According to some studies, a country can be regarded as an advanced country when the number of entrepreneurs is enough to sustain the country's economic growth. Ideally, the minimum number of entrepreneurs in a country is 3% of the total population. Through this article, we will help you in getting the idea to realize the dream of becoming a successful entrepreneur by utilizing internet access. Being an entrepreneur is not just a matter of capital. The description below will provide many business opportunities with almost no capital, but it takes focus and willingness to spend a lot of time to make it happen. What are they? Let's look at a breakdown of 26 promising online businesses with this bright future prospect.
If you want a business with minimal capital, then the online store business model is one of the most reliable. In addition to small capital, this business can be done also as a side business, or in other words can be run without having to leave your status as an office employee. Online stores can be made easily and cheaply. You can start by marketing the products you want to sell on your personal social media account, like Facebook for example. The Facebook account you already have so far, with your friends' connections in it, can be used as a trading shop. Show pictures of products to be sold along with prices and contactable numbers for reservations. In addition to Facebook, social media such as Twitter and Instagram can also be an option to offer products.
What should I sell? Should I have a factory to make my own products? Of course not. You are not a manufacturer or manufacturer, but are still limited to online merchants. Do not rush to make your own product. Practical ways you can try is to choose the product you want to sell (can be a shirt, electronics, accessories, and others), then after determining the product to be sold, find suppliers that provide the goods. Suppliers who have not sold online will be more interested to be invited to cooperate. Then specify the system sell, can with dropship system or with the stock system of goods.
This kind of system is suitable to run by online businessman who is still a beginner, because you as a trader does not need to have their own products do not even have to stock products before there are buyers. So it's more practical, no capital, and no risk. It just takes perseverance and expertise in marketing the product. The workflow is when someone orders the product from your store, then the order is processed to the supplier. This supplier will directly deliver the goods on behalf of your store. For small scale, more are also familiar with this system as a reseller.
Another advantage of running this dropship system is that it barely needs capital to get started, does not need stock, and can be done from anywhere as long as there is internet access. But behind it all, there are still some weaknesses of this system that should be known by prospective dropshipper before plunging into the business. The weaknesses are, among others, a smaller profit margin because it has passed several alias marketers rather than direct manufacturers. Then another weakness is not to meet directly with the goods we sell makes us can not do stock checks and quality of goods.
As a beginner, by looking at the advantages and disadvantages, being a dropshipper remains a very easy and inexpensive way to start an online business. The requirement is diligent to market the product constantly, that's all. Because you no longer need to worry about selling places again. Social media is a great place to start this dropship business.
In order to better target product sales, dropshipper should try first the product to be sold so that know the advantages and disadvantages of the product and can deliver the right message to the buyers. Make sure you understand the potential disputes that appear in this system, however the buyer's responsibility is yours.
2. Trading Business in Marketplace
When you feel you have enough control over sales by using social media, it is time to expand into sales by utilizing the marketplace. Marketplace is a place on the internet, where many parties gather to make the process of buying and selling transactions. Can be a place to sell goods or can also be used to find goods. In other words, the marketplace is often referred to as the online market has the same concept as the traditional market, only to access this market, can only use internet connection.
Currently the number of marketplace for domestic and foreign products continues to grow in line with the growing confidence of the community on the system of buying and selling online. Another advantage of using a marketplace is the number of visitors already guaranteed by the marketplace organizers. You do not have to bother taking care of maintenance or maintenance website, and also without charge. On the other hand, public confidence is also greater to the marketplace with a shared account system managed by the marketplace itself.
Although the system of selling in the online market is very profitable, you also need to understand the weaknesses such as features may not be in accordance with our wishes. Then, you also can not build your brand effectively when compared to a self-managed online store. But do not worry, just make this online market as a media product introduction, and if it is known and stable, then you create your own online store. Well-known and well-known marketplaces by online businessmen in homeland for domestic and foreign transactions are Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Kaskus FJB, OLX, eBay (international), and so on.
3. Business on Your Own Website
To improve and grow your online business into a larger one, you can use some of the revenue earned for selling using social media and marketplace to create your own online store website. Although you may have expanded by putting the product in various marketplace, but there is no harm in making your own online store to strengthen the branding of your product.
There are many advantages when you decide to build your own website to peddle your product. By having a website built to its full potential, your sales business will look more professional so that it can grow the trust to the consumer deeper. Because by always selling using a free marketplace, you will have difficulty raising your own product brand.
If you do not have the ability to build your own website, then the solution is the workmanship can be submitted to people who have the expertise, that could be your own friends or pay services website creation that the price is also still affordable. If you yourself have expertise in the field of websites and want to know how to create an online store, you can use several platforms such as shopify.co.id, webraktis.com, and also sirclo.com.
4. Affiliate Business
For website owners with high visitor traffic, affiliate business model is also worth your try to earn additional income. This business model known as affiliate marketing is marketing or promoting products owned by others. When later there is a buyer who purchased the product through you or on your advice, then you will get a commission from the purchase.
This affiliate business system works more or less has three stages. Firstly, as a website owner to register to an affiliate program provider, this affiliate program provider also has a website that has products and is sold online. Secondly, if approved, the website owner will get the affiliate code from the program provider, and the code can be installed on the website which will bring up the advertisement. Thirdly, if the website reader buys the product from your web reference, then you will get a commission from the provider of the affiliate program.
The advantage of this program is to give a much larger commission than just serving ads on your website. However, to drive web visitors into buying a product is much more difficult than getting visitors to access or click on an ad that is served. Then, another drawback is the lack of providers of affiliate programs from a trusted local web. If the website you build using English as the language of instruction, then the opportunity opens wider, although the problem is much more difficult to persuade readers to buy products with English as well.
