Why I Started a Web Business

Why I Started an Online Business, and why you should too. Well there are many reasons why I started an online business. Firstly, although I enjoyed my job as an engineer I knew I didn’t want to be doing it for the next 40 years. I wanted to spend time with my family and friends, I wanted to travel the world and live comfortably without the stresses and constraints of a job tying me down to a mundane and repetitive cycle.

What could I do to improve my lifestyle?

So having established that working for the next 40 years wasn’t what I wanted out of life, I started to think, there has got to be a way to do the things I want to do and still have an income. Now once I started seeking ways to make money without sacrificing time, an overflow of information started to come my way, initially it was very overwhelming, I had no idea what to do. So I sat back and weighed up my options, and can you guess the one that kept grabbing my attention, well it should be pretty obvious, it was to start an online business.

What was the biggest attraction of an online business?

I could start up with virtually no money, no risk, I could make money off someone else’s products and to top it off I could have access to a worldwide market 24hrs a day 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. There is no need to lease a shop front, hire a bunch of shop assistants, just a fully automated sales system that can work for me while I sleep. If you can show me another way of achieving that, then “Count me in”.

Still not convinced?

Well if you’re still not convinced, let me give you a couple of internet statistics that may. The internet is estimated to have over 20% of the world’s population currently online, which is over 1 billion people who could potentially be you’re customer. It is also estimated that out of those users the online spending was over US$5.0 trillion in 2006 and increasing, imagine getting just a slice of that.

This is just a brief introduction to internet businesses, we’ll be going through more in future, including providing you with tutorials, useful resources, or even contribute yourself to help other uses out. Thanks for reading.