Entrepreneurs are turning their homes into launching pads for high technology ventures. You don't have to be a techi yourself: you can partner with another or become an affiliate and complement each other's skills. The ecommerce opportunities available through the Internet are growing exponentially. 

Affiliate Marketing – You can advertise products using PayPerClick (PPC), classified ads, your own website and receive a commissions from the product producer. 

Online Retail Stores - ­ Retail operations have moved online with a digital front-end. Everything from books and flowers to groceries and clothes is now sold from a Website. 

Ecommerce ­ - Businesses selling to other businesses (called B2B) was an early use of the Web. Suppliers, equipment, parts, transportation ­ it's all only a few clicks away.

Email ­  - Ever since the advent of free email accounts, the number of people having their own email addresses has expanded with the internet. As more people establish their own homepages and blogs, identities become virtual.  A note of caution regarding spam, if you decide to market with email you should only market to double opt-in lists who have the option to opt out of your mailings at any time.

Internet cafes ­  - Web surfing and crawling for information, entertainment or person-to-person contact grows each year. Public access to the web from Internet style cafes has also grown. 

Etrading ­ - Middle men are being cut out as supply lines move closer to the end user. Not only can you bypass your stock broker and trade online yourself, you can also do this with airline bookings, concert tickets, and classified ads.

Auctions – There is Ebay and others.  Do you have something to sell or do you want to analyze the market trends and list products for sale from dropshippers.

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How could you use your talents and experiences to create an ecommerce opportunity?  What do you need to learn to take advantage of the Internet market?  A few hints.  Learn to blog, build your own websites, or publish a newsletter.  There are many free sources of training on websites and many free open source programs to help you.  NVU and Wordpress are very reliable and easy to use free website building programs, FileZilla is a good free program to transfer files from your computer to your website.  

 

If you are seriously considering building you own website you would do well to investigate Top Online Profits (Tops) which was founded by a very successful marketer to help newbies through the process of building their own profitable marketing websites.  It’s not free and it will initially cost you about $200 for the training and web hosting.  After training you will have to advertise your site.  Pay per click ads are expensive so you can start out using free viral  methods to promote their websites.  I have a blog and articles  regarding the  use of free advertising sources.

Other options are to simply promote someone else’s website or product using leads, telephone and double opt-in email.  

Another alternative is to build what is called a niche market website.  Obtain Adsense, Clickbank  and Amazon affiliate accounts and affiliate yourself with other suppliers related to your content.  Content is the most important.  You must have original content that is not identical to any other website.  Usually you can do research by using public domain material and rewrite it in your own words.

The possibilities are endless, but you have to be careful.  It’s illegal to spam, so use only double opt-in lists for email.  Open email accounts just for business, keep your personal email, personal.  Be a little careful who you give your personal information to.  Most affiliated companies like Adsense (owned by Google) will require personal information or you will not be paid.