Science is not only obtained through books and teachers only, but also can be purchased in various forms such as ebook, video, and audio. Generally that will be very selling in the market of course interesting knowledge, useful, and hard to get. One example is a video learning to play the piano that contains a piano playing tutorial, or an ebook that contains exercises to be done by a novice piano player. Such courses are needed by people who tend to get busy. The video and ebook eventually became the solution and have opened its own niche business.
The key is creative. Because in general, all the information on the internet can be accessed by anyone, therefore an information can be valuable when processed into a science that is studied more deeply and accompanied by a more structured and complete guide. How do I create an online course? Is it similar to making ordinary articles or articles? Not much different indeed, but of course it should be more exclusive and informative. Choose your interest or passion and better if it fits the field of expertise, because without having sufficient knowledge, your product will not qualify. Do a little research on what people really want to know in the field, so you can enter the required product information. Solution needs can be more sell if in the form of video tutorial.
In order for the product to be sold, the product owner must be diligent to introduce himself until a good reputation is established. If you do not have a reputation to sell your own writing, selling in the marketplace could be an option to build a product image. Try to sell products in some marketplace such as ratakan.com, clickbank.com, guides.co, and also on your blog / website yourself. When it becomes known, we recommend that product owners start introducing and selling it through professionally managed personal websites. The benefits can be more specific, give the impression of a professional and not mixed with other products of low quality.
6. Exclusive Website
Still closely related to having your own website, if the content you provide on the website is exclusive or premium, then you could have paid a fee to anyone who accesses it. Not that every visitor should pay every time a visit, but more on the membership system. Later on the website, to be able to get detailed topic information, the reader must be a member of the website. This business is called a premium membership system. Members have to pay to become members of the new website can get complete information as they need. Generally the payments are in the form of monthly or annual subscriptions. The key to this business is a website that really benefits the reader and is reviewed by a truly expert in the field.
How to make? Quite simply, using the popular WordPress platform plus plugins alone is enough to earn up to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the membership system. Plugins (software support wordpress application that many available on the internet) that can be tried include member.wishlistproducts.com (paid), and s2member.com (for free).
The membership website mechanism can follow the successful example of the companies below:
7. Domain Seller
From the SEO side, the appropriate domain with the type of product is very helpful to facilitate the search process in search engines. One area of business that was born from here is buying and selling domain names. Many of these business transactions in forums at home and abroad such as ads.id or forumsdigitalpoint.com. What does the transaction concept look like? Domain collectors who are in the business are looking for ideas in the form of listing as many domain names as possible. Then choose a potentially good prospect. After that market the domain name with auction system. Good domain names can be priced from $ 500 to $ 100,000 or more.
8. Youtuber
Youtube has been 'exploding' since its first launch in 2005, and has become a very popular stepping stone for new celebrity candidates. Not just a celebrity that is synonymous with entertainment stage only, Youtube is also a good business field for everyone. You can use this to be one of the youtuber.
How does a youtuber earn a living? The main income from Youtube videos is Google Adsense. The first step you need to do of course create a Youtube account itself. By signing up, you now have your own channel. Upload your exciting videos, which can be video tutorials, news videos, comedy videos, and more and continue to increase the number of viewers by uploading quality impressions. After that, then register yourself on Google Adsense to earn revenue from your channel.
The most successful Youtuber currently is PewDiePie. A real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjelberg with Swedish citizenship was recorded to have penetrated 6.65 billion total viewers with 32 million subscribers. He gained his fame through the making of videos that showed him playing games and giving funny comments about the game. Kjelberg has broken some Youtube records such as a subscribers jump from 12 million in August of 2013 to more than 20 million in January 2014.
By bringing more and more viewers, more and more companies will want their product ads to show up on uploaded videos. The ads on the Youtube site are divided into two types: ads that give commissions per click, and ads that give commissions every time. Youtube party cut 45% of the total produced, and the rest can be owned by the owner of the video.
9. Seller / Software Developer
If you are indeed a reliable in programming, then why not create your own software and sell it? Business models like this are growing rapidly today, under the name SaaS (Software as a Service). Business cycle that occurs starting from the software that is generally web-based sold by way of users pay for subscription / subscription. For example, Slack is currently a chatting or communications service site with a team that is quite popular in this field with a $ 2.8 trillion value company in 2015. Amazingly, this site has just been released in 2014.
Plus, mobile phone users are increasingly mushrooming. These users can be targeted by developing software or applications used on the mobile platform. If you want a more casual project, you can develop games to play on the device. Making it easy, you just buy a template from an application, then just make a few changes to the text or design. The process is called reskinning.
10. WordPress Plugins and Templates
Until last year, there were at least 74,652,825 WordPress-based sites. Among them there are 29,000 WordPress plugins that continue to grow each day. It's a great business opportunity for you programmers. In fact, not everyone who has WordPress is satisfied with the plugins and free templates that can be taken from the internet. Therefore, sites that sell WordPress plugins and templates are growing. For paid plugins, you can visit codecanyon.net. Then, the site for paid templates is themeforest.net.
There is an interesting story from themeforest.net, where in just one week the most popular template in ThemeForest sold nearly 1,500 copies. Just look at the price per template alone $ 58, then their earnings in a week is $ 84,564 or about Rp1 billion. It's incredible transactions in this online business.
Blogging is an activity that starts from the interest of writing or discussing things that we like. But who would have thought of these activities can make money that the amount can be very much. Bloggers can benefit from the blogs they create by working with advertisers. Earnings earned from this ad publisher can be very interesting. Starting from 10 $ per month to tens of thousands of dollars for those who have blogs with thousands of traffic per day. One of the providers of the ad publisher system is Google with its famous product namely Google AdSense. Business scheme, Google as the world's largest ad provider offers quality website owners to display ads from Google clients and pay for every click made by blog readers to ads on Google Adsense.
Detailed working principles as follows:
You create a website> Registration to Google Adsense> Registration accepted> display ad code> visitors click on ads> you get a commission.
Website owners only need to focus on their efforts in presenting the website as well as possible in order to remain qualified and can increase visitors every day. Google ads will automatically appear on your website with the format and position you have set based on Google's various bidding options.
