Internet business from scratch where to start - my real story about making money on the Internet

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Where to start an online business? My real story working on the Internet for 5 years. What pitfalls await you? What you need to do, and where, you shouldn’t even bother, you’ll only lose money.

Greetings to you, my dear readers and random visitors to this blog!
In this article I will tell you my story of working on the Internet, how I lost a million rubles, and I will explain what you really need to do.
The article will be useful primarily for beginners, those who just want to start making money from the Internet, or have started, but have little success and cannot decide on the direction in business.

Do I regret that I came into the Internet business?
Of course not.
What do I regret?
About the fact that I lost a lot of time looking for a freebie, a loot button, as they say in moneymaker slang, when I just had to work on the Internet!

Internet business from scratch, where to start - how to start correctly, and not get a false start

The first time in my life I thought about making money on the Internet was about 10 years ago in 2007. At the same time that the Internet appeared on my computer. There were far fewer sites on the World Wide Web than there are now; there was almost no information about earnings. I remember I found some kind of website hung with banners and teasers (advertising) Christmas tree resting. I dug out a link to the box (postal service) in it. I registered there and made an electronic wallet.
I remember that site and all the sites that I visited on orders of advertising on it more than information). The most interesting thing is that a virus on such advertisements could be easily caught, easier to catch than not.
I went around the sites, clicked on advertisements, and still managed to earn a few pennies.
I'm tired of this business).

For a couple of years I got inspired to work on the Internet.
What did you do?
Played online games. I managed to lose in one for as much as 3 years). I lost a lot of time...how did I lose it?
In the game I met a girl who later became my wife and we are still together to this day, although there are no longer two of us in the family, but three;).
The spirit of adventurism has not left me all these 2 years).
After 2 years, I again came with a fishing rod to the Internet business with new forces for real money online.
I started chugging on click sites again. I tried the entire arsenal available at that time.
I liked the seosprint the most. I worked on it.
In a day I managed to earn 50-100 rubles, back then it was some kind of money.

By the way, a year ago, in 2016, I returned to it again), although not as a performer, but as an advertiser and referee.
Why don't I work there?
I don’t have time, and a hundred rubles a day is not interesting to me now.

I clicked on seosorint, I got a little bored. And this site itself is littered with advertisements for “real earnings” of 5-10 thousand rubles per month.
What were your thoughts at that time?
I'm almost a genius! People earn tens and hundreds of thousands of rubles on the Internet, but I work for pennies!
I read and watched enough of “exclusive, classified FSB materials from the guru,” and became twenty times wiser and realized it was time to act!

What did I learn and understand that was “particularly valuable?”
You don’t have to work on the Internet, all the work is for suckers, you have to invest.
Best earnings- this is on the liability side, we sit and the money flows, remember, right? money should work even if it doesn’t exist).

I remember I started acting... with games with money withdrawal.
Well, why not - this is cool! You invested a thousand or two, a month later, another, withdrew the invested money from there, and then you will receive money from there for the rest of your life! In general, I felt like Warren Buffett then).

It was decided to invest in such projects. I don’t remember exactly how many there were or their names. I remember only 2.
One site, something about apple trees, planting, harvesting, and so on.
Another one that I remember very well was related to investing in virtual stocks.
I had an excellent relationship with the admin of the last project, no joke, I, the best investor of that project, invested tens of thousands of rubles.
We must give him his due, he paid regularly for the time being.
I remember he invited me to another similar project, where he was a co-founder; I’m surprised how I had the brains not to invest there too).
Of course, later all these projects will be erased from the face of the Internet, but that will happen later, but for now, I considered myself the smartest Internet businessman, but now it’s funny to read this).
Yes, I must also say that I managed to play with magic wallets.

I understood that I had to move on, conquer planet Earth!
After much research, Forex was chosen.
At that time, at that time, it was considered a reliable investment in your future.
Then few people assumed that this was the second “MMM.”
Probably, some people knew, but remained silent, which is logical in other respects.

I understood that I myself would not be able to play there, and why? Jobs for suckers! And I’m not a sucker, I’m thoughtful.
According to my considerations then, in a couple or three years, I would be able to completely forget about working as a farm laborer for my uncle in the usual sense of the word.

My thoughts at that moment were as follows.
Why don't others do this?
The green ones are not on topic yet, they don’t flog.
Am I on topic?! Let others work, and I will build a business and soon I will do nothing.

It was decided to take a loan from a bank.
How many?
250 thousand, which seemed quite small to me.
Well, it won't work like that! It will take me a long time to build up capital. We should take the same amount more!
In general, half a lam of wood, in my opinion, should be enough for a start, a successful start, so to speak.

I have compiled a portfolio of 3 investment projects: “Gamma,” “FX Vladimir,” “Forex Trend.”
All projects were flawless. Out of thousands of comments, at most a couple of sensible negative ones.
Does anything remind you, Sarafanka.com fans?

The first project was closed area, in which supposedly 3 people were working puffing and ripping off people. Every week, they posted a report on their website about how trading went on the stock exchange.

In the second project, according to his impeccable legend, a Russian trader living in the USA worked. You could learn about all his successes on the stock exchange every week on his website.
However, there was no reason to worry, a maximum of 4 weeks, a slight minus for the whole year!

In the last project, although even it turned out to be a scam, there was an opportunity to choose traders. Traders with a return of 30-40% per annum on their deposit did not interest me. 100% per year, or better yet 200-300% - that’s great!

I must say, with the last project, I screwed up myself; if I had not chosen aggressive traders, I could have remained in the black.

What happened next?
About a year later, Vladimir began to delay payments.
Gamma abruptly covered up - it was black July 2013.
What's happened?
Allegedly, the transaction on the stock exchange did not work, it was late, and most of the money given to the scammer traders went into the red, which they, of course, promised to return.

What were your feelings at that moment?
You know, if your loved one, girlfriend or boyfriend, abandoned you, depending on your gender and orientation) like a dream. This cannot happen - this is some kind of mistake and everything will be fine tomorrow. Of course, it was the collapse of my Internet business, at that moment, which I did not want to admit.

