Quite a few companies now offer Data Entry programs where you can
supposedly work from home, enter data, and collect checks. Many of
these companies claim you can earn thousands a day by simply doing
nothing more than spend a few minutes typing. So is it true?
I have looked at some of these programs, and they basically work the
following way.
You sign up for an affiliate site like Clickbank, which gives you
the ability to promote hundreds of products and receive a commission
check for the sales you generate.
You write ads for these products, and place these ads on the Google
or Yahoo network. Who pays to have these ads placed? You do.
If people click your ads and make purchases, you get paid your
commissions.
The key to making money then, is to spend less on advertising than
what you make in commissions. If you can't do this, you will lose
money.
If this sounds like other opportunities you have heard about (Google
Cash, etc) you are right. It is almost exactly the same system. The
only significant difference is that it is being marketed as a "Data
Entry" or "Typing" job. This is a bit misleading, since what you
actually need to do is write online ads that generates clicks and
sales. Of course, this is not the same thing as "typing," just as
writing a bestselling novel is not the same thing as "typing." If
you already know how to write great ads, then you indeed can make
money using your skills to promote products online. But bear in mind
that writing money making ads is something very few people do
successfully. Don't fool yourself into thinking you can master it by
joining a "Data Entry" program.
So in a nutshell, data entry opportunities are not really about data
entry, but about writing online ads. If you can do this well you are
probably already making money. While it is possible to make money
using this method, it is also much more difficult than it seems, and
not just a simple matter of typing or entering data.