| 6. Make Lots of Money Taking SurveysYou probably | | | | any given month.10. Craft AssemblyEven as I was |
| get one of these in your email a week. Sign up for | | | | doing research for this article I came across a |
| free or for a few of them a fee, and you will soon | | | | message board where many people were responding |
| earn a steady income just filling out surveys. It is | | | | to an ad that went like this:"Work from home, no |
| true that people used to make money doing this. Not | | | | experience necessary. Make over $3000 a month." |
| enough to quit there jobs and pay there bills but | | | | Medical transcription is actually a legitmate business |
| $30-$100 or more a month. With the influx of people | | | | but it takes a lot of hard work to get it going. The |
| surfing the internet trying to get a buck anywhere | | | | ads will tell you how easy it is. You pay them and |
| they can, this is no longer the case. If it were that | | | | mostly get a floppy disk or papers and that's it. All |
| easy to make money everyone would quit there | | | | you find out is that you need to call doctor's offices |
| jobs and do it and companies wouldn't be making | | | | to see if any of them will hire you. The fees are |
| much money. The sites are still there, but now most | | | | usually outrageous as well anywhere from $300 to |
| of them put you in a raffle to earn "cool stuff" not | | | | well over $1000 for there "software" and just like |
| money. Other's will put you in a raffle to some | | | | the data entry, it's the only thing you can use. There |
| money. But what are the chances of you winning. | | | | are real places hiring transcriptionists online, however |
| And what are the chances of you winning more than | | | | the no experience rule you see some advertise is a |
| once a year? That is not steady income. The ones | | | | good indicator that they are a scam. You need |
| that do say they will pay you, up up $30 or more for | | | | experience, you need to know all of the coding and |
| a survey, leave something out. You will sit and wait | | | | medical language. Would you want someone typing |
| for that email telling you that you have a survey, but | | | | up your file who doesn't understand what there |
| you more than likely will never get one. Or even | | | | typing, and make key mistakes that could endanger |
| better you get one, and after filling out 3 or 4 | | | | your life? It should also be noted that the scammers |
| questions such as age, sex, location, and yearly | | | | have also extended the scam by creating "schools", |
| salary, you will quickly find out your not what there | | | | for you to pay them and get a degree by doing a |
| looking for. Other's will slam your email with surveys | | | | home course which is actually not a real certificate. |
| that pay 10 cents if your lucky. At the end if you can | | | | To become a real certified Medical Transcriptionist |
| get even $20 a month on surveys then your still | | | | you need to go to American Association for Medical |
| stuck, because many will only mail out checks of | | | | Transcription and read all about the Medical |
| $25-$100 dollars, so it would be months before you | | | | Transcription Certification Program (MTCP).Work At |
| get the money, IF you get it at all.7.Customer | | | | Home! Make Crafts For cash! |
| ServiceThere are companies out there who you will | | | | Are you looking to work from home doing |
| apply free to work for them as a customer service | | | | assembly, crafts, sewing or making jewelry, and |
| rep, from your home. It seems legitimate because | | | | getting paid for it? Start earning money from home |
| you didn't have to pay a fee, the website looks | | | | today!" |
| professional, which it usually is and you'll be earning an | | | | I was so very disturbed to see over 50 people |
| income and you don't have to sell anything. The fine | | | | giving out there emails while begging for more |
| print is, you have just applied to be a telemarketer. I | | | | information on this. Stay away from it unless you |
| myself just last year read over the entire site and in | | | | have done the work of really checking a company |
| the end all the information and FAQ informed me | | | | out and even then I would pass, because there are |
| that I would be making no cold calls, or outgoing calls. | | | | simply only a handful that are legitimate and I have |
| I would be taking incoming calls from people who are | | | | NEVER even stumbled across them as of yet.Craft |
| customers. That much was true. However the last | | | | Assemly, I saved the worst for last because the |
| phone call between me and my representative | | | | ones who run these ads online and offline, are right |
| manager I am informed that I will need to pay $29.99 | | | | at the bottom of the scum bucket. There are 3 |
| a month for the phone fees and but I'll make it back | | | | types of scammers for this one.Crappy Materials - |
| with my commissions. Fee and commissions all in the | | | | With all 3 types of companies it is usually the |
| same sentence about a job that wasn't | | | | same.Type1 sends out an ad. You respond to the ad |
| telemarketing. Yes I would be receiving calls from | | | | and they want money from you, but don't worry it's |
| customers, and I would be getting a salary but what | | | | "refundable". The amount of money is many times |
