The advent of the internet has created innumerable opportunities for interaction among cultures. With its massive popularity, the internet has been used as a venue for quite a number of interests, as well as business ventures. These businesses and other online sources of income paved the way for various online jobs to surface in the market. With scores of jobseekers wishing to enter the work force, online jobs not only increase person-to-job ratio – it also provides an opportunity for people to expand their horizon. Here are some reasons where you might consider online jobs to be worthy alternatives:
1. Online jobs are generally cost-effective. Your only expense, basically, is your internet fee. Compared to desk jobs where people have to battle traffic and the stress of traveling, online jobs can be done practically everywhere, even in the comfort of your own home. It doesn’t hurt that you also get to save a great deal from your travel expenses as well.
2. They save lots of travel time. The 30 minutes you use to commute to work or the 10 minutes spent for walking to the office building can be used for other worthwhile activities, like conceptualizing on a project or troubleshooting.
3. There are greater opportunities for income online. The possibilities are promising. One need not be constrained to a single employer or source of income, which are typical of desk jobs. In online jobs, you get to explore several areas, where boundless opportunities await.
4. A bigger network lies in the World Wide Web. With online jobs, you can reach a wider range of audience. A global audience is characteristic of the “boundless” society of the internet. You will never know what and who your work will reach, and its effect on people with varying cultures.
5. Age is often just a number. This is especially true if you know how to go about the computer and the internet. Since jobs online require minimal physical exertion, age is typically not much of an issue. What is of much concern to the client is the quality of work you do.
6. Online jobs allow a flexibility of location. You can work anywhere you want, provided you have internet connection. You need not battle it out with other commuters in the subway, or fall in line at bus stops, and experience the other stressors normally experienced by people with desk jobs. Working online gives you more freedom to get comfortable with your work environment that you have chosen for you own.
With online jobs slowly gaining popularity, it’s not hard to believe the many benefits you can experience by working online. Its attraction lies mainly in being able to work from your preferred zone, and being instantly connected to a wider audience range. The increasing dependence of people on the internet makes it easier for jobs and businesses to penetrate the market. The advantages listed above are only guides to help you weigh your options, and be more informed with your choices.
There are Tigers, There are so many ways that newbies can "be had" on the Internet. It is just sad that so many of those that are eaten up by the tigers that roam through the Internet jungle are only trying to find a way to be able to make some money using their personal computers and their Internet connections.
They aren't even hoping to become rich or famous. They don't expect making money to be easy or fast. They simply want a job that will allow them to stay at home with their young children, help to put a loved child through collage or add to their retirement income. They are honest, hard-working decent people....that make the tigers out there start thinking about lunch.
Work-from-home If you are considering trying to find a work at home job, you need to know that you will be working more hours for less money than you made at your job that was located in the brick and mortar world. On the other hand, you will not have all of the related expenses of a brick and mortar job either. # You will not have the expense of traveling to and from work. # You will not have the expense of suitable clothing for work. # You will not have the expense of day-care. # You will not have the expense of lunch out everyday.
Good things...all of them! But there is a downside to working from home, as well.
# You will be considered to be self-employed # You will have to pay all of your FICA tax. (Your employer now pays half.) # You will have to convince your family and friends that you really do have a job. # You had better be aware of the tigers and other critters that want to have you for lunch...at the entree.
There are schemes and scams out there that are directed at those who want to be work-at-home moms, those who are looking for an additional income source and those who are retirees looking for part-time work to supplement their incomes.
Some of these scams are:
Stuffing envelopes: “Make extra money by stuffing envelopes from home!” This tiger is a bit long in the tooth. It's been around for years. Advertisements for "at-home-envelope stuffers' can be found in newspapers at your local library that date back several decades....and yet people will still fall for it.
The reason that people will fall for this ploy is that they get all of that unsolicited mail at their own homes and they think that somebody had to have put that paper into those envelopes that are addressed to them. Nope! Sorry.... but no living person actually put that paper into those envelopes. It was put there by a machine and it was addressed by a computer. It was mailed in bulk. There is always, of course, a "small fee" to get started in the envelope stuffing business.
In return for this, "small fee" you will most likely get instructions for placing ads just like the one you fell for to get others to bite. It is tiger...it is a con...and the only way that you will ever get your money back is to fool others into thinking they can make money by stuffing envelopes.
Fact: There are no envelope stuffing jobs to be had!
Craft or assembly jobs:
This tiger is very attractive. It appeals to those who are talented at crafts or handy with hand tools. These folks see an advertisement that promises them that they can make a ton of money by just doing what they already know how to do and are very good at and it is just almost irresistible.
