Oct 16
2008Advice About Working From Home
Filed Under (Internet) by Franta Shinsky on 16-10-2008
Tagged Under : Internet
Advice for potential work from home job seekers: don’t start working from home until you’ve read others reviews of the company you want to work for, or the business you want to get involved with, thoroughly so you can determine if it’s legitimate. There are a lot of scams out there! Companies usually do not require a fee to work from home, except for a few exceptions, like LiveOps and Babytobee, which require fees for a background check. These fees are paid to the company doing the background check, however. Business opportunities will require a fee to get started, however.
One place to find information on businesses is the Better Business Bureau (BBB). It has information on companies and charities that are registered and not registered with the BBB. You can contact your local BBB or you can contact the USA’s or Canada’s site. To search, you need at least the business’s name, and sometimes the city and state where the business is located.
If you can’t find information through the BBB, try searching on Google for the business. Type the name of the company into Google. Knowing the exact spelling is helpful, but sometimes the correct name will appear even if you do not know the right spelling. For example, if you type \”MaryKay\” into Google, \”Mary Kay Cosmetics\” will appear.
You can also find information for business opportunities on message boards. You can often register and post on a message board to get a response regarding information on the business opportunity or company you’re interested in. One message board is \”Work from Home Mafia.\” This board has information on different working from home companies and opportunities, and you may find that your question has already been answered. Work from Home Mafia also has podcasts on different working fro home subjects that you can listen to on the website, download them, or put them on your MP3 player.
Another message board that has a lot of information on work from home opportunities is Workplace Like Home. It has forums on many of the same companies that Work from Home Mafia does, plus some that work from Home Mafia doesn’t have, like Stewart Response Group and Ecallogy. Workplace Like Home however does not have podcasts (at least not that I’ve been able to find!)
Another way to find out if a certain work from home company or business is legitimate is to ask people that you know that have worked from home. Now obviously this may not be possible if you don’t know anyone who has worked from home - that was the case with me when I got my first work from home job with West Telemarketing. I did however, find that it was legitimate and it ended up leading to other legitimate work from home jobs - some I’ve found myself using the methods mentioned in the previous paragraphs of this article, and others I’ve found through contacts I’ve made through the work frome home jobs I’ve had.
Don’t work from home until you read reviews of the company. The previously mentioned sites have a lot of information for people who want to work from home, but they’re also a good place for networking. Networking is very important whether you work from home or out of home.
But most importantly, don’t start working until you have read reviews of the business you want to get involved with. Working from home can be very rewarding; you can spend much more time with your family and children and save money on gas! This is critically important with rising gas prices. Working from home has been rewarding for me because I’ve saved on public transportation fare, not because I have saved on gas. I have been working at home for five years and I do not want to go back to working out of home if I can avoid it! I have had many positive experiences, but I insist that it does require being careful about the businesses you work for. I hope my article has helpful for those who would like to work out of the home like I do.
