Now you can earn while you learn. Gone are days when some self-proclaimed expert or guru got you to buy his all-encompassing, never-need-anything else book. You paid maybe $47.00 to over a hundred dollars, and tried to read and understand it. Only to finally give up with a "What did he say?" The book ended up on shelf and process started all over again. You didn't learn and you most certainly didn't earn.

Now "new time" - new, friendlier dawn. Now you can earn and learn at same time.

What is "new, friendlier, take-you-by-the-hand, give-you-a-piece-of-the-pie revolution? Well, you might say, they are income generating programs or associations.

Here's why I call this a revolution. Because, in my opinion, these new income generating programs or associations are going to change web marketing forever. And it's going to change suddenly and for betterment of you and me - guys trying to live dream, be independent, and just make a good living and be left alone to do our thing.

Here's how they work. You join program. Pay a small fee each month. They provide goods. They start you off with information products to sell and provide a new one every month. But, you say - "that's an affiliate program." That's what I thought when I heard of first one.

Boy, was I wrong. See, with affiliate programs you just tout big boy. The one who has affiliate program. In order to sell his product and earn 10%, 25%, or maybe 50%, you have to exalt them (the one in control of program) to heavens.

He gets all credit, he gets more and more known, largely through your efforts and others like you. You remain in background. You never get known. This is not egotism talking - this is business sense.

Copyright [C] 2002 Shahnaz Rauf, snzeport.com Web site and e-business security is a very sensitive issue. Some of top brass in cyber-marketing have hired full time network wizards to work it out for them. Giants such as Microsoft have set up special network security courses just to resolve such issues.

If you had a brick and mortar business, you would be maintaining a regular schedule and time sheets to monitor your employees. Also you would be ensuring tight security by installing alarms, closed circuit monitoring (video cameras), electronic cards etc. Online too you need to monitor your 24 hour sales person...

- Is he really doing job you want him to do? - Is your eshop secure from darker elements? - Who and what are your customers doing? - Where are they coming from? - Does your business have any loop holes? - Are your transactions safe etc?

Yes you need to set up all your bells, whistles, snooping devices and other security measures. Here are 10 basic ‘must do’ steps for small home based webmasters like you and me:

1. Trade mark all your slogans, logo, ultimate selling proposition etc. by putting a TM sign [For example: The House of Viral e-BooksTM ]. This also gives you a touch of `class` and creates a brand image for you.

2. Put a Copyright notice and date (Copyright [C] 2002 Your name) on all your creations, articles, sales letter, web pages etc.

3. Put a disclaimer - `use it at your own risk` clause for all your work- articles/ebook/website/at end of ezine etc. This discourages those elements who are not capable of accepting responsibility for their actions and need to pin it else where.

4. On all outgoing auto-responder messages – put ‘this is an autoresponse’ clause to avoid any spam complaints. For I have experienced that in rush to grab something free, some people will keep sending several emails to auto- responders instead of waiting patiently for response to arrive. Then of course, basic autoresponder sends them an equal number of responses.