The sea breeze, the rustle of palm trees and a glowing monitor on a sun lounger on a Thai beach - usually such pictures of future life are painted in the minds of those who are thinking about doing business on the Internet. The dream of our time - to work a little and get a lot - according to the unenlightened majority, will be helped by the almighty Internet. After reading and listening to success stories of entrepreneurs who have earned millions on the Internet, young people begin to think:

If he could, then why am I worse?

For the hundredth time, having stumbled upon yet another story that doing business on the Internet is easy and simple, and you can earn hundreds of thousands a month here, working several hours a day, someone starts looking for a programmer they know, and someone starts to study website builders and understand the basics of Google Analytics.

There are, of course, those who fall for the bait of quick and easy money - trying to understand binary options, online trading, CPA networks and traffic arbitrage...

Internet business is attractive because it does not require initial investment. No equipment, office, or employees are needed. You don’t even have to register an individual entrepreneur, don’t pay taxes - nothing will happen to you. Moreover, there are many options to start earning money without having anything to your name, the overwhelming majority thinks.

Is it really?

Freelancing or business?

First you need to define the concepts. What is an online business, and how does it differ from regular earnings via the Internet? If we equate Internet business and making money with it, then millions of freelancers - copywriters, designers and programmers - are the same businessmen as the creators of Google or Vkontakte.

When working via the Internet as an ordinary specialist, you only get the mythical feeling of working for yourself - a flexible schedule, a comfortable sofa at home, your own kitchen instead of a dining room... I work when I want, I don’t depend on anyone, I choose my clients, etc. However, nevertheless, you will have a boss, albeit remotely, who will tell you what, how and when to do. What kind of business is this?

Real business involves development, delegation of authority, a more extensive hierarchy and well-thought-out structure and, of course, is accompanied by legal registration, accounting and work with contracts.

No serious customer will contact a single freelancer without a legal entity.

Selling knowledge and online learning is becoming increasingly popular today.

Having started with your own video courses, you can stop, receiving passive income from sales from time to time, or go further and start developing in this area - attract other speakers, trainers and coaches, publish both paid and free video courses and videos -lessons, expand the topics of your online school courses, launch webinars, etc. Only then can it be considered a full-fledged business. And yet, the start of any online enterprise always begins with one point - creating a website.

Business on the Internet: the website is the head of everything

Making a website generate money is not an easy task for several reasons.

Website owners not only need to choose the right niche and theme for their website and constantly fill it with interesting and useful content - this is obvious and required by default. Anyone who wants to monetize their website will have to master many promotion techniques - the main one of which is SEO optimization - a dark forest in which hundreds of entrepreneurs wander. But this is another story, which we will talk about in another article, but for now we propose to consider the various options for doing business on the Internet in more detail.

Niches in Internet business

Alexander Ninburg

General Director of the Nimble service

Separately, perhaps, it is worth focusing on the most popular area of ​​​​online business - online stores. It is the idea of ​​creating a store on the Internet that first comes to the mind of a person who dreams of doing business on the Internet.

Despite its low margins in today's realities, a business built on buying and selling continues to attract budding entrepreneurs. Either this is due to laziness and reluctance to come up with and look for unique and original ideas for business, or the desire to trade is inherent at the genetic level along with the memory of the successes of black marketeers and shuttle traders of the 80-90s of the last century. In any case, today dropshippers, online aggregators and online stores of various stripes have replaced perestroika schemes. All of these options use the Internet as the main, if not the only, sales channel, which makes it possible to minimize initial investments, reduce costs and increase the margins and profitability of this business.

According to many experts and analysts, online trading is one of the few areas of business that does not slow down despite economic turmoil, changes in the macro-economic climate and political confrontations both in a single country and throughout the world as a whole. Moreover, budding entrepreneurs are haunted by the success of foreign giants - Aliexpress, Ebay and Amazon. How can you resist the temptation to start an online business by creating your own online store?

General Director of BGMT

Online stores are usually opened by people who a) are far from business and commerce, b) are far from IT. This is 80% of online store owners. They make an incredible amount of idiotic mistakes. For them to start making a profit, they usually have to go through a long and thorny path. Our practice shows that after a year and a half, such people run out of money and motivation. Even more often, people open online stores without thinking that any market has a ceiling. Especially in small towns. As a result, people spend a lot of money in the hope that sooner or later they will start making money, but this does not happen, because the one and a half customers that they had in the first month is 100% saturation of the market.

When launching an online store, you will have to face many problems that an online entrepreneur will have to solve. In addition to the standard “website creation”, “content filling” (in the case of an online store, this is filling and designing a product catalog) and “promotion” questions will be added to the list of questions such as “search for suppliers”, “logistics”, “payment arrangements” and other business processes typical of regular offline stores.

Regardless of whether you are going to open an online or offline store, you will have to start by choosing the product that you will sell. According to Pavel Gorbov, executive director of Re:Sale Expert, today the most popular areas in online trading are:

• personal consumer goods (beauty and health; gifts, etc.);
• personal equipment (phones, tablets, etc.);
• household goods for everyday use (bedding, dishes, etc.);
• jewelry, accessories (not jewelry);
• sporting goods;
• clothes, shoes.

On the other hand, today more conservative businesses are coming online - woodworking, chemical industry, heavy industry, agriculture, according to data from the international e-commerce center Allbiz. This opens up additional opportunities for choosing your own niche, free from competitors, which means it gives you the opportunity to take advantage of a head start and get ahead.

