wbindia
10-08-2009, 05:59 PM
Dear Fellow Entrepreneurs:
I am new to the forum, but felt compelled to offer some advise from my personal experience in finding the “perfect” At Home Business opportunity. Don’t worry this is into a sales pitch for the perfect work at home business system or best product or affiliate program to promote.
Like yourselves, I too am looking forward to the day when I can quit my full time job and transcend into working for myself (full-time) as my own boss..For those of you entrepreneurs who are already self-employed-KUDOS to you, for those of you who are still trading your time for a J.O.B. (myself included),don’t give up the fight just yet.
Remember: PERSERVERENCE Holds the key to SUCCESS.
The problem today both online and offline is that there is such a plethora of Get Rich Scheme SCAMS that has saturated the internet and offline advertising. Just look at the Madoff financial debacle and the fall-out from that. This scam has completely undermined the entire financial industry from an “innocent” investor stand point. The bottom line-the vast majority (99%) of people out there with any sense at all are not buying into the get rich scheme mentality online or offline.
However the majority of work from home programs online seem to be advocating and promoting just that: A pathway to riches Mentality….It’s a Pipe dream and an out-right lie.
Please understand where I am coming from, I am not attacking anyone on this forum regarding your particular program, system or product that you are promoting online or offline-this is not an indictment on your Work From Home Business, System, Product or Service that you are promoting. My whole purpose for writing this is to educate, empower, the “good” legitimate work from home programs online or offline from the thousands of scam related sites that are nothing but SCAMs.
I was scammed several years ago totaling almost 10K. The company or the product line need not be mentioned in this forum other than to inform everyone-that as an industry-we need to do more regarding policing our own-selves with respect to whatever work at home business, system, product or service you are promoting.
Beware of the Online and offline get Rich Scheme Scams.....
It seems that with a ever deteriorating global economy the numbers of increased scam related opportunities both off-line and on-line have doubled. Unfortunately it's times like these where the real scammers prey upon the vulnerable seeking to make their fortunes at the expense of their would-be victims.
Just take a look at the Madoff scandal -and how he swindled billions from investors over several years. How many others are still out there waiting to be discovered that have also stolen millions or billions from innocent investors?
There are others, from mortgage related scams to investments.
The point is, there will never be an endless supply to the "get rich" mentality, everyone seems to be looking for the magic bullet of economic security and fortitude which sadly-does not exist. People who are trying to lose weight are looking for the magic pill that they can pop in their mouths---and poof-the weight suddenly and magically disappears! Guess what ?
No secret pill exists! The only way to lose weight is to eat sensibly coupled with proper "healthy" nutrition and exercise. Having a Masters Degree in Health Education I do know what I'm talking about here...
Finding the magic bullet to the perfect home based business or work from home opportunity is no different, it takes had work, and lots of persistence. But.... there is no magic bullet or special key that you enter into your computer and "poof" all your financial troubles are gone as you rake in the millions over night ....
Rules to Follow when seeking out a Legitimate Work at Home Business
1) The Product must stand alone. In another words, if you remove the fees that you will have pay up front for your e-Commerce business (web hosting, e-mail, marketing, merchant account, monthly dues etc, ) there must be a legitimate product that everyone needs and that you can believe in to sell to your customer base that has true and lasting VALUE…If not you need to run away as fast as you can..
2) Most SCAM related work at home business sites are just selling the system or the program which is nothing more than recruiting members under you as the product, which is an illegal ponzi scheme. Unless there is a legitimate product with true lasting VALUE…then you need to ask yourself what is the business or service you are promoting “if” there is no product or service to promote?
3) Make sure any program you sign up with has at least a 30 day money back guarantee, and make sure you have this in writing.
4) You need to understand your total monthly fees-which can be significant from merchant account fees using (VISA, MasterCard, Discover, etc), to web-hosting charges, monthly membership charges, e-mail account charges, monthly marketing charges, phone, fax etc. Many programs withhold such information until after you realize you are in over your head financially with reoccurring monthly fees.
5) CONTENT: Make sure you have a content VALUE rich website
With millions of websites on-line these days, you have to make sure your website is visible to the average web-surfer. Let me be perfectly clear, there are no such things as getting rich over night on the internet…tThose days are long gone... All the major search engines (Google, and Yahoo, and now BING…) are too sophisticated in their software and mathematical formulas to be able to discern between Content quality websites that are providing value, and the run of the mill scam sites.
