Work at home business opportunity - Finding a reputable home
business opportunity without getting ri
It never ceases to amaze me the sheer numbers of listings online
for "work at home", "home business", "business opportunity",
"make money", "home based business", "making money", "make money
online", "home-based business", "home business", and all the
other terms you can come up with for researching work at home
business opportunities. The competition is staggering, and it
seems almost everyone wants to give you information on his or
her own business opportunity. What's worse is many of these
would be "good Samaritans" offer you information and links based
on the marketing materials provided by their chosen company to
promote rather than their own real life experiences promoting
those companies. Which would you rather have from these
promoters, their companies marketing professional's copy write
touting the benefits of pushing the company products/services or
the real life experiences the promoters have experienced and the
success they have enjoyed through promoting the home based
business? Worse yet, what happens when you run into someone new
to the home-based business they are promoting who has nothing
they can offer when it comes to their success in promoting the
home business and how well they have done with their online
endeavors of making money online?
In researching the "work at home" keywords mentioned above,
there are 73,636 daily real world searches according to Web CEO
for those keywords alone. These statistics show that you can
make money in work at home opportunities and it is a driving
force for would be entrepreneurs to flock to the internet as a
means to make money online. An even more staggering statistic is
that according to Web CEO there are 36,145,000 competing web
pages for these terms. That's quite a bit of information to sort
out if you are researching work at home opportunities to make
money on the internet. With so much competition out there and so
many web sites wanting you to visit them for your work at home
needs, how can you know what home business opportunity works and
which home based business idea is a flop that will leech your
hard earned cash from you? With all that competition, the nature
of the web as a home for the unscrupulous to take advantage of
our naivety, and the lack of credible information available
through such web sites, it all adds up to a dangerous
combination for the would be work at home enthusiast.
Almost everyone has visions of the "Great American Dream". And
there probably isn't a one of you reading this article that
hasn't been fed up and sick with their present job. Faced with
the hype of these work at home hucksters combined with the get
rich quick dream and more and more people hating their jobs,
more and more people are being lured to these sites as a means
to solve their making money from home needs. People will sign up
for every home business program they can, copy and paste some
text into their hastily built websites, add a signature line to
their emails and forum posts, add lines of text to their
business cards, and then sit back and wonder why they aren't too
successful with their newly found business opportunity. All too
often these home business opportunity seekers get scammed into
self perpetuating programs or other get rich quick schemes. Most
of these schemes only pay off for those at the top of the chain
who found the program in it's infancy before everyone and their
brother was promoting it, or are the ones that founded the
scheme and a way to entice people to promote it.
The reality is this. There are only a couple sure-fire ways to
start a home based business to make money at home through online
endeavors. The first is to create your own product or services
and find ways to sell them online. This type of work at home
business opportunity is always a sure bet but, like everything
else, takes time, effort, and money. You will make money at home
quicker in a work at home business based on this business
opportunity model because you are the one receiving the profits;
not some other company you are promoting which decides what it
is going to give you in commissions. You call all the shots, you
own the products or services sold and you determine what they
should cost your customers. Best of all, you don't have to worry
about the credibility of the home based business opportunity.
The next best way to realize your dreams to make money from home
in a work at home business opportunity is to sell other people's
products or services. This is the tricky part where affiliate
programs come to mind. This particular home business can help
you make money on the internet if you are careful in the way you
go about it. The first thing is to check the company's
credibility. Is it a realistic home business opportunity where
you can make money, or is the company's information so full of
hype and promises that it's just to good to be true? Keep in
mind that a realistic home business opportunity takes time,
effort, and money. But there are also limitations to spending
that money too, especially when a work at home business
opportunity promoter wants you to pay money in exchange for
making money online.
Don't get me wrong; the old adage "It takes money to make money"
is true. But the money spent should be money spent in producing
your products or services, or spent in marketing you products or
services for sale, NOT to show someone you are "serious" about
their work at home business. Be very careful of these types of
home based business opportunities where they want you to pay for
the "privilege" of promoting their products or services. From my
experience, most of these work at home or work at home
opportunities are scams, or self perpetuating programs. Remember
that the only ones that prosper from these types of home
business opportunity are either those that start them, or those
that find them before everyone else is promoting them and before
people begin to learn the truth behind this type of scam.
Think of it this way. It's like going to a job interview at a
local corporation for a job you feel you are qualified for.
Common sense says that you are already interested in this job.
You have done the research, dressed the part, and you have spent
your valuable time to get there; not to mention the amount of
time you will be spending in the interview. The interviewer is
professionally dressed in a business suite and shakes your hand
firmly when you arrive. Before sitting down to interview you, he
suddenly states "Before we can start this interview process, I
need to collect $10.00 from you just to make sure you are
serious about this position. We've had allot of 'tire kickers'
coming through here lately and this is the only way we can make
sure that you will benefit from our job position and ensure that
you are really ready to accept this position". Would you hand
over the $10.00 to "prove your sincerity" or would you be
insulted? Personally speaking, I would be insulted, but you are
welcome to your own feelings on this subject.
