How To Spot Home-based Business Opportunity With Integrity

September 20, 2008

I have often wondered where to start with this. However, now that I have been running my business from home for the last two years, I think there are tips that I can provide to newbie’s selling online services and products.

First thing, lets us talk about how to spot profitable homebased business with integrity. Let examine some questions here.

Is there a quick criteria that people can use to spot the scams from those opportunities that are genuine?

The answer is simple, YES.

There are many scams and good opportunities out there and you just need to do your own due diligence to make the separation easy for you very quickly.

The criteria I find useful and one that I now use religiously to sift through the scams from the good opportunities is set out below for you.

All you have to do is ask a series of questions and depending on the answers you can then determine whether to proceed with the homebased opportunity or not.

1. Who is behind the business? It is important to check out the people behind the business. If you don’t do so, you may well be acting irresponsibly at best or at worst dishonestly. Get a telephone number from their site and definitely call them and ask questions. If there is no contact number, then I am extremely uncomfortable to deal with the business.

2. What is in the public domain about the opportunity? Google is a very great resource to use for this. I very often check the name of the opportunity in Google and find out what people have said about it as well as make my judgement based on the balance of probability or my intuition. If the positive outweighs the negative, then I am content. People are more predisposed to moan about things that are not pleasant and it is common practice to post their experience on the net.

3. What is the business selling? It is important the business is legit and that it is selling a product of value. The last thing you want to be involved in is pyramid selling. For that reason, I will very often buy the products myself and test it before I promote it to others.

4. What is their credential for paying affiliate? Do they have reliable systems in place? This is extremely critical. I will test this by buying a product from my affiliate site and check if I am paid for the product sold in commission I will immediately recognise the business as having a reliable system in place. There is nothing worst than promoting other peoples products and services in the expectation of commission payment only to fine you get no commission for your work. So it is up to you to check the logistic and reliability of the commission payment platform used by the business.

5. Are the products or services being sold congruent with your values? I can’t profess to being indifferent in this area. There are somethings in life that I will never sell no matter the price tag or commission paid out. You must ensure you choose a programme that you are comfortable with. Its pointless making lots of money but being worried and not at peace with self after acquiring the money.

Finally, taking all this together, you can see why I choose to be affiliated with some my home-based opportunity such as:

1. Success University – http://www.bss.successuniversity.com

Almost everyone in the programme is publicly known and their products on personal development are highly esteemed. Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Denis Waitley and more

2. Freebies Force-http://www.spmelliott.makemoneywithfreebies.com/

Again, all the products that are being promoted are well known. Companies such as Wendys, Proter and Gamble and more

So now you know it. There are great opportunities out there but you need to sift through to find them and always uphold a value of integrity in your dealings with opportunities.

Author:

Sheila Elliott FCCA, MBA

Founder of BSS Management Consultancy

http://www.businessservicessupport.com

http://www.sheilaelliott.com

http://www.mybusinessismybusiness.com

http://www.spmelliott.makemoneywithfreebies.com

http://www.bss.successuniversity.com

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