The 'Earning Money Online' Stigma.

[Jon]

Encountered more of the stigma today

Tried to help someone online who was after some more money, telling them about this site and what the community on here can offer and they explained that they were a busy full time parents and don't have the time to do surveys for pence


I know that 'gateway drug' if you will to earning online is mostly Surveys but if you want access to the community of homeworkers who can point you in the direction of quicker and better paying ways of earning but if you can't get past or see past the survey side of things I'm not sure you will ever get to it.

It's sort of going from one extreme to another sometimes, people either encounter 'Get rich quick and earn £1000 a day' pyramid schemes or are introduce to surveys that pay 50p and don't want to do them

 

[Blackpepper1]

Encountered more of the stigma today

Tried to help someone online who was after some more money, telling them about this site and what the community on here can offer and they explained that they were a busy full time parents and don't have the time to do surveys for pence


I know that 'gateway drug' if you will to earning online is mostly Surveys but if you want access to the community of homeworkers who can point you in the direction of quicker and better paying ways of earning but if you can't get past or see past the survey side of things I'm not sure you will ever get to it.

It's sort of going from one extreme to another sometimes, people either encounter 'Get rich quick and earn £1000 a day' pyramid schemes or are introduce to surveys that pay 50p and don't want to do them

I find earning online is a bit of a learning curve and most people want to skip that earning a little and go from nothing to £1000's a day without actually doing anything much.
People have to be willing to start from somewhere and Forums like this are a great way for everyone to start with and even for the people who feel they don't need any help it is a good way to help others who are looking to earn online.
There are so many ways to earn online everyone has to find what suits them best and do what they enjoy too.

 

[Jon]

Just wanted to bring this thread back again

In the last week when chatting to people about this site, a lot of people have been exposed to the likes of DSDomination / rubbish home franchises / scam sites and I really am struggling to try and get people to understand that this site isn't just a scambait site and actually is full of useful info and members you can bounce ideas off before you invest any money if franchising is your thing.

So entertain me..

I have a REALLY COOL promotion for TMS that is going to start soon, it will be a 'story' as such and well, you can meet the cast and what it's all about soon..

but that aside..

If you were to sum up this site and what it offers in one paragraph and you were trying to 'pitch' this site to others, what would you put and how would you put it to as to make people think this site isn't a scam

 

[alditoharrods]

It is real. People come on here and honestly say how much they're making - and you can see it isn't £1,000s a day.

It is free. There aren't even adverts. You have nothing to lose except maybe an hour coming on here and having a read.

 

[Chammy]

I was one of the sceptical ones, like most people I thought it would be sitting attempting to fill in survey's that you answer 3 questions to be told you don't qualify.

£200 later and I was proven wrong

I was in two minds when Jon PM'd me about coming over to here but I think that is a really hard stigma to break. I think removing the "Hi, I can tell you how to make LOADS of money with [insert product name] (normally Juice Plus) it takes no time to set but, you can make £xxxxxx's BUT you need to pay £xx to get started. PM me and I can get you started" kinda chat helps. I know when I tell people on forums about it I try not to sound like Jon is paying me to get the numbers in (he's not but you know what I mean).

 

[Jon]

I was one of the sceptical ones, like most people I thought it would be sitting attempting to fill in survey's that you answer 3 questions to be told you don't qualify.

£200 later and I was proven wrong

I was in two minds when Jon PM'd me about coming over to here but I think that is a really hard stigma to break. I think removing the "Hi, I can tell you how to make LOADS of money with [insert product name] (normally Juice Plus) it takes no time to set but, you can make £xxxxxx's BUT you need to pay £xx to get started. PM me and I can get you started" kinda chat helps. I know when I tell people on forums about it I try not to sound like Jon is paying me to get the numbers in (he's not but you know what I mean).

that.. THAT right there is what a LOT of netmums/mumsnet/mummysgowilddoingwork forums are full of. Mum comes onto site, says she wants to work from home and the first four posts are 'sign up under me for Juice+, entry fee is only xxx and everyone is really cool and blah blah', few posts later it becomes 'I have now become a affiliate for Juice+ and can sign people up!'

I want to interject at the point of the Mum appearing on the site and saying she wants to work form home....but by that point it is already a tricky sell as they have usually heard of a lot of things before they even reach the point of posting.

 

[Theprimeminister]

I have only just found this site. I have tried some survey sites but no real money earners (eg 0.03p per 15 minute survey)
This roamer thing sounds interesting as does the AQA researcher thing.
Off to have a browse around the site.

 

[ProbablyBusy]

The stigma is so real and it's always an uphill struggle trying to explain to anyone that it's legitimate.

