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Avoid Typing Scams Promising Typing Work At Home

by Leva Duell

Don't fall for ads mentioning they will give you a list of companies looking for typists, word processors, or secretaries to work from home.

The advertisement implies that the company will provide you with typing jobs. These listings are usually scams. When you get the package, you'll find out that the company does NOT provide typing jobs. All you'll get is a listing of companies with addresses and phone numbers in your state. Most of the companies don't even know they are listed on those lists.

 

The problem

  • The advertising implies that the company will provide you with typing jobs but they don't.
  • The company claims that the companies on the list have typing jobs available but they don't. The advertising is misleading because the company does not provide you with typing work as the advertisement implies.
  • You have to contact those companies and solicit typing work.
  • The company providing the list has no connection to the companies listed on the list.
  • If you'll contact the companies on the list, you'll find that they don't know anything about this list and they are not hiring typists.  There are no guarantees that the contacted company needs typing services from outside contractors like you.
  • The list covers the whole state. Most of the typing work will come from companies within a 5 mile radius. You don't want to target your whole state.

 

Here are better ways to finding typing work

  • You can find better prospects for typing work in your local Yellow Pages. If you compile your own listing, you can target it to those kinds of businesses you want to work with.
  • Most libraries will provide you with a current, computerized database you can target by industry, income, number of employees, and other criteria.
  • The package doesn't provide a name, address, or phone number making it difficult to get a refund.

Instead of spending your money on a scam like this, get information about starting a typing business that will really help you.

Here's the good news. You CAN make $500 a week typing at home. I you have typing skills, the best way to get typing jobs from home is by starting a secretarial business. A secretarial service is a legitimate business. I've ran my own secretarial business for 12 years and have many friends who operate their secretarial business from home. Some have been providing their secretarial services for over 20 years.


We do NOT provide typing work. We do NOT provide lists of companies who have typing work.

 

Here's what the Secretarial Business-In-A-Box can do for you: The Secretarial Business-In-A-Box helps you start your own secretarial or typing business. It will tell you what kind of clients have typing needs and farm out typing work on a regular basis. It tells you what kind of business are better prospects and provide larger typing jobs. It tells you what typing projects are in demand and what other services you can offer in your secretarial business. Click here for more information.

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