| are work at home opportunities, many of them | | | | You should not pay to learn how to make $500 a |
| can be started for less than $1500, and three | | | | week posting to forums. However, you can pay |
| months of learning. Most of them will generate | | | | for the resources that can make it easier to do |
| more than $30 000 a year when the business is | | | | your job. These may include software programs |
| operated full time, by someone dedicated to | | | | such as speech to text, so you can create |
| success. Most of these are in the service industry. | | | | articles faster, premade business forms, |
| Many of them have the potential to grow into | | | | strategies for investing and managing, and other |
| large businesses, if the owner wants. | | | | ‘technical’ or |
| Some of the most common ‘legit’ | | | | ‘managerial’ knowledge that you |
| work at home businesses are: | | | | need to succeed. |
| Medical transcriptionist | | | | What you shouldn’t purchase is a program |
| Blog Writing, Managing, Promoting | | | | that offers to help you make great wealth, |
| Web Article Writer | | | | quickly, without doing any work. You |
| Graphic Artist | | | | shouldn’t pay for the ‘secret to |
| Telephone Answering Service (via an Internet | | | | success.’ Also, do not pay to join any |
| Phone) | | | | secret organizations or networking groups that |
| Office Outsourcing | | | | appear elitist. You also don’t want to pay |
| Virtual Assistant | | | | for any opportunity that promises that you can |
| Forum Poster | | | | make hundreds of dollars a day, doing unskilled |
| Debt Management | | | | work. |
| Property Investing | | | | Joining a forum, or a newsletter group is a good |
| Stock Photographers | | | | idea. |
| Teaching/TutoringeBay Selling | | | | The bloggers who talk about work at home |
| Collection agent | | | | success cite ‘lack of knowledge’ |
| Mortgage broker | | | | as the number one hindrance to a home based |
| Property Managers | | | | business. The second is lack of work. |
| Coaching | | | | One of the biggest ‘self |
| Investing | | | | sabotaging’ problems with online business |
| Can you make $1200 a week writing for | | | | is answering emails, looking up free articles to |
| discussion boards, also called forum posting? Yes, | | | | teach you how to manage a small business, |
| but only if you work for a company like | | | | chatting in social forums and blogs, and |
| Odesk.com, or Elance.com, and you don’t | | | | ‘learning.’ Some business owners |
| need to pay someone $50 - $100 to learn how to | | | | spend so much time ‘learning’ |
| do it. | | | | they never get around to doing anything that |
| Can you make $1000 a month writing free | | | | generates income. |
| content articles? Yes, if you use an article writing | | | | It is important to realize that it is easy to make |
| software program to help you research, and you | | | | $1000 a week, but that usually entails working a |
| have the right contacts. | | | | six day work week, for about 10 – 12 |
| Is it possible to make $1000 working 2 days a | | | | hours a day. When you look at the numbers that |
| week, posting ads to a blog? Yes, but only if you | | | | way, $13 - $16 an hour is quite reasonable. |
| learn the art of blog management and how to | | | | Skilled Work |
| write ads without breaking the | | | | No one will make $1000 in their first week. Forum |
| ‘theme’ of the blog. You also | | | | writing, mortgage brokering, blog advertising, all of |
| need to manage about 15 – 20 blogs. | | | | these are skilled work. One thousand people will |
| There are literally hundreds of work-at-home, or | | | | fail because they don’t take the time |
| telecommuting jobs as they use to be called. Most | | | | needed to build their skills, and learn how to do |
| of them build on skills you already have. The one | | | | the job, and run their business, better than the |
| thing that keeps people from success is lack of | | | | thousands of people who have no skills, and will |
| knowledge. | | | | never reach their full potential. |
| What Should You Pay For? | | | | |