Stay At Home Moms - Scam or Legit Business Opportunities?
June 2, 2008
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I know that being a stay at home mom can be a very tough job (and one that doesn’t pay money). With food and gas prices on the rise, it’s almost impossible for a family to survive on one income. So what is a family to do in a situation like this?
Both parents can take turns watching the children while the other one is working, or you can hire a nanny (this can be very costly) or put the children in daycare (this can be very scary). Many moms are saying “NO” to both these ideas and are searching for ways to make money in the comfort of their own homes. This is not a bad idea. By doing this, they are saving money on child care costs, and they are making money to help pay for food and gas (and diapers, formula, clothes, etc…)
However, stay at home moms are the biggest prey for work at home scams. Moms are known to quickly dish out money for work at home “opportunities” like, stuffing envelopes, data entry, typing from home, or buying work at home packets because they are so desperate to find a way of making money from home.
For instance, you will find moms that will pay for work at home packets. They may have received an email about a work at home position, and it tells them to go to a particular website and purchase a work at home packet. They spend, may be $60.00 for this information, only to find out that it is just a directory of other companies “supposedly” hiring for work at home positions.
Now, what is even more shocking, is the fact that there are moms that fall for these scams daily, but then when something legitimate comes their way, they say it’s a “scam.” I urge ALL moms to stay away from the following:
*Work from home positions like data entry, typing, and envelope stuffing that requires you to pay a fee
*People who entice you to buy a “packet of information”
*People portraying to be a company but refuse to give a legit name and phone number
*Work at home directories and most membership sites
I hope this article helps all of you stay at home moms. I know it can be tough to weed out all the scams from the legit business opportunities, but please take my information to heart and you will NOT get scammed.
About the Author: Hillary Patz is an internet marketing guru with a desire to help people find success through BTTW. To learn more about Hillary Patz and her team of Marketing Mentors Click Here
Posted by Christina | Filed Under Stay At Home Moms
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Christina,
Thank you so much for posting this blog entry! This will surely help other starting work at home moms know the danger signs of a business scam. There are no get rich quick schemes that actually work, and I’ve seen those “packets of information” and those just look way too suspicious. To be a successful work at home mom, you can’t go near these supposed “shortcuts.” Again, great blog entry, it really caught my eye!
Now see, I’m an official Microsoft ambassador and right now we’re really trying to scale up our connections with influential bloggers like yourself. I’d love to share with you some of the stuff we’ve been doing in the last couple months to help women entrepreneurs; we’re really committed to providing all the necessary resources to help women start, grow and expand their business.
We just wrapped up a women’s entrepreneurial tour across the US called “Vision To Venture;” the response and turn-out was great!
I’d really love your take on these offerings we have right now; I would have contacted you via email but I didn’t know which was the best way to reach you.
Thank you so much, I hope I didn’t overstep my bounds by directly contacting you. Definitely get back to me if I’ve piqued your interest– I’d love to share more info with you.
Best,
Kimberly
Official Microsoft Ambassador
k-rosenberg@live.com