Archive for November, 2007
Nov
29
Posted by Mary
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There are other opportunities that you can use to make money working from home. Such opportunities include direct sales such as Tupperware, doing surveys online, mystery shopping, merchandising, selling on ebay, and more.
These though are referred to as opportunites and I just want to explain what if anything you might be paying for. First of all when you join one of the hundreds of surveys clubs you only get lists of different companies online that let you do surveys from home. The good part is you have them all in one place, the not so good part is having to pay for the information. So necessarily it isnt a scam, but it is highly misleading to say you will make 100k per year doing it. I have a list of survey companies that I will be listing on this site soon to help those of you interested in that sort of thing. While every now and then you might make up to 100 an hour doing surveys it will most likely be far and few between the hours of doing this, there is very little chance you are going to do surveys from home for 100 an hour and make 4000 a week doing it. That is a dream that is quickly shot down once you pay to get into these surveys sites.
The same goes for mystery shopping. It is a real opportunity to make money by going out shopping, but in most cases you arent going to get anything big from it. Most of the assignments I have seen are for home maintenance stores and you are required to buy a small pack of gum or something under a dollar, then you get paid 7 dollars for the trip plus reimbursement for the gum. You can not buy anything else, to me it is a complete waste of time and effort and the pay is little to none once you have done all the work, especially if you have to take kids with you. On the other hand there are places that will pay you to do apartment shops and hotel shops where you get the night free, it depends on your area and what companies you get to work for. Dont expect anything huge up front. And do not pay for a subscription to a site that gives you a list. I will also be posting mystery shopping info in the next couple of days.
Hopefully you will understand that these scams are not considered scams by many because they are delivering a list of information, but you should know that they are only saying you could make that much an hour, not that you will and you can always use the charge back feature on your credit card if you are not happy.
Until then please check out the website http://www.workathomeagent.com to find out if they hire in your area to make money from home as a customer service agent.
Nov
27
Posted by Mary
If you havent yet become a member at http://www.wahm.com you most certainly should. The telecommuting mom boards under message boards are packed full of other women who have found work at home jobs and other ways to make money from the comfort of their homes.
Unfortunately when I started working at home I had not yet found this site, but I had gone through many scams, and just happened to stumble upon something that was real. I will never forget find wahm.com though. The owner has jobs posted at least weekly, articles written about working at home and then there are hundreds of members mostly women hence the name of the site WAHM (work at home mom).
By finding this site I was opened up to more places that hire work at homers and even found a couple of other jobs and learned how to get the most out of my own job. I still think one of the best ways to learn things is to enter a market through their forums. And this site has the best info on working at home.
Try them out, its worth a shot, there are no fees, and you might make some friends.
Nov
26
Posted by Mary
The Internet is a great place for information and opportunity, unfortunately though it is very easy to get scammed when you are looking for opportunity, so lets go over some of the more common scams used in working from home.
First of all there is the opportunity to be a payment collector. This is where you get an email saying the company will have its customers send you the money, and all you have to do is take a percentage, then send it to the employer by check or money order and you get to keep a percent. Here is what really happens.
The employer pretends they cant use paypal so they need you to collect funds. You collect the funds usually by check or e-check on paypal from the customers. You subtract the amount you are promised usually 10% then you buy a money order and ship it to the employer. In the mean time the check you have accepted as payment bounces and you now owe your bank or paypal the amount of the check, not to mention you are out the 90% of the funds you sent as a money order.
Another common scams is the promise of millions of dollars because of some long lost relative who died and there is no place for the money to go. You provide them your banking information to get the money deposited and they wipe your bank account clean.
Next up is the very common data entry position. You are offered a position where you will do data entry but here is what happens. You pay the enlistment fee of $10 and you get a packet of information that teaches you about your new “job” The packet is really only a few copies of the same ad you saw when you signed up and then a list of different places to place the ad. When a new person finds the ad and signs up you get the $10.
Another huge scam on the Internet is the Ebay and Paypal scams where you get an email from Ebay or Paypal saying something is wrong with your account, immediately frazzled you click through to go to their website, you login and it says something is wrong, etc. The reality is you click and login to a site where they are collecting your information and using it for no good. What you need to do when you get an email like this is to delete it, then go to the website, by typing the name in the search box and then logging in. Only then can you tell if your account is having some kind of trouble.
