Home Business - Do not get one of the 3 Stooges, Part 3 keys in a Computer Business

Make some extra money by working from home sounds great, is not it? Choose your own hours, work as much or as little as you want, to fit it all around your other commitments - looks wonderful! It may be, if you consider very carefully to what I call "The 3 Stooges of Home Business". This article is the third in a series of three articles.

Please be aware that these products only offer my personal experiences and opinions. This particular article focuses on the concept of buying a "turn-key computer business."

If you are considering starting a business, home computers for a long time, you've probably seen several websites promoting "business in a box", "automatic profit system", "turn-key business", "plug-in System, "" free website ", etc.

Basically, they are all offering some variation of a "system" that is all ready, ready to go, and just "turn on" and start watching money fly into your bank account.

How I wish that were true! I actually bought three of these "systems of immediate gain." And I'm writing this to tell you - I was extremely disappointed in them all. I actually felt ripped off deliberately by one of them. No, I'm not going to name names - I think it's pretty disrespectful. Also, what felt like a rip-off to me, might work great for someone else.

But here is what I found.

One of the sites "free" was to use me as a model in which I was able to review the products home business, and make recommendations to readers about what I thought were the top three products.

It sounded great. I should not have to learn any technology web design - I could just "fill in the blanks" with what I believed to be major household products business. Then all you would have to do (which really is a huge task) was to get people to look at my web site (called "traffic" on the internet).

I would like to make money when people follow my advice and purchased a product that I had chosen.

Guess what? The site has been designed so that the # 1 recommendation was that the product itself. So, let's say I bought Joe Free Website. When I went to "fill in the blanks" with what I thought were great products that I found, free site of Joe was forced to always be my recommendation "top". Everything is designed so that I could not change things.

So, what I did was spending my time and money to send people to a site that I highly recommend the product that I just bought! Guess who was going to do a lot of money from that devious plan. Not me!

Here is another. I also bought a web site "turnkey", I had to just "plug in" and it started churning out a lot of money for me. Once again, my "job" was to get a lot of people to visit my site and buy one just like it.

The next thing that happened was that I started receiving e-mail almost every day telling me that to truly "max out" the effectiveness of my site, should I buy various upgrades for it (which, among other , re-charged my credit card each month for a total of over $ 100 per month). Yes, I did that too. When I finally realized that none of this was working for me, it took more than a year to get all those automatic monthly re-bills canceled.

This particular product has sold literally thousands of these sites are, of course, all identical. My website "new" was no different from the thousands of other Web sites that other people have purchased. One of the "Recommended Updates" was to change the color scheme on pre-made website to make it "stand out from everyone else." You guessed it! Would change the color for me - and it cost me only 75 €!

It was then that I started to wise up. Should I be embarrassed to tell all the promises that I fell in love? Probably. But I was really desperate.

So - this means that the "turnkey", "profit machines" products are all rip-off, and you should avoid like the plague all?

Probably not. I think that means that you should study very carefully so that any product you are considering buying. Here are some things I would do, given the benefits of 20/20 hindsight.

There is a phrase that is widely used in the Internet business world, which is that you must do your "due diligence". This basically means: Do your homework.

Read the site of sale carefully. Be sure you understand what I will be buying. Look for a link that allows you to delete your account later if you choose. Seeking information "contact us". If you must search the entire website, and finally find it in small print in an unlikely location, one might ask about this. Look for a link to "help". Actually writing the help desk, and do you have any specific questions about the product and exactly how it works. If you get no response, an automatic response, or an evasive answer, consider that to be valuable information for you. Carefully read the warranty information and redemption.

Every time you buy a product information on the internet, be sure to save your receipt and keep track of it. It will almost certainly need information on your receipt if you decide to request a refund for the product. Also, be sure to keep track of time. Once the fixed repayment period has expired, any company can very reasonably refuse to return the money.

In summary, I believe that there are "foolproof" systems out there. Remember what your mother said: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!" ......