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The Best Online Work From Home Opportunities - Fact Or Fiction?

Online and Work At Home Opportunites, Do they Really work? Or are they just a scam?

Jason Stevens

May 10, 2007

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Some true and unique online business or work from home opportunities come along and unfortunately, quite a lot of them are scams and will just want to take your money and you have no recourse to get your money back.

When you have been affected by a couple of these scams, you would be inclined to be totally put off by looking at any business proposition or work from home opportunity again.

I didn’t accept this and spent quite a significant amount of time doing some research and getting educated on finding real opportunities and separating them from the fake ones. I did this by having some key criteria that needed to be achieved so I would see that the opportunity was real.

Whether you accept that the internet is just for information, porn or scams, that is entirely up to you, but if you believe that there are some unique opportunities, then read on.

The criteria is as follows:

1. The business doesn’t promise the earth for very little payment, in other words I can make a fortune for doing almost nothing.
2. As funny as this may seem, you must ensure it does not involve any illegal activities, selling or promoting of illegal items or any form of money transfer on behalf of any party.
3. No requirement to have to get other people to join, or promote in such a way so other people have to get more people to join by asking them to pay and receive bonus’ for ‘recruiting’ more people. (in other words - pyramid schemes)
4. To have an actual registered business name that I can verify exists and is in operation in the country of origin and I can verify in that countries relative government website. For example, in Australia, all business’ require an ABN (Australian Business Number) to be able to legitimately operate their business. They also need to be registered for GST (Goods & Services Tax), this is known differently in other countries ie, VAT in the UK.
5. Doesn’t request an obscene amount of money to invest to start or run the business, but does request a certain amount (you cannot expect to operate a business from absolutely nothing).
6. Doesn’t spruik like many other (1,000’s of) websites or doesn’t just have links to other ‘moneymaking’ websites.
7. Other people are not earning a single cent of income.
8. That I may only achieve an income through my own efforts and amount of time I spend on the business and that I understand that it may possibly take many, many months until I achieve an income that will meet or exceed my current 9-5 income.
9. Importantly, that I have full support from the company for any queries or questions I have.
10. Finally, check your relevant government website and ensure that the opportunity you are researching is NOT A SCAM !!!! for example www.scamwatch.gov.au is a Australian Government website outlining scams (both internet and non internet scams).

Now that I have outlined the criteria above, the question is now did I find an opportunity to meet and/or exceed the criteria ? Yes, I did. Have I made lots of money? No not yet, but I am well on the way to earning a decent income. It has not made me super rich, but I can now enjoy some things that just working a job would not afford me.

I cannot provide any guarantees you will earn a significant income but you can investigate more information from my website.

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