I get quite a few emails asking about Mystery shopping. What is a mystery shopper and how much do they generally earn on hourly basis? Mystery Shoppers are researchers who pretend to be customers and investigate companies through using their services. “Mystery shoppers” are typically paid $5 to $100 per project. There are also private clients who hire mystery shoppers to do holiday and birthday shopping. Those service providers are usually called shopping consultants and tend to be paid on hourly basis. There are many legitimate online survey and mystery shopping jobs available online.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CollegeandFamily/Raisekids/P143966.asp
We all dream about owning our businesses and quit that full time job. But just how risky is it? According to the the Center for Women’s Business Research statistics, overall survival rate for startups in four years is 44%, 66% for women owned businesses. Most of the startup failures are caused by lacking of capital, market research, and business planning. Here’s an interesting article,
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Savinganddebt/Managedebt/P143840.asp
Hi there,
I just came upon another interesting article about working from home. “Real Jobs”,
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CollegeandFamily/Raisekids/P142363.asp
When more and more women and men quit their full time jobs to be stay-at-home parents, people started wondering what has caused the priority shift. After all, spending all that tuition and time in school should at least pay off something. There was an interesting article on msn.com a few years ago about the cost of quitting jobs is somewhere between $700,000 and $1 million over the years. People are not only giving up income, but also retirement savings, pension and benefits. However, as more working mothers get fed up by the daily struggles, more of them choose to stay at home. The other factor that also plays an important part is that earning two incomes not necessarily bring more home taking into account of daycare costs. To offset the financial tradeoffs, many stay-at-home moms have become work-from-home moms. However, not all work-at-home ideas and businesses are good ideas. Some of them are get rich schemes. Most of those promise that little skill, effort, or time is required. A lot of them are offered through email spams. So if you’re looking for opportutnies, be aware of those. But there are also, good ways to make supplemental income while stay at home with the little ones. I’ve selected a few articles by various work-from-home writers.
http://www.benefito.com/bene-workathome.php
http://www.benefito.com/bene-freelancewriter.php
http://www.benefito.com/bene-copywriting.php