Side Effects of Making Money Online at Home

Side Effects of Making Money Online at Home
By Yogesh Bailwal
Today most of us who work online and make money at home face many peculiar problems which are specific to those who work from home on internet. These drawbacks I think will take a large shape in next few years when most people in society will start working at home online. Earning money online at home which is today just beginning of a trend and most of its drawbacks are undiscovered and unstudied. This trend of working from home and earning money online can pose serious threat to our social structure other than a number of problems for individual at family level. Working from home on internet is like working in a virtual environment and virtual office, where everything that exists now may not exist tomorrow or even after a few minutes. These
1. No time for family or All time for family: All those who earn money working at home face this problem. It is very difficult to balance online work and family issues. There are times when there is no time for online work as one gets engaged in one issue after another at home, and it becomes really very difficult to concentrate on online work. On other occasions when an online worker is busy in some online project for hours and days he hardly finds any time for family. Although he is at home he isn't aware of what is going on because he has developed a workplace, an office environment at home and whenever he is free he tends to think about his online work and earning money.
2. No time or place to relax : Home is a place called 'Home sweet home' now if we are working full time in this place, within the space that was earlier meant for relaxation. Earning money and doing work often comes with stresses, which come and go but with 'online work at home' all these things happen in a place where we used to relax. During stressful period there is no time to relax, as the solution to the problem lies in more work and spending more time online. Next is the problem of place to relax, it is very difficult to find relaxation in the same place where you work even if its home.
3. No social interaction : When we earn money online by working at home, we hardly move out of the house, because if we are earning good money, we'll like to work more and earn more money due to greedy human nature. On the other hand if we are not earning any money or are losing money then we will like to make some changes and improvements in our work, therefore we'll spend some more time online at home. This means we don't interact with society, we spend our time in online societies which are virtual. This is one of the major drawback which will bring a major change in social structure as people will work at home and spend time online, resulting in a poor and meek society. A subject of interest for social scientists.
These are some of the side-effects of making money online at home, may be these are not thought provoking but they do exist and have a major impact on both our earning money online and working at home. This article is just a brief outline and just a preliminary report. These issues must be considered before starting a full time home based earning program, as everyone can't make adjustments all the time even if he is earning good money online working at home.
Yogesh Bailwal works for Infoweb Services and also manages a website on working at home with legitimate options available on internet. He is himself working with many of these legitimate work at home opportunities online and understands the side effects associated with working at home for anyone who is seriously involved with his/her work.
His website contains information on a number of online/offline ways to earn money online [http://www.earnfromnet.com/self-employment-jobs/1-freelance-writing-jobs-com.htm]. One can learn more by visiting recently listed legitimate work at home opportunities and see which one fits his/her taste.
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The Ethics of Network Marketing

Why should a network marketing company be ethical in its operation?  My short answer is that what makes a network marketing company “ethical” is also what keeps it legitimate and legal.  So, what is it?  What makes a network marketing company ethical or legitimate?  It is often not clear cut, but these applicable legal standards have been in use for decades. To survive scrutiny, a network marketing company and its income opportunity must:

1.            Involve the sale of a real product or service;

2.            Not require a commissioned fee solely to participate;  and

3.            Maintain operational integrity.

Product or Service

The product or service must have real value to end-use consumers who are not affiliated with the company.  Further, the product or service must actually be sold regularly to non-participant buyers.

It is, of course, an acceptable practice for participants to purchase the company’s products or services for their own use or to accumulate an inventory of products for ready resale, so long as the inventory quantities remain reasonable and the company adheres to acceptable product return and buyback policies.

Fee to Participate

Another name is a “headhunting fee,” which is a payment required to be made by a prospective participant for the right to earn compensation, of which compensation is derived from the recruitment of others who also pay the fee. There cannot be a fee to participate, other than an at-cost starter kit purchase requirement.

It is a central element of virtually all statutes defining what is an illegal “pyramid.” The key to understanding this issue is that, to be legitimate, a program must focus on selling products or services.  It must not engage in selling the right to participate in the income opportunity for a fee.

