Are you confused about the home business?

Today more and more of us are making the leap into the home business arena.  The internet has made it
a very possible venture.  However there are so many ways and so much information available that it
quickly becomes confusing or almost defeating to set up your own home business.

The other factor that can be more confusing is there are literally thousands of people saying they a have
the magic system to make instant riches almost over night.  Here the goo old adage of "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is".  You must learn that any business you try to create requires the full time effort and concentration of yourself.  There is no real shortcut to wealth and freedom.

The whole idea is really great and the learning curve can be shortened with just a little time in learning the basics of the internet system.  There are many free and very inexpensive programs and videos available today.
These can be found now with simple search terms entered into your favorite search engine.  It is most important that you really understand the terms and methods of creating a website, email accounts, autoresponders, loading and unloading your materials to your host. These are just the beginning  points.

A good place to start is with free e courses related to each subject.  A good library of these books may be found here : Dan's Learning Center

5 Steps of a new online marketer.

The experience of creating an online business is overwhelming and full of frustrations.  I have been working to create an income on line for over a year now. I think that I now can see the light at the end of the runnel.
Here are  5 stages that I found I had to go through to reach this point.  I  am sure that everyone will see how these stages occur.

First Stage - You see big promises of easy fortunes

   We all want to have the finer things in life, especially after working for 40 years and not seeing our
personal wealth created or just getting started and looking for that something better than a weekly pay check. Here is where you ask, Can this really be done?  If you are a skeptic like me, the first thought is no way.  However the promotions and testimonials can sure get your curiosity up.

   So after a few of the exciting programs that you look at, your enthusiasm builds.  Your read several free reports and e-books. They give you this impression that all you have to do is create a website that you get for free. Pay for a name and hosting site. Write articles like this one. Submit to the article publishers and instantly have a six figure income.

    Well after a few months and a couple of hundred dollars spent on training programs, newsletters and computer programs, you will be in stage 2.

Second Stage - I need more training.

    Now you have created the website, gotten the name and host. But you need to have an auto-responder, a product, a clickbank account, a Google account and on and on.  You feel that the first part was not too bad, you can do this too.  However now it cost more money to get this training.  The terms HTML, auto-responder, goggle analytics, adsense, adwords, traffic exchanges are really greek to you.  You have learned how to seach for information and you go looking for the free training programs.  There are thousands of them.  Which one to pick?  You read a few reviews and end up getting 3 or 4 programs.  Great you think, here you run into the proverbial "all you have to do is" senerio. Plus the training course leaves out many details that will make the systems work.  Now it is trial and error time. Create blogs, auto-responder emails, squeeze pages, down pages, monitize and get products to sell.  Then you find out you need to protect these things and you nee more training.  You read report and book after book, which now gets you more confused and just wondering where that simple business really is.  Then you move into the third stage.

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