The fact is that tools exist to create an online empire for next to nothing, and sometimes free, as long as you know where to look.. and how to make them work for you.

In essence, weather you decide to make money from Ebay trading, building an online marketing site, running a casino or trade in imports and exports… you will need to find product at right price and find a willing audience that is in need of your product.

If your thinking of getting into online business because its easy money – Stop, turn around and get a job.

2. Amateur sporting events - elementary, junior high, or high school sporting events offer a great opportunity for taking photographs of peoples kids in action. By getting good shots of their kids, you'll be able to offer great photographs to proud parents who don't own cameras, or forgot to bring them, or didn't have great shots that you got.

3. Digital Image Collections - bundle hundreds of photographs onto a single CD rom and sell as a royalty-free package for web designers and graphic artists that don't want to take time from their areas of interest in order to take photographs.

4. How-To Projects - photograph progression from start to finish of a particular project and put a few explanations with it and then offer it for sale as a 'How To ....." guide.

5. Insurance Records - offer your photography services to property owners who want to document their possessions for insurance purposes. Offer final photographs on a CD. An add on business would be to have a written itemization for all items, which could be included with CD.

6. Child Safety Identification - not all parents have recent photographs of their children. By offering photography services as part of a Child Safety ID business you are doing a service to improve children's safety. Additional services could include recording fingerprints and a hair sample.