How to start an online business is not a hard question to answer.  You began just like you began any new business.  You have to have a commitment to stick things out.  You have to have the time and energy to spend on a business.  You have to spend time planning, researching the market, developing your product, advertising, and writing.  There are many opportunities to find a successful online business, but there is a lot of competition out there too.  You will not get rich overnight.  You must have the patience to wait for the rewards.  After you have your goals and business plan, it is time to think about other aspects of running a home business.  You have to decide where you will set up your office.  Also take the time to figure out when you are going to work.  If you hate waking up the the morning, then plan on working in the evenings.  This is one advantage of having an online business.  You can work on your business at any time during the day.  Of course, because you are working for yourself, you will not have a boss to make sure you finish your work.  You will have to learn self-control and make sure you finish work without getting distracted.  It is all too easy to get online and waste 4 hours on Facebook instead of being productive.  Remember, you might be working at home, but this is still a business.  I recommend that you decide how much time you are going to work each day.  Plan when you are going to work and stick to those times.  Treat it just as you would a traditional job.Another question you have to consider when deciding how to start an online business is what are you going to sell.  The two main things you can sell are services or goods.  You can use your skills to make money online.  You can find and do freelance work online.  This is a way to make some fast and easy money online.  You can find websites that will match up your skills with people who need something done.  This can be as simple as posting on forums and writing articles.  It can be as complex as auditing a companies taxes.  You can literally find a market for almost any skill online.  In addition to selling your services, you can also sell products.  There are two main types of products you can sell:  your own or another person’s.  The easiest and fastest way to get started is to sell another person’s products.  This is referred to as selling affiliate products.  You will sell someone else’s product.  They will give you a percentage of each sell.  A big advantage is you don’t have to create a product, a sales page, or provide customer support.  A disadvantage is you are helping someone else grow their business without growing yours.The other way is to sell your own product.  This way you will get to keep all the money you make from each sell.  You will build a list of customers that you can market to again and again.  This way your business really grows and eventually you will have affiliates working for you selling even more of your products.When you are figuring out how to start an online business, you have several choices.  I recommend you create and sell your own products.  There is just so much more profit potential in this method.  There is a market online for just about everything.  I’m betting that you have enough information in you head to write at least one book, and probably more.