Operational Integrity

Many companies have been attacked because of their failure to maintain operational integrity—that is, rigid adherence to acceptable standards of business practice. Some standards applicable to network marketing include:

1.    Product advertising: Many laws regulate both content and performance claims for products and services, whether those claims are made on labels, in sales literature, on web sites, or orally by independent resellers.  These laws are enforced by agencies at all levels of government and generally require that all claims regarding performance be truthful and accurate and capable of substantiation by competent evidence.

2.   Program advertising: There are specific laws governing the making of income claims. These restrictions apply to specific earnings representations, such as the display of checks, sales and recruiting projections, and lifestyle profiles. Accuracy and truthfulness are a must.

3.  Sales field enforcement: Well-managed companies impose and enforce upon their sales force legal and ethical standards of conduct. These include the product and program advertising standards described above, as well as customer protective requirements, such as use of retail sales receipts and adherence to return policies. Regulators have made it clear that a company will be held responsible for known independent participant behavior in violation of such regulations.

4.   Home office legal compliance: Network marketing companies, like all business enterprises, are faced with a further array of laws and government agencies regulating many aspects of their internal office operations.  These include hiring and payroll practices, employee safety, taxation, accounting, and financial affairs.  Network marketing companies must meet unique customer service criteria in the form of product returns and inventory repurchase policies.  Competitive market pressures have caused most large and successful companies to provide their product users with some form of personal satisfaction money back guarantee.  Those that fail to conduct their internal operations in compliance with the standards imposed in this environment are at significant exposure to damaging, perhaps fatal, regulatory attack.

The commitment to ethical marketing starts at the top and goes all the way down to the very newest participant. The long-term viability of the company requires it, drives it, and ultimately is the glue holding everything together. Slip ups in ethical behavior hurt everyone and must be immediately addressed, so those watching from the outside see what we know on the inside—it will not be tolerated.

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Meet MLM Attorneys Nehra & Waak VITA, GERALD P. NEHRA

Mr. Nehra is an Attorney in private practice in Muskegon, Michigan. He is one of a very few attorneys nationwide whose practice is devoted exclusively to direct selling and multi-level marketing issues. His 34 years of legal experience includes 9 years at Amway Corporation where he was Director of the Legal Division.

ADMITTED IN:

• Michigan, 1970; New York, 1972; and Colorado, 1992.
• Federal Courts in Michigan, 1970; and New York, 1972.
• Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1976.

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

• Private practice attorney, specifically focused on direct sales and multi-level marketing issues, August 1992 to date. Representative clients include Amsoil, Ardyss, Bing Han, Dove Chocolate, Eniva, Essentially Yours, Financial Destination, Gano Excel, Isagenix, Life Plus, Orovo, Pinnacle Communications, Wachters’ Organic Sea Products, and ViSalus Sciences.
• Vice President – Legal and Human Resources, The Fuller Brush Company, November 1991 to August 1992 when, at my request, I became independent outside counsel for the company.
• Director – Legal Division, Amway Corporation. Began in September of 1982 as Deputy Chief Attorney and became head of the Legal Division in 1984, continuing through October 1991. Added responsibilities included Assistant Secretary in 1984, Profit Sharing Trustee in 1986, and Corporate Secretary in 1991.
• Vice President, General Counsel, Church & Dwight Co. Inc. (The Arm & Hammer Company), 1979-1982.
• Attorney, Staff Attorney, Senior Attorney, and Regional Counsel, International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, 1971-1979, at locations in Armonk, New York, Owego, New York, and Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
• Sales Representative and Systems Engineer, IBM, Dearborn, Michigan, assigned to the Ford Motor Company account, May 1967 to June 1971.

EXPERT WITNESS CREDENTIALS:

Have counseled and testified on many legal issues of direct selling, including comprehensive evaluations of business plans, and whether they meet the legal standards established in the landmark FTC v. Amway case and cases which followed. Have analyzed in detail the differences and legal significance of plan design, controlled by the company, and plan implementation, where distributor conduct is often the challenge. Gave testimony on direct selling legal issues in Herbalife v. McCormack, Dunda v. Mary Kay, Florida v. P.R.S.I., FTC v. Trek Alliance, and International Galleries Inc. v. LaRaza.

