3 Online businesses you can start today !!!
Posted on May 26, 2008
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These are liable , viable online businesses, not a list of get-rich-quick schemes, or a fail-proof offer of turning you into an online billionaire overnight. It is a list of 3 opportunities available online( 2 I’m sure you’ve heard about, and so I simply write about them and then give links to useful sites, the last one is purely my idea as far as I know) with resources to get you started and advice to help you if you get into the tough and difficult places. By reading all the information below and the resources I’ll be offering you, I can assure you that with a reasonable time-frame you will definitely be running a successful online business in no time. Its a bit like an unspoken rule that you don’t write blog articles the way I’m about to write this one ie by sending much needed traffic to other sites, but I guess if someone can find answers to his/her questions by following the links I’ll provide, and be able to set up a successful online business I’d be happier than trying to create an intricate web of my posts and keep you trapped on my site (actually there’s a lot of good stuff here, you can look at the recent posts ). I wouldn’t mind a comment here, and a subscription to my rss, but I’ll leave that solely at your discretion. The last online business at the bottom of this post is purely my idea, and its something I hope someone will get into and make some good money for themselves. MAKE SURE YOU READ IT! Now to those online businesses …
The first of this online business trio is the buying and selling of domain names. It requires investments as low as $100.00 and can actually be much more lower. There is a learning curve and it will be foolhardy to assume that you’ll make big bucks without taking out time to learn. If you’ve been reading my posts you’ll realize that I don’t really dig the whole make it quick idea. So all the 3 online business ideas you’ll come across here are genuine opportunities to put in some decent amount of work and make some money. If you’re going to start domaining ( or whatever selling domains may be called ) I’ll advice you start by reading up on these forums www.namepros.com and www.dnforums .com . There’s a whole load of information there and the other forum members are pretty helpful. With hard work and proper education you’ll be on your way to earning some good money for yourself. There’s a host of other useful sites, www.tdnam.com, www.namebio.com , you can also check out www.dnjournal.com and www.domainerpro.com . It will take you more than a month to take in all the information on these sites, and between them I’m sure you’ll get as good an online business education in this field as you can get.
Start your own blog. There are literally over a million and one articles on starting this type of online business - a blog. So whats my twist on this one ? Its fairly simple. Once you start reading about blogging you’ll be revving to start up one immediately - that will be a big mistake. Read through on any and every piece of information you can lay your hands on, take your time, if you’re going to make money blogging its not going to be at the snap of your fingers. Its going to be by understanding everything it takes and more importantly having them at your finger tips . A lot of what you read will not be useful , but being able to identify the garbage is a sure sign that you are learning. A simple trick is to make sure that someone writing about how to rank tops in the search engines is actually ranking tops in the search engines and not trawling somewhere in some obscure page - obvious but will definitely save you loads of time. Courtney’s internet marketing school is a must read. When you’ve got a bit of information I’m sure you’ll find a whole load of stuff on the best ways to set out , I’ll advice that you start out by signing up for a blogger account, and run it for about 2 weeks. What will this do? You’ll be able to evaluate yourself, your ability to consistently put up posts especially when it seems like no one is interested in reading them and you’ll be able to sound out the different tactics I’m sure you would have picked up from all our reading. Once you’ve done this I’m sure you can then decide to pay for a domain name and hosting. You will find a lot of extremely useful tips at problogger.net I’m recommending Darren because he ( like what I’m doing ) will give you links to other sites that may prove really helpful.
FINALLY. This is the last and much talked about online business opportunity. Its based on social media networks such as myspace , facebook , hi5 etc I’ve been reading about online businesses for a very long time and I’ve definitely not come across anything like this. Its been played around , maybe inferred , but its never been described in the pretty clear terms that I intend to.
Most of the big social media networks have memberships spiralling into tens of millions, and this user base continues to grow every second.
The important question we must ask is why do companies that sell products and services pay millions of dollars to have popular celebrities endorse these products and services? The answer is pretty simple. They feel - and they’re probably right - that these people have a strong influence on the average Tom, Dick and Harry. But in the age in which these endorsements flourished it was near impossible to become a celebrity of any sort, much less exert any form of influence. It took stunning looks, a shrewd management of one’s rise to fame and a very healthy (or unhealthy-depending on your perspective ) dose of luck to even come close.
Social media sites have drastically reduced this barrier, and changed the requirements. To be able to exert an influence on 1000 people in 5 days, all I need is an email address and a brain that can think up a password for that email address. With access to the internet I can quickly build a ‘friend’ list of over 1000 people IN ONE DAY. A few people may reject your ‘confirm as friend’ advances on facebook, but 95 percent of people wont !!!
By deftly sending out messages, remembering to send out happy birthday greetings ( pretty easy to do that , just install the right applications on facebook ) and doing every other thing that basic human interaction requires you will earn the trust of a good number of these people. And as has been mentioned nearly everywhere where social media sites have been discussed, all you need to do is add some value to others and they’ll remain ‘loyal’.
Now how much will a company be willing to pay you to do an innocuous review of their product on your profile page - if it was viewed over 1000 times a week ? Do you want to imagine what putting an affiliate link in the right place can do ? I strongly believe that by building the right group of people on your friend list you can give yourself a HUGE advantage and edge and turn yourself into some form of ‘online celebrity’ - at no extra expense, just the hours it will take you to build and maintain that imposing friends’ list.
But I’d like to hear everyone’s comments before I go off on a tangent. Based on the feed back I’ll then decide to write my follow up post on how to BUILD AN ORGANIC LIST OF FRIENDS AND CONTACTS that will make advertisers queue up with their offers, and keep drawing in new people ?
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