1. Is it in a quiet neighbourhood? What I mean by that is that if you are right beside I-5 freeway, or right under a major flyway, or even across street from a busy mall, your home may not be best place to try to focus on a home-based business.

2. Is there really room for you to establish an office in your home? You don't want be working from your kitchen counter, coffee table or cabinet-top, so make sure there is enough comfortable space available for you to establish a home-based office -- and to expand if you need to -- separate from family daily living areas.

Yahooooo! As I once heard a drunken wedding reception guest yell out when boozing bride took a running leap onto back of bridegroom's Mother.

As bridegroom's Mom hit floor with her new daughter- in-law riding her, it didn't take a prophet to foretell that Stuff was about to hit fan.

Yahooooo! You're starting your Home Grown Internet Biz!

OK. Great. Super! I one hundred per cent endorse your decision.

Here's your first business assignment. Figure out if your Home Grown Internet Biz is going to be bride or bridegroom's Mom.

Because Stuff is about to hit fan!

Just like at wedding reception, internet is over loaded with wild-eyed experts. Every damn one of these experts are going to want to get into your action.

So prepare yourself. You're going to drenched with *expert* advice.

Some of advice will be OK. Some will be good. And some will be very good. But biggest part of advice will waste your money and your time.

So how do you know when advice is good, very good or stinkin? That, my friend is a very good question.

You're going to trust yourself. If your gut sends you a caution signal, listen up.

If your gut tells you this feels right, listen up. Do some more checking. If it still feels right and it feels like fun, not work, you're probably onto something.

You already know everything you need to know. Just trust yourself. If you can think it, you can do it. Really.

It's going to take you awhile to learn how to use many electronic tools that make internet marketing so much easier than working offline.

No big deal there. Take it one step at a time. Work your way through it. Most of tools you'll need are easy anyway. Of course more difficult, like building and maintaining your websites, will take longer. But you can master them.

The web is loaded with free help for every tool you'll actually need. Here's a short list of what You can learn for free.