Work At Home Stuffing Envelopes To Make Money At Home The Beginning
It’s been a decade or more now since those days of remembering my first encounter with one of the most biggest games surrounding work at home industries and that is stuffing envelopes at home for a living. Up to now I still remember as a little boy walking up to the mail box to pick up the afternoon mail and finding these schemes claiming that you can make 10,000 dollars a month from stuffing envelopes. Just reading the success stories had me thinking about getting into this work at home industry only to be disappointed because you have to send out a check for $50 dollars to get started stuffing envelopes. Luckily, I had the time enough to look into this more and save money to order this program. Looking further, and researching this particular work at home program I found out that people were not really making money in this because the whole idea was a scam to get your money that you have invested in it. Again, I was disappointed and upset because the whole idea of making money from home was intriguing to me.
The way individuals are supposed to get paid by stuffing envelopes is paid per every envelope you stuff you get paid a certain amount of money which is usually around .50, .75, 1.00 per envelope you stuff for a reputable company, or for how many people convert to a sell by your brochures that you have mailed out. The twist in this scheme is you have to make an investment to get you started in the program that supposed to cover the materials that they provide for, such as life supply of envelopes, names, addresses, stamps, and brochures that you mail from the postal office. Usually they would charge you $60-100 dollars in the 80s from what I hear, but when the 90s kicked in heavy investments in such business dropped around $50-10 to get started in the business. As you see the suppliers of such business gives you a reason to invest in such programs by telling you why they are charging you a fee.
My advice: If a company wants you to work for them you shouldn’t have to pay them a thing to be apart of there business. The only reason a individual would pay anything to anybody is if you are in business for yourself and learning( ie. knowledge to actually build a business: blogging, adwords, e-commerce, etc.).
These days programs such as these would say that you could join there stuffing envelope program for free. Why? Well, the people who offers these programs have got clever to know that people in this generation will not go for such shady businesses deals so they offer you something else. Using the “FREE” method mixed with “Stuffing Envelopes” has made it an awesome way for them to build a mailing list and offer you more business deals that will cost you money. Once upon a time this was a multi-million dollar work at home scheme that sparked a number of businesses ideas in the 70s and 80s, such as the surveys, and pyramid schemes, and believe it or not it is still going on today.
Till Then My friends,
Jermaine Pleas
From Legitimate Work At Home Jobs To Home Based Business
Something intrigues a person before they step there foot in the door in search for a home based business opportunity. Before you even start searching for wealth online, a gap in your life is missing that you want to cover up or even achieve. Think about what pushes you to even start a work at home opportunity online. Is it the money, people, freedom, or even the fame. The average person feels unsettled about staying home to make money when others feel captivated. Why? Because change can be very hard at times, especially if you are use to living your life with just enough to get by. The human mind only sees what it’s use to transmitting in everyday life. So there’s a clause between what’s real, and what’s reality in many cases reality sometimes turn out to look bad, but that’s not always the case.
Before I launched my blogs online I looked into legitimate work at home jobs for money. I was a really quite person at work that pretty much kept to myself so I had all the time to myself to think about what I wanted. I grew tired of looking for job after job because of layoffs. I knew I wanted to own a business, but resources were hard to come by besides I had no business skills anyways at such an young age, but motivation can take you a long ways. The internet was something I was accustomed to, but never knew that you could profit from doing small things over the internet. One day I was checking my Yahoo mail, and decided to check my “SPAM” folder of course I never opened any of the mail, but I was curious why everybody hated SPAM email so much.
When I opened up a piece of email I read this long piece of electronic email that was sent out by a guy who was this huge well-known guru(who is legendary now, and made $40,000,000 in a very short time)online that made hundreds of thousands of dollars a month while working in his basement. When a average person hear things like that they go crazy like I did of course. The email was all about building a huge list of targeted prospects by having them subscribe to your emails, after the product is reviewed by the individual the prospect may buy whatever you are offering via internet. The surprising thing about the whole ordeal is these were mainly information products. The “Information Age” was the time when “how to” products were sold drastically over the internet, and people made a killing in this field in the beginning of 2001-2007. So, what did I do about it? Well, just like everybody else who wants to know the secrets I bought into it. Yes, it was worth the $75 dollars I put into it now that I see how it truly worked, but I failed miserably because I didn’t take full advantage of the information.
