Work-At-Home Can You Really Make Money?

  • May 16, 2011 5:44 AM

In these hard economic times, is it possible to make a living working-at-home on your computer? People across the US are dealing with the prospect of being out of a job and working from home is becoming more appealing every day. However, there are scams that are taking advantage of honest work-at-home prospects every day and are tarnishing the work-from-home industry.

It s the dream – work from home. Wake up in the morning, work a few hours from your laptop in the kitchen, than call it a day. However, you ve all heard the horror stories; scams where people were stuffing envelopes for $.01 per letter. Make millions of dollars with vending machines or ATMs. You\’ve all seen them, get rich schemes that promise to make millions in real estate. Buy the house for $100K and flip it for $200K, right? While some people do make a decent living doing these jobs, the majority do not. If making millions of dollars was as easy as you see in a 2am infomercial, everyone would do it. So what are the viable options when it comes to working from home?

First, we recommend not quitting your day job. Start by doing a few work-at-home options to test an opportunity. Once you are making a decent income on the side, you then have the option to devote more time to your part-time work and make it a full time gig. That said, before moving to full time a work-at-home job; also consider things like health benefits, large fluctuations in your monthly income and self employment taxes – to name a few. These items will cost additional out-of-pocket expenses and time. If these opportunity costs are outweighed by the potential income, it\’s time to take the leap.

When thinking about what you could do from home, first focus on your skill set. By leveraging the skills you already possess, you can find great opportunities that will allow you to continue doing what you enjoy (assuming you like what you do). As an example, if you enjoy writing, consider becoming a freelance writer or copy editor. A mechanic, work on cultivating your own client base. Lawyer, consult on the side for a fee for legal issues.

When considering a work-at-home job, do not forget to take your hobbies and interests into consideration. You may hate your day job; however enjoy taking photographs on the weekends. This skill could be leveraged into part-time wedding photography. How, you ask? Start by working with friends and family. Offer to be the main or secondary photographer at a family or friends wedding. This is a great option to get your foot in the door, and will help you create a portfolio of work to use as examples. In addition, this will give you job references to use for future work. As another example for an interest in photography, you can sell the photos you take – of any medium. Interested,

The easiest part-time job we ve found is online surveys and focus groups These are companies, such as IBM, needing insight into a product or TV commercial before making it main stream. Though market research, they insure an advertisement or product is ready to take to the general public before investing the money. If you live in a larger city, you may have already participated in such a study. Before the internet, it was hard to do these jobs given travel costs and additional time it took to get to and from the location of the focus groups. However, now companies are now doing online surveys and focus groups. Also, with the internet, the door has been opened for jobs such as selling items on eBay. eBay? You d be surprised how many people now do this as a full time job. It could be selling items you make yourself, reselling items you find at garage sales, or drop shipping items directly from the product manufacturer.

The point of the above is, you don\’t have to stuff envelopes, and the number of legit work-at-home jobs are endless. As a personal example, my work-at-home/part time job/hobby is stock trading / day trading. You may consider the stock market and trading stocks online from home on your laptop (a great link for people considering this). That said, being a day trader can be stressful, please factor this in when considering the job as an option – it takes guts and a fair amount or company research to make money.

Just for fun, this next one may sound crazy… Need a car; how about agreeing to put advertising on your vehicle and get paid? You\’ve seen marketing on the side of taxi cabs (in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc). If you want, you can also get paid to put similar ads on your car, and drive a car with advertising to promote a product. While it\’s not going to make you enough money to quit your day job, it can subsidize the high cost of gas and help with your monthly car payment. Also consider, they put a GPS in the car to insure you\’ve driven the proper miles to \”promote their product\”. If you\’re OK with this, why not?

In ending, pick something you\’re passionate about when pursuing at-home-work. Working from home brings freedom, however you must choose something you enjoy. Do not get caught up in scams. To protect yourself, review the scams at the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau. If you\’re looking into an opportunity promising millions per month, take the opportunity for what its worth. Stuffing envelopes for $.01 per piece is not worth the time, but attending an online focus group during your lunch hour for $100 is time well spent. If the job promises an outrageous income or a free car, then it s probably a scam.

Jason M -
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Jason is the owner and author of Resume-Help.org, a leading website in the career vertical. For more information on all the opportunities listed above, visit Resume-Help.org.

