1: Join Forums- Forums offer a great opportunity to market your
business. Now, joining forums just to promote yourself will only get you banned, so you much advertise your business tactfully. When you join a forum introduce yourself and participate in discussions. Make sure you set up your signature to display with all of your posts. You do not have to sit and post all day, but posting to a few threads will get that signature on several different areas of the forum! Not only will the forum members be interested and check our your website, search engines also index forums and that offers extra exposure!

2: Moderate a chat room or group- Offering to help moderate a chat
room or online chat group is another way I have found to work very well! Because
you are a moderator, people see you as being an example, which opens a new door
to another prospect for your business!

3: Get a website- If you want to run your business online a website is
vital! Once you have a website you can submit it to search engines for free. If
your company does not offer websites, I would highly recommend having a
professional build you one. If you are going to market online, you might as well
do it right…..With a professional looking website.

4: e-Mail signatures- These are very powerful! Set up a signature and
attach it to every email you send! Include your name, business name, and website
url. Even if you email a website about an order or email someone just to ask a
question! That puts your website and information in front of another new
prospect.

5: Write articles- Take some time and write some articles on a topic
that if of interest to you. Many website use articles for content for their
visitors to read and several webmasters use articles in ezines. When you write
any article, you can add an author bio, which can include any info you want to
add. This area can have your name, business description, website link, and
contact info. Just think if you write 5 articles that 10 websites display the
amount of exposure you will have for your business!

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1. Envelope stuffing

Earn $300-$800 a week and more!!!! So easy, no experience necessary. However we need to make sure that only serious workers apply so there will be a “one-time fee for the enrollment costs are well as material that we will send you to mail out. Send a SASE to this address and start earning today!

Does that sound familiar? To begin with I will tell you that if you see this or anything like it run a mile away. Do not think that this sounds good and it’s only a measly $29.99 so I can afford to lose that if it’s a scam. Just say to yourself, “It is a scam.” Envelope stuffing has been around for decades and while they have slowly evolved, it is always the same. Just think for a second, why would any want to pay you $2-$4 to stuff an envelope and pay you over $500 a month or more, when they can buy themselves a machine that will stuff the envelopes for them? The machines are a few hundred dollars. In the long they would actually save money, by not paying someone else to stuff them.

How the scam works: You see an add similar to the one I wrote above. You send in the “small” fee which can be anywhere from $5 up to $100 or more. You sit at home waiting for your package thinking that you can put those brochures, pamphlets or postcards. The only thing your usually getting is a one page instruction telling you to put the same ad in a newspaper and wait for some sucker to grab the bait like you did. There are also the one in which you are told to send $1 to everyone on a list, usually 5 people, put your name in the first slot and take off the #5 name and send out these letters to those people. You will then be getting all these people sending you $1, and before you know it you’ll be a millionaire. No you won’t, do I have to tell you this is a scam? A scam that long ago moved onto the internet and is now usually played with sites such as Paypal, and Stormpay. Same scam different twist. You just send $1 or more to these 5 or 10 accounts and you will soon have money flooding into your Paypal account. Scam. This to me is just another for of MLM. Which is another scam to flush your money down the toilet.

2. Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)

“Lose 40 pounds in less than a month. Feel better with this miracle juice. Tone up with this miracle cream etc, etc..Once you try it, you will love it and even better if you get others to sign up under you; you can make thousands a month.”

This dear friends is known as Multi-Level Marketing (MLM). There are so many that I can’t get through even 1% of them. The usual basis of MLM is you see some product which is often, not worth the money, untested, unproven that you will get the results it claims to give you, and most importantly it might be dangerous. Just think, would you buy a bottle of green juice off someone on a street corner because they claim it will make you shed 100 pounds? Now the MLM I will talk about here is the “product” scam. This one is you are buying a product or joining up to work for them selling there product. If you buy the product they will tell you that you can get rich if you get others to sign up. You will be there sponsor and when they join to sell you 40% of the product price and if you sign up another you get 20% of there product price and so on. Or you need to sign up for the gold or platinum membership and make even more money, just $199.99 or more and don’t worry you’ll make that money back in no time. I’ve even seen some so ridiculous due to the fact that your purchasing all these products to try and make even more money, not realizing your losing money or at least no making any, just paying a little less for the less than worth it so called miracle product. The other part of a product scam is your not using or even buying it, your trying to make money solely by getting others to sign up. All those ads you see? On tv, cheap magazines, free newspapers, email and all over the web, well those are the people trying to get YOU to sign up and make them a commission. All you will be doing is trying to recruit more and more people to sell this product and earn some money. Some do it, but it’s very difficult and over 90% are scams.

