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One of my favorite (scratch that, make it my favorite) business models for creating income on the Internet is the information products model. You get amazingly high profit margins (there's no inventory to hold, and you ran run this business without employees), you can work from anywhere in the world that has an Internet connection, and you can set up your business so that it runs on total autopilot.

So you want to get rich selling information products? The great news is that it does not require much capital to get started - anyone can get started in this business for less than a hundred dollars. But the "bad" news is, there is SOME work involved! You might not like it, but you're going to have to work for your success. There's no two ways about it.

Here are the tools you need for an information products business:

1. A word processor

2. A pdf converter to create your information product (you can convert documents into pdf format for free at Adobe's website)

3. A website for selling your information product (includes a domain name and hosting)

4. A payment processor

And that's pretty much the main tools you'll need. Two of the best places for getting domain names at value-for-money prices are Namecheap.com and Name.com. For hosting, I recommend Vexxhost or HostGator.

A payment processor can be totally free. Paypal is an amazing user-friendly solution that is easy to setup and collect payments with. Plus, Paypal is a trusted solution worldwide.

Once everything is set up, all that's left is to market your website! The best online marketing strategies are: pay per click advertising, forum marketing, article posting (to article directories) and ezine advertising (an awesome resource is Directory Of Ezines).