Top 6 online survey websites that you can join and make money fast

  • May 15, 2011 4:24 PM

If you are looking for some extra money on internet, paid online surveys would ideal choice. You do not need any qualification or special skills to take online surveys. You may have great confusion when you look for survey websites to join, because there are more than 300 online survey websites on internet. This article would help you to find the ideal survey website and work hassle free.

 

Quick paid surveys

 

This website provides a very good database of 490 online survey companies that you can sign up for free and make money. They provide other research related opportunities such as mystery shopping, get paid to drive and product testing. Since their database is very big, you can find opportunities not only for USA and Canada residents also for other 70 countries worldwide. They charge $67 for their membership, but this money can be earned with just 2 surveys you take.

 

Part time job today

 

This is another good survey website with more than 350 cash paying survey companies in their database. Their database has been compiled keeping the benefit of people from any country. Therefore you do not need to worry about the acceptance of your country by online survey companies. They collect lesser membership fee than other survey websites.  The good thing about them is that they give instant access to their member area where you can take online surveys.

 

Online surveys 100

 

This is another good website which provides good survey companies database at very less membership fees. They collect only $29 as their one time registration fees. This is the most economical website to join and make money fast. They provide more than 200 good online survey companies database with immediate access. You can take surveys and make $2 to $45. For participating in focus groups you may get paid $100 to $150 per hour. You can take phone surveys too for extra income.

 

Paid surveys at home

 

This is one of the leading survey websites with 450 online survey company data base. They offer free bonuses such as get paid to shop and eat and drive car. The good thing about this site is that they give their customers 60 days money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied, you can cancel your membership anytime.

 

Work from home paid surveys

 

Work from home paid surveys is a good website which provides nice income for survey takers. You can join them with minimum fees. You can take online surveys and participate in focus groups. Makin money with them is very simple and good for people who look for extra income from home.

 

Surveys for check

 

This is one website which provides 450 survey companies database and moreover they provide surveys for more than 150 countries worldwide. You may watch a short video on their website to know more about their products.  They claim to give you $10 to $40 per online survey and $50 to $150 for participating in focus groups.

 

You may join one of these top six survey websites to access good number of surveys and make money fast. You can also check the blog of the author.

 

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You may join one of these top six survey websites to access good number of surveys and make money fast. You can also check the blog of the author.

Can you make money with Clickbank?

  • May 15, 2011 4:24 PM

Everyday more and more people are searching for ways to make money online. What better way to make money than being an affiliate selling Clickbank products. Many times affiliates expect to make money with Clickbank over night, but I have news for you that is not going to happen. Being an affiliate for Clickbank takes work just like any other job. The only difference is that you will not be working on a daily basis.

Newbie’s to affiliate marketing must be thinking how exactly I can start making money with Clickbank. I’m going to give you some information to start you off.

First you go to Clickbank.com and sign up to be an affiliate. By the way it’s free to join.

Second you will want to explore the different products in the market place. You will want to search for a product that does not have a lot of competition. Meaning a product that others are hardly promoting. You can determine this by looking at the gravity. You will want your gravity to be no higher than 100 and no less than 50. The gravity is an average of how good the product is, how many other affiliates are promoting the product.

Third, once you have chosen the product you want to promote, you will need to create your hop-link. Your hop-link is very vital, and will include your username. This is done so that Clickbank can track all sales back to you, and you will be credited.

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Fourth you will need somewhere where you can promote your product or products. There are many different ways for going about this. You can promote your products on a blog (highly recommended). Your blog will take place of you purchasing a website, unlike blogs which are free. The only thing that will cost you is you hosting. It’s highly recommended when creating a blog you host your blog with a hosting company. This way you will not have to worry about your  blog being deleted for inappropriate content that you post. I recommend Hostgator, which is only $9.95 a month. There are many other different hosting companies. I choose hostgator; because they have great 24/7 live support which is awesome.

You can also promote your Clickbank product on social networking sites. To find other social networking sites just go to Google and search social networking sites and you should have a whole list.

