8. Products. Every business must sell something. Either a product (physical or digital), a service, or even a concept / idea. There is a camp which recommends creating your own products, and another which suggests selling someone else’s. What are your feelings on this, what advice can you give and what problems may be encountered which could be avoided with guidance?

9. Marketing. This is Big One! I have over ten years of success in international sales, I have done (and still do) research and study marketing techniques, ideas and methods. I have bought and read thousands of dollars worth of eBooks, Books, Courses and Training Materials - by some (if not all) of worlds most successful netpreneurs and marketing experts. I do this because it is something I love to do, I compare and contrast various concepts - then adopt and adapt to my needs. But, this takes a great deal of time and money, and not everyone can do this. So for those who do not have time or money to do this, what are your Top Five Tips for effective and efficient marketing?

10. Affiliate / Associate Programs. Many recommend getting involved in these as a doorway to selling products, others suggest creating your own products or service then starting your own Affiliate / Associate program. Some programs pay as little as 5% commission, others pay up to 50% commission or more. Some charge a fee to join up, others are free. Are Affiliate Programs / Associate Programs a good idea? Are they worth joining or even creating your own? What tips, pointers, guidance and advice do you have on this subject?

11. I would bet good money on this, but I strongly believe that you have made mistakes in business over years.....I know I have! But of course, you have also had successes. Can you list for me top three mistakes you have had - and how you learned from them, plus your biggest three successes in business......and how you learned from these too, and how readers can learn from your success and failure?

12. So........where do we go from here? What is future of internet? How can eBusiness develop? What is YOUR vision of things to come? If YOU controlled WWW - what would YOU do? If you had to advise people on what to expect in future, what would you tell them?

13. BONUS Question! Your chance to add anything else you want!

That’s it! Part 1 and Part 2 together, put it into action, follow up, follow though, and create you own product, with help from experts!

Good luck.

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In real world it matters who you are and what your background is. Admittedly, due to discrimination, this can often be unfair but at least we know who and what we are up against. Not so on Internet. Everyone is a faceless, nameless ‘non-entity’. Someone can take hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a product or service and simply not be there tomorrow, leaving ‘out of pocket’ very little recourse when it comes to recovering their money or even justice.

When you combine faceless dishonest with millions seeking a way to make a Home Based Business a reality or maintain an existing one, you have a recipe for many tears. Consequently, people have become far less trusting and, in turn, dishonest have become more cunning. The result is that those who are honestly seeking to make a living online are having to invent more genuine and convincing ways to assure their prospective customers that their website is one of ‘good’ ones, that their product is genuine and worthwhile. They have to use testimonials, money back guarantees and expensive memberships of associations to vouch for their trustworthiness. But dishonest use exactly same things, so where do we all stand? In a ‘faceless crowd’, not knowing who is honest and who is not. Not knowing if we are dealing with, or even communicating with who we think we are, if we have any idea at all.

There is no solution other than for law enforcement people and ‘watchdog agencies’ to do what they can do with their limited powers. For penalties for such behavior to be severe enough as to serve as a deterrent, but that will probably work as well as it does in real world, where at least, we have more of a chance to face and judge for ourselves, level of a person’s sincerity or reliability.

The only other means to combat dishonest is awareness. There is advice aplenty for how people should go about starting, maintaining and succeeding in their Home Based Business. I am one of those who give that advice via an affiliate guide ebook, but I am inclined to place one particular tenet above all others, one that I have placed in my book however, I fear perhaps I have not expressed it well enough or pressed point home solidly. I’ll do it here – PLEASE BE CAREFUL, BEWARE – we are each one in a crowd of millions of faceless, nameless, for all intents and purposes unaccountable entities and even though I know in my heart that ninety nine percent are honest and genuine, sadly, it’s not enough.