What genuine avenues are there to make a living from home using the interntet?

Question

I'm interested in working from home to make a living, using my computer. We've all heard the scams and pyramid schemes. What genuine possibilities exist?

Answer 1

The Web offers tremendous opportunities for those who know how to harness it. You hear of stories of people who earn thousands if not millions of dollars from doing business on Web. While there are many scams (same way in the traditional business world), there are various ways you can legitimately make money on the Web.

Here are the GENUINE ways you can earn a living from your home using the Internet:

1. Sell products on the Web - Big boys like Amazon or Lillian Vernon online catalog or smaller businesses like BigKidsVideo.com or Candle4Less.com all sell products on the Web.

You can either sell: (a) through your own storefront through your own website or applications such as Yahoo Stores; or (b) sell through online auctions like eBay

2. Information Delivery. Others such as About.com or EuropeforVisitors.com create content and monetize their content in a number of ways:

a. Advertising - From the article "How to Generate Advertising Revenues for Your Web Site" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol28/adrevenues.htm , there are several ways you can earn money from advertising:

1. Join an advertising network. Advertising networks are organizations that aggregate Web sites that offer advertising space, and sell banner ads (and other advertising options) across them. Traffic requirement is often a minimum of 5,000 monthly impressions, although many do not accept sites hosted by free page services.

Burst Media http://www.burstmedia.com
Fastclick (ValueClick). http://www.fastclick.com
Advertising.com. http://www.advertising.com
Tribal Fusion http://www.tribalfusion.com

2. Participate in contextual advertising networks. Contextual advertising are text ads delivered based on the content of the web page using an automated system.

Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/
Yahoo! Publishing Network (currently in beta and available to US publishers only) http://publisher.yahoo.com/
Intellixt http://vibrantmedia.com/site/web_01a5.htm
Quigo Adsonar http://www.quigo.com/adsonarexchange.htm
IndustryBrains http://www.industrybrains.com
Commission Junction Evolution http://www.cj.com

3. Sell advertising for your site directly. This is admittedly a more difficult route for a small business site wanting to earn advertising revenues. But hey, as they say: "no pain, no gain!"

b. Affiliate Programs - you sell other people's products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined)

c. Paid online content. Hoovers.com or WebmasterWorld.com Supporters forum all require paid subscription before accessing the information

d. Content licensing and syndication. Some publishers such as the Associated Press get paid every time their content is published elsewhere

Answer 2

People who say there are NO "real" ways to make a living from home just don't know what they're talking about or perhaps they are referring to the hype filled lies that populate the internet.

I can understand why they're sick of the lies. But the fact of the matter is that it's just not so. There are legitimate ways to make a living at home using your internet and/or your computer.

Perhaps the issue revolves around what you mean by "using the internet" or "using your computer".

I include in my definition of "using the internet" a variety of home based customer service and call center jobs, full time medical and other transcription services and other "Virtual Assistant" services performed where workers are connected to clients through the net.

Others have addressed "online opportunities" though I will agree with the person who said "none" that many are pie in the sky scams that just won't work for most people if only because most people don't have the time, skills, and capital to exploit them.

One (Oak Horizons) is the medical trancription training school a family member of mine attended. She's now working at home full time.

I hope the resources below prove helpful.

Answer 3

There are thousands of schemes and scams out there. I know because i have been looking for a long time !

before you get involved in any of them... do some research. I took this free course 6 months ago and have not looked back. I work from home in a booming industry and dont have to sell a thing.

To good to be true ?

well get the free info and decide for yourself

Good Luck

Peter

Answer 4

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Just fill out the form on the website for a free trial. During your free trial make sure you check out the members area. Here you can learn about the pay plan and watch people coming into your downline. Make sure to watch your email. As soon as you start getting emails from PWS saying a member just upgraded in your downline, make sure you upgrade as well so you don't lose commission. You can earn up to $1092 per month just for being a member. No sponsoring is required to get paid. You can earn much more with a little effort.

Answer 5

Selling items on eBay is a good way to make money on the Internet. Another legitimate way is to write an e-book about a subject you know well and market it on the Web. You can also buy domain names (or make them up) and resell them at a profit at sites such as godaddy.com.

Answer 6

I have checked into many of these Work at Home deals and have yet to find one that I felt was for me. I am interested to see what everyone else has to say.

Good Luck

Answer 7

Call-: 1800-530-3813.
Or type: [e-mail]
And they'll put you in the right track!!!

Answer 8

Hope these job websites beneficial to you.
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com
http://www.craigslist.org
http://www.usejob.com
Or you can start your own on-line shop at EBay.
http://www.ebay.com/

Answer 9

none!!