Peter Talantov

Founder and CEO of the flower delivery service Florist.ru

There is no single e-commerce market; there are many markets, each in its own niche - food delivery, search and purchase of air and railway tickets, purchase of equipment, search for hotels, delivery of bouquets and flower arrangements. These are all completely different businesses, united only by a common denominator - their location on the World Wide Web. As in any other enterprise, you need to find your own unoccupied niche, invest a lot in marketing, in service, in organizing the purchasing and production process.

Of course, if 15-20 years ago an online business could be started with a starting capital of $350, now one can be started (depending on the business) from $1000 and above. Behind the apparent simplicity of organizing online commerce there is a huge amount of work, in no way inferior to its offline counterparts, and competition in this area is often even higher.

From idea to internet startup: uniqueness and competition

The Internet and modern IT technologies, like nothing else, make it possible to turn any idea into a business, provided that the idea is in demand (will solve some problem) and monetizing it is not difficult.

Finding a problem and trying to solve it with the help of Internet technologies can bring considerable income in the future - the young and active startup market today is built on this statement. Here and there, young and ambitious online startups appear that offer a unique service, a solution to a problem, or a new way to make life easier, save time or money through IT.

Another thing is that not every startup grows into a normal, operating business...

CEO of Photogenics

At the moment, the photo banking market is quite developed and saturated. Market leaders now have databases of 30-50-70 million images. To create a new successful project in this segment, you need a strong competitive advantage and considerable capital. Opening a photo bank on your knees will be doomed to failure.

Competitive advantages - prices and service. At the moment, photo banks have succeeded in both the first and second questions. To “break” the market you need to come up with something revolutionary.

Business on business

However, not all online business options suffer from competition and high barriers to entry into the market. The very fact of the need and demand for the creation of websites, the presence of companies on the Internet and the creation of an additional sales channel through an online store gives rise to a whole galaxy of different options and opportunities for business on the Internet in the b2b sphere.

The only requirement in this case is the knowledge and competence of the future Internet entrepreneur in certain areas - web development, web design or Internet marketing.

Director of the agency "IT-Fabrika"

Founder of Internet Marketing Agency "Architect"

Beginning Internet entrepreneurs can be divided into several categories.

The first is young and inexperienced people, with sparkling eyes and a firm belief in the success of Internet business. Often they do not have significant start-up capital and have only a vague understanding of both programming and ways to attract traffic. And yet, they enthusiastically rush into battle - to conquer the Internet, score big shots, and act by trial and error. If you fall into this category, you have two options. The first, spending Herculean efforts, master all the nuances of Internet business on your own, stubbornly pursue your goal, starting small, or do it differently - gain experience in the area in which you plan to start a business.

I am glad to welcome you, dear readers. If not all of you, then many have heard about the benefits of creating your own business on the Internet: every now and then you come across admiring reviews from former clerks, small traders, and the unemployed about their dizzying success after creating a particular business online. Should we believe them? Is it worth repeating their actions?

The majority of our fellow citizens, who honestly built their business offline, are depressed and disappointed by the exorbitant amount of money that they had to invest, and the lion's share of which (let's be honest) went to bribes to officials. And the extortions do not stop, so businessmen go to the Internet - such disgrace has not yet been observed here.

But they are seasoned. What should a newcomer do, who still doesn’t really know what kind of business he is, but is ready to give his all, work hard and build it. According to my observations, the biggest problem, a question that is difficult to answer, for most beginners is: Internet business from scratch - where to start?

And they are all looking for it on forums and in tempting advertisements that promise to bring the newly created business to a high level of income within a month. This doesn't happen, don't believe it. If you intend to get an honest and objective answer to a question that concerns you, turn to more experienced comrades who, at the cost of their own ups and downs and many mistakes, have built their own, now thriving, Internet business. Now almost each of us, online business owners, maintains our own blog, where in great detail, using our own example, we teach beginners to move forward confidently and consistently.

Another nuance: many are attracted by the fact that you can start a business on the Internet from scratch without investment. They do not quite correctly understand the essence of the phrase: in any case, there will be investments, either a hundred dollars to create an online store (this is not much) or their own labor to fill the resource and promote it - it will not work out for nothing. And sitting idly by will not work either.

1. Online business for beginners – what is it?

Let's start with the fact that making money on clicks, viewing ads and videos is not a type of business, but a quick side hustle. I would also say – very boring and poorly paid. Therefore, if you came to the Internet to build a real highly profitable business, do not even look towards such offers, you will only waste time.

Business on the Internet for beginners doesn’t even involve rewriting, although many have risen to the occasion by writing articles. In principle, you can try it, if this is your thing, then in some time you will make some money to pay for the creation and promotion of your own resource.

You need to start only with the type of activity that you are fluent in, and in a short time you will be able to gain a rating and increase your earnings several times over. But I still advise, or, if you have the appropriate skills, to start creating and promoting custom websites - these are the most popular services now, and they will remain so for a long time - as long as the Internet exists.

1.1. First example

Let's say you are an excellent programmer and at the same time fluent in the html language. In this case, you don’t need to worry about how to build an online business from scratch. – in a few minutes, create a one-page page with a list of your services, reviews and price list, promote it on social networks or set up a direct message - and get customers with crisp banknotes.