Nov
23
Posted by Mary
A common work at home job is telephone work. There are a few kinds: telemarketing, customer service, order processing, technical support and customer support. Order processing and telemarketing are the most common of the two. Order processing is taking care of the orders placed by customers usually watching some kind of infomercial at 2 a.m. But recently over the last couple of years this type of job can be found for places such as 1-800-flowers.
As you can guess today’s resource of the day is 1-800-flowers telecommuting positions. They hire at home phone workers to answer phone calls from people calling to order flowers and gifts. If you work your way up through their system you might even find yourself working from home with benefits.
Here is the link to get more information about the work at home position from 1800 flowers:
http://ww12.1800flowers.com/template.do?id=template8&page=9000#1
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Nov
21
Posted by Mary
There is still plenty of time before Christmas, and Associated Content is always looking for more media to add to their site. They accept articles, audio and video files, interviews, reviews and instructional submissions, plus many other writing assignments. You can go to their website and sign up, then check the message area for open assignments.
Once you decide what kind of media you want to submit you will get a list of the different topics they might be accepting for. You can always try to submit anything to the site and see if they are willing to buy it, then you decide if you want to accept their offer. It takes a good week or two to get payment to your paypal account, but it is still relatively quick and easy money for the upcoming holidays.
I recently read an ebook on Associated Content, called Increase Your Associated Content Profits by Matt Ryan. You are more than welcome to check out the store on this site to grab your own copy for a low $6.
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Nov
20
Posted by Mary
Welcome to Day 2- Hope you liked yesterday’s information and found the resource helpful. Today we are going to discuss another quick money idea, you can use to make money for the Christmas, in time to be paid and to use the money for presents.
Just about everyone knows about or has used Ebay. But before you go clicking off this site, let me explain this resource and one of the many ways you can make money with it.
1 day auctions, will usually bring money into your paypal account in very little time. Just about all of us have something laying around the house we no longer use, now is the time to price it and put it up for auction.
It can be very easy to do this, first you can take a picture or refer to a stock photo you find online. Describe the item and list the auction with these specifications:
1 day, low (well researched, using completed listings) Buy It Now price, and paypal as your payment option.
Lots also do well, so a bunch of toys (to be used as gifts), or a nice lot of clearance clothing from a local brand name store should do well for a good sale. There are actually lots of other ways you can make money with Ebay during the holiday season, one woman I know wrote a whole ebook on how to make money on Ebay this holiday season, you might want to check it out at
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Nov
19
Posted by Mary
Novermber 19th is finally here. Everyday you will get a new resource to use for Working at Home. This month will specify on things you can do here and now to make money (for the holiday season) quickly.
You will get a new resource every weekday, and if you sign up for the members area, you might be able to find even more help to get money for holiday gifts.
Today’s Topic- Making money by completing offers.
Many companies pay you to send them sales, the more sales generate the more money you can make. There is a website called Free Lunch Room, it is actually a forum, where people will pay you to complete offers. The offers you can complete are from signing up for BMG movies or CD’s, the Disney Movie Club (get 5 dvd’s for $30.67) christmas idea!
There are tons more offers you can complete, and make some money doing it, as well as get a few Christmas gifts.
The website is http://www.freelunchroom.com/board/
If you want to read even more about Free lunch room, and gets good tips for making the most out of your completed offers, finish reading this post by signing up as a registered user, and click more.
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Nov
06
Posted by Mary
from an ebook I wrote
1)Wikipedia- http://www.wikipedia.org/ In case you haven’t heard, wikipedia is the new encyclopedia that is only online. It is full of information from people who want to add to it. Anyone can add to wikipedia, and you can challenge whether something is true or not. You can use the information from wikipedia to learn more about a niche you are working in. You will want to make sure you check the sources of the information though at the bottom of the page, just so you know, that you are learning the right stuff.
2)Congoo- www.congoo.com http://www.congoo.com/ With congoo you can access search results from sites that you normally have to pay to access, such as the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, and Consumer Reports, just type in what you are searching for and follow the links.
3)Faq’s- www.faqs.com
Nov
04
Posted by Mary
A stop word is a commonly used word such as and or the which is usually ignored by a search engine in response to a search query.
If you untick the Show stop words checkbox then the keyword density analyser will include any stop words in the total word count, used for calculating the percentage keyword density, but it will not display the word in the table of results.
If you tick the Ignore stop words checkbox then the keyword density analyser will simply ignore any stop words it comes across. They will not be included in the total word count or the table of results.
NB. You will notice that ticking and unticking the Ignore stop words checkbox will also toggle the value in the Show stop words checkbox.
