Your Questions About Doing Business Online

Jere answers:

Go to the Better Business Bureau’s site at bbbonline.org. Also, check this site out for more info on business online:

http://www.onlinecommercepro.com/ecommerce_fulfillment.shtml

Jere answers:

You can do a Google Certification course in AdWords, or you can do a Search Engine Optimization course from any of the online universities.

Jere answers:

I already am. What does this have to do with politics?

Jere answers:

I think maybe you are focusing too hard on the words in the question. The appropriate netiquette for doing business online is exactly the same as doing business face to face.
The only difference is in regards to email and other communications in which you can find all kinds of responses from a yahoo search.

If your selling an item in a store you place your items in such ways as to drive desire and supply need. You are cheerful and friendly at the checkout counter and you help your customers as much as possible to make a choice.

If your selling an item on a website you place your items in such ways as to drive desire and supply need. You are cheerful and friendly at the checkout page and you help your customers as much as possible to make a choice.

See? No real difference. Its when it comes to the email and other internet specific things that netiquette is relied on. You can find that stuff pretty easy:
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/
http://www.emilypost.com/business/netiquette.htm

good luck

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Jere answers:

I will add to the excellent advice given by “gruntmaster9000”

1. Your business computer should be dedicated to your business financial needs and used for no other purpose. You don’t use it with Google or Yahoo or any other search engine. You don’t use it for news and information. This business computer is strictly for financial things, your bank accounts and websites where you upload data (such are articles and reports).

If you need to use Google or Yahoo or other search engines, or need to check non-business email, or need to read news reports, etc., use a separate computer. That way any criminal websites that you might accidentally visit cannot compromise your business computer. Criminals have been installing hack attacks in advertising that goes to legitimate websites, and you want to keep that trouble off your business computer.

2. Do not use WiFi wireless – Connect your business computer to your router with wire – Ethernet cable. Where there are no walls the WiFi signal travels a long ways, and can easily travel 50 feet outdoors – people could park at your street curb and “sniff” your WiFi signals and collect data to enable them to steal your financial information or hack into your business computer.

3. If possible, set up the router so the business computer has its own connection to the Internet and is isolated from any other computers connected to the router. Most inexpensive home routers do not have this ability. I have read that one Apple router and one Linksys router do this, they call it a “guest” connection.

4. Take notes – lots of notes – about how you have set up your computer system. Update the notes as needed when things change. Hardware can fail, and you will need to be able to set up another computer system quickly if that should happen. Extensive notes make a impossible task merely tedious.

5. Make backups. There are many ways to do backups, long articles have been written in the computer and software magazines about various software and hardware methods, and when they find something does not work well, they report that, which helps you avoid those products.

That’s all I have room to write. Good luck !

Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 10:35 am CDT