Work at Home Angel

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Dungeons & Treasures - Get Paid to Play a Game

Dungeons & Treasures and is an online D&D game that pays you to play their game. Basically you explorer Dungeons, fight monsters and collect gold. At the end of the month your gold is converted into cash. There is a $10 minimum payout.

I have been playing at Dungeons & Treasures for about two weeks now. Each night before I go to bed, I explorer my 1 Dungeon of the day and collect gold. There is also a Treasure Hunt Bonus that is available to me every day. I think my favorite is the Chest Room which you get to play by collecting keys in the dungeon or finding a key during the treasure hunt. They also have monthly contest which can help you truly rack in the gold. I actually find the game to be a lot of fun and I am earning money too. What could be better.

I will find out what the conversion rate for August is some time next week and I will post more information about the program at the time.

If you are interested in earning money playing games I would recommend this site. To learn more or to join click here.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Earn Money with Twitter - Its Free

You can earn money with twitter by using a web site called Magpie. Basically you signed up for Twitter. Then you go to be-a-magpie.com and open an account don't worry it is free. Make sure you give them a valid e-mail address and home or business address. Then set how often you would like Magpie to use your Twitter account.

Basically it is like AdSense for your Twitter account. Advertisers will pay you to allow them to display messages on your Twitter account. I have mine setup so every 4th post, an advertise will post a message on my Twitter account. Payment is determined by how many followers you have and how often you post.

So I guess my post earlier this month about whether you can make money with Twitter has been answered.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

At-Home Telephone Data Collectors - Free Work at Home

I was helping my step-mother look for a more stable position and I came across Westat Home. It sounds like the perfect opportunity to work at home.

Westat home-based professionals not only save time and money on commuting, but they also have the opportunity to work in a comfortable setting while earning money and professional skills.

Who is Westat:

WESTAT, headquartered in Rockville, MD, near Washington, DC, is an employee-owned social science survey research corporation. We conduct nationwide surveys on subjects that include education, health, transportation and environmental issues. Since 1961,we have provided research and related services to agencies of the U.S. Government and to a broad range of institutional and business clients.

They offer the following benefits:

Flexible work schedules
Choose from a selection of days and times
Great work environment (your own home!)
Paid training
Bonus programs
Absolutely no sales or setting appointments for sales calls (no telemarketing)
No commute
No expensive work wardrobe
No traffic jams

Requirements:
Ability to establish rapport, follow a script as a conversation, and complete survey with caller.
Quiet home work environment during scheduled work and training hours.
A reliable personal computer
A subscription to a dependable, high speed Internet Service Provider
Ability to be on the Internet (Cable or DSL) and on a landline telephone at the same time.
A corded telephone with a hands-free, corded headset (no cordless phones or cell phones).
Strong interpersonal skills
A professional and articulate phone voice
Moderate computer skills
Required to pass a federally mandated personal background check
Ability to work a minimum of 16 hours of work a week - preferably evening and/or weekend hours.

For further information and to apply go to:
http://www.westat.com/athome

Monday, August 24, 2009

Copy N Profit Helping People Earn Money on the Internet

So I am on day 6 of my experiment with Copy N Profit. I have to tell you, I was starting to wonder about the validity of the program.

Starting on Friday Google just stopped displaying my ads. If your ads are not displayed you don't make money. Google kept on telling me that my ads were a 1/10 and not relevant to the page content. This was very confusing to me since I copied the ads directly from the Copy N Profit program and they are suppose to work wonders. Saturday was the same thing. When I contact technical support this is what I was told:


"Hello Adele,

If you are not getting any impressions, please be patient, you are in line with other advertisers and you have to wait your turn. If you want, you can do a landing page and then you won’t have to wait. Also, make sure you have funded your google account and that all of your campaigns are active!"

So I went in and checked to make sure that I had set everything up correctly. To my surprise I had not. I made the changes and then on Sunday, the click started to come through again. I actually maxed out my $5.00 a day limit and made another sale. We will see how today goes.

Again my testing is not over, but if something like this happens to you using the program, I wanted to say don't get discouraged it is apparently normal. Hopefully, I will make more sales today. I will keep everyone informed of my progress.



If you are interested in trying the program yourself click here.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Copy N Profit - Initial Review

As many of you know I hate affiliate marketing programs. As a general rule you pay anywhere from $29.99 to $129.00 to gain access to the site that tells you to first go to clickbank and open an account, now go to Google or Yahoo and open an account, now pick a product and start advertising. This does not work for the average person. What product do you pick, what are the keywords, what do all those numbers mean. So when I received an email the other day asking me to research and investigate Copy N Profit I had the dreaded feeling again.

So I took my usual steps, first lets Google Copy N Profit and see what everyone else has to say about. To my surprise and amazement there was nothing bad about Copy N Profit. I am sure if you search long enough you will be able to find something bad about them, but I am pretty good at these searches and there was nothing! OK I am surprised.

