Work-at-home, Freelance, Telecommute, Are They Legitimate. The Conclusion

By Author: Jeffrey Solochek
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Scams are out there everywhere you look these days. They start out by directing you to a web page that gives you a lot of Hype, Fluff, BS, and Sugar Coating. When you start a mission to find some true work at home opportunity 99% of what you are going to find are rip-offs.

I have spent almost the entire past decade seeking out this information. Most of the so called directories that are out there will charge a small fee and may have 2 or 3 legitimate companies actually listed. Unfortunately they will have a lot more bogus listing there also.

I did discover that females have a lot more options available but most of the ones I discovered do not care just as long as you can do the work. There are sites out there like phoneactresses.com that will only hire females. These people that they hire will be paid to talk dirty to guys. Have you ever seen the ads in your local paper for female dancers? The only way for a male to get past the front door would be to pay some cover charge.

I have yet to see an ad like these for a male dancer. Besides, Ben Affleckwould be the only male that might respond to an advertise ...
... for male dancers at a gay strip club. Maybe someday I will be able to stand up on stage and take my clothes off in front of gay men but this may be a long time away.

I did find a few good sites that do give some good listings of work from home companies but unfortunately most of them charge a fee before giving you access to this info. There needs to be 1 site that has a good listing of the best companies to work for, I mean for telework opportunities. Craigslist has some great ads but in-between all the good ones there is a lot of bogus ads. If anything, craigslist is a web 1.0 site.

A good site would be one that has a listing of companies that hire people to work from home but do not charge some BS start up fee or something of the sort. There should also be a forum section where people can tell others about the success they have had and which companies to definitelystay away from.

I, over the years, have applied at hundreds of companies. Any company that ended up trying to charge some sort of fee did not make it to my A list. Now over time some of these companies will cease to exist because of the way the world changes all the time and this site needs to let you know when this happens.

In my vast research I even found out that there are legitimate paid survey sites and mystery shopping opportunities. With these companies I wont lie to you there is an extreme amount of junkout there. My son one time had me fill out a survey on some site for a free laptop and guess what happened. 3 hours later I was still not done with the laptop survey site. Every time when I thought I was finished another popup would say that I still had a few more offers to complete. To this day I am still getting SPAM email because of this.

Putting up one of those mini sites was my first thought but the problem with these is that most people create them and hell would have to freeze over before they are ever actually updated...Sites like YouTube and MySpace is where everything is headed these days so I wanted to create something that would get new visitors every day.

In the days when I was putting together my A list I did accept some of these jobs for aperiod of time. One of them I actually did for almost a year on a part time basis. On this site I will be sharing all this information plus I will let you know my likes and dislikes about these companies.

A lot of marketers out there will send you an email aboutsome report they have on emergency cash generators or about some new opportunity but yet these marketers will actually put a price on these reports and I am a normal person and I know for a fact that during the hardest times in my life when I was looking for legitimate work that I did not have any extra to throw away on these reports.

The site that I have created to solve all these problems will be a membership site but guess what? There will be no membership fee initially. Maybe someday there will be but for the first half of 2008 there will not be. I will also be sharing a lot of advicearticles plus during these times when I had very little cash I was looking for sites related to living a more frugal life plus looking at all the many ways there is to earn money.

I still have not gotten a domain name like jeffslist or anything but I have had the site firstnamelastname.com for the past few months and I decided to build this site using Joomla on this domain. There are a lot of great courses on how to use Joomla and design a great site but unfortunately they all have these price tags so instead I have put together all the free info for building a membership site in Joomla