Guys, this is all bullshit, isn't it? Only the weak kneel, and the strong move on, right?) Any decent businessman has risen from scratch at least several times. It spun up, went to zero and got up again. At that moment that’s exactly what I thought).

It was decided to get a couple more credit cards.
Where did the money go?
Mostly for the promotion of VKontakte groups.
Thoughts began to appear in my head that making money on the Internet is not only an investment, it turns out that you also need to work here.

I worked mostly in contact. He promoted his groups.
Mainly gaining subscribers. The first time I realized that everything is not so simple here was when one of the groups accumulated 30 thousand subscribers. By that time there were quite a few dogs in her, and she could not avoid the automatic filter from contact. The VK filter cleared out about 30-40% from the group, leaving less than 20 thousand subscribers.
When a new member joins the community, he is automatically unsubscribed. There is such a VKontakte filter.
It is installed automatically for a week or two.

Realization came and it dawned on me that cheating is an evil that must be used legal methods. Among the relatively legal ones, it was possible to agree with the administrator of the VK community about advertising in his group. Accordingly, you give him money, he, your post. Usually the post is at the top for an hour, 24 in the news feed, then deleted.

Advertising was bought in different communities, with varying degrees of success.
The most unfortunate one, where a subscriber cost me 30 rubles. Having figured out which posts people were falling for, a subscriber began to cost me 1 ruble.

The largest group that I was able to promote was 200 thousand subscribers.
Why did you abandon it?
I posted a post in the group, some kind of financial pyramid, as I remember now, they gave me a thousand for it. Someone snitched, the public was thrown out of the search for a contact for a month.
By that time, there was no longer any money for advertising in communities.
With each new post, more and more people unsubscribed than subscribed, that is, the number of subscribers was melting before our eyes.
Against the backdrop of everything else, there was no desire to lead it.

The most successful public was about making money on the Internet, now I wouldn’t say that it was such), but it was called that.
About 30 thousand subscribers, 80-90% are bots.
Advertising was ordered for him with enviable consistency. On average, 3 applications per day, the cost of a post is 50 rubles, on some days 5-7 orders for advertising were received.
Orders came from the Sociate exchange, they wrote in a personal message.
This public will also be abandoned.
Why?
The administration in VK really doesn’t like topics about making money on the Internet, not one, normal public will not take on advertising about making money on the Internet. Accordingly, in order to increase the number of subscribers, you need to constantly boost the group with bots, which threatens to be filtered and may be blocked.
In general, no matter where you go, it’s just a rake).

Would I get involved in making money on VKontakte now?
Of course not.
You see, your group on VK is not yours at all.
This page of the VKontakte website.
How can you build a business on something that doesn't belong to you?

I did a lot of other nonsense, I think it’s not very interesting).

You know, this whole mess could have been avoided. There were more than enough prerequisites.
I remember I ordered fortune telling on the Internet using tarot cards).
For success in Internet business).
They sent it and said everything was in color as is.
They don't see any business for me. Taking out loans is very risky. Financial collapse.
What I remember most.
How a fortune teller pulled out the sun. Having written that this is the most successful card in the deck.
This card means success in all endeavors, adding that the card is upside down, which means success is possible, but not soon.
Well, now you are reading me). Just kidding of course)
This is not success - it is a step one step forward.
What would I do now if I had the opportunity to start all over again, from scratch?
I'll tell you more about this later.

How to make money on the Internet. What would I do now if I started from scratch?

Guys, I know that many are looking for treasured sites that will pay absolute money for the simplest work (likes, reposts, viewing an advertisement or website, clicking on an advertisement, etc.).
Are they there?
Where they pay steeply for such work is a scam.
They will never pay well for such work.

Is it worth working on click boxes?
For starters, yes. It’s better to have 3 or 4 of these. What, not what, but money. On top of everything else, you will gain a little experience.
As they say, a good boss is the one who started as a worker).

I am often reproached in the comments to an article about a sundress, saying that you haven’t tried to make money there, try first, otherwise you’re writing all sorts of crap.
Guys, I haven’t tried it and I’m not going to give away money to scammers; I haven’t already given it away. I have tried so many scams to make money on the Internet that you never dreamed of.
Do you like playing with money?
Well, play around while others build a business on the Internet, play around).

Where should you not go at all?
Where you are required to invest.
Casinos, MLM, games with investments, and so on.
Most of them have beautiful legend.
We are a developing company, we invest in gold, shares, timber, cars, factories, air, Mars, UFOs.
Remember!
Nobody is investing anywhere! If they promise you, let's say 1% per day of the money you invest.
Do you think it's ok?
Guys, haven't you hit your heads against anything since this morning?

Guys, you have to work everywhere, there are no freebies.
Well, trust me and my experience.

What are the real ways to make money on the Internet?
Essentially there are 2 of them.
1. Freelancing.
2. Your own website.

Who is a freelancer?
A remote worker, that is, works at a computer.
You get paid for doing certain work on the Internet.

What are the most in-demand professions?
In my opinion, this is a website designer and layout designer.
A good designer and layout designer will never be left without work.

How to work as a freelancer?
There are special exchanges where a person writes what work he is ready to do and how much his work costs.
You see, there are a lot of workers, and in order to be noticed, and therefore have a mountain of orders, you need to prove yourself.
Let's say, if I went to work as a freelancer, I wouldn't rely on one exchange.
Registered for at least 5.
Agree on advertising on the website or blog you visit. Better at 4-5.
For example, in the form of an interview.

Disadvantages of working as a freelancer.
Sometimes it’s thick, sometimes it’s empty. The whole week is full of orders. Then sit for a week.
Without promoting you and your services, you should not leave your main job.
Honestly, this kind of work is not for me.
Why?
You might as well work anywhere. There isn't much difference.
This is again working for someone. I like to do my own projects and earn money almost passively.
Place an advertisement on the site, let the money roll in.

