Avoiding the Money Pits in a Computer Home Business

Copyright (c) 2008 Darrell Howell

If you are like a lot of people, you are having a hard time with your computer home business. The biggest question you may have is, how do I promote my business? One thing to remember is to stay away from the money pits. Junk Promotions are money pits. FFA, or Free For All pages are usually a bust. You might think you are getting submitted to thousands of search engines. But according to the Open Directory website, they only have 1403 search engines in their database. This means there aren't that many directories to add your site to.

You may sink your money into classifieds to promote you computer home business. The problem with some classified sites, is no one is looking at them. If no one sees your ad, then you have wasted your money. Some people are able to utilize these methods very productively, while others are destined to drop thier money into the bottomless pit of failed interenet promotions.

Passive promotions are those promotions that can continue to provide results for you long after you have invested the work to make them available to the Internet community.

Examples of passive promotions include: Link Exchanges, Articles, Ebooks, Content Exchanges and Writing Testimonials for others.

Let's look at articles as a solid example of my point.

You are reading an article that I have written to promote my own computer home business. This article is timeless and therefore could have been written five years ago and still have been as valuable as it is today.

Due to the fact that the article is timeless, it can and will be placed in newsletters/ezines and their accompanying online archives, on websites and in ebooks for many more years to come.

As a result, this article will continue to serve me well beyond the time in which I wrote it and submitted it to publishers and webmasters for public consumption and publication.

This is the best example I can give you of an excellent passive promotional method.

AVOID THE MONEY PITS

Many try and even fewer succeed to conquer the Internet and to produce their dreams of online wealth.

My hope is that you will be one of the people who conquer the challenges before you and to make a nice living while working online. It will take drive, determination, study plus trial and error, but you can make it work for you.

Please continue to educate yourself so that you can avoid the money pits - instead, strive to find the money barrels. It can be done.