Starting An Online Business? Here Are 3 Choices

There are tons of ways to start businesses online.There are web businesses that you can start with no money whatsoever, there are web business models that will require minimum start up capital, and there are web business that could cost thousands of dollars to start.

You need to know what type of business models an online business can encompass to be able to decide on one.For many people, learning how to start a home based online business becomes a job in and of itself.To help you have a quick overview of the best business models for an Online business, here are some of the best models.Affiliate marketing, Membership Sites and Virtual Real Estate are three of the top Internet businesses.

Affiliate Marketing
If you want to know how to create an online business, affiliate marketing is not only a free way to get started in an Internet business, it will also give you an extremely solid understanding of how marketers make money on the web.
You have the option of using an affiliate marketplace like Clickbank offers, to find products and just promote them for commissions, or finding websites that you yourself have an interest in and joining their affiliate programs to make commissions from helping them sell their products.

You can use free platforms like Blogger blogs and Wordpress blogs to write interesting articles about these sites and then write some additional articles to submit to article directories, which you can use to link back to your own blog, giving the reader extra information and your affiliate link through which to buy the product, thus earning you a commission.

Membership Sites
Memberships sites are one of the best ways to learn about how to create an online business.
Membership sites can be sites that offer fresh new content every month for marketers, or they can be new recipes for stay at home moms looking for quick meals.Depending on the market you're targeting, membership sites can cost anywhere from $5.00 a month for a membership, up to $800.00 a month.

Virtual Real Estate
Finally, Virtual Real Estate.
An amazing business model that is similar to the real estate boom of the late 90's.Virtual real estate consists of some amazing techniques to make fast money on the Internet.Domain name flipping is buying a domain name and selling the domain name.As the 'long tail keyword' phenomenon progresses, more and more new and extremely keyword rich domain names become available.You don't even need a site.If you find a hot new topic that people are doing a lot of searching for, like some new diet pill that's getting rave reviews, if you can snatch up a domain name for about $10.00 you can turn around and sell that domain name for $50.00.

Some other techniques for domain name flipping are to buy expired or about to expire domains.If it's an expired domain with a good audience factor, you stand to make a few bucks selling it.Another facet of Virtual Real Estate is website flipping.This similar to domain name flipping where buying the domain or an 'aged' domain is concerned, but you need an actual site.If you hold on to it for about 3 months and then sell it, you can show how much money it made and sell it for 1-2 times its annual income.

There are many variations of these three types of online businesses.

About the Author

Free report How to Start a Home Based Business: 27 Ways to Earn Money Online Dee Power is the author of several nonfiction books and the novel Over Time.

Dee's blog Earn Money Online You can Earn Money Online

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