Work-from-Home Success Stories – Are Testimonials Telling You the Real Story?
Date posted: 2006-09-13
As much as I have read and researched about work from home opportunities and home-based self-employment, my heart still twitches when I come across some of the homeworkers testimonials on the Internet.
Just when I think I cannot be allured by a heart-breaking story of an anonimous single parent who made tons of money from envelope addressing, I find myself even moved by some of these “success stories” up to the point when they promise me to make $1,000 a day with some shady home business proposition.
Do the Math YOURSELF!
Don’t let somebody else do the math for you when it’s about the income you’ll get from devoting your free time and your effort. For instance, that $1,000-per-day claim – I don’t figure out what reliable home business provider can bond with such a promise, unless it’s not bonding at all! You may be able to make UP to $1,000 on SOME days, but making solid one thousand dollars every single day is a little far-fetched, at least to me…Better place a sure bet on a work-from-home opportunity that promises more moderate, but realistic earnings, rather than leap on a miraculously-sounding home business proposition that promises you a free cruise in the dry seas of the Moon.
Tell the Marketing Jargon from the Outright Scam
Promising great cash rewards, exciting bonus options, extra credit in an amazingly easy way to get is the usual marketing jargon. After all, to sell a good idea, you should be oftentimes able to shout louder than the competition, in Internet marketing terms. Unless you can capture the interest of your audience, your work-from-home offers will dust on the online racks. That’s what everyone does to advertise a product or service.
It’s whether the advertiser makes credible claims and promises reasonable rewards. It’s all in the degree of intensity of outbidding the legitimate work-from-home databases that may reveal the scam artist from the truthful online employment provider. So, carefully read between the lines of inflated income promises, and learn to distinguish between the marketing jargon and the outright scam!
Your Investment – Who Gets the Returns?
As in any other offline career, your Internet job will require an investment of time, effort and personal qualities. However, some sites will try to cajole you into making an initial investment of some hundred or couple of thousand dollars to perform on an alleged third-party offer to assemble items, glue art postcards or something of the sort. The site requires you to buy the supplies you need to complete the task (i.e. color papers, wooden sticks, special glue, plastic panes, etc.). You are then promised that the same company will buy out the items, but you most probably either never get any money, or recover less than you paid for the “initial investment”. Instead of getting the promised returns on your investment, you’re stuck with useless items and broken hopes for extra cash. You are left disappointed and disillusioned – you’ve been fooled to spend your time on a scam scheme, rather than spend it with your family or friends.
If you choose to accept any work-from-home proposition, you should be cautious if you’re asked to give money in advance, make “investment”, and pay for some tutorial or online tool that you doubtfully need. Whatever testimonials you may read about someone who made $30,000 a month from stuffing or addressing envelopes (given the existence of modern, efficient and inexpensive mail technologies!), always doubt that they may be making this income from fooling people around!
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