Archive for May, 2007

by Lolly M.
By consistently reviewing the most up to date marketing information and online business tips available today you can protect yourself against work from home scams and fraudsters out to rob you of your money. I was spring cleaning my personal e-mail box the other day a another Work From Home Scam Job Offer which prompted me to write a discussion on this topic as I have seen a few of these around lately.

A couple of months ago I received an e-mail from an Australian Job site called CareerOne. This e-mail was a “work from home job offer” which entailed using one of my bank accounts to move extremely large sums of money, from one account to another, and offered me a large commission of funds.

Now, the alarm bells went off and I immediately reported it, I knew this was a work from home scam but how many people out there new to the Internet would recognise this as a work from home scam? It would be very tempting for someone who is genuinely seeking a legitimate Internet Business Income to innocently jump at such an apparent opportunity. Unfortunately without realising, they unintentionally end up breaking many laws.

Work from home scams are often conducted through spam e-mails, ads in classified sites and on noticeboards or forums. Most are not legitimate work from home job offers. In fact, many of them are a front for money laundering scams, an upfront payment scam or a pyramid scheme. You may receive an e-mail offering a job where you use your bank account to receive and pass on payments for a foreign company, just as I did. They promise to pay you commission for each payment you pass on. The money you are transferring could be part of a money laundering ring and you could end up in serious trouble for being a part of this. Sometimes they are just after your bank account details, cleaning you out after you hand over your details.

You could also be offered a ‘work from home job’ for doing something like stuffing envelopes or typing ads. You are required to pay for a starter kit or administration/joining fee before you can get started. However, once the money is paid, you may receive nothing at all, or simply a set of instructions on how to con other people into joining the same scheme. They proliferate the Net. I actually saw one of these typing work from home ads in my local Messenger just the other day. They wanted a $199 start up fee.

KNOW THIS

Legitimate Online Job Sites will never send you unsolicited e-mail offering you jobs. Remember there are no get-rich-quick schemes: the only people who make money here are the scammers. Be highly suspicious of products or schemes that claim to have guaranteed income or winnings. Be highly suspicious of work from home job offers that require you to pay an upfront fee. You should not have to pay for a work from home job. Money laundering is a criminal offence: NEVER under any circumstances agree to transfer money for someone else. NEVER send money, or give credit card or online account details to any company or person that cannot be verified. Do not open suspicious or unsolicited e-mails (spam): delete them.

BACKGROUND CHECKS

Before responding to a work from home job, try to find out if the company is reputable and well known. If the work from home job offer involves transferring money for someone else, ask yourself if you really want to get involved in something that could be money-laundering and likely to attract police attention. If you are concerned that they are using a legitimate company as a front ask for a direct phone number to the company they are representing and check it out. Check the website address they have given matches the company name and telephone number. There are a number of ways for you to verify their identity. If they cannot provide you with this information, avoid them like the plague.

If you think you may have received a work from home offer that you think is a scam, or if you have responded to a job advertisement that you now realise is a work from home scam, report it to the SCAMwatch website. If you have received an unsolicited e-mail from a well known Job Site, report it to them. This will help others from falling victim themselves.

In summary, remember: be suspicious of unsolicited e-mails, do a background check, and never pay for a work from home job. If you are looking to start an Internet Based Business Opportunity; that is different to a work from home job. Legitimate Internet Business Income Opportunities have start up costs but these are usually for items like website hosting, marketing tools, and advertising costs. Take the time to look around and think through any decision to sign up to a program or Internet Business Income Opportunity before taking the plunge. In doing so, you will save yourself a lot of time, money and heartache.

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by cleveland

With the increasing popularity of online surveys, you most probably have heard of paid surveys or at least participated in one of them. However, there are a few people who do not really understand why it’s important to participate in surveys. Let’s first see why surveys are quite important to our day-to-day life.

Why you should participate?

