Finding Work at Home

Did you know you can submit your web sites to places like www.google.com or www.yahoo.com with out having to pay? Submitting your site doesn’t cost a thing, advertising on them however does.

You can also get paid for putting their advertisements on your page. You could get paid for people going to your site and when someone clicks on the advertisement. Sounds good doesn’t it? You can read more about it at www.google.com/adsense or check out www.yahoo.com for their programs. Just be sure to read their policies and follow their guidelines.

If you have a blog and want to get more traffic, try places like www.linkreferral.com, http://digg.com, http://www.technorati.com

Here are this weeks job listings.

MYSTERY SHOPPERS

http://www.nationwidesg.com/pages/10/index.htm - Must be 21 or older, good written and verbal skills, transportation, no criminal background.

http://www.nationalshoppingservice.com/public/register_1.asp

http://www.spiesindisguise.com/shopapply.asp

VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

http://www.youroutsourcesolutions.com/join-our-team.html Check out the link to see available positions.

http://employment.capitaltyping.com/ - Secretarial Service and office administration, transcription services, data entry, online customer support, language translation services.

PHOTOGRAPHY

http://us.fotolia.com/Info/HowToSell

http://www.fastsnap.com/jobs.php

SALES

http://www.fastsnap.com/jobs.php - Telephone sales experience is helpful, but not required

http://salesfish.com/job_opportunities.cfm - Must have a minimum of five years inside sales experience and work a minimum of 25 hours a week.

I don’t think I can stress enough to be careful with all work at home jobs. I think the best advice would be to treat everything like a scam until proven otherwise. Don’t expect that myself or anyone else has done the research for you; just because it’s posted here doesn’t mean you shouldn’t research it. Just because it is found on television or in the news paper or on an advertisement on myspace/facebook or whatever else you use doesn’t make it legit. It’s also important to read the fine print because even though it states it’s a one time fee of $14 dollars, or has been reduced to $1 doesn’t mean they wont continue to take out $75 dollars from your account each month.

http://www.scamxposer.com - I will probably post this site a number of times so it can be easily found. (It’s also in my favorite links on the side.) www.yahoo.com www.google.com use these sites to your advantage! It’s not as hard as it may seem to search for the job you’re looking into. Just type in the name of the company or the company web site (minus the www and the .com or whatever else they may use) and you should get a ton of information.

CraigsList is a good place to look at work at home opportunities as well as little jobs you can do to make some extra money. I’ve seen acting or “extra” jobs as well as donating sperm or doing research to earn extra money. Now I’m not sure how legit these sites are so please be careful. Just because you find a listing in the paper or on craigslist doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your research. These places are not required to check on these listings and have no idea if they are legit when they advertise them.

about.com and ehow.com along with other blogs like this are also other ways to find legit work at home jobs.

CLERICAL

http://www.keyadministrativeassociates.com/joinourteam - They are looking for a wide range of skills. You would be a virtual assistant.

http://www.proresource.com/want-to-be-part-of-a-team.html - Virtual Assistant; Need experience in marketing.

http://ww22.1800flowers.com/template.do?id=template8&page=9000#1 - Must be a resident and live in the following states Florida, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. Type 35 WPM and 18 or older with a GED or High School Diploma. You’d be handling sales and service calls.

WRITING

http://hubpages.com/tour/hubpages/ - Writing about stuff you know

http://hitfreelance.com/ - web designers, PHP Programmers, and site content writer.

http://www.mediabistro.com/joblistings/ - Search for “freelance” as the keyword. This is for a media type position.

MISCELLANEOUS

http://www.thehive.com/join-us - Web Design, Graphic Arts, Programming etc.

http://www.cybercoders.com/JobDetails.aspx?JobId=NNG-Stealthajaxcomet - Web design and development. Expert Level Experience. From $80 -$160 an hour

http://www.loribratz.com/?page_id=76 - Junior HTML Developer.

http://www.disciplescross.com/ - This job is crafty. You’re making crosses, materials provided by this company.

If there are is a specific job type you are looking for, feel free to write a comment letting me know and I will try to post more of that type the following week. I want to cater to your needs, help you out the best I can so don’t be shy in letting me know what kind of job you’re looking for! (Example: writing, artistic, clerical, transcription etc)

Here is a new list of jobs I’ve found;

WRITING

http://www.cyberedit.com/hub/jobs.shtml - There are currently three different kinds of jobs available (11-15-08) Freelance admittance essay editors, freelance resume writers, admissions officers.

HUMAN RESOURCES

http://www.hradvice.com/contact.html - Must have 10 years experience in HR.

http://www.cscrecruiters.com/careers.htm - recruiter developing new clients

http://www.troyresearch.com/openings.html - This company has a number of work at home, contractor type jobs to look into

CUSTOMER SERVICE

http://www.convergysworkathome.com/ - Make between $7.75 and $8.00 an hour - receiving inbound calls from customers who are ordering products.

http://www.hirepoint.com/athome/become/apply.html - Receiving calls and placing orders. May require transcription.

http://www.thecustomercaregroup.com/joinus.html - Assisting clients with customer service

Do you have a web site or a blog that you want to get more traffic to? Here are a few ways to get the word out;

• Add a signature to your emails so that everyone you send a message to can see your links. (This can include adding your link to your myspace page as well.)
• Start posting messages in threads and forums. Get people to know who you are so they trust your input. (Myspace, Cafemom, Facebook, BeBo, Craigslist etc.) Then give them a link to your page. They are more likely to go to the page when they trust you than if they think it’s spam.
• Read other blogs and post respectable comments, then leave your link at the bottom of your posts.
• Make sure you use good tag words. Words that you would find in your blog or on your site that search engines will pick up on. For example, my site http://www.flamingdeer.com has my artwork which I’ve put onto clothing, mouse pads, clocks and much more. My tag words include a description of my designs; fire, flame, hibiscus, flower, sea turtle. I could go on and on with different words to discribe my page since it’s filled with different types of items. Why do I do this? When you go to a search engine and type in a word you want your site to show up as one of the sites you searched for. This helps bring in traffic.
• Sign onto linkreferral.com to promote your page
• Sign onto http://entrecard.com which is another way to promote your page.
• Have someone “stumble” your page on stumbleupon.com
• Go to sites that are similar to yours and offer to swap links; you post their link on your page and vise versa. (Smaller sites are more likely to do this then big sites.)

