Work from home is the siren call to many people who are home bound but could be making money anyway. Retirees, mothers, homemakers, and disabled all can stay home to take care of family or themselves but still have a successful business.
Many people shy away from these exciting offers because of the many scams out there that claim huge income from simple online business ventures. It is true that one must be careful in selecting an online business. The safest way to start up an online business is to do it yourself.
Starting a business is scary enough, but building a website too is extremely overwhelming. Finding basic help for how to build a website is difficult especially if there is no technical background to draw from. But now even those who have very little experience with the internet can build a website from the ground up with simple to follow instructions in plain English.
More resources are becoming available for beginners and newcomers to work from home creating internet businesses. It was once the domain of only those who had technical knowledge, but now anyone can do it.
Working from home online comes in many different shapes and sizes. The most important thing about starting an internet business is finding a niche. Successful online businesses are built around very specific things. If one tries to go broad, usually the site fails.
The internet is a huge marketplace, each successful business has found a specific and unique way to interest customers and sell products.
Though it seems scary to hang success on a very narrow market, it is the best way to go with an online business. Commodities can come in the form of digital products or products that are shipped. Each type has different considerations and demands.
Home based businesses afford the creator many different benefits. Owners get to stay at home to tend to family or take care of their own illnesses or disabilities. In the mean time, they can operate online businesses and turn a great profit. Some online businesses that just started up are making a thousand dollars a day or more after only six months of operation.
Work from home has some difficulties as well. Business at home means that one can never get away from the business. It sometimes interferes with daily happenings at home, but good time management, consistency and the ability to balance work and play is the key to a successful online business.
Showing posts with label extra income. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extra income. Show all posts
Sunday, 12 December 2010
eMystery Shopper
I haven't wrote on this blog for a very long time, Every day there's about a 1001 things that I need to do, and unfortunately some things don't get a look in! but I'm going to try a bit harder to start adding some valuable content to this blog, I think it desperately needs it! :S
What I wanted to add right now, is to let you know of a site called emystery shopper,if you chose to join this site (its' free)you would monitor and review internet sites.
I joined this site a few months back and have done quite a few website evaluations so far, I recently completed a project which involved surveying 4 websites on the same topic, I recieved £25 for this.
When you sign up, you will have to sign a form and mail it back to the company, once they have recieved it, they will contact you and you will be expected to carry out one website evaluation of your choice, you will not be paid for this one. If it is accepted you will then be able to view the list of websites which need evaluating, you can apply for whichever one your interested in.
For each website evaluation, you will be paid anything from £3.50+ , If you choose to do a purchase/returns for that website, you will be paid more.
There is a web forum which others have been discussing this website, this is where I first heard of the company, you can take a look here
The surveys that you need to complete for these websites are quite lengthy and very detailed, you will be asked to look at certain pages and answer a range of questions.
These will be on your thoughts of the homepage, what the customer service is like (if you are asked to e-mail or phone).
You do have to put in some time and effort, as with any job, but if your looking to make some extra income this can be the perfect opportunity.
Please do let me know how you get on. :)
What I wanted to add right now, is to let you know of a site called emystery shopper,if you chose to join this site (its' free)you would monitor and review internet sites.
I joined this site a few months back and have done quite a few website evaluations so far, I recently completed a project which involved surveying 4 websites on the same topic, I recieved £25 for this.
When you sign up, you will have to sign a form and mail it back to the company, once they have recieved it, they will contact you and you will be expected to carry out one website evaluation of your choice, you will not be paid for this one. If it is accepted you will then be able to view the list of websites which need evaluating, you can apply for whichever one your interested in.
For each website evaluation, you will be paid anything from £3.50+ , If you choose to do a purchase/returns for that website, you will be paid more.
There is a web forum which others have been discussing this website, this is where I first heard of the company, you can take a look here
The surveys that you need to complete for these websites are quite lengthy and very detailed, you will be asked to look at certain pages and answer a range of questions.
These will be on your thoughts of the homepage, what the customer service is like (if you are asked to e-mail or phone).
You do have to put in some time and effort, as with any job, but if your looking to make some extra income this can be the perfect opportunity.
Please do let me know how you get on. :)
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