Where to find home based work?

Where can i find legit home based work?

  • i am a mum to my 8 month old boy and the prospect of going back to work makes me feel physically sick. i am wanting to work from home, on my computer, earning loads of money!!! i dont mind what the work is, but not doing online surveys - been there and done that, and the money is non-existent. does anyone have any advice for me? anyone else in the same position?

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    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. http://working-from-home-ireland.blogspot.com/ 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. http://www.working-from-home-jobs.com/ 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! : - ) http://my-data-entry.blogspot.com/ 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 LOVE

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"If a company requires initial payment from you in order to work for them, they are not legitimate." There are a few legitimate data entry companies but are not hiring and have large waiting lists (1-2yrs). The majority of data entry jobs you seen online are scams. A real company will want you to have skills inc fast typing, may want you to know MS Excel, and will usually ask that you have high speed internet. Once in a long while you may found one online on a job website but thats rare. If you do an advanced search on yahoo, you will find previous answers, sometimes the info on these is good as the info they gave is likely to have been verified if the answer was voted as 'Best'.

Fergus

I think you've pretty much answered your own question in that the only jobs that are going to pay you what you are really worth is your own business finding and filling the needs for your customers. You can dream about working for a generous employer who wants to pay you loads of money but even in a great economy employers need to keep extra profits for themselves and/or to reinvest in the company not to pay staff. Wouldn't it be great if those surveys could make you rich and famous? Get to the library for books on startup business, business planning, accounting, taxes, marketing, etc. and when the right idea comes to you, move full speed ahead!!! The perfect job won't find you so it's time to get yourself a plan that you can stick to and get er done!!!

rayt721

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mattchisws

I've started a small blog to get some various money making ideas posted. There's not too much out there in the giant mess of options that's actually legitimate. Anything I post will be a site I've already received a payout from and you can make some small amounts of money too. Thankful For Fools http://moneyintenclicks.blogspot.com/

Thankful For Fools

i have been looking for that kind of work for years, there isnt any, about 99% of what you are going to be offered (from mostly scammers now that you asked this) are all scams.

insane_mad_maniak

There are two safe homerun businesses which you can join for free.

Graham W

The first thing you should be asking yourself is...are you willing to spend a couple of hours of work everyday? Are you the one that's willing to put in that extra 5% that will separate you from the rest? In other words...are you a winners type? If not, well sorry but you will never make a single dollar online. There isn't such a thing as "getting rich easy and quick" If there was...everyone would be a millionaire! In fact, 96 % of all the people who are trying to make money online, fail! And why is that? The #1 reason is that they're not getting the support they need from their sponsors. If you join a particular program to make money online, you really should join through someone who knows what online marketing is all about and can help you setting up your campaign in order to recruit people and promote your business. Before joining a program through someone, contact him and try to find out what he can do for you after you signed up. Me and my wife have been in online marketing for more than 5 years now and have been able to quit our jobs in 2006 and do this full-time. Was it easy? No! We invested in marketing courses, E-books, online training, personal development seminars, internet marketing seminars and so on. We spend more than 4 years researching and practicing all the techniques and strategies there are! So now we can honestly say that we know what we are talking about and that we can help people to make money online. There are many ways to do business over the internet, you can join a MLM program, you can sell your own products (like E-books) online or just be an affiliate (than you sell someone else's products and earn a percentage). We do a combination of these things. If you want to join a MLM program...in a few hours there is going to be a launch of the biggest thing the internet has ever seen. When you join before the actual launch you can get in for free! You really should check it out!

Nick Securio

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