How to be successful in Google Adsense? The main thing is to focus on developing a quality website by updating the website with quality content on an ongoing basis. Then, pay attention to daily visitor traffic, use histats.com to observe traffic. Also note that to avoid fake traffic or any means to increase traffic, unauthorized ad clicks and any other fraud because it will cause your account to be banned (disabled) by Google.
12. Freelance Writer
Freelance writer or freelance writer practically business is quite popular. Of the tens of millions of sites on the internet, all of them definitely need articles / articles to make the website fat and can make it easy to find by search engines. Quality writing about product information or services offered determines the reputation of the website. Then, the more interesting is not everyone is able to create quality articles. This is where business opportunities arise and can be maximized if writing is your skill.
Select the level of the author who can be taken in accordance with the level of expertise and experience in the field of article writing. For beginners, as the name implies, they are authors who do not have a name and are usually paid cheaply based on the number of words written. Usually their rate is 15 thousand per 500 words Indonesian or $ 1.5 for English.
Then, advanced writers or writers who already have a lot of experience with high expertise in a field of course get a higher fee. Such writers could put a tariff of $ 75- $ 100 per article (500-1000 words) that he wrote and published for example for large websites and news portals.
Want to try the business of this field? Check out some places to get job writing articles like sribulancer.com, upwork.com (international), and textbroker.com (international). As part of the promotion, you should have a blog that can be shown as an example of your writing so that potential clients can easily assess your writing style.
13. Copywriter
In this digital era, in everyday life we are surrounded by millions of ads from various directions continuously. What we see and hear all the time is the creative act of a copywriter. Business opportunities copywriter is growing as more online media advertising. Copywriters who contribute in influencing the mindset of others to do or buy something we want through writing.
A copywriter's job description is broad enough that includes writing text in an ad with a language that draws the reader to buy a product or service offered on the ad. They also write text on landing pages or sales pages in order to attract new customers.
When compared, they are salesmen who invite people to buy products using promotive words. One level copywriter is superior to the regular content writer. Where a beginner can earn up to tens of millions of income per month. If you are a writer, all you have to do is add to the science of writing and you are ready to jump into the business.
14. Translator
Translation is a service that is still sought after and needed by many companies. Because now is the era of globalization, companies that cooperate between countries even more. Therefore, documents such as texts, texts, proposals, etc. should also be submitted in two languages of instruction. Most companies do not employ full-time translators because not all documents need to be delivered in two languages.
It can be a golden opportunity for you who master two or more languages. The services offered are actually relatively simple, so even beginner translators can still take part. This job is also suitable taken as a sideline because it can be done in your spare time. Some of the marketplaces you can use to search for people or companies that need these services include fiverr.com, sribulancer.com, and onehourtranslation.com.
15. E-book Publisher
If you do have a penchant for writing, basically you can sell the article to the public. To become an expert writer with selling results, you can begin to practice your writing by creating a digital writing or ebook (electronics book), as this does not cost money for publications like offline book sales that are printed and circulated by publishers and bookstores.
The most widely used site for selling ebooks is KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) from Amazon (kdp.amazon.com). Many topics you can write are both fiction and non-fiction. In KDP, usually books that are sold have a length of 5000 words and sell for $ 2.99- $ 3.5. The system offered is a commission, where for every sale, the author of the book will get a royalty of 35% or $ 1.05 for the price earlier. Successful writers in KDP is one of them is Spencer Haws from Niche Pursuits, who earn $ 1,315 (about Rp15 million) a month from the sale of this ebook.
For local writers, can try their luck and hone writing skills on the site nulisbuku.com. This site is the place to submit the manuscript and publish the book to be printed every time there is an order for local Indonesian-language writers. The key to success in this field is diligent, patient, and tenacious. This business does not have an excessive risk of loss, simply by continuing to write and continue to tap that ability.
Learning online becomes a new trend in society both at home and abroad. Technological advances with increasingly easy internet access, traffic conditions are increasingly crowded and jammed, and busyness that often clash schedules make this business niche began ogled online business hobbyist teaching. People also increasingly believe that the model of this course was a lot of benefits and certainly very practical.
Unlimited internet access time and place makes the number of students more in the class online. The relaxed atmosphere with the video recording model actually makes the course participants more able to maximize their capability. There is little difference with the digital course system like the previous points, the guides you provide are divided into sessions given on different days and of course there is a live question and answer session. Are you interested and talented in this field? Some of the platforms worth starting out for selling online courses include udemy.com, guides.co, teachable.com.
17. Website Content Creation Services
There is an interesting survey from WPCurve that shows how important this content and article is if it is professionally managed. The results of the survey include; Currently, 89% of startup businesses use content marketing. Later, 71% of those who did not perform content marketing reasoned because they did not have time to create content, which means new business can be opened from this field. Well, through this survey, you can calculate how the potential revenue and the return from this business.
For those who are creative and keen to read opportunities, content marketing is recognized as the best online marketing method. Some do not do this method because they have no time or are unable to make it. Does not the description of the survey result give a brilliant idea about a prospective business opportunity as a content creator? Immediately build your agency in the creation of website content.
18. Virtual Assistant
Literally, a virtual assistant or virtual assistant is more or less the same as an assistant or secretary who helps a business owner to run his business. The scope of work to be done is quite extensive, including writing, graphic design, research, editing, copywriting, social media management, translation, programming, data input, and possibly much more according to company needs.
Almost all of the above fields are done by a virtual assistant. Being a virtual assistant means you can get a job or project from someone. This service is widely offered in the marketplace with an hourly fee ranging from $ 10 to over $ 50 per hour. Depends also from the specialization. You can try check this position vacancy on freewank site upwork.com.