Step two, I e-mailed their customer service department and asked a question. I have to tell you the truth, I rarely get a response when I do this. I was surprised again. Within an hour of e-mail their customer service department I had a response. Now my curiosity has been peeked, I purchased the program.

I have been working with the program for two days. I can not tell you whether it works because two days is not long enough to be able to make that judgment.

Have I made a sale, I guess that is the important question and the answer is yes, 1 for $26 which required that I spend $1.72 on PPC (Pay Per Click). You will not able to just copy and paste and walk away. There is tweaking involved but the videos explain what to look for and how to adjust.

As I said earlier, most programs give you no training or instructions. I was pleasantly surprised by Copy N Profit, they have a huge instructional video library that can explains affiliate marketing in a way that anyone can understand the concept and process.

To test this I played the first video for my 5 year old daughter. Then afterwards I asked her “what is mommy trying to do?” She got a serious look on her face and said “You are selling something that someone made and then they give you money”. In a nutshell yes that is a true statement.

I have also contact their customer support team twice since purchasing the program, not trying to be a pain, but I had questions and felt that I was doing something wrong. Each time they got back to me within 30 minutes (please note this was during the day, I am pretty sure you will not get that type of response at night). Very impressive.

One of the best things about the program is that it doesn’t just offer you PPC as an option of marketing the product that you choose. They also cover classified posting and article marketing which are both free ways of getting your link out there. So you don’t have to spend more money, although these methods take longer which is why I choose to do the PPC so I could report back to my readers quicker.

My testing is not over, I will continue using the program for the next two weeks (probably longer since it is working) and report back my findings. I actually called my husband last night and told him I think I finally found a real program that will allow me to earn money from the internet.

If you are interested in trying the program yourself click here.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Easy Home Businesses You Can Start

When thinking about working at home or starting a home business the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is working on the Internet. I would like to talk today about other options.

Working at home offline.

There are many options and the jobs still give you the flexibility of being your own boss and earning an income. These are the ideas that I have found to work at home.

Tutor/Private Instructor

Do you play a musical instrument? Are you expert at math, English, a foreign language, writing, accounting, yoga, meditation? Any area of expertise that you possess can be shared with others for a fee, and usually a half hour session is sufficient. Would you rather teach four or five half hour sessions at $25 each (that's two and a half hours of work) or spend fourteen hours taking phone center calls in your home? If you are good at it, you love it. Turn that love into profit.

Professional Organizer

Organization skills are a talent that a lot of people are lacking. You can make very good money by taking a look at messy closets or kitchens of people and redoing them so they look nice and are easy to maintain. If have an OCD kind of personality and if you thrives on making order out of chaos, this could be your thing. To get started I would go to a site like Vista Print where you can get 250 free business cards and start posting them at the grocery store or other common areas and see if you get interest, you would be amazed by what people will pay for.

Local Travel Guide

Do you live in a tourist city? Do you enjoy hunting, fishing or hiking? If so, you have a special skills and you can rent yourself out as a guide and do what you love at the same time. Walking tours are popular in historic areas, and you don't need anything but initiative to get started hosting them.


Pet Sitting/Dog Walker

If you love animals, this job can be a lot of fun for you. Post an ad in the paper and see what kind of interest you get. As a pet lover and someone that works long hours, I am very grateful to anyone that can help keep my best friends fed, walked and happy.

Personal Chef

If you love to cook, you might well have a future as a personal chef. Because a personal chef generally cooks in the client's kitchen, you don't have to worry about whether your own kitchen meets local standards for hygiene and safety. Many personal chefs spend an afternoon cooking for the entire week, then freeze and label the meals, that way you don't have to work at one client site for an entire week.


Tech Writer

Lots of technical writing is outsourced. If you are the sort of person who can describe in plain English how to do things or assemble things or understand and use software, you can pick up technical writing work at www.elance.com or www.guru.com.


Event Planner

Planning weddings, graduations, anniversaries, corporate celebrations, and community events requires an aptitude for organization, detail, and thinking on your feet. If you have these skills consider an event planner business. Once you are able to successfully plan a few major events, word or mouth will get you a steady stream of clients.

Concierge/Personal

There is not enough time in the day. Ask anyone they will agree. Why not rent yourself out to take care of those tasks that professionals, couples and families don't have the time for. Typical you will be asked to make travel arrangements, party arrangements, picking up laundry, go shopping or even just run to the post office. Finding a few really good clients can keep you in work indefinitely.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Just Starting Out with Work at Home

The Most Popular Home Jobs are:

1. Running a home-based business (these would be programs that you have to purchase)
2. Computer work
3. Data entry
4. Word processing
5. Telephone research/sales
6. Customer services
7. Proof reader
8. Market research

If you are going to work from home you need good a reliable mobile, land line, fax, email and instant messaging program. That way if any one of these services fail you can still communicate. Technology has made working from home a much more realistic option for many people. If you’re self-employed or starting your own business, working from home is also a good way of reducing your overheads.

It becomes more difficult if you are trying to break into the work from home job market as people tend to guard their positions fiercely once they have them. There are always plenty of advertisements, both on and off the Internet, for people to work from home but the majority of these are scams.