Here are some other pages that give detailed ways to increase traffic - these are in no particular order, just some I found that will hopefully help.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/checklist.htm - 32 Ways to promote your site

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/promotion/10ways.html 10 ways to promote

http://accessfp.net/promote-your-website.htm - promote your website

Every week I would like to post new ways to make money online. Here is my first set of jobs listings and I hope you find them helpful. Feel free to do your own research on the sites listed below.

Blogging

http://www.today.com/ctr.cgi?idx_mem=3371&mode=vip - Write about something you’re passionate about. Payout is monthly

http://www.blogitive.com/bloggers - Make money writing about what you love. Payout is weekly via Paypal

http://payperpost.com/bloggers/get-paid-to-blog.html - You need to have a current blog to be accepted for this site.

Clerical

http://legacy.com/NS/About/Careers/Position.aspx?Careerid=0 - Expert Reader - screen online condolence messages. Positions start at $10/hour.

Miscellaneous

http://www.buzzback.com/panel - Paid surveys

http://www.onlineverdict.com/jurors.php -  You review legal cases and give your feedback.

http://www.mylot.com/ - This is kind of like myspace or facebook but you get paid for it! It wont make you rich but it’s fun and easy.

http://answers.chacha.com/?page_id=62 - Chacha is a new way of getting helpful information via your phone. You can get paid to answer the questions that come in. It’s entertaining and you make your own hours.

Creative - These are not really jobs but they are ways of making money.

http://www.cafepress.com/ - Are you artistic or able to come up with creative slogans? Cafepress can help you put your designs to work for you. You put your designs together and they do the rest of the work, even take care of the returns for you.

http://www.zazzle.com/ - Zazzle has more options to fit your creative style. With skateboards, shoes and ties you can add your designs to.

http://www.etsy.com/ - A place to buy and sell all things handmade

What is multi-level marketing? (Also known as MLM)

Multi-level marketing is when a product is sold through direct selling, referrals or distributors instead of in a market. The distributor makes money off of each sale or new distributor they sign up. Multi-level marketing IS different from a pyramid scheme and here is a site that explains why:

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/marketing/a/MLMpyramid_2.htm

Explination of multi-level marketing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing

Explination of a pyramid scheme:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme

It can be difficult to decipher the difference from a pyramid scheme and multi-level marketing company. One way I can tell if a company is legit or not is by typing in the name of the company into any search engine. (Google, yahoo, altavista)  I type the name of the company I’m looking into and then type the word “scam” after it. The search engine will bring up all kinds of pages, usually blogs, from others who’ve tried the company and what their experience with them was like. I try and look through at least two of the pages before making a decision. If the two pages I looked into have different views then I continue looking and reading. I don’t look at the pages that look like they’re trying to sell the product; like if they have the name of the product in the address itself. (Example: If I’m looking into MonaVie. I go to www.altavista.com and type in the search bar “monavie scam” and the fourth site down says in blue “Monavie: is monavie a scam” when I click on it, it gives me a quick blurp about monavie but isn’t very helpful. The next one down says “Monavie scam” and the writer goes into talk about what monavie is and why he thinks it’s a scam. Going back to the altavista page and going to the link right below that last one is the site labled “Monavie| scam types dot com” and the writer goes into detail about what is in monavie, and gives some pro’s and con’s about the product. ) Doing a quick search like this can save you a big headache in the future. I’ve read that some companies, if you do not read the fine print, say that they are free or will only charge you one dollar up front, but the fine print says that they will continue to take out 75 dollars each month until you cancel their membership. Sometimes I’ve found that the company was nearly impossible to cancel the membership with; they’d never answer their calls or emails and continued to take your money and you wouldn’t get anything in return.

A useful site to look into is www.scamxposer.com because the administrator has tried many different work at home sites and writes his reviews about them. He also gives good reviews so you can find some legit work at home sites along with the scams. I will post jobs I find to help you out as well so look for those to come.

Finding a work at home job can be difficult and aggravating. More often than not the jobs you’ll find are scams, with enticing slogans or testimonials from people who swear they’re making millions. It’s important that you remember a few simple phrases that my parents used to tell me as a child; money doesn’t grow on trees, money doesn’t come easy, and if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. But don’t let that discourage you from wanting to work from home.

Just like any job, you should do your research before applying and don’t always trust someone who says they make money there too. There are a lot of MLM’s (multi-level marketing) that require you to advertise or bring in other people before you can make money. More often than not you’ll be wasting your time with these. (Of course there are always exceptions to the rules.)

In this blog I will talk in more detail about different forms of working from home and give specific examples of places to look, places I’m apart of, how to research for yourself and much much more. I am hoping to help many others from being scammed out of money. I was not a victim of a work at home scam but I do know someone who was and I want to try and keep this from happening to others.