19. Consulting Services
In the old days, a person who opened consulting services should be busy advertising or offering services through referrals, proposals to companies, and so forth. It is obviously troublesome, and to be funny and conservative if it still runs in this age of digital technology. Currently, the owner of a consulting service can change his promotional method by marketing it through his own homemade blog. After the blog began to visit, usually many of the visitors want to ask and consult on the topic on the blog.
For example, you write a blog about investing. Then one of your blog visitors contacted you via e-mail and wanted to consult about gold investment. Consultation can be done with a variety of methods. From reply to messages via e-mail to video calls using IM. From there, you can get paid from each consultation session conducted.
Topics of consultation can be very varied depending on who asked by visitors of your blog / website. This business is suitable for you who want to be free and not bound by time and place, because consultation can be done in the form of online use video tutorial or ebook. Communication for direct consultation can use Skype, Yahoo Messenger or other media.
20. Web Development Services
Web development is almost as popular as graphic design. Seen in some marketplaces, the demand for these services is high. If you have expertise and interest in this field, you can make a web development effort as a side business. Not complicated the process, you can start from some websites for freelancers like upwork.com or projects.co.id
Upwork is a site for global freelancers, while project.co.id is a site for local people who offer many website creation jobs in accordance with available budget ranging from small size with budget below $ 100 to large with a budget of more than $ 1000.
21. SEO Development Services
Google which as the most popular search engine today is increasingly making the business SEO services (Search Engine Optimization) more and more needed. This service helps the online businessmen to get high traffic. Good traffic is the key to successful sales in online business. The working mechanism of SEO services is to optimize the website to be easily found in the search engine.
The rapid development of online business and the orientation of business owners more to the focus of products and services that want to sell make the business people a little neglect this important aspect. Therefore, the provider of SEO services become indispensable. The required mechanisms and expertise include keyword and competitor research, content marketing, website structure optimization, backlink monitoring, and data analysis from Google Analytics.
22. Marketing Services with Social Media
One of the most useful modern SEO techniques today is to do a combination of marketing through social media. In this field is also still rarely there is a professional social media marketing services. A lot of work can be done by a social media marketer. These jobs include building brand awareness, creating and sharing content, interacting with fans / followers, and increasing visitors to websites through social media.
23. Digital Advertising Services
Products sold through the Internet have far greater potential than the products sold on a shopping mall. So not infrequently many retail companies are finally targeting the online system to increase their income whether it's a sale or just advertise the product only. The reason, in five years alone spending on online advertising has exceeded spending on traditional advertising. The development of digital advertising is projected in the future will soon overtake ads with banners, on television, and elsewhere. Why is this digital ad popular? The reasons are also varied, ranging from the system more effective, cheaper, and scalable in accordance with targeted target market.
Beginners in online business can try their luck in this field by preparing text ads, images, and / or videos. Do not forget data analysis and public acceptance test should be done to get maximum results. Google Adwords can be one of the aids of this process. The next stage, advertising processing should involve several skills such as copwriter, graphic designer, and data scientist.
You want to know how potential business opportunities this one? High-end professional designers can earn more than $ 100,000 per year. But patiently, for beginners, may dream of earning that much, because it is not unreasonable. The key to becoming a professional designer is to have many portfolios and always hone skills. Immediately upgrade your design skills and portfolio by joining marketplaces like 99designs.com, fiverr.com, sribu.com.
You have a vast opportunity with the ability to accept projects from within and abroad. Do not be afraid of your language communication and design skills. The important thing is confident, diligent study and clean up, routine marketing services, participate bid on the project auction, and no less important start from a cheap price if you are new to enter in this business to find a regular customer first.
25. Artwork Sales
Not everyone is interested in providing design services. Many are also people with graphic design skills, but still idealistic thinking then do not want to make a work at the request of people or clients. If you include such things, then selling artwork or stock images can be an attractive alternative for you. The graphic design stock can be either modified photographs, or illustrated drawings.
Not many people are deep in business in this field. For example, selling wallpapers, illustrations, paintings, sketches, icons, and so forth. Well, where is the transaction of buying and selling this graphic design stock? Some places to buy and sell design stocks that you can try include:
26. Sales of Photographic Results
This business is unique. Because the idea is simple but has a great opportunity. For example, there is someone who is developing his website to sell beauty products. Then, the person needs an appropriate image that can be used as background to make the website more interesting. So to save time, the person ends up looking for images that he can buy over the internet. Well, because today is the digital era, where people who develop more and more websites, then the business of buying and selling this photo was automatically dragged along.
This business opportunity is suitable for those who have a hobby or passion in the field of photography. Professional or amateur photographers can gain a lot of money from this business because they can earn passively by hawking the photos they capture with their cameras. Some recommended places to grow this business are istockphoto.com, and shutterstock.com.
Businesses that run online have many advantages. First, the cost is not a barrier for the perpetrators because as explained earlier, this business only requires a small capital or even be free. Second, this business does not know the time which means it can be done anytime anywhere in the spare time, although not infrequently which makes it as the main business. Third, the activities can be done without the need of an office, shop, showroom, and others. Fourth, lastly, the online business people are the boss for themselves.
Changing the business that was just running offline to online is also being rife built right now. A real example of a successful company in this field is GoJek. Business ojek which was run with manual system, or in other words looking for clients themselves, then developed by utilizing internet connection. So, they just need to have a mobile device with an internet connection to get clients. It also makes it easier for customers to access companies which means greater profits.
So why not start your own online business right away? For those who have run previous business did not necessarily have to leave the business that has been built. You can also grow the business to a higher level by utilizing the internet. Thus the benefits gained will be more leverage even doubled.
I. Product Sales
1. Sell Buy in Social MediaIf you want a business with minimal capital, then the online store business model is one of the most reliable. In addition to small capital, this business can be done also as a side business, or in other words can be run without having to leave your status as an office employee. Online stores can be made easily and cheaply. You can start by marketing the products you want to sell on your personal social media account, like Facebook for example. The Facebook account you already have so far, with your friends' connections in it, can be used as a trading shop. Show pictures of products to be sold along with prices and contactable numbers for reservations. In addition to Facebook, social media such as Twitter and Instagram can also be an option to offer products.