This looks like the opportunity that they have been looking for! Whoa! Put that sewing machine or those hand tools away and let‟s think this over. There are some things that you don‟t know.
There isn't any reason for you to know these things but you better learn them.....fast. The headline of this advertisement is in big bold print and there are usually multiple exclamation points, as well. The headline promises that you will be sent the material and then be paid for the finished products when you send them in to the employer.
Don't skip the print that isn't quite as big as that headline. That's where the "catch" is.....or, maybe I should say, catches. There's more than one way for this tiger to get you.
Usually the first thing is that you will be required to „invest‟ in some special equipment or supplies that aren't going to be included in the "free materials" that were promised in the larger print. This equipment or supplies can run anywhere from a few dollars to several hundred dollars. This is what the advertisers are selling! You will see that there is a no return policy for the equipment or supplies that you must purchase....there never is.
If you get out your magnifying glass and read the itty-bitty print at the very bottom that is well below the scroll line, you will see a statement that says something like, “All work must meet quality standards.” It will look something like this: “All work must meet quality standards.” That's where this tiger is really going to get you and get you good.
No work will ever meet quality standards. It isn't possible. You will buy the equipment or supplies. You will work to create the products as directed. You will never see one thin dime in payment for the finished products that you send.
It gets worse. You have no legal recourse. You agreed to buy the equipment or supplies and were told that there was a "no return" policy. You agreed to produce products that met "quality control standards" that were not specified. You've been had!
The fact is that there really is a huge market for hand-crafted products out there. The market is huge...maybe almost unlimited. If you have a talent for making hand-crafted products and if you have the ability to market them, you can make some money doing it.
You will not, however, ever make any money just using your talents to assemble hand-crafted products at home for these tigers that are not even selling them. They are selling the equipment and supplies....that is ALL they are selling...and they want to sell them to you.
Fact: You can make money selling hand crafted items but not by assembling these items for others.
Medical Billing: This very large headline will read something like, “Job explosion in the Health Care Industry!!!!!!!” There are always a lot of exclamation points. You will see these advertisements in newspapers, magazines and, of course, on the Internet. You will be told that the entire reason that medical costs are so high is because the medical profession needs your personal assistance and that just by taking a job, for which you will be very well paid, you can single-handedly lower the cost of health care for the whole world. Wow!
You need a job...and they need you! Sounds like a partnership that would work out well for everybody. These advertisements try to sell you on the idea that it's the overwhelming amount of required paperwork that is the root cause of the inflation of health care costs....for all of us.
These advertisements claim that all that is needed to fix this problem in the implementation of electronic claim processing....which is a new and innovative technology that has recently become available. Horse feathers! Electronic billing is done by a few well established companies. Doctors subscribe to these services and have been doing so for more than a few years. Medical billing isn't done by hand and hasn't been since the late 1980's.
If you answer one of the advertisements, what you will get in return for the hard-earned dollars that you send in is a brochure, an application, some discs, a contract, some disclosure statements (in tiny print), and possibly some testimonial letters from people who will swear that this has changed their lives and made the wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. HA!
What you will have are some basic instructions for setting up your own medical billing business. What you will not have is a medical building job. You will be required to get your own clients. They will not be supplied. As I said before, there are a few (and only a few) well established companies that have been doing this billing for doctors for many years.
They are your competition...and very stiff competition. You will be promised that you can earn a ton of bucks by only working part time and at your own pace. Now stop just a minute and think about that. Part time AND a ton of money? Does that really sound reasonable to you?
It isn't a reasonable expectation. You aren't likely to make a ton of money working at a full time job of any kind and you certainly won't be making very much, if anything, by working part time. Real world business doesn't work like that and neither does Internet based businesses.
Oh, and you will also be required to make a personal investment of between one and TEN thousand dollars in order to get in on the golden opportunity.
Fact: Medical billing is well covered by the few companies who have been doing it for decades. You aren’t the answer to the soaring cost of health care.
Date Entry: No doubt you can picture yourself just putting numbers in columns for a few hours a day from the comfort of your own home and making enough money by doing it to make up your financial short fall, right? No...sorry....that isn't really very likely to happen.
I'm not telling you that there are NO data entry jobs available. I am only telling you that you aren't likely to get one of them by answering one of those slick ads that promise you a data entry job if you will but sign up for their course.
The problem with these so-called data entry courses, is that they rarely have anything to do with data entry jobs. Most of them are more on the order of teaching you (more or less) how to set up and run your own affiliate program. There isn't anything wrong with affiliate programs but they aren't data entry jobs.
