Internet and Online Business


Recent Internet and Online Business Articles

Web Expertise in Novel Locales

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Jun 1, 2000

Now that the Internet has established itself as a must-have component of every business, brick-and-mortar companies are rushing en masse to get online. Th...  Read more

Web Business Model: Product Sales

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

A Web business based on product sales involves selling a physical, shippable product online. There are three main ways to sell products on the Web:...  Read more

Web Business Model: Service Sales

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

Services too, as well as products, can be sold via the Internet. Here are the three examples of this kind of business model: Read more

Web Business Model: Information Delivery

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

One of the biggest benefits of the World Wide Web is that it presents a fast, efficient, and practical way to share information around the world. Informat...  Read more

Upstarts: Personal-Finance Niches

By Ilan Mochari |  Jun 1, 2000

Think the personal-finance industry caters only to older white males? A slew of start-ups are breaking into the personal-finance industry by targeting tradit...  Read more

Bridge Financing over the River Scared

By Andrew Raskin |  Jun 1, 2000

Popular wisdom holds that Internet companies can change business models on a dime. Actually, it takes a whole lot of dimes.  Read more

The Next Next Thing

By Steve Solomon |  Jun 1, 2000

Three entrepreneurs decided they could turn their money-losing brick-and-mortar business into a well-funded dot-com. The question: Will they be able to win S...  Read more

Sites for Singles

By Ned Snell |  Jun 1, 2000

Running a business on your own and looking for some virtual guidance? A panel of entrepreneurs helps us review a handful of Web sites designed for soloists.  Read more

Hot Tip: Trademarks

By Ilan Mochari |  Jun 1, 2000

If your company sells on the Web or even has a bare-bones Web presence, you should consider trademarking your corporate names and symbols in other countri...  Read more

Frat Mixers and Stock Options

By Susan Greco |  Jun 1, 2000

Like many fast-growing companies looking for help, VarsityBooks.com has not been shy about tapping students for ...  Read more

Attracting Search Engines: What Not to Do

By Fredrick Marckini |  Jun 1, 2000

Intentionally launching a Web site that could not be found in any of the major search engines would be a lot like opening a mail-order business and not pu...  Read more

The Missing Link to Your Community

By Heather Duggan |  Jun 1, 2000

Small-business owners: Virtual community vendors have something to say to you. Hear anything? No need to check your hearing, it's just that the vir...  Read more

Fluff Is for Dryer Sheets

By Heather Martin |  Jun 1, 2000

My 10th grade English teacher, Mr. Vandeboe, taught me an important writing lesson that I carry with me to this day: Don't put anything in writing...  Read more

Using Communities as a Marketing Tool

By Sue Boettcher |  Jun 1, 2000

We've talked a lot over the past few weeks about how starting an online community can help you grow your business and retain your clients and customers. B...  Read more

Bundling Offers Can Boost Revenue

By Ola Edvardsson |  Jun 1, 2000

An interesting way to use an affiliate program for your Web site is to have a free offer from an affiliate program bundled together with your own offer.Read more

Media Relations: Three Tips for Getting Heard

By Kelly Strand Anderson |  Jun 1, 2000

One of the most important aspects of PR is media relations: how we communicate and interact with members of the news media. Approaching members of the med...  Read more

Prepare Your Site for Going Global

By John Mulligan |  Jun 1, 2000

For many companies, localization is an afterthought. Whenever I inquire of people in the information technology and/or e-commerce industries whether they ...  Read more

Special Access to a Product or Service

By Raan Marie Rowley |  Jun 1, 2000

Some products and services are available only through specially designated agents. For example, certain brands of hair products, such as Aveda, Matrix, Ne...  Read more

Pick a Web Business Model that Works for You

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

Let's say you're a wool sweater expert and you've decided to start your own Internet business. Well, great! But exactly what sort of business do you want?...  Read more

Almost Free E-commerce

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 1, 2000

Becoming an E-business can be cheap and easy -- if you have the time to do it yourself.  Read more

Nailing It

By Anne Stuart |  Jun 1, 2000

In the race to build the first online hardware store, Peter Hunt and Rich Takata put their company in the hands of Xuma, a build-to-order Web site developer.  Read more

Lift Off

By Inc. staff |  Jun 1, 2000

An adapted excerpt from I The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush, /I Tom Ashbrook's chronicle of ...  Read more

Virtual Swap Meet

By Anne Stuart |  Jun 1, 2000

At yet2.com , one company's mothballed technology can be another's moneymaking treasure. Launched earlier this yea...  Read more

David + David + David = Goliath

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 1, 2000

Small companies are now banding together on the Web for volume discounts on everything from pencils to office chairs to phone service. Here's a sampling o...  Read more

Book Value

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Jun 1, 2000

Read reviews of five new business books -- three about making your Web efforts pay off, one on the origin of Linux, and one about the education of a fabled S...  Read more

Legal Aspects of E-Commerce

By David Adler |  May 31, 2000

There are four common ways to deliver products based on interactions that take place on the Web. This article discusses common legal needs related to each...  Read more

FTC Jumps the Gun with Privacy Proposal

By Christi Frum |  May 31, 2000

The findings of a recent Internet privacy study conducted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have prompted the agency to propose that Congress give it ...  Read more

Three Simple Secrets to Making Money with Affiliate Programs

By Ola Edvardsson |  May 19, 2000

One of the most common discussions regarding affiliate programs revolves around whether it's good to send visitors away from your site. The answer is simp...  Read more

Can Visitors Navigate Your Site?

By Matt May |  May 19, 2000

Testing Web sites for usability is largely recognized as a requirement for launching top-quality sites. Advocates of usability testing have emphasized the...  Read more

The Two Community Hosting Tools You Need

By Sue Boettcher |  May 19, 2000

Hosts need software tools to help them do their jobs. Host tools are special features that regular users don't have. Trying to host a community without ho...  Read more

Internationalize So You Can Localize Successfully

By John Mulligan |  May 19, 2000

We all know that Europe and Asia are on the road to catching up with the United States in e-commerce. Estimates vary slightly, but they all indicat...  Read more

How can online communities boost my business?

May 16, 2000

Internet in Business mentor Jakob Nielsen responds to the following question from an inc.com reader: Our business is conferencin...  Read more

You Don't Need Technology to Tell the Truth

By Mike Wallace |  May 15, 2000

Mike Wallace on the Internet and life inside 60 Minutes .  Read more

Barbarians at the Watergate

By Samuel Fromartz |  May 15, 2000

It may have taken awhile, but Washington society is finally adjusting to a new breed: the fast-moving, different-thinking, so very dot-com riche.   Read more

The State of Small Business, Part 3: How It Works in the Real World

By Edward O. Welles |  May 15, 2000

The digital economy's effects on traditional small businesses.  Read more