Wahm.com is known in the work from home world and community as one of the best if not the only legitimate work at home resource on the web. It’s been around for nearly 8 years which is huge for any website. But is Wahm.com really all that? Well it depends on your point of view. Wahm.com is probably the best in terms of it’s community which is focused within their work at home forums.
Hands down wahm.com has the best forum for all matters related to working at home or legitimate home based businesses. You can post a comment
or topic and you’ll have tons of people chiming in with opinions about a given opportunity good or bad. But the comments aren’t hateful or malicious for the most part. They tend to be people’s real life experiences on a given company.
That’s one thing I really do love about the Wahm.com forums. You’ll usually get a full picture of a given opportunity. This way you the work at home seeker can make an informed decision about whether a work at home job is a scam or not. It’s not just the two cents of a hateful blogger or website owner. So in terms of community, Wahm.com was about community way before this whole web 2.0 stuff. So they were way ahead of their time in that respect.
Now what about jobs?
Because they have a great community, everyone chips in information about job leads, home based businesses, affiliate programs, etc. They’ll post in the forums job leads they have found or companies they’re working for that are currently hiring.
So you can get a lot great job leads here. Best of all they are free! Aside from the user provided jobs, the owner of wahm.com also provides her own jobs leads. So you’ll always have fresh leads there.
Are there any negatives about wahm.com?
Not really. Their moderation of the forums can be annoying sometimes. There are other work at home website owners that attempt to post leads that are listed
on their website in the forums and they will be removed because they want the information to be reprinted on the actual forum post. I feel this is totally unfair. If another website has the lead on their website and it’s going to help people then it only seems fair to allow a link back to the original resource. After all they’ve done the work in finding the lead so they should get the fruits of the possible traffic and income this may bring for them. Wahm seems a bit monoloptisic in this way.
Another minor issue is their advertising policy which seems to be very fluid depending on the whim of the owner. One website which basically has the same type of set up as another website may not be allowed to advertise on wahm.com solely on the discretion of the owner who fails to provide any real reason for the discrepancy.
Now does this affect you the work at home seeker? Not necessarily. But if you’re a work at home seeker that wants to advertise an affiliate or home based business program your part of you may find the previously mentioned annoying. Considering that wahm.com is known for being such a community based website, that doesn’t necessarily seem to come across in their advertising and forum moderation policies.
But that being said, I would still recommend Wahm.com for most work at home seekers. Although recently Wahm.com was sold to a major real estate corporation so that whole community atmosphere may disappear in the next year or so. Only time will tell. But even if wahm.com fades away now there are many other options that work at home seekers can turn to for job leads. But they may be an empty place in terms of the community atmosphere though. =(
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Is Tjobs.com a scam?
The warning about Tjobs.com is that it’s actually a legitimate work at home resource! Isn’t that a surprise? Tjobs.com has been providing legitimate work from home jobs for over 11 years. That’s an eternity online people! They’re one of the leading resources for telecommuting jobs on the web. As a result, they are a very established company with little complaints or claims of being a scam or ripoff.
Their website design is antiquated but it’s very simple and easy to get around. Unlike many other work at home resources you won’t find a lot of google ads or other website advertisements to clutter the job finding process.
But because this website isn’t supported by ads you the job seeker is expected to cough up $15 per year to gain full access to the job descriptions and how to apply. So I think for many job seekers this may be a turn off. The other problem is that you can’t do a search for jobs by keywords like you would expect in traditional job websites. But they do organize the jobs in some nice and easy categories as listed below:
Artists, Desktop Publishers
& Photographers
Data Entry, Transcription
Engineers
Programmers, IT
Sales
Web Designers
Writers
Other Skills
Freelance Projects
My final minor gripe about Tjobs.com is like Wahm.com they have fluid rules when it comes to which advertisers are accepted on their website. But that’s their right as the owner. So I can’t really knock them for that.
All and all I think Tjobs.com is a great work from home website. I loved it more when it was free back in the days. But if you’re one of those people that hate the ads on the other free work at home resources then Tjobs.com may be for you.
But for most there are free alternatives such as:
www.WorkAtHomeCareers.com
www.MoneyMakingMommy.com
www.RatraceRebellion.com
All the sites above are updated daily and best of all they’re free! Granted you’ll have to deal with a lot of ads but the ads aren’t intrusive like pop ups or pop unders. At the end of the day I would argue that most would think that dealing with a website with ads is better than paying money to find a job. I know how that rubs work at home seekers the wrong way!
But despite the minor fee, I would highly recommend Tjobs.com for your work at home search process.
Their website design is antiquated but it’s very simple and easy to get around. Unlike many other work at home resources you won’t find a lot of google ads or other website advertisements to clutter the job finding process.
But because this website isn’t supported by ads you the job seeker is expected to cough up $15 per year to gain full access to the job descriptions and how to apply. So I think for many job seekers this may be a turn off. The other problem is that you can’t do a search for jobs by keywords like you would expect in traditional job websites. But they do organize the jobs in some nice and easy categories as listed below:
Artists, Desktop Publishers
& Photographers
Data Entry, Transcription
Engineers
Programmers, IT
Sales
Web Designers
Writers
Other Skills
Freelance Projects
My final minor gripe about Tjobs.com is like Wahm.com they have fluid rules when it comes to which advertisers are accepted on their website. But that’s their right as the owner. So I can’t really knock them for that.