However, this will not mean that you have created a business, because business is not work, even working “for yourself” is not a business. But, since in this article we are looking at the possibilities from scratch. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the fact that one of the stages of building a business on the Internet will be: working for yourself. After all, having gained experience, you will know how all this should be arranged and then you will be able to hire several assistants and train them. And now, when you no longer work alone, when you give instructions and monitor the progress of their implementation, your activity can be called a business.

1.2. Second example

Now, as for websites: they can be created by anyone and for any purpose. There are many types and subtypes of sites. But in this example, I want to talk about the most, in my opinion, suitable for the article “business from scratch”. So, this type of site is called: “Content”.

Roughly speaking, it works like this (if from scratch):

1. We create a website, choose a topic, fill it with articles. In six months or a year, such a site will begin to bring in 15-25 thousand rubles per month (almost like renting out a one-room apartment);
2. We, as future businessmen, do not spend this money, but invest it in the development of the project. Namely: we hire a copywriter who will write articles for you, and an assistant who will select pictures and publish them. In this way, we completely or partially relieve ourselves of responsibilities, and our site continues to develop itself;
3. When your income increases, and this is inevitable, you can create several more similar ones;

And let it be - it's actually not as simple as it seems. But believe me, I have proven from personal experience that by creating a website from scratch, you can earn an income of more than 100,000 rubles per month.

And before moving on to the next section, I want to note one more thing: the internal attitude is important. If you don’t know how to create a business on the Internet from scratch, still behave like a businessman, and not like an employee who is constantly afraid of some kind of click or kick. Believe me, my experience: both sometimes turn out to be the best motivation for active action.

2. How to create an online business from scratch - basic rules

If you have zero money and zero ideas, don’t be upset. Even in this sad situation, you have a chance to create your own business on the Internet. Considering the fact that a successful idea can “take off” at any moment or it can be found from competitors and slightly modified and improved, and money can either be borrowed, or earned extra, or completely done without it - then you, dear future colleague, have excellent prospects.

Now I will teach you what rules must be followed so that they (prospects) do not fall apart:

1. Find “your” niche - a field of activity in which you have experience or at least knowledge, and which interests you;
2. If there is no money at all (that is, absolutely), and you need to purchase links and post articles, too, you will have to write on your own for some time and manually post links on third-party sites by agreement. Don’t get too bogged down in this – three months, six months maximum. Remember that you came here to manage the created project, and not to become a black man of the pen (keyboard);
3. Create a promising business, not a website that will last 1-2 years. Work for your financial future;
4. Place maximum emphasis on passive income: You work only for a certain period - until the site becomes popular and visited, then it itself works for you.
5. Monitor the quality, presentation format and relevance of the written articles. Don’t be afraid to edit them long after publication – information tends to lose relevance and therefore requires updating, full or partial. The more useful and interesting information your resource brings to the Internet, the higher the monetary return will be. (By the way, search engines will only be happy with the update);
6. Find yourself motivation and a role model. In order for an Internet project to start very quickly and successfully, huge financial investments are required - about 3-5 thousand dollars. But we are talking about how to start a business on the Internet from scratch and without money, so this option is clearly not suitable. It will take at least a year to promote a young resource. You need to not only mentally prepare yourself for the fact that during this time you should not expect income from the site, but also that you should in no way be discouraged, disappointed, or tired of waiting. Motivate yourself with something - future income, for example. Find a success story or several stories of webmasters and be guided by them.

3. Business on the Internet - I see the goal, I don’t see the obstacles

I argued and continue to argue that 90% of success in any business - big business online or offline, finding a job, finding an idea - depends on the psychological attitude, inner confidence and the ability to set the right goal.

I divide people who do not have a specific goal into two categories:

1. Confused people are those who temporarily do not know what to do and how to realize themselves, but try to find their niche and set their goal, however, they get lost and cannot decide on anything for a very long time;
2. The lost are those who are not going to look for anything, they live one day at a time. Such people wander aimlessly on the Internet, read everything, they like all the ideas, but they do not choose any for themselves. They do not fill their empty spiritual space with anything, do not strive for anything, and over time begin to degrade.

God forbid anyone ends up in the second category - it’s almost impossible to get out of such a state. But let’s not talk about sad things. I am sure that among my readers there are no lost ones. Although I will repeat once again (just in case): if a person does not have a goal in life, very soon he will begin to have problems.

And if you are now busy deciding how to organize a business on the Internet, start by setting your goals correctly.

1. Honestly admit to yourself what you want: not what is fashionable, not what everyone is doing, but what you need;
2. Be prepared to sacrifice something to achieve your goal: in the case of creating an Internet business - free time, friendly gatherings over beer and even a few football matches (for women - coffee with girlfriends, TV series, empty conversations on the phone). All this time needs to be devoted to something else - self-education or attending webinars;
3. When building your Internet business, look at your goal with your own eyes, listen to the voice of your own intuition, and not outside advice. Even those closest to you, people who love you and wish you well, are unlikely to be well versed in the nuances of online business. For most of them, this is in the category of: “well, that’s it” and “whatever the child enjoys.” Don't let them negatively influence you, dissuade you or dissuade you.
4. Having chosen a goal, you must clearly imagine the results of achieving it. Therefore, choose only goals that are important and meaningful to you.

4. How to start an online business from scratch: studying the target audience

Another important point: when promoting a resource (business), be sure to analyze and study your target audience: their interests, their purchasing power (if you trade via the Internet), their wishes for the product or information provided. Be interested in the problems of the target audience, as well as the methods that they are used to using to solve them.