Another form of advertising is PPC also known as Pay Per Click. What is PPC? PPC is you placing an ad to promote you business or product on Google. So every time someone clicks on your ad you pay. You pay per click. If this tool is not used properly it can cost you loads of money. Newbies I would stay away from Pay Per Click to start. Start with free marketing strategies and work your way up.

The work does not stop there, I recommend that you write articles over each product you choose to promote. When writing your articles keep in mind you are trying to give a solution to some ones problem or problems. Always remember you are not trying to sell the product but rather give vital information to others.

Writing articles may seem exhausting to you in the beginning, but I want you to always have an open mind about every idea. Remember you are writing to give a solution. I want you to know that these articles you will be writing are not just going to be posted on you blog. You are going to submit these articles to article directories, in turn creating traffic to you blog.

Having traffic is key, without traffic coming to your blog how will you be able to make money with Clickbank. So in order to receive sales you need visitors, better known as traffic. Your blog will contain more information than just your articles.

Let’s recap from the beginning; these are the steps to start making money with Clickbank. One you will need to sign up to be a Clickbank affiliate. Explore the Clickbank marketplace for products to promote. Remember to keep track of your username to create your hop-links. Set up a blog where you will be promoting Clickbank products and more. Remember to host your blog with a separate hosting company. Create informational articles that solve others problems. Submit your articles to article directories. You will first need to post your article on your blog then submit them to article directories.  You will learn more about it as you continue to market online. And with just 3 or 4 hours of work every day you will be on your way to making money with Clickbank.

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Media Bias: Can Small Business Survive?

  • May 14, 2011 6:41 PM


Media/Government Agenda Forcing A Broader Portfolio


by Michael D. Hume, M.S.

I just heard a radio-show caller talk about how she’s closing her 32-year-old successful business in the northeast U.S. because, for the first time, she and her husband have not been granted extensions for their immigration paperwork. They are not illegals, she said, but have become victims of a “crackdown on legal immigration” while a constant flow of illegal immigrants continue to cross our country’s southern border unabated.

This is one of hundreds of sad stories about someone whose small business has been laid to waste by America’s current media/government agenda. If you’re an entrepreneur, you don’t need anyone to tell you the economy’s tough right now, and you probably have done more than a little thinking about what the possible causes of the downturn could be. It started with a mortgage bubble the government and media either ignored or assured us was not a threat. Soon we were awash in bailouts and “stimulus,” driving government debt into the stratosphere. These days, the gulf oil spill and debate over Arizona’s immigration law have been put before us by a government/media complex that probably would prefer we not spend too much time thinking about a tax-and-spend progressivism that is eating our nation’s businesses like cancer.

What does all this have to do with your business? Maybe you are not facing expulsion from the country, like the radio-caller mentioned above, but the tax burden we will all soon carry is a clear and present danger to all businesses, and especially to small businesses. Nanny-state burdens like the so-called “health care reform,” wrong-directed immigration policies that expel hard-working entrepreneurs while inviting thousands of illegals into the country (for whom there will be no hard-working entrepreneurs to provide jobs), shut-downs and takeovers of entire industries (with the accompanying chilling effects on the small businesses downstream), and the like… these are all pieces of a larger agenda that has been imposed upon us by our government and their partners in the mainstream media. So, as a business owner, you might feel like you have no time for “politics,” but none of us will be able to escape these calamities.

Wasn’t running a business hard enough already?

If you even have time to watch TV or listen to the radio, see if you don’t pick up on a biased presentation that borders on malicious propaganda. To hear most mainstream pundits, you’d think everything is going great, and the agenda is finally pulling us out of the wreckage of the “former administration” (which has been our current leadership’s favorite target all along). And if you buy into that thinking, you might wonder why your business is struggling. Is it just you? No, look around: things are not getting better yet, and your neighbors are struggling in their businesses, too.

When I went to journalism school decades ago, we were taught that the media is supposed to be objective. In fact, the true hard-core journalists I knew refused even to vote in elections, just as a precaution against forming an unwanted bias. Wow! What a difference from that day to this. Now we are fed a steady diet by the media, not of the news and facts, but of the “direction” and agenda. Dissent is unwelcome on good days and openly fought on most. Not that it matters, but it’s hard to figure out whether we have a state-run media in the U.S. or a media-run state!

