The following information will help you operate a business more professionally. With today’s technology there is no reason you cannot have look of a large company even if you are working off your kitchen table. If you have a home based business it is suggested you have a room dedicated to your business. This helps you to stay focused and there are some major tax benefits in doing this.

PROFESSIONALISM

-Choose voicemail rather than an answering machine. There is a major difference in perception to caller.

-Toll free number. Check with your local telephone company to find out if this is available to you if you will have a lot of clients/customers from outside your calling area.

-Have a separate business phone line. You do not appear very professional if your children answer phone.

-Email. Avoid using free services due to limitations and perceptions.

-Dedicated fax line. A small business will appear as such if fax number and phone number are same.

RUNNING AN OFFICE

-Stay organized. The more you can keep yourself organized easier it will be to respond to customer’s requests in a timely fashion.

-Color file folders. A great way to organize your file system. Each color indicates a category.

-Dedicated file cabinets. Separate personal papers from business.

-Form letters. Don’t reinvent wheel with every letter you write. Keep form letters on a disc or your hard drive.

FINANCIAL END of running business. There will be many costs to running a business. The following are some of investments you will need to consider.

-Medical insurance

-Separate phone lines

-Taxes

-Marketing material

-Office supplies

-Products

-Service fees

This is where many website owners seem to falter, and many never recover.

This article is not about marketing for websites, it is about ways to avoid having to market your website. This requires a carefully thought out plan, one that is a much outside box thinking as anything else.

To start, we select a basic opportunity that runs itself. There are such opportunities out there, and they can be characterized by a complete internal system of marketing and promotion. One such example is Empowerism. It features a built-in autoresponder and opt-in email lead program, and provides basic marketing of your website without any help from you.

This program can be allowed to run, with your only requirement being to feed it $19.95 every month. However, thing that makes Empowerism a great opportunity is RSVP and MVP programs it offers. These programs allow you to make money without doing anything except feeding them some seed money.

The Empowerism website does a good job of explaining these programs, so I won't attempt to do that here. My point is that to build perfect web business without marketing, you have to start with an automated component.