The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start [Paperback]

Marian Betancourt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

For every entrepreneur who dreams of creating a new Internet venture, The Best Internet Businesses is the only start-up book you'll need. Learn from the pros how to start your own profitable Net venture., by reading dozens of profiles of successful Web businesses. Those featured span the range from multimillion dollar companies to small start-ups that are turning their first profit. You'll get a glimpse into what inspired these pioneers, and take away the knowledge for your own business ideas: what it took to make it happen. Who the customers are, and how to get their attention.

A few years ago there were less than on hundred profitable businesses on the Internet. Now, there are hundreds of thousands with more being launched every day. Covering all aspects of web-business startup, The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start focuses on everything from brainstorming successful ideas to setting up your first Web site, creating effective marketing campaigns to delivering the goods, following up with outstanding customer service, and raising the money to get your concepts off the ground.

Inside you'll find profiles on a variety of industries, including: Entertainment
Retail
Personal Services
Real Estate
Finance
Technology

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation; 1st edition (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580621570
• ISBN-13: 978-1580621571
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,594,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Inspiring Guide To Starting Your Own Business!, September 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start (Paperback)

Many businesses start up on the Internet every day. Whether large or small each one of them is competing for revenue dollars as they offer a variety of products and services. So can you! Marian Betancourt has written The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start to provide readers with everything they need to know to get started today. This guide offers basic start-up information such as brainstorming, ideas for setting up Websites, creating successful marketing campaigns, and dealing with other important issues involved in starting an online business.

This book takes a serious look at those businesses that have flourished while others have failed. Betancourt offers real life success stories with behind-the-scene looks at people and companies who took simple ideas and became highly successful. Plenty of examples are provided through her smooth-reading narrative writing style. Read up on how a number of restaurants have joined together to pay commissions to one company that sends customers to them! A major pizza chain receives orders online and pays a company a modest commission for each pizza ordered! A major online bookseller pays commissions for every book ordered through their participating affiliate member Websites!

The Internet has allowed just about anything to be ordered online. Books, cars, homes, dinner and other food items, clothing, flowers, music, toys, stocks, and a variety of tickets are among those products and services already being made available online. Online auctioning allows a broader range of other items to be sold as well such as antiques, memorabilia, and personal belongings. Betancourt offers a broad spectrum of ideas her readers can immediately put to use to sell something online.

Readers will learn of a number of services that can be set up online. Specialized services such as resume writing, job banks, consulting services, referral services, fan clubs, matchmaking, real estate companies, travel companies, and online publishing are among the more popular services readers could start online with very little cost involved. Hobbies can make great revenue producing opportunities as well!

Betancourt offers her readers some very helpful marketing ideas, some assistance to find financial backing, and help designing effective Websites. She will inspire her readers to develop many of their own business ideas. Be sure to checkout the publisher's accompanying Website for some additional online business information. This is a great primer for launching a full-scale online enterprise. Highly recommended for those persons new to the online community!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You will not start your business after reading this., June 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start (Paperback)

The book is entertaining but you might not know what business to start at the end of the book any better. It is certainly not a "how to" book, rather a collection of often interesting stories of big (Borders books) and small companies with prior existence going into the Internet market. I enjoyed reading it and at least it is not yet dated (give it a few more weeks though).

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too shallow, July 29, 1999

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This review is from: The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start (Paperback)

I bought this book cos I am planing to start up an internet business. The author should take out the remark at the back cover of the book that says ".....Learn from the pros how to start your own profitable Net venture, ......" This book doesn't mentioned a single word about the technology, tools or setup used by those successful site.