Is making money on line a scam ?

Written by Robert Van Rumpt


Let me say first off that I amrepparttar biggest skeptic inrepparttar 100316 world. However I felt it was only prudent to check out those claims of ‘make money at home by clicking”. I started out with checkingrepparttar 100317 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 ofrepparttar 100318 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 withrepparttar 100319 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 ofrepparttar 100320 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 wasrepparttar 100321 payment forrepparttar 100322 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 throughrepparttar 100323 Survey Scout and I am receiving about 3 to 6 requests to complete surveys every day within a couple of weeks ofrepparttar 100324 initial sign-up. That is not bad for a response but a long ways off from my goal to earn a living at this.

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Are You Inventive Enough to be an Inventor? Some Guidelines to Invention Success!

Written by Vishal P. Rao


Inventors make a ton of money whenrepparttar invention is needed and whenrepparttar 100315 process is done properly. There are different types of inventions. Some inventions are more practical, makingrepparttar 100316 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 uponrepparttar 100317 need or desire forrepparttar 100318 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 inventedrepparttar 100319 light bulb), failed thousands of times before inventing many successful products, as didrepparttar 100320 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 inrepparttar 100321 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 ofrepparttar 100322 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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