Paid surveys are rapidly becoming the most preferred means of data collection today, thanks to the Internet. This is because the Internet has made surveys available to almost everybody who can log on to the Internet from almost every country in the entire world. Collection of consumer information is the main stronghold of the entire market research industry. Market research firms design and conduct data collection, by use of surveys and that is where you, the consumers, comes into play because he/she is the source of the data. Not until lately, production firms had to try and make the best possible estimate of how to make the best goods and services to meet their consumers’ tastes, which was difficult for most production companies. But all that has now been turned around and the consumer now can directly influence how or what he wants from these companies simply by participating in research projects. Companies today go full lengths to make or produce goods that have been customized to meet what their consumers’ preferences are. For that reason both the production companies have found it easier to make the best possible products for their consumers, and the consumer is most at home with the products these companies produce for him/her to use.

How can you participate?

Participation is simple and quite interesting because you will not only learn something from participating in research projects but also get some reward for it. Marketing research firms pay consumers to participate in surveys, and focus groups. Let’s first cover how to find good survey companies, join their panels and start taking surveys.

How to find legitimate survey companies.

This marks the very first step into the survey world. If you do it right and find good survey companies, then you can rest assured to have a great experience taking online surveys. But on the other side, there are illegitimate sites all over the internet that will end up frustrating you and maybe even duping you off your money. Do not start raising your eyebrows, because you are just about to learn how to spot these sites that are making people regret after joining them. The internet has thousands of sites that are designed to fool people and con them. For instance, there are survey sites that are claiming to make people rich overnight just from taking paid surveys. Paid surveys are rewarding and can make you some easy money but can not possibly be a "dream job" or full time occupation and it’s unlikely that anyone can earn a living from paid surveys. Be wary not to fall victim to scam sites that are all over the Internet. Please read the seven steps below on how to find legitimate survey sites and also how to spot the bad ones. To start you search for survey sites, simply go to Google and type "paid surveys, or online paid surveys", and you will get millions of paid survey sites. This is where the road gets blur and tricky, but do not be alarmed because you only need at least five legitimate survey sites for you to get started. Some people may prefer to join hundreds of sites but to get the best experience as a starter, you should rather begin with the best top 5 to 10 panels, than join 300 sites some of which may only be mirror or partner site to the major companies. On further searching you may find other "middleman" sites that offer links to hundreds of paid survey site. Most of these "middlemen" get paid commissions to solicit referrals to other survey companies. Some of the sites on their lists are usually outdated but you may as well give it a shot since you have got nothing to lose. Just make sure you do not give them your money for these lists in the name of "membership fee" because all you will get is a list to other sites. Always be wary too when you spot sites that claim to pay you anything like $250 an hour for taking paid surveys. They usually have lots of exaggerated promises just to sway you into signing up using their lists. Some of these sites will even try to make you pay a fee which they may call "membership fee, one-time fee or entry fee". Avoid such sites because all you will get after paying the so-called membership fee is a list of other survey companies, which you can find for free with a little search over the Internet. Such lists are sometimes a mere outdated collection of affiliate links to other paid surveys sites. Legitimate paid surveys companies run free-to-join panels and will never make willing panelists-to-be pay anything. Go to Google and try to read more about paid surveys scams by typing "paid survey scams" into their search box. Below are seven major steps and guidelines that will help you find great survey site that will pay you well and make you a great experience.

• Try not to get swayed into paying any membership fee. That is the first red light right there!
• Make sure the survey site you intend to join has a working means of contacting those who run it, i.e. there should be a way to contact those who run the site, company owners or customer staff.
• Try to find out about the site’s web reputation by visiting forums and asking others about that particular website. Type up the sites name into Google and find out what others are saying about it.
• The site should be hosted by an actual market research company with a web presence. Be wary of sites hosted on free hosting servers and sites with advertising all over them. Some of these websites will just collect your email address and start spam feeding you with ads.
• This is not a very strong way of distinguishing scam sites from legitimate ones, but always be careful on sites that make exaggerated promises of making you rich from surveys, "dream job" or paying you on an hourly basis. Legitimate survey sites will most often only pay you for surveys you participate in.
• Try to find their "about us" or "our services" page and read it carefully. Do not forget to read the fine print on their "Terms of Service, Terms of Use, or Policy" pages as well.
• Finally, always follow what you conscience tells you. If the deal sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

Joining the panel and getting started.