Your own website.
I lost so much time... but if I had started working on websites for, say, 5 years, I would now be in trouble.
By the way, you don’t even have to write on the site yourself.
You can order articles from copywriters (the person who writes articles for your website).
But in my opinion, you should blog yourself. By the way, you are on it now).

What are the disadvantages of the site?
From website creation to monetization (earnings), at least 1 year.
Usually 2-3 years. Provided that you publish at least 1 article per week on it (preferably 3-7).
Until then, you only need to work on its content (articles).
That is, are you ready to work for free for 3 years?
Of course, I’m exaggerating, you will receive something, but this money is unlikely to be enough for a family.

You know, now it’s a fashionable trend to start your own blog to make money.
But in 90% of cases, even if he lives to be a year old, no one takes care of him.
Do you know why?
Most people have seen enough of all sorts of “gurus” who explain that the whole problem is in creating a website.
Then, almost immediately after creation, visitors will come to you and money will flow.
No - that's not true at all.
In order to make money on the site, you must have visitors, a lot of visitors).
If they are not there, there is no money.
In addition to creating a blog, you need to be able to promote it in search engines.
And this is a whole science that is constantly changing.
You need to be constantly in trend.

How to study if you are a green beginner and don’t know or know how to do anything?
A green beginner is not a death sentence. This is temporary). We all came here like this).
If you decide to create your own blog.
I wouldn't advise you to rush anywhere.
Think about what interests you and what are you good at?
Before starting a blog, I would spend at least 100 hours researching how to promote it.

Let's say, if I'm interested in any topic, I don't know how to do it correctly, I go to a search engine.
I read at least 3 authoritative authors on this topic (often 7-10 authors).
For what?
I would like to get a more complete picture on an issue that interests me.

What do I advise you?
Do not be afraid.
When I started, I thought it would be impossible to figure everything out!
I didn’t understand 90% of the moneymakers’ slang at all).
Time passes... and already those articles where you didn’t understand half the words), you not only understand the meaning, but also see the misconceptions of the author of these articles).

It’s easy and fast only... you know who).

For the skeptics.
I paid off the loans, it’s true that it wasn’t so much working on the Internet that helped me, but working offline.
A gift of fate or something). A gift, because this is not a job that few people can do, but rather a lot of people), and the salary, not only big, but an order of magnitude higher than the national average.

That's all for me guys.
Questions in the comments are welcome.
Good luck to you!

How to choose a niche and start an online business from scratch? How much can you earn if you create an online business? Where to start promoting your business online without investment?

For some, the Internet is a way of entertainment, communication, and information; for others, it is workplace. Earning money online is available to all categories of the population– private entrepreneurs, housewives, pensioners, students and schoolchildren.

There are thousands of ways to monetize the Internet. You don't even have to have your own website to earn a stable income. The main thing is the presence of desire and free time.

Denis Kuderin is with you, an expert on HeaterBober magazine. financial topics. I will tell, how to start an online business, what ways to make money online exist, how to choose a niche for business, and what are the features of modern online business.

Read to the end - in the final you will find life hacks and tricks for a novice entrepreneur, as well as the answer to the question, how much can you earn by starting a business from scratch?.

1. Business on the Internet - making money for the “lazy”

The Internet is a territory of unlimited opportunities for those who want to work for themselves and receive a guaranteed income that does not depend on economic crises, the dollar exchange rate and the availability of first aid. initial capital.

Thousands of people are doing this right now. They already made the Internet a source of real financial independence. If you want to follow their example, this The article will help you choose a direction and equip you with useful knowledge.

But I want to warn you in advance - I did not accidentally put the word “lazy” in quotation marks in the section title. There is a strong philistine opinion that those who are too lazy to look for a “normal job” go to the Internet in search of income. It’s as if the network is a habitat for slackers, lazy people and projectors, almost alchemists looking for the philosopher’s stone.

I dare to assure the skeptics that this is a fundamentally wrong point of view. I myself experienced this kind of attitude from friends and family members when I left a “normal” job for the network.

I still encounter bewilderment and skeptical grins, especially from members of the older generation.

But there is no need to prove anything else to relatives and friends - they already know general outline that my earnings are quite enough for a comfortable life, that they are no less stable than earnings at a “real job”, and relate to working online quite adequately.

I will list all the advantages of doing business on the Internet:

• a wide range of destinations for commercial activities – realize your talents and abilities depending on their availability;
• you work exclusively for yourself, and not “uncle”;
• you are not tied to a workplace– work how you want and where you want: at home, in an Internet cafe, in a coworking space, in Thailand;
• working hours are not fixed– if you want to work from dawn to dusk, you want to work 2 hours a day;
• You set your own weekends and holidays;
• you have no bosses and strict rules: if you want to change your direction of activity - please;
• income is not limited– it all depends only on your abilities and ambitions.

Working on the Internet, you become the master of your life. The feeling of freedom when you go from a normal working day to flexible schedule, can't be compared to anything.

But it is important not to confuse freedom with sloppiness. Money will not fall into your wallet on its own - simply because you declared yourself a freelancer or an Internet entrepreneur.

You still have to work hard and persistently. A lazy person is unlikely to be able to achieve more or less noticeable results online. Discipline for working on the Internet is required no less, and even more, than for office and production labor. The lack of external control for novice money makers is often the main problem.

Is an initial investment required? It depends on what you plan to do. If you are opening an online store or launching a startup that requires full promotion, you cannot do without initial capital. If you plan to sell your skills online, no investment is required.

Another warning: Internet entrepreneurship is not for everyone. There are no guarantees that spending money and time will definitely pay off. I know people who, after spending a couple of years in online commerce, went back to the office on a stable salary. I also know those who earn millions online.

But if you are sure that online business is your path, then doubts go away! We choose and begin to patiently, consistently and measuredly move in the right direction.

2. TOP 5 ideas for starting an online business

In fact, there are hundreds of ideas for starting a business. And each of them has every chance of becoming extremely profitable.

For example, no one could have predicted that the launch of the world’s first global social network “ Facebook"will do Mark Zuckerberg youngest billionaire in US history.

