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Lots of Work at Home Opportunities, but none of them are easy
Lots of Work at Home Opportunities, but none of them are easy
by Rick Hendershot,
Small
Business Marketing Resources, Linknet Small Business Library
Things have changed quite a bit since
the world wide web was first introduced in the mid 90s. Yes, that's
correct. It has only been a decade or so since the first web browser
was introduced and the first website was created.
Since then the internet has created an avalanche
of would-be
Work at Home Opportunities. Some
of these are legitimate. Many of them are bogus. You may find it
discouraging to discover that most internet "opportunities" are just
attempts to sell you "info-products", and many of these products are
just plain worthless. The only money they generate is for the author
of the ebook. For instance, here
is an ad that says "Within 2 Hours (after reading this) You'll Know All the
Steps That Goes [sic] Into Opening and Operating Your Own Successful Home-Based
Medical Billing Business". This one was picked at random, so it is hard to say
what it is really about. But the odds are very good that it is typical of most
of the other "opportunities" one runs into from day to day.
I would wager that like so many others I have looked at (yes,
some of which I have actually bought) this "opportunity" will give you nothing
more than a fairly meager helping of general information that is easily
obtainable in at least fifty other places on the internet or in a library. Much
of the information will be too general to be useful. Some of it will be out of
date. It will make recommendations that are impossible to apply, and it will
recommend software that is either unavailable or hopelessly outdated.
Does that mean there are no legitimate
"work at home opportunities". Not at all. It just means that there
are no magic get-rich-quick work at home opportunities. It also
means that if you are serious about your search, you will probably go
through 10 or 20 products like the one above before you either find
something that sounds legitimate and works, or you completely give up
the search. One way to avoid
wasting your time with a string of get-rich-quick schemes is to talk to people
who have already been through it. Check out forums like the one listed below, or
talk to a small
business coach, who may be able to help you find the right niche without
going through all the pain of experimenting with a series of completely
worthless schemes.
Here are some websites that offer Work at Home
Opportunity information, advice, resources, forums, articles, and so
on.
Work at Home
Business Ideas and Job Opportunities
This site comes up high in Google searches for "work at home
business". It also has a very high PR. Primarily used to promote the
SFI affiliate program. If you want to sell tangible products using a
tried and true formula SFI is definitely worth a look. Biz-whiz.com
also has articles, link exchange, a fairly active forum. The site has
2000 registered members, so if you have a question you want to ask,
this might be one place to ask it.
Alberta Rose Home
Based Business Opportunities
This is another highly rated (by Google) work at home site. Oriented
towards women. This is an example of a "content-rich" site. I don't
know...do work at home people really like this kind of jumble? It
looks to me as though many of the "opportunities" here are classic
internet marketing: affiliate programs. You get rich by buying things:
ebooks, memberships, partnership and then trying to sell them to other
people. Obviously people buy this stuff. But as you can tell from the
comments above, I am completely disenchanted with this kind of
internet marketing.
I will do summaries of other
work at home sites in some of the other articles in this series. Rick Hendershot is a marketing consultant, writer, and internet publisher who lives in Conestogo, Ontario,
Canada. He publishes several websites and blogs, including Trade Show Tips,
Web Traffic Resources,
Marketing Bites, SuperCharge Your Website with Power
Linking, and many more.
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