If you would like to establish anew careeras an online marketer what kind of website do you need to build? Well it’s a good idea to base your site on the ideologies of a solid business model. If a business can succeed in the real world then it has a good chance of working in cyberspace. So does that mean that you should only considercareer ideasthat have a way of generating an income with the possibility to make a good profit? Not necessarily! There are plentyof examples on the web of brilliant ideas that initially run at quite a considerable loss, the most recent case being YouTube. The cost of hosting and the technology needed meant that there was no way it could make a profit, but because of an estimatedseventy five million viewers a month it was sold in September 2006 for around eight hundred and eighty million pounds. So if your excellent idea can create this amount of traffic it could be well worth investing time and money now for extraordinary gains in the future. But let’s face it ideas like YouTube don’t happen every day and many of us would be happy with a respectable income and more positive career opportunitiesfor the future.

To recognise the next YouTube or FaceBookyou’ll need more than just luck and a good gut feeling it’s necessary to do as much research as possible. There have been plentyof failures too, Kozmo.com and Flooz.com are just two such failures of the dot com boom. Studying these and other failed businesses will give you real insight into just what you will need to succeed. A goodplace to start your research would be Cnet’s list of top 10 dot-com flops. But don’t just dwell on the negative it would be wise to study the successful businesses too, from the major players with a global reach to the smaller sites run by individual business people that are still able to turn over a tidy profit. Remember that this is going to be your new career and a lot of hard work and a strong self-belief is definitely going to be needed.

Also it’s a good idea to check to see if you can make use of any already existing websites to create new career opportunities. There are plentyof people using eBay as a method of trade or building online shops using some of the various content management systems (CMS) now available. It’s often achievable to get a decent looking commercial website up and running relatively quickly without the need for a lot of technical knowledge. There are now many ecommerce packages like Magneto that can be used in combination with a CMS such as Joomla to build an internet shop. Others are bidding for work on sites such as elance.com or freelancers.net. So as you can see there are plentyof places on the online that you can use to find decent new career ideas.