the legitimate online work at home programs

Is it possible to make money online? Yes it is. However there are many dubious opportunities and downright scams out there. So how do you tell the legitimate online work at home programs from the others? Here a few common sense approaches.

1. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. There’s a program making the rounds that says you can make $15 for filling out rebate forms. The forms in the ad are short and look rather easy to fill out. So let’s assume you could fill out one form in 10 minutes. That’s 6 forms per hour. Now at $15 per form times 6 forms that’s $90 an hour.

You shout, “Wow. Great. I’ve found the best opportunity. Hardly any work and $90 per hour.” Think about it. Why would anyone pay that much money to fill out rebate forms? They could hire a person to work at home for less than $20 and hour. And believe me people would jump at the chance to work at home for $20 per hour. Forget it. It’s a scam.

2. Hidden charges. I was all ready to sign up for a business in a box. I filled out the payment form. And I noticed at the bottom of the form something about I agree to pay the all ongoing charges. So I went back to where the charges were listed and in an almost grayed out area very hard to see were the words $17 monthly charge.

Now this charge was not listed anywhere on the sales letter. The sales letter even said free web hosting for life. I should have known then that no can offer free hosting for life. Be sure to read everything. Maybe if I had been informed of the $17 monthly charge I would have been willing to pay it. However trying to sneak it in made me immediately think scam.

3. I have to admit, I don’t like multilevel marketing. If you do, don’t read this section. I sent in $9.95 for two CD’s about making money. The CD’s contained nothing but testimonials. No information on what the program was about. And if you didn’t return the CD’s within 14 days you would be charged an additional $39.95.

Someone did call me. And it was a MLM program. The cost to sign up was over $400. And basically it was just trying to get others to buy the same program. Not anything I wanted to do.
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Marketing Strategy During Recession

When it comes to a recession, smart businesses and smart people have been cutting back on nonessential expenses. Easy to say now, but besides the fortunate few, who really knew the recession was coming? So forget what we should have done and let’s start looking at what we can to do now.

It seems every financial advisor is giving advice on how to manage the family budget. Simply make a list of your fixed expenses such as; rent or mortgage payments, insurance, automobile etc, and then determine where you can cut the non fixed items, the luxuries, dining out, the morning latte etc. Working families generally have a fixed income, so budgeting is easier but no less painful than for businesses.

For businesses it is more difficult as all expenditures are tightly budgeted to income projections. When revenue targets are not met, expenses have to be cut. The big question is where to cut expenses, advertising, and customer service or layoff employees. Careful consideration is crucial and the top priority has to be to save and grow your customer base. “Service is the lifeblood of every business, everything flows from it and is fed by it”. Peter E. Smith As I have said many times, without customers we have no business!

During difficult times businesses generally classify employees into two groups, the ones who generate income and the others who are administrators or managers. It is almost the chicken or the egg theory. The pressure on employees, when the revenues decline, is evenly split as everyone’s job is vulnerable. When sales decline; do you add more sales people, replace the ones you now have or advertise more? Do you cut advertising, sales incentives and expense accounts or do you spend more on sales incentives and your customers?

History will always show us how companies operated in past recessionary times. Valuable lessons can be learned by studying similar business to yours during those difficult times. “Learning is not compulsory….neither is survival”. W. Ewards Deming There are always causalities and success stories; sometimes you do not have to reinvent the wheel. “Before we build a better mouse trap, we need to find out if there are any mice out there”. Yogi Berra New and old ideas can be added to your business plan at any time.

Employees will always determine which businesses will survive whether times are good or bad.


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