Please briefly describe your ebusiness.
I am President of Everon Soft Solutions. Basically I am a web & graphics designer and I am also in Internet marketing stuff.

Why did you pick this particular idea?
I love creativity, lots of colors. It started from my childhood; I was very famous in my school and group for my drawing skills and hand-writing, and my hobby just starts diverting from paper art to digital art.

Now… it’s just like a dream come true that I am in field of my choice, my passion, where everyday I create something new, something better then previous one.

Did you have any previous experience in this area?
Yes, I am in field professionally from past 4+ years. I am still learning, and still trying to improve my self.

How long did it take before you realized success or failure?
Well… some time in just a blink of eye, I think success is the smile on my face, satisfaction of my mind.

Why do you think you succeeded or failed?
Just as I mentioned above for me success is satisfaction of mind.

What things worked well?
Determination, sincerity to work and professionalism.

What things didn’t work well?
Can’t say, I haven’t faced anything like this yet.

What did you learn the hard way?
Never expect from others, try to “Do it yourself”.

Did you find any particular person, book, or site helpful?
Another thing I learned is that you have to learn everything by yourself; no one can fill your brain with knowledge. You need to fill it by yourself!

What advice would you give to someone considering an ebiz today?
Whatever you want to do, don’t throw it on tomorrow, do it today!

Please briefly describe your ebusiness.
I am the President of a small web development firm that specializes in SEO, SEM, and XHTML web design.

Why did you pick this particular idea?
It really just started evolving…we didn’t pick it, it picked us.

Did you have any previous experience in this area?
I’ve been a web developer for 6 years, so yes, I have.

How long did it take before you realized success or failure?
It’s taken about a year or so, we’ve been slowly planning, developing, and marketing to get to the point we are at now with our portfolio of websites.

Why do you think you succeeded or failed?
Hard work, dedication, and being willing to learn and try new things. Must give some to take some.

What things worked well?
Finding a good team to work with. Find some other dedicated individuals and work hard together.

What things didn’t work well?
Hmmm I haven’t found anything yet really. Most everything has worked out well.

What did you learn the hard way?
If you’re serious about managing a site, do NOT use shared hosting. I ran into problem after problem with shared hosting. I went dedicated and I’ve never looked back. I pay a pretty penny every month for the server, but it’s worth every cent. I currently use LiquidWeb and I highly recommend them to everyone.

Did you find any particular person, book, or site helpful?
Matt Cutts. He is a bank of knowledge. Good guy, definitely worth checking out.

What advice would you give to someone considering an ebiz today?
Read, read, read. Learn from other people. Talk, join forums, be part of a community. I’ve learned almost all I know from other people and reading. Don’t be afraid to try new things.

Please briefly describe your ebusiness.
I am giving away free domain names ( .com, .net, .info etc. ) and free web hosting on a credit base. The user has to post on my forum and bring other members in.

Why did you pick this particular idea?
I had 40 .info domains I wasn’t using and I wanted to monetize them somehow.

Did you have any previous experience in this area?
Yes. I have been monetizing and trading domain names for about one year.

How long did it take before you realized success or failure?
I realized success very fast. In about 6 or 7 weeks I reached the 4000 members milestone.

Why do you think you succeeded or failed?
I succeeded because my website got a lot of promotion and it still does. Also I started earning my first real money with adsense.

What things worked well?
The traffic to my website and the earnings.

What things didn’t work well?
The script and forum. I have had a few problems, but fixed them and everything worked ok then.

What did you learn the hard way?
The hardest part is the Internet marketing. If you find a good way to market your business, then everything else should be ok. You should try better or quit.

Did you find any particular person, book, or site helpful?
Yes. I have been helped by people from digitalpoint.com, seopedia.ro, and my friends.

What advice would you give to someone considering an ebiz today?
Even if you look around in the ebiz and see the market is taken by the big websites, don’t quit. With a good marketing idea and some skills you can get up soon. If you think you are not good enough, then try a niche.

Why did you pick this particular idea?
I wanted to create a stock blog because I really enjoy reading blogs. I think blogs have potential to replace mainstream media, and I want to be apart of the blogosphere.

Did you have any previous experience in this area?
No. I’m a college student learning stocks for the first time, and I am trying to build a strong passive income asset on the Internet.

How long did it take before you realized success or failure?
When I first started out on The Bull Trader, I had no idea that it would lead to the site that it is today. Initially, I was hosted on a free blogspot.com account. However, after just 1 month of blogging on that site, I already had a handful of loyal daily readers.

I realized that this was a great opportunity to build something successful, so I invested a small amount of money in hosting and moved onto my own domain with a Wordpress backend. I also advertised my blog aggressively. Ever since that move, traffic and revenue have been increasing consistently.

Why do you think you succeeded or failed?
I was in the right place at the right time. When thebulltrader.com launched, there were only 3 other major stock blogs. Today there are over 150. The Bull Trader became known as a trusted and established blog because it was one of the first.

What things worked well?
Just a few weeks ago, I ran a giveaway sweepstakes. I convinced a book publisher to contribute some free stock trading books to the giveaway. I also got some stock newsletter services to contribute a few prizes. I then gave away the prizes to my readers, which gave my sponsors good product placement advertising while providing my blog with good publicity.

What things didn’t work well?
I tried launching a forum for my site a few months ago. It didn’t work out that well since most of the readers were not interested in contributing their ideas. Oh well.

What did you learn the hard way?
I learned the hard way that SEO is critical to a website’s success. I didn’t learn about SEO until a few months ago, and I regret that I didn’t start optimizing my site for search engines earlier on.

Did you find any particular person, book, or site helpful?
Not really.

What advice would you give to someone considering an ebiz today?
The Internet is just like real estate… except on the Internet, the land is free. You just need to have a great idea and the drive to develop your stake of land to have a booming online presence.

Website Name: WebmasterEarth
Website Link: http://webmasterEarth.com

Please briefly describe your ebusiness.
My ebusiness is a webmaster forum, great for webmasters that just started off and want to learn a lot about the field of webmastering.

Why did you pick this particular idea?
I choose this particular idea because I want to help out people who are starting off with webmastering to get a better impression of webmastering and to get some great tips on the field.

Did you have any previous experience in this area?
Yes, I am currently a member on many different kinds of webmaster forums such as Digital Point, Namepros, and Webmaster-talk.

How long did it take before you realized success or failure?
It took me about a year and a half to really start to be successful.

Why do you think you succeeded or failed?
I think I am heading towards the successful point. I have been in the failure side in the beginning but I bounced back.

What things worked well?
The things that worked well for me were directories, and sites with lots of content. The most important thing to have is content.

What things didn’t work well?
Small forums about pointless topics didn’t work for me. I have seen people have success with these kinds of sites but not me.

What did you learn the hard way?
I learned how to design websites the hard way. I still did not master it. I am still learning from tutorials on different websites.

Did you find any particular person, book, or site helpful?
Yes, many users are helpful along the way when you try to become a webmaster. I have to say, no ebooks helped me. I have read a few and none of them did me any good. I don’t think books about how someone had success help you have success. People on webmasters were most helpful, that is why I want to be the helpful person now and offer help on WebmasterEarth.com

What advice would you give to someone considering an ebiz today?
You need money from the beginning to start a good ebiz. You have to have money to earn money. If you do not have any money then you cannot advertise, buy links, and other things. Try to always have money before you start a business.