If you are starting on online business or blog today you have only a few ways to get the word out

A huge expensive advertising campaign.  Most effective, few can afford…
Social Media.  Use Digg, Twitter and every other social media forum to talk about your product or service.  Effective, but selling (shilling) on these sites often [...]

If you want to do business online - you are going to need to accept credit cards as they are the primary method  for payment.  The first thing you will need is a merchant account with a bank. The next thing you will need is a payment gateway which is essentially a service which [...]