Accomplishing nothing much online I decided to look further into work at home jobs. I decided to sign up with SFI affiliate program, and give them a try. SFI was truly a gym for people looking for legitimate work at home jobs because it really paid out commissions to it’s affiliates based on what you sold you get a percentage of that. Sometimes the company ran a money pool for profits which was really cool, but I decided I wanted more so I went on a massive scale search, and ran into NONI Juice. (Laughing) The main reason I gave those guys a shot was because the commissions were huge. At $100 dollars a pop you can’t beat that, especially if they are offering you a free “AFFILIATE” website to distribute there products on right. The only problem I had with this was everybody had the same affiliate website. The answer to this problem that no one knew at the time was you must have a targeted group to sell to.
Then came the search engine giants. Yahoo among all of them was the best search engine at the time of 2004 because of it’s savvy commercial advertising. You probably remember that commercial on television “YYYYAAAAHHHHOOOOO!” With targeted keyword search, buyers, and sellers are now able to build a profitable home based business online without the hassle of cold calling, and offline offering. For me, and other entrepreneurs, this made total sense to use this as a opportunity to build a true home based business. Sooner or later Google search engine took the crown, and made search online a prominent picture for individuals to truly search for information, and for us to provide.
Till Next Time My Friends,
Jermaine Pleas
Work At Home – Use Do-Follow Blogs For SEO
I should have explained this little known secret….well not “secret” because search engine optimizers have been using this method for a very long time, and I should have posted this a long time ago on this blog. Individuals who work at home that uses SEO for targeted traffic by now understands to get a blog ranking into the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engine results pages you need backlinks. Although I recommend anchored backlinks to any kind of appropriate blog I would suggest that you use Do-Follow blogs, but No-Follow blogs are okay too. It’s just these are two different kind of linking structures, and I will explain that to you now.
The no-follow attribute is basically a piece of code that bloggers use that is pasted onto a section of html source of there website or blog. This is done so Google will not count the blogs or websites linking onto there blogs meaning your link will not be accounted for a PR(Google PageRank) from linking onto there blog. For example, when you leave a comment on a blog that you visit it will not be followed by Google for a pagerank 1-10 update. Granted, I don’t know how true this may be because I link from anywhere other than un-appropriate websites or blogs with anchored text links. The reason some bloggers use the no-follow attribute is because it is known that too much links on a blog can cause a blog to:
-Loose Google PageRank(PR), or downgraded (PR)
-Get De-listed By Google
-Loose Link Juice
I can support this matter isn’t so true! I have found many blogs that has over 100 links on there blogs, but the Google PR is really high, and standing. I’m not saying you should place over 100 links on your blog it’s just I have noticed a possible faulty trend going around. Keep in mind these are not blogs, but websites. I could be wrong, but the eyes don’t lie at all.
Al Daily PR – 8
Ref Desk PR – 8
My intent is not to expose these websites. Only to show you that linking to other websites with high Google pagerank obviously covers the fact that even though they obviously have tons of links on there websites they can still obtain a really high pagerank and not loose it. This totally defies what is being said over the internet about the rules in a way. Who knows maybe Google loves websites better than blogs which is why they grade websites with a really high PR, and allow them to carry so many links without it loosing it’s high PR status. Anyhow, it is inevitable we just need to build wonderful blogs. It has to be Linking authority! 
So what are do-follow blogs? Bloggers set there blog HTML code to do-follow which allows you to get a quality backlink back to their blog or website. It’s time to target do-follow blogs, these are the blogs that gives your blog value in the search engines. It matters to link to these type of blogs because it tells the Google search engines to index you for whatever keyword that you are trying to rank for. What we do is leave “real comments” on tons of these do-follow blogs to receive a link back to our website which are called quality backlinks. The problem people have when commenting on any kind of blog is the spam filters. Sometimes when you make a comment on any kind of blog post you may be interrupted by a spam filter which looks something like this “http://www.XXXXXXX.com/wp-comments-post.php” with a blank white page. Just go to the next do-follow blogs because it may take some time for those type of blogs to take more comments. Only the ones who have commented before will be able to leave a comment on those kind of blogs.
Normally, all it would take is about 500-600 quality backlinks from different do-follow blogs to reach a really high position possibly front page on Google search engine for your keyword. I suggest two keyword phrases or more to try and rank for at least the 2nd or 3rd page. Just like I said before, as long as you are ranking in the search engine results pages for your keywords then you are achieving what many have been trying for years. One-word keywords are really hard to rank for so target two-keyword phrases or more. Overall, we have plenty of time to do things like linking so set a goal and achieve that goal. The internet is mainly about making money most of the time, and you are in the right position to take advantage of this if you have read this far.
