According to Reuters there is a draft regulation that you will need a brick and mortar store before you can sell online.
I can't actually see any benefits for consumers or anyone else, except existing retailers, with this draft. I really hope that the politicians thinks a little bit by them selfs about this and not only listens to the retail lobby.
According to the article at Reuters both eBay and Amazon have raised their voices against the otherwise internet friendly suggestions.
In a lot of the literature about internet marketing the authors recommends that you use WordPress for even the simplest sites.
I do like WordPress and it has a lot of nice functionality for free, but it is a real pain to upgrade plugins and/or the main install for every update that comes along. A plain html site will never have security issues and it is blazingly fast.
I'm longing for a tool that probably already exists: I'd like a content management system that generates static html from a site wide design.
If your model for internet marketing is to set up a lot of sites making nickles every day a whole lot of the revenue is lost if you have to spend time upgrading the installs.
WordPressMU might be a solution, but I haven't looked in to that yet.
However you imagine your life in the future you can get closer to your goal if you do something about it.
Don't justify your passiveness with setting to high goals.
You might not end up in a mansion in Hollywood like in your dreams, but if you do something to build your future you will at least know that you tried.
I'm a firm believer in taking small steps and letting each small benefit be a base for the next step.
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