Work At Home Ideas For Women: Rebate Processing

"Rebate Processors Wanted" "Make hundreds daily processing rebates online!"

If you're like me - you probably get a lot of these emails every day or you see them as you surf around the web - so I finally decided to check a few of them out and here's what happened:

For $39.95, I received a book about.....(drum roll,please!) AFFILIATE MARKETING!

I know, I know, I can hear you asking what affiliate marketing has to do with processing rebates........and in fact.......it's a very creative concept that is used by a number of very successful affiliate marketers that I know, so the CONCEPT can work -

BUT the way it's being marketed is pretty deceptive as far as I am concerned, and that's a shame, because it doesn't need to be marketed in this way.

Here's how it works: you sign up for an affiliate program, and advertise the product through the usual online marketing methods (pay per click, article marketing, forums etc) and offer the buyer a 'rebate' - out of your commission - if they buy the product through your affiliate link. You just tell them to send you their receipt and you will send the 'rebate' to their PayPal address.

Now the truth is - this IS a very effective marketing tool, but you also need to very careful with this approach because if you refund the customer money before the product guarantee period is up - you could wind up losing money. You want to make sure that if you rebate any money, that you only do so AFTER the refund period has passed and that the customer clearly understands that they do NOT get the refund immediately.

And of course, you need to know something about affiliate marketing.

So, while the description used to market this method is somewhat less than truthful as far as I am concerned - the actual method is used by many, many successful affiliate marketers - and in fact, COULD make you a decent income - but it does require more knowledge and more effort than the ads would lead you to believe......but then that is pretty much the case with just about any worthwhile business venture!



If you are interested in making money with Affiliate Marketing - there are some excellent products on the market - one of the newest ones is Secret Affiliate Code - which I really love because a) it doesn't require you to spend a bunch of money to follow the methods recommended b) I have personally had very good results with the methods c) you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to follow the method.

While it doesn't focus on the 'rebate processing' method - it will give you a better education in the fundamentals of Affiliate Marketing and driving traffic to your offers - which is the most important thing to learn if you want to be successful in Affilate Marketing.

Once you have the basics of choosing a good product and getting traffic - THEN you can tackle the different methods such as 'rebate processing' - safely and without losing your shirt!!

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Work At Home Ideas For Women!

Are you a woman looking for a work at home idea? 

Tired of the rat race and want to start a home based business? Or a stay at home mom that simply wants to add to the family income with a small online business?

As a woman that has been working at home for the last 20+ years, and running online businesses since 1996, I feel pretty qualified to give some advice in this area!

When I first started working from home - it was something that we all tried to hide from clients the general attitude was that you worked form a home office because you were not successful enough to have a 'real' office away from home.

Personally, I never felt that way - I worked from home by choice, not necessity. I certainly could have afforded an office, but I enjoyed being able to work my own hours, and having everything I needed at hand. It meant that if I needed to work late, or needed a file at an 'odd' hour - it was close by - not a 30 minute drive away.

The advent of the internet has changed many aspects of our lives - and the home based business is certainly one that has changed because of the web. Today, working from home is the preferred lifestyle, and one that is highly sought after. No one hides their home business anymore - rather we proudly flaunt our lifestyle business and clients realize that we work from home because we are successful enough to be able to choose this option.

Ideas for home based businesses run the gamut from consulting to sales, mlm to web design.No matter what your skill set, your interests or your passions - if you have a computer and internet access, you can find a way to run an online business from home today!

My first web WomensNet.Net, launched in 1998, and it was an expensive and time consuming process. I knew nothing about html, and had to rely on others to manage and update the site - never a good thing! After losing the entire business because my web mast did not bother to back up the site in 2001, I learned html and re-launched the site myself. I love the site, and there is a lot of content there for women entrepreneurs - but truthfully - it's a pain to maintain!

It has a very active forum of women entrepreneurs, and gets several thousand visitors a month.

Blogs have made launching and maintaining websites much easier - my blog Work At Home Ideas For Women has been live for more than a year, and it's articles are picked up and promoted by many sites. It gets excellent traffic because everything that we write about comes from real experience - good and bad!

Membership sites are also very popular these days, although they can be rather complicated to get set-up and running. WomensnetOnline, a social and business networking site form women entrepreneurs that I started last January, was 6 months in the planning, and I wen through a lot of different scripts and programmers before I found one that did what we needed! But it was worth the effort - the free site has over 3,000 members and has become a great resource for women looking for home business ideas.

Over the years, I have launched a lot of sites, and today, I earn a nice healthy income from Adsense, affiliate marketing, EBay, and lots of other methods online.