By this point you should have already found the sites that you intend to join, please read the section on "How to find legitimate survey sites" if you have not found any yet. Joining panels is usually simple and fast because most sites only require your email address and personal details like names, age, gender, country/city of residence and such like stuff. Assuming that you are already at the site’s main or home page, first try to read as much as you can and see what the site offers. This is the place to make good use of the headings and the introductory text all over the page. Keep in mind that as you read through, you should also be checking for signs that may trigger suspicion about the site’s legitimacy. From the main/home page of the site try and find a link to their "Sign up" page, some may refer to it as "Join, Join Us, or Register" etc. Clicking on it should bring you to a page with at least a form for you to use. Go ahead and read their Terms of Service first before you start filling up the form. If you can abide by their terms then try and find their "Frequently Asked Question’s" page if they have any, and read it through. Finally, it is always nice for any legitimate company website to have a working contact system, also check out for this. If none of these gave you a reason to be suspicious about the site, then go, ahead and fill the registration form and submit it. Some sites may need you to confirm your registration by checking your email address while some may not. By this point you should be able to take surveys if they have any, or you have to wait for them to send you email invitations when they have any available.

What you need to know about paid surveys

Paid surveys have been around for quite some time now and are known as a simple and quick way to make money online. You do not need any special skills or be a web expert in order to get impressive rewards or payment from taking paid surveys online. While this is true, you will often see websites that promises exaggerated payments like $250 an hour for participating in paid surveys online. These exaggerated sites may occasionally sway some new web surfers into believing that they have stumbled on the jackpot of riches. Most of these sites that promise such unbelievable amounts of payments in most instances are "middlemen-owned" sites and they just want to sway others into signing up so that they can get paid a commission for that. Some sites even try to make their visitors pay a fee for them to earn membership, which is usually access to their list of affiliate sites. These sites usually have exaggerated promises and will even try to make you believe them by displaying "cooked" testimonials, proof in form of a check’s image or paypal payments. Some will even guarantee that if you do not earn a certain amount of money within a given time, they will refund you your money. Please do not let your money go down the drain so easily like this. Most of these guarantees, testimonies and proofs are only meant to sway you into to paying a fee you will kiss goodbye because chances of you getting it back are one in a million. Experienced web surfers say that when it comes to the Internet, only one rule applies best, "If the deal is too good to be true, then it probably is!" These scam sites have caused quite a scare to many would-be-survey-takers and if you and I keep off them and raise awareness throughout the Internet, then we may just be able to lessen the damage they are causing.

The good part of almost everything is that there is always the other side of it. So does it apply to the Internet, we have really bad sites and as well as REALLY GOOD ones! Typical online survey companies that are really into market research will not make you pay anything to be a member but will pay you for your time and efforts in their projects. These companies will in most cases pay up to $80 a survey but what do you have to lose, you are not only making a free $80 but also helping improve consumer products and services by giving your much valued opinions to production companies. Some sites offer other forms of rewards like credits or points which can be accumulated to a certain threshold before payment is made for the completed online paid surveys. Gifts and prizes, vouchers, and discounts at shopping malls and stores are also a great way many survey takers benefit from participating in paid surveys.

As we round up, please also note that you should be quite aware of sites that do not respect user privacy. Such sites will lead to lots of unbearable junk mail in your inbox. This is a major problem on the internet today because even respectable companies share their customers’ details with other companies they are affiliated with and you will definitely get some unsolicited emails from other companies to mess up your mornings. Real honest survey companies would never reveal your personal details to outsiders though, even if they were affiliated or not. It is recommendable that you open a free email account and use that email address for all your survey work. This will lessen the disk space usage of you email provider since some companies will really pump you up with tons of email surveys, and it will also help stop mixing up survey emails with your personal emails.

Hopefully, you have at least learnt something about surveys from this article, please if you found it helpful, do pass it on to a friend so he or she can also get something from it. Now it’s your turn to act. Go out there, find good market research firms and start giving your opinion to help improve the goods and services that you and I’ll use tomorrow. Thanks for your time and best of luck.

Cleveland works with paidsurveysworld.com to provide free paid surveys online. Please start participating in online surveys to share your opinions with us.

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by Lolly M.
When considering an internet business income opportunity you need to know how to choose the right one for you. First of all, because of the advances in internet technology, there are more internet business income opportunity chances online than you ever thought of before but this can sometimes be overwhelming. So how do you choose?

