Five Things NOT to do When Starting a Home BusinessWritten by Tammy Henderson
I know what your thinking but this is not another “marketing errors people make” article. I’m not going to tell you how ugly and annoying your website is or that even your own mother wouldn’t buy from you with that horrible sales letter.What I’m going to help you with may be common sense to some but it may be eye-opening for others. I have learned from my mistakes (hopefully) and I’m going to pass on my new found knowledge. 1. Don’t put an ad on an FFA site with your business e-mail address (or your personal address or your e-zine subscription address or any other address that you read regularly). You will wade through a gazillion e-mails. Now that I have that basement full of Viagra, I have my 12 credit cards, 3rd and 4th mortgages, and all businesses going that I can (and sometimes can’t) handle, I don’t need to read all of “conformation of posting to my FFA site” messages. Now don’t get me wrong, they do have a great use. I do scan them to catch headlines that grab me, and if I’m looking for a certain thing, I may scan for that too. But do yourself a favor, get a free junkmail address so you won’t be looking for customers e-mails, or urgent mail. 2. Don’t sign up for every free program out there. In order to be successful in an online business, you must know your business, inside and out. How can you possibly spend enough time learning about 10 different programs so that you can promote, answer questions and be loyal enough to stand behind them? Spread yourself too thin and you will start to forget things, skip important training, not reply to messages in a timely manner. I don’t know how many times I have said that I have too many irons in fire. I have narrowed down programs I am involved in. I stuck with cream of crop. I stay much nicer that way.
| | Five Things TO do When Starting a Home BusinessWritten by Tammy Henderson
I’m going to take a chance here and bet that you haven’t heard at least one or two of my suggestions, and maybe none of them. These are not your normal home business suggestions.1. Buy yourself at least two 5 subject notebooks. I prefer smaller 9 ½” size. That way, they don’t take up much room at your computer table. You can keep track of your ID#’s, passwords, ideas, urls, to do lists and your checklists when advertising. Now I know, I know, this is old fashioned way, but for quick reference, this method can’t be beat. 2. Get up and take at break at least once every two hours. I know that I have been guilty of sitting here for hours on end, only to get up and find out that either my leg’s asleep, I’m staving to death because I completely forgot lunch, or that I have forgotten to get laundry out of dryer and now it’s all wrinkled. (headaches, backaches and a stiff neck are also a result of this) Get up and stretch, look out window, take a walk, anything to refresh yourself. 3. Keep a big jug of ice cold water by your computer. I used to hate water till I bought a water filter and now I drink my 8 glasses a day, just like I’m supposed to. This is not only very healthy, it also helps with #2 above. I drink it without even thinking about it because it’s there, next to puter. Do make sure that it’s a container that is not easily knocked over.
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