6) TRAFFIC: How do you get the traffic-by providing a CONTENT Theme rich website with VALUE…
OK you've got a great content laden web-site, now what? You need traffic. How do you get traffic? You can pay for it, through advertising (both on-line and off-line), joint ventures, which all requires considerable advertising costs to you...But... if you have a high content quality website guess what? The traffic will arrive on your website because quality content drives the human traffic you need to succeed in your home-business.
Put yourself in a website marketer's shoes for a moment: When you want to find something online-What do you do to search? Simple...You enter the in Mother Google or Yahoo or BING, and VOILA Mother Google returns several search terms based upon your initial search criteria. Then what do you do?.....That's right..you then check out several of the searched terms for relevance. You check out the website layout, how easy is it to navigate around the site, etc.
Did the website deliver for you what you were searching for? If it did, you explore the site further eventually clicking on links or ads on the site regarding relevance of the item. Then if everything meets your satisfactory, you may sign up for a news letter, or actually purchase a product or service that the merchant is offering. If the site does not deliver, you then explore other sites that meet the same search criteria.
7) PRESELL: You must be able to presell your potential customers
OK..you've got a great content quality website, you're starting to see an uptick in your traffic stats, now what? Now you've got to"Presell" your website visitors with what you are offering? You need to warm them up to your most sought after product or service (the sale). What is your "strong>brand of one that is unique to just you-you're unique selling voice?
You'll have to figure this out but you have to warm up your potential customers what you are offering them through your value laden professional services, or you can sell others' products, or advertise for other merchants. There are many different ways you can do this. It doesn’t matter whether you are promoting and trying to expand your rural medical practice or selling porcelain dolls from India.
8) MONETIZE: How are you going to monetize your site?
This is the last step. How do you monetize your site? You finally, this is where the rubber meets the road, this is why you've developed your content quality website for your most sought after response from your website visitors. Don't let them be disappointed, provide for them what they want?
If you're site is about real estate for example, provide a content laden real estate website that delivers what your customers are seeking. Because if they do not find it on your website...guess what? Your potential customers will click right out of your site to another website that provides what they are seeking.
If you apply these principles: CTPM to whatever your web-business is-you will succeed.
Remember: "The only Unfulfilled Goals in Your Life are the Ones you Never Attempt"
I am new to the forum, but felt compelled to offer some advise from my personal experience in finding the “perfect” At Home Business opportunity. Don’t worry this is into a sales pitch for the perfect work at home business system or best product or affiliate program to promote.
Like yourselves, I too am looking forward to the day when I can quit my full time job and transcend into working for myself (full-time) as my own boss..For those of you entrepreneurs who are already self-employed-KUDOS to you, for those of you who are still trading your time for a J.O.B. (myself included),don’t give up the fight just yet.
Remember: PERSERVERENCE Holds the key to SUCCESS.
The problem today both online and offline is that there is such a plethora of Get Rich Scheme SCAMS that has saturated the internet and offline advertising. Just look at the Madoff financial debacle and the fall-out from that. This scam has completely undermined the entire financial industry from an “innocent” investor stand point. The bottom line-the vast majority (99%) of people out there with any sense at all are not buying into the get rich scheme mentality online or offline.
However the majority of work from home programs online seem to be advocating and promoting just that: A pathway to riches Mentality….It’s a Pipe dream and an out-right lie.
Please understand where I am coming from, I am not attacking anyone on this forum regarding your particular program, system or product that you are promoting online or offline-this is not an indictment on your Work From Home Business, System, Product or Service that you are promoting. My whole purpose for writing this is to educate, empower, the “good” legitimate work from home programs online or offline from the thousands of scam related sites that are nothing but SCAMs.
I was scammed several years ago totaling almost 10K. The company or the product line need not be mentioned in this forum other than to inform everyone-that as an industry-we need to do more regarding policing our own-selves with respect to whatever work at home business, system, product or service you are promoting.
Beware of the Online and offline get Rich Scheme Scams.....
It seems that with a ever deteriorating global economy the numbers of increased scam related opportunities both off-line and on-line have doubled. Unfortunately it's times like these where the real scammers prey upon the vulnerable seeking to make their fortunes at the expense of their would-be victims.
Just take a look at the Madoff scandal -and how he swindled billions from investors over several years. How many others are still out there waiting to be discovered that have also stolen millions or billions from innocent investors?
There are others, from mortgage related scams to investments.
