ONLINE BUSINESS IDEAS
What Kind of online business can you do ?
To provide you some online business ideas, let's have a look on following 10 online business models:-
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WEB presence of a business.
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Selling Products Online, from manufacturers to customers (eliminating intermediaries), or from wholesalers and retailers directly to customers. (Example: www.dell.com , Amazon.com
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Dropshipping Business Model- selling products, accepting payment, but do not keep goods in stock, instead, you transfer your customers orders and shipment details to your dropshipper (either manufacturer or a wholesaler), who then ships the goods directly to your customers. Established Dropshippers include: Doba, Shopster, Worldwide Brands, Salehoo, Dropship Direct, and Dhgate.
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Selling downloadable products such as photos, eBooks, music, ringtones, videos and softwares. (Example: www.photostockplus.com , www.freemarket.com, www.ebook.com, www.zune.net, www.jamster.com, www.createspace.com , www.ashampoo.com ).
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Providing Services Online, (Example: WEB services include: e-mail, web hosing, directories, online payment, online marketplace and many others. Professional Services such as online consultancy, computer software assistance, hardware trouble shooting etc.
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Brokerage Business Model - bring buyers and sellers together and facilitate transactions (example www.odesk.com
, www.freelancer.com, www.elance.com ; www.propertymagnate.com ); takes customer orders to buy or sell a product or service, including terms like price and delivery. (Example: http://www.carrentals.com, www.hotwire.com , www.respond.com ); Transaction Broker — provides a third-party payment mechanism for buyers and sellers to settle a transaction. [www.paypal.com , www.worldpay.com ), provide validation by an independent trusted third party ( www.verisign.com )
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Informational Business Model – providing informational sites such as online news, e-magazines, online encyclopedias, blogs, forums, specialized WEB sites etc. Revenue for this model can be derived from subscription fee, or from selling ad space or participating in Adsense, Adbrite or other Ad program; from referrals and or affiliate sales. Advertising based informational business model maximizing their ad and/or affiliate revenue by driving more traffic to their sites .
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Providing content to various Content Sites such as Hubpages , Xomba , Bukisa , YouSayToo , a1articles , Squidoo , and ezinearticles; and share portion of their advertisement revenue. This model is suitable for those who opt not no maintain their own website. For website owner this can be an extra spaces to share your existing content while earning some extra income, and most important lead the readers to your website through the link on the content sites.
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Affiliate Marketing. You can set up an affiliate shop or alternatively set up a blog and insert ads or links of your participated affiliate programs. Affiliate shop looks like a real On-line shop. The difference is that you sell products you do not possess and you don't have to take care of the payment and delivery. When a visitor to your site clicks on the order form or ad or link, they are sent to the merchant's website and the transaction is tracked (usually by cookies). If this transaction results in a sale for the affiliate merchant within the tracking period, you get commission for that sale. Some site pays affiliates for user click-through (pay-per click basis). You can sign up affiliate programs through affiliate network. (Affiliate network: LinkShare, Commission Junction, Shareasale , pepperjamnetwork , clixGalore )
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Selling your talent at world’s leading online talent marketplaces like odesk, elance , freelancer, peopleperhour, ScriptLance and etc. Working online as an independent freelance contractors for your expert field. Various jobs available for web developers, programmers, designers, multimedia experts, writers, translators, admin support, sales professionals, marketers, finance professionals, consultants, Legal-Experts, engineers and Manufacturing Professionals.
Identify your expertise, Find your niche.
Aware of online business opportunities and learn how to exploit them !