Here is a list of blogs that caters Do-Follow blogs, enjoy.
Do-Follow Diver – This is a search engine that has over 700 blogs inside. I suggest you get over there and make use of these guys. A real gem!
Do-Follow Search Engine – Over 300 Do-Follow blogs listed!
Nickoo Shore Do-Follow List – This guy caters a ton of Do-Follow blogs on this post.
Grizzly List Blogging Networks For You To Build!
Remember, you have “The Will To Build” so let’s start building!
Work At Home Job Or Business?
The debate over the internet has been going on about the make money online industry for years, and for many years we have been following every step to figure out what is the root of this industry. There are two different standards in the work at home industry which are work at home jobs and work at home businesses. I will break them down what these two consist of in each category:
Figuring out a way to make money online has been one of my online pass times ever. What I had figured out is having a work at home job is really fun to have. The only thing I hated about a work at home job was I wasn’t making enough. I never filled out surveys before, although I hear this can be a interesting avenue to take my income was publishing articles, and creating Squidoo lenses for adsense income. I worked about 5 hours writing articles with EzineArticles.com to get published for people to use basically, but I made a little bit of money on the side. It was a small amount of income, but it wasn’t enough. Online jobs from what I’ve learned over the years consist of:
-Filling Out Surveys
-Data Entry Work
My favorite of all is actually building business over time. Not only does it sets up a substantial income to replace your current job, but you are your own boss and entrepreneur at your best. I spend about 3 hours on building my online business part time. There is no stress when I work at home on my businesses because I choose my hours, and how fast I want my businesses to grow. So what are the main building blocks does work at home businesses consist of:
-SEO(Search Engine Optimization)
-PPC(Pay Per Click)
-Link Building
-Article Marketing
Do you like work at home jobs, or do value work at business building?
SEO No Brainer Ways To Get Your Keyword Ranking!
With a free blog you can get indexed into Google’s organic search engine result pages(SERP). First let’s talk about H1 tags. Notice the H1 tag says “Work At Home – Work From Home To Make Money Online!” The keyword “Work From Home” receives at least 600,000-1,000,000 searches on Google search engine within a month’s time. The way I find a niche keyword is by using Google’s very own keyword tool. Go ahead, and use what I call The Best Google Adwords Tool Ever because it’s simplicity. Once you have searched and found the best keyword of your interest with a great significant amount of traffic….use that keyword in your H1 header of your blog. Now, all I have to do is create content for this blog just like what I’m doing now by posting this on my blog now, and sprinkle your main keyword around your content while hyper linking back to your blog using your main keyword. Now all I have to do is create backlinks for my blog.
Backlinks are the way Google determines the placement of your website or blog by determining the description relevancy of your keywords in your content, and backlinks. Remember, always use your keyword when making a comment on a blog. For instance, say that you are trying to rank for “Baby Food”, when you make a comment on a blog you would type in the main keyword “The Best Baby Food” in the name section instead of just “Baby Food”. Why? Because you want Google to see your blog’s backlinks look as being natural as possible, especially if your blog or website is new. Use variations of the keywords when building links, such as, “My Baby Food Ingredients” or “The Best Baby Food”, if you still haven’t caught on….sooner or later you will get it. The reason we link this way so Google can rank our blogs instead of de-listing them we make them look extravagantly natural.
The best way to obtain backlinks for your blog is to leave comments on other blogs, using forums, social bookmarking websites, and article marketing like what we talked about before. Sooner or later people will notice my blog because of these search engine techniques. Take your time when you are obtaining these backlinks. I say link to as many as 10-15 blogs a day to look natural for the search engines. The competition out there is really fierce even for the keyword that I’m trying to rank for on Google search engine organic pages “work from home” is tough, and competitive. For now, I would suggest trying to rank for low-competition keywords or go head to head with tough competitors either way we still have to work hard to get to the top of the search engines. If you can find a keyword that receives 30,000 searches a month with the Google search engine results pages between 2,000,000 – 5,000,000 that’s not bad. Remember when you use Google Adwords Tool set the “match type” on “Exact” because the search numbers amount for each keyword will look big, but there are ultimately not that many searches, remember this tool is for Google Adwords Network instead of SEO, but it gives you a great figure about the search volume for the keyword on Google’s search engine.
Another great tool is Yahoo Keyword Tool because you can compare on both search engines search traffic. At first, Yahoo wants you to determine a few things before you use the search tool, but it’s there, quick, and cool to use.
