1- Affiliate Marketing :
This model gives me warm fuzzies because it's a simple online business that's also enjoyable and has the potential for almost 100% passive income.
"Affiliate marketing, in a nutshell, is about selling products on a commission basis for a range of companies, including major brand names. There's no need to buy inventory, handle packing or shipping, and you never have to deal with customer service issues."
The cornerstone of your affiliate business is about setting up a website that's focused on a specific niche.
You must then research and find low competition keywords for that niche, with the aim of ranking on page one of Google for those keywords.
People visiting your site then click on a referral link, and if they make a purchase at the destination store, then you get paid a commission.
That's why some people call it “referral marketing”.
As internet-based businesses go, affiliate marketing has huge income potential.
And as mentioned earlier, once it's set up properly the income from it can become almost 100% passive.
Becoming an affiliate marketer is still one of the best ways to start an online business – and for many, it's more than enough!
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JOIN THE AUTHORITY SITE SYSTEM"There are lots of very successful bloggers out there – we're talking 5 and 6-figure-a-month levels of success.
But what you absolutely must avoid doing is starting a blog about “how to be a successful blogger.”
How can you do that when you haven't achieved any success yet yourself? Fake it until you make it is not a business model I'd advise anyone to follow.
Blogging is a very viable online business idea, and one with as much potential as ever.
You just have to make sure that you start a blog on something that people actually want to read about.
If that happens to be something you're passionate about that's great. But you need to understand that it's way easier to monetize a blog about organic dog food than it is to make money from a blog about obscure literary fiction.
Don't worry though. There are a ton of awesome niches to get into. And the truth is that blogging can even be a visual pursuit as well as there are plenty of photo and craft bloggers out there with massive audiences.
One of the biggest misperceptions about blogging is that you need to write these long, thought-provoking posts that make people stop and contemplate life.
Your blog doesn't need to be life-changing. In fact, you'll make more money if you focus on helping your readers solve whatever immediate problems they're facing.
Or you can just help them find a cool new product or service they didn't know they needed.
If you're wondering how to make money from your blog, then stop. You can't monetize a blog without an audience, and you can't get an audience without creating content. That's your first priority.
Build your audience, and then you can start looking at options like ads, affiliate marketing, or sponsored posts.
But just so you know, I put starting a blog as the number one option for the best online businesses to start because the barrier for entry is pretty much none.
I recommend trying out Bluehost if you're wanting to get in on this lucrative business. Bluehost is consistently one of the most popular options out there, especially for beginners. Their hosting is solid as are their servers. They make blog building cheap, easy, and flexible. Try out Bluehost now.
3- Amazon FBA :
"How would you like to come up with an idea for a range of products you want to sell online, but have Amazon do all the hard work of advertising, storing, packing, shipping, returns, and dealing with customer services headaches queries for you?"
headaches queries for you?
Sounds great, right?
It is, and that's exactly what Amazon offers its FBA sellers.
The process of getting Amazon to sell your products for you is a straightforward one:
The above is a simplified version of each step, but it really is that simple when you break the Amazon FBA business model down to its core principles.
While this online business model does involve selling products, they're not physical ones.
Digital products can be anything from a PDF file to a membership site, a training course, or a software product.
A digital product can be resold to new customers all year round. This is the exact opposite of the e-commerce industry where you're constantly looking for new products to sell.
Infoproducts can cost almost nothing to produce, and they don't require space in a warehouse. Customers receive their order by email, or via a link, so there's no shipping involved.
Creating a digital product can be as simple as writing a document in Microsoft Word, saving it as a PDF file and then uploading it to Clickbank. Although the days of selling high-priced PDF “eBooks” is a thing of the past, there's still a huge demand for digital products across a wide range of niches.
An example of this is all the cryptocurrency training guides currently available online.
People from all walks of life want to invest in cryptocurrencies because of the crazy success of Bitcoin. A digital product teaching people about crypto might only sell for $27 but it'll be pretty much 100% profit for the creator.
Digital software products can be just as profitable, but operating system compatibility issues can make it tough work. You can wind up spending half your day dealing with customer support issues, for example.
Now with the advent of SaaS (Software as a Service), software creators are hosting their products online. Your customers don't have to download and install a software installer because your product is available from the cloud.
Taking your software to the cloud means your product is compatible with almost any computer with a web browser. Customers then pay for access to the software, ensuring your creation is never pirated or hacked.