With 3,000.00 this is what you need to do. Find a conservative, high dividend stock, like WindStream http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:WIN and sit back and collect your profits. Simple, done.
Id startup a site like tradebit.com. better it for the seller, give them their own pages for them to market their product, give them more functionality. give the sellers what they want to have on a site like that. make money on all sales.
I would say either find a website which is already making a nice income monthly and buy it and make it better while investing in advertising to increase the revenue or say split in between shares/stock and websites
try to find a partner if you are not sure what you will do with your money: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=119
Well if I had this much money, I would buy half the amount of domains from PR2 to PR5 or even PR6 and then monetize them. The other 30% I would spend for link building and SEO of these domains, obviously with real and unique content. The rest which is 20%, I would spend in promoting and marketing those sites for selling links, adsense ads, banner ads or affiliate links and sit back and check my paypal balance rise, everyday However the fact is I dont have that money
You have to check it thoroughly by various methods before buying the domains, one such way is to check on : checkpagerank.net
I would find 3 investments that only need $1000. I think this way you'll have a bigger profit in the long term and there's also a little bit of room for failure cause you'll never know of it until you're in one.
Take over a website for $3,000, work on it, double it's revenue and sell it for double. Rinse & Repeat!
Start an online classified project. We can offer our classified scripts. We also offer mobile addons for these scripts.
My dream is to own a poker site(like pokerstars)...So I'd invest into starting up one of those. I know it most-likely won't cover all the costs, but It would be a good start.
If you wish to use the money to build an Internet Business you really need to look for an successful Internet marketeer to coach you. It beats buying a lot of the stuff out there and getting bogged down with information overload. Spend it wisely Anton