Don’t worry, I’m not here to pitch you on my business opportunity. The cause to why I’ve opened with such a firm headline is because I have priceless experience to share with you. I’ve invested thousands and thousands of dollars and years looking for legitimate work at home programs, and have faced problem after problem after problem… But I never gave up, which is why I succeed.

I would hate for you to go through the same debt, pain and frustration that I’ve gone through…  So I wrote this article to give you a “heads up” about the most popular troubles and frustrations, which not only I’ve experienced, but some thousands of others have as well when looking for legitimate work at home programs.

So listen up, because I’m going to reveal the 3 little-known things that you must AVOID when choosing any type of legitimate work at home programs…

Number one:
To make money from any type of business, you must make sales. To do this, many businesses want you to construct a list of your friends and family… and then pitch your product or opportunity to them! Personally, I HATED selling to my friends and family, and because of my constant “pitches” some of them even stopped talking to me!

So if a business asks you to produce a list of your friends and family, then that’s a great sign that their marketing system is awful (or non-existent) and they should be avoided like the plague! A superb marketing system is absolutely CRUCIAL to succeeding in ANY legitimate work at home programs!

Number two:
When your list of friends and family run dry, or if your success is poor, I oftentimes see businesses instructing you to purchase leads and then cold call them. I’ve been there, I’ve done that, and in my experience, it does NOT work!

Why? Well, there are actually many reasons. First of all, you have to actually pay for these leads before you can even call them. And when you purchase these so called “leads” from a lead broker, there’s no way to truly tell how these lead brokers actually got the information!

Basically, the fact that you’re contacting people who have not shown ANY interest in you or your business is a highly inefficient use of time. Or in other words… not worth it!

Sure, these methods work for some. And it is feasible to make sales with these methods… But personally, if I can establish a business in a more streamlined way… with LESS time, and make MORE money, then I would much rather do that. So it’s a great thing that we have the internet to make things a lot easier!

Anyway, here’s the third thing you should watch out for…

When looking for legitimate work at home programs and you start hearing things like “the greatest compensation plan in the industry” or if they describe their compensation plan with words like “binary, unilevel or matrix” or they say that it’s a “ground floor opportunity” or some other hype or fluff, then, in my (and experience), these companies are just like every other business out there.

So the take-home for today is that it’s crucial to find an opportunity with an established marketing system, that doesn’t use hype or fluff to get people into their business.

There you go! Now you know a few of the most important things you should avoid when choosing legitimate work at home programs! I hope this brings you a step closer to creating the dream life you deserve!

Dedicated to your success,
Trinity de la Cruz =]

Resources:
Check out my Wordpress blog post about legitimate work at home programs here.
My Propeller post about legitimate work at home programs can also be found here.