Everyone’s seen lots of work at home ads. How do you know if they’re legit? What should you avoid, and what actually works?
Avoiding the Scams
The first rule of thumb to go by is if they are getting you to do work for them, or is it talking about you setting up your own business? There is usually plenty of money to be made in working for yourself, or having other people’s time working for you while you run your own business, but if they are offering you “grunt work”, it’s definitely a scam. Grunt work includes the following:
- Assembly jobs – usually require you to buy a kit, put it all together for them and send them back
- Data Entry jobs – usually a sales pitch for another kit – for real jobs like this you’d be applying directly to a hospital or other reputable company
- Multi-level marketing – requires you to sell a product to a user base, who sell it to a new user base, and so on and so on, also known as pyramid schemes. All the money flows up with these, so to make money you’d have to be the one starting the scheme and I would advise against that.
- Online business kits – provide you with a guide you could have gotten for free
- Posting Ads – these are spammers getting you to do their dirty work, and given you some fees if people are scammed into buying something from the spamming efforts
- Stuffing envelopes – companies can get machines to do this for them for cheap – tests on this method have revealed that it really makes a couple dollars an hour
The second rule of thumb is – Are they straight forward about how you are going to make money working from home? If it’s legit, it will tell you what you need to do, how much work you need to do, what pitfalls to expect, and will have either have a live person coaching you online or a forum with other members that are building their businesses just like you.
Building an empire
It’s time to ditch the above ideas and grow up. Focus on building yourself an empire online. The best investment proven throughout all of history is property (real estate). You don’t even need to straight out buy it if you know other creative methods. You get someone in there renting it from you, paying for the place over time so you are gaining equity, gaining appreciation, saving on taxes from running a business, and of course they don’t just cover the cost of the place, but they even provide you with some extra monthly income. Each place you own provides you with more. It is one sure way to build yourself an empire.
Well, just like real estate investing, internet real estate is the same way. You create properties to generate a cash flow. The more property you have, the more you make monthly. Maybe you have a website, but it’s not making money for you. Well, that’s because you either didn’t make the website for that reason, or you didn’t do it right. You’re probably wondering how to make money off websites then. Here is a quick explaination, but I encourage you to learn from the experts that love sharing their knowledge on the subject at the bottom of this post.
To start making money doing work from home you need to set up a blog. You can do this through Blogger for free, or create your own website and use Wordpress if you would like more control over everything that goes on the website. You need to first pick a subject by targeting the right keywords (words that will be searched for using search engines like Google and Yahoo). You must search for subjects that advertisers will pay you well for. Advertisers pay Google and then Google gives you money for placing Google Ads on your website (it’s called Google Adsense). After you find some good keywords, you check to see what the competition is like out there by searching for those keywords using Google yourself. If it has weak competition you can probably rank in the #1 position on Google for these keywords. You then set up your blog targeting those keywords and place articles and links on other websites pointing back to your website and Google will give you more and more traffic. With more traffic you get more Ads viewed and clicked.
Adsense is one way to earn money online with a blog, but there’s also other ways. Let’s say you are writing about a specific product that you bought and tried before, you can advertise for Amazon or eBay then and give them a link to buy it themselves. These companies will also give you commission on sales. It’s called affiliate marketing. There are innumerous affiliate programs by companies that will pay you a portion of what they get paid for referring people to them.
Hubpages are quick easy way to start since you can put up single posts and then try to get them ranked well on Google. They are free to create and can generate some real money. Here is some advice and proof on hubpages. Making Money Online
If you want the best guidance, training, support and teachers available, for just 1 dollar you can test drive The Keyword Academy for a month. The forums are full of people that work from home doing this for a job. The teachers are Mark and Court and can answer any questions you ask. Griz is even a member (a blogger currently making $50K/month) being taught and teaching others in the academy.
Even if this isn’t your cup of tea, with the money it generates, it’s worth getting others to do the work for you. There are lots of people you can outsource blog creation to, so get involved today.
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