And the creators Google“(two Stanford students) even wanted to abandon their project at first because it distracted them too much from their university studies.

Our top five includes most popular destinations, which have already proven their commercial potential. These ideas definitely work - if you can implement them correctly.

Idea 1. Opening an online store

Now almost all companies have an Internet resource. Even if the company’s main profile is offline sales, an additional way to sell goods will never be superfluous.

Some companies started out as small offline stores and then turned into online sales giants.

Those who already have an online store know how important it is for success. professional approach to create a website. Having a quality product to sell does not guarantee success.

We have previously written a detailed article on the topic, I advise you to read it.

Idea 2. Creating an internet marketing agency

Online stores sell, and marketing agencies help them do it. Launch even separately advertising campaign on the Internet is a matter for professionals.

Even a brilliant advertising idea will not find a response if you are not in the know. how internet search engines work, why advertising in Yandex is needed and what SEO promotion is. Marketing agencies do all this. The demand for them is stable, and the payment for services is high.

Just a couple of days ago, one of my friends - a successful entrepreneur, owner of an online store selling expensive heating equipment - asked if I could recommend him a good website promotion specialist. I advised why not help a good person.

How is internet marketing different from regular marketing? There are many differences - this and more high level interactivity, and the possibility of targeting (selecting a target audience), and other prices for services.

What is needed to organize such an agency?? Understanding of the basics of Internet marketing and a desire to develop. The industry is relatively new, there are few professionals. The Internet environment is constantly changing, and marketing methods are changing with it. Those who follow trends and are not afraid to experiment win.

Idea 3. Consulting services

If you are professionally versed in at least something, no one will forbid you share experiences with others for money. Lawyers, accountants, teachers, practitioners and business theorists, cooks, designers, etc. provide remote consulting services online.

Skype consultations will only require knowledge and time from you

Consultations will be more expensive the higher your level as a specialist and teacher. In addition, the Internet allows you to teach remotely to a group of people at once in the format of an online conference.

You will find even more answers to the question: “” in the article of the same name on our website.

Idea 4. Website promotion

Website creation and promotion is another popular area of ​​individual entrepreneurial activity. To create and promote Internet resources, you need to have an understanding of HTML layout, types of engines, hosting and domains, and creating templates. But do not be afraid of these words if they are unfamiliar to you - understanding comes with experience.

Owners of online stores and other commercial portals rarely promote websites on their own - for this they hire specialists.

Idea 5. Preparing content for websites

Each site needs to be filled with unique content. Moreover, for a resource to be successfully ranked in search engines, content needs to be updated regularly. This especially applies to information sites, but is also relevant for other formats - blogs, online stores, service sites.

If a potential client comes to the website of a beauty salon and in the “News” section sees last year’s Happy New Year greetings from clients, trust in such a resource immediately disappears. If the owners are too lazy to update information sections for clients, then the rest of the services will be of appropriate quality.

A similar attitude towards the resource will occur if the site has a poor design, illiterate product descriptions and template information about a “dynamically developing company” and “team of professionals” on the main page.

Conclusion: websites need professional content. And it is supplied by freelancers: designers, copywriters, technical specialists. Their services will be in demand as long as the Internet exists.

In addition to the ideas listed above, there are dozens of others - making money on social networks, creating a channel on YouTube, etc.

Comparison table of business ideas:

If you want, we have a publication on this topic too.

3. How to create an online business selling goods from scratch - step-by-step guide

The basis of economic relations between people has always been purchase and sale. Therefore, most entrepreneurs on the Internet act in a proven and reliable way - they open an online store.

To do this correctly, use a step-by-step algorithm.

Step 1. Choose the direction of trade and prepare a business plan

If you do not have an investor, you will have to make initial purchases with your own money. There is another option - your online store will act as a kind of intermediary between the buyer and the wholesaler. But to do this you need to work quickly and establish contacts with suppliers in advance.

Today you can purchase almost any product on the Internet. There is competition in all trade niches. So you need to choose your direction wisely. The following are in stable demand: cosmetics, health and body care products, natural products, children's products, coffee and tea of ​​exclusive varieties.

If you have a product that has no analogues, that’s great. But first you need to find out is there a demand for it?.

I have a friend who sells elite feed additives for sport horses. It would seem difficult to come up with a narrower niche - but no, there are several such stores in the network.

So my friend takes it from others - he has his own natural production, raw materials based on Altai herbs, and the products are tested by veterinarians and horse breeders.

Read about that in a separate article.

Step 2. Test the selected niche

Niche testing reduces risks and gives you a general idea of ​​the demand for the product you offer.

How to test? Watch the video:

Step 3. Create a portrait of your ideal client

Did you know that more than half of all online sales come from Moscow and St. Petersburg? Or that 70% of all buyers in online stores are women?

A businessman must smell his customers a mile away.. Take into account age, gender, geography, interests, solvency, even level of education.

Defining your ideal audience is the key to sales success

Knowing your audience, you can set up effective targeted advertising that hits the target.

Step 4. Order a website

Creating a website is not an expense item on which you should save. If funds allow, order the design development and launch of the resource in a professional studio. Specialists will create a website quickly and efficiently, and at the same time help with the initial content.

Well, if you want to find out, check out the article that we specially prepared earlier.

Step 5. Register the business with government agencies

Online trading – official entrepreneurial activity . Choose the format yourself - individual entrepreneur or . simpler and cheaper. The state duty at the time of writing is 800 rubles.

You also have to:

• choose the main type of activity;
• prepare a package of documents;
• submit an application to the Federal Tax Service;
• obtain a certificate of individual entrepreneur.

Trade in certain types of goods requires special permission.

Step 6. Launch advertising

Another expense item, saving on which is more expensive for yourself.

Professional Marketing Campaign – guarantee of wide market coverage. And then, without advertising, only a few will find and notice your store. But you can’t make a business out of random sales.

Step 7. Make a profit and analyze your business

The first buyers are the first profits. Don't rush to rest on your laurels. On initial stage Feedback is very important: don’t hesitate to ask your customers how they found you and why they chose your store.