3. Data entry/Claim Processing/Name Compiler

There are many other names for this. The whole point of it is to work at home as a typist/data entry worker. These people usually claim that they have so much work that they need help and its cheaper to get someone to work from home than to hire another computer or expand there onsite business. In these scams there is always a fee for the application which can be $30-$1000’s. Yes thousands. The companies will claim that to do there work you need to buy their special software. You can’t download it or buy it anywhere else, it has to come from them. And once again you will make back your money in no time. Yeah, sure you will. Just think of how fast you would make back that money if you flushed it down the toilet. Unlike some of these scams there are real work from home jobs for typists. They usually will not charge you to join. Just think about it. Why would you pay someone to let you work for them? Think about you going on a job interview, they tell you that you have the job, but they just need $300 and then you can start. Most of us would leave in a hurry. But for some reason reading it on paper seems to make sense for too many unwitting victims. I personally know more than 15 companies that hire typists and pay them to actually type. I filled out some applications and read the requirements for others. I was disappointed but pleasantly surprised to learn there were requirements and that I was turned down for the job. Most legitimate companies need workers who can type more than 60-80 wpm or even more kps (keys per second). As well as someone who actually has 2 years or more of experience usually as a secretary or administrative assistant.

Name compiler is scam #1 all over again. Instead of stuffing envelopes, you are sent materials, after you pay the fee of course, which will tell you to post the same ad you responded to all over the net in hopes of getting others to sign up. Your just spamming others and that’s it. No companies pay for a compiler anymore because it can be done electronically now, so theres no need for a compiler/typist for this sort of job.

The worst is the claim or payment processor. What they will have you do is not just unethical but it’s usually an illegal operation they pull innocent people into. Most won’t even know it until it’s too late. This scam works on many levels. If you answer the ad through email they can put malware on your computer steal your identity and sell it on the black market. You will be lured into thinking you are processing claims for a legitimate foreign company and will receive %20 or more commission on each payment processed. You then have to wire the money from your bank, western union or money gram. You are actually handling counterfiet money orders and/or check. You will have a lot to process as they need you to send as many as possible quickly before the bank or police find out and stop it. You are working for them, but your actually laundering money and all you will end up with is being an unwitting victim of a very big crime. With the criminals overseas you will be left holding the bag. There was a story about a woman who is facing charges on a similar scam. The twist? She is the victim. I feel that since the prosecutors can’t get the real criminals well, she’s taking the blame. She will more than likely go to jail because of scam.

4. Work At Home Lists

You only need to think about work at home opportunities and you will find a whole lot of scams coming up trying to sell you a list. Don’t do it. There are many places that post legitimate work at home jobs. Try work at home mom forums. Introduce yourself, meet people like you, who will be happy to point you toward the right direction. These lists are usually crap. You pay and IF they send you anything or send you to members room, all you will be most likely to find are out of date or broken links from companies no longer hiring. Everyone would like to work from home. When there posted in places for free people rush towards them, so how long do you think it is before the company has got the people they want and isn’t looking anymore?

5. Pyramid Schemes

The pyramid scheme or “matrix” is one of the oldest scams and against the law around most of the WORLD. A new variation is now on ebay. I’ve seen them all over. You type in ipod and thousands of listings come up. You will however notice some selling very cheaply, say $40. When you read up on it, you are told not to bid but go to this website or email the seller and find out how to get an ipod or playstation cheap or even free if you purchase things like mp3’s or ebooks from the site. You will usually see a list of names on a page. These are all people like you who have signed up for this “great deal”. You add your name to the list and your on the bottom of that list. You make purchases and get your name moved up. You can also move up faster if you recruit other people to sign up and purchase or sign up others, and on and on it goes. When your name gets to the top of the list, you usually will get the ipod, playstation, cellphone or whatever else it is that you signed up for. Now some do get the item. But this is still a pyramid scheme and many won’t even get the items they purchased or the free item they signed up for.