MULTI-LEVEL SPECIFICS:

• Handled the legal and personnel issues for conversion of the single-level direct sales organization to a multi-level system at Fuller Brush. Issues included marketing plan legal review and necessary modification, sales force transition and conversion, literature review, sales training rules and ethics enforcement, advertising guidelines, product line selection and pricing, and creation of a distributor advisory board.
• Negotiated multi-level compliance issues, including Consent Orders and Assurances of Voluntary Compliance, with the Attorney General Offices in numerous states, including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
• Took immediate corrective action with a high ranking distributor for practices that put an entire program in jeopardy in the state of Florida.
• Meet and speak regularly with corporate officers and top distributors to evaluate progress of programs, listen to recommendations for adjustments and discuss and advise on future plans.
• Processed through to completion more than 350 trademark applications for numerous clients.

WHILE AT AMWAY:

• Directed the corporate legal function, including counsel to senior management and subsidiaries. Hired and managed outside counsel, and advised on legal issues associated with corporate operating and corporate planning decisions.
• As Corporate Secretary, attended to all matters of corporate governance and corporate structure for the parent corporation and over 70 subsidiaries.
• Negotiated with the FTC, FDA, CPSC, and other agencies regarding Amway’s products and services and Sales Plan positioning. Reviewed and modified labels and literature to comply with regulatory requirements.
• Managed the patent function and over 4000 trademark registrations in over 31 countries.
• Built an in-house litigation capability by hiring and supervising two litigators and three paralegals, significantly reducing outside counsel expenses. Actively managed counsel outside Michigan and second-chaired two distributor related litigations, a two week trial to a successful jury verdict and a three day non-jury trial to favorable disposition.
• Advised Amway’s Nutrilite Products Inc. subsidiary on food supplement product positioning, claims platforms, literature, and avoidance of drug claims.
• Resolved a serious challenge with Dominican Republic Customs regarding duty valuation on imports through personal negotiation and the creation of a sales and warehousing subsidiary in-country.
• Managed the government affairs function, including monitoring legislation and lobbying pending bills at the state and federal level.
• Implemented and administered the Conciliation and Enforcement Procedures for distributor to distributor and distributor to corporation disputes.
• Resolved favorably civil and criminal charges brought against the company and a distributor by the Canadian Government for claims made in sales literature.

TEACHING/LECTURES:

• Presented the Legal Issues segment at each New Amway Direct Distributor Seminar.
• Frequent guest speaker on direct selling legal issues at seminars and forums, averaging over 10 per year for the last 10 years, at events hosted by clients and industry associations.

PUBLICATIONS:

Antitrust Law Developments, ABA Press, 1975, (Contributor)

Legal Issues of Side-Line Businesses, Amway, 1985

“Give Your MLM ‘The Test’” Emerald Coast News, 1992

“Amway Case from the Price Fixing Prospective,” www.mlmatty.com website

“Pyramid or Ponzi” MLM Insider Newsletter, 1995

“Trademark Use Guidelines,” Mlmatty.com, Newsletter Volume 8

“The Intrinsic Value Position Paper” MLM Insider Newsletter, February, 1998

“Don’t-Even Think About It,” Mlmatty.com, Newsletter Volume 18

“Who are the PARTICIPANTS,” www.mlmatty.com website

“What is Direct Selling PRIMARILY About?” Direct Selling Today, October, 1998

“RAMBLINGS OF A TIRED LAWYER,” Mlmatty.com, Newsletter Volume 19

“How Confidential are Names and Addresses?” Direct Sales Journal, October, 2000

“Prohibited Activity,” www.mlmatty.com website

“Business Opportunity – What do the Words Mean?” www.mlmatty.com website

“Are Two-Tier Affiliate Programs Multi-level Marketing,” www.mlmatty.com website

“The ABC’s of MLM 2000,” www.mlmatty.com website

“Looking Past the Paper,” www.mlmatty.com website

“Paperless Signup,” www.mlmatty.com website

“The Thinkin’ Needs Fixin’” Network Marketing Business Journal, October 2003

“Are They Worth It?” Network Marketing Business Journal, October 2004

“Coupons, Vouchers, Gift Certificates, and Down Payments,” My NetBrief, October 2004

“PONZI, THE PERSON,” Network Marketing Business Journal, December 2004

BUILD IT BIG – 101 INSIDER TIPS from TOP DIRECT SELLING EXPERTS, Dearborn Trade Press, 2004 (Contributor)

“THE MICHIGAN SINGLE BUSINESS TAX – MLMs BEWARE,” Network Marketing Business Journal, February 2005

“Another Look at Commissions on Sales Aids” Network Marketing Business Journal, July 2005

“About AGENTS” Network Marketing Business Journal, August 2005

“Database Confidentiality” Network Marketing News, September 2005.

