If you are looking to start your own home business, this is what you need to look out for

Starting up serious home business careers online, require knowledge which is easy to aquire online. Within 6 to 12 months you can have a profitable domestic company up and running. Start out with one campaign and wait until it is established before moving on to another. It is extremely easy to get side tracked on the internet, start by turning off your email program. Starting a home business is not tedious. In fact, there are numerous advantages in starting a home based business.

Affiliate Programs: This is another legitimate way to earn extra income. An affiliate can get a percentage of sales generated by a customer when it sends a customer to a merchant generates. Affiliate marketing is also the easiest way to start your online home business and is one of the booming industries online. Simply by partnering with an online merchant as an affiliate, you can host your own site to provide them their much needed website traffic.

Consider technology needs and how savvy you are with a computer. Will you make a profit? Consider it an advantage to owning a worldwide home business.

Successful home-based businesses utilize all available resources. There are many tools and sources of information freely offered that will assist you in achieving your goals. Successful people who work from home will have a set time to work even if they never get dressed for the day. You have to be able to set aside time that is devoted for work only. Success usually does not occur over night, but you have a quicker chance at success if you know what you are going to do and what it will take to get there.

Successful people know that you will have to check out the testimonials from others to see if they have been satisfied and if they are earning money. If you pay for membership or products through some certain processors if or when a problem arises will arbitrate for you to get your money back if need be.

REAL home business opportunities are very successful when they are NOT just get rich quick schemes. Invaluable marketing tools in conjunction with affiliate/prospect management systems, forums, and contact with anyone who is already making money from the same company or program are superb ways to help you make your business a roaring success. Genuine home business opps come in a variety of guises, from affiliate link promotion to home-based business ideas like data entry (this is one you REALLY need to investigate, as there are genuine programs, but there are a HUGE amount of bogus ones out there too).
Starting an answering service is the third home business opportunity you could easily start. Did you know that there are many small enterprises that are on the look out for outsourcing their answering services? Starting a home business is not the easiest of things to do. There is a lot that goes into making a home business work and be successful.

Home business opportunities are an excellent choice for single mothers that need to stay at home with their children, retirees looking to make some extra money, or any one else tired of working in the corporate world. Find the internet home business opportunity, or work from home business opportunity that you�ve been looking for. Home business opportunities are not necessarily getting hard to promote and succeed with, but there is a lot more competition in that industry than there is in the cash gifting industry. And so many self proclaimed "marketing gurus" THINK and hype you to death, and if you're not careful, get suckered into joining their program or opportunity only to never succeed as they promised.

The trick is to use your common sense and not to get sucked in. Ensure you have a product and take it from there. Lots of programs have nothing to sell, just membership, and there are not always benefits to that membership, so research your opportunity. Remember you will have to put the effort in. If you can't do that there is probably no point in you starting anything. Most importantly... ENJOY THE RIDE. It's very exciting

Price comparison sites are they are rip off?

Price comparison sites are a great way to see how you can get the best deal for your money. However are you aware that most price comparison sites get paid buy the retailers that they recommend to promote their stores?

Most people don't and it's not always the best way to look for certain products as they can be completely biased towards one company or another (or in some cases claim to be, for example an insurance comparison site, and actually be OWNED by on specific company).

One site that can be recommended however, is ShopWiki. This site is immensely popular highly regarded both in the US and UK. They are now coming to the Netherlands, builing on their success in France and Germany. They don't charge retailers to register with them so you KNOW you are getting good information that is in no way biased.

Paying for items online

Auction and sites like it are great for getting bargains, and with the credit crunch in full swing its ALWAYS nice to get a bargain.

However with auction sites (ebay inparticular) you have slightly more protection than when you buy items from online ad sites. Now there is NOTHING wrong with online ad sites. You can get great bargains from them, but the do attract scammers. No question about it. So does ebay, but with auction sites you can always check their feedback score.

