multiplying the sale you just made. Clickbank and PayDotCom are internet examples of this concept. Some of the home party companies do this, too.
5. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to your products. Include an ad on or with each product for other products you sell. You could make sales for the reproduction rights and sales on the back end product. This of course is an option only of what you sell is your own original work. Two types of products to consider would be internet information or some type of art work or original craft idea.
6. Cross promote your product with other businesses' products in a package deal. You can include an ad or flyer for other products you sell and have other businesses selling for you. This type of arrangement has become known as a “joint venture” or “jv” for short and is enormously effective. Do you walk or groom dogs? Consider a “jv” with someone who makes doggie sweaters or home-baked doggie treats. Or, promote your friend’s scented candles at your cake decorating parties, and she will promote your cake decorating service at her scented candle parties. This is another area where you are limited only by your creativity.
7. When you ship out or deliver your product, include a coupon for other related products - or even more of the same product. This has worked for decades for almost everything. Many items you buy in your local supermarket have coupons either on the packaging or tucked inside to entice you to buy more of the same when you run out of what you just bought.
8. Whoever said you had to limit yourself to just one type of home-based business? It is perfectly OK to combine more than one type and make customers from one business customers from both. For instance, if you run a family day care center and sell environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products, your daycare moms would be more than interested in these products for their own homes. Do you clean offices or work organizing homes or offices or do freelance bookkeeping? Those customers would buy such products from you, too.
9. Sell gift certificates for your products. You'll make sales from the purchase of the gift certificate when the recipient cashes it in. They could also buy other items from your web site. You may have to be well-established before you begin this one, but what a great idea for the holiday season as well as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, graduations, etc. You will have made two happy customers from the purchase of each gift certificate and widened your customer data base!
10. Send your customers free products with their product package. The freebies should have your ad printed on them. It could be bumper stickers, ball caps, t-shirts etc. This will allow other people to see your ad and order. Get a logo professionally designed or better yet barter your product or service in exchange for the logo design. Cross-market each other’s business afterwards!
Sandi Moses has been involved in internet marketing since November, 2003.
For more information on Work-At-Home Business Ideas and Opportunities, visit
123 I Work From Home 4 Me
and
123 Home-Based-Business-Works-4-Me
When you are in marketing, no matter what your product or service might be, and no matter whether you work from your home, from an office, or from a brick-and-mortar store front, you need to make sales. Studies show that once you have made a sale to a new customer it is wise to maintain a good and trusting relationship with that customer in order to keep that customer for the long term and have that customer make repeat purchases from you. It is also much cheaper to keep an existing customer than to acquire a new one. With that in mind, here are a few ways to maintain the relationship and bring that customer back for more of what you have to offer.
1. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. Send a "thank you" email or post card and make sure they are happy with your product. Include an advertisement in your email signature or as the picture on the post card for other products you sell. Follow-up every few months to see if they need more of what they bought. Keep the lines of communication open; make sure you are always on their mind - in a good way, or course!
2. Gently upsell to your customers without being pushy or obnoxious. Make sure you tell them about a few extra related products you have for sale, such as matching or coordinating accessories, nail polish, etc. If they like what they see, they can add it to their original order. If there is some ancillary product they will need to make what they just purchased produce at it’s best, make sure to offer it. (Have you ever purchased a new computer printer only to discover at home that the clerk did not bother to make sure you had the right cable and ink or toner? Ever bought something that needed batteries but nobody thought to make sure you remembered to buy some? Gr-r-r-r-r!) Upselling is more than just asking if “you want fries with that.”
3. Give incentives for referrals. Companies that sell products through home parties discovered this gold mine years ago. If enough product is sold at the party, the hostess gets a freebie from the product line. The more product sold, the better the freebie. Sometimes if a guest decides to book a party, both that guest and the hostess receive an incentive, and so it goes. Some internet web hosting services give free hosting or actually pay for referrals. With a bit of creativity, you should be able to make this concept work for just about anything.