Written by Marsha James

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I’ve been working from home since December 2004. My daily quest is finding and applying for real work at home jobs. My latest find is one that everyone needs to be aware of — but not because it’s such a great job, but because it’s such a terrible scam.

This beauty was listed at a reputable job site. A job site that I think everyone has heard of, but one that I will refrain from mentioning by name.

The job was for a Shipping Manager, and the description was very impressive. I applied for it, and before I could even get off the website, I already had an e-mail telling me I had been hired. My duties would consist of receiving packages at my house, warehousing them briefly, and then mailing them overseas. I was told I would be receiving cameras and PDA’s. All of my packages would be shipped to Kryzykstan. I would be paid $25, via Western Union, for each package I received. I would receive 25 to 30 packages per week, and I would be paid weekly.

I immediately began checking them out. I looked at Whois. I called the BBB. I e-mailed the job site that listed it, and they had no complaints on the company. I called my local police and the FBI. I looked at all the online scam sites. I called my local television station — which runs a weekly feature on scams. I could find nothing negative on this company. Against my better judgment, I decided to accept the job and sent them a copy of my driver’s license.

About a week later, I received my first package. They told me not to open the package, but I was not about to send something to Kyrzykstan (or anywhere else for that matter) without knowing exactly what I was mailing. Turns out it was a digital camera. It was exactly what they had said it would be. There was an invoice and everything. I could see that it had been shipped directly from the maufacturer. That set my mind at ease. The next day I received my second package. It was another digital camera. Once again, it was exactly what they said it would be.

I e-mailed the company that had hired me and told them I had received both of my test packages. They said they would send me shipping instructions the following day. I spent the rest of that day learning about the mailing restrictions involved in sending packages to Kyrzykstan.

That evening, something occurred to me. What if these cameras had been purchased with stolen credit cards? I took the invoices out. One of them listed the name of the individual who was to be billed. I called him on the phone and told him who I was. I asked him if he had ordered a digital camera and arranged for third party shipping to Kyrzykstan? He had no idea what I was talking about! Turns out he had been a victim of identity theft.

My next call was to the police. They were nice but of no help. Two officers were sent out to take my report. The officer in charge told me he had no evidence of a crime! Which was stunning to me. He told me mistakes were made on invoices everyday. He said it sounded suspicious, but that was all. I ended up not filing a report — just so the cameras wouldn’t end up collecting dust in an evidence room.

The next day I called about the second camera. It was the same story. The camera had been purchased fraudulently.

I called my local FBI. They didn’t return my call. I called the FBI office in Denver. They told me that the individuals who were trying to get me to mail them the cameras were the ones who had used stolen credit cards to obtain them. He said that once they received them, they would sell them. Another thing he told me was to report this to the credit unions and my bank. He expects that I’ll be their next victim of identity theft. He seemed knowledgeable about this kind of scam, but had no interest in pursuing it. He also told me that my local FBI would not investigate it either.

After hanging up from him, I reported the crime to the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI. http://www.ic3.gov.

My next question is, what are the funds from these stolen cameras being used for? Are these individuals in it just for the money? Or do they want the money to fund terrorism or illegal drug trafficking? I doubt that I’ll ever know.

Judging by how little action has been taken on this so far, I don’t expect to hear anything from the FBI. Even though this company claims it has over 2000 employees in the United States. If we have 2000 Americans sending stolen goods to Kyrzykstan everyday, what will be the consequences of that? Both for them and for our country? And why don’t the authorities seem to care?

If you see something like this, stay away from it. I specialize in helping people find work at home jobs; obviously, this isn’t one that I’ll be recommending to my clients.

