How to Kill Your Online Business

What NOT to Do in Business

Bet you're thinking this is a strange title for an article on Business right? Well, it's what MANY people do without even realizing it.
They kill their business before they really get it off the ground.

With the computer era and everything gone online, many people took to designing websites and advertising online and doing the whole "e thing".

This creates an endless supply of avenues for sales and promoting your business that is open 24/7 and can be seen throughout the WORLD. No longer is your business only open when someone's physically 'in' the store. No longer is your business only open in one location, your 'local' area. Now you can be seen WORLD WIDE 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (366 during leap year!).

But, your web site can MAKE or BREAK your business.

Here are a few ways to instantly kill your business:

1) Have your site hosted on a 'freebie' host (ie: geocities, yahoo, angelfire, etc.)-- If you won't spend $3.50/month on hosting on a real server that just doesn't look good to potential customers. It makes it look like you're 'too cheap' to really invest in your business.

Even if you have registered your OWN domain and still have it forward to a 'freebie' site people still know it's a freebie site.
If you have your forwarding url 'masked' so they don't physically 'see' it's a freebie site, with all the ads and pop ups and error messages, people still know it's not being hosted on a paid server and lose interest.

2) Have a ton of pop ups on your site. That'll kill a biz instantly.
(nobody enjoys pop ups and research has shown that the majority of people either block them or close them out BEFORE they even look at them) But, hey if you want to kill your biz and lose a customer, put your site on a server that has zillions of pop ups.

3) Have your site on yahoo or geocities with the 'yahoo ad' that takes up a large section of your right hand side of your site. People want to SEE your site, not what geocities or yahoo has to offer, but what YOU have to offer.