I have been doing internet business since 2011. And in this article I want to tell you the whole truth - where to start an Internet business from scratch. The information in this article will most likely go against what you are used to hearing and reading on this topic. So get ready. Now we will break your stereotypes.

If you are just thinking about how to start your own online business, then most likely you don’t have a lot of money. And if you think that this is your main problem, then you are greatly mistaken.

Your main problem when starting an Internet business

It's just great that you don't have money. Seriously. All my experience shows unequivocally - if a person has money at the start of his business (on the Internet or off the Internet), then everything always ends the same. He puts them in the wrong places. He strives to leave “with money.” And as a result, he loses all his money.

And the fact that he is losing money is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that a person forever develops a “negative reflex” associated with business. It's like a child burning himself on a hot kettle for the first time. And then he will never put his hands in there again.

And it’s the same in the history of Internet business. If you get burned once, you won’t be able to entice someone to try again.

But if there is no money, then you have to think. Think about where to get traffic for free, how to make a website for free, how to sell it harder. And that’s when you begin to develop the skills necessary to run a business online.

Yes, this is exactly your main problem now. You don't know how to do anything. Internet business is only on the selling pages of information businessmen, it is so cool, easy and pleasant. In fact, you need to know a lot and learn a lot before you hear the ringing of the first coins in your electronic wallets.

What are these skills? Here are the top three skills to successfully run your online business.

3 main skills of an Internet businessman

Traffic

The most vital skill for any type of online business is the ability to attract targeted visitors. This is also called “marketing” on the Internet. That is, you need to learn how to make sure that many people come to your selling sites who in theory may become your clients.

It’s not a fact that they will still pay you money and turn into real clients, but attracting an audience is step number one.

In order to attract potential clients, you need to learn. This is the most important source of commercial traffic on the Internet today. And first of all, this is Yandex-Direct. If you still have illusions in your head that you and he will do everything for you, forget about it.

No one will do anything to you even for a million rubles (if you had one). In the beginning - only yourself, and only with your own hands.

Next, you need to learn how to work with targeted advertising on social networks, SEO traffic, and teaser advertising. These are all completely different systems, and they work completely differently. If you want to learn everything at once, take my course. He will help you a lot.

Website development

For traffic to be converted into sales, you need at least one selling platform. If you are confident that you can conduct business entirely through social networks, then you may not need a website. You just create some kind of VKontakte group, and it will work for you instead of the website.

But in the vast majority of cases, you still need to have a website. Let it be just one page on the Internet. But there must be one. Moreover, in reality you will need a lot of such pages (trust my experience).

Now there are many different online designers that allow you to create pages on the Internet quickly and effortlessly. And this creates a false impression that making a website is easy.

In fact, setting up blocks from the designer and writing something in these blocks does not mean making a website. You will need to learn at least the basics of HTML in order to be able to perform simple actions with websites without the participation of programmers. This is also a skill, and it also takes time.

Copywriting

The main way to sell on the Internet is to write selling texts. Even if you sell in person on Skype or through correspondence on social networks, you still cannot do without copywriting.

Because copywriting is the psychology of sales. You need to learn to “see” your target audience. Understand what language they speak. Feel the pain they are experiencing. Be able to choose the right words so that the person on the other side of the screen understands you and believes you. To improve your copywriting skills, download my free book. This will already be a good step forward.

These are the three skills you need to start improving now: traffic, websites, copywriting. And to do this, you just need to start doing any business from the list that I give below. You don’t need to set any global goals for yourself now. You just need to learn how to perform simple actions on the Internet.

Imagine a child who just yesterday began to take his first hesitant steps. So you come up to him and ask - “Where are you going?” But he doesn't go anywhere, he just walks. And he walks in order to strengthen his muscles and learn to maintain balance.

The same thing should happen to you. You are not going towards some goal of “taking over the world”, you are simply repeating simple movements, developing and developing your skills:

And to make it more fun and faster, choose one of the five main Internet business options. Choose any option. Then you can change the direction of activity as many times as you like.

5 main internet business options: pros and cons

Partnership programs

This is perhaps the easiest option on how to start running your own business via the Internet. The advantage of this method is that you don’t need to have your own product to start earning money. The disadvantage is that you cannot manage the entire sales chain.

An affiliate program is when you find some interesting product and start advertising it on your selling platforms. For each sale you receive a commission - a percentage of the purchase price.

The problem is that there are not many truly high-quality affiliate programs. And most often these are some kind of information products (courses, trainings). Look in more detail about affiliate programs in the information business.

I myself am not a big fan and skillful at making money on affiliate programs. All I do in this direction is sometimes place affiliate links in my articles on the site. But without a special system. However, I somehow manage to earn 2 - 3 thousand rubles a month only from these affiliate programs.

If you take this matter seriously, you will be able to bring your income to an acceptable level. They say that there are people who earn 100-200 thousand rubles every month from affiliate programs alone.

Infobusiness

This option is suitable for those who love independence. Here you will have to make your own information products and sell them yourself. But you will also earn much more than in the same affiliate programs.

In affiliate programs, you will receive 10 - 20% of the cost of the product, and from your products you will receive 100%. In addition, you will have the opportunity to fully control your sales funnel. You can change something if it doesn't sell very well.

The main disadvantage, of course, is that to run a successful information business you need to know and be able to do something that other people will want to learn. You can either delve into your old competencies, or choose a new one and quickly learn from books and practice. See more about how to start an information business from scratch.

