When you are starting a business, let's say a restaurant, you need a business plan. In Holland it is mandatory to have one by law, except for a 1-person company.

YOU NEED A BUSINESS PLAN!

If you were never in online business before it is important to educate yourself in the following topics:

• How to choose an online business opportunity that has good potential. How to avoid scams.
• How to generate traffic and leads. Do not forget to do research about laws for sending emails. Use an autosreponder that is in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act.
• How to set up a campaign.
• learn to brand yourself by writing articles, writing e-mails and e-mail headline, setting up a blog, creating splashes and banners.
• Make sure to include social media in your marketing. Take the time to learn how to use them effectively. A good social media presence is nowadays even more important than SEO. Next to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter I recommend  APSense. On APSense in particular I recommend setting up a Brand Page. A promising fairly new paid only business network is PinOpps Pro; since the free pinboard is an APSense add-on it is likely to grow very fast.
  
• Learn to track your results
  
• You can't be an expert in everything. Learn to find resources and people with qualities and skills you lack your self.
• Explore possibilities of social networks and ad-ons and learn to use them to your advantage.
• Learn to say no, regardless how tempting a new opportunity is. There are only so many hours every day you can spend on your online business. If it is a good opportunity it will still be there in 6 months; just put it in your long term to-do-list.
• Do not believe everything they tell you but keep an open mind.
• Be patient and never give up: when you are a newbie in online marketing you need to realize that it takes time to build a online network of people that know you and trust you enough to consider buying a service/product or sign up for programs you recommend. You can speed up this process by investing in your business where in my opinion diverse advertising is the most important.
  

There are plenty resources for that to find; at the bottom I listed a few recommendations. Actually you can find those here on APSense too if you know where to look. I can not stress enough how important it is on any network to explore features and add-ons and how they work together. By exploring you can find out to have better chances to earn from the APSense Partner program.

Spend a lot of time here and join some groups. Read the comments. Check out the persons that write useful comments, blogs and revpages. Those are the people that are willing to help you if you join their program and very important, can teach you the skills to make funded decisions yourself.

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