Also, beware, of those nasty scams, they’re every where so watch out. Your level of Internet skills will also affect your ability to be competitive in certain Internet business income opportunities. So how do you sort through all of the factors to find the right internet business income opportunity for you?

FACTORS INVOLVED

First and foremost, it is important to identify something that you love doing. You have to believe that there is a genuine need out there for whatever you are selling. If you don’t, It will show. You will also very quickly lose interest, get bored and probably quit when it doesn’t work. So your first task is to discover what you are passionate about.

Once you know what your passions are, then you can target your search for an internet business income opportunity that fits with at least one of your passions. There are literally hundreds internet business income opportunities available all of which can be conducted from the comfort of your own home. Some will require a lot of customer service and contact while others will require only the use of e-mail with minimal contact with people. The choice is yours.

After you narrow down the businesses you are interested in, you will need to consider carefully Your level of Internet Skills and see which internet business income opportunity will fit with your skill level. If you are a brand new entrepreneur, you may want to go with a ready made Internet Business Income Opportunity that comes with a lot of training.

Alternatively, you may want to create your own Internet business from scratch if you have the knowledge and skills to do so. Start off by making a list of your skills and then match them against the internet business income opportunities you are interested in to see which best fit your skill level.

Now, that you have narrowed your list down based upon your passions and skills and have short listed some of the internet business income opportunities, you need to scrutinize the opportunities themselves. Do some research on each of the internet business income opportunities you have chosen. You have to understand the difference between a scam and a legitimate internet business income opportunity.

Take some time to read through articles about how to identify scams. The few minutes it takes you to familiarize yourself with the common scams like pyramid schemes, stuffing envelopes, or assembly jobs will save you money later.

Unfortunately there are a number of people out there that are just there to empty your wallet so learn who they are and avoid them.

Once you finally choose an internet business income opportunity and its time to start, be prepared for the hard work that goes into running an Internet Business. Learn to take the time you need away from the computer and work. It becomes very easy for people to get so caught up in their work that they forget to schedule some time for fun.

Take care of yourself and your health. Learn any extra skills you may need in order to run your Internet Business. Ask your sponsor for help if you are having trouble with anything or if you can’t get in touch with them go to an online help forum.

Oh, and don’t forget to have FUN!

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by wolney
All making money programs you maybe find online have proven to work for some people and do not work for others. There are many factors it can be explained.

An online home business is an alternative for the life change. That is a probable chance to work as independent. But I believe more that the value of home based business work is in the possibility to work with more pleasure, approaching in the dreamed happiness each more time.

However, in fact what works for one does not mean it works for everybody. The point here is: what can influence success online?

Immediately I can say it is pertinent information. For example, we go to think about affiliated programs. At my opinion the mainly thing to learn is to advertise through out the Internet.

A new member of Internet Marketing do not have experienced with any strategic of advertisement. There are hundreds or thousands of different people looking for a new way to get augment their income and certainly they are signing up some program just now. And after sign up they need information to creating a constant presence online.

It is a long way to start making money on Internet after to enter an affiliate program. It is not one click and an overnight getting rich. On the other hand Internet marketing is the right place to have a different style of make money innovated. But you and everybody need much information.

In a conventional business you would have to rent a building, to pay utilities and to purchase equipments and advertisements. If you choose a franchise, you would have to pay monthly fee.

An online home business is cheaper. You need to find what works best for you and just keep at it. If you are interested in improving your ability to get what you want and to gain greater influence within your affiliated program you must consider to looking for a sort of information that can target your goals.

And if your goals mean making money with a work at home Internet business you need to consider having your own domain name, mainly to personalize your products. Free web site templates are great when you have a short budget. However, it is limited to show your personal entrepreneur and to sell with complete assurance. It is important to you start online business.

Your web site has the function to sell products, if you are intended to do it. The function is not static. It depends on your work to promote.

That is the art of making money online that is to promote your products, either the affiliated programs or another one like books and others. To earn money online depends on you, because all of us are independent business people and the responsibility of our success is in our hand.

I prefer using free promotion of my site. I do mainly article writing, posting in forums, leaving comments in blogs. There are many varied ways to bring good quality traffic to your site. Remember this is a business and it takes time to build a good solid business.