Network marketing

Network marketing or MLM (or as it is now fashionably called “network marketing”) is not suitable for everyone. This is a very specific type of business on the Internet. I'm not saying that he is bad, or that there are only scammers there. Quite the contrary.

I believe that MLM will allow you to very quickly upgrade the necessary skills for an online business. The advantages are good training, and again you don’t have to have your own product.

The downside is that people don’t like online business (because they don’t like having something recommended to them for money). Another drawback is that today there are actually a lot of financial pyramids that are hiding behind network businesses. In fact, there is no product there, and it all comes down to the fact that you are paying for someone to pay you from below the structure.

If you do not have extensive experience in network business, then distinguishing a real MLM from a financial pyramid is very difficult. And there is a high probability that you will end up in one of them. But that’s why they are mistakes, to learn from them. Perhaps network marketing is best for you.

Blogging

Running your own blog cannot be 100% considered a business. Most often, earnings there come not from sales of some product, but from advertising. That is, you create some kind of platform, fill it with useful and interesting content, and promote it. And then you put ads there for money.

However, this does not mean that you cannot make good money from blogging. On the contrary, this is an excellent and very profitable way to earn a lot without selling anything at all. For example, if you have a content site on the Internet with a traffic of 15 - 20 thousand people per day, then you can easily earn 100 - 150 thousand per month from advertising alone.

The downside is that you will have to work very long and hard before you see a return on your blog. To reach the level of 15 - 20 thousand uniques per day, you will need about two years of work (and this is provided that you do everything correctly right away).

By the way, blogging can be not only classic. You can create your own VKontakte group or YouTube channel. This will also be blogging, only social. There you will focus not on SEO, but on viral distribution of content. If you are absolutely sure that you don’t want to sell anything to anyone, then blogging is probably best for you.

Selling goods from one-page websites

The last online business option in our “review” today is running your own online store. Only this is not a large online store with a bunch of product positions, its own logistics system and other attributes.

You can make your own small “online store” literally on your knees. To do this, you need to do it, place some product there, and start traffic.

In words, everything looks simple, but in reality there are a number of pitfalls. The biggest disadvantage is the need to deliver the goods to the buyer. It is logistics that most often becomes the reason why it is not possible to conduct business through one-page websites. Goods take a long time, people refuse to buy, and so on and so forth.

On the plus side, it is easier to sell living goods than, say, the same information products. With a living physical product, its value is immediately clear. Read more about. And also about what it should be.

In general, a one-page business is probably the only “real business” that can be scaled up to many millions in earnings per month (and made stable and not tied to you as the business owner).

Therefore, if you think broadly, selling products through landing pages is best for you.

Summary

In conclusion, let's once again summarize everything that has been said in this article.

• If you don't have money at the initial stage of building an online business, then that's good. This makes it much more likely that you will learn to think correctly before investing money somewhere;
• To run a successful online business, you need three main skills: the ability to attract traffic, the ability to quickly create high-quality websites, the ability to sell and persuade using texts (copywriting);
• There are five main types of internet business, and you need to start any of them, just to improve your skills in practice.
• Affiliate programs are convenient because you do not need to have your own product to sell. The disadvantage is that you only earn 10-30% of the sale price and cannot control the entire sales funnel.
• Info business is suitable for independent people who want to make their own products and sell them themselves. The advantage is really big money. The disadvantage is that you need to have knowledge and skills for which people are willing to pay money.
• Network marketing is a specific type of online business. The advantage is that you have a team of mentors who will train you intensively. Disadvantages: low earnings, negativity from others, high probability of getting into a financial pyramid.
• Blogging is suitable for those who do not want to sell anything. Your job is that you create an interesting and useful content platform, and then make money by placing advertisements on it. You can earn a lot and constantly. The disadvantage is that you first have to work for a long time before your blog starts making money.
• Selling products from one-page websites is the only “real” business on the list. It can be scaled and completely eliminate yourself from the business process. The disadvantage is that you have to deal with the logistics of goods and fight very high competition.

I hope it’s now clearer to you where it’s best to start an online business from scratch. And in just a couple of years you will have your own real money machine online. Don't forget to download my book. There I show you the fastest way from zero to the first million on the Internet (a summary from personal experience over 10 years =)

See you later!

The first thing that comes to mind is to make your own website and make money on it. Today there is enough information on the Internet, and if you are puzzled, you can create your own website yourself using free engines and templates. But For a website to be profitable, three principles must be observed:

1. You must be a guru in the topic you decided to choose. The abundance of all kinds of sites creates wild competition, and in order to make a full-time income, you need, in addition to money, to put your soul into the site;
2. Utility. Your site should be useful first and foremost. If it does not bring practical benefit to visitors, then it will be practically useless for making a profit on the Internet;
3. Regular work. Only regular and painstaking work will allow you to find your niche. Although online business seems simple, you can’t count on anything without perseverance and daily work.

But let’s say you already have your own website, useful and regularly filled with interesting information. The main question arises - how to monetize your traffic. There are several options.

1. Use an affiliate program (For example, a teaser);
2. Make money from contextual advertising - Google AdSense- the most profitable option, YAN(Yandex advertising network);
3. Sell ​​links (Best link exchanges - pr.sape.ru , gogetlinks.net);
4. Work with direct advertisers (To do this, the site needs to have good traffic).

