Today I will show you the five ways you can start an online businesses right now for just
zero dollars. I will show you a real example for each of them so you can implement them easily.
If we can get this video to 1000 likes I'm even going to start one of these
businesses from scratch and document the whole thing on the channel. So
hit that like button and let's get started with the business idea #1
Affiliate Marketing
And the way you can start it is with my favorite websites where you can find lots of popular
brands you already love and use yourself. So it makes it super easy to promote them!
For example, as you probably know, I am really big on Pinterest, and I couldn't
do it without Canva - this is a free tool anyone can use to create images and short
videos and then upload them as Pinterest pins. Personally, I use Canva Pro and as I do many
tutorials about Pinterest here on Youtube, I often mention Canva and my affiliate
link to it is anastasiablogger.com/canva. So to become a Canva affiliate you need
to join an affiliate network called Impact. It's totally free!
You just create an account and then you can go through their big directory and then choose a
product that you want to promote and then submit an application to become an affiliate for it.
The reason why I love Impact is because it has so many products and websites and apps inside
of it that are already really popular, such as Namecheap, Bluehost, SkillShare and many more.
People already trust and like these brands,
so it's super easy to recommend their products or services. Plus,
with a larger customer base, the potential for sales and commissions is going through the roof!
But remember, it's not just about the brand's popularity, make sure to check the reputation,
customer service, quality of products/services and commission rate before becoming an affiliate.
This is especially important for products with recurring commissions. Usually it's software
companies. If you recommend a product that someone will use for years to come,
you will receive your commissions for years too.
If you are into business software like I am,
you could also join Partnerstack, it's another network I really like. The sign up is also free.
You will find here lots of products with 30% or even higher lifetime commissions.
For example, you can see here with just one product that was bought by only 6 referrals
through my link, I earned 717 dollars and about 940 will be approved in a month form now,
because most software products have a 30-day guarantee so these commissions
are pending. So it's about 1600 dollars in total so far from this one product.
Idea #2 that will help you start an online business with $0 is all
about driving free traffic to your offers.
And here you'll need to focus on effective strategies that work this year.
The top three apps and websites for driving traffic to your business include:
Instagram where you should focus on Reels as they are currently the best format
that generates more user engagement than anything else on the platform.
Youtube Shorts and Tiktok in both cases there is a huge demand for the short form content
and the platforms give NEW creators equally high opportunities to grow with short-form
videos as to established accounts. For example this channel with the
speeches of famous people has grown to 237k subscribers by mostly uploading shorts,
they have a few longer videos but their main type of content is shorts. And if
we check their most popular shorts, they had some videos that got about 9 million views.
If we check the info about this channel on Social Blade,
we'll find that the channel has grown to this volume with just about 60
video uploads and their estimated monthly earnings could be between 900 and 14k Dollars.
And while we can see on Social Blade the channel was created long ago,
the oldest short on it was posted just 9 months ago,
see here this is the oldest short and it got all the comments on it about 9 months ago.
With that being said, even with Youtube Shorts,
ad monetization is not the best way to make money with short format videos.
The best ways is by adding links to your video description and to the first comment
below the video. And the links could go either to affiliate products which we covered at the
beginning of this video, or to your own website and then you could monetize your
audience from Youtube or Tiktok in any way that works best for you - by selling your products
or services. See for example I added some of my affiliate links in the comment to one
of my shorts and some links go to my opt-in pages so that people can join my email list.
Another platform you could use to take advantage of short videos is Pinterest.
You have two formats of pins - video pins and Idea pins where you could use short
videos and even repurpose the vertical videos you created for other platforms.
Currently, you can add direct links to specific pages to each one of your
video pins. With Idea pins, only some accounts have this beta feature but
hopefully Pinterest will soon allow all the accounts add links directly to the Idea pins.
Personally, I get about 80k visitors to my site from Pinterest monthly using a mix of video pins,
Idea pins and regular image pins. If you want to learn more about Pinterest organic traffic,
watch my free Masterclass, I'll give you a link up there and in the description below.
And what I really like about vertical short form
videos is that you can reuse them across many platforms.
Basically, all the platforms these days want to get more creators who will produce short videos
for them, so you can reupload your short videos on Youtube, Pinterest,
Instagram and Tiktok and if you are lucky, you can get your videos viral
on all 4 platforms. Isn't it wonderful that you had to create just one piece of content
and could use it across so many platforms and grow your audience on all of them?
And from here, I'd like to introduce you to my next business idea #3 which is to
offer content repurposing for short form videos.
The demand for short-form content is at an all-time high, and as a repurposing agency,
you can help small- to medium-sized influencers grow their audience fast by editing their videos,
live streams, and podcasts into snackable content for platforms
like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
But with so many people offering this service,
how can you stand out and actually get clients? Easy: show them what you can do!
Pick an influencer and create some content for them for free. Build up
a page and demonstrate that you can get results.
When someone messages me saying, I created for you these shorts from your long videos,
check them out, I'm much more likely to give them money compared to someone who
just drops links to some random videos. Because I can't check if
they actually created them or just reuploaded from other creators.
Now, Idea #4 that will help you build your
online business is to use FREE stock videos, images and music.
I really like this site called Pixabay for example. There is
another one very similar called Pixels. It is an excellent resource for finding
high-quality, free stock photos, videos, illustrations, and more. With a vast library
of digital content, you'll find the perfect visual elements to bring your business to life.
But it's not just about using stock videos to create advertisements for your business,
you can also use the content from Pixabay to create and sell physical or digital products.
For example, you can use the free images to create custom merchandise such as t-shirts,
mugs, or phone cases, and resell them for a profit.
Pixabay also offers a wide variety of free music and sound effects that
you can use in your videos or marketing materials.
Some of the content on these websites is in the public domain, meaning it has no
copyright protection and can be used for any legal purpose, including reselling it as is.
Other content on these websites is covered by a custom license,
which is still quite flexible. The main restriction in this case is
to keep in mind is that you can't simply re-upload the content as is.
Instead, you can use the content to create a montage or reuse it in your work in other ways.
FreeImages.com is another great website for finding free public domain pictures online.
It's the largest website for finding free public domain pictures online.
You can search for any image you want by typing
in a keyword and selecting the type of image you want.
I think it's the right time to remind you about my favorite image and video editing
tool - Canva. You should know that Canva's free plan also includes a pretty large
library of stock videos and photos which are very conveniently available right inside the
tool so you can just search for whatever you need and then drag it into your canvas with one click.
Overall, these websites can be a great way to add
professional-looking visuals to your business without breaking the bank.
Idea #5 for an online business is to sell online courses.
If you know me for a while you probably have seen my courses - one is all about Pitnerest,
another one is for bloggers who want to scale their income and monetization strategies.
So I can tell you that this is a huge opportunity for online businesses because more and more
people are shifting away from traditional educational institutions and instead of
wasting 4 or 5 years and tens of thousands of dollars, many people prefer to get online the
practical skills around things they can use and make money with them in the modern world.
If you think there is no market for you in there, just look at my stats. In 2020 when
everyone (including me) was first freaking out thinking that the economy is going to shrink and
nobody will spend money, I ended up making about $220k in that year selling just one online course.
So then, if you also want to get involved in this opportunity,
you can set up a free digital course on Thinkific.
The free plan lets you set up one course 100% for free and sell it. And if you want
to set up a second course for free, you could create another one on Teachable
because their free plan also lets you host one digital course for free and sell it.
Now you have the 5 business ideas,
it's time to get started with them. And if you want to know how I get about 80k
visitors a month from Pinterest for free, watch that video, I'll see you in the next one!