Friday, January 18, 2008

Small Business Profit Like This Makes Sense

Imagine the following features of a small business profit. It's automated, can be done from home on your computer, very low entry costs, high upside potential, low inventory cost, high returns, leveraged and the profits can be compounded in an automated way...if you are not saying wow to yourself by now, you must have not been paying attention!

Actually the key to this type of business is found in the automated nature of the Internet itself. The world wide web is actually the worlds largest vending machine. If you think about a soda vending machine business, you will know, it is semi automated. In other words the machine you buy, serves the product and gives change. The owner of the business spends half an hour a week topping up the machine and maintaining it. The machine does the rest and the owner makes a reasonable income.

Because of this leverage, he can handle 10 or 20 or even 50 such machines and multiply his income incredible, simply because each machine takes only a little of his time to make a profit. The Internet by its nature is the same. You do the work once, but the income continues to come in so in this sense, it is actually far superior to a vending machine business.

The type of small business profit that the Internet can offer is quite amazing for the reasons outlined above. To run an Internet business you need two things. A product of value and a way to get paid. These can both be resolved by simply affiliating with company's that will let you sell their product for them at a profit that is acceptable