“What is M/L/M? – My Biased View” Network Marketing Business Journal, January 2006

“Gifting Programs – - Stay Away!” Network Marketing Business Journal, March 2006

“Business Volume – Its Critical Importance” Network Marketing Business Journal, April 2006

“FTC – What Were You Thinking?” Network Marketing Business Journal, August 2006, and filed with the Federal Trade Commission

“Company Names as Trademarks” Network Marketing Business Journal, October 2006

“Where to Incorporate’” Network Marketing Business Journal, July 2007

“The Michigan Business Tax ‘Super-Sized’” Network Marketing Business Journal, February 2008

“Louisiana – It’s Different Down There” Network Marketing Business Journal, June 2008

EDUCATION:

• J.D. 1970, Michigan State University College of Law, (formerly Detroit College of Law) top 15 percent.
• B.I.E. 1962, Kettering University, Flint Michigan (formerly General Motors Institute)PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
• A.B.A., and State and Federal Bars in Michigan, New York, and Colorado.
• Professional Association for Network Marketing.
• Direct Selling Association (DSA-US), Supplier Member.
• DSA, Lawyers Council and Government Relations Committee.
• Direct Sellers Association Canada, Supplier Member.
• Multi-Level Marketing International Association, Board Member.
• Direct Selling Women’s Alliance, Support Member.
• Distributor Rights Association, Support Member.

VITA, RICHARD W. WAAK

Richard W. (“Rick”) Waak has been working as a lawyer in the field of network marketing and direct selling for more than 30 years, including more than 20 years as in-house counsel to some of the most prominent companies in the industry, with much of that time serving as chief legal officer. In 2001 he began his private practice, and soon renewed a collaboration with Gerry Nehra first developed in the 1980s while at Amway. In 2006 he began serving as Of Counsel to the Nehra Law Firm, and he is now committed to supporting this firm’s clients as a Member of the renamed firm.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Juris Doctor, University of Detroit School of Law, Detroit, MI
Admitted Michigan Courts 1976
Bachelor of Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
The American Bar Association, Section on Antitrust Law – Franchising Forum
State Bar of Michigan – Antitrust, Franchising & Trade Regulation Section
Direct Selling Association – Lawyers Council and Government Relations Committee

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Served as top legal executive, General Counsel, or house counsel for a variety of network marketing companies.
• Managed responses to numerous civil investigative demands and related actions by various state departments of justice; avoided findings of violation, civil or criminal penalties or significant negative publicity on virtually all files.
• Managed responses to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigative demands attacking advertising claims made for company’s product lines, and marketing/sales practices – files all closed with no adverse findings or publicity.
• Hired and managed outside counsel in coordinating simultaneous defense of separate class action lawsuits in two state courts and in federal court seeking compensatory and punitive damages for pyramiding, securities fraud, false advertising and civil RICO. Obtained very favorable settlements in all cases.
• Principal preparer of 20-page client document commenting to Federal Trade Commission’s 2006 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for its Business Opportunity Rule.
• Averted and resolved major regulatory challenges – assisted in establishing financial controls and modern employment practices including adjustments to compensation plan.
• Established legal and government-relations functions for employer companies. Developed key contacts with regulatory agencies.
• Consulted with corporate marketer of health services on its acquisition and development of a multilevel internet-based travel services venture – client avoided potential significant legal liability.
• Revised, rewrote and organized supplier contracts for large multi-million dollar companies.
• Significantly reduced frequency of adverse claims – substantially revised and rewrote operating procedures and rules of conduct applicable to distributor sales practices.
• Grew assets from $2million to $10 million as VP of the employees’ credit union.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

CORPORATE CONSULTING AND PRIVATE LAW PRACTICE 2000 – Present

THE PEOPLES NETWORK (TPN), INC. 1998 – 1999

Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel

NATIONAL SAFETY ASSOCIATES (NSA), INC. 1988 – 1998

General Counsel

AMWAY CORPORATION 1978 – 1988

Attorney (1978 – 1988)

Secretary to Trustees of Corporate Profit-Sharing Plan Vice President, Employees Credit Union (1982 – 1988)

ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

“Is Your MLM Opportunity Legal?,” Extra Income News, March,2003. Republished in Network Marketing Business Journal, April 2007.

