Provides information to web entrepreneurs on starting and running their own small-scale online business, including the basics of planning, designing, and building their site and marketing it, whether they intend to sell goods, services, or advertising. Original.

The web-based basics! Aspiring web entrepreneurs will find here everything they need to know about starting and running their own small-scale online business. Whether they intend to sell goods, services, subscriptions, or advertising, this book provides them with the specific nuts and bolts of planning, designing, building, hosting, marketing, and operating their online businesses. ?The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Starting Your Own Business has over a quarter million copies sold in five editions ?1.6 million web-based businesses in the U.S., a $175 billion market in 2007 ?Online businesses benefiting from increasing number of Internet users, with increased traffic for subscription, advertising, and affiliate program revenue

The web-based basics! Aspiring web entrepreneurs will find here everything they need to know about starting and running their own small-scale online business. Whether they intend to sell goods, services, subscriptions, or advertising, this book provides them with the specific nuts and bolts of planning, designing, build­ing, hosting, marketing, and operating their online businesses. • The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Starting Your Own Business has over a quarter million copies sold in five editions • 1.6 million web-based businesses in the U.S., a $175 billion market in 2007 • Online businesses benefiting from increasing number of Internet users—with increased traffic for subscription, advertising, and affiliate program revenue

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting an Online Business shows why and how to establish company Web sites and Intranets. It speaks specifically to the idea of distributed information as capital and how to use the Web and Web technologies to positively impact revenues. See how to set objectives, create strategies, and implement programs for Web-related communications that will impact your company's marketing, sales and financial activities. Learn to manage a Web site and maximize the use of information gleaned from an online presence. Also included: an overview of E-commerce, explanations of various Web software tools, the basics of Web design and how to set up a company Intranet.

This resource shows how to set up, run, and grow a home-based business and features explanations of laws affecting home-based businesses, tax rules, how to turn a great idea into a great home-based business, and how to market the business.

A successful career—at your own front door! For anyone who wants to make extra money, escape the corporate rat race, or just take more pleasure out of working from home, small business guru Barbara Weltman shows readers how to make their dreams come true. Completely updated, this guide explores the ins and outs of seed money, its impact on the home and family, the best business for each individual, and much more. • Features the most current information on everything from Internet businesses to taxes and guerrilla marketing • Includes in-depth resource and web sections, as well as a listing of the 100 best home-based businesses to get into and how

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Now with a CD-ROM! Newly revised for the ever-changing world of business, this book offers stress-free guidence for anyone who wants to turn a good idea into a good living. This edition also includes a CD-ROM featuring commonly requested forms and documents essential to business start-ups. € Completely revised and updated edition of this top-selling title € CD-ROM included, featuring commonly requested forms and documents € Nearly 1.5 million new businesses are formed in the U.S. each year, most of which are "small businesses" € One in 12 Americans will start his or her own business at some point, according to the Jan./Feb. 03 issue of The Atlantic Monthly

• Illustrates how to make money and keep it with time-honored strategies • Insightful real-life anecdotes to illustrate key concepts

Offers advice on starting a home-based business, with chapters on creating a business concept, buying a franchise, turnkey businesses, business plans, insurance, and taxes.