i want to make enough money to have some financial freedom. i’ve tried to research some work from home sites, but most of them look like scams or cost a considerable amount of money just to get started. i’m very crafty and can do almost anything or if i don’t know, i can learn. but i want to work from home and still make the money to support my wife with muscular dystrophy and my 4 kids. please help!!!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Hate to burst your bubble but yeah a lot of those home jobs are scams. It is pretty hard to find a good paying job working at home. What you might have to do is find a job the normal one way and hope they allow you to work telecommunications. If not have you considered trying to work in the evenings.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Work from Home is often thought of as good lifestyle without any effort. People who work from home must exercise discipline and focus on the jobs that have to done. Giving yourself ample available time is important. You are right there are many ‘work from home’ jobs advertised and many are scams, the only people who are successful with them are the people ’selling’ the opportunity. I have this business that works extremely well and I am a coach and support for all people wantint to Work from Home with me. http://www.pictureyourfuture.net
October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
If you are looking for a guaranteed wage, aka JOB and live in the US, I can point you to some legit sites that hire workers as ‘virtual reps’, but this is typically telephone work and will not ever give you financial freedom. It’s a JOB and normally they pay anywhere from $7 an hr to $10, maybe a bit more.
Data transcription work that you will find online anymore are most generally scams to collect your money and send you a worthless file that they expect you to resell, make your money back and then scam others into thinking they are actually going to get a data transcription job also… so the cycle just keeps repeating itself.
The only real data transcription work I know to be legit is doing something like closed caption work or medical transcribing. Both require that you have exceptionally fast typing skills.
The only other options are affiliate marketing where you sign up and then advertise someone else’s site, ebook, training program, software … there you just sit and place classifieds, post social networks and other places, but there are so many people doing that, in most cases people are more interested in spamming you with their link and than taking any interest in yours. Much like some will do to you here on answers based on your question. You are breathing and can type. That makes you a prospect/recruit into their affiliate program.
And then there are home based businesses known as MLM, referral marketing, companies. Where you are actually dealing with products and or services. The only option of them all that can actually eventually provide financial freedom is joining a home based business organization, learn as you go as far as training, but that takes some time to develop.
Perhaps you could do something on ebay, and you might want to look around to see if there is something you have that you can sell just to get your feet wet. But it is very hard to find reliable companies to buy products from to resell and there again, that takes money to purchase products to resell. My brother-in-law tried the drop ship thing for about a year, spent untold hours maintaining his ebay business and lost money. I have even known people to buy clothing in thrift stores and resell it on ebay. Knowing what product will do well though is a hit or miss proposition.
You can also start your own business. You may want to look at things you are ‘crafty’ at and find a way to make money that way.
Making grand amounts of money strictly on line is not as easy as most will lead you to believe and the grander the promises or claims of instantaneous wealth, the more I would be concerned. This probably is NOT what you want to hear, but it is pretty much the truth.
~jennifer
Helping others create income from home through education of the system and how it really works.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I agree with Jennifer about the self-discipline needed to work from home.
We joined FreeLife International which sells health based nutritional products. The start up fee is usually less than $200.00. You earn residual income, and this company IS considered an MLM. So, hopefully you have some sales experience. On the link below, if you view the links at the bottom right hand corner, you will gain information about the company and products.
Good Luck!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I know a lot about this topic so please forgive the length of this reply. I have a lot of good info for you. I am a mother of two little girls who are actually tugging on my arm as I write this so I will try to be brief. Many people are looking for work from home companies. All the scams definitely create a big problem but also, there is a problem of people misunderstanding the difference between work from home "jobs" and work from home opportunities. There really are not work from home “jobs”. To get that you have to start working for a company in their offices first, then they MAY allow you to take the job home.
Most of the work from home opportunities that are legitimate offers are not an hourly pay type job. They are business opportunities that help you in starting your own business from your home.
What you should do first is to decide if you are simply looking for an hourly rate type job or if you are looking for more of an opportunity for additional income such as what you would make in your own business being your own boss from home. Many say a JOB stands for Just Over Broker and I have found that to be true as well. I never got anywhere working for others.
Small home businesses have some small costs involved, less then $100 to start is reasonable and I would stay away from those wanting $300, $500 even some asking for $1000-$5000. It doesn’t cost that much to start and run a home business so you shouldn’t pay it. The real ones will have a small monthly overhead as well. Should be around $50 a month but no more then $75. And everything should be included from your web sites to training and team support to back office accounting and booking. It’s ok to pay this overhead because it’s a business, they cost money. It’s not reasonable to assume you can run a business from home with a website and more for free so do keep that in mind as you search.
If you are coming across places that say free then I would RUN don’t walk the other way! They never are. I tried them many a times and 3 weeks later I had to buy this and 6 weeks later that. After 6 months these “free businesses” had cost me over $800 on average.
I’m a stay at home mom of two little girls as I mentioned, ages 1 and 3. I work about 15-18 hours per week for a National Medical Benefits Company. This is a home business, a nationally known and reputable home business which is what you need to make sure you are looking for. I have been with the company almost a year now and I make over $2000 a month! In your first month, depending on how many hours you can work, I have seen people make anywhere from $300 to over $3000. And your income will increase each month because we get paid residual income as well. If I continue on as I am going at the end of the year I will be making $5000 a month. My friend Becky from South Carolina started 2 years before me and she is now making $95,000 a year with this company.
The best part is they have 401(k), direct deposit, life insurance and a benefits package most of which you get from day one. In addition, there are no products, no hard selling or pushing, no cold calling, no home parties and no telemarketing! That was VERY important to me.
I absolutely love working with them and I can’t believe I am making what I am making and in so few hours per week. The neat thing is there are other people on your team that you work with so you are never alone. You have great team support and you get to know the other people on your team pretty well. The support is great but I have made wonderful friends as well. I think that’s important too, especially being at home!
I was a bit apprehensive at first because I know a lot of companies are not legit but this company is the number one National Medical Benefits Company in the US. They are a member of the US Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Dental Plans and the owner of the company actually sits on the board of The Consumer Health Alliance to which we are also members. Also they were featured in “The New York Times”, “Wall Street Journal” “Time Magazine” and the “American Medical Review”. Even “60 Minutes” with Morley Safer did a big special on this home based business.
Even more then all this is they are accepted at over 100,000 retailers nation wide. These are fortune 500 companies like Sears, Target, Walgreens, CVS, Wal-mart, Publix and more. These companies would never work with a company that was any thing less then reputable. That made me feel very good about working with them knowing they were accepted at these stores that I frequent. Also now of course being with them I get the dental and vision benefits for free and I saved over $150 on my last visit to the dentist! That’s just a beautiful perk! : – )
When I first started I just felt very safe with them, that and my friend was already making so much money with Ameriplan. But at this point I feel a sense of security financially that our family has never had before. That plus LOVING what you do? What could be better?
Check them out! Just type in http://www.workathomeplus.net in your web browser.
-Amy
October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
http://makemoney1101.blogspot.com
If you can do the research, and apply yourself, anything is possible. There are so many wide open opportunities to be found on the internet.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Last year when I started working from home online I was looking around and found one that has really worked out well.
One I found and I’m very happy with give a totally free trial for 7 days so you can try it out and be sure that’s what you want to do and it will work for you, you get lots of support in getting started.
Here is an online movie you can watch with no obligation, I’m not sure if it will be for you, but at least view the movie and decide for yourself.