Product Description

The first part of this book covers every aspect of operating a business on the Internet: from planning a Web site to promotion on a tight budget. The second, main part contains detailed descriptions of 121 Internet businesses entrepreneurs can start from home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1273893 in Books
• Published on: 1997-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

From the Publisher
Despite the recent avalanche of books on doing business on the Internet, the problem of which specific businesses should be started online is rarely tackled. 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home fills this gap. The 121 online businesses discussed in this book can all be started from home by Internet beginners, and many on a shoestring budget.

In addition, the book also includes a complete beginner's guide to starting a business online. It leads the novice through every step of starting a business on the Internet: from establishing an Internet site to promoting it on a tight budget. The hundreds of Internet sites' addresses given in this book (especially of services and businesses Internet entrepreneurs must contact to set up or promote a commercial site) ensure that entrepreneurs will be able to use it not only as a guide but also as a reference book.
Ron Gielgun is an Internet consultant and editor of an online magazine for Internet entrepreneurs.

Customer Reviews

A REFRESHING VIEW
After reading several "pro-active" books on online business, it is refreshing to finally find a book that doesn't paint a too rosy a picture of the future of online commerce. The message of this book is: you can make an income from the Internet - supplemental income, at least - but will probably not become a millionaire. The Internet is not here to drive existing businesses out of business, and hence can't claim to take their share of the market and give it to Internet entrepreneurs. It is a very informative book that, as other readers have mentioned, gets your creative juices flowing. The graphic layout of the book leaves something to be desired, however, and some of the URLs are outdated.

Birdcage material
This author is one of those get-rich quick schemers who is using the profits from this load of hogwash to finance his soon-to-be-released informercial making the same bogus claims. Everyone knows there is money to be made on the Net; what we don't know (and subsequently desire to know) is HOW. This book offers a bunch of lame ideas that any dim-witted fool could come up with while reading through the classified section of an income opportunity type magazine. Get real. There appears to be absolutely no original thought work put into this book. Do yourself a favor...if you really want to MAKE money...don't throw it away on this fodder for birdcage bottoms.

Only those who dare truly live
This is a great book for those who have no idea of how the Internet works. This book explains the online business world in plain English -- especially good for beginners and foreigners (e.g. Russians). This is a book of business. And if you want to learn about PCs, operating systems and Inernet you'll need additional literature.

Folks, we are living now in a global village with a common marketplace. But this book is too overoptimistic if you really beleive to squeeze some money out of the Internet and get rich soon. But try! And then try again. Only those who dare truly live.