So success online is mix of tasks of to choose a good affiliate program, setup a website, participate on online forum, to publish articles at articles directories and gets to search engine optimization. All of these things are new concept to be interpreted, reinterpret and understood.

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by Roosevelt Cooper
What do you do when you or someone on your team runs out of prospects to talk to about your business? This challenge plagues many a distributor in the network marketing industry. What if you and your team developed an endless stream of prospects to talk to about your business? Prospecting over the internet makes this possible!

Why would you want to prospect on the internet as oppose to other ways of prospecting for your business? Maybe you or your business partners are very shy and not willing to implement more outgoing methods of prospecting such as the famous “three-foot rule” or attending networking events. Perhaps you or your business partners work a very odd schedule (like nights) that makes other methods of prospecting difficult.

When should you add internet prospecting to your network marketing business? Add internet prospecting after you talk to everyone in your warm market. There’s one exception to this rule, when you run out of any warm market prospects that live outside your local market and the referrals generated through your warm market all live locally to you.

Prospecting online offers the benefit of schedule flexibility. What other method of prospecting can you use 24 hours a day 7 days a week from any location in the world with access to a computer and a phone? Prospecting online also offers the ability to prospect to any market in the world. Looking to build a business in sunny Southern California or Hawaii? Generate prospects online that live in these markets and you can build your business there or anywhere you choose!

One method to prospect online involves purchasing co-registration or business opportunity leads. You pay a company a set amount per lead to generate a list of prospects that you can share your business with and the company provides you with information about these prospects. The set amount varies based on many factors, including the information you want to collect, whether you want leads in a specific market or whether you want leads exclusive to you or shared with a few others. With these leads you can email them a web site, call them and get them on a conference call or mail them out additional information. Purchasing leads simplifies the prospecting
process. You simply pay money and receive in return a list of prospects to contact. Using this list, you can email them or mail out to them 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You can also call them between 9am and 9pm in their time zone. If you purchase leads in different time zones, you can contact leads practically any time during the day.

Another method to prospecting online involves register for social networking web sites. Web sites like www.myspace.com www.hi5.com and others allow you to network with other internet users all across the world. You can use the power of these web sites to prospect for your network marketing business. This method of prospecting offers the benefit of no cost and you can contact people 24 hours a day 7 days a week. To prospect online using this method, simply register for a free account, then browse the web site and look at different profiles available. When you find someone that interests you for your business, simply send them a message introducing yourself. If they reply back, you can build rapport with them or simply go for the straight-forward approach and gauge their interest in looking at your business. Assuming they reply with interest, you can move them to the next method of your exposure process, whether it’s sending them to a web site, a conference call or mailing them out a tool.

In conclusion, prospecting on the internet can revolutionize your business if you know how to do it. So try out some of the concepts learned in this article, continue to educate yourself on the process and as you enjoy success, make sure you teach these concepts to the members of your team. Remember the key to building a long-term successful business in network marketing does not involve you necessarily knowing everything but you teaching your organization to teach their organization how to master the process of building a network marketing organization. Prospecting online allows you to introduce a very powerful prospecting process to your organization.

Would you like to learn more about how to build an unlimited flow of network marketing prospects using the power of internet marketing? Roosevelt Cooper shares many techniques on his web site. Visit us at http://webmarketingformlm.com

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by Get Paid To Do Online Surveys
It seems like all of my friends these days have decided to quit their day jobs and instead get paid to do online surveys. At first, I thought it was going to be something that they’d regret after they found out on their own that it wasn’t a viable way to pay their bills. Instead, I was surprised to find that six months, even a year or so later, they were making more money than ever and going on vacations that I was jealous of!

After awhile, I decided to look into it and see if I could get paid to do online surveys too. I asked one of my more successful survey friends if he had any tips, and he suggested that as a first step I join PaidSurveysEtc.com. Apparently, it was the best way to get access to all of the companies looking for people to participate in focus groups and fill out surveys for cash.

