The keyword here is ‘moderation‘.

Rule #1 – Do not spam.
If you send out an occasional unsolicited email you are just contacting potential new customers. When you send out hundreds of them you are a spammer. When you send out millions you are a spammer who may eventually go to jail. I personally don’t like or use a lot of email. That does limit your marketing efforts, but I just prefer to stay away from email because of that perception of spam. Besides, it is too time consuming even with an auto responder system.

It’s Free or Almost Free

The best part about the internet is that most of it is free. Another advantage is that there are so many websites available to help you get you to where you want to go. Of course many or most of them want to sell you something. Before you buy it, think about it for a few days. That will save you lots of money and will give you time for the sales pitch to wear off and for reason to prevail.

After you have used a free program for a while you may be tempted to upgrade for ‘premium’ services. If you have the money and the need, go ahead and try it. If the website cannot handle the basic free services effectively or efficiently – instead of upgrading, go somewhere else.

Keeping Track of Things

Because you will be registering with dozens or hundreds of sites you need to write down all your passwords and information. The preference is a spreadsheet like works or excel. You can use each cell to paste in the domain name, your user name, your password, your profile page url, your feed url and everything that you will eventually want to remember. Keep this file in a safe location in the event of a computer crash. This method is much preferred over a notebook system where you’ll constantly be flipping pages trying to find the site you want.

Learn the basic ctrl c, alt tab and ctrl v functions. It will save you thousands of clicks.

You Do Need A Domain Name

The worst part about free services is that they can cut you off and shut you down whenever they want. If you begin to use a lot of resources or become successful they may even ‘ransom’ your account with the ‘requirement’ to upgrade. Protect yourself from this by registering a domain and directing your ‘order page’ to this website address. You should use all the free websites as your ‘sales pages’. When it is time to ‘close the sale’ your customer should be directed to your website.

You can get a .info domain for about $1 for the first year from godaddy. You can also ‘host’ this domain on google for free forever in the form of a blog. The Google site has plenty of bandwidth and never ‘goes down’. There are limitations with a google hosted blog but you can always rent hosting space elsewhere when and if you are ready.

There are ways to operate a successful online business without ever spending one single penny, pence or peso. You are however at the mercy of those websites who can shut you down when you least expect it.

Multiple Domain Names

Once you understand the importance of your own domain name you may want to add more of them. One promotion method is to have a primary main sales site with dozens of ‘feeder’ domains linking to it and sending visitors to it. You get the advantage of google loving links to your main site. Since you own the sites, you can put up whatever links you want. You never have to be concerned about your blog comments being rejected when you are the webmaster.

The preference here is to have hosting outside of google, but it is not required nor always desirable. This paid hosting should allow multiple unlimited domains for one single fee. You may also want to consider keeping your main sales site hosted at google and using this paid hosting site for those feeder sites. The reason is bandwidth. If you start to use a lot of resources, your paid host site may also ‘go down’, ‘slow down’ or shut you off until you ‘upgrade’. Yes that does happen all too often! This also happens when you least expect it and at the most inopportune times.

Cross Posting At Twitter

There are many ways to get suspended at twitter. Setting up dozens of accounts at twitter and posting the same post to them all is a great way for them all to be suspended at the same time. You can send the same post to them all if you do this in moderation.

Start Slowly

When you first open a twitter account profile do not be too aggressive. Just do a few things in the beginning. Do a few tweets, follow a few people and put in some basic settings details like the profile bio and web address.

Rule #2 – Do not spam.

Once again, the key here is moderation! You are supposed to be using auto tweet as a time saver. It is not meant to be a spam tool. You do not like spammers attacking you, so don’t do it yourself.