What should I sell? Should I have a factory to make my own products? Of course not. You are not a manufacturer or manufacturer, but are still limited to online merchants. Do not rush to make your own product. Practical ways you can try is to choose the product you want to sell (can be a shirt, electronics, accessories, and others), then after determining the product to be sold, find suppliers that provide the goods. Suppliers who have not sold online will be more interested to be invited to cooperate. Then specify the system sell, can with dropship system or with the stock system of goods.
- Dropship System
This kind of system is suitable to run by online businessman who is still a beginner, because you as a trader does not need to have their own products do not even have to stock products before there are buyers. So it's more practical, no capital, and no risk. It just takes perseverance and expertise in marketing the product. The workflow is when someone orders the product from your store, then the order is processed to the supplier. This supplier will directly deliver the goods on behalf of your store. For small scale, more are also familiar with this system as a reseller.
Another advantage of running this dropship system is that it barely needs capital to get started, does not need stock, and can be done from anywhere as long as there is internet access. But behind it all, there are still some weaknesses of this system that should be known by prospective dropshipper before plunging into the business. The weaknesses are, among others, a smaller profit margin because it has passed several alias marketers rather than direct manufacturers. Then another weakness is not to meet directly with the goods we sell makes us can not do stock checks and quality of goods.
As a beginner, by looking at the advantages and disadvantages, being a dropshipper remains a very easy and inexpensive way to start an online business. The requirement is diligent to market the product constantly, that's all. Because you no longer need to worry about selling places again. Social media is a great place to start this dropship business.
In order to better target product sales, dropshipper should try first the product to be sold so that know the advantages and disadvantages of the product and can deliver the right message to the buyers. Make sure you understand the potential disputes that appear in this system, however the buyer's responsibility is yours.
2. Trading Business in Marketplace
When you feel you have enough control over sales by using social media, it is time to expand into sales by utilizing the marketplace. Marketplace is a place on the internet, where many parties gather to make the process of buying and selling transactions. Can be a place to sell goods or can also be used to find goods. In other words, the marketplace is often referred to as the online market has the same concept as the traditional market, only to access this market, can only use internet connection.
Currently the number of marketplace for domestic and foreign products continues to grow in line with the growing confidence of the community on the system of buying and selling online. Another advantage of using a marketplace is the number of visitors already guaranteed by the marketplace organizers. You do not have to bother taking care of maintenance or maintenance website, and also without charge. On the other hand, public confidence is also greater to the marketplace with a shared account system managed by the marketplace itself.
Although the system of selling in the online market is very profitable, you also need to understand the weaknesses such as features may not be in accordance with our wishes. Then, you also can not build your brand effectively when compared to a self-managed online store. But do not worry, just make this online market as a media product introduction, and if it is known and stable, then you create your own online store. Well-known and well-known marketplaces by online businessmen in homeland for domestic and foreign transactions are Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Kaskus FJB, OLX, eBay (international), and so on.
3. Business on Your Own Website
To improve and grow your online business into a larger one, you can use some of the revenue earned for selling using social media and marketplace to create your own online store website. Although you may have expanded by putting the product in various marketplace, but there is no harm in making your own online store to strengthen the branding of your product.
There are many advantages when you decide to build your own website to peddle your product. By having a website built to its full potential, your sales business will look more professional so that it can grow the trust to the consumer deeper. Because by always selling using a free marketplace, you will have difficulty raising your own product brand.
If you do not have the ability to build your own website, then the solution is the workmanship can be submitted to people who have the expertise, that could be your own friends or pay services website creation that the price is also still affordable. If you yourself have expertise in the field of websites and want to know how to create an online store, you can use several platforms such as shopify.co.id, webraktis.com, and also sirclo.com.
4. Affiliate Business
For website owners with high visitor traffic, affiliate business model is also worth your try to earn additional income. This business model known as affiliate marketing is marketing or promoting products owned by others. When later there is a buyer who purchased the product through you or on your advice, then you will get a commission from the purchase.
This affiliate business system works more or less has three stages. Firstly, as a website owner to register to an affiliate program provider, this affiliate program provider also has a website that has products and is sold online. Secondly, if approved, the website owner will get the affiliate code from the program provider, and the code can be installed on the website which will bring up the advertisement. Thirdly, if the website reader buys the product from your web reference, then you will get a commission from the provider of the affiliate program.
The advantage of this program is to give a much larger commission than just serving ads on your website. However, to drive web visitors into buying a product is much more difficult than getting visitors to access or click on an ad that is served. Then, another drawback is the lack of providers of affiliate programs from a trusted local web. If the website you build using English as the language of instruction, then the opportunity opens wider, although the problem is much more difficult to persuade readers to buy products with English as well.
II. Information and Technology
5. Digital CourseScience is not only obtained through books and teachers only, but also can be purchased in various forms such as ebook, video, and audio. Generally that will be very selling in the market of course interesting knowledge, useful, and hard to get. One example is a video learning to play the piano that contains a piano playing tutorial, or an ebook that contains exercises to be done by a novice piano player. Such courses are needed by people who tend to get busy. The video and ebook eventually became the solution and have opened its own niche business.
The key is creative. Because in general, all the information on the internet can be accessed by anyone, therefore an information can be valuable when processed into a science that is studied more deeply and accompanied by a more structured and complete guide. How do I create an online course? Is it similar to making ordinary articles or articles? Not much different indeed, but of course it should be more exclusive and informative. Choose your interest or passion and better if it fits the field of expertise, because without having sufficient knowledge, your product will not qualify. Do a little research on what people really want to know in the field, so you can enter the required product information. Solution needs can be more sell if in the form of video tutorial.
