It aint easy

Fifteen billion: The value of Microsoft's

recently proposed on Facebook when the computer

giant invested $ 240 million for a stake of 1.6%

is in line to the website of Mark Zuckerberg,

social networking.


Some online businesses require only a few

hundred dollars for equipment, while others

require significant hardware and perhaps even a

amry of people to run it. You could get rich

while others could not, for beer money. And

still it comes in different periods of time,

capital and technological expertise available.


"Some people dream of your own business and do

not follow, because by investing in resources,"

said Jim Griffiths, head of eBay University to

provide for those looking to shop selling

products on the website of online auctions. "The

Internet makes it possible to at least try

without a large initial investment.

Army veteran Brandi Ramos of Springfield,

Illinois, he did. As a single mother needs

additional income, began his career in retailing

online "big" men's clothing on eBay.

Three years later, earned Ramos, 32, a good

living working online from 600 square meters

basement full of screens and hanging bakery

racks, with a lot of underwear and belts

Tupperware container. Ramos aims to offer quick

service to answer all e-mails within four to six

hours. Reaffirms a 25,000 annual net sales of $

100,000 U.S. dollars, and even earn some money

for shipping orders.

When inventory management cumbersome task for

the virtual game and the owner of the other

retailers require a monthly fee (or transaction

costs) for the opportunity to market their

products on your website. Amazon.com (NASDAQ:

AMZN - news - people) has acquired 28% of its

turnover in this way in 2006.

Craigslist is another take from this model: The

25 individual companies with a value of 2

billion Euro to help companies cost of the ads

in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles

reported that he also receives royalties for

apartment listings in New York. Total page views

per month: about 5 million euros.

Then, every blogger pajama CLAD dream: the

development of content is driven by advertising.

Ad sales is how thousands of established media

to pay their electricity bills on line. They

charge advertisers two ways: by the total number

of Web pages (called "impressions") served, and

the number of people who click on ads.

Creating a blog requires not much more than just

a basic editing functions, server and software

to track the clicks on ads. The more difficult,

but draws enough attention to that person pays

to advertise on your site.

To have a prayer of attracting large

advertisers, sites need to attract at least

500,000 visitors per month, says David Hauslaib,

publisher of Jossip.com, media and gossip blog

is one of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO - news - people)

and artists among its advertisers.

Unfortunately, even if it does not generate

enough traffic, click-through advertising fees

are usually very low - about half of 1%.

Subscription-based models are difficult to

decipher. If your site is responding to the

urgent need (for tangible investment ideas, a

potential partner, etc.), users can not pay for

content.

One way to collect revenue from subscriptions is

to run a virtual marketplace. These Web sites

collect, by buyers and sellers easy access to

them. Many of these contracts went out in the

dot-com bust, there are but a few. Mfg.com such

games manufacturers with suppliers of smaller

parts. Dating sites like Match.com subscription

fees for access to their members is charged.

H2Bid.com and liaison with suppliers of urban

waste water equipment.

As for real property and tangible you can buy

virtual land) (URLs, turn around and make a

dollar. Q1hosting.com sells domain names for

less than $ 10 each. To attract buyers, run

tests to determine the frequency of certain

keywords are searched so that the probability

that can show your URL will be displayed in

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG - news - people) or Yahoo!

(Nasdaq: YHOO - news search - people). A tip:

the best domain names are short, sweet, precise

and easy to remember. (For more information on

this model, check out "Meet Noah, the Internet

and Web addresses of the most expensive.")

As Internet use grows, the complexity of the

business models online. Use Yoonew.com 3 years,

the futures contracts on sports tickets sold.

Fans buying the right to take delivery of

tickets if their teams reach a coveted playoff

game, or even months. Given the uncertainty of

the bet, contracts of sale for a fraction of the

market value for a ticket to the future. If your

team plays, which is locked in a cheap seat, if

it does not, you lose that insurance premium.