Here’s another in the question and answer series of Ask Laura regarding Getting Started. This gentleman wrote me because he wanted to start a side business online and return to a rural lifestyle away from the city. However, he couldn’t think of an idea for his online business! Although this email is quite old (2004) and has focus on info-products and ebay selling (two areas which are harder to make money at now), the premise still stands. You must have a passion and an interest in your business to really make it online. ‘Making it online’ could be making money, making a...

A Reader Buys Ebay Websites – Ask Laura (May 2006) Dear Laura, Good Morning! I’ve been reading through www.smartzville.com, and keep running into new ideas on new pages. And I’ve found out that I’ve made what may be a definate beginners mistake. Without doing enough research, and going on what I thought was a really good idea (since I loved it), I went out and

Etailers Email – Ask Laura (06/19) Dear Laura, Well, to put it shortly, I’ve been busy. In the past few weeks I’ve managed to pick up 25 or so ebooks for $19.95 from ebay, and about 1000 templates for websites for $10. But, let’s not say that it may be wasted money, because the education that came with pouring over all the new information was well worth the cost. I’ve managed to aquire a few master resell rights and get myself onto about five different marketer newsletters….