What a wonderful invention the internet has been for those with entrepreneurial compulsions. It's an absolute fact that a number of people have become millionaires working part time from a bedroom in their home or apartment. While not millionaires, tens of thousands of others make a full time living from selling goods or services through the World Wide Web.



For many, success has come so quickly that they have failed to consider the hazards that lurk in any business. What you have worked so hard to create could come tumbling down in an instant without a little planning.

Now is the time to do something about protecting that which you have created or will create.

One of the secrets of internet success is to find a formula that works and then duplicate and duplicate. When you find a way to successfully market a product you then find another product and apply your formula to it. That is how many have archived financial success. They may have a dozen Web sites selling a dozen different products.

Here's the problem. They have just one company, one legal entity that owns and is responsible for all of those marketing Web sites and products. They don't realize that one lawsuit could destroy their financial world in a matter of days.

For example: If you lose a lawsuit for fraud concerning one of your Web sites your entire operation is at risk and could be closed down. You could literally be forced out of business with a complete loss of income. Not a smart way to do business.

It's easy to form a limited liability company. This is not meant as legal advice, but that may be a good entity from which to operate you first business. When should you organize that LLC? The first time you make a sale. That's an indication that your new business will have at least some success and that's when you should have the protection of an LLC.

Step two: Your first project is now producing steady income and you are ready to create a new domain to market an additional product. Good for you. Get to work on the second project and as soon as it makes its first sale form a second LLC to separate it from your first business. And there you have a simple and sensible pattern to follow as you build your internet empire.

Isolate each of your profit producing endeavors in an individual LLC or corporate entity, for asset and liability protection. If you should have legal problems with one domain the problem will be isolated there and your other sites will continue to produce income.

Here's another way to handle the situation. Form your first company and begin creating your ecommerce domains. Every time one of your domains is on track to generate ten thousand dollars or more per year, spin it off into a separate company. That saves you from creating a company for a project that you later abandon.

Law suits and legal entanglements are every day occurrences in the business world and your bedroom business will not be immune to those problems. Don't risk everything you've worked for. Talk to an attorney and an accountant and protect yourself from the very beginning of your income producing adventure.