Many people looking for stay at home jobs often seem to get caught up in the online cycle of business opportunities masked as stay at home jobs and end up giving up the search believing there really is no such thing as online stay at home jobs.

Much of this can be attibuted to ads that started appearing a few years ago for home typing or "data entry" stay at home jobs that were really affiliate marketing business plans that people really wre not interested in getting involved with even though affiliate marketing is a great and growing online business segment.

Being someone who has made a very nice living working several types of stay at home jobs over the last 6 years I can tell you that there are a couple very good ways to find the type of stay at home jobs you may be looking for and it really depends on what you are trying to get out of it.

Although I never recommend anyone pay to begin working there are a couple exceptions to this rule and it is mainly because there are some cases where a fee can buy one a little insurance of finding what they are looking for and not being roped into an online scam.

Probably the most flexible way of earning some part time to full time money online working from home is through focus groups and consumer feedback surveys. Major companies and brand names are spend millions of dollars a year to get the opinions and feedback of a wide range of demographics in order to improve products or advertising campaings.

The key to these type of stay at home jobs is to make sure you are dealing with honest consumer marketing agencies that will ensure you are paid for your valuable time.

This is the first case I recommend paying a fee to one of the more honest focus group and survey directory sites. Keep in mind that this should only be a one time fee and never involve and type of reoccuring monthly or annual fees. This fee is paid for the work a directory site performs to make sure their members are dealing with legitimate focus groups and survey agencies that actually do pay and on time.

I found these types of stay at home jobs can prvide anywhere from a couple hundred dollars to a couple thousand a month in part time income and after being ripped off by scam companies I found that by paying a small membership fee it allowed me to get into my work and not worry about if the check was really in the mail.

If you are interested in finding more information about these types of stay at home jobs I highly recommend the sites reviewed by onlinemoney truth as they are constantly seeking out and reviewing the top agencies and directories. You can visit their site at http://surveys.onlinemoneytruth.com

In our next segment we will be taking a look at several other types of clerical and customer service related stay at home jobs. Please bookmark our hub to check back for pdated information.