1. Do get a web page at a cheap hosting site. Preferrably a free place that will put there banners and ads all over diminishing anything you are trying to sell.
2. Do put up your own banners everywhere making it hard to navigate and hard for anyone to not get a headache just looking at the main page. After all we dont want them coming back.
3. Do make make sure that when a visitor clicks on a link and goes to another page, they have no way of getting back to the main of your site. We want them so hopelessly lost they have no choice but to go elsewhere. We dont want to have repeat customers do we
4. Make the background and text virtually the same color so that prospective visitors have to squint themselves into oblivion just to make out a letter.
5. Also be sure to make the text so small they will have wonder if there actually looking at specks of dirt instead of words.
6. Dont ever get a mailing list. We dont want those nosy people to be able to find you or your website again do we
7. Do get a GIGANTIC, colorful logo or text. Make sure it spins, spits fire, dazzles, and confuses your audience. That way they will be so hypnotized theyll forget there own name AND your website address. And speaking of web address...
8. Dont get a short, easily remembered address. Get an address so long it will be three sentences long when put in ms word and be rejected by most search engines.
9. Under no circumstances do you submit your site to any search engines. By submitting your website you are making it to easy for people to find your business. We want them to work for it. Why should you do all the hard stuff and they just stroll in Give them a challenge. People like that.
10. Do not ever put your website address in your email signature, on tshirts, pens/pencils, coffee mugs or other good advertising products. If you do that then word of mouth might start and you will have all this traffic coming onto your webpage and we are trying to avoid that arent we
11. Most of all, and this is the most important, Do not tell ANYONE about your business website. Its a secret, so treat it as one. Dont put it in your forum signature, in your blog, in articles, or advertisements offline. That means no search engines, adsense, adwords, or overture. This is your secret so keep it close to your vest.
Follow all these rules and in less than 10 days you can sit and reap the sweet victory of having a failed business, no income and no customers. Good Luck.
Written by Marsha James
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The mailto command produces a clickable email address. The idea is that clicking this address will open your email client so you can contact the website owner. This is a wonderful concept, but is having mailto commands on your website costing you valuable business. A real estate agent, for example, could loose thousands of dollars if one real estate lead is lost. There are several problems with the mailto command that could cause you to lose your leads.
One major problem with the mailto command is that is depends on your default email client being configured. This is usually a program like Outlook, or Outlook Express. However, many people in the world do not use these programs and instead use web base email such as Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. For your clients using web base email, the mailto command will generate an error message stating something similar to Email client is not configured. This means that for a very large part of your potential clients, the mailto link will not work, and even worse may generate an error message.
Another potential pitfall is the unreliability of email. Everyone has lost an email or two. Now image that email was a potential client. This could have a huge impact on your business. Emails may not get to you for a variety of reasons such as spam filters. Some times emails are just lost to the depths of the Internet. Really the reasons do not matter much, losing emails means losing business.
There are also some smaller problems with mailto commands. For example, email addresses displayed in this way are targets for spam bots that surf the internet collecting emails for mass mailings.
The ideal way to generate all leads through your website is by use of a form that logs the leads. When you use a form to collect leads, your website can log the lead in a text file or a database. Your website should then send you email notification that you received a new lead. In the event this email is lost, your lead is still stored safely by your website. As an added benefit, your website would also be able to manage your leads as well as send thank you messages to your clients.
Dont lose the business that you work so hard to get. Use a form and be cautious with mailto links.
Scott works with real estate agents on the and is internet expert for the .