The advantages of an internet business is that you don't need a physical location. You don't need to rent or buy a place to start your business. Imagine how much it will cost you to do such thing. It can cost you thousand of dollards per month to have such business.

On internet you need a location. But it is a domain name, like you know. It can cost between $5 to $25 per year to have an internet domian name. At $25 you can even have free web hosting. So it is really cheap to do business on internet.

Of course you need a website. You can create one if you have some web development knowledge. Or you can have one free with an affiliate program or other home business opportunity. Or you can have website template for a low investment and some are even free.

On internet you can advertise for free. This is another benefit of internet. You can write article like this one and publish it in ezine, website, etc. This is call viral marketing. Or you can advertise for a really low investment, like with overture or Google Adword. You pay only when someone click on your Ad. This is called Pay Per Click. You can have good traffic and good sales using PPC campaign. You can bid as low as 10 cents per click.

With an internet business you don't need no inventory unless you have youre own product that you ship by yourself. Most business opportunity ship product for you and you keep profits.

Imagine you don't need to keep an inventory, you don't need a cash register, you don't need credit card processing etc.etc. All this is done for you if you sales for another business opportunity. You don't need employee to train and pay. You don't need to pay for vacation, insurance, benefices etc.