Melissa Rich Author – Your Virtual Home Office Can Be a Reality!

If you are in the market for a new position, new customers or a new business, you might have noticed things have changed just a bit. It seems there are more scammers out there and they are not even just companies that want to sell information via eBook for $29.95.

These are people that post jobs on Forums such as Wahm.com and claim to be legitimate companies seeking contractors to work. You contact these companies, go through the entire process of training, work for 20-30 hours and then discover they are scammers out to get work from you without paying.

These companies have hired more people than they cannot afford to pay and never had intentions to pay you for all the hard work completed.

How can you go about finding legitimate work?

I find that first and foremost word of mouth is great! I like Wahm.com simply because they are a community of people that are seeking work from home and try to help one another. If you are not familiar with a company, ask a question in the forum.  Nine times out of 10, someone in the huge community will have experience with the company and provide helpful feedback.

Finally-Always seek advice from the BBB in the city of the company in question.

If you need help locating legitimate companies-read Melissa’s Book-Your Virtual Home Office Can be a Reality!

Now that 2012 is here..it is time to put your work from home career in overdrive.

How can you go about increasing your business?

First-determine your skill set. What do you have that makes you stand out? Are you a creative writer? Do you have skills to type? Are you dabbling in the website business?

Second-update and add to your current skill set. If you are building websites, take a look at new features and services that can be added to websites and sign up for training to acquire new skills.

Third-Market, Market, Market. You are not the only one looking to boost business or make changes. Let your clients know what you are doing and what plans you have for them in 2012.

If you need help marketing your work from home business-check out our website www.yourvirtualhomeoffice.com

The Internet can be a great tool for researching and locating work at home job opportunities; but it can also serve a venue for con artists and scammers to find their prey.    Be careful with any work at home “job” and exercise great caution in reviewing those opportunities.   I hope the resources in Chapter 8 have been helpful.

If you have other resources, you would like to suggest for inclusion in our site or in the next printed edition, please contact me at any time.

 There are so many opportunities out in the Work from home world. I use the word opportunities lightly since some are “really” opportunities and some are well advertised scams. I received information this week on a program that can allow you to become a Virtual Assistant. This program is going to allow you to make up to $40.00 per hour working in the comfort of your own home.

This program is only going to cost you $3,000 to $10,000. I became a work at home independent contractor 10 years ago. I took local classes from the community college and hit the pavement so to speak looking for a job. It was not an easy journey but one that was needed to get to where I am today.

With Melissa Rich’s book “Your Virtual office can be a reality”, I would have avoided many mistakes, scams and overall work at home direction. The work from home journey is one that does not have to cost $1,000 of dollars. Bring your current skill set to the table and build your work from there.