There
are many business ideas you can develop online and make money ranging from
information marketing, affiliate marketing, selling e-books, blogging, etc. It
depends on how good you are at the niche and your area of interest.
Some
niche markets are too competitive and saturated that making money becomes too
hard. Consider choosing a niche with less competition and that is profitable,
and start from there.
It
is good that you learn and get knowledge of your chosen topic. This will help
you get enough knowledge and experience in order to reach your goal. Remember
that Rome was not built in a day, so will your online business not be easy to
build in a flash. You must work and get dedicated! Your lying material will not
build your business for you, and your business will not prosper except you show
some level of concern and seriousness.
Well,
without wasting any time, I have arranged a list of 10 profitable business
ideas you can choose from here in Nigeria with the aim of making a living
online. These include:
1. Drop-Shipping
Drop-Shipping is one of the
latest business ideas in Nigeria. With only your laptop or Smartphone, internet
data, and your social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest,
LinkedIn, and more, to serve as your online shop; you can start this business
with a very low capital.
You can make millions
from drop-shipping, but you need to first identify and know what the people
need at the particular time and where and how to source for those items.
AliExpress is a good place to start a drop-shipping business in Nigeria.
2. Email Marketing
Those who run email marketing
business offer their subscribers good-quality information to keep them coming
back, and also offer their clients first-class services with proven results
that would keep them coming back and referring others.
You can join other
email marketing companies to help small, medium and large businesses connect
with existing customers to promote the sale of goods and services, and so fill
their pockets with money. These businesses outsource email marketing services
to allow them focus on other areas of business development.
3. Social Media Marketing
Many companies have increasingly made social media
their first tool of choice they use to notify, convince, educate, and promote
their products and services. If you can create a social media visibility, it
will gradually turn to your profitability.
The
reason for a growing need of people with social media marketing strategy and
development skills is the increase in outsourcing of such services by BIG
companies. The outsourcing is for those companies who cannot provide their own
social media strategy as a full-service function.
There
is room for you in the social media marketing business to make money using
Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Online Forums, LinkedIn, etc. to sell goods and
services and offer this to the many individuals and corporate organizations,
including SMEs longing to get into the digital marketing world.
4. Freelance Writing or Ghost Writing for Money
There are many companies such as blogs and media agencies that are ready to pay you big time to write original contents for them. Sometimes these contents fall under advertisements, blogs and websites; and you can get paid for your editing services.
Therefore,
you can set yourself up as a freelancer and start part-time or full-time to
start earning online. However, you need to consider how much time it will take
you if you are thinking of starting full-time. Whatever is your decision, just
know that the earning opportunity is great. You can visit www.ng.jobrapido.com or www.ng.jooble.org for writing jobs in
Nigeria.
5. Online Ad Agency
This money making system allows you to connect
advertisers and publishers by creating a list of publishers and giving
offerings to advertisers based on specific packages.
Advertisers
are companies promoting their products or services and publishers are owners of
websites where these ads can be displayed. You need to be good at communicating
with people to help you succeed in this business.
6. Website Design and maintenance
Many prominent people such as politicians, chieftains
of corporate organizations and successful business individuals now make use of
websites to promote their brands and personality.
As
the demand for website designers is increasing, why not learn how to use common
design tools and build good websites? With time, you can begin to design
professional websites, create web graphics, build web pages, and upload web
pages to the server.
You
will further need skills of domain name registration and how hosting services
work, but as you gain ground, you may add domain name registration and host to
your own service.
7. Affiliate Marketing
You can start an affiliate marketing business online
with little or no investment. Your duty is to help companies or individuals
sell their products and you will earn a commission for your efforts.
You
can sell digital products or physical products, depending on your choice. And
you can sign on with as many affiliate programs as you can handle and use your
affiliate links to promote the products through a web presence or social media.
Many Nigerians who have joined the affiliate program are now enjoying the fruits
of their labor.
Two popular affiliate
programs to join in Nigeria include Jumia.com.ng and Konga.com.
8. Selling Photos Online
If you can make excellent photos, you can leverage the opportunity of selling them online and making good money afterward.
There
are many photo sharing sites where you can upload your photograph and make
money any time somebody downloads the photo. Adobe Stock and Fotolia
are good places to start.
9. Information Marketing
The information you can sell online can come in the
form of e-books, CDs, DVDs, or short reports. Whatever product type you choose,
I want to remind you that the business is internet-based and can put food on
the table for the rest of your life. Take for instance, the writers of Amazon
kindle books are earning without further efforts, except the initial struggles
usually experienced before a book is published.
You
can join a team of many Nigerians who have become millionaires through
information marketing. You don’t need to write the material with ideas from
your head as there are many resources online to help you do that.
If
you are thinking of outsourcing your writing, fiverr.com is a good place to
consider. You may also decide to buy master resell rights or private label
rights books, rewrite and rebrand to your choice and sell.
10. Blogging
Before you can think of starting a blog, examine whether you are capable of writing quality and original content. It is very easy to start a blog if you have passion for writing. All you need is excellent research skill, interest, a laptop, and internet access.
Blogging is time-consuming so you need enough time to be able to research content, write the content and make it to be original, and also promote your blog through different methods. You can see that blogging needs time in order for you to be successful.
You can quickly start up a blog by visiting Blogger, WordPress or Wix and have a quick design and be up and running in just minutes. You may rather choose to set up your blog on a self-hosted server. Google Adsense is one of the easiest ways you can monetize your blog.
Conclusion
The above information can help you start up online in no time. All you need is choose a niche you are familiar with to help you create content easily.
Blogging
on a topic you know very well will help you to easily create contents, reply readers’
comments, and answer any questions directed to you.
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