You wont realize the power of the Internet until you experience the power of doing business online. This is called e-business and opens up the world to the product or service that you sell. You dont even need a building or staff to operate an e-business. You can operate out of a bedroom or a room in your basement. In fact, you dont even need any inventory to have your own business making money for you every hour on the clock.
The Internet lets you bring your expertise in any area to the attention of the world. If you are a writer trying to get published, why not write an ebook about any topic and then set up a website selling that ebook. You only need to have a contract with a company that will accept credit cards for you and submit payments to you on the sale of your ebook on a monthly basis. The only cost to you is to pay for the web hosting and the premium to the payment company each month. PayPal and CCNOW are two such companies that will handle all your transactions on a secure server and let you know when a customer makes a purchase. You get an email about the purchase and you send the PDF document of the ebook to the customer.
You can sell any product that you wish when you get started in an e-business. Affiliate marketing is another avenue of e-business that lets you make money. To get involved with this you find a company that is offering a percentage of sales referred to it from your website. When you write articles about the product extolling its virtues and include a link to the affiliate website, you can make a good dollar for very little work. It does take a bit of time to get started in ebusiness, but once you do get established you will be making money while you sleep.
