Want to Know the Truth About Typing Sites? - By Doralynn Kennedy

Ads for typing sites sound great. To many, they sound like the answer to their dream to work at home. But typing sites that require registration fees are questionable at best. Almost all the work consists of advertising for the site in one form or another. The site may want you to place small, pre-written ads at classified sites or ezines. It may want you to send out safelist e-mails or surf at traffic exchanges. (Not sure how this relates to typing, except that you do have to type your name and password to log in). Not only is this work very time consuming, typing sites also require elaborate reports on where you placed your ads. The reports usually require even more time than the actual ad placing. By the time you complete the work, (if you are able to....most people give up in frustration), you have literally earned pennies per hour.

A sample assignment may ask you to place 400 ads at non-cgi classified sites. (No BeCanada sites allowed). The ad must run for 30 days, and you can only post one ad per month per site. (Ad blasters will be of no use to you). In addition, the assignment will want each ad that you placed to be copied into a report - along with the ad number, the ad's duration, and the section of the classified site that you posted to. If you can complete this ridiculous assignment, you will be paid $40! Wow! And if you're lucky, it will only take about 100 hours! That's .40 cents an hour!
What is amazing to me, is that there are actually a few people who do it!

With that said, there are people who are making $200 to $300 a week at typing sites. But it's not in the work...it's in the referral commissions. People who are good at finding signups, and have no qualms about referring people to a typing site, can earn money at one. The problem is, would you feel comfortable referring someone to a site that many consider to be a border-line scam?

I guess there are some limited situations where I would "RESERVEDLY" recommend a typing site. If someone lived in an area where there were no jobs. And I do mean NO JOBS. If someone was on a fixed income, and an extra $50 to $300 a month could be the difference between eating and not eating, I might recommend a typing site. But then they'd run into another problem, coming up with the 1000 "approved" classified sites that they'd need to make a modest go of it. And finding the "approved" classified sites can take months. But even taking the above circumstances into consideration, I know you can do better than typing sites.
I can say one good thing about typing sites. Most of the typing sites that I am familiar with pay...if you can complete the assignments, or find some poor soul to join you in one.

Doralynn Kennedy
http://doralynn.net/ad_solutions.html

Owner and CEO of The Work at Home Network and Affordable Advertising Solutions. http://doralynn.net and http://doralynn.net/ad_solutions.html

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Is it a Scam? - By Doralynn Kennedy

I wanted to quit my job. So I decided to make my fortune online. I had no idea what I was doing, but that had never stopped me before. I joined a mlm company. They said to succeed online you need to get an auto-responder and purchase leads. Great. But I didn't know what an auto-responder was...I was pretty vague about the lead thing too. So I asked, "What's an auto-responder?"

"It's like a fax machine," was the response.

Great. Problem was they were talking to a bus driver. I'd never used a fax machine. I had probably seen one, but I couldn't actually remember having seen one...and if I had, I wouldn't have known what to do with it. Point is, their answer didn't help. But I was not to be discouraged. I went online and found an auto-responder. Setting up that first auto-responder was like pulling my own front teeth. Then I bought 2000 double-opt-in-leads and sent out my ads. Results...2 spam complaints, 200 counter offers, and zero sales. Hmm. I must have done something wrong. So I cancelled my membership to the mlm and decided I didn't hate bus driving that much.

A month later I decided to try again. Soon afterward I discovered something I had not known about myself.

I have an uncanny knack for finding and falling for every scam online.

Mistake # 1. Typing Sites. I’ve already written an article on this particular subject. For the full article, see: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Doralynn_Kennedy

Mistake # 2. Paid per Lead Sites. This particular opportunity is much like the above. You place ads that state: “You can earn up to $30 an hour processing simple e-mails from the comfort of your home! You will be paid for each lead that you collect. Each lead must include e-mail address, home address, and phone number.” The particular company that I fell for stated that it paid $1 for each lead collected. Well I can do that I decided! I took out a paid ad in the Denver Post. It only cost me $400 for a full month. The leads poured in. I had hundred of leads coming in each day. Guess what happened? Not only wasn’t I paid for any of the leads, the company also cancelled my membership. They refused to answer my e-mails as to why and shortly afterward, blocked my e-mails entirely. Not only dirty but cowardly. I promptly reported the crooks to the ftc. Nothing ever came of that as far as I can tell. The company is still online! So beware!

Mistake # 3. Online Proof Reading Jobs. Next I signed up for a very popular proof reading company. I had to pay $25 to take their test. No problem. I was happy to do so. I figured I’d get that back in no time. The test was rather tricky, but I passed it, and soon I had access to my private member’s area. Yippee! Well, maybe not yippee. Yikes was more like it. There were a few problems: 1) I had to advertise the site. 2) I had to bid on the jobs. 3) The bids were as low as .25 for proof reading a 75 page e-book. and 4) The site never recognized my referral id.
Hmm. Looks like I’d done it again.

Mistake # 4. Assembling simple circuit boards at home. The first problem I encountered with this one was the length of time it took to receive a reply to my initial inquiry. By the time I heard back from them, I'd forgotten about it. When I did hear from them, a one-time fee was required. It was the same old story. We require a fee because not everyone is serious about this great opportunity. We have to be sure you're serious about this work. Well, I was serious, and I proved it by sending them $49. Five months later I received my circuit board...and a bunch of other things I couldn't identify...not even with the use of their simple 12 page set of instructions. I did figure out a couple of things: 1) I needed to provide my own equipment to assemble the circuit board, and 2) they only sent out 1 cirucuit board every 6 months. Since they only paid $1.25 for each assembled circuit board, I quickly concluded that I wasn't going to get rich assembling circuit boards. Turns out most home assembly jobs are scams. I only know of one that isn't.

Mistake # 5. HYIP’s. By this time, I was getting desperate. I think that’s why I fell for this particular scam. I could tell they were a scam from the beginning…well almost the beginning. But, I decided that I had a strategy. Get in early…get out early. I lost track on how much I lost with that strategy…but it was more than everything else combined. Truth is, ALL HYIP’s are scams that feed on greed. Stay away! Please!

Now after looking at the above, you’d think I would have given up and gone back to work with my tail tucked between my legs. No way! I don’t give up. Good thing to, because I finally did make money online…enough to stop driving buses. Now I just work from home. And it sure beats the rat race.

Doralynn Kennedy
http://doralynn.net

About the Author: Doralynn Kennedy is the Founder and CEO of 'The Work at Home Network' and 'Affordable Advertising Solutions' located in Colorado. http://doralynn.net and http://doralynn.net/ad_solutions.html

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/

How Do YOU Make Money Online?

Okay, it's time to hear from some of our readers. How do you make money online? I know there are a lot of you making money out there. Don't be shy. Remember, I want this blog to be educational. Let's all help eachother.

I make money in several ways, but mostly through Mystery Shopping and Affiliate Marketing. I can't say I've actually tried taking surveys online regularly, but I did sign up with one company but never got paid any money for it. I only got my name entered into contests or drawings each time I'd take a survey. It was a bit time consuming for not getting paid any money, so I stopped.

I also tried making money through the postal system. This one company was a mail tracking company and would pay me .05 cents every time I received a piece of mail (not email) and entered it's code online. It was easy to do. I stopped that because I wanted to put more time into the Mystery Shopping and Affiliate programs I was marketing.

So, those are ways I'm making money online. You really can make a good living with those two programs. But I know there are other ways to make money online. Please feel free to post different ways you guys are making money online. Also, have any of you fallen for any scams out there? I want to hear all about it and so do my readers. Like I said, don't be shy. So, let's hear from you.

Thanks in advance.

To your success,
Anna A.

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