Creating an Online Business

An online business is one of the best businesses that a single mom should consider. Funny, but it was in my most trying times that I discovered the internet and in the process was able to build not just one but a number of successful online businesses. Let me discuss with you two online venues/sites that you can look into when creating your online business.

Almost all business coaches would tell you that to be successful in your business venture you have to create a product or service that you are most interested in, are obsessed with or passionate about. This makes sense because if you love what you do, you would never feel like you are working at all. You just keep on doing it and will be very creative with your ideas and approach. Of course, as a single mom there is the added challenge of wanting your business to pick-up immediately because you need the money to support your family. Nevertheless, when I was putting up my businesses the ones that I am more passionate about were the ones that easily made money and looking back even during the hard times I did not feel the burden because I loved what I was doing.

I am not a techy person; the internet offers so many free tutorials and free website platforms that even an elementary kid can do. So creating a website that would serve a particular niche in the market is not difficult to do. The first thing you need to do is to make a little research to determine an underserved need in the market. Since this is your initial venture, do not go too far but just consider a possible need in your community. Observe the market, interview people casually; that is, just asking friends, neighbors and family members what they feel is a need they have which is not being served by the businesses in your area.  When you have confidently identified a product or service that you can deliver, start building a simple website. When you're building a website, you're going to want to find cheap keywords that you can use to promote your business as well as create good content. By creating the content and then creating back links between yourself and other websites, you'll be setting yourself up to have a high page rank with Google. By using AdWords to bring traffic to your website and then also developing your natural search engine traffic, you will have built yourself a very solid business.

The second avenue that you can consider after creating your own website is to use eBay. This is an area which was particularly hot several years ago and still remains a solid business proposition. Many people are able to make a full-time income on eBay. You can sell your own product but even if you don’t have your own product to sell, you can still earn money by using eBay. You will need to find a wholesaler where you can get products at a discount to sell on eBay. The general idea when working on selling on eBay is to find a drop shipper. A definition of a drop shipper is a wholesaler sells you a product and will ship the product to a customer. You will buy the product at the wholesale price and then make money on the difference between what you buy the product for and sell the product for on eBay. Using the wholesaler allows you to focus on selling the product without worrying about stocking the product. You do not need to worry about any sort of shipping or backend but you will want to make sure that everything gets sent out.

These are two basic ideas in creating an online business. There are many ways to make money on the Internet but these are two proven methods. You will not have to use a lot of money up front to create these particular online businesses and these businesses can be something that you will have great deal of success with.