An online self help business is one of the easiest to start. The capital requirement is minimal with only time great demand. Today you can get an already set up website for less than a hundred dollars per year that can be customize to you specifications for free. The self help ebooks are downloadable for free from the internet; these and others sold with copyrights can be uploaded to your site easily. More materials can be collected from books and magazines and put on the website.

The website can be designed to have forum or blogs where people would share their experiences and ask questions for the motivation self help patients. To attract traffic you can start by offering free information and platform for discussions which will slow contribute to you information build up. 

If you site is excellently made you can offer a section where people can chat especially those seeking depression self help. It is easier for a depressed person to talk to a strange than to the acquaintances. Only user names would be used thus privacy is ensured. To have your database of users make the users first register so that they can be able to use the facilities on the site.

The basic self help information and articles can be accessed without registration but the more important and factual details would entail registration. The problem identification should be in the first pages to attract interest and lead the reader to the more complex issues. The principle to make you succeed would be to have correct and massive information accessible to the readers.