Whatever type of business you choose, it will be up to you to decide best marketing strategies to fit your needs. You will be making list after list of what works, what doesn't work, and why you feel it failed, and how you think you could have improved methods. After all, whatever business you decide to get yourself into will be up to you to promote. If it fails, it will be because either market wasn't there, or promotion wasn't there. Both reasons will be your own responsibility to account for.

While deciding what is "comfortable" and "fun" will help alleviate worry and dread of working at what you enjoy, we must remember that running your own business is work -- and sometimes it requires breaking a sweat in order to make a profit. So, once you have decided what is "comfortable" and "fun", you will need to decide what skills you are best at that will help you manage and promote your business.

Test your targeted market by using several methods, at first, to promote your business. Find one that works best for you, and then be consistent. When you are doing something you enjoy doing, doing it every day doesn't seem so hard.

SEs, on contrary to "buy or goodbye" concept web-sites, are also your allies in that e-business game. They will like you because you help them deliver what they are looking for – information. As a result you can save a lot of advertising funds, by creating keywords attractive web-pages and focusing on high SE rankings, therefore getting free traffic non-stop. Good SE placement and indexes-directories listing are number one priority, and fortunately to you, this task will be accomplished indirectly and without much work from your side. How? Just by developing and delivering high-quality info, you will discover very soon that your web-site is ranked in top 10.

The developing process comprises creation of quality content, writing and publishing your own as well as third party articles, offering info products like ebooks, video, audio or just text files, creating autoresponder courses, sending newsletters, ezines, setting up a discussion board, running online surveys, online interactive games etc. It seems like serious work, but $15.000 monthly is also serious money, isn't it?

PROS:

1. A quick way to build yourself a reputation of expert in field of activity given. 2. Vast possibilities to create a loyal online community. 3. More fundamental way to establishing online presence. 4. Steady and growing auditory equals to steady and growing monthly cash flow.

CONS:

1. Relatively more time consuming and longer way to make "first money". 2. Will demand writing skills as well as certain level of knowledge and skills to be able to share it with others.

Get THE MOST of it.

With what has already been said, time seems to be of most value. To be efficient you should strive to save time, plan your work and increase productivity. It is very easy to be distracted when building content-rich web-sites. As it was told numerous times: "Internet is a huge distracter". I don't want to repeat over again but you should stick to plan and be focused.

In previous article I suggested to start publishing online newsletter, e-magazine or offering e-business courses – anything to create a steady number of visitors. With "stay with me" web-site concept it is not advisable, it is obligatory, so most valuable advise here would be to automate as much business processes as possible.

You’ve got to have software to automate your web-site updates, software to keep all your content, subscribers’ databases etc. These 3-5 programs are basis of running your effective business. The rest depends solely upon your desire to achieve success.