Generally, if the company you are applying to requests money (and you are applying as a employee and not business owner) beware!

Here are the Top Three Homeworking Scams to Avoid

1. You send off your registration fee to receive details about earning a good income from homeworking. In return you receive a letter instructing you to put an advert in your local shop or paper, asking people to send you a registration fee!

A similar online version of this are e-books which promise to reveal the secret of 'how to get rich quick' - the 'secret' then turns out to be instructions on how to resell copies of the e-book you've purchased!

2. You answer an advertisement for a position, such as a freelance proofreader. With the application is a piece of text for you to correct any mistakes. On submitting you will be then be sent an Information Pack, which you are charged for and then you find out the information is ready available on the Internet for free.

3. You apply for a position doing simple assembly work at home, such as: greeting cards, toys or crafts, and are asked to pay up-front for materials. The materials will be worth much less than you've paid,and often the assembly work you complete will be rejected and returned to you as 'sub-standard' and of course you will receive no payments.

There are, plenty of valid jobs you can do from home, you just need to be careful when first starting out. Working from home can bring huge benefits, allowing you to balance your family and work time, work more productively and reduce day to day stresses.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Internet Marketing Conference from Stores Online.com

So I receive 2 free tickets in the mail last month for a Conference on Internet Marketing. Since I have been running this blog for 3 years now, I thought this would be a great opportunity for me see if I am doing something wrong, so I called and registered.

The package that I received said the conference would cover Internet Marketing and getting top ranks on Google, Yahoo and Bing. OK I am interested, plus I get a free lunch and an MP3 Player, I am in, lets do it!

The conference was last Wednesday. I showed up about 30 minutes early as they requested. I was personally greeted by someone that I would consider having an overbearing personality. Then I went in and had a seat.

After the room was full, the same man stepped up to the front of the stage and said "If the only reason you are here is for the free MP3 Player go to the back of the room and get it and leave, I don't want you here wasting my time". I have to tell you the truth I was half tempted to stand up and leave, I was not getting the warm and fuzzy from this person.

Of course nobody budged. Then he held up a $10 bill and said "Who wants this $10's" everyone just sat around staring at each other but again nobody moved. Then he went off about how you should always take any opportunity that you have to make money even if it is taking money from a stranger.

He then explained what Stores Online does and how there was 3 day Internet Marketing Seminar that would begin this weekend and if I registered and paid for it today, it would only cost $59 instead of the $200 he would normally charge. This continued for about 2 hours. Just things that I would consider to be stupid antics to get peoples attention.

So now I have been sitting there for 2 hours, I am starving because we were suppose to be feed lunch and had not yet and he handed out a survey form and read each line and explained to me what to write "Where is says name, write you name now!", "Where it says email address, write your e-mail address now!" and on and on.

The entire conference was a sales pitch, they did not give any useful information, they didn't even explain what Internet marketing is. The entire thing was a waste of my time and I never got lunch or the MP3 player because I ended up just leaving after the "Where it says ...., Write....". It put me over the top, I couldn't stay any longer.

So if you have received an invitation to the free conference from Stores Online, just be aware of what you are walking into before you get there.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

5 Ways to Advertise My Website For Free Using the Internet

5 Ways to Advertise My Website For Free Using the Internet By Mike Booker


Seriously, you have a website that you just created and now you need traffic. There are many ways to get people coming to your site for free. Here are a few of my favorite methods.

Write Articles

I personally think that this is a very slow way to generate traffic upfront, but in the long run it becomes very valuable. As time goes by, search engines rank your articles higher and higher and this is why you see people coming later in time. Writing articles is perhaps the easiest way to advertise your site. Just commit yourself to writing one article every day.

Create Videos

Video is something that can bring those lazy people to your site. These people are usually too lazy to read something and rather watch it. All you need to do is make a video explaining what your site is all about. Just don't forget to provide them with a link. Try sites like Youtube, Daily Motion, Metacafe, and Veoh.

Join communities

Communities allow you to build a relationship with people. Once you have a relationship established people will trust your website and become loyal followers. All you have to do is interact with people who are interested in your site's subject and then recommend them to it. Some online communities include Digg, Yahoo Answers, and specific forums.

Repeating Traffic - Emails

All these other methods have something that only email can provide, and that is getting the same people to visit your website. When you promote with articles, the person will probably only see your site once, that's it. With emails you can have people returning every single time. All you have to do is send emails once in a while reminding people that your website still exists. You could send an email out every time you update your content, have a special promotion, etc. You will be surprised how many people respond.

Viral eBooks

This is a very unique method. All you have to do is write a short report or book that provides people with valuable information. Then include links back to your website in the eBook. I recommend writing at least 10 pages. The twist to this is to allow others to hand out your eBook to their friends and customers. Many people will take you up on the offer and your eBook will spread like a virus. This is why the term viral is used. You can even submit your book to eBook directories. Use these methods right now...

On average, people are making $50,000 a year. That is nothing compared to what you could be making if you just follow me.

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