Work at home scams are becoming very common so you need to watch out and protect yourself from these con artists.
There is a wide variety of businesses that you can do from home, but watching out for scams is essential when you’re searching for the right home based business to meet your needs.
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"Never spend your money before you have it."
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If you have experience in any medical field, you can consider being a medical transcription provider. Ideally having some experience in the medical profession will help you with this position.
Essentially, as a legitimate transcript writer, you would be transcribing physician dictations of medical reports using a transcribing machine or a digital system with earphones, a foot pedal and a computer and word processing software such as Word.
You will need to be a fast and accurate typist, while ensuring that the sentences are grammatically correct and that names of people and medications, as well as the medical terms, are spelled correctly.
Be wary of doctors who offer lots of money for little work as the chances are this is one of the work at home scams you should be concerned about.
In order to start a business as a medical transcription provider, you will need training in medical transcription. If you don’t already have that training, there are courses that you can take from community colleges, trade schools and home study/correspondence programs.
These programs usually take one to two years to complete fully. While there are courses that offer 'overnight success', these are one of the many work at home scams you may encounter.
There is a lot to learn in order to be a medical transcription provider and mastering the names of drugs, medical terminology and their abbreviations is like learning a foreign language.
To get started, you will require a computer and any word-processing program, a transcription machine or a digital system, and Internet access for your computer.
You will also need a library of medical dictionaries and reference books that cover all the terminology, drugs and abbreviations of medical specialties. If you use a word-expander program such as Shortcuts or PRD, you can speed up your keyboarding time extensively by allowing you to only type in abbreviations and having the processor expand them for you.
The software and hardware requirements run approximately $3-5,000 and each of the medical reference books usually run $25-30 or more. However, the income potential for medical transcription is up to $30 per hour, or you can charge per line (between 10 and 15 cents per line), which means the faster you type, the more money you can make.
It is easiest to break into the home based medical transcription business if you've worked on-site at a doctor office or in a hospital. When you are ready to break into the field of a home based business, you should market yourself with professional business cards and letterhead, and develop a web site presence.
The faster the turn-around time you offer for your clients, the more work you can expect by providing more value to your clients.
Yes, this opportunity takes time and training. Those who offer to teach you this business in a 10 day home study course are just one of the many work at home scams that currently plague the marketplace.
So be careful. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn’t.
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