Work-At-Home, Freelance, Telecommute Are They Legitimate

You hear a lot about people making a lot of moneya certain number at 3:00 PM today. I called the number
working some MLM opportunity but the only problemwhich was a conference call and you could hear all
with these are that you need to make an investmentthese other people on the phone talking about how
and you have to know a lot of people. I have athey were now making six figures a year from this.
guaranteed income each month that covers my rentSome of the people said that they used to be Police
but I'm at home all the time and not earning anyOfficers, Teachers, Lawyers, and managers from
additional money. When my wife and i first arrived inother industries. What it all boiled down to was the
Brunswick we applied at a lot of local businesses butreason they got you to make this call is because they
the problem being is that at the present moment wewanted you to hear all the excitement from the other
only have one car between us.people which would then get you excited. For a $3500
I had signed up with Guru over a year ago but prettyPledge you would then get other people that would
much never had pursued it. Guru is a site that sayspay the same pledge placed underneath you. You had
you can make bids on freelance work. The onlyto advertise the prewritten ad and call anybody who
problem is that you can only have one active profile atresponded.
a time. With Careerbuilder you can apply for retailTo me this is like the old chain letter schemes but
sales positions, telemarketing positions, and whateverinstead of getting an envelope in the mail you got an
else gets your fancy. You can do all of this withoutemail. No product, no ebooks, no trials to anything. All
limitation. I did receive an invitation in some junk mail lastyou got was the satisfaction of parting with your
week about a low cost trial for a freelance site and imoney. They told me that if I didn't have the money to
signed up and responded to as many ads as I qualifiedgo a head and borrow it from somebody. There are
for.so many of these programs out there on the Internet
I got zero replies so I canceled my membership.and it never ceases to amaze me how people can
Otherwise it would have automatically charged myactually sleep at night after they have convinced other
credit card for a full months membership and since Ipeople to part with their hard earned money. I call
got nothing from the trial i was not about to keep thethese things Scams. No other way to look at it.
service. I then did some searches on the Net forNow, I have found that there are some legitimate
articles about freelance, work-at-home jobs,telework jobs out there. These are opportunities to
telecommuting, etc. What I learned is that there are awork on the telephone from your home and actually
lot of sites that will only give you the right information ifget paid an hourly wage. I have received some emails
you pay a membership fee. These sites are makingtoday from a few of these companies and I have filled
money off of anybody who signs up but I almostout their applications and gone through their training.
guarantee that none of the members are actuallyThe ball is now in their court but if these jobs end up
getting and work from these sites.not working out believe me I will not keep this bottled
I spent the day yesterday visiting any freelance workup inside me.
site that didn't charge any fees up front. They may tryI have come to the realization that you need to stick
to get you to sign up for additional services whichwith sites like Craigslist, Careerbuilder, and Monster and
have a cost but to look at and reply to jobs cost youin the search box use keywords like Virtual Employee,
nothing. Most of the responses i received though werefreelance, virtual call center, work-at-home call center,
from people trying to get me into some Biz Opp. Oror remote employee. Now there are some services
only offering a job where your only compensation isout their that will post what you are looking for on a lot
commission after the sale is made.of job boards and this is fine if you have the extra
I have tried commission only work in the past and atmoney but please be careful with your money.
first you are all hyped up about the work. This is theWhen you do a search on a site like Google or Yahoo
same if you have ever signed up for one of thesesthe results that show up first in a box are paid listings. I
MLM companies. After a while you get fed up whenam under the assumption that these results are MLM
you find that you were the only person to get reallyor some other type of Biz opp. Remember, any site
excited about a certain product or Biz. The recruiter'sthat is charging a fee is probably only making money
for these opportunities are very good about gettingby charging you that fee. Guru at least lets you to bid
you all excited about the possible money you canon 10 jobs per month without paying anything. I am
make.giving some though to creating a job board where
I did respond to this one ad that went like this;freelancers will post their portfolio and a company that
Make $500 to $1000 a day Just by Returning Calls.has a job would then look at thesite for a freelance
Not MLM, No Selling, No Inventory, no Start upperson. The only money I would make would be from
It gave an email address that I replied to and today isomething like Google Adsense or by becoming an
received a phone call about it. The lady asked me aAmazon affiliate and letting them suggest books
few questions like could i follow a specific businessbased on a persons search.
plan and after i responded positively she told me to call