In the Process At Home, rebate processing certification course you are presented with what appears to be a legitimate work from home job opportunity. If you can type and fill out some simple forms, you can be earning hundreds a day, right? Wrong. Process At Home is very deceptive, although clever, in how they present this work from home job opportunity. Allow me to explain...



As a Process At Home - rebate processor you are instructed to set up an account with Pay Pal, Pay Dot Com and various forms of free and paid advertising on the internet.

Your first step is to go through Pay Dot Com, a third party affiliate service, an select a product or products that you would like to work with. Utilizing both free and paid marketing methods, such as Google pay per click, US Free Classifieds or blogging, you then "drive traffic" to the sales page of the product you selected initially on Pay Dot Com to promote.

Now, in your advertising, you offer a rebate for X number of dollars as a way to generate a sale over someone who may be advertising the product at full price. But you are paying the customer the rebate, not the company or the person who is selling the product. The rebate is a portion of your commission if you were to make a sale. Process At Home has taken the basic principle of affiliate marketing, a legit way to make a living from home, and created this "rebate processing" program around it. You do not need any sort of credential or certification to be an affiliate marketer.

So, not only are you tricked into thinking that you will be employed and have a job as a rebate processor, you are left with poor training as well. Process At Home barely provides the education needed to generate sales with affiliate products. The fact that they are suggesting Google Pay Per Click, an expensive and very tricky from of online advertising is absurd. You can find equal if not better training for free from Commission Junction, another third party affiliate service available to online marketers.

Another strike against the Process At Home program is the fact that the rebates are a violation of the affiliate-merchant agreement. In the fine print of that lengthly document you agree to, it states that you will not "alter" the pricing of the product in anyway. Now, what are the chances you would get caught for doing such a thing? Probably pretty slim, but its a strike just the same.

The final snag with the Process At Home program is the rebate checks themselves. First, you would need to monitor the time window of any and all money back guarantees of the products you are promoting so you could avoid issuing rebates on products that would get returned. Second, do you want to be writing $15 checks to people all the time or sending out PayPal payments everyday? I know I don't, talk about a pain the butt!

So after all of this, you are probably wondering...is any of this legit? All I want to do is work from home on my computer a few hours a day and get paid for my work, Is that too much to ask?

Fair enough, but there is one thing you must realize about using your computer and the internet to work from home. Despite all the online advertising you see, there are very few traditional jobs that allow you to work from home. If you were to acquire one of these positions, you would not be an employee, but rather an independent contractor.

Opportunities in the insurance or sales industry may allow you to manage a territory and allow you to work from a home office, but you will be expected to travel. Other positions may entail skills as a telemarketer, recruiter or general project manager that can work unsupervised and on a contract or part time basis.

*General Data Entry

*Virtual Administrative Assistant

* Transcription/Data entry

There are many more, these are just a few suggestions.

So, if becoming self employed appeals to you, then you will be required to organize your time effectively and find ways to market your skills to those in need of your services.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this means that you still need to learn how to market. Internet marketing is unavoidable if you want to be apart of the work from home industry. Now, marketing does not mean selling. Marketing simply means using various tools on the internet, paid and free, to promote you and your skills.

"How do I learn internet marketing?" Anywhere and everywhere. Just "google" internet marketing and you will be amazed at the information you will find. There are Ebook, ECourses and physical information products galore on the subject. You can even go to your local bookstore to find information on internet marketing.