Let me leave you with a more uplifiting thought: all of this does not have to drag your business down. What’s needed now is even more entrepreneurial ingenuity than ever, a broader portfolio of revenue streams, new products, new services, new channels to reach your customers. I heard a happier story the other day about a guy who runs a small boat-accessory business. I would be worried about a boat accessory business these days: who’s got the money for a boat, let alone accessories? But this guy, undeterred, decided to broaden his portfolio through the internet. He already had a presence in cyberspace, garnering something like 10,000 clicks in a three-year period. He took the time to get smart about a more professional platform for his business, and got another 10,000 visits in only three months. Now, he says he’s busier than ever.

Food for thought. Think about how you can broaden your business to make it more resilient to the challenges our media/government leadership are throwing your way. Eventually, the broader economy will be more small-business friendly, and if you can survive until then, the rewards will be more than worthwhile.

　

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Michael Hume is a speaker, writer, and consultant specializing in helping people maximize their potential and enjoy inspiring lives. As part of his inspirational leadership mission, he coaches executives and leaders in growing their personal sense of well-being through wealth creation and management, along with personal vitality.
Those with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make money “one less thing to worry about” can learn more about working with Michael at http://oneyearplan.net/michaeldhume
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Michael and his wife, Kathryn, divide their time between homes in California and Colorado. They are very proud of their offspring, who grew up to include a homemaker, a rock star, a service talent, and a television expert. Two grandchildren also warm their hearts! Visit Michael’s web site at http://michaelhume.net

Working From Home Can You Really Earn Money?

  • May 14, 2011 5:13 AM

Working from home is the ultimate joy.  Why would you get up early, get dressed, trudge to work, miss the parking spot, get caught in the rain, then drop your files in a puddle, if you didn’t have to.  No one would choose to go to work if they could find a job or business that would allow them to earn a great living from their kitchen table.

 

In my quest for the ultimate work at home venture, I kept hoping that one day I could stop helping others become successful and could redirect my strengths toward my own success.  I knew that I had what it takes, my job performance records indicated that, but I could not find the right vehicle to help me accomplish my goals.

 

Now that I have found my passion and incredible success as a result, I truly enjoy sharing what I’ve learned with those who find themselves searching for a way to work at home and make enough money to stay there.

 

When trying to find a work at home opportunity that will endure, it’s important to decide if the opportunity that you are looking at is legitimate.  You can spend years, like me, searching for an honest work at home program.  Searching for the right business to operate from home can be a full time job in itself.

 

Once you have found a legitimate work at home opportunity, you have to find out if the program will continue to earn money over time.  Although your income will fluctuate from month to month, you want to be sure that you can rely upon your earnings as time goes on.  You future success depends on whether you believe that what you are “selling” has longevity.  Do you believe it will withstand the test of time.  You do not want to be the person that invested in VHS and Betamax tapes.

 

Another thing to think about in the quest for a work at home opportunity is the cost.  Can I afford the price tag and will I actually make my money back.  Does it seem as though the investment is one that I can afford to lose if things don’t work out as I imagined.  Not everyone is made for all businesses, if you try this out and don’t like it, how much will you lose?

 

Beyond cost, is training.  If you are a pro at marketing, then you have nothing to worry about.  You will hit the ground running and excel at what you do.  If you are new at marketing, and all businesses have to be marketed, then you need to get trained.  You have to make sure that whatever opportunity you choose, is one that will provide you with the training that will allow you to jump start your success.

 

This was particularly important to me.  How much time does it take for me to get paid?  If I do the work, when will I see the results.  The majority of work at home programs require you to do the work then wait for the results.  The wait time could be a month to two months depending on the program.  Why can’t they pay you around the time that you achieve the goal, whatever that goal is?  Why do you have to wait so long?

 

Finding the work at home program that will allow you to really earn money requires time and research.  If you put the time into investigating the best program you will find an opportunity that will allow you to make an incredible amount of money working from home.

 

Working at home is a dream that is worth achieving.  Once I found my dream, I realized that sharing my excitement and the tips and tricks I have learned along the way would help others to arrive at their dream just a little sooner.

 

Working from home offers many benefits, you will have a sense of pride in your accomplishments, you will be able to spend more time with your family, you can tell your boss – “see ya”, you can take time to smell the roses.  You must remember it IS something that you can accomplish.  You can make a hefty income also.