4. When you sell a product, consider giving your customers the option of joining an affiliate program so they can make commissions selling your product, thus multiplying the sale you just made. Clickbank and PayDotCom are internet examples of this concept. Some of the home party companies do this, too.
5. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to your products. Include an ad on or with each product for other products you sell. You could make sales for the reproduction rights and sales on the back end product. This of course is an option only of what you sell is your own original work. Two types of products to consider would be internet information or some type of art work or original craft idea.
6. Cross promote your product with other businesses' products in a package deal. You can include an ad or flyer for other products you sell and have other businesses selling for you. This type of arrangement has become known as a “joint venture” or “jv” for short and is enormously effective. Do you walk or groom dogs? Consider a “jv” with someone who makes doggie sweaters or home-baked doggie treats. Or, promote your friend’s scented candles at your cake decorating parties, and she will promote your cake decorating service at her scented candle parties. This is another area where you are limited only by your creativity.
7. When you ship out or deliver your product, include a coupon for other related products - or even more of the same product. This has worked for decades for almost everything. Many items you buy in your local supermarket have coupons either on the packaging or tucked inside to entice you to buy more of the same when you run out of what you just bought.
8. Whoever said you had to limit yourself to just one type of home-based business? It is perfectly OK to combine more than one type and make customers from one business customers from both. For instance, if you run a family day care center and sell environmentally friendly cleaning and personal care products, your daycare moms would be more than interested in these products for their own homes. Do you clean offices or work organizing homes or offices or do freelance bookkeeping? Those customers would buy such products from you, too.
9. Sell gift certificates for your products. You'll make sales from the purchase of the gift certificate when the recipient cashes it in. They could also buy other items from your web site. You may have to be well-established before you begin this one, but what a great idea for the holiday season as well as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, graduations, etc. You will have made two happy customers from the purchase of each gift certificate and widened your customer data base!
10. Send your customers free products with their product package. The freebies should have your ad printed on them. It could be bumper stickers, ball caps, t-shirts etc. This will allow other people to see your ad and order. Get a logo professionally designed or better yet barter your product or service in exchange for the logo design. Cross-market each other’s business afterwards!
Sandi Moses has been involved in internet marketing since November, 2003.
For more information on Work-At-Home Business Ideas and Opportunities, visit
123 I Work From Home 4 Me
and
123 Home-Based-Business-Works-4-Me
Sunday, October 7, 2007
There Is No Free Lunch - But You CAN Get A VERY Inexpensive Sample!
Thousands of times every month people go to search engines and look for ways to work from home at no cost to themselves. They type in a wide variety of search terms and then browse what comes up.
You might be tempted to lump them all into the "what can I get for nothing" or "the world owes me a living" crowd.
You might be wrong.
Maybe they really don't have the money to get started. Many online programs do have a $30-$50 cost. Even if it is one time only, that still may be too much.
Definitely they are wary of getting scammed, and they should be.
I doubt they will be able to find any home-based online work for no cost. The couple of sites I have encountered have waiting lists from months to years long! YIKES! W-A-Y too long!
Let me make an affordable suggestion. There is a site called Go-Freelance that has a very nice, very inexpensive trial offer. You can explore their entire site of freelance home-based work for only $2.95.
If you don't see anything you are qualified to do, and you don't think an offer will come in that you will be qualified to do, cancel before your trial period is up, and there will be no more expenses to you. You can even keep the free newsletter subscription!
Considering that $2.95 will buy you one bag of potato chips or one cup of premium ice cream, you can put that $2.95 to a much better use!
You might be tempted to lump them all into the "what can I get for nothing" or "the world owes me a living" crowd.
You might be wrong.
Maybe they really don't have the money to get started. Many online programs do have a $30-$50 cost. Even if it is one time only, that still may be too much.
Definitely they are wary of getting scammed, and they should be.
