Do any of you have a internet online business?

I have recently quit my job. I was only working less than 12 hours a week and I told my boss that I needed to find a another job with more hours and more pay. The same day that I quit my job,
my car died on me. Bummer!
I thought about of trying to get a business using the internet. Here are some questions for you...
Do any of you have a online internet business?
What is it that you sale?
Do you have to pay taxes on your internet business?
Is it worth it financially speaking?
Are you govern by a bunch of bureaucratic rules and regulations?
How did you get your website set up?
Who is your internet server? Google?,
Bing? Yahoo? or some other server?
How did you signed on to the server that you have?
Is there a monthly fee to pay?
PepperJack

It’s great that you have a lot of questions. However, your first step:


Identify that about which you are really, really passionate. That’s because at first you will have many, many more downs before you have any ups. Only strong passion will drive you through those downs.


It’s also important to use common sense. And, never forget that there are no legit Get Rich Quick schemes.

Do any of you have a online internet business?
Yes, I have a very successful online business! It provides for me and my hubby quite well.

What is it that you sale?
We sell antique and collectible books and also Brodart book jacket covers.

Do you have to pay taxes on your internet business?
Not sure what you mean by this. Yes, we pay income tax. Sales tax is only applied to the residents of our state.

Is it worth it financially speaking?
Absolutely! It took us a few years to get to the point where it is our sole source of income, but if you hit a niche market, it can be good.

Are you govern by a bunch of bureaucratic rules and regulations?
No more than any other business! Can you be more specific?

How did you get your website set up?
We sell our product exclusively on Amazon and eBay. Our goal this year is to have our own web store and funnel our Amazon/eBay customers there. I think we will ALWAYS have stores on these sites as they are good at marketing our business. Then we can channel our customers to our own site.

Who is your internet server? Google?,Bing? Yahoo? or some other server?
We work with Network Solutions. But they just forward our address to our Amazon storefront. They do not host a website for us at this point and do no marketing either.

How did you signed on to the server that you have?
No sure I understand this question.

Is there a monthly fee to pay?
With Amazon and eBay, we pay a monthly fee of $40-50/month. Then there are fees per transaction. Yes, we do pay a lot in fees, but it worth it since they do all the marketing for us.

Please let me know if you have any further questions. I'm glad to help.

Santuzza (Julie)

My daughter and I are practicing working with wire to make jewelry and sell on Etsy. She is especially talented. We have not started yet but heading in that direction. If there is something you know how to make well you can check them out. I worked with a girl who makes nose rings and other body jewelry and after about 2 years was able to quit her full time job and just do the jewelry. What I have found so far on Etsy is what Santuzza is saying.

If you have some tech background try coding,....programming.....
Gets good pay..
God Bless.

No, I don't have one.

.... what I do know is that it takes a lot of time, and potentially a lot of money to start an e- business.

IF you do it:

- Make sure you have a clear idea of what you want to do
Make sure you communicate this idea on your website (Obvious? Well, many fail to do it anyway )
- Make your website lightweight , at least to begin with (no fancy videos, flash etc that aren't needed)
- Make shallow menus for "everyday" - stuff (That is, don't force your user to click ten times to find info that is needed often)



Here are some tips if you do go for it: Getting Web Server Space - For Dummies

PepperJack, Do you have an idea for a business? Do you have a product to sell?

I have looked into this from time to time in the past. The above answers are probably the best that can be had on a forum like this. The rest is up to you.

You will need to find something you are passionate about, something you enjoy doing all day long for free. You will also need to be self motivated to spend a lot of time learning a lot of stuff about which you currently know nothing. (This is not a put down. It is what we all have to do when we start out in a new direction in life.)

I invite you to find a job to pay the bills for the next several months while you invest one half of all your free time for the next 3-4 months trying to come up with an idea you want to promote online, and then teach yourself how to do it.

If this sounds like too much for you, don't give up, just be willing to take it a bit slower while you work a regular job to support yourself for a year or so while you educate yourself on your own schedule.

Don't give up your dreams. Just be willing to approach them realistically for who your are at the moment.

My wife started an ebay business a few months ago and it is starting to catch on. No taxes yet to be paid on the net income that is produced. Ebay charges a modest fee (.30) for each item listed after 50 items per month. She has never paid this as the site frequently offers to waive the fee. There are slight fees to be paid as a percentage of the sale but that is already factored in the opening bid price. She is only getting started and enjoys running the business.

BTW, there are jobs other than online that you might find rewarding. Perhaps, lawn care, small engine repair, home repairs, wooden duck carving, custom machining, comic book trading, or any number of other things might be more interesting for you.

ebay is a great place to start. Most important point: learn what you can sell something for before you buy it. I lost a few hundred dollars because I thought I could sell some old books for more than I paid for them.

But I have also earned hundreds of dollars from things I paid little or nothing for. Knowing what something is selling for on ebay is the most important part of selling things on ebay.

A good place to find things to sell is garage sales and thrift shops. Just be sure you know the market before you buy something to sell. (At least, most of the time.)

And, don't forget to educate yourself thoroughly on the cost of shipping! Whether or not you pass that on to the customer, you must know what it is going to cost you. If you should discover that a particular package ( size, weight, etc. ) is going to cost you "more than you thought" ( 'oops' ) -- well, there go the profits...