 

Let me be your role model.  I was where you are now, once before.  Keep a positive spirit.  Commit to investigating the work at home market a little bit more every day and you will find your dream work at home job.  I did!  My hope for you is that you get to feel the excitement that I feel every day working from home.  The results can be delicious!

Lisa -
About the Author:
LISA EVANS, CEO of EzyCashGifts.org – I am a single work at home mom with two beautiful children. I make my living through internet marketing and work on my business daily. Please visit my site at http://www.EzyCashGifts.org, for more information on power earning from home. Working from home is actually an achievable dream! Making a great living at home is delicious and addicting!

The Magnetic Sponsoring Ebook – Can It Is Great In Home Business

  • May 12, 2011 8:19 PM

The mlm marketing book Magnetic Sponsoring by Mike Dillard is stirred up a total storm of controversey within the multilevel marketing sector over-all. Promises regarding “Magnetically Attracting” prospective buyers in your direction, debit card in hand are readily available about it, yet what’s the reality to every piece of information a person read about this product and simply what does it really carry out for you personally? Or are every one of the a large number of affiliates on the market marketing this guide simply just attempting to make some quick money? This particular magnetic sponsoring review covers these critical concerns, among others.

It is absolutely a difficult concept to understand and buy into, especially for those who are veterans of the network marketing industry. Both new and old alike must jettison aside many pre-conceived notions about how to build a MLM business today.

So what exactly do you learn in the course Magnetic Sponsoring? What kind of training material does it have in it? At the core, really it comes down to three seperate things.Essentially three things:

#1) Attraction Marketing – What that particular idea is all about is that you become a more attractive and desirable mentor, sponsor, and someone to buy from when your potential customers perceive that you have something of value to offer them. Essentially the more valuable you appear to a prospect, it is human nature for someone to gravitate to others that offer incredible value, hence generating the attraction. Literally this reverses the typical recruiting dynamic in network marketing, essentially bringing people to you, instead of you hunting them around, and you become what is known as an Alpha Networker. By offering value to people you enter into the hidden psychology in their mind and it is a natural attraction that is built for you.

A key concept that is extremely critical to increasing your value is to go ahead and continually educate yourself in your particular niche, become an expert at health, at recruiting, at lead generation. With the correct foundation in education, you can literally train yourself into getting better at all of the above listed.

#2) A self-funded proposal. For me, this was really the big takeaway from the Magnetic Sponsoring Course. You see, only a certain percentage of people will only ever buy your product or join you in your downline, and the idea of a funded proposal allows you to generate needed income up front in order to pay for the lead generation and advertising for your business. This idea has actually been around for years in the industry, but has mostly centered around selling tools and training books.

Instead of only 1 out of every 100 people you come in contact with will ever join you in your business, but if you offer others much needed information to help them out, and in turn profit from it as a result When you increase that number from 1 in 100, to more like 5 or 10 in 100, your odds go way up.That fact alone will change the money math in your business completely.

#3) Real Marketing OK, this is probably the biggest switch that network marketers have to adopt when internalizing the ideas inside Magnetic Sponsoring.Again, fundamental to the book Magnetic Sponsoring is marketing which is prospect focused, has appealing headlines, and completely measurable. his really is almost the opposite of what most in the industry are taught. Largely, most are taught to just blab on and on about how wonderful their business is, and how great the products are. If you think about it, that doesn’t work very much at all really.

In the end, how does this magnetic sponsoring review rate the course overall?

I do believe it is a must have course for anyone entering the network marketing business, or is looking to get away from harassing family and friends and hosting endless home parties. That is really the key to long term grow and success in this industry.

This course won’t build your business for you, nor will it “do” anything for you other than introduce you to the ideas of building a true business based on sound business principles. This is another key idea discussed at length in the ebook.

Once you master those three ideas, you literally can write your own ticket in this industry, or any other, including affiliate marketing.Your business will truly take off once you “get” those key concepts.

If you’d like to learn more about Magnetic Sponsoring, read below and click on the link for more information.

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The book Magnetic Sponsoring is one of the most famous in network marketing. Go here now to read more about Magnetic Sponsoring and learn to use internet techniques to grow your home business and generate endless MLM leads for free.