Usually when I tell people about it and show them examples of easy entry-level things like surveys, they're put off by how little individual surveys pay sometimes, but it seriously adds up. I practically lived solely off online earnings and EMA before I went to uni. It does just take commitment. Necessity was my initial reason for getting into it, but I can see why others would be sceptical.

All of the scammy end of it definitely gives the whole thing a bad reputation, especially like when paypal wouldn't associate themselves with PTC sites, but like others have said, you just need to know where to go.

 

[Jon]

Time to bring this thread up again lol


Had the stigma 'on mass' this weekend from people in the real world


Everything when it comes to earning online is either a scam or is a case of just doing surveys for pence.


If I explain how much I earn each month they just think I am making the figures up.


Now these people don't even move in the 'earning online' circle so that shows just how strong the stigma is sadly!

 

[redisacolour]

I know it is sad to say this bit only some of the people who moan about having no money actually will do something about it like working from home. However, anyone who has taken to it has picked it up really enthusiastically and generated some additional perks for their household

 

[Jon]

I know it is sad to say this bit only some of the people who moan about having no money actually will do something about it like working from home. However, anyone who has taken to it has picked it up really enthusiastically and generated some additional perks for their household

Yeah I mean the people I was speaking to don't need to work online for money or anything but just the topic as a whole seems to generate the 'they are all scams', 'I don't want to do surveys for an hour to earn 10p' type comments


I could go with a 'well screw you then' type attitude but the reality is that people who do earn money online work VERY hard for everything. From finding that opportunity, to getting it, to earning from it. and yes, in reality you are going to have to be very lucky to come across the average wage online (I think its 25k a year) but working for hours, for pence... no chance

 

[Scott@KarmaContent]

There is of course another other result earning a living online. Because I don't out to work every morning and I take my little girl to and from school every day, I'm sure they must think I'm a lazy so-and-so living off benefits!

 

[caledonia1972]

I think there is a "working from home" mindset. You've even got it, or you haven't. So many times I've told people what I do (freelance writing, part time, from home) and they tell me how "lucky" I am. I tell them I'm not lucky at all, it's taken lots of years researching opportunities, being very proactive, reading forums like this, looking at different opportunities, trying things out, failing at some of them etc etc and their faces just glaze over.

People like the idea of being independent, working at home, having the flexibility to take the kids to school, go to the gym or out for lunch but they want it all to land in their laps. They're not prepared to do the ground work to find what's out there and start doing it. Far easier just to say "it's all scams" because if you look at the first page of a search for "work from home" most of it is. We've all heard the horror stories about scammers but far few success stories - mainly because those of us doing it have no need to blow our own trumpets as we have no need to recruit anyone into our schemes.

 

[Jon]

I think there is a "working from home" mindset. You've even got it, or you haven't. So many times I've told people what I do (freelance writing, part time, from home) and they tell me how "lucky" I am. I tell them I'm not lucky at all, it's taken lots of years researching opportunities, being very proactive, reading forums like this, looking at different opportunities, trying things out, failing at some of them etc etc and their faces just glaze over.

People like the idea of being independent, working at home, having the flexibility to take the kids to school, go to the gym or out for lunch but they want it all to land in their laps. They're not prepared to do the ground work to find what's out there and start doing it. Far easier just to say "it's all scams" because if you look at the first page of a search for "work from home" most of it is. We've all heard the horror stories about scammers but far few success stories - mainly because those of us doing it have no need to blow our own trumpets as we have no need to recruit anyone into our schemes.

All that seems like hard work


oooh, hello Juice+ and Younique - This means I don't have to do any of that hard slog just to find an opportunity

 

[caledonia1972]

Exactly that. And although Direct Selling does work for some people, it's the people who are prepared to graft and work hard at it who will make a success of direct selling.

As my gran said, you don't get owt for nowt.

 

[Agena]

Jon, maybe you need mums to be talking to other mums about your forum? That's how I got here, from a recommendation from another mum.

I have not yet met with the work at home stigma but I'm sure it will just be a matter of time.

 

[Jon]

Jon, maybe you need mums to be talking to other mums about your forum? That's how I got here, from a recommendation from another mum.

I have not yet met with the work at home stigma but I'm sure it will just be a matter of time.

I have spent 10 months trying to achieve that goal

In a nuthsell, I am not a mum, hence, there is a barrier there no matter what I say to them

 

[Jon]

If you want to see the Stigma in action check out @themoneyshed on Twitter to see my activity this afternoon

 

[bordercolliefan]

I know what you mean Jon but that person just seems an idiot and a bit of a p*ss taker. I don't think they are taking any of it very seriously. I am telling everyone about this site. I think its fab!

 

[Sally]

I'm a member of a few mums groups and have mentioned this site but I think sadly some people do just expect to be earning £100s a day from the off without actually doing any work for it :-\