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What to Look for in a Paid Survey

Paid surveys have been around for many years and have been used by companies to gain information and knowledge about products and services. There are many paid survey reviews online to help you. We are taking the time to outline the pros and cons of paid surveys in general.

Pros

There are so many good things about paid surveys and it is hard to list all of them. The most obvious is being paid money for your time and opinions. The finishing of paid surveys generally requires no physical work and consumes just a small fraction of your spare time. As this is a paid survey review we must say that most online survey programs are creditable and will deliver what they say in the time frame outlined. Security in recent years with online money making has increased greatly and it is generally safe to sign up with these programs.

Cons

Perhaps you have just finished reading a paid survey review that outlined so many negative points on paid online surveys. This survey review one is no different! There are always risks involved with online companies. You should go by reputation, word of mouth and most of the time your gut feeling when signing up for surveys. It’s always wise to follow the rule “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is!”

Program choices

There are hundreds of online survey programs offering a wide variety of commissions and rewards. When you are considering a particular program, always search for the review for that product. This will allow you to see the opinions from other members and to gauge how stable and successful the online survey program is.

Personal information

It is important to be very careful giving out any personal information when it comes to online surveys. It is also important to be careful because many reviews have been know to ask for credit card details or other personal information. This information can be used for credit card fraud, identity theft, or sold to marketing companies. You should never pay to get reviews of surveys.

Reviews

When reading a paid survey review it is important to ensure is was written by an independent person and not some program associate. This will ensure the review is unbiased and honest.

The best reviews are written by someone who has been involved in the program. They should have experience and knowledge to answer your questions and would be able to tell you if the program has worked for them. Be careful and research everything before signing up with any program.

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When Opportunity Knocks, Will You Be Out To Lunch?

Helen Keller said, “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” Ask yourself a question. Do you know what an opportunity looks like? Describe it. Define it. Bottom line…would you know one if it bit you on the behind? Everyone says they are looking for “one”, Being at the right place at the right time isn’t enough. As network marketing industry legend Randy Gage says, “It’s about recognizing a magic moment of opportunity and acting upon it.”

In network marketing and home-based businesses, everyone says they have the “perfect opportunity.” So how do you evaluate? What is the difference between a golden opportunity and fool’s gold?

The scope of this article is to help you evaluate businesses, determine indicators of success and outline potential risks. I am a CPA, business owner and consultant. I look at businesses from top to bottom, start to finish. There are some fundamental characteristics that will tip you off to a good opportunity. A little homework and investigation can go a long way in helping you make a wise decision.

Nine out of ten business failures are due to lack of general business management skills and proper planning. Misery loves company and mistakes involving any of these three M’s will put you in the distinct company of the “nine” out of ten businesses that fail: Money, Management and Marketing.

Money. It takes a long time for a start-up to become profitable. It usually takes a whole lot longer than the majority of business plans will project. Business projections that seem too good to be true in the first few years are probably just that. Even the best product ideas, greatest management and marketing won’t be enough if you run out of capital before you achieve sufficient momentum, exposure and market acceptance. You have to look at what is going to happen if the company has a bad first quarter, second quarter or even a bad first year. If a company is relying on cash flow to be generated in the beginning months and quarters, beware.

Management. If you are looking at a start-up company, the management of that company needs to be seasoned veterans, not first time entrepreneurs and their five closest friends. Yes. You need the visionaries, but you absolutely must also have long range planners, people who have started small and grown big, know the industry, react quickly to change, etc. To be successful, a new company will go through many stages such as introduction, market penetration, exponential growth, expansion, etc. A company can be mortally wounded if they are not equipped to handle each of those stages.

Marketing. Great ideas, innovative products and services die unrealized due to inadequate marketing. There are two marketing forces: the “push” and the “pull”. The lack of attention to the latter is where the ball most often drops. The “push” is the strategy that “pushes” the product through the marketing pipeline and gets the product out to the consumers. This creates exposure to the consumer. The “pull” is the piece that makes the consumer aware of their need for the product. It tells them what the product will do for them and entices them to “pull” the product out the other end of the pipeline. A company’s marketing plan must be able to evoke emotion in the end consumer. Emotion that is tied to a need or want that their business can fulfill. Otherwise, all the exposure, fancy packaging and “opportunity” appeal will be wasted.

People typically fall into two general categories. The optimist who wears rose colored glasses and the pessimist who wears dark shades. Both can see. However, you need to take those glasses off when looking at various network marketing or home-based business opportunities and compare them to a set of standards that will clue you in to the ones with real potential.

The last thing you have to do is be ready to act! Alfred North Whitehead, a British Philosopher, said, “Without adventure civilization is in full decay.” Take a look at where you are right now. Then, ask yourself where you will be in five years? Are you on your way to decay? Network marketing is not the network marketing of 15-20 years ago. Things have changed and it is a growing viable option for those who truly want to change their financial situation.

The trick is to find those home-based businesses and network marketing opportunities that have the capital, management; product and marketing plan to achieve sustainable success. If you are actively looking, and know what to look for, when opportunity knocks you won’t risk being out to lunch!

Holly Beitel is a CPA, business owner and consultant. Holly has expertise in business planning, marketing strategy and business growth. She has studied network marketing as a business model and consults in a variety of areas. Holly is currently working with the launch of a new company that capitalizes on three emerging mega-trends. You can reach Holly at: 918-698-6674 or gelatenow.com gelatenow.com

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Data Entry Scams - How to Avoid Getting Ripped Off

This article will expose how some popular data entry scams work and how you can avoid being burned by them.

Thousands of people have been ripped off by data entry scams. They hand over good money expecting to enter data for a reputable company, but they almost always end up empty-handed.

Here’s how data entry scams typically work: you visit a website that promises they will pay you to enter data for them. They don’t give you many details of the kind of data you’ll be entering. They just say something like “typing data into a couple of fields”.

So you hand over a registration fee of anywhere from $47 to $97 to access the program and instead of a data entry job they send you an ebook. In the ebook you learn that in order to get paid you have to write ads (and pay for their placement) in the Google AdWords program. If someone clicks on one of your ads and buys a product you get paid a commission. This is called affiliate marketing.

Now I want to make it clear that Google AdWords and affiliate marketing are NOT in themselves a scam. In fact, there are many people who make good money using them. But making money with AdWords takes a lot of work and expertise, and it costs you even more money on top of your “registration fee”.

And this is why data entry scams have such a bad reputation. They get you to hand over your money by misleading you in at least 3 ways:

First, data entry scams do not pay you to enter names or addresses into a database, which is what you expected when you signed up.

Second, they charge you a registration fee to gain access to a list of merchants that have affiliate programs when all of that information can be obtained for free elsewhere.

And third, they hide the fact that you’ll have to pay even more money later in order to place ads on the AdWords network.

Data Entry Scams Targeted

Recently, data entry scams and other shady products have been given the boot by Clickbank, the internet’s largest digital marketplace where thousands of the web’s most popular products are sold every day.

Clickbank terminated these programs even though data entry scams were some of the most profitable products in their marketplace. Clickbank did not want to be associated with products of a questionable integrity.

So how do I know if I am getting involved in a data entry scam?

My advice is to use caution and to thoroughly investigate any data entry program before forking over any money. Do a Google search on the name of the program followed by the words “scam” or “complaints” and see if anyone has had bad experiences with them.

Also make sure they have a money-back guarantee and pay with your credit card so it will be easier to get your money back if they give you a hard time.

A little common sense can go a long way toward avoiding data entry scams.

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