Introduction

If you’ve spent any time watching infomercials on TV or have an email account, you most likely ran across someone or some company trying to sell you on the idea of starting an online business. All you had to do was buy their Internet money-making package. It was yours for the asking. They were asking $79.95, paid out in three equal installments. You might also have heard the testimonials and how you can make money selling just about anything you could think of on the Internet.

And doing this while you slept!

If you haven’t found out by now, making money by opening a business on the Internet is not easy. To paraphrase the famous twentieth century actor Edmund Gween’s deathbed quote, “Dying is easy—eCommerce is hard.” Looking at the ...

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