Let's take a brief look at each of these options for making money and creating an online business. To make money on affiliate programs, you must have a link to an affiliate online store on your website.

Visitors who come to you will follow this link and buy something. A percentage of the cost of the goods will be credited to your account.

Another option for doing business online is selling links from your website. If you have good performance, then links can be quite expensive. The point of such entrepreneurship is that the link promotion strategy is still used by many SEOs.

The earning scheme is as follows: you place an advertisement for this agency on your resource, visitors order the construction of a frame house from them, you receive your percentage. Profit! If you take into account the cost of construction, the percentage can be very impressive.

Earning level depends on many factors. The minimum amount you can get from a site with 1,000 visitors per day is $50 per month, maximum $300.

Again, there are very rich topics, for example, if you have a site about private jets, then with 200 visitors per day it can bring in up to $3,000 per month, or even more.

How to make money online from texts: creating a copywriting agency

We get a huge part of information from the Internet. We read a bunch of articles, news and announcements. But someone writes these articles and makes good money from them.

What is needed for this?

1. Find smart authors;
2. Find customers for texts that your authors will write.

Does everything seem simple? But it was not there. Firstly, finding an intelligent author is not so easy. The director of a copywriting agency lives off the difference between the payment to the copywriter and the money received from the customer. This means that you will earn more the less you pay your employees.

But good copywriters are expensive, and you will get practically nothing, and the bad ones are written accordingly. This means that you will have to spend your time checking and correcting the authors’ work.

Of course, you can hire a proofreader, but again, this is an unnecessary expense. Therefore, an agency as an online business is suitable only for those who are talented copywriters themselves and can spend some time checking and editing texts.

Copyright prices today

• Standard news, 1000 characters: 50-80 rubles (For 1000 characters without spaces);
• Creative article: 80-120 rubles;
• SEO article: 80-150 rubles (And even 500 rubles for 1000 characters. Very experienced copywriters, gurus in their field, charge that much for their work);
• Technical texts: 100, 200 rubles.

Minimum price for articles today it is 30-50 rubles per thousand characters without spaces.

Is it possible to make good money this way?

Yes. A good copywriter writes about 10,000 - 15,000 characters in 1 day. Let's take the minimum. That is, from one employee per day, provided that you have 40 rubles left with 1000 characters of his text, you will have 400 rubles.

If you have 8 employees, then this is 3200 rubles per day, and per month including weekends this is 70,400 rubles. Very good for working from home and part-time work.

SEO agency as a business from scratch

If you have been “living” on the Internet for a long time, and the words “SEO”, “promotion” and “search engines” are not an empty phrase for you, you should try to become the head of an SEO agency. Naturally, one cannot do without specific knowledge.

Yes, you won’t move the site to the top yourself, but you will need to communicate with customers, and it’s a lost cause if you lose face.

And you won’t be able to find a smart SEO specialist, since you won’t be able to check the quality of his work if you don’t understand the topic yourself. As a result, you can get money, get a bunch of negative reviews and, which is quite realistic, a subpoena.

How much can you earn with an online SEO agency? Let's do an approximate calculation. Promoting one website costs owners 20-40 thousand rubles per month. This means you can earn from 10,000 to 100,000 rubles from the site.

Thus, this is not a bad idea for an online business, but you need to be well versed in this area. You will start with smaller amounts.

How to make money online on your YouTube channel

Another small business on the Internet can be called. This work is called vlogging - or video blogging.

There is only one problem– there are a huge number of projects on YouTube, so in order to beat competitors and make money, you need to offer Internet users something truly outstanding from the mass of similar channels. To do this, read user reviews.

You can make money on video blogging, that is, open an online business on YouTube, through contextual advertising, direct advertisers and offering products from affiliate programs, a link to which is included in the product description.

For example, one of the profitable areas is considered to be working with the Amazon store. You make video reviews of their products and offer to follow the link and buy something. A percentage of the purchase, as usual when working with affiliate programs, is credited to the account.

To create your channel, you need to register your account with Google. And then everything is simple. The YouTube service itself offers those who want to run their business online convenient editors with which they can add music, special effects, process video from noise and much more.

In YouTube settings there is a Monetization section. We connect a channel to Google Adsense and start earning our first money. Profit depends not only on visits, but also on the chosen topic.

With 3000 users you can earn about $6. A little? Yes, but there are thousands of channels on YouTube with more than a million traffic. Can you imagine how much they earn? What if there are several such channels?

A personal YouTube channel is a good online business option for housewives. For example, you can review the preparation of delicious dishes.

The idea of ​​making money is your own exchange office

Many systems, for example, WebMoney, offer their users to participate in their business online. You can do this in two ways:

1. Distributing currency cards. But this will not bring much profit, and besides, you will completely kill your legs, in the sense that you will have to run a lot;
2. By creating your own exchange office.

An electronic currency exchange office differs from a regular exchange office that operates from banks. Essentially, you help people withdraw web money (and others) or credit it to their account, taking a percentage from clients. What is needed for this business?

In fact, there is nothing complicated. You need to register a personal passport, create your own exchanger site (example https://smartwm.ru) and report it to the registry, find clients. If you decide that this business is for you, you have a lot of customer requests, then you can open your own office.

For this online business you need initial capital - and it should be at least several thousand WMZ (WMZ is a Web Money dollar account). If you don’t have money, you can start working by taking out a microloan from the bank. Profit from the business is 2-3% of the amount of transactions. The more transactions, the better the earnings.

