Running or managing a small business often leaves little time to keep track of national, and even regional, economic indicators that might affect your industry and your specific operation. Yet conditions such as interest rates, inflation, gross national product, stock prices and consumer confidence have direct impact on your profitability and on relationships with vendors, customers and even employees.

It is possible to succeed and profit on the Internet without a website. I have been marketing online for over 2 years, most of that time without a Web site. I have sold well over $10,000 in product using nothing more than an e-mail account. You can achieve this kind of success on the Internet if you look at cyberspace [...]