Best 5 Online Business To Start Now With Almost No Investment

If you’re considering what online business to start now with minimal investment, you’re in the right place. Let me show you the five best options for successfully starting and growing your business online. There are no buts or excuses anymore! Many free tools online allow you to start with no economic investment, only time investment.

All the options below require time and for you to be constant. But if you really want to earn money online and invest almost nothing when you start, these are your best options.

1. Create and Sell Notion Templates

If you don’t know what Notion is, let me introduce you to one of the best online tools ever created. (You can see I’m a super fan). Notion [affiliate link] is a versatile productivity tool for professionals and students. By creating custom Notion templates, you can help others organize their workflows more efficiently.

I’ve gone a step further with Notion. I not only sell my templates here, but I also sell courses fully made with Notion, and I’ve set up a digital magazine completely made with Notion! This digital magazine is called AI Mixer and works with a “freemium” model. You can subscribe for free and get the magazine, or you can upgrade to a paid subscription and get access to all my templates, or if you choose the founder subscription option, you can also get all my courses for a full year.

This business requires minimal upfront costs and leverages your creativity and understanding of productivity tools.

How To Get Started With Notion

1. Learn Notion Inside Out: Understand Notion’s features and functionalities deeply. This will enable you to create useful and attractive templates. The cool part is that Notion offers all pieces of training for free! Check them out here.
2. Identify Your Target Audience: Who will benefit most from your templates — students, freelancers, entrepreneurs? Who do you want to help the most? Start thinking about who is your dream client.
3. Sell on Gumroad: I love Gumroad. Setting up your store is super easy! There’s only a hunch: you need to sell products for the value of £10 to see your goods in the Gumroad marketplace.
4. Market Your Products: Promote your templates using social media, blog posts, and YouTube tutorials. Share tips and tricks to attract potential buyers. If you need help in knowing when your posts might be more successful, use Metricool [affiliate link]. Their free subscription gives you a lot; if you decide to pay, it’s the holy grail.

2. Transform Your Hobby into a Business

Turning a hobby into a business is a fulfilling way to earn income doing something you love. However, many people shy away from trying because they think that it’s impossible. Let me tell you: it’s only research and choosing the medium that’s stopping you! So, what about checking “Papa Google” and researching what others have tried in the area of your dreams?

I’m going to give you an example: Tarot. I love Tarot and I have a great collection. I also love Oracle cards, of which I have another collection. I’ve always dreamt of having my own games and selling them to get some moolah. I researched and researched. I tried some venues and failed. And then I hit the holy of holies! You can find all my babies here and how to have your own card game in the world, here (avoiding all my nightmares).

Wait, but what about if my hobby is crocheting? YouTube videos teaching or sharing your uniqueness is an option. Selling templates for others to replicate your designs? Totally doable! Are you getting all the marketing you need to sell them, like hotcakes? (Coming soon here.)

How to Transform Your Hobby into a Business Online

1. Choose a Hobby: Determine what hobby you want to monetize. Don’t choose too many things at once; go one by one. If you try to do too many things at once, you’ll spread yourself thin.
2. Market Research: Analyze the market to understand the demand and potential competition for your hobby-based products or services.
3. Create a Business Plan: Outline your business model, target audience, pricing strategy, and marketing plan. If you don’t know where to start, you can check out this course and learn how to do it.
4. Set Up an Online Presence: Did you know you can create a webpage with Notion!? If you want to invest very little initially, that’s a great option!
5. Promote Your Business: Leverage social media, blogs, and local events to reach your target audience and build a customer base.

3. Freelance Services Using AI Tools

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