I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of cash gifting programs and wondered to yourself if there was money to be made with such schemes and more importantly if gifting was legal. In this article I will reveal the truth of cash gifting from legality to profit potential.

The first point to address for those of you who are new to this concept of cash gifting is exactly what the definition and meaning of cash gifting.

Here’s the scenario of most cash gifting programs: The prospect sees an ad or hyped up website with photos or video of big piles of cash. This is a physiological tactic to make you hungry for the money you see them counting out. Just because a person is opening envelopes with a lot of money, doesn’t mean that it’s really from the cash gifting program. A person can get a loan or use their money to make such a video. When it comes to getting in your pocket some people will do anything.

Next your inviter or the website itself will get you on a hyped up conference call where everybody talks about what big money they’re making and how easy this is! It’s funny but the conference call conductor also talks about the importance of giving. Not one person involved with gifting programs cares about giving; it’s really about greed and receiving. This conference call is just another psychological hook.

Before you’re sucked into a cash gifting scheme consider the fact that gifting is illegal! There have been people who are forced to pay back the money to those who sent it to them, and people have gone to jail for participating in a gifting activity.

The gifting tax law was not designed for people to pass money around. It’s for this reason that gifting programs restrict the promotion tactics of their members/participants. If you are audited by the government believe me you will be penalized or jailed.

The next question is if gifting has profit potential. There are a few people to profit from cash gifting. There are however many negative points to consider. The first downside is convincing people that gifting is legal, the second downside is that you are restricted when it comes to how and where you promote and the third downside is the fact that you may very well be forced to pay back monies received, pay fines and possibly go to jail. Is the activity of cash gifting really worth the risks involved? I’ll leave that decision up to you.

Maybe the reason you’re interested in setting up a home business is because you’ve seen an ad that perked your interest or you were approached by a friend or colleague about a great home business money-making opportunity and those entrepreneurial juices started to flow. Your imagination starts to flow and dreams of quitting your job fill your every thought.

Hello, hey, ok… time to stop dreaming. I hate to burst your bubble or stop your fantasy ride but before you give your boss a piece of your mind there’s a few things you need to consider.

First, you need to realize that probably 99% of all home business / work from home offers out there are flat out scams. After all, if it was that easy to pay a few dollars and make thousands, wouldn’t everyone be doing it by now and why tell you about it?

Below I’ve listed and briefly discussed how to recognize and avoid a few of the biggest scams out there.

Location Location Location Check out every offer and assume it’s a scam until you have iron-clad proof that it’s not. A few things to consider are: Where did you see that work from home offer? If you got it by traditional mail or by email or saw it on a poster taped around a telephone pole, then I can guarantee you right now that it’s not a legitimate offer. On the other hand, if you saw the ad in a newspaper, in a jobs magazine or on a jobs website, then it’s a little more likely to be legit – but not necessarily.

Envelope Stuffing Will this scam ever end? Well, not until people stop falling for it. This is the most established work-from-home scam of all time and it’s been going on for what seems like forever now. How it works is that once you pay your money and sign up to work from home, you are sent a set of envelopes and ads just like the one you responded to. The whole idea is to simply get names of people who are interested in home business ops and get a quick buck. You could make a little money if you mail to the right mailing list but don’t count it. Work from home offers like this are simply illegal pyramid schemes. You will not make money putting letters into envelopes – so get over it and move on!

Shoddy Supplies The practice of charging for supplies is hard to pin down to any one scam – it’s a common most work-at-home scams work (including the envelope stuffing scam mentioned above). You’ll be asked to make a minimal “investment” for whatever materials will be needed to do the work and then you’ll receive a collection of very shoddy materials that are worth a fraction of what you paid for them and last but not least you’ll soon realize that there was never a market for work anyway.

Don’t walk – run if anyone asks for money upfront. Any company worth its salt would be willing to deduct any “fees” from your first paycheck. Any company not willing to do that, is in all likely-hood simply out to scam you into giving them some upfront money and then as the saying goes “leaving dodge” as quickly as possible.

Usana has been in business since 1992 and ever since they have stated that the Usana compensation plan is the best in the network marketing industry. But is the binary compensation plan really the best?

The Usana’s compensation plan is known as a Binary comp plan which is based on building two divisions in your network marketing organization. Independent distributors are given the rights to promote and build their own ‘home based business’ with Usana, as long as they follow certain guidelines. But why is there so much buzz around the Binary compensation plan being the best? Well, let’s first have a look at what it takes to build a Usana business.

In order to take full advantage of the compensation plan, Usana distributors are responsible for two main activities;

1) Connect the customer with their health care and personal care products.

2) Build a team of business partners who are interested in doing the same.

And that is it. How important is the Usana compensation plan to your success with the Business? Well, there is hot debate on which comp plan is the best, but let’s have a look at why Usana states that they have the best.

First, you want a compensation plan that will leverage your efforts through the organization that you build. Usana seems to satisfy this requirement for all purchases made it an organization will benefit the whole team.

Also, the Usana comp plan is based on the “power of two”. Ideally, if each person finds two people to join the business and work together, everyone would have a thriving business. This is good news for the average network marketer never enrols more than 3 people in their business opportunity. So knowing this fact, it seems that Usana’s compensation plan is attractive.

What is the downfall with the Usana’s compensation plan? Well, it’s not really in the comp plan itself – it’s in people’s ability to tap into the compensation plan and make it work. More specifically, it is in their understanding of How To build the Usana business.

Looking at their continuous record breaking growth year after year, there is no question that the Usana comp plan works. But the average Usana distributor still struggles building their business for they are only taught to build with traditional methods. These methods include face-to-face coffee shop presentations, home parties, hotel meetings, to name a few. These tactics where perhaps effective in the late 80’s, but not many associates feel comfortable building this way.

The Usana compensation plan works, if you know how to effectively market and promote the business. Make sure to check out the link below to learn more strategies on how you can build a successful Usana business.