I doubt they will be able to find any home-based online work for no cost. The couple of sites I have encountered have waiting lists from months to years long! YIKES! W-A-Y too long!
Let me make an affordable suggestion. There is a site called Go-Freelance that has a very nice, very inexpensive trial offer. You can explore their entire site of freelance home-based work for only $2.95.
If you don't see anything you are qualified to do, and you don't think an offer will come in that you will be qualified to do, cancel before your trial period is up, and there will be no more expenses to you. You can even keep the free newsletter subscription!
Considering that $2.95 will buy you one bag of potato chips or one cup of premium ice cream, you can put that $2.95 to a much better use!
Saturday, October 6, 2007
So You Want To Start A Home Based Business
By: Sandi Moses
People decide to - or need to - work from home for lots of different reasons. Losing a job, a disability incompatible with the “9-5 grind,” or caring for family members are just a few of the reasons. But what to do?
Some people are best suited for being a “home-based employee.” In recent years some U.S. business have given up on “off-shoring” their customer service call centers to the opposite side of the planet, and begun “home-shoring” or hiring people right here in the USA to handle customer service calls from their own homes and computers with very simple and inexpensive software and phone hook-ups. It is a win-win-win situation for the business, the employee and the customer. You can find access to some of that type of home based work through a program called Ignotius.
Other people would rather start their own business and run it from their home. Before that happens, some very serious self-evaluation is mandatory. If this is you, first you need to make a list of your likes and strengths, and a list of your dislikes and weaknesses.
Let’s start with dislikes and weaknesses, because it’s every bit as important to know what sort of home business to avoid as it is to know what to consider starting. If you are not good with numbers and did poorly in math in school, don’t start a bookkeeping business. If your spelling and grammar are atrocious even with spell check, you should not become a proof-reader, a greeting card writer, or send “letters from Santa.” Are you uncomfortable around kids? Don’t open a day-care center. You get the idea. Make your own list and be brutally honest.
Now for your strong points. Make a list of your skills and things you enjoy doing. Don’t overlook skills that you have always taken for granted but not everyone has. List also any interests you may have that you have acquired a lot of knowledge about over the years.
Are you organized? There are people would will pay you big bucks to help them get organized. Do you have office skills? Be a virtual assistant. Good at finding flea market bargains? Sell them on eBay. There are many types of items sold at home parties, such as candles, personal care products, home cleaning products, cosmetics, etc. Be sure to do your home work before investing money - some of these are not as easy as they would like you to believe. Spend some time on the internet or in the library doing research on any established company before joining forces with them. It will be time well spent. Do not just gloss over this; really dig deep. (Read the post before this one to see why you need to do this.)
You could also provide services to people that need them. Run errands, house-sit or dog-sit, shop, interior decorate, etc. The list is nearly endless because everyone is gifted with a unique set of skills, abilities, ambitions, and needs. The time may be now to put yours to use by starting your own unique home based business.
People decide to - or need to - work from home for lots of different reasons. Losing a job, a disability incompatible with the “9-5 grind,” or caring for family members are just a few of the reasons. But what to do?
Some people are best suited for being a “home-based employee.” In recent years some U.S. business have given up on “off-shoring” their customer service call centers to the opposite side of the planet, and begun “home-shoring” or hiring people right here in the USA to handle customer service calls from their own homes and computers with very simple and inexpensive software and phone hook-ups. It is a win-win-win situation for the business, the employee and the customer. You can find access to some of that type of home based work through a program called Ignotius.
Other people would rather start their own business and run it from their home. Before that happens, some very serious self-evaluation is mandatory. If this is you, first you need to make a list of your likes and strengths, and a list of your dislikes and weaknesses.