There are two ways to work in this online business – as an individual and as an individual entrepreneur. In the first case, it is necessary to conclude an agreement with the client, and in the second, write him a check.

We open an information business: online seminars, trainings, coaching

One of the most popular online businesses nowadays is the information business. Since information is at a premium today, you can always try to sell it. The most important thing is that you have something to sell, that is, a good project.

If you know how to do something, have useful and rare knowledge, you can start a very profitable Internet business from scratch.

The business is suitable for both men and women. For example, girls today share their knowledge for money on how to lose weight, do makeup, choose cosmetics or find a groom. As you can see, the topics are very different, but each of them can bring profit.

Men conduct online seminars on programming, website promotion, and earning money online. You can also write and sell books, publish magazines online with a paid subscription. Even yoga can be taught at a distance - all this falls under the category of information business.

The only problem– this kind of work is not suitable for everyone, since only a narrow specialist in some industry can do it. To teach someone, you have to be an ace yourself. And it’s better to have proof that you can really be useful - for example, a diploma or at least a certificate of completion of courses.

Since you set the price for your product yourself, your earnings depend on you.

Eg, a course on semantic website design costs about $200, and participation in a webinar on promoting a group on Facebook costs $10 per participant. The price can reach up to $2,000 - it all depends on the value of the information product.

We create an online store on VKontakte

Another interesting business on the Internet from scratch is on VKontakte. This is an excellent platform for running your business. And its biggest advantage is the availability of functionality for online sales.

This is a business for both beginners and people who already have experience on the Internet.

But to engage in this business, you must have something to sell. Typically, for these purposes, you use either an online store where you have a good discount, and then you get the difference equal to your bonus in your pocket, or goods ordered from China.

Or you can reach an agreement with manufacturers of goods in your city, offering them a platform for sale.

Income here starts with 50 dollars and ends up in several hundred and sometimes even thousands. For example, the revenue of a VK store offering interesting things and gifts on the eve of the New Year amounts to up to $3,000.

How to become an Internet Service Provider

An option for investing money, and large ones at that. To become an Internet provider and start building a business providing services to your target audience, you must meet a number of requirements:

• Open an LLC;
• Collect and submit documents to RosKomNadzor;
• Get a license;
• Pay taxes on time (possible using a simplified taxation system);
• Open a bank account.

You will also need a room where all the equipment (servers, etc.) will be located. It must be safe, which will be confirmed by the SES inspection and fire service.

You will need initial capital in the region of several thousand dollars and, most likely, your own staff. But this business is very promising, because in the last year alone the Internet access market has grown by more than 25%. And demand creates supply.

Advertising on Instagram

The more subscribers you have, the more you earn. The most popular topics today: sports and healthy lifestyle, beauty, travel, cooking.

Earnings on Instagram can be up to $100 per post.

Photos for sale

If you are passionate about photography, you can monetize your passion. Today photographs are in great demand, since any serious publication or portal will not stoop to plagiarism. They buy photographs for their projects on special exchanges.

Prices for photos can vary greatly. A high-quality photo taken with a good camera can cost several hundred dollars.. Mid-level photo – about 5-10 dollars. The minimum cost of a photograph is 1-2 dollars.

* The calculations use average data for Russia

Business without investment. How to open your own business without funds? You can open your own business in many areas of activity: the question is rather what resources you already have. We have collected 20 business ideas that will allow you to start your business from scratch.

How to start a business without investment, in other words, with zero capital - this is the most common question of many beginning entrepreneurs. However, you need to understand that business ideas without investments... do not exist in principle. One way or another, you will need either existing material resources or knowledge, or time, which is perhaps your most important resource. Therefore, if you get excited about this or that idea of ​​​​creating your own business without investments, do not forget that in the process of its implementation, you may spend much more than you receive. Perhaps the time used could be spent on training in a more promising area?

The real problem of big cities is the catastrophic lack of time to transport children to school, kindergartens and clubs. Busy moms and dads have to bend over backwards to manage to both look after their children and earn money. In such conditions, offers of car nanny services began to appear in large cities of the country. They can be any girls with their own car, who can not only bring the child to pick up, but also work as a nanny. You can start such a business from scratch without investment if you have your own car. Advanced services use mobile applications that can be used to track a child’s movements around the city.

A popular idea today to create your own business without investment is to sell all kinds of edible bouquets, including so-called beer bouquets and baskets for men. Usually this is a beautifully decorated set of beer and beer snacks: sausages, fish, crayfish, squid, chips, and so on. The whole thing is decorated with chili pepper, garlic, cherry tomatoes. There are a million possibilities here - you just have to look at the ready-made ideas. You can read more about where to start a business.

Many modern couples prefer to hold a wedding ceremony outside the walls of the registry office and according to an individual scenario. The main thing that the host of such registration requires is good speaking skills and the ability to offer any additional services. This could include decoration services (usually such ceremonies require a special flower arch, table or lectern for the host), DJ and toastmaster services, animators, and holding competitions. The cost of such services can start from 2 thousand rubles for a simple ceremony and increase to obscene amounts depending on the whims of the customer, and starting your own business without investment is quite possible.

You can organize an excellent business without large investments by having a purebred cat or dog at home. You can earn money both by mating, the cost of which, depending on the breed, can reach several tens of thousands of rubles, and by selling kittens or puppies. For example, one Bengal kitten can be sold for 7-25 thousand rubles.

