We should be grateful to the life we are given because we live in the age of possibilities. Now it’s easier than ever to start your own business, travel around the world, meet different people and different businesses online, educate ourselves and learn from the best physically and digitally. Most importantly, we should be grateful for the opportunities to make money online, especially when there are many options to choose from and if we lack knowledge, we can learn it online.
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If you ever wanted to start your business, now you have all the access to do that. The only problem is that for most people the number one thing that usually stops them from executing actions is the attitude. But that’s a normal thing since it’s in human’s nature to be lazy. That’s why one should work really hard to change that. Moreover, to keep you motivated, there’s a good difference between rich and not-so-rich people which is the attitude towards their decision making and the amount of hard work they put it. Rich people always think how to grow their income, how to innovate something to make money from it and use different chances to get some sort of value like money, connections or something else.
The business ideas which will be listed here don’t need money up front but needs more time to become successful. Luckily, the age of digital technologies is here to help with many guides, success stories, forums, communities or with already successful people who are willing to share their knowledge with you. There’s nothing to hide, every possibility needs time and effort until success can be reached. If you already have the motivation and attitude and all you need is an idea, here are 7 online business ideas that you can start with no money.
1) Blogging
If you have something interesting to say and know how to write without mistakes, you can start a blog. Don’t know what to write about? Think about your hobbies, maybe you like anime, cars, politics, engineering or game streaming? Write about something that is close to your interests that way you won’t get bored doing that. You can get money from links, promoted posts, Google AdSense program or affiliates. Most importantly, you don’t need any money to start since you can use WordPress to build your free website.
The only downside is that blogging market has gotten really competitive, that’s why you’d need to spend few weeks brainstorming ideas how to create value for your readers so that they would like to come to your blog again and again. One way to do that is to use an online tool like Captainform wordpress event registration plugin to create live chats and discuss with your readers what they would like to see on your blog. Overall, it could take your time to build a successful blog, but it is surely worth it.
2) Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing, in short, is the process of connecting products to the potential customer. In return, if the consumer buys the product – you get the commission. It might look simple and it really is. The hard part is coming up with the ideas on how to sell those products. Some people use blogs, other YouTube Channels or influencers on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. But you can even made money without any money invested by simply recommending products or services you already use on Facebook groups or on Quora, Reddit or YouTube discussions. All you would need to do is to search for online affiliate programs and you’re good to go.
3) E-Commerce
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Starting your online store is so easy that it can be done in a few hours. What is not easy though, is maintaining your store, scaling it, and making it a prosperous online business. Like everything else, this needs time and effort. You may consider partnering with an SEO Company to boost your company’s online visibility and drive more traffic to your website. Alternatively, you can use a dropshipping method where you sell products that you don’t physically have. All you do when someone places an order in your store is use the money you received to place the order for the same product from your supplier with the information you were given from your store.
In result, the difference of the product’s price t you get from your supplier and sell to your customer is your profit. Moreover, you can start with something as simple as making an online t-shirt store. All you need is to make a free store with WordPress, install a few free plugins and have some good-looking designs that you can make yourself to make your best dropshipping tshirts business.
4) Ad Agency
In this digital world, no business can survive without being digitally active on the internet. That’s why people who can create good ad campaigns will always be in demand. If you know how to run Google or Facebook ads you can start your online ad agency and work from home. Without any investments. Even if you don’t know how to make ad campaigns, with the right attitude and motivation you can easily learn it online and help people do their campaigns for free until you’ll be feeling comfortable at charging people or business for your work.
5) Online Education
If you have some expertise or knowledge that can be shared with other, try making an online course. Yes, it would take some time to create the course upfront and advertise it. Although, in the end, this is something that can even become your passive income once you’re done. Good courses can cost even up to $1000 and people are willing to pay that amount of money if you can deliver a high quality of content. Even if you make a 10-hour long course about sewing and sell it for $100, you could make a few hundred bucks each month, which is rather realistic.
6) Consulting Business
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This is something really close to online education; the only difference is that you are constantly educating/consulting people or business who needs your expertise. The problem is that to make it a successful business, you would need some expertise or knowledge people would be willing to pay you money to learn it from you. If you don’t already have it, think about ways of gaining it. For example, you can start an e-commerce business and after a year compile a vast amount of knowledge and then open your online e-commerce consulting agency. Be creative with this is, this could be your 2-year goal.
7) Freelancing
Freelancers are people who are working remotely from home. If you know how to make a good website, great designs, create music or if you’re a guru at excel, econometrics, translations or anything else you could become a freelancer. All you need to do is to check different freelance websites and platforms to find a job or task you can fulfill and in time create your own business out of it.