Internet Marketing -- Disadvantages of Running a Business using AOL Or “Other” Like Animals
AOL is a special kind of animal. It is its own online network. You have to pay to use it although you can send email "to" AOL members at no charge. AOL has all kinds of things and web pages that are only available to AOL subscribers.
It is not recommended that you try to use AOL to do serious Internet business. It is simply not set up for it and trying to send large amounts of email through AOL will more than likely get you kicked off of their service.
Another important thing about AOL is that if something goes wrong at AOL, which is not unheard of, all the members are cut off from the Internet. If you are depending on your Internet operations to bring you business, you certainly don't want that to happen to you. AOL is simply not designed for running your business. That doesn't mean I'm suggesting to go out and cancel your AOL account. AOL has helped me out of many jams in the past. In fact, they saved my butt several times on a recent trip to Thailand when I had to get some emails out and couldn't get to an Internet café.