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Can You Make Money at Home Stuffing Envelopes?
Have you seen the ads to work from home stuffing envelopes and wondered if these ads can assist in
giving you a part-time income where you can help contribute to the household finances while staying at
home?
Unfortunately these offers almost always first ask you to pay for a packet, then you'll have to pay for
processing fees, plus you'll only make money IF the addressee responds to the lead or sales offer in the
envelope. Some of these work-at-home-stuffing-envelopes programs actually only include a letter telling
you to run similar ads telling others how they can make money stuffing envelopes! That is a pyramid
scheme. Basically you get the letter and the ad to use, but could you really live that way, ripping off another
person?
If you already bought one of these programs, see if it's within 30 days since your purchase as you can call
your credit card company or do a refund with some payment processors. Don't let them resell you
something else or offer coaching either.
The FTC has gone after many companies who offer these work-from-home “opportunities” for swindling
people. Many of us moms dream of maintaining a part-time income from home while keeping the
schedule that lets us be with family, take vacations at will, and run errands easily, so it’s easy to get duped
into some of these get-rich-quick schemes.
Yes, there are legitimate ways to make money at home and these can be as simple as setting up a blog
for free at Blogger.com and putting up some ads for Amazon, selling on Ebay, or selling information you
compile about something you love like how to refinish old furniture, create crafts projects, etc. Evaluate your
interests and hobbies and if possible, try to find something that is not in the internet marketing field, as this
is quite competitive. If you know how to write a good resume or teach a foreign language, you can also sell
a service like this on craigslist. There are other services you can offer such as copywriting or posting on
forums for a web publisher. Additionally, you might consider instant businesses where you can sell
products online, a popular option as we live in an instant delivery culture and also one where
environmental concerns of saving paper are valued.
A legitimate business will involve product creation (or outsourcing of it), marketing it via offline and online
methods as well as perhaps having resellers or affiliates and picking a popular interest that fills a need.
Marketing usually needs constant maintenance, although at a certain point it can be passive income if you
have either a newsletter where you mention useful products and services or you use viral marketing to get
lots of traffic to your website.
Whatever you decide to pursue, please do your homework and don't lay out money for something that looks
questionable and is too good to be true such as taking surveys or working at home stuffing envelopes. If it
seems like it's no work and only residual income, chances are you are kidding yourself and being
scammed.
By Dee Cohen: Learn about a legitimate at home business and don't get scammed.
Have you seen the ads to work from home stuffing envelopes and wondered if these ads can assist in
giving you a part-time income where you can help contribute to the household finances while staying at
home?
Unfortunately these offers almost always first ask you to pay for a packet, then you'll have to pay for
processing fees, plus you'll only make money IF the addressee responds to the lead or sales offer in the
envelope. Some of these work-at-home-stuffing-envelopes programs actually only include a letter telling
you to run similar ads telling others how they can make money stuffing envelopes! That is a pyramid
scheme. Basically you get the letter and the ad to use, but could you really live that way, ripping off another
person?
If you already bought one of these programs, see if it's within 30 days since your purchase as you can call
your credit card company or do a refund with some payment processors. Don't let them resell you
something else or offer coaching either.
The FTC has gone after many companies who offer these work-from-home “opportunities” for swindling
people. Many of us moms dream of maintaining a part-time income from home while keeping the
schedule that lets us be with family, take vacations at will, and run errands easily, so it’s easy to get duped
into some of these get-rich-quick schemes.
Yes, there are legitimate ways to make money at home and these can be as simple as setting up a blog
for free at Blogger.com and putting up some ads for Amazon, selling on Ebay, or selling information you
compile about something you love like how to refinish old furniture, create crafts projects, etc. Evaluate your
interests and hobbies and if possible, try to find something that is not in the internet marketing field, as this
is quite competitive. If you know how to write a good resume or teach a foreign language, you can also sell
a service like this on craigslist. There are other services you can offer such as copywriting or posting on
forums for a web publisher. Additionally, you might consider instant businesses where you can sell
products online, a popular option as we live in an instant delivery culture and also one where
environmental concerns of saving paper are valued.
A legitimate business will involve product creation (or outsourcing of it), marketing it via offline and online
methods as well as perhaps having resellers or affiliates and picking a popular interest that fills a need.
Marketing usually needs constant maintenance, although at a certain point it can be passive income if you
have either a newsletter where you mention useful products and services or you use viral marketing to get
lots of traffic to your website.
Whatever you decide to pursue, please do your homework and don't lay out money for something that looks
questionable and is too good to be true such as taking surveys or working at home stuffing envelopes. If it
seems like it's no work and only residual income, chances are you are kidding yourself and being
scammed.
By Dee Cohen: Learn about a legitimate at home business and don't get scammed.