Based on feedback, constantly improve functionality and customer service. Don't chase excessive profits from the very beginning. Attract customers with discounts, bonuses, promotions and partner offers.

Avoid the mistakes discussed in this video:

4. How to choose a niche for starting an online business - 5 useful tips

Key success factor – correctly chosen niche.

Expert advice will help you decide on the direction.

Tip 1. Analyze the demand for products

The easiest way to find out the level of demand for goods is to analyze the number of key queries for different goods in your region using a statistical resource Wordstat. This way you will find out the level of consumer interest in certain products.

If the product you sell online can be bought for the same (or less) price in the next store around the corner, the online store loses its relevance. We will have to either change the assortment or reduce prices.

Follow fashion trends, fan hobbies, the latest news, hits of the season.

A recent example: a craze among schoolchildren around the world. spinners- rotating toys. No statistical resource can tell how much the sellers of this product earned at the peak of its popularity. One thing is clear - these are colossal amounts of money at minimal costs.

Tracking such trends is a skill that all business owners should have.. Ideally, you should catch ideas even before they start talking about them in the media, on forums and on social networks.

Seasonal goods - seasonal income. The ideal store is one in which the assortment is in demand all year round.

Of course, this does not apply to clothing stores, where the offer changes with the changing seasons.

Avito is a kind of testing platform for studying consumer demand. If a trial batch of a product quickly finds its buyers, it means the product is popular and in demand, and consumer market requires saturation.

5. How to succeed in online business - tricks and life hacks for a novice entrepreneur

And a few more tricks and life hacks for any area of ​​business.

Read and memorize - it really helps.

Life hack 1. Read literature on management and marketing

Practice must be reinforced scientific base. There is a lot of useful literature that will increase sales significantly and help establish effective management business processes.

Examples of good books - Philip Kotler " Marketing Basics", Seth Godin " Purple cow", Phil Barden " Hacking Marketing».

Life hack 2. Study the biographies of successful businessmen

Nothing motivates better than the lives of successful businessmen. Almost everyone who is included in the TOP of the richest and most successful businessmen of our time achieved status and wealth on their own. Use the experience of your older comrades and learn from their mistakes.

Life hack 3. Monitor the development of competitors

An experienced businessman uses competitors for his own purposes - he studies them, adopts the best, analyzes their mistakes and successes.

Isolation in business is like running with a blindfold on: dangerous and unpredictable.

Online business: TOP 20 current ideas of 2014

Every year online business is developing faster and faster. Many are beginning to understand that working for themselves, being an entrepreneur, making money with their intelligence and knowledge is not so difficult. Of course, this requires a certain skill and time, but if you figure it out, learn all the subtleties online business, then you can earn excellent money, the kind that is hard to even dream of while working for hire.

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But, as you understand, the Internet sphere, and the entire online business, is undergoing very rapid changes. What was relevant and profitable 3-5 years ago can today be considered a completely futile activity. Therefore, if you decide to do online business, then first of all you need to decide on the area of ​​​​earnings. Every year new niches appear that are not yet occupied, but at the same time they promise good prospects for those who are the first to work on them and begin to develop them.
So, what are the most current ideas online business? In which area do you have the most prospects? Where to start and how to develop? In this article we will try to give answers to all these questions, as well as give the TOP 20 most interesting ideas for online businesses that will be relevant in 2014.

Ideas for online business: what, how and why?

Why is online business relevant? Why are more and more people trying to make money online? Well, first of all, this is due to the availability of the Internet and the minimum requirements for an entrepreneur. You do not need to have a specialized education, good grades in your diploma, or extensive work experience. Good idea, faith in yourself and your strengths, determination, hard work - these are the qualities that are primarily necessary for an online entrepreneur.
Also, many are attracted by the fact that some projects have a fairly low financial threshold for entry. It happens that 100 dollars is enough to say: “Well, hello, Internet. I came to earn money." Of course, not all online businesses are financially accessible. In some places you will have to invest thousands of dollars, but in others you can actually start without any investment at all.
But now I would like to talk not about the pros and cons of this business, namely about promising areas that have worked and will work in the next few years.

1. Social Media Consultant
I think that each of you understands that social media are no longer used only for communication and information exchange. Large companies, including world-famous ones, want to be closer to their potential clients. They create communities on various social networks, try to develop and promote them. It is clear that specialists who have some experience in this field will be involved to carry out the assigned tasks.
In the next few years, this industry will only gain momentum, and the budgets allocated by companies to promote their brands on social networks will grow exponentially. Don't miss your chance, take a tasty piece of this huge pie.
Bye this area Quite new and not lived in. If the entire CIS has several dozen very literate and truly professional specialists on social media, that’s good. You don’t have to become a super specialist; it’s enough to competently organize the work of several professionals by inviting them to your Internet company. How to do it? Step-by-step instructions can be found in my course:

2. Application creation and development
We can say that another revolution in the Internet is just around the corner. Users are increasingly starting to use mobile devices(phones, tablets, other gadgets) to access the network. This opens up incredible earning opportunities for those who develop all kinds of applications for mobile devices.
Whether it's games, horoscopes, navigators, or information applications - it doesn't matter. A good idea, equally successful execution, correct presentation - and now you can easily earn tens, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Personally, I know people who have developed an excellent cooking application for all famous mobile phones. operating system. During the entire existence of the application, which is just over six months, 650,000 people have already bought it. The price of this application is 1 dollar, but they get about 75 cents net. So calculate which one possible earnings from these guys.
Many people can now say that they are on good terms with the computer, and even with writing. mobile applications didn't hear anything. Therefore, implement this project will be unrealistic for them. I will say that implementation is the technical side, and you can find a lot of techies. The main thing is a high-quality idea and an excellent presentation of it online. So everything is in your hands. Think, invent, try to realize your plans.

