TEN TIPS FOR CHOOSING A HOME BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Make money from home in your sleep! Earn your fortune on the internet without even trying! Assemble products ~ stuff envelopes ~ pay $150 and get a list of home business opportunities ~ buy ridiculous amounts of inventory every month and hope you can sell it at a premium to your friends & family ~ earn money typing ads or selling the newest miracle juice!

If you, like me, have spent any time scouring the internet looking for the ideal way to supplement or replace your working income from home there is no doubt you have become quickly disillusioned by the preponderance of get-rich-quick claims and to good to be true promises of instant wealth and freedom. In fact, you may have experienced so many scams by now that you are skeptical that any business opportunity is what it says it is.

During my quest, I discovered an unfortunate truth:

NEED creates GREED



Think about it. Examples of this are everywhere. Take the overweight person who is desperate to find the miracle weightloss cure. Or the person with a less than stellar credit history who needs furniture. Think about the not-so-mechanically-inclined car owner whose vehicle is making ominous noises. How about the elderly who need companionship, or the ill or disabled who need healing or help to get around. And those like you and I who, for a variety of reasons, want or need to find a way make some money at home. The list goes on.

Where there is a perceived need, there are always those whose greed kicks in to scheme a way to take advantage of the vulnerabilities of others. Not an admirable trait to be sure. And one that can certainly lead those of us who have been suckered to doubt, or worse, to plain give up hope.

Luckily, for every sheister there are ten honest, decent people who seek to help without exploiting. I know this to be true, because I have experienced it myself. There may not be a miracle weightloss pill out there, but there ARE legitimate work at home business opportunities. You may not be able to make big bucks without trying, or start today and quit your day job tomorrow - but if you have faith, do your due diligence, use your head, and don't let the scammers get you down - you CAN find the right business that you will be able to be proud of.

Here are my top 10 tips for what to avoid when you are evaluating any home business opportunity:

To be successful, steer clear of companies that:

* are less than 5 years old
* will not tell you their retention and re-order rates company wide
* want you to inventory / distribute products
* want you to pay a big start-up
* require you to come up with new money that you don't already spend
* offer fad products that have no science behind them or are on their way out
* are not experiencing positive growth year after year
* have less than an "A" rating with the Better Business Bureau
* make exaggerated income claims and don't publish average earnings
* risk your hard-earned money

Ask questions ~ do your research ~ don't let yourself be hassled or pressured or hard-sold ~ and most of all, don't lose hope. There ARE legitimate, successful home business opportunities available that can provide the stepping-stone to achieving your personal goals, and they are just waiting for you to find them.