Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Medical Billing

Medical Billing - Work at home

Work at home medical billing seems like the perfect job for you. You own a computer, you want to stay home, pick your own hours. You will even be trained and given leads to professionals that need your service.But the chances of making the money claimed are slim. Consumers don't realize what they're getting into. Newcomers to the medical billing market with no experience and no contacts in the medical field will face fierce competition in this home based business.

As the FTC alleged, most of the consumers didn't earn a dime.Not all medical billing opportunities are scams. For consumers interested in buying a medical billing home based business opportunity, the FTC offers advice: • Check with the state Attorney General's office, consumer protection agency and the Better Business Bureau in your area and the area where the medical billing promoter is based to learn whether any unresolved complaints about them or the promoter are on file.

Be aware, however, that the absence of complaints doesn't necessarily mean the medical billing company is legitimate. But at least you can rule them out if there is.• Be wary of the medical billing promoter wants to only provide a few references.• Interview these references in person and ask for the names of their clients and a description of their operations.• Consult an attorney, accountant or other business advisor before signing any agreement or paying any money.• Consult with organizations for medical claims processors or medical billing home based businesses and with local doctors.• If the medical billing opportunity sells another company's software, check with the software company to find out whether company representatives know of any problems with the medical billing promoter.All these things may seem like a difficult task, but real medical billing is a business. You need to treat it like one.Don’t be afraid to ask the medical billing promoter questions.

The Author: Seth B

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Home Based Business Opportunity

Home Based Business Opportunity, Best of Internet


The allure of a home based business opportunity is very strong
these days with uncertain economic times and the pressures of working long hours
for less pay. More and more people are exploring home based business
opportunities to see if they are cut out to work for themselves.

With the economy ever uncertain, employers are cutting back on everything. They
are cutting health insurance benefits, pay, and they are outright eliminating
jobs left and right.

There are many kinds of home based business opportunities. The internet offers
the easiest, least expensive opportunity to start a home based business ever.
Never before have people been able to start up an entire, legitimate business
just by signing up for a hosting account and selling information or other
products from their web site.


Careful What Home Base Business Opportunity You Choose


Not all opportunities are really what they seem. While any
home based business opportunity involves hard work, some of them are just not
worth the work you put in. They never pay back dividends the way you anticipated
or the way the sales letter stated. That’s why when searching for the proper,
legitimate home based business opportunity you need to watch for a couple of
things.



Is the business well-established? Are you buying into a franchise style
business? If so, is the market saturated with other people doing the same thing
and competing for visitors? If the home based business opportunity involves
network marketing, does it comply with federal and state laws regarding
multi-level businesses?



The key to true wealth is to own the business opportunity, not work for it. A
home based business owner is the top dog in their small company. That means any
windfalls a new product or service you create or resell belong to you! That also
means all the overhead and other expenses belong to you too. With the power of a
home based business comes the responsibility too.



This is why you should thoroughly research a home based business opportunity to
make sure you have all the bases covered and you are approaching working for
yourself in a responsible manner.



Finally, you need to be aware that while it is very tempting to go for one of
those cookie-cutter “businesses in a box”, the greatest opportunity in the world
on the internet is creating your own products and mixing them in with affiliate
products that compliment yours.



A home based business opportunity many times is an opportunity a driven, hard
working and creative person creates for themselves. Usually the most successful
home based businesses are run by people who just had a great idea and ran with
it.



Pick a home based business opportunity you love, that you are passionate about
and hopefully knowledgeable about. You credibility shoots through the roof with
your customers, and you work much harder on something you love to do rather than
something you feel like you have to do!


Darrell Knox is a writer and entrepreneur with 15 years of
home business and marketing experience.


Home Based Business Opportunities, Opportunity, Internet

Home Based Business Opportunities Abound On
The Internet



By Darrell Knox



Looking for a home business opportunity on the internet these days is a pretty involved process. That is, if you don’t know how to eliminate 90% of the junk that’s out there and pick among the home business opportunities that actually have merit and track records.

What works?

Information sales, auctions, hard goods that can be shipped, books, reports, network marketing, you name it!



There are just certain types of home business opportunities that you want to stay away from. Those are things where someone you don’t know from Adam is making guarantees that are way too good to be true. Anyone who makes it sound like money is dripping from the internet for you to simply catch in a bucket is a liar
and a thief.

You will never have success with home business opportunities that promise you that you will never have to work, or make things sound too easy. Take it from a professional,
working online or offline with a home business opportunity is work.



But home business opportunities have perks that are better than any job you could ever imagine.



You work for yourself and answer to no one but your customers You can make as much or as little as you want You can work as much or as little as you want You can take time off whenever you want You can make your schedule totally flexible You can work on the internet and work from anywhere in the world You can save money on clothes you had to buy for jobs You can save money on gas, car maintenance and insurance You can get great tax breaks owning your own business Travel and other expenses can be tax deductible. The list of great things I can think of about a home business goes on and on. Here are some of the things that can be a drain
on you with a home business opportunity:



You can’t leave your business at certain critical times of growth Your family will sometimes become a distraction when you are working at home Your bed is in the same place as your work
There’s no boss to keep you honest about your hours There’s no boss to keep you on your focus to complete critical tasks No one will do the work for you Customers can be a pain sometimes The money in the beginning can come in sporadically (people who cannot handle any kind of financial stress should definitely keep their jobs until their home business opportunity starts paying the bills regularly).



No pain no gain. No risk, no profit. No investment, no return. A home business opportunity is like any other business. Don’t let anyone tell you differently!



But for those of us that thrive on making our own way in the world, who love that there is no limit to what we can make, and no one but our spouses to tell us what to do, there is nothing under the sun better than a home business!



Darrell Knox is a writer and entrepreneur with 15 years of home business and marketing experience.