4 My New-to-Net Friends
Index to Tips and Training

This section of my site has helpful tips and training, or links that will help you train yourself to be a wise and efficient Netpreneur. It will grow with stories of things I have learned over the last seven years or more.

My learning curve has been steep, and I'm still at it all the time! Last year I was transitioning into a Linux world on my computer. A series of articles is coming out of this. Here's the first ones;

What Led me to Want Linux? & Choosing a Distro

Come, Tour my Candy Store! Exploring Mandrake, my very first Linux operating system.

My Computer Tsunami how one mistake led to another!

Choosing Your Online Small Business Model

You may be seriously thinking about doing some kind of online business work to earn some money. Or perhaps to do some Christian ministry. But what options exactly are out there? What do you need to know and do to make a living online, or to help others?

I can give you a broad picture of the choices and the stages you need to move through to set yourself up as a business you can run from your computer at home.

Here are a few pages to get you started;
The Most Important Requirements
Discover YOUR Passion (brainstorming)
Looking over the Business Models
The SiteSell models

Warning about Get Rich Quick Schemes

There are plentiful warnings about falling for Get Rich Quick schemes for making money fast. Here's one article by Doug Williams who has some sensible warnings on these and particularly 3rd Rate Traffic Exchanges.


What's this SPAM?

Unsolicited email is any email you send to someone that didn't agree to receive it! The following actions all constitute unsolicited email (spam):

-Sending mail to purchased bulk-email lists, whether on-line or on a CD-ROM, and whether or not they are described as opportunity seekers' or opt-in, particularly where the only contact address listed is their email address.

  - Sending mail to email addresses harvested from web sites.

  - Sending more than one confirmation email in response to a single FFA posting, whether by autoresponder or directly.

  - Adding email addresses to an auto-responder where the person has not specifically asked to be added to your autoresponder (and you may need to prove that they did ask).

  - Adding email addresses to a database, newletter or mailing list where the person has not specifically asked to be added (and you may need to prove that they did ask).

The best way to avoid spam complaints is:

  - Also include as many contact details as you feel comfortable with, at the minimum your name and/or company name but preferably also a contact phone number and post office box address. (For safety I do not recommend putting your residential address in an email).

  - Wherever possible personalize your communications, particularly if you have the person's name. And never address an email to a stranger as 'Dear Friend.'

  - Always, always, always include a method whereby the person can decline to receive any further emails from you.