The point is when you decide to promote another person's
products or services as the choice of your work at home
business, you become an employee of sorts. Although you set your
own hours and choose your own means of promoting their products,
which makes you an independent contractor or an affiliate by
definition, it's still the same concept as the $10.00 interview.
If a company has to ask you to pay money for their business
opportunity so you can make money from home, then how good is
the business opportunity to begin with? Legitimate and
successful businesses offering a home based business opportunity
have already figured expenses into their marketing budget and
know that budget is tax deductible. They realize it's a cost of
doing business, and absorb that cost instead of passing it on to
their work at home affiliates. The business opportunities asking
you for such fees more than likely make their living by charging
those fees and NOT selling the products, or services, they want
you to promote. If they aren't making their money from their own
products or services then how do you expect to make money on the
internet by promoting their products or services?
There are many business opportunities that will offer you
additional things for their fees; like your very own hosted
website. Although you are getting a website, you are getting a
cookie cutter website that you can not control, and you are
stuck with their design and layout. If their products or
services don't make you money, you have no means to insert
additional work at home business opportunities into that site as
a means to help make money online. But there's another thing
they don't want you to know about this process, and that is that
the website will not be indexed by the search engines, or if it
is, it will show up in hundreds of pages listed for the same
business. Worse yet, it is likely that NONE of your pages will
even be shown close enough to the top to get you any real
benefits from your spending; if you see any benefits at all. The
other problem is that your page will look just like everyone
else's page who are promoting the same product or service. What
benefit does that give you for the cash investment? You'll do
much better hosting your own web site where you can post as many
work at home business opportunities as you want. By building an
interesting, content rich web site, you will bring visitors to
your cyber doors while being found and ranked decently by the
search engines.
There is only ONE work at home business opportunity I have even
found online that I have made money from, and they provide the
same kind of cookie cutter web sites for free. They aren't a get
rich quick scheme, and promoting their products and services
takes time, effort, and money, but they do not charge a fee for
the "privilege" to promote their products. This same work at
home business opportunity is one that I have actually made money
through at home. Have I retired yet? Am I a millionaire? Do I
drive a big fancy sports car or own my own mansion? None of the
above. A slow, steady process takes time, effort, and money to
pursue. Have I aggressively promoted it? No. I have sat back,
placed a couple links in my site, and left the sponsor above me
place some people in my downline. Yes, it is MLM.
The money I invested in this home business or work at home
business opportunity? I've invested roughly $30.00 per month in
things that my business needed already. It qualified me for the
next income level for the business opportunity, and it gave me
valuable tools to tweak my web site and learn to market that web
site and home business opportunity more affectively. This
investment was money that I was going to spend on the same
tools, but I chose to buy those tools from a company I promote
that was going to give me something in return for my investment;
and that was affiliate checks based on sales volume. Did I
mention that the cash spent was normally covered by the
affiliate checks I received? That's like getting FREE tools to
promote my home business. Did I also mention that my downline is
growing in this home based business? Will I tell you how much
money I made? No. I won't do that because then if you don't make
the same kind of money I do, or more, then you will say that I
lied to you and that my information is just from another person
pushing work at home business opportunities to make money. You
will probably even think that I haven't even really made any
money using any of the programs I promote.
The point is you can make money on the internet through a work
at home business opportunity IF you know which home based
business to promote, how to promote it, and what to watch out
for in choosing how you begin making money from home. You also
need to be realistic. There is no one work at home business that
is going to make EVERYONE rich. If that was the case, then why
are there so few people out there that are rich? It simply
doesn't exist. Everyone is different. I will make money in ways
that you will probably not. Then again, you will make money in
ways that I will probably not. The point of this article is
using care in the work at home business or make money at home
business opportunity that you choose. Spending the time to make
sure it is a good fit for you, and is something that you believe
in. Failure to realize that a home based business opportunity is
like any other business, and requires time, effort, and money,
will almost assure that your dreams of making money at home will
be fruitless. You need to realize that making money online also
requires spending money, but knowing where to spend that money
to affectively market or produce your products or services is
the important part. Do these things right and you will find a
work at home business opportunity you enjoy, believe in, and can
promote to gain you the money online.
For those of you wondering what that one company is that I have
honestly made money with, feel free to drop by my web site and
drop me an email. I'll be more than glad to give you a bunch of
links to information that will give you the pro's and con's,
educate you on the home business opportunity, and help you make
an INFORMED decision. Till next article, may your work at home
business opportunity come true, and may the information
presented in this article help you to make money online.