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I have mentioned many jobs that could be done at home to earn some extra cash. While these home based jobs do seem profitable and genuine there are many scammers out there trying to get their dirty work done without any payment to you. I’ll try to share on some tips on how to avoid these scams so that you are assured of an earning.
First and foremost, don’t be greedy. There are many offers out there saying that you can earn fifteen to twenty grand a month, absolutely no way. Even top bloggers and website owners hardly manage that much income, so don’t go for these types of jobs they are 100% scam.
Next, try to research and know about the company or website you are about to work with. If you are to join a “get paid to read” program then do some effective research, ask people from forums if you get paid etcetera. If positive reviews come then only join that particular program.
Take what you get and don’t give away. While finding for jobs you may have found out places where they say pay an initial amount and then you will be given jobs. If you see such a thing just ignore it as it is always scam. Employers don’t ask for money when they hire you.
Be logical. If you see that the work you will do will bring benefit to you in a big way and less advantage to the employer, then there may be some twist or string attached. Always read the policies and terms before entering and work or program. Join programs which are in a win-win situation for both you and the employer.
You must be confused by the title? How can making stupid drawings at home make me money? How can a fifteen or twenty minute session scribbling on the paper makes me somewhat three to five grand a year. Well, even though how stupid it sounds many people has made it their profession and are earning way over the ten grand mark a year.
So the question now comes in, how and what exactly do you have to do to make this money? What are the skills required and how to put the creativity in action? Easy, you just have to use your imagination and come up with drawings. What exactly will these drawing be? Standardized stuff such as mascots, characters, occasional/festive related stuff like bells, toys, tools etcetera. So will making these drawings on paper do? Well, if you are looking for around making a grand a year then yes, else you’ll have to vectorize the drawings you make via Photoshop or Illustrator. As hard as it sounds, it is really not that hard. You just have to work up with a few tutorials and vectorization articles and you’ll be done.
Now, the questions coming up in your minds would be what to do after sketching and vectorization? Well, easy….Sell it. Where to sell? There are a lot of places. You can sell your sketches directly via many of the Marketplace forums like DigitalPoint, Sitepoint and V7N forums. Also you can put it up for sale at istockphoto where you get a certain percentage of the sale made of your design. Ways of monetizing your creative ideas is very easy, and you can use these designs to build a portfolio and may be you could get custom orders. And to be remembered when you get a custom order you also gets paid heavily for it. I have come across many designers charging about $500 – $800 for a mascot/character design. If they can get so much money, why not you?
Think about the possibilities for a while and make your choice.
There are methods to use your computer so that you can generate some cash from home. They are totally legitimate and real and with experience behind me I can say that they are not scam. I make around $5000 – $8000 a month just sitting home doing almost nothing.
So what programs do I use to earn a little mad money?
Be on a hunt “Paid to read Emails” or “Paid to Read/View Ads” programs. There have been many over the years. Very few of these online programs stay; else most of them are fraud and end in a short profitable span of five to seven months. I back in the early 2000 used a program AllAdvantage, a pretty good program paid be about $40 a month on average.
YouData is very similar to AllAdvantage, in that you’re viewing ads. You earn on the ads you view and the ads that anyone you refer views. The best earn and money is in referring. I tell you if you make $20 a week and you refer about 10 people who do the same and even if you 30% of their earning then that is around $300 on average just for referring. Some people might think that getting referrals is slow income but I over the years have come to known that these small amounts make up a huge total in the future. I am making around $500 – $800 a month just from referrals.
YouData has a pleasant sparkling layout, and ad viewing scheme. You can even download their little toolbar that will tell you when you have new ads to view if you want. It’s totally free to sign up – but you do need to have a cell phone.
Along with YouData, I have come across a great program called Hits4Pay. Hits4Pay has by far impressed me more than any other easy-cheesy read ads program. It’s so easy and the best part is that there are always ads to view and that you can pay to have them help you build a larger referral base and they have never failed to pay me. It always goes right into my PayPal account each month. I am currently making and I am not kidding – close to $400 a month through Hits4Pay! So there is $440-$480 that I am bringing in EACH month, by just reading some ads?
Recently I have added InboxDollars to my ad viewing program – another paid to read program in there…and it’s even more to my monthly cash base. InboxDollars has been around forever! It’s steady and I always get rewarded when I demand my checks. I earn approximately $30 a month -emails are sent to you and you can fill out offers on the site. I mostly do just the emails. But you can fill out offers.
Thus by far it is know that working from home by just reading and reviewing advertisements can make me around five to eight grand a year, then why not for you.
