If something sounds too good to be true, you are probably not getting the whole story.

I have developed the following simple, common sense rules to evaluate every product, service or opportunity on-line.

What Don't They Tell You
It's what they don't tell you that is MOST important. Try to determine what important information are they unwilling to tell you up front?

Control Your Own Leads
Learn how to set up simple forms to gather your own leads. People will steal your leads if you make it easy enough for them.

The $300 Solution
To evaluate a business opportunity, first determine how many hours will it take to earn $300.

EXAMPLE

Up-date Your Anti-Virus Protection
The "I love you" virus contaminated 90% of corporate businesses in less than 12 hours. New viruses hit the net every day. Its no longer makes sense to try to run without virus protection.

Use The Correct Url In Your Affiliate Programs Almost all affiliate programs give you a special URL address. Using the URL supplied by your affiliate will usually get you credit for sales. Sending the wrong URL is the most common ways to lose money.

The problem is, most of the time the URLs will also work without the affiliate ID. The ID is usually found at the end of your affiliate URL. Leave off your ID and you lose the sales you brought the company.

Read The Sales Letter Backwards
Usually if you go directly to the order form, you can find the fine print faster. The same thing applies to email messages.

Don't EVER Buy From Spammers
The easiest and best way to avoid getting scammed is to delete all email messages you didn't specifically request. If everyone quit buying from spammers, sooner or later they would quit spamming.

Don't Give Out Your Personal Information
This sounds like common sense, but we all give out personal information all the time. It's just not safe anymore. A good outlaw can set up charge accounts, lines of credit, and more, with very little information.

If your personal information is required, you can give it via phone or on secure servers without much risk. Even then, someone can hack or break into secure servers. Sometimes the people in charge of security hit secure servers.

In short, don't give out any information unless it's in YOUR best interest, if it's required to do something or buy something.

Best Wishes

Bob

You can reach him by phone at: (541) 689-1847 PST, and by email at. <mailto:bob@smithfam.com>

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