Are there any real work at home companies that are not scams?

A good source of information is at Work at home moms website: WAHM.com - the number one resource for work at home moms, jobs, support and advice. Work at home jobs - www.wahm.com/jobs.html

There are some companies that allow you to work from home. You really just have to search.

Most of these are call center representative, customer service agent or representative, contact center jobs, home-based agents. You must have experience and necessary skills for employment

alpineaccess.com/sbc.com/gen/careers?pid=1

jetblue.recruitmax.com/ENG/candidates/

vonage.com/corporate/careers_index.php?lid=footer_careers

brightenemployment.com

callcenteroptions.com

scilive.com/call-center-careers.htm

ictgroup.com/careers/hba.html

mintel.com/careers.php (freelance researchers)

vipdesk.com

voicelog.com

securecallmanagement.com

lunarpages.com

initialcall.com

teamdoubleclick.com

intelemark.com

liveops.com

acddirect.com

publicopinionresearch.net

workingsol.com

westathome.com

hirepoint.com

appliedcard.com

cloud10corp.com

telereachjobs.com

parameds.com

channelblend.com

thecallcenterinc.com

teletech.com

accoladesupport.com

Virtual Assistant Jobs

assistantmatch.com/

officedetails.com/

virtualassistantjobs.com/

vanetworking.com/

Also you can check the bbb.com, ripoffreport.com for scams and you can even put the company name in Google along with scam behind it to see if it comes up with anything.

Watch Out for work at home "companies"

Not that I know of, and one sure sign is if they ask you to pay them for "training materials", or any type of membership to be able to get the job. I tell you this from personal experience, I saw this wonderful job ad that said it was a data entry job from your home and that you needed typing skills and computer knowledge; Well it was all a big scam you had to pay them $10 only to get the training programs and materials all it said was to do the same, announce yourself as if you were the person looking for people to be interested in the job and charge them the money, and so on. So trust me unless you have to go in person to an actual building or have an interview where you can ask what exactly you will do, it's just a scam.

Arise.com asks for one hundred dollars, and I believe they are a scam. West sucks, and I can never get on Alpineaccess.com, but I will post if I get a job there. Otherwise, they were supposed to get back to me, and did not, and isn't that supposed to be their field of expertise? I'll erase this if I get an actual job there.

I agree with the other person. Arise is a big scam. It said the fee was $99 dollars but they reduced it to $49. When payed, went through a ton of studying and paper work only to take a test and fail and there on no refunds and no redo on test. I had all the material in front of me no way i failed. They just wanted my money and nothing else. Never really going to be a job. I think all of theses work at homes are scams. Don't give anybody money to go to work.

Yes there are... you need to be aware though, any business that offers a get rich quick sort of gimmick is most likely a scam. I am surprised and saddened people fall for this sort of thing still.

Affiliate Marketing

For a great work at home career, you can become an Affiliate, Internet Marketer.

Affiliate Internet marketers are people who promote and market other business on the internet. When a sale is made, a commission is paid to the affiliate marketer.

Depending on the company, commissions can range from 10%-60%. The marketers that do well, make very comfortable incomes and have are very successful with their work at home career.

You as an Affiliate Marketer promote the other business by writing articles for blogs, making simple websites that provide consumers information, and even making referral videos and posting them on Youtube!

Affiliate marketing, in my opinion, is the ultimate work at home career as it is not a system, or cheesy Multilevel Marketing scheme.

Almost any business that sells goods and services offers some sort of referral/affiliate system. If you look at the bottom of most websites, you will see a link for "webmasters" or "affiliates", click this link and the company will provide you with a special link that is specific to you. When a consumer clicks on your link and is taken to the companies website and buys from that company, your link is tracked and the commission for the sale goes to you. Check out Amazon.com's program it's one of the largest. There are 1000's more though!

Promoting business is relatively easy, although there are better ways to do it that yield better results for you.

There are a websites that instructs people how to build a work at home career, although sadly, a good number of them are scams.

I hope this helps you find and build a successful work at home career!

I have been researching work at home opportunities for about three months now and most of them have been scams, or have a start up fee. I really don't believe in having to pay to be paid, so I started giving up because I didn't think it was possible to find a legit, scam free, Free work from home opportunity.

I have been burned more than once by companies that perhaps were not scams, but not designed to actually provide what they said. From those experiences, I wrote a blog for people who are looking at creating additional income from home. If you check my profile, you will find a link to that blog. It's not a commercial and I make no recommendations. It simply suggest ways to search, questions to ask, things to consider, etc..

Educating yourself is the first step to finding something 'real' that will work for YOU.

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