The point is, there will never be an endless supply to the "get rich" mentality, everyone seems to be looking for the magic bullet of economic security and fortitude which sadly-does not exist. People who are trying to lose weight are looking for the magic pill that they can pop in their mouths---and poof-the weight suddenly and magically disappears! Guess what ?
No secret pill exists! The only way to lose weight is to eat sensibly coupled with proper "healthy" nutrition and exercise. Having a Masters Degree in Health Education I do know what I'm talking about here...
Finding the magic bullet to the perfect home based business or work from home opportunity is no different, it takes had work, and lots of persistence. But.... there is no magic bullet or special key that you enter into your computer and "poof" all your financial troubles are gone as you rake in the millions over night ....
Rules to Follow when seeking out a Legitimate Work at Home Business
1) The Product must stand alone. In another words, if you remove the fees that you will have pay up front for your e-Commerce business (web hosting, e-mail, marketing, merchant account, monthly dues etc, ) there must be a legitimate product that everyone needs and that you can believe in to sell to your customer base that has true and lasting VALUE…If not you need to run away as fast as you can..
2) Most SCAM related work at home business sites are just selling the system or the program which is nothing more than recruiting members under you as the product, which is an illegal ponzi scheme. Unless there is a legitimate product with true lasting VALUE…then you need to ask yourself what is the business or service you are promoting “if” there is no product or service to promote?
3) Make sure any program you sign up with has at least a 30 day money back guarantee, and make sure you have this in writing.
4) You need to understand your total monthly fees-which can be significant from merchant account fees using (VISA, MasterCard, Discover, etc), to web-hosting charges, monthly membership charges, e-mail account charges, monthly marketing charges, phone, fax etc. Many programs withhold such information until after you realize you are in over your head financially with reoccurring monthly fees.
5) CONTENT: Make sure you have a content VALUE rich website
With millions of websites on-line these days, you have to make sure your website is visible to the average web-surfer. Let me be perfectly clear, there are no such things as getting rich over night on the internet…tThose days are long gone... All the major search engines (Google, and Yahoo, and now BING…) are too sophisticated in their software and mathematical formulas to be able to discern between Content quality websites that are providing value, and the run of the mill scam sites.
6) TRAFFIC: How do you get the traffic-by providing a CONTENT Theme rich website with VALUE…
OK you've got a great content laden web-site, now what? You need traffic. How do you get traffic? You can pay for it, through advertising (both on-line and off-line), joint ventures, which all requires considerable advertising costs to you...But... if you have a high content quality website guess what? The traffic will arrive on your website because quality content drives the human traffic you need to succeed in your home-business.
Put yourself in a website marketer's shoes for a moment: When you want to find something online-What do you do to search? Simple...You enter the in Mother Google or Yahoo or BING, and VOILA Mother Google returns several search terms based upon your initial search criteria. Then what do you do?.....That's right..you then check out several of the searched terms for relevance. You check out the website layout, how easy is it to navigate around the site, etc.
Did the website deliver for you what you were searching for? If it did, you explore the site further eventually clicking on links or ads on the site regarding relevance of the item. Then if everything meets your satisfactory, you may sign up for a news letter, or actually purchase a product or service that the merchant is offering. If the site does not deliver, you then explore other sites that meet the same search criteria.
7) PRESELL: You must be able to presell your potential customers
OK..you've got a great content quality website, you're starting to see an uptick in your traffic stats, now what? Now you've got to"Presell" your website visitors with what you are offering? You need to warm them up to your most sought after product or service (the sale). What is your "strong>brand of one that is unique to just you-you're unique selling voice?
You'll have to figure this out but you have to warm up your potential customers what you are offering them through your value laden professional services, or you can sell others' products, or advertise for other merchants. There are many different ways you can do this. It doesn’t matter whether you are promoting and trying to expand your rural medical practice or selling porcelain dolls from India.
8) MONETIZE: How are you going to monetize your site?
This is the last step. How do you monetize your site? You finally, this is where the rubber meets the road, this is why you've developed your content quality website for your most sought after response from your website visitors. Don't let them be disappointed, provide for them what they want?
If you're site is about real estate for example, provide a content laden real estate website that delivers what your customers are seeking. Because if they do not find it on your website...guess what? Your potential customers will click right out of your site to another website that provides what they are seeking.
If you apply these principles: CTPM to whatever your web-business is-you will succeed.
Remember: "The only Unfulfilled Goals in Your Life are the Ones you Never Attempt"