The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start

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Pub. Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher(s): Adams Media Corp
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Summary

For every entrepreneur who wants to send a personal star into cyberspace, The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start is the one start-up book needed. Included are profiles of dozens of Web businesses that will give you a glimpse into what inspired these pioneers, 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 100 profitable businesses on the Internet. Now, there are hundreds of thousands, with more being launched every day. Covering all aspects of Web-business start-up, The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start focuses on everything from setting up your first Web site to effective marketing techniques to delivering the goods, customer service, and much, much more.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The New Frontier in CyberSpace vii
PART I: The Basics of Internet Business 1(38)
Developing Your Web Site
3(12)
Raising Money
15(12)
Generating Sales
27(8)
Delivering the Goods
35(4)
PART II: Profiles of Successful Internet Businesses 39(168)
Global Trotters: Travel Agencies
41(6)
The Real Estate Boom
47(8)
The Action Thriller: Bookstores
55(10)
The New Checkout Counter: Online Supermarkets
65(14)
Fields of Dreams: Sports on the Web
79(6)
A New Take on Takeout: Cybermeals
85(6)
Steering a New Course: Auto-by-Tel
91(6)
Alice in Cyberland: Toy Stores
97(4)
Rags to Riches: Vintage Clothing
101(4)
Intercyber Dating and Mating
105(12)
Cork Dork Meets Propeller Head: Virtual Vineyards
117(4)
Smelling the Roses in Cyberspace: Flower Delivery Services
121(4)
Hello Earth! What Am I Bid? Online Auctions
125(6)
So Near Yet So Far: Cyberian Outpost
131(8)
The Video Matchmaker: Reel.Com
139(4)
The Yes! Files: Fan Clubs
143(4)
Put Your Money Where Your Mouse Is: Investment Advisors:
147(12)
Classified Information: Job Center
159(6)
The Reachable Stars: Online Astrologers
165(6)
Periodical Profits: Electronic Magazines
171(6)
Music to Their Ears: Virtual CD Stores
177(8)
From Soup to Worts: InterNetworks
185(8)
They Just Keep Growing and Growing: Pet Services
193(4)
Giving Birth to Getting Old: Gerontology Consultants
197(4)
The Check is Not in the Mail: Medical Claims Processors
201(2)
Lost in Space: Data Recovery
203(4)
Index 207

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