Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Beware of Data Entry Work-at-Home Offer

You've seen the offers, work-at-home jobs where you can make incredible amounts of money with little or no effort, make your own hours from the comfort of your own home.

Many of them sound too good to be true, because they are. If it was that easy to make all that money from home for doing little work, we'd all be doing it.

We're taking action to warn you about a work-at-home offer that the Better Business Bureau in Florida has received complaints about over the last several weeks.

It involves a data entry job. A Web site boasts of big earnings, flexibile schedule with little or no experience necessary. It talks about making a full-time salary for part-time work. It iis enticing.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Free Data Entry Jobs Hard To Find

Thousands upon thousands of people are scouring the Internet every day looking for free data entry opportunities. Freelance work which can be found and applied for with no charge to the person who is seeking the work. My client runs a data entry web site and he can attest to this fact simply by looking at his Web statistics.

Free data entry is one of the top search terms which he has identified people using on search engines such as Google and Yahoo in order to find his site. He knows, having researched the market in order to build his site, that real free data entry opportunities can be very hard to find.

Since there is such a demand for this kind of work you will find millions of listings in the search engines catering for this demand. Of course, wherever there's money to be made you will find those parasites who will quite happily part you from your cash whilst offering nothing of value in return. There are also the out and out scum who will simply scam you for your money and run off with it.

If you have perused the many and various listings on the Internet for free data entry opportunities you will, no doubt, have come across these low life scammers. The kind of people who would rob from their own grandma! You do have to be a little bit careful and make sure you do enough research on the companies you're interested in. Don't just assume that everyone is out to scam you though because there are genuine opportunities out there.

If you look at the situation from another perspective you will realize why most of these companies need to charge a sign up fee before they provide you access to their services. They are running just that, a service. It costs them money to run their business. They have overheads just like any other business. How do they cover their overheads?

Well there are many ways to do it but one of the most secure ways to cover your overheads and actually run a profitable business is to charge a sign up fee. It is like a membership site, a subscription model just like you would subscribe to a magazine.

Prospective employers do not have the time to post their free data entry opportunities on the millions of free advertising portals on the Web so what they do? They go to the middleman, somebody who can take care of their recruitment needs. Somebody who can take the pressure off them allowing them to build their own business.

So when you're looking for free data entry opportunities on the Internet this is why you will not find many genuinely free job boards out there. They do exist but you have to search hard. It is well worth considering signing up to three or four of the biggest, most respected and trusted job boards operating online at the moment. If you really want to work from home hard enough to quit your day job it is probably a necessity.

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Monday, January 28, 2008

ExcelZone Compendium: Tips to manage and speed up data entry

Practical application: Using Excel as a controlled data collection mechanism

Previous Excel Zone articles such as the Advanced data entry tips digest have considered why Excel might not be the ideal application for heavy-duty data entry. Instead you can make use of Excel's ability to import, or link to, external data to use the source data directly. Although Excel doesn't possess the same tools to set up a user-friendly data entry form as a database might have, it does have a very useful data validation facility and there are several useful techniques for making it quicker and easier to get your data into Excel.

The Data-Form option

If you are working with a list of items, Excel versions up to 2003 have a Data-Form option which displays the existing data as a form and includes New, Delete and Find buttons. Excel 2007: Data-Form is not included in the standard Excel 2007 ribbon - well, I haven't found it yet - but can be added to the Quick Access Toolbar via Office Button-Excel Options-Customise-Choose commands from-Commands Not in the Ribbon.

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Version One means 80% cut in manual data entry

With Version One's integrated technology, Agresso users simply scan-in a batch of documents, such as invoices

International business management software author Agresso formed a partnership with document management and imaging company, Version One. Agresso will now have Version One's intelligent document capture software, DbCapture, integrated into its Business World ERP system, enabling Agresso users to significantly reduce the time and costs associated with the manual data entry of incoming documents such as supplier invoices, purchase orders (POs) and remittance advices.

DbCapture then automatically recognises document type and supplier by each document's unique characteristics and the relevant references and amounts are then automatically highlighted, extracted and validated before being uploaded into Agresso Business World.

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