Here's how to rate online business opportunities
and business
opportunities advertised online
It’s interesting that if you use the title of this article
in any search bar you get listings of online opportunities but not anything
about how to “rate” such animals. Well, I’m here to give my thoughts on this as
I am involved in several that I’ve chosen over time because they are “legit”
and are products and/or services which are a real value to my Life and Legacy
clients; both individuals and business owners, and also to my marketing clients
which of course are business owners who market both off and online.
I probably should have presented this article as having to
do with one or the other but because online business opportunities and business
opportunities advertised online are related via the “online” presence, I will
tackle both. But it’s important at the outset to distinguish the two. There are
certainly “online business opportunities” which are pretty much conducted
purely online using your smartphone or laptop (who uses a desktop anymore
except yours truly) for all of the business activities. There are still plenty
of “brick and mortar” type businesses which advertise online but have a
combination of online and offline duties in conducting the business.
Examples of an online business would be blogging and selling
online information and that sort of thing and an example of a business which is
both offline and online would be LegalShield, a business which I share with my clients, usually
one on one with the membership registration and actual “paperwork” being done
completely online. The promotion and recruiting that I do to get my clients all
over the USA is done online via Craigslist and other sites. LegalShield is an
online membership service where you have access to a team of attorneys in your
state for a fraction of what it would normally cost. This allows the “average”
person to use legal services for things they would normally not because they
now have it readily available. Has a business owner messed something up for you
like broke a piece of your jewelry, has someone “dinged” your car, does someone
owe you some money? Did you get a traffic ticket? The list goes on and on. I
like the membership because it doesn’t conflict with any other network
marketing or online business opportunity. Get info here.
So whether you are looking for, found or have been invited to
consider an “online” opportunity or any opportunity (which is promoted via
online) how do you know if one, it’s “legit” and two, whether or not it’s “for
you”?
There are many things one can do and I hope readers will
share their thoughts in the comments below, but here are a few of my thoughts.
Does a friend refer you and recommend it? In this case I
would suggest that you not to ask “stupid”
questions of your friend like “How much money you makin’?” Your friend is the “conduit”
to your finding out about this; his or her success at this time and at any time
now or in the future has exactly “zero” to do with you and how you’ll do with
this or any other business. But if a friend presents a business to you, do
yourself the favor and look at it. You’ll be able to ask your friend for honest
answers and lead you to someone who knows more.
You can check the “online” version of the BBB. Don’t simply Google
the company or business name because you’ll find all the naysayers, those who
have nothing better to do than to criticize someone, some company or business.
They may have spent $35 to “get into something” and didn’t have money fall on
them from the sky, found out they actually had to put some effort into
something, so “it didn’t work” so they’ve written bad things about it. Or the company
has had someone sue them or several people sue them. So what? Think of any
large company right now, Walmart; Coke a Cola, GM, etc. etc. These companies are
in the news DAILY because they have some lawsuit against them. Look beyond the
lawsuits; look at the company and why they are being sued. If it’s for things
that they had no real control over and they were not negligent, they are still
a good company to be associated with.
If you can start “small” without much “risk”, get and try
samples, learn as you earn, have support, be in “front of the wave” a new
product, service or idea that is just catching on like when Yahoo, Google or
smartphones were starting. If you “got in” before they caught on you’d be
living in Hawaii and traveling around the world once a month (if you like that
sort of thing). You would certainly never have to worry about paychecks and
bills ever again; and neither would your grandkid’s grandkids! The company Lyoness is one such company that is “in front” of the wave and meets all the criteria I
like in a business. Lyoness offers a free loyalty card which pays the
cardholder cash back and bonus points at over 3,000 stores nationwide; both
locally and online (and in 47 countries). Request a free digital CASHBACK card here.
So if a friend asks you to look at something, if the BBB says that the company is credible (years in business isn’t necessarily any
gauge anymore) and if you can start small and get in front of the “wave” before
the product/service/idea becomes a household name, you probably have a good
opportunity. As long as you are coach-able and have the desire to move forward
in life, you should move forward with the opportunity.
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