So you have decided to start up your own home business and after hours of searching you have decided on program you are going to join.

Now stop and take check before you rush in.

Yes there are thousands of people running their own home business and yes they are making money from them.

What you need to stop and consider is that you will be running you own business and what does any business need to make money? You may come up with several answers but let me tell you from experience key resource to any successful business is its employees.

You can have best product or service in world but if your employees are not up to scratch then you will not have a successful business.

Now a quick search of net will bring up thousands of affiliate opportunities and companies willing to offer you job of promoting their service or product and they require little more than you email and user name to get started. They do not really have a lot to loose by employing you to advertise their service as they only pay you for result so no sign ups then no payments, only real sack able offence in their eyes is spamming

However you do have plenty to loose so consider yourself to be your first employee of your business.

What I am asking is would you employ you? Do you have what it takes as an employee to make your business successful?

Now would be a good time to sit down and think of questions that you would ask an interviewee before you were to offer them a job.

(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com =====================================

"E-commerce"

A word pervading our society, making headlines around world, and causing stock market to rise and fall with startling ease.

It seems every business news story centers on some technology company’s "DOT-com" or "DOT-bomb"!

With all positive and negative hoopla, business owners of any size company can throw up their hands and feel "E" world has left them behind.

Every business owner, salesperson, or professional asked one of two questions in past year, either "Am I using e- commerce correctly?" or "How do I effectively get involved in e-commerce?"

You can buy hundreds of books and pay thousands in consulting fees to analyze and debate answer to first question.

To answer to second question just follow these 12 steps.

Step 1 - Buy a domain name (your own DOT-com). Go to www.NetworkSolutions.com and research names. Can a customer easily spell and remember it?

Step 2 - Write down your online goals and prepare a time and money budget.

How soon do you want your e-commerce site up and running?

How much will you spend?

How many hours will you devote to site and when?

Step 3 - Surf web to find other sites you like and dislike. Learn from others’ successes and mistakes by taking best of what their sites offer and adapting it for your own use.

Step 4 - Design your site on paper. Define elements, look, feel, colors etc.

Step 5 - Hire a professional to set up graphics and navigation, but with intention of you or your staff maintaining site’s day to day operations, communication and updates.