1. Content Rules!

Many online business models exist, including these three key types:

Pure retail sites that sell merchandise (anything from books to vitamins). These websites are product or service based, and the primary focus is e-commerce.

Websites whose goal is advertising dollars—meaning they get their revenues from high-traffic and third-party advertisements. Examples of this are popular news-related or social media websites where the site itself isn’t selling anything per se, but rather are parlaying their popularity and exposure into advertising opportunities.

Websites that primarily focus on using great free content for both lead generation (email collection) and sales. In other words, online publishing or info-publishing websites. ...

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