Let’s start with dislikes and weaknesses, because it’s every bit as important to know what sort of home business to avoid as it is to know what to consider starting. If you are not good with numbers and did poorly in math in school, don’t start a bookkeeping business. If your spelling and grammar are atrocious even with spell check, you should not become a proof-reader, a greeting card writer, or send “letters from Santa.” Are you uncomfortable around kids? Don’t open a day-care center. You get the idea. Make your own list and be brutally honest.
Now for your strong points. Make a list of your skills and things you enjoy doing. Don’t overlook skills that you have always taken for granted but not everyone has. List also any interests you may have that you have acquired a lot of knowledge about over the years.
Are you organized? There are people would will pay you big bucks to help them get organized. Do you have office skills? Be a virtual assistant. Good at finding flea market bargains? Sell them on eBay. There are many types of items sold at home parties, such as candles, personal care products, home cleaning products, cosmetics, etc. Be sure to do your home work before investing money - some of these are not as easy as they would like you to believe. Spend some time on the internet or in the library doing research on any established company before joining forces with them. It will be time well spent. Do not just gloss over this; really dig deep. (Read the post before this one to see why you need to do this.)
You could also provide services to people that need them. Run errands, house-sit or dog-sit, shop, interior decorate, etc. The list is nearly endless because everyone is gifted with a unique set of skills, abilities, ambitions, and needs. The time may be now to put yours to use by starting your own unique home based business.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Rebate Processor Jobs Offer
There is a new Work From Home opportunity seen recently on the internet called Rebate Processor Jobs and accessible through Cold Cash Partners.
==> EDIT: In addition to the ethical problems discussed below, some people are reporting having difficulties receiving payment from the person claiming to own Cold Cash Partners. I no longer recommend that you sign up for Cold Cash Partners even as a way to access Virtual Training Solutions as they are apparently owned b y the same person/people. <==
Here is their offer, straight from their web site:
They are not being straight forward with the offer. It is more than "processing simple rebates. " It is more like "typing at home with a twist."
What they tell you, quoted directly from the landing page: "I will show you how I make money simply by filling out online forms. For each form I attach a special ID link that is assigned just for me and submit it online. I then check my account for orders processed, I verify the information, fill out another form and submit, I get $15! Believe me those small payments add up real quick!"
What they DON'T tell you: First of all you will be placing ads, both free and paid, for affiliate programs you select from Clickbank. There is nothing wrong with doing that. Many people who have bought any of the programs that teach how to do that such as this one, this one, this one, this one, or any of the others, have discovered they really can make a lot of money online as an affiliate marketer.
Second, what Cold Cash Partners also does not tell you is the rebates you process are the rebates you yourself offer when you place your ads!
Say What? I have read and re-read the ad copy and there is NO WAY you could have figured that out before buying the product.
And guess what. NO REFUNDS!
To be fair, the idea is that you will get so many more sales from offering a rebate than you would have had you not offered the rebate, that your bottom line will grow. After all which ad would you buy from, the one offering a rebate or the one that did not offer a rebate?
Furthermore, when I bought the program to check it out, I felt like I had been "duped" and I was angry. No one likes to be deceived, and this program definitely has deceptive ad copy. To tell someone they will be "processing" rebates does not even hint that they will be "giving" rebates, or "making" rebates.
HOWEVER
When you buy the program you are given total and unlimited access to a site called Virtual Training Solutions.
Check out what you have access to:
==> EDIT: In addition to the ethical problems discussed below, some people are reporting having difficulties receiving payment from the person claiming to own Cold Cash Partners. I no longer recommend that you sign up for Cold Cash Partners even as a way to access Virtual Training Solutions as they are apparently owned b y the same person/people. <==
Here is their offer, straight from their web site:
Learn how to process simple customer rebates from home and earn $15 each GUARANTEED!
They are not being straight forward with the offer. It is more than "processing simple rebates. " It is more like "typing at home with a twist."
What they tell you, quoted directly from the landing page: "I will show you how I make money simply by filling out online forms. For each form I attach a special ID link that is assigned just for me and submit it online. I then check my account for orders processed, I verify the information, fill out another form and submit, I get $15! Believe me those small payments add up real quick!"
