Internet sales still what they used to be?

Is there still profit for the part time internet store?

[uci_bink]

Hello,

Sorry if this is a bad/dumb etc qeustion but here goes:

I am a college student, currently a computer engineering major and I pay my own tuition/living etc and so I am broke, being broke gives me a lot of free time and I would love to make some $$ during that time.

I have been designing web sites for around 3 years for different companies.

My question is: Can you still make a good amount of money selling things on the internet?

If so what have you all found to sell?
How many hours per week am I looking at spending etc.

Is there a guide out there for people like me...and if not would anyone be interested in writing one?

Help a poor college student out! :)
Thanks,
Kevin Abbink

[jeremy goodrich]

Kevin, in a few months, you will remember the day you found this place as the day you struck internet gold.

It's all here, dude.

For starters, site search [webmasterworld.com] to help find stuff, as you will need to dig through lots of the old threads to get an idea of the more than 3 years of knowledge piled here by tons of people that 100% know exactly what they are doing when it comes to business on the web.
*Tip on the site search, to use it on a specific forum,
type what you are searching for and forum/# where #
is the number of the forum you want to search in.

Another good reference as you start your journey to internet $$$, is the glossary of promotion terms [webmasterworld.com] so you get can get a quick & dirty overview of some of the terms you might not know like SERP = search engines results page.

After all that, since you are already into design you might find the HTML & Browsers forums fun, or the 'new' CSS forum.

Thinking about the money side now, consider Advertising & Affiliate marketing forum [webmasterworld.com] as your new hang out, along with Search Engine promotion forum [webmasterworld.com] as those will give you these tools:

the answer to 'do people make money'

how they make their money

how much time it takes

Welcome to WebmasterWorld i'm sure somebody said it already nice to have you hear. :)

[uci_bink]

Jeremy,

Thanks for the great welcome and encouraging words!

I will check out the Affiliate marketing forum and like you said hang out over there for awhile.

I also am still wondering if anyone has sold their own services with success...by service I mean an original service they developed using the internet.

I dont know exactly what I am looking for....just an Idea I guess....or a good partner to help me out!

Anyhow...you gave me a great starting place...thanks a lot!
Kevin Abbink