What a bunch of crap. The only people making money are the ones who FIRST make the website and start selling it to all those poor suckers who want to quit their dead-end job and work from home to be with their family.

Work an hour a day and make a fortune. BULL!!!

ONLY $1.00? ….Give me a break. If you go to their TERMS you’ll find out that after you pay the $1.00 it’s $29.95 or $39.95 or some ridiculous amount of money a month. AND they print it in such small writing you can’t even read it. And too many people get screwed this way because they believe the bullshit instead of reading the Terms and Conditions. If it’s cheap then read the fine print.

And they all say the same things about how much they respect your privacy and will never sell your email address or any of your info to anyone. LIARS!!!
Have you ever noticed that every time, after you’ve signed up for info on a site, the next day you have twice as much junk mail than you did before? I used to get 20 or 30 pieces of junk mail a day and now I get at least 200…And it’s all junk. So, don’t tell me they don’t sell your info.
I do open some of it but I never, ever open anything that’s from a DO NOT REPLY addy or any kind of AUTO SEND. If you can’t send me mail from your own email addy then I’m not interested in anything you have.

Also, you used to be able to get info from work at home websites by just giving them your name and email addy. Now, they want your phone number or you can’t get by the first page.
I DON’T WANT A DOZEN WEBSITES CALLING ME EVERYDAY. They should all have a button to click on IF you want you want them to call with more info.
Sure, I’d like to work from home, like a lot of people, BUT if I look at something and I KNOW I wouldn’t be interested in that why shouldn’t I have the prerogative of saying that and not have someone call me to try to sell it to me anyway. Fortunately for me, I have a landline and hate my cell so that’s the number I give them. My cell stays in my purse, downstairs, so it can ring all it wants.

And how about the ones that look like something worth trying, and it’s not tooo expensive so you buy it, only to find out that you need to go to godaddy.com and buy a name. Oh, and go to google.com and buy whatever adsense is.
Or you buy it and it’s one hundred, or more, pages of an ebook that ends up telling you absolutely nothing, it’s all double talk.

Oh, and I love the sites that tell you to BEWARE. That HERE’S THE BEST SITES to make money. They list any where from 3 to 10 places, give a link to it and if you go and buy any of them that person makes money because he’s owns them. What a crock of sh@t.

And what about the sites they say for “this much money” you can send out millions of emails to “opt in” customers. Well, if you do that where do you go to see what the add looks like? How do you see what you’ve paid for? Does this site have a personal mailing list of millions of people? Where does my listing go? HMMMM.

I’m sure a lot of you can add to this list of bull …so feel free.

If you have any advice for anyone, give it. BUT don’t come on this page and try to sell another worthless website so YOU can make a few bucks.

Thanks for reading my rant.

Trish

Speaking of broke, I was wondering if anyone out there has any suggestions for courses or books that offer step-by-step advice on the business side of freelancing. Some help with organizing, advertising, rates, taxes, etc.

Cheers,

Adrie

Failing that, I guess I’m just tossed out as another disposable person.

I already work 10 hours a day at my office job and it really sucks, which is why I’m doing whatever it takes to get my rep. up and work freelance or for myself full time. Don’t know when the transition will happen, but it will eventually.

However, my kids are teens and basically do their own thing. One will be in college in the fall, other would prefer I pay bills and stay away (I was probably like that, too, at the same age)

Other than that, I can’t think of anything worth leaving writing at home — even if money is tight!