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3. Trainings and courses

Now it's becoming more and more popular distance learning. We all value time, therefore, it is very convenient to take all kinds of trainings, courses, and listen to lectures online.
If you consider yourself a specialist, have certain knowledge and experience, then you can try your hand at this particular issue. Someone will ask, what can you talk about? Yes, the choice here is simply huge. Think about what you specialize in, what knowledge you have that can be useful to a certain circle of people. You can talk about how to cook a delicious pie or delicious pancakes, you can advise people on various legal issues, you can also conduct trainings and seminars on making money on the Internet and social networks. I know a lot of people who make money this way, and their sphere of activity is so wide. One is a specialist in SEO and gives advice on website optimization and promotion, and the other is an avid traveler and will have no problem telling you what and how to do if you are going to Europe, the USA or Asia. The main thing is self-confidence and perfect knowledge of what you are talking about.

4. Trading platforms
Wise Jews a thousand years ago realized that it is better not to work, but to be an intermediary, earning a penny from each sale of another person. John Rockefeller once said: “I would rather earn 1% of the work of 100 people than 100% of my own work.” And indeed it is. Nowadays, many trading platforms work this way. They have a popular resource, they pay for advertising and promotion, and people simply post their products on this resource. The company receives a certain percentage from each sale.

Of course, it will be very difficult to create competition with existing sites, especially if we take the scale of the entire country. But at the local level, if you create a platform for your city, then you can compete. Moreover, very often local sites create significant competition for “big brother”.

5. Crowdsourcing
Quite a new, but promising concept for our region. I am sure that many of you have never heard the term “crowdsourcing”, and are a little confused about what it is. So, crowdsourcing means using the power of the crowd. For example, you need to generate a name for a company, a slogan, think about a logo, evaluate the quality of a website, get critical feedback on the design of something. Of course, you can hire a focus group and pay more money for it, but it’s easier to do similar surveys on the Internet, using all the capabilities of social networks. Believe me, many companies need opinions potential clients, and they are willing to pay good money for quality research. All you have to do is decide on a niche and start working.

6. Creation and development of your website or blog
Have you ever tried to write something? I’m sure that everyone wrote essays at school, and some did it quite well. What if I told you that you can make money writing essays? There are quite a lot of highly specialized blogs on the Internet that help you find answers to certain questions. The authors of these blogs, as a rule, began to write them for themselves, but over time, such a hobby can bring in quite good income.
If you feel that you can write well and of high quality, that your articles are interesting, that they answer pressing and popular issues of our time, then try to start your own blog. Do this not on free platforms, but on a separate website where you place advertising from Yandex or Google. If your blog becomes popular, then you will be able to receive orders from direct advertisers, and these are completely different amounts.

7. Internet advertising agency
It’s no longer a secret that Internet advertising is much more effective than advertising on television, radio and print media. Experts note that in a few years, online advertising will be the dominant type in the advertising market.

Already, many agencies that sell traffic are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars, and their profits are only growing. If you have funds, you can try to invest them in the field of online advertising, because this is quite a promising and promising niche

8. Improving your online reputation
We all understand that black marketing in offline businesses has worked, is working and will continue to work. Companies are happy to drown their competitors with all sorts of dishonest methods. The online sphere is also subject to this influence, and it is much easier to form a negative opinion about a particular company. There are so-called “trolls” who can trample a good reputation into the ground in a matter of days small company. But if there is “evil”, then there must also be “good”.
This is exactly the kind of “good” you can become. A person who builds a company’s online reputation is the profession of the future. You are a kind of political strategist in the world of online business, a person who must present the company in such colors that not a single troll can put forward any counterarguments.

9. Microtasks
Sites are starting to appear online that offer to make money by completing small tasks. For example, someone needs to bring groceries from the store, but he doesn’t have time. On the site, such a person finds a performer, pays a certain amount, and waits for execution. Or you know how to sing, you can offer yourself as a singer at some event. The tasks are varied, there are a lot of performers.
You can think in this direction. Create a similar website in your city or region. In the USA and Europe, such resources are incredibly popular, and this allows us to make optimistic forecasts, saying that in a couple of years a similar trend will “roar” in our country.

10. Freelancing
I'm sure it's not worth going into detail here. There is plenty of work for freelancers. You just need to find exchanges, websites, forums where customers hang out. Submit your resume, tell how wonderful you are, show a few works, and wait for the order.

11. Travel notes
The nomadic lifestyle is becoming more and more popular. Many are beginning to understand that they do not want to spend their whole lives in a stuffy metropolis, that the 4 walls of an apartment are not for them. Such people go on a free trip called traveling. How do they earn money, because any trip will require certain expenses. As a rule, travelers maintain their own blogs, where they write notes about countries interesting places, give advice to those who are also planning to visit them. Such sites bring good money, and you will have the opportunity to see the whole world, while also earning money on your vacation.

12. Maintaining blogs or websites
When we talk about a blog, many people immediately think that some person is sitting and writing about his life, emotions, experiences, and experiences gained. Yes, this often happens. But don’t forget that there are also corporate blogs that belong to large companies. Very often, no one writes such blogs, because company leaders do not have enough time to fill them with content. You can be the one to take the maintenance of such sites under your wing. At first, you can run several blogs on your own, and then, when the network of sites expands, hire journalists and assign each one their own site.

13. Ghost Writer
As you can see, a lot of ideas for online business are related to writing quality articles. If you see that this is yours, that the words flow on their own, ideas come to mind and become large, high-quality texts, then try writing on a regular basis.
For many bloggers and webmasters who run their own projects, a moment comes when the site begins to generate good profits, but they no longer feel like writing. Then they hire a ghostwriter to populate the site with content on their behalf. As a rule, the work is permanent and long-term. There is only one downside - you won’t be able to prove to anyone that the texts are yours, and your portfolio will be without a lot of high-quality work.

14. Thematic information resources
If earlier we tried to create websites about everything and for everyone, now the era of narrowly themed websites is coming. information resources. Choose a niche, open the topic as widely as possible, let's useful tips and recommendations. Believe me, even if the traffic is not 100,000 people a day, but tens of times less, it is high-quality, thematic, active traffic that is very easy to monetize.

