What is a good cheap business investment to make at the moment?

There are two manners of doing business on the Web. You can utilize the Web to expand your bricks-and-mortar business, or you can start an entirely web-based business. Both routes require time and commitment to learning how e-commerce works and what it takes to build and maintain a successful website.

Perhaps the most amazing aspect of the Internet is that you can communicate with, and do business with, anyone in any part of the world as long as he's connected to the web. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) link you to places around the globe in seconds, and doing business is a couple of clicks away. Therefore, your first customers on a web-based business in Ohio could be from Sydney, Australia, a location you would never have reached through traditional business methods a decade ago.

Additionally, the Internet provides, to some degree, a level playing field between large and small companies. For example, if you put together an excellent looking site working from your basement, and a multi-million dollar company puts together a site working from its own industrial park, someone looking at the two sites on their computer may not see any significant difference.

By a vending machine and place it somewhere with high traffic , the machines aren't that expensive and all you have to do is keep it full and empty the cash , cheap and easy...

Depends on what do you have knowledge in? What amount do you plan to invest? Are you looking for high returns or something that is more of an income producing venture over time? Answer these questions by writing to me at billone44@yahoo.com and I will better be able to respond