Westchester Career Guide

By Elaine Currie

If you are looking for a way to get supplemental income working at home, you will be spoilt for choice. The trouble with looking for methods to get extra income online is not that chances are hard to locate, it’s just the contrary, there are so many to select from you won’t know where to start. You will have to wade through a lot of trash and avoid quite a few scams when you are seeking chances to earn supplemental income at home. I have already done that wading and sidestepping, and I’d like to tell you what I learned, these tips will help you to find your way through the dangerous territory.

It will make it easier for you if you make a decision in advance the number of hours a week you want to invest to get your supplemental income and the amount of supplemental income you would realistically expect to earn. The majority of network extra income opportunities can be done either part-time or full time, and are completely adaptable, so you can decide on the one you like best.

First of all there are some opportunities you should rule out totally.

Envelope stuffing

These “jobs” are always a con when they are advertised online. You could (if you are very fortunate) hit upon a company in your neighborhood that will, on rare occasions, sign up people to stuff envelopes for a special promotion, but the online ones should be avoided altogether.

Email processing

This is one more notorious internet scam. You only have to ask yourself why anyone would pay you $20 to “process” an email when they can with no trouble obtain software to do the same chore faster and at a fraction of the fee they are offering you.

Secondly there are certain opportunities that you should regard with additional caution.

Paid to read emails

These companies offer to pay you to receive commercial emails and to click through to their customers’ websites by means of links in the emails. The catch here is that because you only earn a tiny amount for each email you process, it could take you many years to earn sufficient to achieve the company’s payout threshold. Make sure you understand the terms before you join and decide for yourself whether you are in reality likely to get any earnings in less than 100 years.

Craft/Assembly Work At Home

Sadly scams proliferate in this field. It is so serious that I have only ever discovered one genuine home craftwork opportunity. I’m not saying others don’t exist, just that I have not been able to find them, and I have seen many craft/assembly work at home scams. Be very careful when you are looking at attempting to get supplemental income by doing craft or assembly work at home. You would be far safer to pass up the packaged deals and make your own items to put up for sale at craft fairs and on eBay.

About the author: Elaine Currie, BA(Hons) is an ezine publisher, writer and direct marketer who specializes in helping new internet marketers. www.huntingvenus.com

Source: www.ideamarketers.com
Photo: B Rosen

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