Cyber Love At First SightWritten by Elaine Currie, BA (Hons).
How I Found My Home Based Business Niche.By: Elaine Currie, BA (Hons) © The Hunting Venus Group I found myself suddenly and unexpectedly unemployed after more than twenty-five years in same job. Prior to this I had no ambition to own my own business. I had previously had vague thoughts that it would be very nice to be able to work from home, but I never had any idea of what I could actually work at. I have a computer, I am literate and can type at a pretty fast rate. Apart from these, I have no skills which I can see as basis for a home based business. I like reading and I grow all manner of plants from beans to cacti, but I couldn’t see anybody paying me to stay home and do any of these things. If you had told me then where I would be today, and what I would be doing, I would have thought you were crazy. I would not have believed that I would own some websites (my own domain actually), be working from home and have published articles which I had written myself. I searched for work, both on and off internet and more I searched, more downhearted I became. Sure, there were jobs about but they all required things I lacked: some wanted experience, some wanted much younger people, worst ones wanted people who were prepared to work long hours for peanuts. I was regularly searching on Internet for opportunities for home work. I joined forums and read posts from women who were desperate to work from home, most of them had children and were unable to find suitable jobs to fit in with their schedules. It began to seem as if there is a great army of people all wanting to work but unable to find right opportunity to suit them. I signed up with a couple of companies to get paid for reading emails, but reading a couple of emails each day is not way to make a fortune. I still read emails for these companies, but only out of sentiment (you will understand what I mean by this when you get to end of this story). I picked up a couple of ideas which seemed promising and I tried them out. The first thing was mystery shopping, which sounded simple enough, and potentially enjoyable – well, getting paid to go shopping sounds good to me. I found many companies through searching internet and I applied to dozens of them; I wanted a full time job, not just odd shopping trip. Months went by and I heard nothing from any of these companies. Fortunately, I had not been just sitting back and waiting for mystery shopping jobs to come pouring in. I saw advertisements for paid surveys, and it seemed that you could make a full-time income filling in surveys on line. There were many websites which advised that you should never pay a fee to join a survey company, and these sites displayed web addresses of various survey companies. At same time, I saw a lot of advertising by a company which promised access to an enormous database of best paying survey companies for a fee of only $35, which you would be bound to recover within a few days. Against my better judgement, I paid over $35 and was disappointed to find that many of companies in this database would accept US and Canada residents only. Nothing wrong with that, apart from fact that I live in UK. Of companies which would accept international residents, I had already signed up to most of them. I got precisely nothing back for my $35. The only money I earned came from two paid survey companies which I did not join through that database. To date I have received a total payment of £12. I have earned another £21 which is in an account which would only pay out if my total reached £50.
| | Automatic Internet Marketing and Business Success On A $25.00 BudgetWritten by Anna Mattingly
3 Things You Must Do If You Want To Avoid The Internet Freebee Syndrome, And You Have No More Than $25 To Start A Business On The Internet. by Anna Mattingly There are plenty of free tools online for marketing. And many will get you sign ups and sales. This report is not a commentary on quality of all free marketing programs. We agree some do work. This report provides an alternative to "long term" usage requirement necessary in order to find free "working" programs. It's purpose also is to help eliminate "seeming" reluctance of free signups to upgrade. It is a way to virally market and to help eliminate long waiting periods when trying to get sales while using free marketing tools found online. 1. You Must Ask Advice Before Utilizing Free Tools. You might be surprised what you find out and secrets that you can learn. Asking advice instead of jumping right into freebee land (to market online) is smart way to begin your online career. Don't be enticed by online neon freebee lights....The Internet is full to brim with free everything and there are millions of people doing business on free sites. The question always is, "what does this do to their reputations?" You can learn "Other" alternatives.. Seek out entreprenneurs who have experience in starting web business(es) with little or no money. Learn inovative tricks that bypass bad choices. Just visit a forum and ask a few questions there....... Here are a few of more popular groups: http://ablake.net/forum/index.cgi http://friendsinbusiness.com/board1/index.cgi http://www.sowpub.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl? http://williecrawford.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/184615 http://www.tipsbooklets.com/discussion.htm http://msgboard.iverify.com/wwwboard.pl?#11385 http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/166590 2. You Must Read and Research Options On Your Own Listening to advice and believing what you hear are two different things. Because of this, it is also advisable to research difference between paid and free alternatives online for yourself. After all, how do we really know who we can believe? While some marketers have used a strong combination of free and paid advertising to build their entire self sustaining businesses, many a well meaning entreprenneur has nievely utilized an archaic outdated free service and found themselves going around and around in an endless circle with little or no results. This time wasting activity can be completely avoided by being kind to yourself and getting facts..
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