Tips, Tricks, and Resources on How to Avoid ScamsWritten by Stephani Richardson
It takes careful planning to build your home based business. Avoiding costly mistakes beforehand will prevent you from losing valuable time and money invested. In this day and age, business scams are lurking everywhere. So how do we keep ourselves from falling prey to becoming victims?1) Research- It sounds so simple, doesn't it? You would be surprised how many people just jump into a business without researching a company's background. The Better Business Bureau offers background information and reliability reports on many companies. Not all companies may be listed unless company is a member of BBB or an individual has filed a complaint. It never hurts to try, and it only takes a few minutes. http://search.bbb.org/search.html If a company is listed, then you will get a general idea of how long company has been in business and whether or not there have been complaints, reports, or resolutions to any complaints filed. The BBB also has a section on current scams at http://www.bbb.org/alerts/Scam.asp. These are not just business scams, but information is extremely useful. 2) False claims- Does company make claims that just "sound too good to be true"? You know how old saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Amazingly enough, there are a number of people on Internet who are lured into believing all "hype". Why does this happen? Because we want so badly to believe that what is written has to be true. We want that "quick fix" or "quick income stream". I'm not saying that quick income stream isn't always possible, but you have to know your stuff! If you are a newbie at affiliate marketing or online business building, that "quick fix" just isn't going to happen. It's a learning process. I've been working on my business for 5 years, and I'm still learning things every day.
| | How to choose a perfect home based business.Written by Nas Romli
Nowadays, more and more people are becoming a home based business owner. If you make a search on 'home based business' at Yahoo, it returned a total of 51,000,000. No, I didn't put any extra zeros. It's 51 million! Most of them are promoting business opportunities and others provide home based business information.The question is now, if you want to start your own home based business, without having to go through all 51 million sites, how do you find perfect business that really suits you? Let's begin. Basically there're 2 types of business that you can run. I'll go through one at a time. 1. Selling a new product. If you're a super genius who knows what market's wants, that this type of business is for you. Advantage: You will be owner of product which means you control everything; from pricing to product type. You'll become expert and people will see you as genius who create new product line. Disadvantage: You will have to design your own marketing plan; sales letter, website design, autoresponder email system and everything. So, in other words, your business might no begin within 1 or 2 month after you develop your product. Even you already setup everything, your income might come in rather slow since most people are afraid to buy new product. 2. Selling other people product. You sell other people product and you earn income by receiving your sales commission. Advantage: You don't have to design any market plan (most of time). Everything will be provided to you. All you need to do is using these tools to market their product. Since everything is there, you can start promoting them almost immediately and so do your cheque.
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