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Do you want the bad news about starting a new online business first, or the good news?  Okay, here we go:  The bad news is that you have a great deal to learn.  The good news is that there is a lot of reliable information on the Internet that you can find for free or for relatively little money.  The bad news is that you can’t trust everything that you find on the Internet and that there are some unscrupulous folks out there.  The best news is that you’ll be able to distinguish the valuable from the worthless sooner than you now think you will be able.

One of the best ways to start your exciting education if to locate free course with the fundamentals of beginning online.    As long as you are diligent in following the lessons and applying what you learn as you go, that will get you well on your way toward distinguishing between the scams and the legitimate offers, between the metaphorical wheat and the chaff.

You’ll find that you have a lot to do, although some of the unscrupulous marketers will try to trick you into believing that if you follow their plans, you won’t have to work very hard at all, and everyone will magically start to send you money.  You must allocate your available time with care, and promise yourself and your family that your excitement over your new adventure will not occupy all available time.

Browse related topics (those you learned about in your short, hopefully free, course) on article directories, like A1Articles.com or EzineArticles.com.  Search for trustworthy blogs and site and keep looking until you find several.  Find information about keyword research, business niche selection, design of online business sites and many more topics.

Don’t rush out to buy anything, yet.  Your next step is to sit down with pen, paper and a copy of your budget.  From the list of things that you don’t yet know how to do, determine what interests you and what you might prefer to hire done.  Don’t worry, you can learn to do anything on that list.  Simply decide whether you want to invest your available funds in learning resources or in labor to actually perform each task.

Now it’s time to spend money.  If you find yourself tempted to buy an instructional product that you find, say a course on affiliate marketing or a set of videos about search engine optimization, hit your pause button.  Instead of following your impulse to buy now, do these:  1) Bookmark the web page so that you can find it again.  2) Analyze the structure of the sales copy, because eventually you want to be able to write a sales pitch that works as well as that one apparently did on you.  Then, find a lot more products in the same category, so that you can later compare the alternatives.

In most cases, I impose a mandatory three day waiting period before I buy something I’ve just found.  That gives me time to consider it rationally, removing myself from the emotional responses elicited by the well presented offer.  After those three days have elapsed, if I am still convinced by the miracle cure that I discovered, I use my bookmark to find it again, pull out my payment card and buy to my satisfaction.

Beware!  Buying can make you feel good, but your new purchase does you no good unless you use it, and using it means implementing the strategies that you learn about or the procedures for which the software was designed.  In other words, you must act!