With the boom in BPO and outsourcing industry during the last decade of twentieth century, lots of opportunities evolved on the realm of online work at home and data entry jobs. However, over the past few years, many thugs took the advantages of this boom by duping the gullible people wanting to earn money through work at home opportunities. They simply disappeared after collecting enormous amounts of money by way of fees, deposits and by selling study materials.

As a result, most job seekers lost the confidence in data entry jobs. Nevertheless, there are plentiful of genuine data entry jobs. Here are few pointers to keep in mind so as not to fall prey to scammers.

• Never pay anything to the websites that sell E Books with flimsy titles such as “Sure Shot Guide to make Thousands of Dollars per Month Doing Data Entry Work at Home”. By reading such books, you will land up with not only wasting couple of hours and days but also wasting few bucks ranging from $50-500.
• E Books, guides and websites trying to teach you the tricks of the trades are nothing but methods of misguiding unemployed guys.
• If the guy who has written this book is a master of data entry jobs, why should he sell E Books instead of himself making thousands of dollars?
• Data entry, data conversion, data mining, data processing, copy/paste text, data or advertisements on websites or on the offline documents and such other types of jobs require minimal skills and experience.
• What you all need is a little experience in handling MS Excel and MS Access.
• Key factor is in getting through to the genuine job providers.
• Never pay anything for data entry and work at home jobs study materials, registration fees or deposits.

Summing Up

Look out for the honest and unbiased ‘Work at Home Forum’ to learn from the actual experiences of several others like you. It will definitely give you an idea about how to distinguish between real and fake data entry jobs.

Internet offers plethora of resources for freelancers. Data Entry Jobs provide an excellent option for students, house moms and others who possess basic MS (Microsoft) skills. Due to acute competitions, payments are relatively low in comparison to other freelancing avenues. Here is a guide to what type of jobs are available and what are the general rates for data entry work at home.

• Data mining, collection, copying from websites and pasting into MS Excel or MS Access sheet. For instance, you might be required to look up or extract data such as name, address, contact details, email address etc from various websites, post into excel sheet and deliver it to your client. Rates are generally quoted on per thousand posting.
• Data collection for market research
• Adding products to the websites of online shopping stores. The work mostly involves copy/paste types of jobs.
• Data mining and collection from various websites
• Re-enter data from PDF files into excel sheets
• Copy paste data to MS Access Database
• Scrap data from public sites and prepare an Excel Sheet
• Craig’s list advertisement posting. Rates for such jobs range from $0.05 to 0.5 per posting. Presuming 100 ads per day for 30 days in a month, you can manage to earn around $150 per month at the lowest rate of $0.05 per posting.
• Posting of shopping cart details on e-commerce sites
• Creating database with company and individual contact info into excel sheet
• Extracting emails from various sites. Rates are generally 0.3 to 0.5 $ per thousand
• Online remote entry data entry jobs. You might have to work for 8-10 hours a day for 5-7 days a week with rates as low as $1-2 per hour. Some of the online data entry jobs might insist on minimum speed of 30-35 characters per minute (you can check your speed at several free sites)

Summing Up

Look out for high volume work and steady flow of work. Once, you have provided satisfactory services, the buyer would be happy to keep you busy by offering you more work.

Checkout for Data Entry Jobs at freelancing sites like GetAFreelancer and ScriptLance.