So I did join, and in the process I found out that the site has way more to offer than just a list of paid surveys. While membership provides you with everything you need to get paid to do online surveys, it also gives you tips on how to get paid to drive your car, eat at your favorite restaurants and read your email. Can you imagine getting paid to read your email? In fact, you can make up to $3,500 each month following the leads the site gives you. I’ve been making enough money working from home to start saving for my new dream car, something I never thought would be possible at my age. I’m so happy that I decided to look into how to get paid to fill out surveys, it’s probably been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made!

To learn more about how you can get paid to do online surveys, visit the official PaidSurveysEtc.com site today.

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by Paid to do Surveys
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could work from home all day and get paid to do surveys? The thought is wonderful, to say the least. But how much can you realistically expect to make working from home, sitting in front of your computer? Is it comparable to that of your current day job?

What if I told you that you can make $3,500 each month, surfing the internet and getting paid to do surveys about products you know and love (or hate!)? $3,500 each month is nothing to sneeze at, especially if you consider the money you’ll save on gas, business casual clothes, parking, child care and general car expenses like repairs.

Getting paid to do surveys can be the job you’ve always dreamed of having, and will allow you the freedom and flexibility to take time off whenever you want. Have a doctor appointment? No problem! You’re your own boss, so you never have to worry about running out of vacation time. Best yet, if you find yourself a little short on rent one month, you can just fill out more surveys and increase your paycheck!

In my experience, getting paid to do surveys is the best job around. I can’t believe there are so many people working dead end jobs, making other people millions, when they can be happy working from home. There are even websites out there that make the whole process simple, like PaidSurveysEtc.com.

PaidSurveysEtc.com makes it easy to get paid to do surveys, as they’ve done all of the legwork for you in terms of finding the companies looking for people to complete surveys about products. By finding all of the surveys and focus groups, they save you a ton of time and effort. If you’re going to work from home and get paid to do surveys, I’d highly recommend becoming a member at a site like PaidSurveysEtc.com.

To learn how to get paid to do surveys, visit the official PaidSurveysEtc.com site today.

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by About Paid Surveys
Have you ever wondered what the big deal is about paid surveys? I know I did, after hearing so many people talk about how they’re able to work from home at their own pace, thanks to surveys and focus groups. In fact, I have several friends who have quit their day jobs and now work exclusively from home, filling out surveys and participating in focus groups about products and services. One of the friends who does this, Eileen, even makes extra money babysitting while working at her computer! She now drives a Lexus!

Since I’ve heard so much about paid surveys, I decided to look into it on my own. It turns out, you can make up to $3,500 each month, not including all of the money you’ll save commuting to and from work. That’s more than I make working in an office downtown!

In my research where I learned more about paid surveys, I came across a website that makes getting paid to do surveys and focus groups easier than ever. That website is PaidSurveysEtc.com, and has done all of the leg work necessary to pay your bills working online. Do you know how long it would take you to find the companies that are looking for people to tell them about their products? Honestly, it would probably take you years to find the list of leads that PaidSurveysEtc.com gives you access to.

In the last few weeks, I have found out so much about paid surveys that I put my two weeks notice into my day job downtown. I’m saying goodbye to the expensive downtown parking lease, two tanks of gas a week and business casual wardrobe and hello to spending more time with my children. I encourage you to find more out on your own about paid surveys, because you can really make a ton of money working from home.

To learn more about paid surveys and how you can make money from home with them, visit the official PaidSurveysEtc.com site today.

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by Do Online Surveys and Get Paid
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to fill out online surveys and get paid? I know I did, so I looked into the industry that sounds too good to be true. After some extensive research, however, I discovered that not only is it possible to pay all of your bills filling out online surveys but it can make you a lot of money.

I found out that you can do online surveys and get paid up to $3,500 each month. I don’t know how much you make on a monthly basis after taxes, but I know I didn’t make that much at my job as a desk jockey. It almost made me want to quit my job on the spot! I was frustrated and angry that I had spent so many years working to make somebody else rich, when the whole time I could have been working from home and spending more time with my family!

When you do online surveys and get paid, the possibilities are endless. The most important thing about working from home filling out surveys and participating in focus groups is finding the best website to join to give you all of the leads you need. From what I’ve seen, the best site out there in terms of helping you to make the most money possible from home is PaidSurveysEtc.com. Honestly, the site is beyond awesome.