In order for the product to be sold, the product owner must be diligent to introduce himself until a good reputation is established. If you do not have a reputation to sell your own writing, selling in the marketplace could be an option to build a product image. Try to sell products in some marketplace such as ratakan.com, clickbank.com, guides.co, and also on your blog / website yourself. When it becomes known, we recommend that product owners start introducing and selling it through professionally managed personal websites. The benefits can be more specific, give the impression of a professional and not mixed with other products of low quality.
6. Exclusive Website
Still closely related to having your own website, if the content you provide on the website is exclusive or premium, then you could have paid a fee to anyone who accesses it. Not that every visitor should pay every time a visit, but more on the membership system. Later on the website, to be able to get detailed topic information, the reader must be a member of the website. This business is called a premium membership system. Members have to pay to become members of the new website can get complete information as they need. Generally the payments are in the form of monthly or annual subscriptions. The key to this business is a website that really benefits the reader and is reviewed by a truly expert in the field.
How to make? Quite simply, using the popular WordPress platform plus plugins alone is enough to earn up to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year from the membership system. Plugins (software support wordpress application that many available on the internet) that can be tried include member.wishlistproducts.com (paid), and s2member.com (for free).
The membership website mechanism can follow the successful example of the companies below:
- SmartInsights, one of the popular membership sites, provides content that is accessible only to paid members at a starting price of $ 59 / month, whereas non-members can only open partial content. Some of this content is deliberately designed so readers are tempted to want to know more. Hidden information that is only accessible to registered members is sold by SmartInsights
- The second membership site model is WPSites.com. This site opens all access to WordPress tutorials for free. However, if members are registered at a price of $ 37 / month, they can ask questions directly.
- The third model is on the StackThatMoney premium forum. This community-based site is only accessible to members who have already paid $ 99 / month. The easiest community model for sharing information and knowledge in the form of tutorial content, and discussing directly.
7. Domain Seller
From the SEO side, the appropriate domain with the type of product is very helpful to facilitate the search process in search engines. One area of business that was born from here is buying and selling domain names. Many of these business transactions in forums at home and abroad such as ads.id or forumsdigitalpoint.com. What does the transaction concept look like? Domain collectors who are in the business are looking for ideas in the form of listing as many domain names as possible. Then choose a potentially good prospect. After that market the domain name with auction system. Good domain names can be priced from $ 500 to $ 100,000 or more.
8. Youtuber
Youtube has been 'exploding' since its first launch in 2005, and has become a very popular stepping stone for new celebrity candidates. Not just a celebrity that is synonymous with entertainment stage only, Youtube is also a good business field for everyone. You can use this to be one of the youtuber.
How does a youtuber earn a living? The main income from Youtube videos is Google Adsense. The first step you need to do of course create a Youtube account itself. By signing up, you now have your own channel. Upload your exciting videos, which can be video tutorials, news videos, comedy videos, and more and continue to increase the number of viewers by uploading quality impressions. After that, then register yourself on Google Adsense to earn revenue from your channel.
The most successful Youtuber currently is PewDiePie. A real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjelberg with Swedish citizenship was recorded to have penetrated 6.65 billion total viewers with 32 million subscribers. He gained his fame through the making of videos that showed him playing games and giving funny comments about the game. Kjelberg has broken some Youtube records such as a subscribers jump from 12 million in August of 2013 to more than 20 million in January 2014.
By bringing more and more viewers, more and more companies will want their product ads to show up on uploaded videos. The ads on the Youtube site are divided into two types: ads that give commissions per click, and ads that give commissions every time. Youtube party cut 45% of the total produced, and the rest can be owned by the owner of the video.
9. Seller / Software Developer
If you are indeed a reliable in programming, then why not create your own software and sell it? Business models like this are growing rapidly today, under the name SaaS (Software as a Service). Business cycle that occurs starting from the software that is generally web-based sold by way of users pay for subscription / subscription. For example, Slack is currently a chatting or communications service site with a team that is quite popular in this field with a $ 2.8 trillion value company in 2015. Amazingly, this site has just been released in 2014.
Plus, mobile phone users are increasingly mushrooming. These users can be targeted by developing software or applications used on the mobile platform. If you want a more casual project, you can develop games to play on the device. Making it easy, you just buy a template from an application, then just make a few changes to the text or design. The process is called reskinning.
10. WordPress Plugins and Templates
Until last year, there were at least 74,652,825 WordPress-based sites. Among them there are 29,000 WordPress plugins that continue to grow each day. It's a great business opportunity for you programmers. In fact, not everyone who has WordPress is satisfied with the plugins and free templates that can be taken from the internet. Therefore, sites that sell WordPress plugins and templates are growing. For paid plugins, you can visit codecanyon.net. Then, the site for paid templates is themeforest.net.
There is an interesting story from themeforest.net, where in just one week the most popular template in ThemeForest sold nearly 1,500 copies. Just look at the price per template alone $ 58, then their earnings in a week is $ 84,564 or about Rp1 billion. It's incredible transactions in this online business.
III. Writing
11. BloggerBlogging is an activity that starts from the interest of writing or discussing things that we like. But who would have thought of these activities can make money that the amount can be very much. Bloggers can benefit from the blogs they create by working with advertisers. Earnings earned from this ad publisher can be very interesting. Starting from 10 $ per month to tens of thousands of dollars for those who have blogs with thousands of traffic per day. One of the providers of the ad publisher system is Google with its famous product namely Google AdSense. Business scheme, Google as the world's largest ad provider offers quality website owners to display ads from Google clients and pay for every click made by blog readers to ads on Google Adsense.
Detailed working principles as follows:
You create a website> Registration to Google Adsense> Registration accepted> display ad code> visitors click on ads> you get a commission.
Website owners only need to focus on their efforts in presenting the website as well as possible in order to remain qualified and can increase visitors every day. Google ads will automatically appear on your website with the format and position you have set based on Google's various bidding options.
