Copyright © Vicki Szeremeta
Many websites offer home businessopportunitiess and many people make money at home through online jobs offered on a website. The trick is to know which sites are legitimate and which ones are outright scams. How do you know the difference? Here are some tips to help you avoid home business scams.
Use some common sense. If you are looking because you’re short on funds, it can be easy to talk yourself into believing the promises you will read online. Try to look at the offers objectively. Many scams try to convince you that you will become wealthy with little effort, and you might even see on the website that this is some “secret” for making money that is just now being revealed. Much later they reveal the cost for learning the secret. You need to realize that there is no way to “get rich quick”. Any job opportunity that is legitimate will take time and will require work. In order to make any money online you need people to visit your site. Yes, the money IS in the list. Regardless of how easy they claim their offer to be, you have to market your site and that takes time, effort, and money. Sure, sites run on auto-pilot but it takes a lot of work on your part to reach that point. Plan on spending a minimum of 10 hrs per week getting your new business off the ground. Even if you do everything right and have a decent advertising budget, it will more than likely still take a few months to see any significant income.
Don’t get involved in a pyramid scheme. These are programs that pay you to recruit but don’t really have a product to sell. You make money by getting other people to join the system. This only works for those who start the pyramid scheme, and is illegal in several states. Note that this is not the same as home party or similar plans where you get a percentage from what you sell in addition to a percentage from those you recruit.
Don’t pay to stuff envelopes or make products. In fact, don’t pay to work for anybody. This is not the same thing as paying for access to lists of companies looking for people to do data entry or take surveys. There are several very legitimate programs on the internet involved in those areas. If you have doubts about any program look to see if they are members of the Better Business Bureau or a similar agency. There are also several revue sites that spend all of their time researching work-at-home programs.
Avoiding home business scams means avoiding anything that offers easy wealth. Yes, it has happened but just like the disclaimer on weight loss commercials, “results are not typical”. It also means avoiding paying to work for somebody. Don’t expect anything online that doesn’t make sense in the real world. Don’t get scammed.
Source
My own experience and
http://homeparents.about.com/cs/homebusscams/a/bus_scams.html
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