{"id":1688,"date":"2008-07-03T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/03\/be-afraid-be-very-afraid-of-working-at-home\/"},"modified":"2008-07-03T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T12:19:18","slug":"be-afraid-be-very-afraid-of-working-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid, of Working at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
by David Gates<\/div>\n

Tired of working to make your boss wealthy? Want freedom from that awful job? Can you start your own home business and earn a great income? You may receive answers to all these question, and it’s possible you can do it. But first – beware! While there are excellent work-from-home programs that will enable you to fulfill your goals, there are also many that are simply rip-offs whose sole aim is to separate you and your money.<\/p>\n

Thanks to e-commerce (\\”Electronic Commerce\\”) and the Internet, millions<\/a> of people make a handsome amount of income by working online jobs. These people can be found all around the world, working from their own homes.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, there are thousands of people who have spent some, or in many cases, a lot of moneyliterally thousands of dollarsin the hope they would be able to live off their Internet work, but in the end have become frustrated. These people have been betrayed and ripped-off.<\/p>\n

There are thousands of web sites which make grand claims about earning a six-figure incoming doing very little. Any simple web search for ‘online jobs\\” or ‘work for home’ will find you many. The problem is – which one can you trust? All of them have pictures of a glamorous life with pools, fast cars, large houses, but is it real, or just hype?<\/p>\n

It is certainly difficult to tell the real from the bogus. Some tell-tale signs may help you pick the scammers out, though. Companies that try to lure you in with professional-looking photographs of aircraft, expensive cars, homes and a luxurious lifestyle are probably bogus. They probably bought the photographs from a stock photography company. Look for realistic-looking photographs – the sort an ordinary person might take as a snapshot.<\/p>\n

Look carefully for outrageous or unbelievable claims. Nobody is going to make a million dollars<\/a> in their first year in any legitimate online business. Companies which are genuine are not going to make such crazy claims. Only trust companies which have a solid and positive track record at industry watchdog organizations. Online forums are extremely useful ways to read other people’s opinions of companies, and to discover genuine online jobs.<\/p>\n

There are many legitimate home business reviews<\/a> on the Internet. Review them before you spend any money. It’s too easy to fall prey to bogus companies with dodgy businesses.<\/p>\n

Most of the fraudulent companies ask for a one-time membership, usually falling between $35 and $97. Some are the real thing, some are not. There are many companies which do provide you with genuine ‘work at home’ opportunities. But before spending even a dollar, do your homework. You’re not just saving the initial 97 dollars, because once you pay a scam, they keep coming after you for more and more money.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
To see where I found legitimate, profitable home business opportunities<\/a>, check out Scott Edward’s refreshingly honest home business reviews<\/a> site.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tired of working to make your boss wealthy? Want freedom from that awful job? Can you start your own home business and earn a great income? You may receive answers to all these question, and it’s possible you can do it. But first – beware! While there are excellent work-from-home programs that will enable you to fulfill your goals, there are also many that are simply rip-offs whose sole aim is to separate you and your money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}