D = Decision The decision to succeed at building a lucrative home business must be a firm commitment, a fiery yearning in your soul that you ARE going to do this. A flimsy “Oh, we’ll see how it goes” attitude won’t get you where you want to go. Sorry. It’s best that you know this upfront.

I = Integrity You must relate on a mutually beneficial plane with rest of world. If you think you can make good by foisting a cheap bill of goods onto unsuspecting customers, you’re wrong. You might make a few quick sales, but your success will be short-lived and your ruined reputation might never recover.

S = Sincerity Do you really believe that your product is worth it? Are you really concerned about helping people you do business with or are you just trying to “take their money and run?” I know there are people out there like that because I’ve been victim of a few of them! Those unfortunate experiences taught me that I certainly don’t ever want to be like one of greedy bunch.

C = Concentration It is far better to concentrate your efforts on a single home business program. Some people try to get their fingers into a few different pies, hoping to speed up their inflow of cash, and results are disastrous. I know of one guy who wanted to deal in an arsenal of products so that he could “always sell something to somebody.” He had one company for diet pills, another for legal services and yet another for software programs. He figured he had all bases covered. Well, I don’t guess I need to tell you that he ended up selling “nothing to nobody” and he lost a bundle of money besides.

I = Inspiration Where do you get yours from? Do you find quiet time for yourself? An occasional mental vacation is helpful, too. It’s so important to visualize our desired aims, to keep our goals lively in our imagination. Do you have a network of people to stimulate you, people who can provide information, encouragement and insight when you are tapped dry? It’s a sad and lonely road if you’re trying to do it alone. Thank goodness it’s not necessary.

There are three primary email applications on market that folks use to manage their incoming POP3 email. Those three are:

· Microsoft Outlook Express · Eudora · Netscape Mail

In order to get most from your email software, there are three key processes that you should learn. These processes are concerned with data organization, saving time and email database management.

SET UP EMAIL FOLDERS

Organization is key to any emails that you intend to save. Having 2000 emails in one folder is a sure-fire road map to confusion and lost communications and information.

You are best judge as to how to organize your email into topics that provide an easy method of retrieval of information when you need it most.

Fortunately, primary email browsers make it easy to organize your information. By allowing you to create folders within your email software, you can file specific emails into folders dedicated to topic of email.

To create new folders:

OUTLOOK EXPRESS: 1. Click File - Folders - New --- alternatively, you may also right click an item in Folder window --- and then type in name of your new folder. Highlight folder above where you would like your new folder to be placed, and then click OK.

EUDORA: Click on Mailbox - New --- or right click on Eudora in folders window and then click on New. When window opens, type in name of your new mailbox and click OK. If you want to create a folder to place other mailboxes into, click checkbox before clicking OK.

NETSCAPE MAIL: Click File - New Folder. Then from drop-down menu, select folder that you wish to be folder directly above your new folder, before clicking OK.

FILTERING EMAIL

Email filters are a tool to help you save time and frustration. Have you ever lost an incoming email under deluge of email coming into your mailbox? With filters, you can direct important email or not-so-important email into certain pre-ordained folders.

As part of war against spam, most ISP's use filters every day in an attempt to keep spam out of your mailbox. In fact, I even use filters to sort my incoming mail trying to catch spam my ISP missed.

Don’t be fooled into thinking you need some special software to filter your email. Setting up filters is actually quite easy.

To setup email filters:

OUTLOOK EXPRESS: Click on Tools - Message Rules - Mail. A wizard will open to help you create your new email filters. Just follow instructions provided to direct mail based on certain criteria into certain folders.

EUDORA: Click on Special - Make Filter. Once again, just follow instructions in Filter wizard.