Collecting your visitors' email addresses

Collecting your visitors' email addresses should be one of your top priorities.

Start collecting email addresses the moment you put your site up. Developing a list of targeted potential customers is an absolute must.

Although publishing an ezine is usually the best route to go, it is not a necessity. You can use your list to send out web site updates, product updates, or whatever you'd like.

Resources Ensuring You Never Get Scammed Again

The internet is loaded with SCAMS aimed at taking as much money from you as possible in the shortest amount of time. With so many innocent people trying to find a great opportunity to work at home it’s easy for scam artists to draw you in with the promise of riches.

Fortunately, there are resources available for you to check with to help ensure that you are not helping a scam artist to get rich by throwing away your hard earned money.

There are quite a few of these opportunity “regulators” as I like to call them. Use these resources to investigate an opportunity before you get involved and/or send any money:

1) Federal Trade Commission (http://www.ftc.gov):
The FTC has a lot of information for businesses and consumers. You can check out things such as the top 10 consumer fraud complaints, work-at-home schemes, your legal rights, and much more. You can also file a complaint if you have already had a problem.

2) Better Business Bureau (http://www.bbb.org):
The BBB is a very well known and reliable resource for checking out businesses. They provide information on over 2 million organizations. You can find reliability reports on organizations as well as a lot of other helpful information. As with the FTC you can also file a complaint at the BBB if you need to.

3) Scambusters (http://www.scambusters.org/):
These guys claim to be the #1 Publication on Internet Fraud. You can find a wealth of information and resources on this site aimed at avoiding scams and fraud. They also offer links to other sites that may be helpful.

4) Internet Trade Bureau (http://www.internettradebureau.com/):
The ITB was formed to help promote fair business practices on the internet. They offer site reviews, and tracking of consumer complaints. They do not retain any members who get complaints.

5) ScamWatch (http://www.scamwatch.com/):
These guys offer a scam directory, a list of things to watch out for, scam reports, most likely scams, and more. There is a lot of information on this site designed to prevent you from being scammed.

You can also check with these organizations:
http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
http://www.quatloos.com/
http://www.web-police.org/
http://www.dsa.org/
http://www.fraud.org/

Here’s a list of email addresses for you to report scams, fraud, and spam:
-Email address of the FTC where the "get rich quick" spam email scams should be sent: uce@ftc.gov
-Internet Fraud Center at fraudinfo@psinet.com
-National Fraud Information Center email: nfic@internetmci.com
-Email address of the US Postal Inspection Service where all "Chain Letter" spam email scams should be sent: fraud@usps.gov and customer@email.usps.gov

As you can see there are plenty of resources available to you so you should be able to check out any money making opportunity very thoroughly to ensure your safety. The above list is by no means all the organizations you can check with but they are some very reliable resources. If you find an opportunity listed in the scam or fraud section, of any of the above sites, I would highly recommend staying away from it.

Remember, there are many legitimate opportunities for you to choose from. Working at home has tons of rewards, so don’t give up on your dreams just because you are afraid of getting scammed. Do your homework on any opportunity you are pursuing and you should be fine.

Now, go and find yourself a legitimate business opportunity to secure your financial destiny!

SPAM is a four letter word and will be treated as such

Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM, Don't SPAM

Do I need to repeat myself.

Where to Complain about a work-at-home program

If you have spent money and time on a work-at-home program and now believe the program may not be legitimate, contact the company and ask for a refund. Let company representatives know that you plan to notify officials about your experience. If you can't resolve the dispute with the company, file a complaint with these organizations:

The Federal Trade Commission works for the consumer to prevent fraud and deception. Call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357) or log on to www.ftc.gov.
The Attorney General's office in your state or the state where the company is located. The office will be able to tell you whether you're protected by any state law that may regulate work-at-home programs.
Your local consumer protection offices.
Your local Better Business Bureau.
Your local postmaster. The U.S. Postal Service investigates fraudulent mail practices.
The advertising manager of the publication that ran the ad. The manager may be interested to learn about the problems you've had with the company.

Your web site can either make or break you

A professional looking web site will play a major role in your success. If you aren't secure in your abilities to design a professional looking site, you will be much better off hiring a professional.

What You Should Look For in a Home Business Opportunity!

Many people often ask how they know if an opportunity is legitimate. There are so many different scams out there that you should definitely check out any opportunity very thoroughly before getting involved. Especially if they ask for money up front! There are a lot of great legitimate opportunities out there....you just need to find them.

Here are some factors I recommend looking for in an opportunity before you invest your time and/or money:

*support systems and training resources available to help the participants succeed.

*successful longevity (how long has this particular company been successfully doing business?) Should be at least 5 years or more.

*reasonable income expectations with no limit on amounts you can earn

*Free to Join, No Hidden Fees, Don't ever have to pay anything, unless you specifically want to in order to help your business

*Great Reputation and backed by the Better Business Bureau and/or at least a few of the other companies that help stop you from getting scammed (Internet Trade Bureau, Scambusters, Federal Trade Commission, Direct Sellers Association, etc...)

*Great compensation plan with proven system

*Unlimited help, training, support, resources, mentors, etc...in real-time

*Many Many different products and/or services that you can promote so you are not limited to a few things

*Should be a global opportunity (can be done from anywhere) so you are not limited to just one market (such as the United States)

*You should have full control over your business so it is actually YOUR home business

****Remember there is not a "magic" opportunity, there are no get-rich-quick schemes (unless you want to get scammed), and you should reject any business that sounds too good to be true.

I am personally involved in many different opportunities. I have also done a lot of research on work at home and home business opportunities.

Follow-Up, Follow-Up, Follow-Up

Did you get that yet? Do I need to say it again?

One of the main keys to a strong business is to follow-up with your customers. Ask them if everything is as expected. Get feedback from them. Offer them deals or freebies. Make sure they remember you in the back of their minds all the time. Just getting a customer is only half the battle. Keeping them is winning the war. Chances are you won't keep them if you don't follow-up with them.

Change the Content on your Website!

No matter how great you think your site is, if you don't change the content on it then it will lose ranking as well as visitors.

I can't tell you what content to add to your site due to the fact that all sites are different and I don't have a clue what your site needs. I can tell you that you need to change the content of your site quite frequently. This can be done by just adding some new links or new text or another page, etc...

Visitors will like it and so will search engines.

I recommend you first get your site ranked by using link exchanges (Reciprocal Links) then, once it has a good ranking, start changing your content.

Most of us are not computer experts that know all that HTML/PHP/JAVA and all the other computer jargon so we need all the help we can get. I am soon going to start using Mozilla to edit my websites content. It comes highly recommended. I have a lot of people on my Work at Home Team that use it and they love it.

So, go now and change your content!