Finding legitimate jobs at home is growing success these days. Majorities of people are joining the online industry these days. Mostly these people contain old retired people, non-working moms and the increasing teenage population.
One of the fastest growing online home based jobs is the research job. What exactly is this research work you might question? Well, basically research means going on the internet and browsing through hundreds and thousands of pages a day to find some data. What usually is this data? Well depends on the company that you are working with. I a couple of years back worked with a Graphic Design company and my work was basically to search and build up free resources. These resources contained free images, stock photos, icons and lots of other freebies related to graphics. I was paid around $6.5 an hour which at that time was pretty good.
So basically a researcher has to find out things required or asked by the contractor. This work is usually boring but high paying in most cases. There are many wide areas where a researcher can work, usually the best and highest paying ones are academic, clinical and biomedical research. The qualifications needed to become a researcher depend on the work place that you want to work. For example if you want to work as a researcher at an academic level than a Masters degree would do for high level research work else being just a graduate could work.
Additional skills other than knowledge of the field is to have good computer search skills, know of the terms and keywords and how to exploit them to own use for better and faster results.
There might be many drawbacks of being a researcher. Job availability these days are very less mainly due to the economic recession. While many other jobs on the internet a purely spam. So looking for a job might not be that easy but when you are hired the profits can be very high.
This is one of the fastest-growing areas in work at home, as the start-up costs of providing Virtual Assistant Secretarial Services is nominal, while the potential profits can be very good. If you posses some kind of certification of skills or formal training, you can charge services at higher prices.
A Virtual Assistant is a person providing services to individual business entrepreneurs or for a company.
A question that might pop-up in one’s mind would be of the work a Virtual Assistant has to do? A virtual assistant can handle a wide range or responsibilities from Database development and maintenance to bookkeeping.
Advantages of working as a Virtual Assistant include high hourly rates paid to you. Why you ask? Well, usually because the jobs given to VA’s are usually on short notice and have to be completed really fast. You need not go to offices or report into work every time, just reporting back after completing the work could do well enough, so in operating terms lower costs thus higher profits. Freedom, while you will have to work on projects and work won’t be that easy but you’ll have the freedom to complete it at your own pace and set your own goals.
Working as a virtual assistant may have many benefits but there might be some disadvantages too. Firstly, you’ll have to be multi-skilled to perform many different jobs and not focus on a single job. This may require training. You might have to keep a record of what you do and in what time you complete certain jobs, as most employers pay hourly rates. Too much freedom can make your skill level go low. Your working capacity may be reduced to 6-8 hours a day to 3-4 hours which may bring you some negative good will and cut in profits.
Creation of sites, as well as promotion of sites is one of the most lucrative works in the Internet. In my experience I can say that the customer does not find this too difficult work. Earnings can be quite decent. At least, take special courses and learn how to create professional sites in order to become a freelancer (to the employee himself) is the point. Skills like designing and coding and brining a twist in the website are some of the skills of website designers.
In the Internet every day there are thousands of new sites. The lion’s share of these sites belongs to the so-called “small” business. The “small business” give a sea of web designers, web – programmers and other IT-specialists working opportunity. Hiring their own full time IT-specialists by these firms cannot be afforded so they are always for a looks for professional, talented and low cost IT-specialists and their services.
All of this means that if you are able to do high quality sites and are prepared to work for less money than the studio web-design, you can get a lot of work.
With access to the Internet, you can equally well work for Russian customers or any one world-wide, as long as you have the speaking and dealing skills. That is what I am doing. A serious problem could be the language barrier, but if you choose to work for international clients be prepared to deal with such problems.
Average site (again – for “small” business) ranges from $100 to $500 depending on the quality of design and additional services. Go to Yahoo.com and do a search on the phrase Small Business web design – you will get a list of links to companies involved in developing websites for small businesses. Review these sites and determine how much of their rates could cost your job (i.e. the quality of design that you can provide). This is their price for such work. Reduce it by 30%, and a potential customer would be good reason to hire you, and not a reputed company with a bigger portfolio. The small business file hiring you will be much more profitable to pay you 300 USD, than the firm in the United States 500 USD. Do not underestimate the value too.
To be precise, there are two ways to determine the value of the site – the number of hours needed to create the site (hourly), and piece rates, when you immediately call the customer the cost of works. Work with the one better for you.