How to be successful in Google Adsense? The main thing is to focus on developing a quality website by updating the website with quality content on an ongoing basis. Then, pay attention to daily visitor traffic, use histats.com to observe traffic. Also note that to avoid fake traffic or any means to increase traffic, unauthorized ad clicks and any other fraud because it will cause your account to be banned (disabled) by Google.
12. Freelance Writer
Freelance writer or freelance writer practically business is quite popular. Of the tens of millions of sites on the internet, all of them definitely need articles / articles to make the website fat and can make it easy to find by search engines. Quality writing about product information or services offered determines the reputation of the website. Then, the more interesting is not everyone is able to create quality articles. This is where business opportunities arise and can be maximized if writing is your skill.
Select the level of the author who can be taken in accordance with the level of expertise and experience in the field of article writing. For beginners, as the name implies, they are authors who do not have a name and are usually paid cheaply based on the number of words written. Usually their rate is 15 thousand per 500 words Indonesian or $ 1.5 for English.
Then, advanced writers or writers who already have a lot of experience with high expertise in a field of course get a higher fee. Such writers could put a tariff of $ 75- $ 100 per article (500-1000 words) that he wrote and published for example for large websites and news portals.
Want to try the business of this field? Check out some places to get job writing articles like sribulancer.com, upwork.com (international), and textbroker.com (international). As part of the promotion, you should have a blog that can be shown as an example of your writing so that potential clients can easily assess your writing style.
13. Copywriter
In this digital era, in everyday life we are surrounded by millions of ads from various directions continuously. What we see and hear all the time is the creative act of a copywriter. Business opportunities copywriter is growing as more online media advertising. Copywriters who contribute in influencing the mindset of others to do or buy something we want through writing.
A copywriter's job description is broad enough that includes writing text in an ad with a language that draws the reader to buy a product or service offered on the ad. They also write text on landing pages or sales pages in order to attract new customers.
When compared, they are salesmen who invite people to buy products using promotive words. One level copywriter is superior to the regular content writer. Where a beginner can earn up to tens of millions of income per month. If you are a writer, all you have to do is add to the science of writing and you are ready to jump into the business.
14. Translator
Translation is a service that is still sought after and needed by many companies. Because now is the era of globalization, companies that cooperate between countries even more. Therefore, documents such as texts, texts, proposals, etc. should also be submitted in two languages of instruction. Most companies do not employ full-time translators because not all documents need to be delivered in two languages.
It can be a golden opportunity for you who master two or more languages. The services offered are actually relatively simple, so even beginner translators can still take part. This job is also suitable taken as a sideline because it can be done in your spare time. Some of the marketplaces you can use to search for people or companies that need these services include fiverr.com, sribulancer.com, and onehourtranslation.com.
15. E-book Publisher
If you do have a penchant for writing, basically you can sell the article to the public. To become an expert writer with selling results, you can begin to practice your writing by creating a digital writing or ebook (electronics book), as this does not cost money for publications like offline book sales that are printed and circulated by publishers and bookstores.
The most widely used site for selling ebooks is KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) from Amazon (kdp.amazon.com). Many topics you can write are both fiction and non-fiction. In KDP, usually books that are sold have a length of 5000 words and sell for $ 2.99- $ 3.5. The system offered is a commission, where for every sale, the author of the book will get a royalty of 35% or $ 1.05 for the price earlier. Successful writers in KDP is one of them is Spencer Haws from Niche Pursuits, who earn $ 1,315 (about Rp15 million) a month from the sale of this ebook.
For local writers, can try their luck and hone writing skills on the site nulisbuku.com. This site is the place to submit the manuscript and publish the book to be printed every time there is an order for local Indonesian-language writers. The key to success in this field is diligent, patient, and tenacious. This business does not have an excessive risk of loss, simply by continuing to write and continue to tap that ability.
IV. Service
16. Online CounselorLearning online becomes a new trend in society both at home and abroad. Technological advances with increasingly easy internet access, traffic conditions are increasingly crowded and jammed, and busyness that often clash schedules make this business niche began ogled online business hobbyist teaching. People also increasingly believe that the model of this course was a lot of benefits and certainly very practical.
Unlimited internet access time and place makes the number of students more in the class online. The relaxed atmosphere with the video recording model actually makes the course participants more able to maximize their capability. There is little difference with the digital course system like the previous points, the guides you provide are divided into sessions given on different days and of course there is a live question and answer session. Are you interested and talented in this field? Some of the platforms worth starting out for selling online courses include udemy.com, guides.co, teachable.com.
17. Website Content Creation Services
There is an interesting survey from WPCurve that shows how important this content and article is if it is professionally managed. The results of the survey include; Currently, 89% of startup businesses use content marketing. Later, 71% of those who did not perform content marketing reasoned because they did not have time to create content, which means new business can be opened from this field. Well, through this survey, you can calculate how the potential revenue and the return from this business.
For those who are creative and keen to read opportunities, content marketing is recognized as the best online marketing method. Some do not do this method because they have no time or are unable to make it. Does not the description of the survey result give a brilliant idea about a prospective business opportunity as a content creator? Immediately build your agency in the creation of website content.
18. Virtual Assistant
Literally, a virtual assistant or virtual assistant is more or less the same as an assistant or secretary who helps a business owner to run his business. The scope of work to be done is quite extensive, including writing, graphic design, research, editing, copywriting, social media management, translation, programming, data input, and possibly much more according to company needs.
Almost all of the above fields are done by a virtual assistant. Being a virtual assistant means you can get a job or project from someone. This service is widely offered in the marketplace with an hourly fee ranging from $ 10 to over $ 50 per hour. Depends also from the specialization. You can try check this position vacancy on freewank site upwork.com.
19. Consulting Services
In the old days, a person who opened consulting services should be busy advertising or offering services through referrals, proposals to companies, and so forth. It is obviously troublesome, and to be funny and conservative if it still runs in this age of digital technology. Currently, the owner of a consulting service can change his promotional method by marketing it through his own homemade blog. After the blog began to visit, usually many of the visitors want to ask and consult on the topic on the blog.
