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The New Internet Home Work: How Much Do You Really Need to Know to Get Started?

You? Start your own Internet business? Givetwo. Why not learn a few new things?
me a break! You just don't speak theActually, that's what makes life an ongoing
language, so why even try?It begins withadventure: no matter how long you've been
'booting up' your computer instead of justaround and how much you've discovered
turning it on. And you can't simply fill inalready, there's always something (in fact,
the necessary information to get somethingplenty!) left to learn.And the good news is
connected: it has to be 'configured.' Also,that, with the Internet, learning just got a
it's painfully apparent that computer tableswhole lot easier. You can't use the excuse
and windows bear no resemblance whatsoever tothat it's too cold to go to school, or too
the kind you have in your living room, nor ishot to go to the library. There's
a browser someone meandering through yourinformation enough on the Internet for you to
local bookstore. And the only directory youearn a PhD just by clicking on your mouse.
know anything about is full of telephoneSo what's your excuse now?I remember, when I
numbers.Then, of course, there are all thosewas a kid, looking at a piano, and thinking:
blasted letters: DSL, RAM, ROM, POP, RSS,"How could anyone ever know what all those
HTML, FTP, MLM . . . Good grief! How cankeys are for?" Truth is, I was afraid to
someone like you even think about starting antake piano lessons because I was convinced
online business? Hey, it's for the kids.that I'd look foolish if I tried.And therein
They understand all this jargon, all thislies the rub: we're so afraid we'll look
technical stuff. But you . . .Well, whatfoolish that we're willing to be foolish
about you? Okay. So maybe you don't knowinstead! And how foolish would it be to
what most of those letters mean. And it's arefuse to learn new things - - things that
safe bet you don't know a tenth of what thecould help us in any number of ways, brighten
average techie does . . . maybe not even asour lives, ease our financial burdens - -
much as today's computer-savvy ten-year-old.just because we're afraid we'll look
But does that mean you can't do this stuff?Atfoolish!But that's another great thing about
least, before you decide to pass on thethe computer. We don't have to walk up to
exhilaration of creating your own onlinethe blackboard with the whole class staring
business (not to mention the extra bucks youat us. We don't have to worry about
might have at the end of the month), let'stripping, or not knowing the answer, or . . .
look at two possibilities.First of all, thewell, any of the things that seemed to go
fact that you have no idea how a telephonealong with learning back in the good old
works (unless you're a Verizon repair person)days.We can be clumsy and bumbling and slow .
has never stopped you from making phone. . and nobody will ever know! Even if we do
calls. And you're not afraid to turn on thelook foolish, it will be for our eyes only.
television set because you don't know how allThe computer makes us blessedly, mercifully
those moving pictures get inside that littleanonymous. It lets us learn and work at our
box.And speaking of letters, even if you hadown pace, whatever that pace may be.And so,
no idea what 'TV' stood for, you could stillif those letter combos have you feeling a bit
watch "American Idol." Nor is it necessaryinadequate, go ahead and look up the
to know what ATM means in order to make adefinitions. There are plenty of free
cash withdrawal.Why, letter combos arecomputer and Internet glossaries available
positively old hat. RPMs have been aroundonline. My personal favorite is if you're
since before Sinatra, and mpg was a Henrynot exactly sure-fingered on the computer,
Ford staple.All any of it is, really, is thatcheck out some tutorials. Get up to speed on
secretarial staple of yesteryear: shorthand.Word or Windows or whatever else you'd like
Only these letter codes are a heck of a lotto try. It doesn't cost much. In fact, you
easier to understand than all those lines andcan do it for free.And then, you can move on
squiggles.Just to convince yourself it's noto setting up your own online business. Yes:
big deal, why not invent some code of yourYOU!After all, when you think about it, not
own? Certainly you have as much right to dogetting your slice of the Internet pie just
it as any computer techie. So why not tellbecause you've let the jargon scare you off
them to FTL and PHO . . . and be absolutelyis like refusing a cruise to the Bahamas
sure they NLFD. That's Fold The Laundry,because you don't understand the bar code on
Pre-Hear the Oven, and make sure they're Notthe ticket.So why not hop on board PDQ.
Late For Dinner. Remember: sticks and stones(That's Pretty Darn Quick, in case you didn't
can break your bones, but letters can neverknow.) You've got nothing to lose . . . and
hurt you. Nor should they stop you.Okay.who knows what-all to gain?Bob Brooker's
That's the first possibility: breaking themission is to make home-based Internet
code may not be as necessary as you think itbusiness accessible even to Internet
is, e.g., you don't have to know that NaCl isbeginners. Bob -- himself a devout
salt in order to sprinkle some on yournon-techie -- looks for and personally tests
tomato.Even so . . . whether you actuallyproducts that are the simplest to understand
need to know all of it or not, maybe you'd beand use, even if your computer skills are
more comfortable if you did. And, obviously,limited to sending an occasional e-mail to
it would be helpful if you knew at least someyour sister.
of it.Which brings us to possibility number



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