The Reality of Working at Home

Written by Kimberly Hargis


I have spentrepparttar last five years trying to work at home and have had some success. The following are a few facts I have to share with people who are either trying to or have given up trying to work at home. Q. What about places that put up "pay money to get a job" postings? Are they worthrepparttar 117981 money? Will I get a job if I spendrepparttar 117982 money? A. If a job asks for money, then it is not really a job. Think of it this way, would you pay to fill out an application for a job outside repparttar 117983 home? No, of course you would not, so why you would pay someone for a work-at-home job? Let's say that a listing says "Buy our software and you can work at home." This probably means that you buy repparttar 117984 software up-front and they give you a list of places that might hire you. The software is usually something similar to what you already have in your computer, like a word processor program or something you could buy in a local office supplies store's discount section. The list of jobs they give you is usually a list of companies they found inrepparttar 117985 phone book and you can findrepparttar 117986 same companies yourself just by usingrepparttar 117987 Internet Yellow Pages. And if companies were really hiring work-at-home people, then why would they giverepparttar 117988 software to another company to sell? They wouldn't! They would listrepparttar 117989 software requirements in their help wanted classified advertisement. Fact to remember: If they ask for money, then it is probably not a real job. Q. What about these places that advertise "Pay to join our group and we will help you find a job" or "We have hundreds or thousands of jobs listed" sites? A. I spent over $500.00 on those during my second year of job searching and never did get a job. I'm not saying they are all bad or tried to rip me off. Some were an all-and-all-out scam. Others honestly tried to provide a good job list for me to send my resume, but if you don't haverepparttar 117990 requisite skills, it doesn't matter how many honest job listings are provided. Still others provided job listings that were so old, they were no longer hiring or no longer in business! These sites used old job listings so they could say they had "thousands of jobs" listed. There were also some that listed jobs found listed by "monsters" and headhunters. My best advice is if you want to join one of these places, then you should go to a "work at home"-type message board and ask for other experiences withrepparttar 117991 company. Ask questions like: Did you really getrepparttar 117992 material they promised to send to you? What kind of jobs dorepparttar 117993 sites offer? Did you find a job? Remember thatrepparttar 117994 people who run these companies often go to these message boards and reply torepparttar 117995 questions posted by people like you , so be sure and wait till you get several replies so you can get torepparttar 117996 truth. Fact to remember: Do your homework before spendingrepparttar 117997 money – take repparttar 117998 time to ask around and check outrepparttar 117999 company withrepparttar 118000 BBB (Better Business Bureau) to find out if there have been any complaints listed againstrepparttar 118001 company. Q. Are Medical Transcription (MT) jobs good jobs and is this type of job for me? A. Just because you takerepparttar 118002 MT (Medical Transcriptionist) classes doesn't mean that you will get an at-home job. I took allrepparttar 118003 classes and got certified. I then tested for jobs for a year before giving up on that type of work at home. This is not to say that it isn't a very good job for some people, it just wasn't ever going to berepparttar 118004 right job for me. I know several people who do MT work at home and love it. Most MT jobs require that you have at least six months' to a year's experience at an in-house job before they will consider you for independent, at-home production. Once you have gained your in-house experience (or you have been lucky enough to start out at home), you have to be prepared to work eight hours or more in a row transcribing. Most transcription jobs call for tight turn-around time (TAT). A typical scenario is that they give you a set time to record their audio using to your transcription-recording machine (either via phone line or web site). Then you have a set number of hours to dorepparttar 118005 transcription and send it back torepparttar 118006 company. This means you have to have these hours set aside five days a week to work, just like you would if you when out to a job. Not all MT work will be consistently supplied, so you might find that you work fast and furious on Monday and Thursday, and have no work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. My best advice is if you are interested in becoming an MT, then you should first check outrepparttar 118007 schools withrepparttar 118008 BBB. Go to an MT message

What's REALLY Required To Start An Online Home Business?

Written by Gerald Shaw


Everywhere I turn onrepparttar Internet, there's someone trying to sell me something.

People are being suckered into spending literally thousands of dollars on info products, unnecessary software and "killer marketing tools" that will supposedly increase your online revenue.

Unfortunately, 95% of Internet businesses fail withinrepparttar 117980 first year due to their misinformed marketing advice, strategies, and lack of directional support.

Here it is... once and for all,repparttar 117981 REAL list of Internet essentials. What you TRULY need in order to succeed online withrepparttar 117982 minimum of investment.

1) Desire. It starts withrepparttar 117983 goal in mind which pumps adrenaline around your body every time you visage whatrepparttar 117984 future has in store for you. Every time you think about success, you need to KNOW that you haverepparttar 117985 ability to achieve it. And you will.

2) Motivation. You haverepparttar 117986 goal, but what aboutrepparttar 117987 drive? Where'srepparttar 117988 tenacity to keep you going? Keep 100% dedicated at all times. Whenever you have a lazy moment, you need to visualize your goals in order to stay on track and not drift off course.

3) Time. Lots of it. If you're underrepparttar 117989 false illusion that just an hour a day will be enough to turn your dreams into a reality, then you're going to be waiting a heck of a long time to achieve them. I've worked from 6am till 11pm many times dedicating myself torepparttar 117990 Internet... this is not "get rich quick". Only effort produces success.

4) Your own PC computer system (or equivalent) connected torepparttar 117991 Internet. You need to have access to a phone line at all times so you can dial-up and do some work online whenever you need to.

Keep one machine just for work, and try not to let your friends or children use it for other purposes. After all, it's your business machine andrepparttar 117992 data you have on it will be very important.

5) Knowledge. I'm not talking about an academic education, I'm talking about real-world business knowledge that you can put to use. Do you know how to register your business? How about dealing with tax issues and book keeping? And how much do you actually know aboutrepparttar 117993 Internet?

Do you know how it works... how to develop your own website... how to automate your online income... how to market your products/services effectively?

This can be scary forrepparttar 117994 average person.

I maderepparttar 117995 mistake of putting my impatience before my research and making a pigs-ear of myself when I realised I knew nothing about accounting or keeping business records. Don't makerepparttar 117996 same mistake.

6) A definite plan. Many people just have money on their mind and think constantly cycling through affiliate programs and other opportunities will produce success for them. I can tell you from experience that onlyrepparttar 117997 people with sure-fire plans ever succeed.

After all, how can you end up where you want to be if you don't even know how you're going to get there?

7) Your own business model. Many people say for true financial independence you need your own products or services. I say that's rubbish. Instead, what's more important is you have your own *Business Model*.

What I mean is a definite model that you'll work with. If you can successfully market "onrepparttar 117998 shelf" sites and integrate your affiliate alliances, then there's no reason why you can't produce just as much success.

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