Posted on September 6th, 2008 by admin
Home Business - Protect Yourself Against Scams
Sept 05, 2008
So you found a home business, but you want to know if it is a legitimate and honest before you jump in. That sure makes sense to me. Many people think about starting their own home business, but are apprehensive because they are afraid of being scammed. Protect yourself by researching the opportunity and company, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is a scam.
Are you aware of the fact, that there are many agencies you can use to check if a company is legitimate? Of course, you also have NewsGroups on the Internet to check on various home businesses and work at home programs and companies. Of course, the main issue here is to protect yourself. I hope the following information will be of some help.
* National Fraud Information Center: http://www.fraud.org
* Better Business Bureau: "http://bbb.org -- There is a link to locate the BBB in your area. You will also find information on work at home opportunities and scams.
* The US Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/postal inspectors -- The USPS has several pages that include, work at home scams, multi-level-marketing schemes and how to file a mail fraud complaint.
* Scam Busters: http://www.scmambusters.com
* WorldWide Scam: http://www.worldwidescam.com
* The Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov
* The National Consumer League (National Fraud Information Center: http://nclnet.org
NewsGroups
* Google Groups: http://nclnet.org
* Yahoo Groups: http://www.groups.yahoo.com
You have all these agencies and groups in your corner. It would be very foolish if you did not take advantage of their services and information.
If you have already been scammed, you can report the company to the following agencies and/or perhaps they can help you get a refund,
1.) The National Fraud Information Center - 1-800-876-7060 or http://www.groups.yahoo.com
2.) The Attorney General in your state
3.) The Better Business Bureau - http://www.groups.yahoo.com
4.) The Internet Fraud Complaint Center - http://www.ifccfbi.gov
5.) The Federal Trade Commission - 1-800-876-7060 or http://www.ifccfbi.gov
Please take the time to protect yourself. It's not very difficult and later on down the road you'll be glad you did. Oh, and by the way, Good Luck with your new Home Business!
Janet Whalen
skype - janetwhalen
jwhalen92347@yahoo.com
It's Good Business

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Also, if you have none, or very little, online business experience, then starting a home based business will involve time needed to learn about how to run a business. To try and be successful online with any business takes at least a little know-how. And if you don't know how, you better take the time to learn. No one else will do it for you. And don't believe anyone who tells you that they will build your business for you. Think about it. Does that really make sense? You have a business and someone else will build and develop it for you? I don't think so!
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If you are tired of building the traditional and outdate way,then consider buying customers - not leads to build a long term and viable home based business.
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I have been writing a series of articles hopefully giving the reader
some home business ideas, in today's article we will look at more
home business ideas to help you increase sales of your product or services:
1. Add extra subjects to your home business website. Most free ad
sites only allow you to submit your home business website to one
category. This will allow you to submit it to many more.
2. Increase the perceived value of your product by making your offer
scarce. You could use limited time bonuses, low prices, low
quantities, etc.
3. Find out your competitions' weakness and use it as your "Unique
Selling Proposition". It's the reason why people buy your products and
not theirs.
4. Sell your products or services to a specific niche market. For
example, instead of selling your fishing book to all fisherman,
target it toward fly fisherman.
5. Test your advertising and marketing. You'll save time, money and
big headaches promoting the right offer to the right group of people.
6. Persuade visitors to buy your product by telling them the future.
Tell them what will happen with their life in the future if they buy
or don't buy.
7. Offer a free trial of your product for a set period of time. Don't
charge or bill them until they have decided to buy it. This will take
away any risk they have.
8. Create other home business websites that draw your initial target
audience. Then you can lead your prospects to your main home business
website by linking to your other home business websites.
9. Inform people about your site or freebie through email announce
lists. You can find them by typing "email announce lists" in any
search engine.
10. Tell your visitors what they can avoid by buying your product or
service. This will motivate them to buy. They may want to avoid pain,
fear, danger, etc.
These are just some of the many home business ideas showing you ways
you can increase sales for your home business. Stay tuned for more articles in this series.
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A very effective strategy for developing traffic to your legitimate home business web site is to create a lead capture page and then drive traffic to that page. You can have to best looking web page on the internet, but if it doesn't get traffic, your home business will never grow. You must have traffic, and here are a few tips to help drive traffic to your site.
So how do you drive traffic to that home based business opportunity website? Here are ten ideas I thought of:
1. Are you publishing an ezine for your legitimate home business? If not, you should be. Give people a free subscription to your ezine. Almost everyone is publishing a ezine nowadays, so be sure to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or some free advertising to new subscribers..
2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it is up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their ezine or web site. Your home based business opportunity just may have the answer to someones problem and if you can provide quality content to your site on a regular basis describing your home based business and its benefits to others, you will begin to get traffic.
3. Offer a free online directory. The directory could be full of interesting ebooks, ezines, web sites etc. If people find your directory to be a valuable resource they will visit it over and over. People love it when someone else does their research for them. Make sure you update the directory on a regular basis, and give visitors the option to subscribe to be notified when there are updates.
4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could also include your own ad in the ebook and allow other people to give it away. If you don't want to take the time to write one, you could ask other writers permission to use their articles, or you can hire ghost writers at websites like elance.com.
5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your web site's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your web site. You will become known as an expert on the topic. You probably are more of an expert on your legitimate home business than you realize.
6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results. The greatest benefit of this is you will begin to become known. As more people visit your home based business site to receive the free items, they will begin to feel comfortable with you.
7. Let visitors download free software. It could be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your home based business site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away.
8. Offer free online services or utilities from your home based business web site. They could be search engine submission, copywriting, proofreading, a niche-specific forum, etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience.
9. Give free consulting to people who visit your web site. You could offer your knowledge via email or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive. As you build your home based business, you will solve many problems, and this knowledge is most appreciated by others. See, I told you that you would become an expert in the area of your business.
10. Give your visitors a free membership to your online club. People want to belong to something, why not your online club? You could also give away a free ezine for club members only.
There you are, ten ideas to drive traffic to your work from home business website. There are many other ways to drive traffic - put your mind to it and you can find all sorts of creative ways to increase traffic.
If you are looking for ways to develope a home business opportunity, take a look at It's Good Business.
It is totally different from the usual work from home businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. It is based on a co-operative business model where the whole team helps each other, and believe me, when you are new and stating out, you need all the help you can get.
You may be surprised at what you can learn from It's Good Business. I know it completely changed how I viewed developing my legitimate home business.
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