For example, you write a blog about investing. Then one of your blog visitors contacted you via e-mail and wanted to consult about gold investment. Consultation can be done with a variety of methods. From reply to messages via e-mail to video calls using IM. From there, you can get paid from each consultation session conducted.
Topics of consultation can be very varied depending on who asked by visitors of your blog / website. This business is suitable for you who want to be free and not bound by time and place, because consultation can be done in the form of online use video tutorial or ebook. Communication for direct consultation can use Skype, Yahoo Messenger or other media.
20. Web Development Services
Web development is almost as popular as graphic design. Seen in some marketplaces, the demand for these services is high. If you have expertise and interest in this field, you can make a web development effort as a side business. Not complicated the process, you can start from some websites for freelancers like upwork.com or projects.co.id
Upwork is a site for global freelancers, while project.co.id is a site for local people who offer many website creation jobs in accordance with available budget ranging from small size with budget below $ 100 to large with a budget of more than $ 1000.
21. SEO Development Services
Google which as the most popular search engine today is increasingly making the business SEO services (Search Engine Optimization) more and more needed. This service helps the online businessmen to get high traffic. Good traffic is the key to successful sales in online business. The working mechanism of SEO services is to optimize the website to be easily found in the search engine.
The rapid development of online business and the orientation of business owners more to the focus of products and services that want to sell make the business people a little neglect this important aspect. Therefore, the provider of SEO services become indispensable. The required mechanisms and expertise include keyword and competitor research, content marketing, website structure optimization, backlink monitoring, and data analysis from Google Analytics.
22. Marketing Services with Social Media
One of the most useful modern SEO techniques today is to do a combination of marketing through social media. In this field is also still rarely there is a professional social media marketing services. A lot of work can be done by a social media marketer. These jobs include building brand awareness, creating and sharing content, interacting with fans / followers, and increasing visitors to websites through social media.
23. Digital Advertising Services
Products sold through the Internet have far greater potential than the products sold on a shopping mall. So not infrequently many retail companies are finally targeting the online system to increase their income whether it's a sale or just advertise the product only. The reason, in five years alone spending on online advertising has exceeded spending on traditional advertising. The development of digital advertising is projected in the future will soon overtake ads with banners, on television, and elsewhere. Why is this digital ad popular? The reasons are also varied, ranging from the system more effective, cheaper, and scalable in accordance with targeted target market.
Beginners in online business can try their luck in this field by preparing text ads, images, and / or videos. Do not forget data analysis and public acceptance test should be done to get maximum results. Google Adwords can be one of the aids of this process. The next stage, advertising processing should involve several skills such as copwriter, graphic designer, and data scientist.
V. Graphic Design
24. Graphic Design ServicesYou want to know how potential business opportunities this one? High-end professional designers can earn more than $ 100,000 per year. But patiently, for beginners, may dream of earning that much, because it is not unreasonable. The key to becoming a professional designer is to have many portfolios and always hone skills. Immediately upgrade your design skills and portfolio by joining marketplaces like 99designs.com, fiverr.com, sribu.com.
You have a vast opportunity with the ability to accept projects from within and abroad. Do not be afraid of your language communication and design skills. The important thing is confident, diligent study and clean up, routine marketing services, participate bid on the project auction, and no less important start from a cheap price if you are new to enter in this business to find a regular customer first.
25. Artwork Sales
Not everyone is interested in providing design services. Many are also people with graphic design skills, but still idealistic thinking then do not want to make a work at the request of people or clients. If you include such things, then selling artwork or stock images can be an attractive alternative for you. The graphic design stock can be either modified photographs, or illustrated drawings.
Not many people are deep in business in this field. For example, selling wallpapers, illustrations, paintings, sketches, icons, and so forth. Well, where is the transaction of buying and selling this graphic design stock? Some places to buy and sell design stocks that you can try include:
- graphicriver.net
- creativemarket.com
- society6.com
- bigcartel.com
- etsy.com
- redbubble.com
- artworkheroes.com
- market.envato.com
26. Sales of Photographic Results
This business is unique. Because the idea is simple but has a great opportunity. For example, there is someone who is developing his website to sell beauty products. Then, the person needs an appropriate image that can be used as background to make the website more interesting. So to save time, the person ends up looking for images that he can buy over the internet. Well, because today is the digital era, where people who develop more and more websites, then the business of buying and selling this photo was automatically dragged along.
This business opportunity is suitable for those who have a hobby or passion in the field of photography. Professional or amateur photographers can gain a lot of money from this business because they can earn passively by hawking the photos they capture with their cameras. Some recommended places to grow this business are istockphoto.com, and shutterstock.com.
Start Your Online Business Now
First created by the United States Department of Defense in 1969, the internet was used for military purposes only. But as the era progresses, the internet is becoming more widespread and can be enjoyed by all circles. The creation of the internet has brought significant changes in various aspects of human life, one of which is the business aspect.Businesses that run online have many advantages. First, the cost is not a barrier for the perpetrators because as explained earlier, this business only requires a small capital or even be free. Second, this business does not know the time which means it can be done anytime anywhere in the spare time, although not infrequently which makes it as the main business. Third, the activities can be done without the need of an office, shop, showroom, and others. Fourth, lastly, the online business people are the boss for themselves.
Changing the business that was just running offline to online is also being rife built right now. A real example of a successful company in this field is GoJek. Business ojek which was run with manual system, or in other words looking for clients themselves, then developed by utilizing internet connection. So, they just need to have a mobile device with an internet connection to get clients. It also makes it easier for customers to access companies which means greater profits.
So why not start your own online business right away? For those who have run previous business did not necessarily have to leave the business that has been built. You can also grow the business to a higher level by utilizing the internet. Thus the benefits gained will be more leverage even doubled.
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