Do Your Research Before Accepting Any Online Data Entry Jobs

January 19th, 2012 by admin

It’s finally happened. After days or even weeks of responding to every help wanted ad you could find, a trickle of employers are now starting to offer you online data entry jobs. You should start typing right away, right?

Unfortunately, wrong. While there are many legitimate online opportunities for data entry, there are also a plethora of scams. Some scammers want you to pay for a “training course” before your job begins. Others ask you do to a sample project, which they refuse to pay for, and then never contact you again. (They don’t need to; once they’ve gotten samples from all the hopeful job applicants, the project is probably already finished.) In other words, before jumping in with both feet, it’s a good idea to research the offers.

“But,” I can hear you protesting, “I’ve been looking for online data entry jobs for a long time. Won’t I just offend the employer and lose my chance if I take the time to do research?”

In a word, no. As long as you do your research quickly, legitimate employers will understand why you might want to take a day or so to think over an offer. Scammers are the people who will pressure you to make a decision immediately, and it doesn’t really matter what they think of you.

There are several ways you can research the offers you receive. Type the name of the company into your favorite search engine and see what comes up. If the company is known for unethical business practices, you can easily find that information online. On the other hand, if the company is reputable, you will discover that as well.

Another research method for online data entry jobs is to contact the Better Business Bureau in the city where the company is located and see if anyone has lodged a complaint against that company. If so, find out as many of the details as you can and be very skeptical about proceeding with a business arrangement.

A word of warning: If a company will not give you its legal name or tell you where it is located, that’s a big, red flag. Companies who are operating legitimately won’t mind revealing who they are and where they are. The only reason to hide that information is because they’re up to no good.

If you have friends who freelance, check with them before accepting any online data entry jobs. Freelancers look out for each other and pass around the names of disreputable companies as a professional courtesy. If anyone in your social network has been scammed by the potential client, you’ll be likely to hear about it.

Finally, never type so much as one word without a contract. A contract doesn’t have to be thirty pages of “legalese,” although some of them are. Just type up a quick summary of the project as you understand it and ask your client to sign it and fax or email it back to you.

Taking the time to research the offers you get may seem like a lot of trouble, but it can save you dozens or even hundreds of wasted work hours and headaches trying to collect on bad debts.

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