Product Description

Getting rich on the Internet is no longer about IPOs and venture capital. These days, it’s easier and cheaper than ever to start an Internet business. In this strategy-packed guide, Scott Fox reveals the powerful but simple methods he and thousands of others have used to make big money online.

Exclusive interviews with “mom and pop” entrepreneurs prove how easy it is to get started and build a business that will make millions. Filled with practical pointers and inspiring interviews, it’s the most accessible, uplifting book ever on starting and enjoying a super-lucrative online business

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85899 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
Now anyone can be an online milionaire!
These days it's easier, cheaper, and safer than ever to start an Internet business using methods he and thousands of others have used to strike it rich on the Net. Exclusive interviews with "mom and pop" entrepreneurs prove how easy it is to get started and build a million-dollar enterprise. Readers get:

• a guide to e-business opportunities, including "instant e-businesses" that require no start up capital
  
• strategies for making money freom home and turning hobbies into businesses
  
• marketing and product tips
  
• legal and financial advice
  
• a list of recommended vendors
  
• years of expertise and experience in one easy-to-use book.
  

Internet Riches also features an action plan for brainstorming new business ideas, and exercises to help readers determine the best moves for their particular situations. Filled with practical pointers and inspiring interviews, it's the most powerful book on starting and enjoying a million-dollar online business!

From the Author
I wrote this book out of my experiences in being part of a range of Internet related start ups since the early 90's. It is written to have broad appeal, hoping that by sharing proven success strategies that are achievable with little technical knowledge the book would be beneficial to the following audiences: mid-career men and women looking for a change; part-time and home-based moms and retirees interested in moving beyond web browsing to explore entrepreneurial opportunities; the millions of small business owners who have not yet created web sites for their businesses; the millions of "under-employed" workers looking to supplement their income with a side business; and, young people looking for careers that leverage their love of the Internet.

It is not a "get rich quick" scheme, but the first truly hands-on guide to starting an online business written for non-technical readers, packed with strategies and intriguing ideas.

From the Inside Flap
Requirements: Small to minuscule financial investment. Minimal technology skills. Willingness to work hard and learn new things.
Benefits: Flexible hours. No boss. Financial rewards beyond your wildest dreams.

Sound too good to be true? It IS true when you start your own Internet business. All it takes to build a prosperous company and rewarding life is a great idea, a little knowledge, and the perseverance ro make it happen. In fact, thousands of people are jumping ship from nit-picking, soul-crushing workplaces to turn their ideas and hobbies into lucrative, home-based Internet businesses. And you can too!

Scott Fox reveals the powrful but simple strategies that he and other entrepreneurs have used to start and build their million=dollar enterprises in Internet Riches, the most practical how-to-do-it guide available. Packed with interviews, action plans, and a nuts-and-bolts overview of everything you need to know to deisgn and market your e-business, Internet Riches, gives you:

• Clear insights into the most promising e-business opportunities out there, including instant e-business opportunties that require almost NO start-up capital.
  
• Powerful action plans for brainstorming new business ideas, plus guidelines on pre-testing them before investing a single penny.
  
• Inspiring examples of innovative comopanies that grew out of a single great idea, such as Sittercity.com, which efficiently connects parents with babysitters, to niche-product companies like bathboats.com, which sells handcrafted toy boats online.
  
• Crucial tips on how to create a professional-looking Website, online store, and e-mail newsletter-with minimal cost, effort, or expertise.
  
• No-budget and small-budget marketing secrets-essential information you won't find gathered anywhere else.
  
• Valuable lists of recommended vendors, and much more!
  

This is a perfect time to start your own Internet business, with the expense and risks of traditional brick-and-mortar operations virtually eliminated. And despite the sour mood that followed the dot-com collapse, Internet businesses continue to prosper, grabbing an ever-greater share of the consumer dollar. Find out how you can join the fun and revitalize your life, your career, and your lackluster bank account with this clear, easy-to-understand guide to creating and operating a successful online business.