Just do your research on all front page of Google.com for the keyword you are trying to rank for. Check out the backlinks your competitors are using. I have a few that I use my self. Here they are.
http://www.seologs.com/link-analysis-tool/backlinks.html
http://www.smartpagerank.com/pagerank-backlinks.php
Enjoy!
TIP ALERT!
When you are linking to different blogs to comment on or forums to post your hyper linked keyword signature…….Google wants you to link from Do-Follow blogs to receive Google search engine juice.
I haven’t quite found these Do-follow blogs, but I have found a way to retrieve over 500 keywordluv blogs and tons of forums on the search engine. First, go to Google.com, then copy and paste This site uses KeywordLuv. Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.inside the search bar and press “search”. The Google results will return a ton of keyword luv blogs. These blogs are special because the owners of each blog will allow you to put your keyword inside the “name field” of the comment section so you won’t be accused of spamming the blog as many would accuse you of, and will not post your comment. It will be deleted so comment well. When commenting on each blog use a real comment. Do not use comments like “Great blog, thanks”! Use real comments, read through the post, or at least scan through each blog post to make a true comment relating to the blog post. Another great strategy is to look at the other comments, and see what others have posted. This could be a huge way to obtain backlinks if you use it in a genuine way.
Hypertext Keyword Links on the Signatures of your account is hot these days. This is a wonderful way for you to obtain backlinks. Do this, go to Google.com and search for “Powered by Vbulletin“. Once you have typed this inside Google’s search engine you will find a ton of forums. Some of them accepts hypertext links on your profile, and some of them don’t. Take your time when going through these list. Reply back to each post with a true reply, and you should do excellent with SEO. Remember, look natural to the search engines, good luck on your success. Next we are going to talk about adsense so be ready my future wealthy people
Work At Home
Work At Home – Free and Paid Steps To Work From Home
Everything that I’m about to describe to you about the work at home industry is from my experience only and how you can kick off your very own business online. Many people want to work from home to make money online, but they don’t know how to. Well, I have a great deal of things to discuss on this subject from legitimate opportunities, and scams that will only waste your time on the path of building a online business of your own. I’m going to reveal to you all of the free and paid methods that you can use to accelerate and have traffic flowing to your home business website in no time.
There’s one thing I want to get straight. There are thousands of people who make money online without a problem. Many of these people make a full-time living online, work at home moms, younger people of age find ways to make money online. I won’t lie to you it may take you 6 months to a year to actually start making a 5-figure monthly check and some people don’t even make a dime within a year. The secret is finding a niche(profitable market) and sticking with it. Here’s a few successful people who made there living online and they are pretty young. Just think what you can do if you was given the formula. Here they go:
Work From Home – These Guys and Girls Made They Fortune Online.
Age 22 Mark Zuckerberg – facebook.com Net worth $700 million
Age 31 Chad Hurley – Youtube.com Net Worth $300 million
Age 31 Pete Cashmore – Mashable.com Net Worth $3.8 million
Age 18 Ashley Qualls – Whateverlife.com Net Worth $4 millon
Age 24 Jermaine Griggs – Hearandplay.com Net Worth $5 million
Age 36 Mario Lavandeira – Perezhilton.com Net Worth $3 million
Age 31 Kevin Rose – Digg.com Net Worth $30 million
Those people above are young and have really made a ton of money online, and a huge impact on the internet today, although these are some really huge websites that garners a whole lot of traffic you still can make tons of money on the internet selling your goods and services to the public. So let’s get to the baby steps on you can start your way on doing the same.
Work From Home – Step 1) Create A Free Blog Or Website
You need to create a website or blog in order to run your online business. When I first started out on my adventure online I created a free blog because I wanted to get the feel of having my own parking space on the internet so I created a free blog.
FREE BLOGGER BLOG OR WORDPRESS BLOG
You might be asking yourself…how do I create a free blog? You can create a free blog at blogger.com or you can even try my favorite called wordpress.com. These are free blog portals to start off your business on whatever niche you choose to market.
BUY A HOSTING DOMAIN NAME
Personally, I host my own domain name because I can do more with my website, such as, change the css style template of my website anytime I want unlike a free blog I can’t. If you choose to host your domain then I would go with bluehost.com because you can auto-install scripts for your website, personally, I chose the Wordpress blog script because its more broader than any others I’ve seen.
TIP: Remember to match your blog domain or domain name to whatever you want to market. For instance, if you are marketing baby toys then try to create a domain name as close as possible to your target, such as, babystuff.com or babytoys if available.
