Wake up! If you havent been taken for a ride by one or more, less than honest, business web sites yet, while you are trying to make your own web site, youre lucky! You better learn how to recognize them. For those of us who have already had such an experience, the only hope is that we are smarter than before, and might be alerted sooner by the telltale signs we previously experienced.

The tragedy is that some Internet entrepreneurs building a business web site seem to be scammed over and over again. They trust too much in the integrity of another Internet business web site promotion offering to help them.

Trustworthy web sites dont have the characteristics you are about to learn. Its easier to avoid dangerous web sites than to try and get your money back!

Memorize these obvious features of trouble coming down the road!

1. Cold calls and spam e-mails: Either of these should be a loud warning to you. If you answer either, you are setting yourself up for wolverine (an animal that never gives up and will take on a foe that is 5 times his size) attack.

2. Scant credentials: No about us page Cant find detailed information about the site. If you ask them for more information and you receive only promotional materialsrun!

3. Availability Lacking: You have great difficulty getting someone to the phone/e-mail. No call backs, or they come many days later, and put on hold and dropped off the line frequently should worry you.

4. Lousy HTML editor programs: Find that the program malfunctions repeatedly. Expecting you to work with an old and outdated business web site set of tools speaks to the quality of service you will continue to get.

5. Mentoring sucks: Mentor forgets appointments, cant remember prior work done with you. Mentoring that requires you to adjust to them, especially when you are paying them, is never acceptable. If they are only there to answer your questions and not to teach you, it ranks at the top of the list of reasons to get out of town.

6. Dumb tech help: Find you know more then they do concerning web site glitches. When the tech repeatedly has to ask the other person for answers to your questions, while you are on hold, sends a loud message to your wallet.

7. Demonstrated incompetence: Answers to your questions repeatedly miss the point. If the only responses you get back is for you to do your own looking for the solutions, or when they ask a question about your question (that really burns me), head for the hills!

8. Personnel problems: Never contacted by the same person twice. Fast turnover of their personnel should tell you something is not right in their business. You can easily come up with all the reasons for that.

9. Executive hiding: Cant ever reach the top person in the business. If you do have a good reason to contact the top gunin their business, and you are quickly shuffled to the assistant, then to another assistant, or your e-mail to the CEO is never answered, start packing your bags.

10. Work hours unusual: During the day usually get a voice mail and rarely get a response to your message. If you have paid to use their business tools, and you find out that you can never get to them after 5 PM, or on the weekend, you are being shortchanged.

These are the most blatant reasons to get on your horse and ride awayquickly too! If you dont have a horse, have your wife drive you. She has no doubt been waiting for this exact moment to finally dig you out of that money hole you are in.

I suspicion that the ladies who are in that money hole, already have the escape plan in mind.

Summary:

Someday, hopefully it will be legal to publish a list of those Internet web site businesses that cheat you out of your hard earned money. Then every Internet entrepreneur starting a business web site will know who they are. As of now we can only fall back on our careful attention to how we are treated right from the start.

Dont be too trusting of those business web sites that try to push their web site promotion down your throat. The courage it takes to make your own web site and start your own ebusiness is to be respected.

The life span of a thought is determined by the extent of attention we put to it.

(Rev. Fred Price)