Simply put, e-business is just business conducted over the Internet. For this you need a website through which you can sell your products, information, or services to your customers. An e-business can be an extension of a regular business (i.e. you already have a business and you setup a website for it to increase your customer base) or it can be totally independant of any physical location (commonly known as a dot-com company).

The concept of an e-Business is a blessing to the new generation of entrepreneurial individuals. It offers a cheap and easy way to start a business. Instead of investing tens of thousands of dollars to open a store, they can spend less than a thousand dollars to launch a website that is accessible to people around the world.

The degree of success of an e-business depends on many factors some of which are:

• Type of Business - it should be suitable for the Internet
• Competition - naturally, the less the competition the better
• Customer Base - how many potential customers do you have, and are they the kind that is willing to pay money or not
• Quality of the Website - you need an elegant and friendly website that is hosted on fast and reliable servers
• Quality of the Service - the satisfied customer will come again and spend more money

If developed properly, an e-business can be quite rewarding to its owner. Whereas most e-businesses will not evolve into multi-million dollar enterprises, they can provide a comfortable living or at the least a handsome supplementary income. The beauty of many websites is that they can be fully automated and require little work on the part of the webmaster running them. If used effectively, they can generate money for the webmaster without much interferance.