They are businesses in which you will do some data entry work....like on tax forms when you file your self-employment tax returns. There can also be data entry work in the operation of an affiliate marketing business.
You will need to enter data in order to maintain orderliness in your business. If you let this tiger get you, after you pay you money you will get a course that will either be delivered electronically via the computer, on CD‟s or DVD‟s. This course will teach how to find affiliate programs that you can sign up for (information that is readily available for free on the Internet).
Then you will be instructed how to set up advertisements in Google Ad Words (this information is also readily available on the Internet). What you will not be told is that affiliate marketing is an extremely competitive business.
It isn't a data entry job. You will be told that these ads that you have to set up in Google Ad words will only cost you one penny each. Now there is a big fat, out-and-out, rotten lie. You might set up ads that will only cost you one penny each time someone clicks on them....that much is true. Your ads will be listed on about page 15 in search results and you aren't very likely to have them clicked on.
But if, by some stroke of luck, they are clicked on, they cost well more than one penny per click. Fact: Data entry courses are a scam. They will not secure a data entry job for you.
Writers Wanted: Here's is yet another tiger that is out to make you the main course for his dinner. It is absolutely true that the Internet gobbles up words at an alarming rate and that there is always a demand for those who can write articles, ebooks and reports about a variety of subjects.
Writing for the Internet is an art. Just because you can string sentences together that are grammatically correct and make sense doesn't mean that you can write for Internet marketers. The advertisements that you see that say, "Writers Wanted" don't really want writers. What they want are the people who want to be writers. There will always be a course you are required to pay for or a list that you are required to buy.
That's what these advertisements are selling....courses or lists....they are NOT selling writing jobs.
Fact: You will not get a job writing by taking a course or buying a list.
Check List.
There really are work-at-home jobs out there. The problem is finding the ones that are legitimate job offers. So many are nothing more than Internet jungle tigers waiting to take advantage of you. Here is a check list that will help you to separate the fact from the fiction:
1. What is the "cost" of getting the job that is advertised? Find out what, if any, equipment or supplies are required. Legitimate work-at-home jobs do not require that you spend money. They pay YOU money.
2. Tell me what the tasks are that I must perform in order to get paid. This is a legitimate question to ask. Every job on earth comes with a job description of some kind. If the company or individual that you are talking to can describe the job is a few sentences, keep looking.
3. Is this a salaried position or will I be paid on a commission or hourly basis? Here's another one question that any potential employee shouldn't hesitate to ask. Pay is always based upon something. It is either paid as a salary that has nothing whatsoever to do with hours worked or it is based upon an hourly pay scale for which you will be required to sign in and sign out or it is based upon a commission of percentage of sales that you must make.
4. Who pays me and when? That's an easy question. Every single legitimate company or individual employer has regular and specified pay periods. You might be paid once a week, once a month or twice a month. Any of those pay period options are perfectly legitimate.
5. Where are you located? This is a question that only someone who is working from home would have to ask. If you were working in the brick and mortar world, you would be well aware of the place where you were expected to report to work. The Internet presents another little problem. We are all connected electronically rather that physically. You might be working for someone who is located in Malaysia. You need to be told where the person or business is physically located.
6. How will I receive instructions? Here again, this is a problem that only comes up when the job is being done on the computer. You may receive instructions by email or by way of an instant messaging service.
7. Who will I receive instructions from? This is a question that might need to be answered for real world businesses as well as for online ones. Many times there will be more than one partner in an online business. You need to know who it is that will supply you with instructions and directions. You don't want to have to decide who to take direction from.
What Can You Do if the Tiger Gets You? You are not likely to ever recover any money that you have paid to the work-at-home scam artists have taken you for. Of course, it never hurts to try. Who knows? You might get lucky and at the very least you might prevent another person from getting taken in.
You might even make it hard enough on a work-at-home scam artist to make him think he has a tiger by the tail.
1. The Federal Trade Commission is the government entity charged with the protection of consumers. Call them at 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). That is the place to report fraudulent business practices.
2. If you live in a metropolitan area, there is most likely a consumer protection office in your area. You can call them or write them.
3. Report the offending business to the Better Business Bureau. This sometimes seems to be an exercise in futility but it does have a direct impact on businesses.
4. If any part of the correspondence came to you through the USPS, you can contact your local postmaster to report it. Mail fraud is a federal crime.