Work At Home – Step 2) Create Content
After you have purchase a domain name or created a free blog its time to create or find content for your website or blog. If you’re not great at writing don’t worry you can copy and paste articles for free at ezinearticles.com or articlebase.com these article portals receives articles everyday from people on different subjects. I’m sure you can find a article in your niche you are in. Write a review about the product either it’s about Victoria Secret perfume, LCD televisions, or your favorite movies you need a review.
TIP: BECOME A EXPERT ABOUT THE PRODUCT YOU ARE MARKETING TO THE PEOPLE AND CREATE YOUR VERY OWN REVIEW ABOUT IT!
Work At Home – Step 3) Affiliate Products
So how do you actually make money online when you don’t even have a product to present? The answer is affiliate products from commissionjuction.com or clickbank.com to find product to sell online.
Commission Junction – Apply through these guys if you want to sell products for companies such as walmart.com, dell.com, eloan.com, or comcast.com, and tons much more companies who’s willing to let you sell their products! Some of these products can sell as much as $5-10 a sell online.
ClickBank – Apply for clickbank.com to market information products. Information products are “how to” products that people very much need. For instance, “how to loose weight”, or “how to download 1000 music files in a minute”. Either way it go there is definite a way for you to make money selling info products to your customers. These products can sell for as much as $97, and you get paid a percentage of that.
Work From Home – Step 4) Marketing –
PPC(Pay Per Click) Marketing
This is probably the most annoying process that you will have to go through during your online venture. A way for you to market your products from your website is Google search engine. Which is google.com or yahoo.com if you don’t know. Notice the ads on the top and right side of Google.com search engine after you have typed in a search term, for instance, “mortgage loans”? People actually pay Google a certain amount a money every time someone clicks on their ads. Why? Because theses people are marketing a product through Google’s search engine for traffic to their website’s products and services. The lowest you will pay is $.05 per click, but many pay as much as $2.00 per click due to the competition in market today. This is one of the best methods to make money online while you work at home at your convenience. This is called PPC(Pay Per Click marketing) “Google Adwords Program”. This market is competitive if you don’t get in on time. The way you put this into action after you have established your website is find the keywords you want to target. Personally, I use the Google Adwords Tool and the SEOBOOK for keyword research on Google’s and Yahoo’s searches during that month. There are billions of searches a day on Google.com and Yahoo.com so the market is for the taking.
Social Bookmarking and Networks
One of my best methods I use to work at home to make money online is join free and submit your website to social networks and social bookmarking websites. Here is some that I use for myself, but there are literally thousands of social networks and bookmarking websites for you to use that millions are on every single day which means possible money. My advice to you is “DON”T SPAM”( spam is unwanted messages sent by someone who is more likely trying to sell something you may have got those through your bulk email, but in this case on your Myspace page or message box.) these networks it may get your account with that particular network deleted immediately. Social networks and social social bookmarking websites sre places on the web for people to meet and communicate on different things. People even buy things. What do you think Myspace and Facebook sole purpose is? The answer is to sell to a huge targeted market. Notice their ads on different pages. These ads are paid for by the advertiser via Google ads as we call it Adsense. Remember, Myspace.com gets billions of hits a day so just imagine the million dollar checks they receive just by their Adsense checks. Here’s a list of free to join social networks and social bookmarking websites. Free web traffic to your website or blog.
Free Social Networks
Myspace.com
Friendster.com
Meebo.com
Twitter.com
Free Social Bookmarking Websites
“Remember to use as much tags as you can”
Technorati.com
Stumbleupon.com
Digg.com
Slashdot.com
Simpy.com
www.myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ called “Yahoo Bookmarks”
Newsvine.com
Folkd.com
Misterwong.com
Rollyo.com
Faves.com
Octavo.com
Reddit.com
Delicious.com
Write Articles
Remember to write articles on your spare time to some article portals. Here is my personal favorite because In my opinion these are the most visited and believe me the more you write the more people will see your articles, Enjoy!
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlebase.com
This should start you out for now to get yourself out there. There is ton of things for you to learn to make money online including SEO, ALEXA, Google Pagerankings and a whole lot more………Remember to join us on the forum on therichjerk.com the ebook does cost $9.95, but once you are inside the forum is totally gold! These people discuss all kinds of stuff. One secret that we are using and discussing on the rich jerk forum now deals with domains. Register a domain and make a quick 4,000 a month. All depends on the name of the domain. I know for a fact people will drain this method dry I have a few domains working for me now that brings me in a quite amount….heheheh! I’ll see you at the top mate! Cheers….
·