Starting A Home Based Business? Avoid These 10 Mistakes.

So you want to start a home based business? Hey That’s great. When I started my home based business I made a few mistakes. So I want to help anyone just starting out with their online business to avoid some of those time wasting mistakes.

1. First of all, before you start a home based business, you must know what it is you’ll be doing. You need to educate yourself about your “work at home” business. For example Internet Marketing , Placing classifieds , getting a WEB SITE ,Follow-ups ,etc.

2. SPAM What is SPAM? SPAM is unsolicited advertising. It is my opinion and many others who believe that SPAM is in the eye of the person being SPAMMED, not the person sending the SPAM. While you may not consider a message to be Spam, if the person receiving it does, it’s SPAM.

Lets look at some types of advertising that may be considered SPAM?

Bulk e-mailing (sending an e-mail advertisement to persons listed on an e-mail address lead
list).

Advertising with bulk e-mail services (companies who will send an e-mail advertisement to persons listed on an e-mail address lead list for you).

“Bounce back” e-mailing (sending an e-mail advertisement in reply to an e-mail advertisement
that was sent to you).

Advertising your Internet site to people that you don’t know, who didn’t specifically request the information.

These are only examples. Remember, SPAMMING includes ANY unsolicited advertising.

3. Posting ads on Forums: Like spamming , posting ads on forums message boards can get you banned. Forums are only to be used as sources of information about business opportunities.

4. Submitting to FFA’s. These are free for all sites that you can post your ads on. Take a little advice from me. Do not waste your time posting your ads on these sites,because your site will never get seen, because most FFA’s have such low rankings,it will give your site a low rank because you posted on them. Place your ads on classified ad sites instead.

5.Shouting. Other than using caps to emphasize a few words within an e-mail,or a web page, do not use all caps. Using all capital letters in a text or a correspondence is considered shouting, and shouting at people just causes them to leave.

You can get the complete list by reading the original article on my blog at
Help In Starting Your Home Based Business