15. Coaching
Do you feel that you can help people solve various difficulties and find a way out of difficult life situations? Then you should try coaching. Create your own website, where you must tell about yourself in all colors and details. And then you need to advertise and consult people via the Internet. At first it will be difficult, but over time, when there are already dozens of flattering reviews about you, and the same number of satisfied clients, you will work every day, and the profit will be enough for a high-quality and fulfilling life.

16. Copywriting
I am sure that many of you have heard about copywriting, perhaps even ordered texts for your websites. So, you can earn pretty good money from copywriting. If you are just starting out, then your rate will not exceed 1-2 dollars per 1000 characters, but if you are an average level copywriter, you can count on 2-5 dollars. TOP copywriters charge $10 or more for a thousand characters of high-quality text. As a rule, you can write 5-10 thousand a day very good text, 10 dollars each. So consider that without any problems, a good copywriter earns more than $1,500 a month. Personally, I know people who reached the level of $3500-4000.

17. Editing
You won’t find a good copywriter during the day. There are many proposals, but 95% of them are amateurs who write outright heresy. But if you look, you can find a smart writer, but with editors things are much worse.
Writing a text is not everything. It needs to be proofread, checked, edited, and brought into perfect shape. Some customers think that a copywriter must do this. Of course, his task is to write a competent text, but never be lazy to give the submitted work for proofreading and proofreading. So, if you feel that you can correct texts perfectly, then go ahead and offer your services to the exchanges.

18. Online marketing
Excellent ability to sell products real life? Why not try yourself in online marketing? In fact, sales techniques are not very different, because the buyer’s psychology is the same. Of course, there are some peculiarities, but if you were good offline, then a couple of months of training and you will be an online sales guru.
Now online stores, and all kinds of online sales platforms, are gaining momentum. Many companies need the services of a competent marketer. Believe me, if your work brings visible results, then the “boss” will not skimp on your salary.

19. Sales of e-books
You decided to write good book, or have you already accomplished your plans? Now we need to sell it. As a rule, it is better to combine two types of sales: offline and online. Of course, the audience is huge, the potential is great, but a lot still depends on advertising and critical reviews.
That's why, this type business is only partly up to you. It’s quite a risky business, but if you feel like a writer, if you’re sure that everything will be great, then try it. In fact, nothing is impossible.

20. Personal Internet assistant
Are you well versed in many areas of activity, and at the same time love to help people? What if you try yourself like personal internet an assistant who can find the answer to a person’s question at any time of the day. It sounds a little strange and unclear. But believe me, the idea has a place to live. Of course, it’s quite crude and untested, but if you think it through and refine it, you might end up with something very interesting.

Hello, dear reader. I am sure that you, like me, are a realist, and therefore, most likely, you are skeptical about ideas about business without investments. Your environment and your own experience have taught you that before you get a little, you need to invest a lot, and even then it’s not a fact that the investment will be justified. All this is true, everyone lives like this, everyone cannot be lucky...

Let me ask: what other stereotypes prevent you from living a normal life and successfully building your business? Analyze and discard them. Moreover, in defiance of all outdated stereotypes, there is one excellent and non-risky way to organize your own business without investing anything, or by investing mere pennies - business via the Internet. Have you heard of this?

Now all progressive businessmen make money only on the Internet. I’ll tell you more: any enterprise, any service can be transferred to the Internet without any problems.

The advantages of such a transition are obvious:

• the target audience increases significantly, and, therefore, the number of potential clients;
• The number of staff is reduced significantly - one or two managers, an IT specialist and an SEO promotion specialist are enough.

In addition, there is no need to rent premises and pay utilities. You only need to pay for the Internet.

Every schoolchild knows that an online business can be easily organized without investment. And he strives to occupy a certain online niche as early as possible - long before graduation and entering college. Look, every second person already has one, and you know, this is one of the most profitable options if you need to start without investment.

So, what are you waiting for in this case?! It is in your interests to open your own business as soon as possible, before your competitors grow up.

1. What kind of business to open on the Internet, options

I cannot guarantee that if you open an online store selling children’s clothing (of which there are hundreds of thousands now), you will immediately find yourself in the “queens” and start doing it every day, as I cannot deny. What kind of business to open on the Internet is up to you, I can only suggest options, guided by general statistics and real examples.

I repeat: any of your passions, services, knowledge, or full-fledged enterprise can have a successful working display in the online space. Absolutely anything, even unclaimed in the area where you live. I will give an example of Polish high school student Mateusz Mach (it was not for nothing that I drew your attention to the abilities of modern schoolchildren a little higher).

So, this guy made money on a seemingly completely useless application - sign language. For offline communication it is irrelevant, for people of the older generation it is incomprehensible. Experts even began to think that few people would be interested in such an application.

But the popularity of “gestures” has broken all records - Mateusz’s invention is happily used by hundreds of thousands of his peers, who consider mastering the “language of fingers” very cool and necessary. Also, busy people who simply do not have enough time to type full-fledged messages consisting of sentences do not refuse to communicate without words.

Custom gestures were appreciated by both deaf and mute people and people who do not speak foreign languages– the popularity of the application is off the charts on a global scale.

And you ask: where to start an online business? Ideas, friends! With the most incredible or the simplest, but it must turn out to be successful.

2. The best examples of online business without investment

And now, as promised, I will provide a list of the most popular ideas for organizing an online business:

And if we ignore the question of the age of the resource, the question will not disappear: popular sites with high traffic are always of interest to the advertiser. And where there is advertising, there is money.

So with little secret it turns out gigabytes of information products various directions: psychological, esoteric, therapeutic and dietary, etc. By the way, information is the most popular business on the Internet in 2016, holding the first position for many years now.

3. How to create your own business on the Internet

We’ve figured out what kind of business you can open on the Internet. It remains to be seen how. Although many people admire the newfangled formula that says: “If there is no money, create your own business, if there is no money at all, create it urgently,” we will not rush, so as not to make a mistake.