What they DON'T tell you: First of all you will be placing ads, both free and paid, for affiliate programs you select from Clickbank. There is nothing wrong with doing that. Many people who have bought any of the programs that teach how to do that such as this one, this one, this one, this one, or any of the others, have discovered they really can make a lot of money online as an affiliate marketer.
Second, what Cold Cash Partners also does not tell you is the rebates you process are the rebates you yourself offer when you place your ads!
Say What? I have read and re-read the ad copy and there is NO WAY you could have figured that out before buying the product.
And guess what. NO REFUNDS!
To be fair, the idea is that you will get so many more sales from offering a rebate than you would have had you not offered the rebate, that your bottom line will grow. After all which ad would you buy from, the one offering a rebate or the one that did not offer a rebate?
Furthermore, when I bought the program to check it out, I felt like I had been "duped" and I was angry. No one likes to be deceived, and this program definitely has deceptive ad copy. To tell someone they will be "processing" rebates does not even hint that they will be "giving" rebates, or "making" rebates.
Not only that, but offering rebates on Clickbank products is a clear and flagrant violation of Clickbank's Terms of Service #6e which states:
“You agree to make no such promotions promising customers rebates, coupons, tickets, or vouchers in connection with their ClickBank purchase”.
Clickbank may suspend your account and hold your funds once they find you in violation. YIKES!
HOWEVER
When you buy the program you are given total and unlimited access to a site called Virtual Training Solutions.
Check out what you have access to:
- Freelance America
- Rebate processing from home <== The one we've been discussing
- Secret Shoppers MSAA Certification
- Medical & Data Transcription Training/Resources
- eBay Wholesale and Surplus Sales Program
- Market Research and Focus Groups For Extra Cash
- Local 'Hand out FREE samples' jobs - work weekends / flex hours
- Get paid up to $2000 a month to Place Advertising on your late model car
- Prescreened Virtual Assistants program - over 100 companies need help now
- Paid to Read emails and view web based commercials over 200 companies listed
- Consumer Surveys and opinion polls that pay cash. Research/training/links to over 300 companies
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of very legitimate opportunities here. I have spent quite a bit of time the past few days checking these out. The variety and volume of legitimate (not deceptive but real honest-to-goodness) home job offers and ways to make money from home is almost overwhelming. Some are online. Some are offline.
All are available to you just because you signed up for Cold Cash Partners. Therefore, even though you won't get what you thought you were signing up for, you are definitely getting your money's worth and then some.
My advice is to sign up for Cold Cash Partners only as an access to Virtual Training Solutions. Do NOT make any attempt to work the Rebate Processor program.
Instead, help yourself to the bountiful offers awaiting you at Virtual Training Solutions. It will be well worth the investment.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Beware of Outlandish Promises
Have you seen flash web pages that promise you that you can make something like $12,000 your first week?
Or make $30,000 a month every month?
Or even . . . Unlimited Monthly Income!
Pick whatever dollar value and time frame you want here. It may be theoretically possible, it may be mathematically possible, (that’s how the ads avoid getting into trouble with truth-in-advertising laws) but not at all realistic.
It is also theoretically possible for every child born in the United States to grow up to be President, but the likely-hood of that happening for any given kid is minuscule.
The same line of logic applies to these wild promises of vast income. They attempt to sucker in those most vulnerable of desperate people who need to work from home for health or family reasons - or have just lost their job and have no idea where to turn next.
Lotteries use that t00 - "What if . . . . . . "
Gotcha.
Don't be a victim. Find something solid, that you are interested in and capable of doing. Find something that fits your personality type, temperament, abilities and desires.
If you are not in the habit of praying, now would be a good time to start. Ask the one living God to help you choose, and then listen for that still quiet voice as he answers your prayer.
Working from home is a great idea. Find a legitimate way to make it work for you.
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