All and all I think Tjobs.com is a great work from home website. I loved it more when it was free back in the days. But if you’re one of those people that hate the ads on the other free work at home resources then Tjobs.com may be for you.
But for most there are free alternatives such as:
www.WorkAtHomeCareers.com
www.MoneyMakingMommy.com
www.RatraceRebellion.com
All the sites above are updated daily and best of all they’re free! Granted you’ll have to deal with a lot of ads but the ads aren’t intrusive like pop ups or pop unders. At the end of the day I would argue that most would think that dealing with a website with ads is better than paying money to find a job. I know how that rubs work at home seekers the wrong way!
But despite the minor fee, I would highly recommend Tjobs.com for your work at home search process.
Is Opinion Outpost (OpinionOutPost.com) Another Paid Survey Scam?
Like MySurvey.com OpinionOutpost.com is not a scam! Yes I know it's hard to believe, but the fact of the matter is there are legitimate work at home survey companies despite what you may have been led to believe because of all those clickbank ebooks. Recently paid surveys are getting a bad name because there are so many clickbank merchants who compile a list of real survey companies that pay work at home seekers but they make you pay for this list. But it's totally unnecessary as sites like this provide you a complete list of these companies for free.
Now that this out of the way, let's discuss Opinion Outpost. When you first visit the website you may be a little turned off by the whole western motif. I know I was but I didn't want that to affect my judgment so I joined anyway. To my surprise OpinionOutpost.com is very similar to MySurvey.com in terms of the set up and how they reward their users.
Users are paid by points. But don't let this dissuade you or jump to any conclusions. The points are equal to real hard cash. 10 points is equal to $1. But you're probably wondering how many points are usually awarded for doing a survey. In my experience the surveys I've received range from 20-50 points. I know it's not a lot but OpinionPost.com makes up for this by providing you with a lot more surveys then most companies out there. I get a survey almost every 2-4 days which adds up fast by the end of the month. By the way when there is a new survey to take they will email you so you don't have to worry about missing out on some possible money.
The other great thing about OpinionOutpost.com is that the surveys tend to be quick which I love since I try to do surveys from multiple survey companies to increase my total income as a survey taker. (You should too.)
Cashing out your points is painless, you just log into your account, request the money you want based on your point balance and a check is sent within a week or two in my experience. It doesn't get an easier than that people.
So do I recommend OpinonOutpost.com?
I wouldn't really waste my time with this company. Recently there have been too many reports of long pre-qualification surveys where no compensation is being provided. At least with a company like MySurvey.com you're always provided some compensation even if it's a screener question. Unlike many of the folks that have complained, I actually reached out to the company via email to hear their side of the story. My hope was that they would fix the issues reported or at the very least address the concerns. That was several weeks ago and I haven't heard jack from them. So that tells me a lot about a company. That being said, I would skip them based on the fact that you may end up taking a long screener survey that you don't get paid for. I find this unnacceptable when you have other companies that will provide some compensation for this. So why bother with these guys?
Hopefully they'll make some changes in the near future but right now I would keep it moving. Some folks are still making money taking their surveys. But there is a risk that you may take a long as screener survey and not get paid for it. If you're fine with that risk then feel free to proceed. Good luck either way.
Now that this out of the way, let's discuss Opinion Outpost. When you first visit the website you may be a little turned off by the whole western motif. I know I was but I didn't want that to affect my judgment so I joined anyway. To my surprise OpinionOutpost.com is very similar to MySurvey.com in terms of the set up and how they reward their users.
Users are paid by points. But don't let this dissuade you or jump to any conclusions. The points are equal to real hard cash. 10 points is equal to $1. But you're probably wondering how many points are usually awarded for doing a survey. In my experience the surveys I've received range from 20-50 points. I know it's not a lot but OpinionPost.com makes up for this by providing you with a lot more surveys then most companies out there. I get a survey almost every 2-4 days which adds up fast by the end of the month. By the way when there is a new survey to take they will email you so you don't have to worry about missing out on some possible money.
The other great thing about OpinionOutpost.com is that the surveys tend to be quick which I love since I try to do surveys from multiple survey companies to increase my total income as a survey taker. (You should too.)
Cashing out your points is painless, you just log into your account, request the money you want based on your point balance and a check is sent within a week or two in my experience. It doesn't get an easier than that people.
So do I recommend OpinonOutpost.com?
I wouldn't really waste my time with this company. Recently there have been too many reports of long pre-qualification surveys where no compensation is being provided. At least with a company like MySurvey.com you're always provided some compensation even if it's a screener question. Unlike many of the folks that have complained, I actually reached out to the company via email to hear their side of the story. My hope was that they would fix the issues reported or at the very least address the concerns. That was several weeks ago and I haven't heard jack from them. So that tells me a lot about a company. That being said, I would skip them based on the fact that you may end up taking a long screener survey that you don't get paid for. I find this unnacceptable when you have other companies that will provide some compensation for this. So why bother with these guys?
Hopefully they'll make some changes in the near future but right now I would keep it moving. Some folks are still making money taking their surveys. But there is a risk that you may take a long as screener survey and not get paid for it. If you're fine with that risk then feel free to proceed. Good luck either way.
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