What online business should I start?

[Mason Goldberg]

Hello. I am 15 and I want to start my own online company. I don't want to do affiliate marketing, MLM, etc. I want to actually start a company that sells a product or service. But since I don't have a product, I would like to sell a service. What kind of service could I sell? I thought of a online music distribution service company that would put other people's music on iTunes. The problem is, people can do that through Tunecore.

I also found a free website script on the internet that creates a music sharing website where bands and artists can share their music, and listeners can listen, rate, chat, etc.

I would like to make real adult money (50k-100k a year) from my company. What online service company could I start? Any ideas? I can make a basic website on webs.com, so would small businesses pay me to create a website for them? Any other service company ideas that could be very profitable?

Thanks.

[ara77]

if you can build sites, you should post on freelance site or various forums my favor is warrior-forum dot com , there is always people looking for services there,

hope this helps a little

[Kirill Storch]

Well you have a couple of distinctive options, each of which represent the most viable areas in internet-based businesses. The way you go is contingent on one thing: Are you more of a creative thinker? Or more of a spatial thinker?

If you are more of a creative thinker, i.e., talented at writing, have good people skills, enjoy reading and coming up with original concepts- you should strongly consider SEO and Social Media Mgmt. as your choice of online business.

SEO is the ability to take a website and by re-envisioning their creative presence, and managing their online relations, getting them to rank higher on Google.

It's simple, the main skill base you need to have is 1) Writing. When you take a website and start managing their blog, Google looks at the amount of indexed pages they have about a certain topic. Lets say I am a company that sells skating gear and I want to get ranked on the Google keyword "skate helmet,"

I hire you to start a "skate helmet" blog. Every day you go on there and write posts like "the 10 wildest skate helmet designs you have ever seen!"

Or... "the 10 things about skate helmets kids don't want you know..."

Something catchy like that, to grab attention. As these attention grabbing headlines are sourcing traffic, the skating gear website improves popularity and increases in ranking. After that, you would be responsible for forging relationships and advertising the site online.

If you are more of a linear, spatial thinker: You should consider online graphic design. This is for visual individuals that can play with space, curvature and design elements, You should be proficient in a design software like fireworks, illustrator, or photoshop. THere is wide demand for brochure designs, logos, and other virtual media collateral.

But whichever way you decide to go, you will need to create branding for your business, a name, a typeface, and a concept. I included a link to a cool app that can automatically generate branding concepts for new businesses. It's in the sources section.

[Karlaling89]

Welcome to the Year of 2011. Back to year 2010, we may have experienced some of our friends being layoff by the company and jobless for a period of time. Unemployment rate remain high, and inflation rate is climbing up again in some countries. This has triggered most of us to look for any possible alternative source of income or extra income.

For most of us, earning a good amount of money is something which is never easy nowadays. Realizing that millions of people are on the internet everyday, and they are all can be our potential customers; let us start exploring the online business in year 2011! If finding an online business is what we have in mind right now, it is crucial for us to plan in details and come up with some good ideas. Here are some examples:

We can sell other people products online such as books and electronics gadgets.
We can sell downloadable products such as ebooks, software, music and games.
We can promote and sell our own products and services.
Next, we need to decide how to sell online. Some of us decide to build a website to promote the products or services that we are selling. Some of us decide to make a blog for the online businesses. Others may choose to use Facebook or Twitter to sell and promote the products. There are many other creative ways of doing business via internet. Again, customer is the key success for any businesses. We need to attract customers and convince potential customers to buy the products and services that we are selling. This is another big subject called internet marketing that we must know.

We can engage a company to do search engine optimization (SEO) in order to ensure that we catch any potential customers searching for the type of the products we are selling. We can use article marketing, internet advertisement or the web banner to promote our products and services. In fact, email marketing is another important tool for online businesses whereby it helps to deliver the right information on the right timing to the right customer. Of course, this can be achieved through the use of software. For example, Auto Respond Software can automatically send emails to anyone who needs further information about the products and services that we are selling.

In summary, establishing online business could be one of the alternate ways to start earning a living for those who still looking for a job around nowadays. Of course, it will be an extra income for those who already got a job. All we need to do is to put in extra effort to plan, to do research and put in lots of actions and start making the extra cash online!!!.

[Joselin Jones]

Personally, I got started by buying a few websites that were already made. All I had to do was get an Adsense account and a few others, slip in my affiliate ID's, upload the site to my host and I was ready to go. Of course as it took me months to learn, I had to keep it fresh by adding unique content regularly, finding videos, getting guest writers and comments, etc. But soon I had several sites that were making bits of money regularly. With niche sites it's a numbers game. The more sites you have, the better chance at a living income. I'm building them up now, and you should get started, too. Good luck!

[Hayley Lee]

Making money online can be accomplished in a number of ways. You can affiliate market, you can produce a product, you can sell digital products, or hard goods. The promotional method can be blog marketing, forum marketing, article marketing, with or without a web site or all together with more than one website. You have to choose what it is you wish to market to start with, then establish a marketing method and pursue it. If you don't have any prior knowledge, then you need mentoring, and that is why I recommend the Millionaire Society.