“The FTC gets it right (almost)!,” Network Marketing Business Journal, May 2008.

“Data Security Compliance 101,” Nehra Law Firm Business Associate Advisory newsletter, August 2008.

“Never a “Free” Lunch?” Nehra Law Firm Business Associate Advisory newsletter, November 2008.

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Introduction about company telexfree

TelexFree Company

Company Overview The TelexFree company is a 13 year old American multinational corporation, first registered in the U.S. as “Common Cents Communication.” It is a company with 11 years experience in the United States in VOIP telecommunications, operating in over 40 countries. They’re heavily invested in a successful US based program with new products forthcoming.

President and CEO James Merrill is the President of the company with it’s headquarters located at 225 Cedar Hill St Suite 200 Marlborough, MA 01752. Born in 1961, son of traditional American couple, James Merrill graduated in the class of 1985 in economics at Westfield State University. As a man of vision, he saw a huge market once he met some Brazilians and found out that they spent way too much making calls to Brazil. Knowledgeable about a new era of technology (VOIP), he decided to found the predecessor to Telexfree Inc. in 2002 to serve this market. The credits were sold in VOIP rechargeable cards, which became a huge success, which was later directed to diverse communities in other countries, and thus Telexfree grew with each passing year. Currently TelexFree already has hundreds of thousands of users of its system of voice over IP (VOIP Technology) within the United States, Brazil, Canada and in over 40 countries. James Merrill continues to make steady and huge investments to further enhance its borders. Following his instincts, James Merrill initiated a new challenge and launched in Brazil, a project simply linking two huge markets: ADVERTISING & COMMUNICATION. Telexfree launched in Brazil January 1, 2012. The company exploded gaining over 400,000 members in just over 14 months.

TelexFREE in Brazil! Newly arrived in Brazil at first of 2012, the company, TelexFree, offers customers innovative technology. This technology allows you to make unlimited phone calls to any mobile or land-line of any operator in Brazil, USA, Canada and over 40 countries, via Central Access.The specialization is TelexFree Advertising and Technology. Currently large companies spend millions monthly on advertising, a banner in globo.com for example costs 500 thousand per day, but with the increasing use of the internet as a means of entertainment, is increasingly less effective the traditional way of advertising .Aiming to this new market Telexfree developed a new way of doing publicity and advertising, using the internet as a means of disseminating information about their products and ordinary people as faithful advertisers through AdCentral contracts.

New Programs and Expanded Opportunities For Income TelexFREE just purchased a company in Brazil which provides Landline, Internet and Cable TV Services. This provides an opportunity for greatly expanded services. In March 2013, TelexFREE introduced it’s e-Commerce platform in Brazil. TelexCommerce will also be extended to the United States in the near future. New Products will be introduced, including Debt Consolidation, Credit Repair, and a diet product. These additions will offer diversity and extend the income potential within the TelexFREE business.

TelexFREE Joint Venture With Best Western Hotels TelexFREE and Best Western are building one new hotel (60% complete) as a Joint venture and will be refurbishing/renovating the existing 500, to be ready for the World Cup and Olympics 2016 in Brazil. There will be an opportunity for income investment for affiliates through this alliance.

TelexFREE Legal Counsel TelexFREE Legal Counsel Gerald P. Nehra, Muskegon, Michigan, is a lawyer specializing in MLM law, licensed in the states of Michigan, New York, Colorado and the Federal Court of the United States. His 42 years of legal experience included 8 years in IBM’s legal team and 9 years as Director of the Legal Division of Amway Corporation.  His private law practice, was established in 1992, Nehra & Waak Lawyers, which exclusively serves to the legal needs of direct selling companies. The company holds an exclusive partnership with TelexFree to protect their specific legal interests.You are invited to visit the firm web site at:  Resister : Telexfree

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