I've spent most of my life starting and operating businesses and found small scale consulting difficult. When you've got work, clients want 80 hours a week. When the job ends, you wait for the phone to ring because you had no time to do marketing. However, if you can make it through the start-up pains to where you can support a few employees, both web site design and Internet consulting hold real promise. Building Your Own Web Site Obviously, to make money, you have to sell something.
Web sites generate revenue by selling advertising, products, or services.
All you need to do is provide a compelling reason for a million users a month to visit your site and sign up with a service like DoubleClick to sell the ads for you. Then cash the checks. A million hits is a lofty goal. Depending upon your talents it may well be impossible. On the other hand, there are some incredibly simple sites generating up to a million hits a day.