Dropshippers, as they’re called
–are an excellent way to start your e-business and, if done properly, don’t have to be a costly endeavor. There are literally hundreds of companies out there that will dropship products for you, everything from gifts and housewares to power tools and furniture.

If you think hooking up a brick-and-mortar location with a credit card system stymies most bankers, try asking them how to do it on your website.

Many entrepreneurs build solid businesses that provide a very comfortable living and many others do indeed get rich. Others simply find out that they have traded one job for another and still others discover that business really wasn’t for them.

Last week’s column on whether you were required to report income earned from eBay sales to the IRS sparked a number of additional questions and comments from eBay sellers who were hoping that I could somehow validate that their eBay activities were mere hobbies instead of actual businesses and therefore not susceptible to IRS taxation.