So with auction sites you have some peace of mind. However online ads work differently. You post ads that fit into a category and once they are within the sites terms and conditions they are usually there for all to see.

Now this is the crunch if you decide to buy from someone, ONLY PAY WITH PAYPAL. No I know lots of people don´t like paypal, but its the protection you need. You send someone the money agreed for the purchase of the item and if you don´t receive your goods or you have a dispute you can sort it out with paypal. You can also do this with our credit card, you have full buyers protection, but if you are purchasing from and individual they don´t usually have a credit card processor, however many, many people have have paypal.

HERE IS THE GOLDEN RULE! DON´T SEND CASH. YOU DON´T KNOW THESE PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE NO WAY OF CONFIRMING THEY ARE WHO THEY ARE! However with a payment processor like paypal or any of the others to be completely fair you have covered your back. That is what these processors are for, so use them

Being offered vouchers from retailers

This is not so much a security issue, as a spam issue. This is something you can get sucked into, and you become the spammer.

There is, and it comes in many different guises and e-mail that tells you that if you e-mail all your friends and e-mail a specific e-mail address, you will receive $250 worth of vouchers from a main street retailer. Not only that, but your friends, should they e-mail it, will ALSO receive these vouchers. The reason you have to send it to someone specific is so they know who send the e-mail. It's claimed that the reason you will receive these vouchers is because you are involved in advertising for both parties.

THIS IS A CROCK! A full blown e-mail advertising campaign wouldn't cost as much as they claim to be giving. The commonest e-mail going around at the moment involved Marks and Spencers (a reputable british retailer) and Persimmony Homes (I think that's their name anyway). So they ask that you send the e-mail to your friends and to, for example sean@persimmony and that Sean will get in touch to arrange your vouchers for you.

So not only are you spamming your friends, you are spamming poor Sean, who is inundated with all the e-mails.

Again, common sense, it's a very valuabe commodity, and it should be used a whole lot more!

Another new one...

There is another new type of e-mail spam attack.

It's telling you that someone has been trying to contact you. Now I have never heard of any of these so called reunion/social network sites. In fact, they have said that someone from school is trying to find me, yet they are sending to my married name, and anyone I went to school with, would NEVER know me by my married name, so obviously it's clearly a bogus e-mail.

So watch out for them, and as usual DON'T CLICK THE LINKS. Do I say that too much? Maybe I do, but frankly I don't care, because I don't think I can say it enough, especially as (and no offense to anyone reading this) sometimes people don't think, and will click the links, so just don't do it. It's always better to be safe and not sorry!!

If you didn't subscribe to it... Don't follow the links

This entry is exactly what the heading suggests.

If you didn't sign up to, or subscribe to something, and you receive e-mails informing you that you did (it doesnt matter if they include your IP address, reason being its probably bogus)!

There is usually an unsubscribe link, which is also bogus, and it just lets the spammers and scammers know that, the particular e-mail address is active!!!

Just mark them as spam if your spam filter has not picked it up, and DELETE IT!! Really don't touch the links, no matter how tempted you are, you are opening up the flood gates to your e-mail address, and you will be inundated with rubbish (your e-mail address will go onto a list and will be sold and passed around).

Remember, use your common sense, and it will save you a world of torment!!!

Entertainment link...

There is a new one. Now it looks like you have subscribed to a celebrity gossip e-zine. They appear to be from the likes of msnbc, or E! or something like that, with absolutely extraordinary subject lines.

It will look like a celebrity (mostly seems to be Paris Hilton, and I know everyone has their own opinions on Paris, but she doesn't deserve some of these headlines...), being caught in a compromising position, or that an aging celebrity has died (when that are still alive), but not only have they died but they have died under peculiar circumstances.

They include links, whatever you do don't open them. It confirms that they have a good e-mail address, and you will be bombarded with tonnes and tonnes of rubbish. Just do the the smart thing, DELETE, DELETE, DELETE. If you have your e-mail being accessed via pop (to your desktop) ensure that you delete it permanently from your system.