Most of this can be blamed on site owners themselves. A lot of people put up a website with a few products and expect dollars to start rolling in soon after. Not. That is easiest way for you to fail.

Several years ago when I built my first website, I almost became a victim of “easy does it syndrome”. After a few months online, I noticed that I was getting very few visitors and I began to worry.

After some extensive research, I found out that only way to generate traffic was to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty. It has been a roller coaster ride every since I started.

You may have received an email about how US Postal Service is trying to push through a bill that would allow them to charge 5 cents per email. I can understand why people would think that it's true. The Postal Service had nothing to do with email being sent and they aren't going to give you anything for 5 cents. Sure sounds like a government agency.

The email is a hoax. What's amazing to me is that it started in 1999 and is still making its way around Internet. If you haven't seen email, you can see an example of email and more information about it on Urban Legends Reference Page (http://www.snopes.com/business axes/bill602p.asp).

I wouldn't be surprised by Postal Service wanting to do something like this, which is one of reasons this email has been mistaken by so many people as being real. The U.S. Postal Service currently has an electronic postmark available to businesses who want to use it. You send your email through Postal Services servers and they put a postmark on it for a price. It works similar to snail mail - you send email to their server and it may or may not make it to your recipient. USPS website (http://www.usps.com).