Customer Reviews

Worked For Me
I've been trying to come up with a new idea for an Internet business but have been getting nowhere at all, and so I thought that I would try this book to see if it gave me some inspiration.

Much to my surprise, I found that it did. I can't claim that it was 100% down to the book, but it got me to put my thinking cap on and start thinking in some different directions.

Of course, the claims of quickly becoming a millionaire need to be taken with a very large piece of salt, but stranger things have happened!

After discussing how to get your creative juices flowing on coming up with a good idea, the rest of the book goes through all of the steps necessary in order to set up an Internet business. It is written for the absolute novice - no website experience is necessary at all. I was also impressed with the way that the writer has investigated the cheapest options in all cases allowing anyone to have a go for no more than $25 a month.

For me the information here was a little basic, but it served as a useful refresher course because the information is still current.

All in all, it's well worth the money.

A step-by-step strategy without the nonesense
Initially I was searching for a book about how to develop a simple website for my partner's decorating business. Having never done this before, I was attracted to 'Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires' because the synopsis made it sound so easy to do, though I admit I was expecting a book with lots of hot air and of little practical use.

I was very pleasantly surprised when I read the book. In fact,I was so excited that I started a book of ideas (recommended by the author, Scott Fox) immediately and have ended up with such a raft of ideas for ME to make money that I don't have the time to develop a website for my partner's business (sorry Mick!).

Don't let the American examples in the book put you off - the internet is the same both sides of the pond and UK versions of everything referred to in the book are readily available with a bit of Googling. Anyway, the simple step-by-step guidance would probably apply to any country.

Mr Fox has a unique way of connecting with his readers, as though they know him personally, creating trust and inspiration. His book is straightforward and full of information that even a British grandmother can follow, without all the padding that often fills self-help books. Every time I turn a page I find many ideas on how best to create my perfect e-business.

In all, if you want to be an Internet Entrepreneur - buy this book. If you are only remotely interested in setting up a website - still buy this book. You might find that it takes you somewhere you weren't expecting it to!

Very good beginners' guide to setting up internet businesses
I bought this book recently, and found that it answered all the questions I had about getting up and running on the internet. Magazines tend to have a tech-focus, but Fox's book is a very holistic (for want of a better word!) approach to how to maximise & optimise, from the get-go, your business idea on the web.

The book teaches you how to approach a fledgling web-business from three crucially important standpoints. You can choose for your business to focus on one of these approaches...or a combination of two, or all three. The book helps you to think about what you're enthusiastic about regarding the subject of your web-business...and Fox's line of questioning, directed at the reader, really does help to 'coax' the best solutions out of the reader. Whether 're-packaging' information for professionals in a newsletter, or selling jars of grandma's rustic apricot chutney, the author guides you through everything you need to know regarding how to do it on the internet, to a wider audience than you ever could have imagined.

The author really does know whereof he speaks: he's worked in large corporations before, and knows how to prepare similar corporate foot-soldiers to strike out on their own with a web-business. With inexpensive web-hosting and professional template systems, it's never been easier to set up an internet-based firm, and no magazine article, or other book I've found is as up-to-the-minute in it's approach to aiding people to exploit the very best of these new tools.

It's extremely easy to read, too, and does not assume of the reader any previous experience of the web. Fox uses examples of actual, small websites, which 'leveraged' their way to serious profitability and household-name status, by using search-engine optimisers, keyword traffic-directors, and other tricks which help bring-to-prominance a website in its own market niche, ahead of the competition.

If you're looking for the latest and greatest guide to Dreamweaver and Flash, this isn't the book for you. But if you're looking to get on the web professionally, cheaply and fast, this IS the book for you. And, Mr. Fox may be onto something: recently, rackspace.com did a survey in December 2006 of what people like and hate in a website. Lots of Flash and pop-ups and dynamism is loathed by time-poor people, but simple high-quality content text, clean lines and readability is what is WANTED by most people. And this is exactly what this book is about.