In Singapore, you often see advertisement promoting work from home opportunities, with headlines like, “Earn 10K a month working from home”. Then you have advertisements that says, “Earn 10K a month working at home”.
Most people like the idea of working in their own homes and making money. However they do not seems to understand the fundamental difference between work at home and work from home, and often peruse opportunities that demand more from them than they like to.
MLM businesses in Singapore are purely work from home business. I say this because in the first place, MLM companies here, Amway, USANA and Nuskin just to name the more established ones prohibits promotion and selling on the Internet. So someone starting out in a MLM business needs to meet with prospects outside, usually at a McDonald restaurant, to pitch their business. Some enterprising ones will go to their prospect’s home to make a pitch and maybe to demonstrate some products, but then they are working away from home.
In addition, the newcomer is frequently asked to attends weekly meetings with their sponsor in the top sponsor office where they can received more indoctrination. Add to that the visit to the corporate office to pick up products for themselves or their newly recruited customers or downline, and you actually have a business that you operate from home rather than at home.
On the other hand, there are some businesses or opportunities that are truly work at home.
The more common ones are online stock trading, options trading, forex trading. There are still some blue collar work at home businesses around, serving the many small manufacturing industries. However stock trading, options trading and forex trading can hardly be qualified as a business, it seems to be more like a self-employed job, where you are trading your time for money, because if you don’t sit in front of the computer with an internet connection you have no money, whether you sit in front all the time or sometime.
Then again, there are the truly work at home business that can be nurtured into hands off business. These are the Internet businesses where information are sold and bought. A website has become a piece of real estate from which to make money from. An extreme example of an online business will be Amazon.com, this is an online business that has now been incorporatised with many employees.
This is just a peek at the iceberg of the Internet work at home opportunities. There is some learning for the newcomer but the outcome would be rewarding.
