Next, if you do want to go off on a sidetrack away from your original purpose, set a time limit.

Kind of like recess in kindergarten, give yourself a set amount of time to run free, but then get back in classroom and get back to business at appointed time.

Typically, I give myself anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to roam, but only if I think it will bear fruit for my purpose in end.

I also force myself to honestly answer question, "Does this really fit with my purpose for being online right now?"

If not, then I goof off for about 5 minutes and then write down idea, website, or topic that distracted me and leave it for future investigation.

By way, a simple egg timer also works great for this.

Finally, if you ever find yourself online without a purpose, but can't seem to stop surfing, searching, or clicking "send/receive" button on email, simply get up from your computer and walk away for a few minutes to clear your head.

Often this represents fastest way to stop yourself wasting countless hours in meaningless activity online.

Bottom line, implementing these simple strategies for dealing with information overload online now will pay huge dividends in peace of mind and time savings in future.

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Now that you have Roboform’s help it is time to get a new email account which should be kept entirely separate from your personal email account. You might need more than one additional email address depending upon what sort of business you are in. My first website was a Plug-in Profit Site (if you don’t know what that is you can see details here: http://www.huntingvenus.com/pips.html) and one of things I did when I started that, was to subscribe to several ezines. If you are going to join lots of mailing groups or subscribe to ezines, you will receive a great deal of email just from these sources; each one will send you at least one confirmatory email when you first sign up and these should be kept for reference. You can get free email accounts from Yahoo, Excite and numerous other places. AOL is to be avoided because of way its email filters work (you might find that important mail is filtered out without you getting chance to accept it).

Next, sign up for free accounts with Pay Pal, Storm Pay and Int Gold as most online companies will pay you (or require you to pay them) through one of these. It is worth getting accounts with all of them before you start signing up for programmes: it is very annoying to be halfway through signing up and finding that payments will only be made through an account you do not have. If you are undertaking several ventures, you might want more than one account with each of companies. The reasons for this are to keep money separate and also that some companies want you to sign up under same email address as your Pay Pal account (not many but it happens). You are permitted numerous free accounts but I would suggest one account should be opened with each company to start with unless you know you will definitely need another account. It is important to strike a balance between keeping things separate and having so many different accounts, you end up confused. These things are supposed to help you, not become a task in themselves.

All this will not have taken you long to do and you now have basis of an organised system to which you can add things as you go along.