| you don't find out til you apply and are accepted is | | | | over a $1000, and they will tell you it's to weed out |
| that you will be making maybe $2.00/hr if your lucky | | | | the people who aren't serious as well as to cover the |
| and you will be trying to get a bigger income by | | | | cost of the materials. You will need to get expensive |
| pushing extra products on there customers who are | | | | equipment such as a sewing machine or a machine to |
| calling for help. You also don't know that when the | | | | make signs. You of course have to get everything |
| customer calls and goes down the line of being | | | | from their company because they need to make |
| transferred to you, they are already inundated with | | | | sure that you are using only the finest materials and |
| so many product ads from other phones workers | | | | equipment. You get the package and the materials |
| and automated wait commercials that they will be | | | | are crap to say the least, the instructions are hardly |
| cursing a blue streak at you, and good luck making an | | | | understandable and you are left struggling to up |
| income. There are actually a handful of companies | | | | together the dolls, aprons, crafts and other items. |
| online who are hiring customer service reps. But just | | | | Your only problem is many of these so called |
| like the true typist jobs, many want someone with | | | | "companies" are a P.O. Box which the owners have |
| experience. They don't want someone who can't | | | | closed up and moved on. You are left with products |
| take care of their customer. And there are others | | | | that you will probably toss or have to sell yourself. |
| who will train you if you have no experience but are | | | | End result all they were selling were the machines, |
| someone they are looking for. There are a few, but | | | | that's where these people make there money from, |
| it's hard finding them amid all the telephone job | | | | not the "crafts" they want you to build.Type 2 is the |
| scams out there.8. The Instant Online BusinessYou | | | | same except you send them in the products and |
| pay a sometimes huge fee and you can be making | | | | they tell you that the product is not up to there |
| money in minutes. Or so they claim. Many of these | | | | standards. They are right, after all with the shoddy |
| sites are just selling you an ebook "telling" you how | | | | materials they sent who can make a quality item? |
| to start your own no fail work at home business. | | | | Congradulations, they have your money and that's |
| The website is filled with pictures of people on the | | | | about it. End result, they too have your money from |
| beach, and yacht's having fun. There are the | | | | the products you "had" to buy only from them.Type |
| testimonials from people who they say already | | | | 3 well, they are simply the worst of this little trinity. |
| bought the book and made so much money in a | | | | Everything goes the same as type 1 except that |
| short time. All you need to do is press the x on your | | | | they might actually send good materials. You send |
| browser and get off that site. The only person who | | | | back the finished product and you get a response |
| is going to make money is the one selling that | | | | saying that the product isn't up to there standards. |
| expensive ebook. There are books out there with | | | | Unlike Type 2, the product is usually good and they |
| real information that will help you. But people have to | | | | sell it, while they make you think they tossed it in |
| remember that the internet is big and most of these | | | | the garbage because it was just so awful. They have |
| sites are selling what you can find for free other | | | | the money from the machines and your crafts and |
| places. Plus starting an internet business is not easy | | | | you get the unpleasant experience of being |
| and it's not quick. For some it took years before | | | | scammed.There they are for now. Unfortunately |
| they really started earning an income that allowed | | | | there are so many scams out there that was only |
| them to live comfortably. For others they had to quit | | | | the tip of the iceberg. The best advice I can give is |
| after losing hundred's of thousands of dollars. Online | | | | to use common sense. If someone is telling you that |
| business creation companies will make you a website | | | | you will make $10,000 a month, shut the door in |
| and tell you your good to go. You only have one | | | | there face, close the webpage, or hang up on them. |
| problem, it's not hard to create a website, there are | | | | Also be very wary of an ad that promises a lot but |
| billions of them. The biggest problem of any internet | | | | gives you virtually no information on what you are |
| business is getting traffic and sales. Neither happen | | | | supposed to be doing.Written by Marsha James feel |
| overnight even with the best website and product.9. | | | | free to add my article to your website, forum, blog, |
| Medical Transcriptionist/Medical BillingThere are ads all | | | | newsletters and other ventures if you leave it in full |
| over from the hundred's that come up in search | | | | format. If used in a newsletter please send it to me |
| engines to the dozens that are emailed to you on | | | | that I may view where my work is going. |