Are you one of these people?

If you are, it is important to ask yourself some very important questions before you make uncertain leap into self-employment.

Many dream of benefits of home business ownership, but few take into account sacrifices that must be made to bring dream to fruition. Please don't make this mistake yourself.

You must approach home business ownership with your eyes wide open. Ask yourself important questions, and more importantly, answer your own questions openly and honestly.

AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION

Are you type of person who relishes every chance to gather around water cooler for social interaction?

If so, then home business ownership may not be right decision for you.

Instead, if you feel that you can be quite content sitting alone at your desk; speaking only to clients and really minding your own home business, then you might have what it takes to succeed as a home business entrepreneur.

If you feel at ease with your own company and don't need a dozen coworkers milling around your desk, then you, too, could savor freedoms that will allow you and your family, to live lifestyle you know you want and deserve.

THE KEY TO HOME BUSINESS SUCCESS

Self-motivation is key to success when you start a home-based business. You need to possess ability to push yourself ahead. Your drive and determination will be reinforced with every new sale.

Let me explain.

The three types of promotion are Junk, Active and Passive promotions.

JUNK PROMOTIONS ARE MONEY PITS

Junk promotions are those that seem to produce results, but by their very nature are really only illusionary promotions.

For example, let me begin with FFA (Free For All) pages. You might find yourself subscribing to a submission program that tricks you into believing you are submitting your links to tens of thousands search engines.

According to Open Directory website, they have only approved 1705 search engines and directories for inclusion in their database (http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/).

I like using DMOZ directory as an example because submitted links are tested by human beings with integrity, for honesty used in site description. Search Engine Watch and other search watchers tend to show fewer than these 1705 engines, primarily because a lot of engines provide very little value.

Yes, you can submit your URL to a FFA page, but FFA’s usually only permit 100 or 1000 links on their page at any one time. So, if ten thousand people are submitting a link to an FFA page on a daily basis, then average life of your link is between seven minutes and 144 minutes. I suspect actual number of submitters is much higher and results are much worse. Given that few people surf FFA pages, chances of your submission being of any real value is practically nill!

Most of people telling you that you can submit your site to tens of thousands of search engines are truly only submitting your site to FFA pages! Beware of false promises.