| How to get off to a good start with your home | | | | Now that you have Roboform's help it is time to get |
| based business. | | | | a new email account which should be kept entirely |
| If you missed part one of this article, you will find it | | | | separate from your personal email account. You |
| in my Home Business Workshop at | | | | might need more than one additional email address |
| Once you have made the decision to work from | | | | depending upon what sort of business you are in. My |
| home, you should spend some time in planning and | | | | first website was a Plug-in Profit Site (if you don't |
| preparation. Having decided that an internet home | | | | know what that is you can see the details here: and |
| business is the right thing for you to take up, the | | | | one of the things I did when I started that, was to |
| decision needs to be made as to what type of home | | | | subscribe to several ezines. If you are going to join |
| business would interest you and what type of | | | | lots of mailing groups or subscribe to ezines, you will |
| business would be practical for you in your particular | | | | receive a great deal of email just from these |
| circumstances. I chose a Plug-in Profit SiteÔ (if | | | | sources; each one will send you at least one |
| you are not familiar with these, you can see all the | | | | confirmatory email when you first sign up and these |
| details at my website) because it was ideal for | | | | should be kept for reference. You can get free email |
| someone like me who had no previous internet | | | | accounts from Yahoo, Excite and numerous other |
| experience or technical knowledge, but also offered a | | | | places. AOL is to be avoided because of the way its |
| great deal of flexibility. | | | | email filters work (you might find that important mail |
| Making a few basic preparations at the start will give | | | | is filtered out without you getting the chance to |
| you a firm foundation on which to build your home | | | | accept it). |
| based business. | | | | Next, sign up for free accounts with Pay Pal, Storm |
| I assume that anybody who is seriously considering a | | | | Pay and Int Gold as most online companies will pay |
| career working on the internet will already have in | | | | you (or require you to pay them) through one of |
| place a firewall and good anti-virus software such as | | | | these. It is worth getting accounts with all of them |
| Panda, but I would suggest adding anti spyware and | | | | before you start signing up for programmes: it is |
| anti adware protection such as Spyware Blaster and | | | | very annoying to be halfway through signing up and |
| No Adware plus Spybot Search and Destroy. These | | | | finding that payments will only be made through an |
| can be downloaded free. You are asked to make a | | | | account you do not have. If you are undertaking |
| donation to the site but it is not compulsory; you can | | | | several ventures, you might want more than one |
| go back later and donate if you are happy with the | | | | account with each of the companies. The reasons for |
| software. There is plenty of free software of this | | | | this are to keep the money separate and also that |
| sort so, if you do not already know what you want, | | | | some companies want you to sign up under the |
| you can find plenty with a Google search. | | | | same email address as your Pay Pal account (not |
| Next download Roboform. Whatever business you | | | | many but it happens). You are permitted numerous |
| work at, you will be bound to have to fill in various | | | | free accounts but I would suggest one account |
| forms online. Once you have typed your name, | | | | should be opened with each company to start with |
| address, email, birth date etc into Roboform it will | | | | unless you know you will definitely need another |
| complete application forms with one mouse click. You | | | | account. It is important to strike a balance between |
| can set up more than one identity within Roboform | | | | keeping things separate and having so many different |
| so, for instance, you can have one identity which | | | | accounts, you end up confused. These things are |
| uses your main email address and a separate one for | | | | supposed to help you, not become a task in |
| advertising with a secondary email address. | | | | themselves. |
| Roboform will also store all your log in IDs and | | | | All this will not have taken you long to do and you |
| passwords for every login page you use. It really is a | | | | now have the basis of an organised system to which |
| brilliant device and can be downloaded absolutely free. | | | | you can add things as you go along. |