There are several undeniable advantages to owning a gingerbread house business. Firstly, recipes for making them can be easily found and mastered using online tutorials. Secondly, you can do them at home. And thirdly, gingerbread cookies are stored for quite a long time, which allows you to stock up for future use before the holidays. Depending on the size, gingerbread houses can be sold for either 150-200 rubles or 3-5 thousand rubles.

How to organize a business selling your own drawings? It is not at all necessary to create full-fledged paintings and participate in exhibitions; it is enough to read about the psychological technique of metaphorical cards. No matter how psychologists object, in essence, metaphorical cards are... ordinary drawings that only need to be correctly printed in the form of a deck and sold.

Start your own business without investing in the winter season - digging out cars trapped in snow. The service has become widespread in large cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. The tariff for digging out one car is 1000-2000 rubles, an operational call can be estimated at 5000 thousand rubles. Services may include not only clearing the car of snow, but also removing the snow around it, pushing it out of the snow, charging the battery and “lighting the car.” You don’t need any investment - just have a shovel at home.

The idea of ​​your business preparing and delivering lunches to offices is to prepare delicious lunches at home and deliver them directly to the clients’ workplace. This service becomes for customers an alternative to fast food and containers from home. To open your own business delivering ready-made meals, you need a minimum start-up capital - you can meet 20 thousand rubles, which will not be difficult to recoup. The advantage of the business lunch delivery business is that it is practically unlimited in volume, because you can work with as many organizations as you like.

A home-based kindergarten can become a business without investing in real estate. It is especially in demand in new residential high-rise areas: local authorities do not have time to satisfy the local population’s need for kindergartens. The profit of a kindergarten at home will be 50-100 thousand rubles. per month.

If you have deep knowledge in any school subject, then consider a business idea without investment, such as tutoring. An example could be preparing for the Unified State Exam. The simplest thing you can do is place a free ad on the Internet and wait for customers to call, without making any effort to find customers yourself.

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If you are interested in the history of your native places, know urban legends and know how to communicate well with people, consider organizing city tours. The least expensive option is walking tours. Unlike bus tours, they also allow excursionists to delve deeper into the history of the streets, explore objects and imagine themselves as participants in past events. Your main contribution will be the creation of a unique scenario and routes.

A husband for an hour is his own business in the format of a part-time job, which is suitable for one. A mobile specialist can provide a whole range of services, including plumbing and electrical work, assembly and disassembly of furniture, minor and household repairs, as well as carpentry and installation work. This option is attractive because once he has built up a regular clientele, a man will be able to earn up to 150 thousand rubles a month and work according to a flexible schedule. As representatives of this business say, the main thing is to know your worth and set minimum price thresholds for home visits.

You can start your own furniture restoration business, if not from scratch, then with several thousand rubles needed to purchase tools and materials, for example, varnish and primer. Typically, such services include repair of cabinet furniture, reupholstery of upholstered furniture and replacement of old fittings. Since most modern furniture needs repairs every three to five years, and furniture manufacturers rarely provide such services, the level of demand for furniture restoration is quite high. As with many other home services, word of mouth plays the biggest role in the success of a business.

Polymer clay is the same as plasticine, but it can harden well and gain strength. Thanks to this, polymer clay crafts can be sold. There are practically no investments - all you need is skills, perseverance, attentiveness and imagination. You can sell finished products through online stores, groups on social networks, fairs, sites like Crafts Fairs and Etsy, offline jewelry and souvenir stores, and markets.

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Manicure services can be provided not only in beauty salons, but also at home. However, this format does not mean that the quality of services will be lower than that of a salon. Investments in equipment are minimal (UV lamp, varnishes, gel compositions, jewelry and manicure accessories can be purchased for 20 thousand rubles). Much more temporary investments are required, since skills, practice and, preferably, a base of ready-made clients are more important.

An interesting area for working from home with virtually no investment is the production and sale of custom bow ties. A bow tie is a fashion accessory that can be made from wood, fur, feathers and even shells, and cost more than 2 thousand rubles. a piece. Efforts in this business should be focused not only on the execution of the product, but also on its presentation and promotion on the Internet and social networks.

If you can’t do anything yourself, start teaching others. You can open your own training business practically from scratch if you manage to find a free platform for conducting trainings (for example, organize trainings in a fashionable open-air format or rent a hall in an anti-cafe through an acquaintance). The main task is to arm yourself with effective training methods, decide on a niche and carry out work to attract clients. The income of trainers exceeds 100 thousand rubles. per month.

The vast majority of people have their own computer, tablet or smartphone, and most of them have no idea how to troubleshoot the most common problems with their gadgets. Your own cell phone and laptop repair business usually starts with services for friends, turns into an additional source of income, and then into the main source of profit. There are no clear instructions for starting here; the main condition for opening is only your own experience.

Managers of many companies who have never heard the word “content” before are now interested in good content managers, copywriters and SEO optimizers. Copywriters just have to present themselves competently and cast their bait in several places at once: on advertising sites, developing their own website, posting information on a freelance exchange, creating groups on social networks, or even running ads in Direct.

The biggest investment for a massage therapist who works on-site in his own car is not the purchase of a massage table, but the completion of training to obtain certificates, and most importantly, practical skills. Everything else (oils, care products, disposable consumables) will not require serious funds. One massage session, depending on its complexity, today costs 500-3000 rubles.

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