The Telecommuters Sourcebook -- How To Find a REAL Work At ...

The Telecommuters Sourcebook -- How To Find a REAL Work At Home Job

Introduction to Telecommuting Do you dream of finding a job where you can work at home...

Scams To Avoid Don't get caught wasting your time and money with these schemes... How to Telecommute with Your Current Job If you currently have a job that leads itself to telecommuting your biggest challenge will be convincing the boss that it is to his benefit to allow you to work from home and that you are responsible enough to do so. Sample Telecommuting Agreement Here is a sample agreement that you can modify to fit your particular situation... Tips for remaining a telecommuter The best way to stay a telecommuter is to make sure that your boss never regrets giving you the opportunity to work from home. Finding a new telecommuting job Three methods for finding a new telecommuting job... Becoming a freelance telecommuter If you have a hard time finding a telecommuting job you may still be able to work from home if you are willing to take on freelance work.

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Introduction To Telemarketing

Do you dream of finding a job where you can work at home and still earn a decent income? Or maybe you find the high cost of child care makes it impossible for you to work outside your home. Or maybe you just want to earn a part time income working the hours you want to work at home.

If so, this book was written for you! I am going to show you 3 different ways to telecommute by:

1) Telecommuting with your current job. 2) Finding a new telecommuting job. 3) Becoming a freelance telecommuter.

But first, I want to tell you about the types of telecommuting jobs to avoid.

Most of the "jobs" i am going to tell you about are not jobs at all -- they are scams designed to look like jobs. The perpetrators of these scams are only interested in getting you to send them money for some worthless plan.

Let's look at a few of these so you will know what to avoid.

Scams To Avoid

Envelope Stuffing and Manual Stapling

I am sure you have seen the ads for this one. Make 50 cents or $1.00 for every envelope you stuff. Or, staple booklets for $5.00 each. Let me tell you something -- any mailing house will stuff an envelope for about 5 cents each. The entire process is automated and no business in their right mind would pay anyone 50 cents to stuff an envelope. And stapling costs even less -- about 2 cents a piece.

So why would someone pay you 50 cents (or $1.00!) to stuff an envelope? The answer is, they won't! What they will do is get you to send them $39 to become an associate or home worker. They will then send you an ad that you can place to get other people to send you $39.00 to show them how to make money stuffing envelopes and you send these people the same information you received -- usually a poorly copied third generation 8 1/2 x 11 instruction sheet.

Don't fall for this scam. If you see a similar ad that offers stapling or addressing jobs, use your common sense and run the numbers for yourself. No one is going to pay you 50 cents for a service they can get done for 5 cents.

Craft Assembly

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Here is how this scam works: You see an ad that offers free information on how to work at home assembling crafts. You order the information and they send you a brochure showing you the types of products they are looking to have assembled along with an order form to buy the supplies to assemble the products. You see, even though you could buy the supplies locally for much less, they have to make sure you are using only the highest quality. Of course, they will be the only source for these "high quality," expensive supplies.

So you bite the bullet and buy their "high quality" supplies which they send along with an instruction sheet. You follow the instructions exactly and spend days assembling the products to their specifications. You carefully pack the products into a shipping box and send them to the company for payment. Then you wait.

Six weeks later you are still waiting for payment. Then, you receive an envelope in the mail. Finally a check! You anxiously tear open the envelope, pull out the contents and...

It's a letter rejecting your crafts. You see, you didn't follow the instructions exactly. The glue wasn't applied correctly. A bead fell off during shipping. You should have zigged when you zagged. Or any of 100 canned rejection excuses.

But, why would they do this? Because they have no buyers for the crafts. They make their money selling you the materials.

There may be some legitimate craft assembly companies. If you find one, let me know. In the meantime, stay away from any company that wants you to buy supplies from them that you could purchase locally for less.

Email Processing

I am starting to see more and more ads claiming to need home workers to process email for $1.00 or $2.00 per email. And they'll hire you if you will simply send them a $29.00 application fee. What a bargain!

Now, I haven't sent in my application fee yet so I am not sure exactly what this "job" really is -- it smells a lot like the envelope stuffing schemes. But, I will tell you this: I get a lot of email every day. Probably 300 - 400 messages. Most of these emails are taken care of automatically by my autoresponders -- programs that send canned responses to requests for information.

Of the remaining 100 or so emails about 70% are spam which I can usually detect and delete without even opening. The other 30 or so emails are customer orders which I file in special folders or questions that have to be personally addressed. I spend about an hour a day dealing with spam, filing orders and answering legitimate email.

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Now, if I were to hire someone to take care of these emails for me, I would only be willing to pay $7.00 or $8.00 an hour. And I guarantee I could hire someone locally to do this for me without even advertising the position. Heck, I bet I could yell out my back door that I will pay $7.00 an hour for someone to process my email and get more applicants than I could shake a stick at.

Therein lies two problems with this "job." First, I could easily find someone to process my email for between 7 and 14 cents each depending on how fast they are. Second, I could find someone locally to do this much easier than I could find someone on the internet.

There may be some legitimate work for email processors. I may even hire someone to do this for me. But, nobody is going to pay more than a few cents an email for this job. And you won't find these legitimate opportunities advertised on the internet.

Chain Letters

A chain letter is a letter that you receive telling you to forward $5 (or more) to five people on a list. You are then instructed to remove the top name on the list, move the other names up one position and place your name at the bottom. Then mail the letter out to as many people as you can. The next person will remove the top name and mail as many as he can as well. By the time your name gets to the top of the list, thousands of people will have sent you $5.00. This sounds great but there are a few problems:

1. Most people are going to throw the letter away and not do anything. Probably 99.9%. They tell you that 5% will response. This is a joke. 1/10 of 1% is the norm for this type of untargeted direct mail.

2. Chain letters are illegal because there is no real product or service being exchanged. The so-called reports you receive are junk.

3. People will cheat by removing all the names and put on their friends and family. That way they are getting $25 from each sucker instead of $5.

So does anyone ever make money with a chain letter? The answer is, "Yes!" But, it's not who you think. Take a look at the bottom of any mailed chain letter. In every case you will see a mailing list company or two listed as sources to buy your list of suckers... I mean names... from.

Chain letters are started by mailing list companies. When people decide that they are going to sign up with the chain letter, they buy the overpriced mailing lists from the company that is listed on the letter.

Now you know the truth about chain letters.

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In conclusion, you can almost always spot a scam opportunity to work at home if the company asks for money instead of a resume.

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