Is making money on line a scam ?Written by Robert Van Rumpt
Let me say first off that I am biggest skeptic in world. However I felt it was only prudent to check out those claims of ‘make money at home by clicking”. I started out with checking promise of making a decent income from filling out surveys. This is what I found. I reside in Canada and I found that a lot of sites advertised, were not available to me as they required US, or other, resident status.From my research, it takes approximately 300 prescreened survey company sign-ups to reach anywhere close to a full time wage (say $2500 to $5000 per month Cdn$) I went as far as signing up with top rated http://www.surveyscout.com and for a relatively small fee, I got access to their data base. I found about 100 sites that were open to Canadians (out of about 450). However most of survey companies were offering prizes or draws with few actually paying hard cash. Some were offering a point system with redeemable pay-outs in coupons or product discounts and/or free products. While it is nice to receive products for free I felt I worked for them and really it was payment for work I did. The prize draws are nice but if I really want to gamble with my time I probably would have a better time going to Vegas. Even though odds are much better in Survey Prizes. I managed to sign up with about 100 companies through Survey Scout and I am receiving about 3 to 6 requests to complete surveys every day within a couple of weeks of initial sign-up. That is not bad for a response but a long ways off from my goal to earn a living at this. While I was pleased with general responses and amount of e-mail I received, I quickly learned that it is going to take a long term, sustained effort to reach my goal.
| | Are You Inventive Enough to be an Inventor? Some Guidelines to Invention Success!Written by Vishal P. Rao
Inventors make a ton of money when invention is needed and when process is done properly. There are different types of inventions. Some inventions are more practical, making everyday lives of individuals easier (pens for example), some inventions are simply for entertainment purposes (television), and some inventions are multi-purpose (educational devices that are also entertaining). In addition, some inventions are simply answers to medical problems, as in prosthetic devices while others are simply "improvements" made to existing inventions. As you can see, inventing something successfully can be done in many styles and through many creative pathways.Overall, though, inventions either succeed or fail, depending upon need or desire for product by consumers. Let's face it, if something is not needed or desired, no one will buy it, no matter how clever it is! Even Thomas Alva Edison (he invented light bulb), failed thousands of times before inventing many successful products, as did famous British inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair. One of Sir Clive's "famous failures" included an X-Bike that was a cross between a pair of scissors and a bike. Thomas Edison's biggest failure overall was a mining operation invention which would separate iron from more low-grade ores, and Mr. Edison spent his fortune and lost it eventually, trying for a successful "invention method". Inventors, though, are seldom deterred, and continuing to try and invent eventually leads to extreme success, as in cases of both Thomas Edison and Sir Clive. Successful inventing entails a certain number of steps or processes that will routinely lead to successful inventions: A. The realistic assessment of invention's potential. Let's face it, if it isn't "needed or wanted", it won't sell. B. If a patent is needed. In some cases, believe it or not, it is not. C. The legal protection of ideas. Not allowing ideas to be stolen or copied. D. The development of a marketable product. Besides being needed or wanted, a product should be affordable enough to build that prices will appeal to a consumer. E. The methods of developing prototypes and engineering to bring an invention to fruition. This needs to be done properly for successful marketing.
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