Make 4 – 5 sites per month and you’ll earn much more than sitting in some firms. If we talk about me – I have been doing this job about 4 years and my income varies from $600 to $1500 month. Naturally, it would be naive to think that such income can be achieved quickly – it took me much time and effort to build bridges with the host providers, design firms (give me a case of too heavy load of their orders). Now I already have a number of regular customers, they just know my capabilities and needs and are willing to work with me.
Many will ask where you can make a quick profit on the Internet, where most pay? On such matters there is no ready answers. Moreover, their secrets to earn you no one will tell. It may not be clear how-to instructions, following which, you’ll have a stable income. This is a unique type of business, that is, all the decisions you must take yourself!
Today the Internet equalizes the chances of receiving monetary compensation for their labor of ordinary Internet users with people who work at the machine at work or at a counter in the store. Each person has a computer connected to the Internet, there is a great opportunity to earn decent money without leaving home.
Work at home on the Internet can be to anyone as a primary activity, as well as an additional way to earn at home, while your income is nothing and no one is unlimited. Your wish multiplied by the patience and work at home will give you a unique chance to become independent and successful man.
Today’s advances in information technology changes the traditional idea of the work in the conventional sense, and it opens for us new concepts such as work at home, remote work on the Internet, web money and work from home.
Work at home on the Internet has a few drawbacks that you should know:
Work at home on the Internet in most cases does not allow get paid directly into your bank account – you can just simply earn money only by means of electronic payment systems and exchange of specialized services;
Work at home on the internet suggests the absence of any guarantees from the sponsorship program: a case of changing the rules of engagement with the infringement of your rights, you will only accept it, all rests on the honesty of owners sponsored projects, so choose the sponsors need to work very carefully, after studying their reputation network;
Work at home on the internet causes additional costs – pay for your stay in the network – the money spent in a natural way deducted from your earnings.
Work on the Internet has its advantages:
The virtual absence of age restrictions, although formally they are, work on the Internet can engage in parallel with other activities, the main work;
Your earnings on the Internet for internet use is theoretically unlimited, especially if you differ good learning disabilities, are able to analyze the information received and draw conclusions from it;
Opportunity to work on the Internet at home, at any time convenient to you;
You decide how much time you spend at the computer – it may be 1 hour, and the whole day, depending on your preferences, it requires no initial skills and expertise – all you learn on the job, available to everyone who wants to – no need to pass any interviews.
I hope you have learned about the few advantages and disadvantages of working at home. Do share your thought on what you think.
There are many definitions of telework, but still no agreement on its exact meaning. The most commonly used definition is “work at home”, but that’s just one of many forms of gender telework. It could agree to use the phrase “telecommuting” to designate it. The most “snobbish” associate that word with expressions such as telecommuting, remote work, telehousing, telecottage, televillages, hotelling, satellite offices, neighborhood offices, teleservice centers, telebusiness centers, flexible working etc. In short, telework is how, today, more flexible and “decentralized” in the “camel”. An occupation can be called telecommuting, generally, when you meet the following requirements:
- The place where they develop all or part of functions of the employee is at least partially, independent of your business location patron and their clients, near or inside the teleworker’s residence;
- Use necessarily in large quantities, the technologies of communication and information (computers with fax modems, phone lines, intranets and the Internet)
- Encourage changes in processes and organization;
- Use generally foreign languages.
Over ten million gringos and more than one million two hundred thousand Europeans, of which over one hundred thousand Spanish, practice this new way of working. telecommuting offers many benefits to society for workers and for businesses. For the worker seems obvious: there is time, as the number of trips to the workplace decreases, not up to standard will monitor their activities every second, will have greater flexibility in its regular schedule and a more comfortable environment, or at less pleasant. For the enterprise the benefits are linked to the reduction in operating costs due to using less space, offices, equipment, work tools, etc.. and the reduction in the costs of public services, as well as increased productivity and, in some cases, especially where the teleworker is not exclusive to one company, saving some or all cargo prestacional. The society is also affected positively by reducing stress levels and pollution, along with the substantial improvement of urban traffic problems. Of course there are also cons. For the employee this way of earning a living may create fear of job loss or lower on the ladder of promotion (There is still no labor law specialist), fear of isolation and lack of social contact. Finally, the lack of space at home, the resistance to mixing family life and working life, could create an inappropriate environment. The company could see diminished sense of ownership of the worker and be led to distrust him, then could work also for their competitors.
Anyway, teleworking, however not possible to present only as a sort of employment or a complementary solution to unemployment, since it is primarily an expression of the transition from industrial society and information technology or a consequence of society that begins to connect intensively, could contribute greatly in solving so great scourge of mankind, called unemployment.