E-business advice goes a step further than just training people in ecommerce basics and helping them to create Internet and marketing strategies. It is highly customized to suit the requirements of both a new entrant and an existing player in e-business. Professional E-business advice can be broadly categorized into four major areas: starting an e-business, designing and maintaining the website, marketing the e-business, and e-commerce operations.

E-business advice involves solving not only the day to day operational issues in running an e-business, but also correcting strategic business decisions. For example, a reasonably well-researched fact such as, ?almost half the US population will be aged 50 years or more by 2020, and that they will enter a new phase of active living and spending in their retirement age?, tells an e-business owner to make the Web site and marketing campaigns in such a way so as to target these 50+ years of age target groups.

E-business advice also offers pointers to some of the most pained areas of e-business ? measuring return on investments (RoI), and increasing customers while reducing customer acquisition costs. The advice on Internet marketing and branding help the e-businesses plan and execute integrated online campaigns better. Such advice even helps in search engine marketing by advising on better search engine optimizing techniques and paying for sponsored links on some famous search engines. Search engine optimization helps the prospective customers to get to find an e-business owner?s website in the top 10 searches given a few e-business specific keywords. This increases the number of visits to the Web site drastically and creates a positive impact on the revenues of the e-business.

E-business advice also includes areas such as web usability and Internet project management. Advice on Web usability includes advice on the existing IT infrastructure, ease of navigation and getting the right equipment and software for optimal performance of the Web site.

Thus, getting an advice for an e-business is extremely useful not only for new entrants into the business, but also for existing players who are facing operational or strategic issues with their business model.