Work At Home Stuffing Envelopes To Make Money At Home The Beginning

August 13, 2009 · Posted in Jobs At Home, Stuffing Envelopes, Work At Home Scams · 45 Comments 

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

The Truth About Work At Home Scams

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In today’s society you have to be very careful when it comes to work from home jobs. There are many people out there that will target people that are looking for the easy way out, and do Google and Yahoo searches on the keywords “work from home”. Although there are some legitimate jobs that you can do while working from home, many will leave you in the dark with even more debt.

There are a few key things to always do before joining a work from home business. The first thing is to make sure that the opportunity web site has a real person behind it. This means that you can pick up the phone and call the person that is advertising the business. Second, make sure that if you are able to call someone you ask them a lot of questions. Some great questions to ask are as follows: How long have you been doing this? How long has the business been around? What kind of training and support does the company provide?  Third, do plenty of research on the business opportunity and also the person who you found advertising the business. By doing this you can get a good idea if this sounds like a real legitimate company.

Stay away from the online businesses out there where there is no contact person, or phone number listed on the web site. Don’t fall for some of the other scams out there that say you can make tons of money just by stuffing envelopes from home. Most of these opportunities are too good to be true. However, there are some great Internet businesses where you can make some real good money by implementing the things they teach you.

If you are looking for an opportunity where you can work from home, then you need to make sure that the business has real products. Otherwise, the business is more than likely a get rich quick scam. In conclusion, make sure that before joining any online business you do the proper research on the company name, the CEO behind the company and finally the sponsor who is advertising the business.

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