My Next Adventure: On With the Quest

I started searching the web again. Looking at this business and that business. One day I got this email, from one of the newsletters I had joined. It talked about the newest business on the web, and just a few people knew about it and how it worked.
Well I went to the website and read the half-hour sales page (why is it that these sales pages have to be so long? It’s like they say the same thing in three different places, mixed in with some testimonies all on the same page.)

Did the review thing. Found a few different prices and went for the more expensive course. Figured it was the best and guess what? It wasn’t! What is this business you are asking yourself? It was trading e-currency.
Now remember the warning signs from a earlier post. Well here are some of them:

1.) Work for as little as 15 minutes a day. (Or in either words spend more time with your family)
2.) Start this business for as little as $25.
3.) No risk of losing your investment.
4.) I think it went like this: watch your money double every week. (Greed factor)

Here is the short story of how it works. You have the main company, and then you have the currency houses (for lack of a better word). You send your money to a currency house then transfer it to the main company. Buy your investment; pull some out on what seems to be credit. Transfer it to a currency house which looks like a loan. Put it back in, pay some fees and around and around and around.

Well the main company’s customer services sucks! How they wanted thing to run and the way they told you, how things were supports to run were too different animals.
And they have changed the rules so many times, that you can’t get your money out.

But I have hope that they will get the system working again!!

On with my search for a home based business opportunity

My first attempt at an online business was an E-store. I was up late one night and one of them 30-minute buy this, came on. And I bought into it hook, line and sinker. And what really got me was the 60-day money back guarantee. I mean the wheels were turning, I could hardy sleep. And when my starter kit got here; I was in heaven. I was going to be the next millionaire. I read all the material that day. Logged on; set up my site with their e-z web builder. And I waited for the sales to roll in.

I waited 10 days, 20 days, 30 days and you guessed it no sales. So I started to talk to the company that sold me this business. Because in the books I was sent, they promised all kinds of things.
To make a long story short, they told me a few ways to get people to my site. It don’t help. Then came the real part of their business “If you would like to up grade to a better site package, our team will set up your site for you. You have your choice of bah bah bah, gold package, bah bah bah.”

I returned all the material got my money back before the 60 days were up. And sat back to look and see if I had learned a lesson!

1.) How is the customer service?
2.) Watch for companies that hook you with one thing, then try to sale you more (better up grades).
3.) Do real business offer money back guarantees? Because think about it, if you are getting a guarantee, then they are selling you a product. Just a thought!!

So you have found a Home Based Business Opportunity

Before you get all caught up in the moment, thinking about how great this opportunity looks. You are going to want to do a little research, before making a big decision. This can be done in a couple of ways.

1.) Look at the Better Business Bureau. They also have an online version where you can go to check on businesses. See if there are complaints.

2.) Next you may want to do a search for reviews on the business opportunity. See how many good or bad reviews are there? Remember to use caution, when using sites that review businesses!
I have come across a few that reviewed the business I was interested in. They gave it two thumbs up, in reality they were the one who owned the business. So see if you can find more than one good or bad review.

3.) Search the forums; there are a lot of them that have subjects talking about companies or products. The postings are from other people who have gotten scammed or the opportunity wasn’t that good etc. But you also want to keep an open mind at the forums too. Because there are some people that post answers and it seems that everything is a scam.

4.) Also when looking into a business opportunity or product look to see if they have a brick and mortar address, phone number and support to handle your questions.

Next I’ll start talking about my journey.

So You Want to Start a Home Based Business!

And you are wondering about take the first step. Like so many others thinking the same thing, you do a Google search on home based business and now you are looking at the results of over 1,300,000,000. Or possible more depending on how you entered your search term.

What do you do now? Well I was sitting in your shoes, two months ago and had been dreaming about starting a home based business for over a year. So I decided to take the plunge and started looking on the subject of different types of home based businesses. And was I surprised at just how many different home base business opportunities there are out there.

Most play on your greed by making statement like make 10,000 a month or six figure a year. Little to no work or just work 30 minutes a day. And on and on and on. Then you have to figure which ones are scams and which are real.

So I decided to keep an online journey showing how I do. That way I can help someone else, who may find these pages. And for the record I not an expert and I never done anything like this in my life.

Now I don’t know how often I will add to this blog. But I will, when I make a change to what I’m doing on my search for a good home based business. And within the next few weeks I will tell you what I've done up till now.

So first things first. Before you get all caught up in the search for your new home based business. You need to step back and take a look at your computer. What I mean by this, is you need to look at how secure your computer is. Just getting on the Internet may allow a virus, spyware or other harmful items to gain access to your computer.
A good example of this; is when we find free downloads, you want to watch where you get them from. Due they post that they are virus and spyware free?

Next let’s start with anti-virus software. Not having a lot of extra money, I used free virus scans. Which don’t stop an attack like having installed software. But I could still scan with them, so I used Panda Software. Their free scan will remove viruses and will tell you if you have spyware. But buying the software is better as it will stop attacks before they get a change to screw up your computer.

As for spyware, I use the one that comes built in to Panda. Then I use a few free ones. That’s just me, I like to cover my bases. But Panda is the one I use the most to check my computer.

Now the one thing you want to remember to do is, put everything you can on auto update. From your computers OS (Windows update), to your spyware. And if they don’t have an auto update, get in the practice of manually updating them on Monday or Friday. Then ran scans! Every week.

So let's recap:
1) Keep your OS up-to-date
2) Update your anti-virus software weekly
3) Update your spy-ware weekly
4) Set everything you can on auto pilot
5) Run all the above once a week