Does anyone wk from home and earn money??

deecy

It does suit people who live near lots of posters, it's not viable if the travelling to work ratio is bad. It also helps once you know where the posters are in your area, looking them up on a map wastes time but they don't change locations much so once you have inspected once the second time is 10x easier.

Becles is from County Durham, I live in Hertford which is 20 miles north of London, I inspect east, north and central london as well as hertfordshire and some of essex. Because these areas have loads of advertising on main roads such as the north circular, the A10, A12, etc and mainline stations kings cross, paddington, euston i get tons of work - even when I first started about 4 years ago doing only 2 art-time days a week i was earning £300 per month. Ideal for cash flow when you have a new business. People in Birmingham, Manchester, & Liverpool are equally busy.

As i said it does depend on your location - if the work isn't there you won't get it. The mileage is paid at 10p and some parking is paid on a site by site decision and always for mystery shopping. The work is dished out online and uploaded back them to the same way - the invoicing is all done online and is totally interactive so you can add mileage costs, train tickets, extra for your time for each job completed.

Becles - did you try the telephone mystery shopping?

Becles

I might have done!

I applied to one company, but you had to buy your own telephone recording kit, so I didn't bother proceeding with the application.

I then applied to another company ringing places like local government offices, but the pay was very poor compared to other companies I work for, so I didn't bother with that one either.

Could it have been one of those?

The poster work definitely wasn't worth it for me. I got no mileage or parking costs reimbursed, but it was about 2 years ago when I tried it.

emma_b_4

interesting post!!

sorry i dont have anything to add..

Sparkly

abbecer wrote:

Sparkly, I am part of one of those network marketing schemes that you refer to. Probably the very company you are meaning.

Thanks for the feedback. Nice see someone making money from multi-level marketing, but the experience of a few of my friends is that it it cost them a lot, perhaps they were not up to it, or the person who recruited them as a distributor set unrealistic expectations. Perhaps scam was too harsh a word (although I did say at the start of the post that I was over-generalising), however a number of multi-level marketing companies operate questionable business practises, or allow individuals who are marketing for them to do so. Same is true of many franchise operations or sales jobs of course. The main thing with all working from home / working for yourself schemes is to be very careful about parting with any cash up front or investing in the business, and not to be caught up by the hype provided by a company or it's representatives, so do some checking elsewhere to make sure you don't lose your cash.

tawnyowls

You may have used the wrong term, but I agree with you. Selling something through a catalogue such as Betterware is one thing, selling stuff to your friends and trying to recruit them to sell so you get a percentage of their profits is quite another. My OH and I were approached by a friend who was trying to do this (for a large American household supplies company) - we went along to one of their presentations, and they really pushed the whole idea of recruiting your friends, not of selling their (overpriced) products.


BTW, did anyone see that Lynn Faulds Wood/Esther Rantzen programme on BBC 1 last night about precisely this? Main pointer seemed to be ads such as 'make £1000 in your own time', and companies that asked for any money (even a few pounds) upfront.

As a general rule, anything that asks you to make small craft products or stuff/address envelopes is likely to be scam (unless you're doing it for a small company such as the one Cerenia did it for) - most companies big enough to require that will send that work overseas to countries with much cheaper labour.

This link may be useful: http://www.findextrawork.co.uk/

Rachie_B

tawnyowls wrote:

You may have used the wrong term, but I agree with you. Selling something through a catalogue such as Betterware is one thing, selling stuff to your friends and trying to recruit them to sell so you get a percentage of their profits is quite another. My OH and I were approached by a friend who was trying to do this (for a large American household supplies company) - we went along to one of their presentations, and they really pushed the whole idea of recruiting your friends, not of selling their (overpriced) products.


BTW, did anyone see that Lynn Faulds Wood/Esther Rantzen programme on BBC 1 last night about precisely this? Main pointer seemed to be ads such as 'make £1000 in your own time', and companies that asked for any money (even a few pounds) upfront.As a general rule, anything that asks you to make small craft products or stuff/address envelopes is likely to be scam (unless you're doing it for a small company such as the one Cerenia did it for) - most companies big enough to require that will send that work overseas to countries with much cheaper labour.

This link may be useful: http://www.findextrawork.co.uk/

i saw it ,was really good and an eye opener lol

tawnyowls

Rachie_B wrote:

i saw it ,was really good and an eye opener lol

Yep. I find them a bit irritating, especially the doorstepping with the camera bit (what do they expect - the person will say 'You got me - it's a fair cop, guv'??:rolleyes: ), but the actual info was good

Rachie_B

i know pmsl at her down on her hands n knees on the doorstep !

plane_boy2000

CYBERCIDERSAVER wrote:

I think the way avon work it is to make you employee an supervisor rolled into one. you have to pay for the catalogues yourself so you can't order too many or you end up losing money hence why they are always banging on your door to get catalogue back

Also you pay avon for the whole order and then the clients pay YOU. Once again it's your problem if someone doesn't pays not Avon.

But as I said previously for me it's more about traipsing round the dodgy estates (I expect the decent areas are serviced by long serving avon ladies)
collecting vast amounts of money (well ok this is avon, but you have to sell a lot to get a decent profit.

Explains why our local Avon lady was so upset with me - she called around for the book back which had been thrown in the bin - She was quite rude and told me she had to have it back, and in future would I keep the book for her to collect. I politley told her that all junk stuffed un solicited through my door would go in the bin and if she wanted the book back best thing was to not stick it through my letterbox in teh first place!

Turning_into_scrooge

Maybe not your thing but psychic company's use home workers, you don't have to be psychic to do the job either, they also have positions for customer service etc. Maybe worth a go as i do know they pay well.

EDIT you will need a phone line and a computer connected to the net.