http://www.home-business.com/dropship.html

Your primary expense in mail-order business is advertising. Classified advertising tends to be a relatively inexpensive form of advertising with thousands of outlets available to small business owner.

WHOLESALE BUSINESS: Buy low --- sell high. You can acquire high quality, top-of-the-line merchandise for a fraction of retail cost. Starting a wholesale business would require a Wholesale Dealers Directory as your source for merchandise, such as one above or one listed here:

http://www.home-business.com/auction.html

AUCTIONS: Auctions can be an excellent source for buying cheap and selling high. Both government auctions and Internet auctions can lead to some excellent profit opportunities. Auctions are an excellent tool for both acquiring and selling merchandise.

MAKE AND SELL YOUR CRAFTS: Crafts are a hot seller at country fairs, swap meets or anyplace where people gather. Make your own crafts and sell them for a tidy profit!

SELLING INFORMATION: Selling information by mail is another good example of an inexpensive home based business start-up. One can gain resale rights to information for usually about $50 USD. Other costs will include printer cartridges, paper and postage. There are plenty of free classifieds sites on Internet, in which to successfully advertise your information.

WRITE INFORMATIONAL BOOKLETS: Write and publish your own informational booklets; sell them at a high price! All you need is a little know-how, a printer, paper and stamps. This is a GREAT home business idea! You can also sell resale rights to others, for extra profits. In this age of Internet, you may also take advantage of fact that selling information is one of most profitable endeavors one can pursue online.

OFFICE SERVICES: Offer office services for hire in your local paper. You'll be surprised at amount of regular office business that can be gleaned from one little classified ad. Word processing, typing, accounting, data entry, proofreading, transcription, promotional letters and newsletters. All these tasks can be accomplished right from your own home office.

AVON REPRESENTATIVE: Yes, Avon's been around for eternity, hasn't it? Then it's not such a bad prospect as a home based business, is it? I once knew a woman who did so much business as an Avon rep. that she had people calling her and knocking at her door wanting to order products at all hours of day and night! Once you are an established Avon representative, you, too, will turn a good profit.

CONCLUSION: On your search for ideal home based business, try not to get caught up in any scams that will run off with your money. There are thousands of scam artists out there just waiting for next sucker to come along. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Just use your good judgement and invest wisely in proven methods of earning extra income.

CLEANING AND COMPRESSING YOUR MAIL DATA

This is an important part of your email management. When you no longer need an email, it should be deleted. When you first delete an email, your software will send email to Trash Bin. Your email is not actually deleted until you first empty your trash bin.

Emptying your trash bin compresses mailboxes from where email was originally filed. This is absolutely paramount to protection of your email data. If you go too long between compressing your email data, then your email data could become corrupted and you might need assistance in recovering your email data.

Even after you have emptied your trash, Compressing Folders is a recommended step to prevent other data corruption. Once you understand that an email does not actually move from one folder to another until folder is compressed, then you can better appreciate this advice.

As an example, when Email A comes into your main Inbox, data connected to Email A appears in two files. One file contains header and body of email. The other file contains only email header information.

When an email is moved from one folder to other, only header information is actually moved. The body information will not be deleted from original folder until which time original folder is compressed.

This explains purpose of emptying trash AND compressing folders. If email was simply moved from Inbox to another folder, then emptying trash is not enough. The original placement of email is not actually removed from file that contains body information until message has been designated for compression.

To empty your trash:

OUTLOOK EXPRESS: Click on Edit - Empty 'Deleted Items' Folder. To compress remaining folders, click on Tools - Options, then click on tab for Maintenance. Then click button that says, "Clean Up Now". Once compression is completed, click OK.

EUDORA: Click Special - Empty Trash. To compress remaining items that need compression, then click on Special - Compact Mailboxes.

NETSCAPE MAIL: Click on File - Empty Trash Folder. To compress mailboxes, click on File - Compress Folders.

I cannot stress enough how important it is that you utilize tools for emptying trash and compressing mail folders. Protecting your email data on a regular basis is good practice for avoiding disaster in your mailbox.

So many of us rely upon our email software to keep our online business running smoothly. Once you master tools provided in your email software, your online business will run smoothly also.

Let me share one important lesson I l've learned about computer software. One should never be afraid to try new things. Learning how to get most out of your software relies upon your willingness to dig in and learn how to use it.

Once you learn how to use your software to its full potential, then your life will be greatly simplified and your effectiveness will be dramatically improved.