While there are lots of legitimate surveys carried out by genuine companies and marketing agencies there are unfortunately also plenty of duds. One of the recurring scams we see time and time again involves the promise of large amounts of money for completing online surveys. Some of these ads will claim you can make hundreds of dollars per day doing online surveys for a couple of hours form filling. I came across surveypolice.com which attempts to list the genuine sites and weed out the survey scams and looks to be doing it very well. The site is full of...
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Marketing Ideas for Home Business
It’s good to have several methods of getting business through the door and depending on your particular business some methods may be more appropriate than others. Joint Promotion with related but non competing businesses A sort of you scratch my back I’ll scratch your approach – include another businesses promo material with yours in return for them doing the same for you. Mail Outs and Postcards Can be effective but keep the message short and sweet to catch attention, this is why postcards work so well. Pamphlet Distribution A cheap way to reach whole local audiences, get some exercise...
More Work at Home Scams
So many ways to scam the unsuspecting! Following the previous post on scams, here are a few more to watch out for. Data Entry While no doubt there are some legitimate data entry type jobs, you’ll find there are way too many scams in this area. Typically you’ll see an advert talking about how you can make loads of money entering small ads online. What you’re likely to get is a guide telling you the basics of how google adwords works so you can start entering ads if you can find something profitable to advertise. Payment Forwarding One scam...
Marketing a Work at Home Business
So you’ve decided to proceed with the dream, you’ve set up the workspace or home office and you’re ready to get to work at that great idea. Now what? The marketing that’s what! So what exactly is marketing? Well in its fullest sense it includes every step from the business concept to the pricing, the promotion and the delivery of the product or service. For the purpose of this post let’s just look at the promotion and advertising side of the equation. You were probably thinking advertising anyway! How can you market a home business effectively? The answer will...
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