Friend wants to start an internet business. Good idea?

My friend wants to start an internet business. He has about $10,000 to start for something serious. Preferably internet based, or a middle-man operation.

I'm open to any ideas and would greatly appreciate your thoughts and ideas.

Thank you!

Let me elaborate. MY FRIEND HAS $10,000 TO WORK WITH. Real businesses which he can start up please.

Yes. Learn about affiliate programs. An affiliate program is when you sell another company's product for upwards of 50% of the profit. You get a website and put the product on their, you promote the heck out of it. Because traffic is money. Get Google Adsense and combine it with your site to make even more money from visitors. Many company's have affiliate programs and you didn't even know it. Netflix. Best Buy. Companies big and small. You can find hundreds in one place at an affiliate directory.

With 10'000$ you can outsource a lot of it. You can get somebody to write an article for you for less than 5$ at many places on the internet, use 500$ to purchase 100 articles. Have your link to your website placed at the bottom of the article. Submit all 100 articles to 3 or 5 of the most popular article directories. Each article will bring 50 to 300 visitors PER week. So as soon as they get approved that is at minimum 5000 visitors per month. If conversion rate is even only 1% thats 50 affiliate sales, not even counting adsense, even if each sale is only 20$ (many are much higher) you have just made about 1000$ in your first month and a half.

Then you use 500 more dollars or 1000 dollars to get 100 or 200 more articles, Submit all of them. If you spend 2000$ outsourcing articles you will have submitted 400 articles total. Each article brings minimum 50 visitors per week. Thats 80'000 visitors a week. Conversion rate 1%, 800 sales, 20$ each, 16'000$ that month.

All you do is get a website, add adsense and affiliate programs, and do article marketing. After you spend some money outsourcing article marketing hire an SEO expert to optimize your site. OR better yet before you even GET a site outsource it to someone to build it for you. This might run 1500$ but if you can't optimize it yourself then you need to do it or you won't get good search engine placement.

You can learn all of this for free at the link below. Its more of a do-it-yourself guide that shows you how to do it without any money. The concepts still apply, except instead of a blog you need to get an actual domain and website, hire a website designer/SEO expert to make the site, register at Google adsense, register at an affiliate directory. Use both adsense and an affiliate program of your choice on your site. Hire an article writer and have them submit the articles for you or do it yourself to make sure its actually getting done.

After 6 months tops you will be making at least 10'000$ a month. Once your site gets so popular it will maintain itself and max itself out on its own, then you have a huge passive income stream. Then if you prefer you can make another site and keep doing that til you are a mulimillionaire.

The site below has all the detailed information to do all of this. And resources that you won't find on your own, like where to find people to write your articles and build your site, so all you have to worry about is the core aspects.

Maybe you could take a look at http://www.internetbusinessmodelonline.c...
This is an educational website whereby it will share with you what are those various internet business that you could explore.

Hope it helps.