Hot New Ways to Become an "Ontrapreneur"

Posted by: Rod Kurtz on August 23, 2006

Not so long ago, starting an online business primarily meant creating a Web site and organizing it in a business-like manner. You would create a catalog, add a shopping cart and payment system, and hope customers would find you. You might be in an online shopping mall with other online businesses.

These days, you don’t have to create a full-fledged Web site to sell online. The hottest ways to make money are to sign up with an online service that helps individuals get their content online and market themselves or their products and services to the public. You might have to pay a small monthly hosting fee or you might have to pay a sales commission. But the benefits are huge: You don’t have to do all the work of creating a catalog and payment system, because your host will do the work for you.

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