Hello,
It’s me again and more stories to come. Today, before I start talking about Wealthy Affiliate what I probably should have done already, I’m going to tell you about a few things to avoid while you’re surfing endless vastness of the Internet in the search of your alternative (or not) income. I have to admit a few of them almost got me.

Finding an online business that would work and is not a scam or semi-scam is not an easy task and you should do a thorough research yourself before signing up for anything. OK, here we go:

- First of all, scam may not be explicit; “start making $1000 a day!!” is partially true as someone may be making that much or even more, but it doesn’t mean that you start making that much next moment you sign up or unfortunately at all.

- Avoid any “get rich quick” schemes, most likely they’re scams or semi-scams.

- Data Entry – no one is going to pay you just for typing. You’re going to advertise products and if no one is buying them, you’re not getting paid.

- Sending envelopes – a semi-scam. You won’t get paid for sending envelopes, only commissions for goods that are bought through your letters but mechanics of tracking your affiliation is not clear.

- Multi-level Marketing – is not a scam, but watch ‘em out, as you’re gonna do a lot of recruiting before you start seeing any income if you’re at the bottom of the pyramid.

It’s not a full list of course, but just a few types that you see quite often.

A few good links for scam checking:
http://www.scam.com/
http://www.ripoffreport.com/

And last but not least, I’d like to mention Herbalife. If you are looking for “work from home” businesses, you’re going to bump into them quite a lot. They will never tell you that they’re Herbalife distributors in front and they never show it anywhere on their websites. Good stable income with health or well being products. They’re not scam of course, but people lost a lot of money with them. Here is the link to read a few stories:

http://www.freewebs.com/herbalifereport/


Well, that’s it for me today and my next post will be about me doing online marketing using Wealthy Affiliate program :) Here is the link:

Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate


Cheers,Mik