Stage 2: We use part of the money earned to create a powerful advertising campaign for the newly created community there - VK. And for a short time We are bringing our project to an income level (attention!) of 100,000 rubles per month. In order not to bother with the administration of groups ourselves, we hire three administrators, giving them a salary of 40 thousand out of 100. 60,000 is his net monthly profit. Not bad, right? And it's not difficult.

Stage 3: We create and promote our own website. This is somewhat more difficult than promoting a group, but also much more profitable. Websites are an almost inexhaustible flow of clients for a business; they are a platform for advertising: contextual, banner, and video; this is participation in affiliate programs; this is the placement of PR articles for third-party resources. Each of the methods brings good income. What if you use them all?

3.2. Example 2: contextual site

Among webmasters there are guys (and I know this first-hand) who earn 150,000 rubles a month from websites, devoting no more than one hour a day to their projects. Therefore, do not torture yourself with guesses on how to create your own business on the Internet - just create a high-quality website.

Stage 1: We create a regular blog on WordPress, choose a popular topic. We fill the site and in six months this site will already be visited by 500-1000 people per day. We insert advertising onto the site and begin to earn income from it.

Stage 2: We are not in a hurry to spend money, because we are interested in business, and a business should be able to work on its own. We are hiring a copywriter and assistant. The first one writes articles, the second one designs and publishes them. Another year passes and now you can increase your staff for faster site growth or you can create several more similar projects.

Friends, of course, all these schemes look very simple from the outside. In practice, everything will be much more complicated. However, if you consider my personal example and this blog, I can assure you that in fact all this is quite achievable. So, I am sure that with the proper desire, everything will work out for you.

4. Business via the Internet without investment and the role of website quality

I must focus your attention on the fact that the resource that you create for doing business must be of high quality, durable, recognizable and respectable. Therefore, discard any versions of creating a website using a website builder.

• Firstly, the project will look formulaic and get lost among its similar counterparts. Actually, how else would it look if they are all created according to a template?
• Secondly, advertisers will look with distrust at such a “handicraft” resource; the situation can also be aggravated by the fact that you place it on free hosting. Few people take such resources seriously; even link selling services are reluctant to accept them into their ranks.
• Thirdly, the functionality of sites created using free constructors, very limited. You can connect everything you have, but for an additional fee.

Therefore, it would be more advisable to find a friend who will create an original website for you for a bottle of juice (well, or agree to pay for the work after the site starts generating income), make the website yourself (without a designer), and buy it on the cheap. It will still be more profitable than ordering the creation of a resource from a web studio.

Now - about “without investments”. Even if you have to invest a few pennies, small money is not considered an investment. Do not spare them for a task that could become the work of your whole life.

An online business from scratch is just a business, not much different from any other. The same principles, rules and guidelines apply to him.
At the very beginning, you must soberly consider why you need all this. After all, promotion and promotion will take a lot of time.

According to our experience, it takes 1-1.5 years of hard and focused work until it begins to generate any significant income. One that you could live on. Plus, there will no longer be a boss chasing you around. And it’s quite difficult to motivate yourself to do hard work.

Also, what you choose for yourself as a product should greatly inspire you. Otherwise, your online business from scratch will not survive the first real difficulties.

In addition to an inspiring idea, you need a financial goal that you will achieve in the same year and a half. Income from the business should range from 200,000 to 500,000 rubles. Otherwise, all efforts are simply pointless. There is a fairly simple method for more accurately determining the amount. Multiply your current monthly income by 10. The resulting figure will become your goal.

Becoming an entrepreneur requires some skills and knowledge. Key business skills lie in sales and negotiations. You will also need good knowledge of the product.

Here are 4 parting words, following which from the very beginning will save you from many problems and bitter disappointments.

1. When we're talking about about your first business, choose as an object of trade only what you are well versed in. Even the famous billionaire investor Warren Buffett does not invest his money in areas he does not understand. This doesn't mean you'll never expand your horizons and do something different. But for the first voyage, well-known fairways are best suited.

2. Never spend money on your first business that was set aside for other strategic goals - housing, training, a financial safety net. Don't take loans.

3. It would be good to love what you are going to do.

4. Don't make everything perfect. Idealism sometimes plunges people into unnecessary expenses. Minimize your initial investment as much as possible. And don’t try to do everything right away - you’ll just waste time.

Internet business from scratch: 3 directions

The question of how to build an online business from scratch is now asked only by the lazy. The interest is justified, since starting a business from scratch on the Internet promises many benefits. Right on the surface lie such “eternal” values ​​as freedom, independence, mobility, the absence of ceilings and limits. True, for some reason people forget that in order to achieve them, you must first seriously limit yourself in freedom, independence, and even very often in mobility. In any case, you will need a certain amount of discipline and patience.

There are several dozen ways to start an Internet business from scratch. We will list only 3. Most likely, you have heard about them. But have you thought about it seriously? So, think about it.

Business on the Internet from scratch: consulting, teaching and other services

You somehow know how to do something well and professionally. Something that is a real problem or headache for someone. Or maybe even a dream. Consulting and teaching are good areas that will help you quickly launch a business from scratch. In this case, the Internet will give you the necessary “speedup”. Available online marketing tools allow you to quickly scale and expand your activities. Webinar rooms, online conferences and social networks can help you. Then you will grow to your network resource.

How to start an online business from scratch: online store

Your own business on the Internet from scratch: an agency with marketing specialization

Do you already have your own business from scratch on the Internet, is it running successfully? Or have you already helped someone set up an Internet business from scratch more than once? In general, you have some experience on how to build a business from scratch on the Internet. Then you can earn extra money from your knowledge in SEO promotion, content marketing, promoting your presence on social networks, setting up a YouTube channel, creating blogs/websites/landing pages.

Do not forget that when paying in cash, an online cash register is required. In online stores, it is convenient for users to pay using bank card, so it will be necessary to connect payment systems (for example, Yandex.Kassa, Robokassa, etc.)

We talked about how to start your business from scratch on the Internet. What directions can you choose and in what sequence to move towards the goal.

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