5. You can contact the Attorney General of the state in which the company or individual is based. They may well have violated some state laws in the process of scamming you. Frankly, it just makes my blood boil when I see these slick advertisements that are aimed directly at those that are least able to absorb the cost of being scammed.
There may be very little that you can actually do to undo the damage that they have caused you, but by putting forth some time and effort you may prevent them from doing the same thing to others.
Freelancing – A Great Option and Way of Making a Living in a Recession
When you think of freelancing, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? You probably think of a writer, novelist or journalist right off hand.
That is primarily because for centuries, the only real job you could have as a freelancer had to do with your mastery of the written word.
But we are not still stuck back in the early nineteen hundreds – no we are in the twenty first century, a time that appreciates freelancers in hundreds of different jobs.
Sure, you have probably heard of freelance photographers too, you may have even met one or two in your life, but what about freelance software designers, freelance medical billing specialists, or even freelance scientific researchers?
There are all jobs that have recently begun to see massive growth in their respective fields because more and more people are realizing that they can make far more money working for themselves as freelancers than they ever could solely from working under the wing of their previous employer.
So it sounds pretty good doesn’t it? You work in some field for quite a few years, get a lot of practical experience in your chosen area of employment and then gradually make the switch from working the nine to five to becoming your own boss as a freelancer.
But is it really as easy as it sounds to become a freelancer and actually make a living doing work on a freelance basis?
We have to keep in mind that there are quite a few freelancers out there who are only doing work part time.
Not because they make a ton of money and only have to work a couple of days per week but because they actually have had some trouble finding work in the past and need a much more solid career option in order to make sure that they do not find themselves facing bankruptcy.
However, such a scenario does not have to happen to you if you are willing to do whatever it takes to become a freelancer. Your career switch may not happen overnight – but eventually you will become highly successful at what you do.
It’s a guarantee.
The first step in making that jump from office work to freelance is to decide whether or not you have what it takes to become a freelancer.
We all want to be our own boss, but do we all have the drive and dedication that it takes to be successful without the watchful eye of our supervisors?
Sadly, we don’t.
Therefore, you have to really sit down and think about what makes you so special in the world of freelancers.
Do you have a large enough skill set to make you stand out amongst the hoards of different people all seeking the same work as you?
Do you have the time management skills necessary to run your own freelancing operation and meet all of the deadlines set upon you by your clients?
If you have even the slightest doubt in your mind about freelancing, then maybe there are other career paths that are better for you in the long run.
Now, provided that you are willing to jump in to your freelancing business with both feet, you need to start off on the freelance path slowly before you can really start raking in the cash.
Don’t quit your job just yet! Instead, you need to begin your hunt for freelance work in your area of expertise on the internet and see what you can come up with.
Some skills, such as the ability to write coherently or do software design for clients of all types, are highly marketable and you should really have no difficulty whatsoever finding a goldmine of work.
On the other hand, if you are only able to do tasks that are not as easily marketable on a freelance basis, you will have much more difficulty finding work for your freelance operation.
Currently some of the most popular fields for freelancing include writing, editing, photography, web and graphic design, software design, and architecture or drafting.
Once you have settled on a field that you want to freelance in, you will need to start finding your first clients. Whatever you do, do not start your hunt with any of the clients that you may have dealt with in your current job.
There are all kinds of laws against this practice and it may get you into serious trouble if you are caught.
Instead, turn to your favorite search engine and search for some forums and databases specifically designed for freelancers seeking work in a particular field.
There are tons of different places for you to visit, so within an hour or so you will probably have at least ten or fifteen bookmarks of places online where you can find employment as a freelancer.
When you find you have some free time, all you have to do is search around on each one of these bookmarked websites to find the freelance positions that sound good to you.
When you start out as a freelancer, you will probably have to take a few jobs that do not pay very well at all. That’s fine because these jobs help you build your skill set.
They will help you learn how to more effectively manage your time, speed up your workflow, and even help you get more used to using a computer and the internet to search for answers to any questions that may pop up while you are doing work for your client.
The low paying jobs will probably last for awhile, as until you have assembled a massive list of satisfied clients you will have to primarily compete with all of the other freelancers in your field entirely on how low your rates and fees are.
Eventually though you will graduate into higher and higher paying jobs until you will find that you have practically doubled your current income with income from freelancing.
At this point you should feel confident enough to possibly start thinking about reducing the number of hours you work at your current job to part time status or even quit your job all together and make your fortunes solely through freelancing in your selected field.
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Let's face it...
... Not everyone can afford to drop $2,000 to $5,000 to fly half-way across the country to attend a 'live' Internet marketing bootcamp.
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