April 10, 2008

Business Offers ... Real Deal or Just Stealing Your Dollar Bill?

For All Home Based Business Start- Ups, Know These Four Crucial Things To Look For.

There are so many opportunities on the internet offering to set people up in their own home based internet business that it can be difficult to separate the real, legitimate opportunities from the ones that only want your money. Knowing what to look for is key and the difference between finding a real opportunity to take on or end up helping someone else fatten their bank accounts instead of your own.

Understand that not all of the people with their opportunities that make these tantalizing claims of success are out to take your money, but there are four things that most of these companies have in common: You must know these when deciding what to take on.

1. Big investment upfront

2. Making a lot of money with hardly no work

3. Not clearly outlining what will be done

4. Available contact information lacking

While it is not uncommon for businesses to want a fee to become a representative for their business, you have to consider the amount demanded from you before you can start selling their product or service. It is common for the term training to be listed, but many times the training consists of links to other sites where you are expected to learn about the company's business model.

Companies that focus their training on recruiting others into the business and offer a "bounty" for doing it successfully rather than selling a product or service may just be on the illegal side of the fence.

Companies that promise huge earnings with hardly no work on your part most likely are being dishonest and are just trying to convince you to take the bait. Don't bite though. You know in your heart that there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world of businesses.

If you have been reading an online based business opportunity for several minutes and have no idea about the product or service you are being asked to sell, it could be an indication of a scam. Many keep it a secret until you have spent your money and find out there is no way you can sell this to others with a clear conscious. Know what the product is, and how much it will cost, before considering the offer any further.

Always make sure to look for contact information. If they only provide an email address, that is probably a huge red flag and something to seriously consider if you are leaning toward going with them. Also, watch out for money back guarantees if they only provide the email address.

Before you throw away your money on any internet business opportunity, make sure you check out Kristopher Hooper's expert free report on Proven Home Based Business Ideas, and Proven Home Based Business Opportunities

6 Must Read Reasons to Join Online Affiliate Programs

Are you looking for a very cost effective way to make an extra income? Let me show you why online affiliate programs are a great answer to your needs...

You must have been exposed to the online hype, and the fact is starting an online business is a great way to make an extra income. There are many ways to make money online, one of them, is joining online affiliate programs...

Here are six great reasons (only) why this could be exactly what you are looking for. I respect your time, so I’ll keep each point brief. Here we go...

1. Your Products

Many people don’t have their own products to market online, and even if they do, they would have to handle the shipment of the products to every corner of the world, or they would narrow their market to specific areas only.

Online affiliate programs provide a wide variety of quality products, which meet every customer’s needs, and you can market those products worldwide without worrying about their shipment. All you need is to refer people to your affiliate websites. Any orders taken from that website are automatically handled by the company on your behalf.

2. Your Income Potential

Besides the commission you can earn from direct products selling, there’s another powerful way to make a great income online - residual income, and this is by referring other people to join the opportunity. This way you can build a network of people where you make a commission for each sale they make...

Some companies limit you to one level of sponsored affiliates, which mean, you only get commission for the sales of the first level of people you refer, however, MANY other great companies do NOT limit your income potential, actually, it’s infinite deep network where you can enjoy passive income.

3. Your Investment

The great news is – you are NOT required to put any money down in order to join an online affiliate opportunity, you can join for FREE! Some of them might claim that you must buy their products (you should avoid those...), even though I believe in the concept of buying from your own store, real opportunities should not force you to perform nor limit your potential, so it is all up to you.

Of course, any kind of business requires some kind of investment, generally speaking it’s a tradeoff between time and money, the more you are willing to invest, the less time you need to build a solid business, and vice-versa. So it is all up to you.

4. Your Business Training

Some of the great online business will train you for FREE. Do NOT take this lightly, if you are serious about making real income, you will need proper training to build your business effectively, this will save you time AND money!

The information I have learned is priceless! I learned how to master the science of marketing, and it was easy for people like me (I’m a computer software engineer who knew NOTHING about marketing!) to build a successful business. As I already mentioned, this training is available to you for FREE even before they see a penny from you!

5. Your Business Needs

This is extremely important. To have a successful online business, you must have the proper tools like tracking software, websites, follow-up manager and more. Without those tools, you are shooting in the dark and you’ll waste your time and money.

The serious online affiliate opportunities will provide you with those must have tools, and will guide you exactly how to use them in your favor. Again, FREE of charge!

6. Your Bottom Line

I’m well aware to the fact that the bottom line of any business, including online business, is making money. However, there are issues beyond that, those are the issues behind your desire to make money, either to spend more time with your family, get out of debt, own your own home or you name it...

Affiliate programs can be a great way to achieve whatever reasons you might have that triggered you to search for ways to make an extra income. Just make sure you join a great opportunity that is willing to invest in your success, because your success means also theirs!

Allow me to close with a quote by Robert Kiosaki, the author of the book titled "Rich Dad Poor Dad". Mr. Kiosaki, a self made millionaire who also works in network marketing and who opened my eyes through his astonishing books, said the following:

"Is your business or the company you work for going to do well in a depression? If not, start a part time business. Our businesses are designed to do well in a good economy and do even better in a depression. A part-time business that will do well in a down economy is a network marketing business. During a depression, many more people will be very receptive to joining a network marketing company".

Online affiliate companies are the new cutting edge network marketing companies, which makes the whole process much easier.

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Safe online shopping

Online shopping has revolutionized the concept of shopping itself. Here you can save your precious time, take your pick at the comfort of your home and most importantly explore the best possible deal in the market. But nothing is best if you are dissatisfied with its service. One of the reasons for such dissatisfaction might be the feeling of insecurity. Online shopping is not exception. Doing a shopping online without knowledge and planning could fetch you nothing but repentance. Hope you will be never exposed to such situations! And to help you in this regard, a few lines are given below. It will assist you to go for a safe online shopping.
For a safe online shopping, the first and foremost task is to do a proper and well-planned research. Go to any search engine, type your request and click it. Now go on surfing. Before ordering or buying from retailer try to explore all possible information about him and his deals.

Using online shopping directories is another way for a safe online shopping. These shopping directories have links to several sites, where you can get innumerable shopping stores, which are grouped into categories and are assembled according to their respective region.

Before clicking yes, check out the return policy, shipping cost etc involved with your stuff. A discounted or free shopping facility is always preferable. And the return policy offered by the merchants help you to change your stuff once you are dissatisfied with it.

Paying money through credit card is always a good decision for a safe online shopping. This helps you to cancel your payments if you come to know that you have been tricked by wicked. It is again a better option for making payment as hackers or unauthorized persons could not access it easily.

Considering all these, it can be reasonably concluded that a well planned research and proper strategy could always assist you for a safe online shopping.

Herry Parker has been associated with Deal Values. He holds a masters degree in marketing from University of California. To online shopping for electronics, books, apparel and accessories visit www.dealvalues.com