How To Find Legitimate Work Online

by Rakel

If you are like me-a person who has exhausted themselves by scouring the internet, looking for legitimate work online, only to run into a brick wall again and again, then this advice is for you!

I started searching for work online by typing 'online work' or other similar terms into Google and was taken to websites that promised I could get rich quickly doing this or that and was then asked to pay a fee for the information. I must admit that I did fall victim to one of these online scams. I paid fifty dollars and was promised that I could make a decent income by typing data into a database. Needless to say, it was a scam and I had thrown fifty dollars out the window.

After spending a couple of more months surfing the web and running into dead ends, I stumbled across some advice from someone who had been down those dead end streets and was offering free advice. This person said that you can get a start making money online by joining webmaster forums and advertising your skills in the appropriate forums on their sites.

So the next thing I did was to 'google' the top webmaster websites online. I found three that seemed to be very reputable so I went to those forums and made free accounts and I also made few postings in various forum categories there. After a day or two of joining the conversations in these forums, I decided to 'take the leap' and start my own thread wherein I offered my services. I offered to do transcription work and got responses and work! I did not have to pay a cent to get the work, plus after I had completed the transcriptions and returned the work to the buyers, I was given positive feedback on the respective forums, which helped me down the road in picking up more work. Now I can simply sign in to these forums, go to the section of the forum where they are buying and/or selling services and search for work! It really is that simple. Anyone can do this, provided that you have a skill set of some sort. It can be as simple as typing, doing data entry for a busy webmaster, posting in various online forums, proofreading, posting classified ads to free ad sites online such as Craigslist, and so much more.

You have absolutely nothing to lose from using this method to find legitimate work on the internet. You must be sure that you read each forum's rules regarding how to post there, because some of them can be very strict and simply ban you from ever using their forum again should you violate the posting regulations. Don't waste any more time searching and searching for ways to make money online. Simply find the webmaster forums through a search engine, sign up, and get to work!

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Submitted on Feb 3, 2009