I have written posts both about the advantages and disadvantages of EBay business, and today I will cover the advantages of stand-alone Ecommerce websites, which is a better choice of your online business.

As I mentioned before, the EBay business has disadvantages such as high long-term cost, too much of competition and hard to control, etc. Those are the opposite of stand-alone Ecommerce websites. The Advantages of a stand-alone Ecommerce website are as follows:

I'll make this a quick and short post here.

I Just received an Email from GetAFreelancer(GAF), a freelancer project website which I often used to look for freelancing jobs when I have free time, inform that GAF has become 5-year-old on Feb 4th,2009.

In last post I suggest that you start your online business by selling you stuff on EBay first. And if you do every thing right, I am sure that you can make many money from your EBay Business. I know many people have quit their job and make a decent living as a full time EBayer.

However as I mentioned before, I don't think you should take your EBay business as your ideal business model forever. Because although it is easy to start, from a long-term point of view, EBay and Other 3rd party auction sites have many inherent disadvantages.

January, The first month of 2009 has passed by and it's time for the Your Money Online Monthly Report for January 2009: the actions, and the results.

Actions taken: What did I do in January 2009

• 1. In January I wrote 14 posts totally. I did not write as many post as I planned to.
• 2. I created a new template for Your Money Online, so that YMO can look a little better.
• 3. Signed up with a In-Text advertising program InfoLinks and a General Affiliate networks LinkShare.com.

Many people think online business is an easy and safe way to make money online. This is only part of the truth, however. Because Online businesses are also as risky as offline businesses, if you don't know what to sell and how to sell. You need to practice your business skills before you dive into the business world. So it's better for you to start you online business to sell your used stuff on auction sites.

I suggest you take EBay as your starting point, as it is the largest auction website and attract hundreds of thousands of buyers every day. If you search the articles under the category of auction in those article directories, you will find most of these articles are about EBay. Yes nowadays, auction website almost equals EBay.

EBay is a good place for a new entrepreneur because it has following benefits: