What will your company do?

When looking at setting up your own online business you need to decide or think about what your company will do or offer... A good example is a Digital Marketing Company in Maidstone that uses the same domain registrar and hosting company for their site. Another Example is this Maidstone Accountant

There are many things that your online company can do or provide.
You can run a reseller store and your E-Commerce website and Provide Advertising Services and ECT.

Run a reseller store?

There are many different affiliate programs and reseller panels. Some are free, and others may require purchase.

There are various ways to run these stores and many efficient management methods.

If you are nice to people and make reasonable offers that you can keep, then people will come and recommend you. (A list of links to run your own reseller store for free)

Run your own website hosting panel for free
List of free affiliate programs

Running your own E-Commerce Website/Store?
(A list of software and scripts to help you research)

Browser-Based Stores

• Shopify
• Big Cartel
• CubeCart
• Monster Commerce
• Shopping Q
• Actinic
• Mals E-Commerce
• ClickCartPro
• Spreadshirt

Shopping Cart Solutions

• JShop
• Cart32
• CartIt
• EasyCart
• PDG Shopping Cart
• QuikStore
• smc WebStore
• Midi Cart
• Sales Cart
• ASPX Shop
• ASP DotNet Storefront
• Avactis
• Retail Cart
• X-Cart
• EDatCat
• VP*ASP
• Bazaar Builder
• PHPCart (free)
• OS Commerce (free)
• PHP Shop (free)
• Agora Cart (free)
• AFCommerce (free)
• ZenCart (free)

Advanced eCommerce Systems

• Interchange
• Broadspire Small Business Web Stores
• MarketLive
• ICN Software's AceFlex B2C
• INetStore
• MerchantSpace
• Blue Martini Customer Interaction System
• Intershop Communications' Enfinity

(Source: Sitepoint)

Looking at providing your own advertising services?

The ability to create your own advertising network is now indeed a reality. By bringing a series of content-connected blogs together into a single, vertical, "thematic" network, you can strengthen your authority and value by aggregating related high-quality sources while maximizing potential revenue for you and those you have invited to join the new network party.

 Tightly focused, high-quality niche content remains the key ingredient to any successful and profitable blog or news site. However, as niches are little islands focusing on very specific aspects of a larger whole, the ability to identify and bring together closely related content sources to create "thematic" mini-networks is the next natural evolutionary step for online publishers of all sizes.

However, while writing this, I remembered this old video on YouTube for Improve Your Scores!

If website hosting is not for you, then have you considered providing Traffic Management Solutions