What makes money on line? Selling business relationships.

Great post.  And I think an important perspective on the whole topic of using the internet to build your business.  Google Adsense, Groupon and the other successful models are paid to give businesses the opportunity to develop business relationships with people that they either did not know or if they knew, weren't buying from them.  Because it is an on going relationship that is the value, not just the first trial.  Read the whole thing.