If you want to do online surveys and get paid, PaidSurveysEtc.com has everything you need. The site even includes an income calculator that will tell you approximately how much your paycheck will be, depending on how many focus groups you want to participate in and how many surveys you’re willing to fill out each day. When you can calculate your potential income, there’s no guesswork involved and it really makes a difference when it comes to knowing how much extra spending money you’ll have each month.

To learn more about how to do online surveys and get paid, visit the official PaidSurveysEtc.com site today.

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by Niru
What kind of people engage in home businesses and start working from home? Do you have any idea?

The other day I read an article from a guy who tried to categorize the “working from home” league, a niche which is not really an niche anymore but a huge market. He was talking about how foolish it was to think everybody could start a business on the internet and that most of the home businesses were not actual businesses only in disguise. The ugly thing about it was the destructive judgement of all the hard working people who are just trying to make a living and improve the quality of their lives and their families.

I have had contact with quite a few of my subscribers from different continents and they are all trying very hard to change their present living situation. Ask yourself why in the first place you were attracted to doing home business on the internet? You must have had a goal in mind. Nobody is just bored and has nothing else to do. So the vast majority of the people with all different social and economic backgrounds are searching for a better life. All over the world.

Doesn´t that make you compassionate? Ok, business doesn´t have anything to do with love and compassion, it´s hard, it´s a life struggle, a fight. IT´S NOT. It is just that way if you think it is. Don´t stop reading now because you think hey that´s the same old stuff everybody is telling me about `you are what you think´.

Let it sink into your being. Test it. Let´s say you are getting up in the morning feeling great. The sun is shining, life feels gorgeous. On your way to your job you meet a friend who looks at you and says, aren´t you feeling well, you look kind of pale today. No,no, you say, I feel great. You decide to take a cab and after a few minutes the cab driver turns around and says, Mr. are you ok? You look like you are going to throw up in a minute. Shall I stop so you can get out? Slowly, slowly your great feelings about yourself start fading away like mist in the morning sun. But you pull yourself together and arrive at the office. You step in and instantly get this call to see your boss right away. You are feeling stressed because you know it´s about your raise. What if he noticed that I´m looking kind of sick, my stomach doesn´t feel good, maybe I should leave and take the day off….maybe I need some rest.

Actually nothing had happened since you got out of bed in the morning. Your body was perfectly alright. You were feeling great. It was your mind starting to think what if my friend and the cabdriver were right and I´m really sick. Maybe I should see a doctor, my grandpa got cancer when he was my age… ? You know what I mean? Your mind can drive you crazy if you let it.

There is this number of 95% of home businesses that fail and I don´t even know where this number is coming from but as far as I can see does it serve very well in recruiting people for signing up for affiliate programs. Through the way the working from home programs are advertised on the internet: “3 steps”, “easy”, “fully automated”, “for free”, “strings attached”, “no prior experience needed”, “easy money in 24h”, and the list goes on and on.. it makes ordinary people think that everybody can start working from home and they begin hoping and soon they´ll discover that it is not as easy as they were told and they quit.

Now, who is responsible? I think, if it is really 95% who actually fail, a big part of the responsibility goes to the recruiting programs and the lack of proper support. There is this one “secret”, I once read in a report which told that you should only recruit people who have been in mlm business before and this way you are going to be successful much faster. Everybody
who is halfway clear in his mind can come up with this “secret”, don´t you think. There are no secrets left, they are only used to draw innocent newbies into business and might cause disaster in relationships and families.

If you are a responsible person, you might be aware of that and therefore have a different, more realistic approach or at least provide the newbie with everything he or she needs to learn when they decide to seriously engage in business. A little compassionate feeling can change so much in this world. On the internet there might be a tendency to forget that we are all dealing with real people, with fates, environments that are very much unlike our own and all the problems that go with it.

The competition is hard and the advertisements are about dreams, hopes, a better life and last not least much money. It´s the perfect setting to attract all kinds of people, especially those with economic problems. As long as the advertisers keep up their method of promising all for nothing there will be a great deal failure in working from home businesses. I think this is not fair and it is ugly, too.

Ingrid Nirupama Grzeskowiak is a teacher for personal developmentin Europe. She has 20 years experience in meditation and personal development processes.You can “meet” her at:Go4yourMoney - Work from home>

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