How to Make Money at Home

Are You Looking for a Legitimate Money Making Opportunity?

Are you just another person looking for a source of an extra income?

Do you have a job but just hate it?

Wished you can earn money without having to leave your home?

Want to spend more time with your family or friends while earning?

Simply want to make the most out of your time?

If your answer is yes to all the questions above, then read this and learn more......

Have you ever heard of freelancing or a home based job? If you haven't, let me give you some idea. There are thousands of work-at-home opportunities for people like you and me, trying to find a legitimate source of income, but don't rush; you might just end up becoming a victim of an internet money making scam. Scam? Yes, there are thousands of work-at-home opportunities flooding the internet but most of them are scams. They will offer you work-at-home opportunities and make promises that you will earn such huge money for a living but will only ask you to buy junks that you won't really be able to use. These are people taking advantage of others who badly want to start making money at the comfort of their homes. Be careful in joining work-at-home offers or memberships that offer you a get rich quick scheme. These are people who will get your money to buy their products that won't really help.

Although there are a lot of scams on the internet, there are also genuine earning opportunities that you can take advantage.

Freelancing

You can start earning money by becoming a freelancer. Sign up to sites that offer employment opportunities at home by linking freelancers and companies (buyers). These sites will act like a regular recruitment agency, the main difference is, the jobs they post or offer will not require you to go to an office to work or prepare for a personal interview.  You will most likely be asked to complete skill tests online, Curriculum Vitae and apply for job postings. They normally will pay you through paypal, alertpay, check or wire transfer. Some of these sites are The On Demand Global Workforce - oDesk, www.GetAFreelancer.com, FreelanceSwitch.com and Freelancers.net. Your work as a freelancer will be done at your home. The number of hours you work on these projects will be determined by the hours you logged on the sites system. Usually the projects offered are on an hourly pay, some of them may also be a fixed amount. Some sites like these will ask you to pay a certain fee which is necessary for them to maintain their website. There are also some like Odesk that will not ask you for any fee at all since it is the buyer or companies who need your service. The buyer will be the party that pays Odesk for the service.

Sounds easy? Well, not really, applying for a job as a freelancer through websites like these is not that easy. Why? Because you have many experienced competitors applying for the same job. Bidding for a job as a new freelancer may take a few weeks, or even a month or two. Be patient as you know it is a virtue that one must possess to succeed. Take as many skills tests as possible and if you are new to this kind of market, bid at a lower pay than average to have a better edge of getting the job. Once you have gained experience and earned a good buyer comment for your work, you can now bid for a better pay.

Blogging

There are many ways to make money by blogging.  You can be hired as a writer by many companies that hire freelance writers to review their product.  You can also be hired as a freelance writer by many companies who constantly need to update several of their websites with fresh articles.  Want to know more?

Here is an awesome opportunity to make money online by blogging.  Fortitude is a newly launched site that pays for any kind of article as long as your article gets published on their site.  They can pay you as much as $10-100 as long as your article makes it to their front page.  Right now that's pretty easy, they have so few members. It will be much harder down the road as their members increase.  There is a small membership fee of $1.99 per month but really worth it.  Sign up now to cash in.  Also join wikinut to get paid with your articles.

Affiliate Marketing

Heard about affiliate marketing before? This is more commonly known as network marketing or MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) where you earn for every referral that signs up under you, they do this to promote their website and products. Meaning, the more people you refer to them, the more possible customer's you are driving to their site. They earn from you and you earn from them as well. How it works? You will most likely be joining a company who sell their products on the internet. You will be given your own website with their ads on it. You can personalize your website and post your own advertisements. You can also make purchases as a member and also earn by referring others to these sites. Some of them are Resource-a-day.net, GDI, SFI and VemmaBuilder. Some sites will ask you to pay a fee, I say, don't sign up right away without checking the background of these companies. You might end up losing money instead of earning.

Paid Per Click/Paid to Read Emails/Paid to Play Games/Paid to Take Surveys

Heard of this before? You can also earn money by being a paid per click, paid to read emails, paid to play games or even a paid to take surveys member. What do you do as paid per click member? You will be asked click on ads to view them on the net. Paid to read emails works almost the same, the only difference I guess is that you will not need to log in to the member page, instead, the link for the advertisements will be sent to your email for you to view them. As a paid game player, you will mostly need to download the games that you can play and get paid for. Paid to take survey members are usually sent emails to notify them of new available surveys that they can take and get paid for. For most of these kinds of income opportunity, you need to sign up on their website in order for you to get credit for your work. You will also earn from your referrals often up to the second degree referral just like in affiliate marketing. Sign up is mostly free and even gives you a sign up bonus. They require a minimum amount of earning before they send you payment. Some of the sites that offer this income opportunity are www.neobux.com, clicksense.com, bux.to, matrixmails.com, phoenixpaidmails.com, btarcade.com, paidtoplaygames.net, www.surveyclub.com, www.surveyscout.com, www.quickpaidsurveys.com and www.globaltestmarket.com.


Although, these sound pretty easy and exciting, it isn't as easy to start. These kinds of income opportunities also require patience. I mean, they're not really for everybody. Before you sign up for any of those website, think about what you enjoy doing and by this means you will be able to select the earning opportunity that is right for you.