Oh, and by the way, I mailed the cameras. But I didn’t mail them to Kryzykstan, I mailed them back to their rightful owners.

Doralynn Kennedy is the author of the Work at Home Directory E-book: A valuable collection of real work at home jobs, many with benefits. http://doralynn.net/jobs.html

Let’s face it; there are thousands and thousands of ideas for making money on the internet and working at home. Many of these ideas take a lot of time and money to get started. Do you want to make money online, but want the checks to start rolling in right away?

Below I will talk about the absolute best ways to make fast money online and work from home. Following are the top 3.

1. Affiliate programs
2. Google Adsense
3. Online surveys

Affiliate programs

Affiliate programs are the best way to start making money instantly. Big name companies like, Amazon, Circuit city, Best Buy, Expedia, and many many others are willing to send you checks for promoting their products online. All you have to do is go to the Commission Junction website www.cj.com and sign up for their associates program. You will then be given promotion tools in the form of text ads, banner ads ect. to promote the affiliates products. You then promote their products and earn commission on every sale, or even better, every LEAD ! That means you make money even if someone doesn’t even buy their product! Visit: www.mymoneymachines.com for more info.

Google Adsense

Google Adsense is a great way to make money without having to sell a product. You get paid a commission every time someone is directed to a companies website through your marketing efforts. With this program you will have to set up your own website to get started.

Online surveys

Online surveys are a great way to pull in extra income. All you have to do is sign up with survey companies and they will send you surveys in your e-mail box, each survey pays around $5-10, but if you are involved with several companies that money can easily add up to $50 a day or more, depending on how many companies you are involved with. An extra $50 a day is an extra $1500 a month! For more info on the top 5 survey websites visit: www.mymoneymachines.com

Well, as I stated before there are many ways to make money online, but if you want to get started right away I highly recommend starting out with these 3 ways.

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Multi Level Marketing is a simple business model based both on franchising as well as direct marketing. In this kind of model the buyer and seller have an independent contract. The sellers profit from their sales as well as the number of people they bring into the system. In spite of their brush with Ponzi Schemes, they are quite popular in all most all 50 states in US as well as 100 other foreign countries.

Terms like Affiliate Marketing are also used for this kind of businesses now. Usually commissions are earned on the basis of sale of products or services to end consumers who might also be a distributor.

How does MLM actually work?

First a small investment is made and then the person receives necessary supplies to start the marketing and selling the product. The range of products differs from vitamin books to weight loss supplements etc in many cases. In this particular model the person will have to refer others also to the programme. Every time a single unit is sold, the person gets commission.
The emphasis is not on selling products but on recruiting more and more people to this programme.

Compensation

Compensation works differently for different companies. There might be a Unilevel Plan, a Matrix Plan or an elevator scheme. The uniliver plan is the oldest and most popular one also. It features both managers and non managers and the sales are same all over the organization. The matrix plan works differently. It has a limitation on the width of each level in a distributor’s group, hereby forcing strong distributors to pile (”spillover”) their recruits over people who did not sponsor them. The Elevator Plan features a game board or a list where each distributor would pay in one or more product units to participate. When a certain number of units have been paid in, the structure splits and the earlier participant receives consideration.

Recruiting for MLM

Recruiting forms a basis of this model. To some people this comes naturally and they can bring in new people very fast into the system. These are the people who reap the rewards of this model fastest. If you are new to this business and you are not so successful in recruiting, you need to keep trying patiently. The new people need to be properly informed and then only should be brought to the MLM meetings and introduced to this business.
A good way of identifying a good prospect is by sending an online questionnaire. If they fill that up promptly, they are interested else they are not into it.

Multi level Marketing has been accused of being aversion of Ponzi Schemes for long time. In fact Amway, the most successful company, employing this business model had to fight numerous legal suits. This does not mean that it is illegal. MLM model is quite legal but not all companies that start as MLM firms keep straight. Some of these give the initial payouts and then later at the right time run away with the money or go defunct.

F. Startup has been involved in many different successful ventures including operating one of California’s most prestigious catering companies. He currently spends his time managing his successful health based business from home. You can learn more about real ways to