Unemployed? Here are lots of free resources to start an online business
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted to this blog. The presidential election, the economy, the wars, education reform, health care, and the flu pandemic have been occupying my time.
After I was laid off in 2003 and couldn’t find a full-time job in my field, I started tutoring high school students in math and science, and I explored and started an online business. My income grows online each month and is a great supplement to my tutoring income.
With the economy in the toilet and job security the way we knew it a thing of the past, I wanted to share my list of free resources to help you explore starting various types of online businesses. An online business can be part-time in your spare time, it can supplement a job income, or become your primary income source.
Advantages of having your own online business:
- Very little money investment, you need a computer and internet access to start
- Lots of resources to help even the most online-challenged, most are free at the beginning. You don’t have to put out money until you decide you’re ready
- Takes as little or as much time as you want it to
- Can compliment a job or jobs
- Provides extra income
- Lots of areas to explore, from blogging to membership sites to niche markets
- The ability to diversify your income into several different streams so the loss of one stream or even two doesn’t take your entire income away. Rule of thumb: only 10% of your necessary income should come from any single source. The internet provides a huge array of programs to diversify your income streams widely
- You can make your own products (physical or informational) or you can earn your money selling other people’s products with affiliate programs, or both
Here is my list of good programs that offer lots of free information. There are paid versions as these programs advance, but you can start for free and start making your first $1, $10, even $100. You can use a combination of programs and earn with both affiliate sales commissions and revenue from the sale of your own products.
- The Thirty Day Challenge – 100% FREE and for absolute beginners of internet business. This is free, but I’ve learned more here than from some very expensive paid programs I’ve tried. This is high quality material.
- The Thirty Day Challenge Plus – a paid, but inexpensive, continuation of the Thirty Day Challenge. For a monthly fee, you continue your TDC education with lots more detail and material you are ready to implement after completing the Thirty Day Challenge.
- Blog Mastermind – a reasonably priced monthly paid program for those who want to become great bloggers and learn to make money from their blogs. Yaro Starak developed this program and you can check out the Blog Profits Blueprint report absolutely FREE before you decide to join a program like this. I completed this course and it has made me a much better writer and blogger.
- Membership Site Mastermind – a monthly paid program to learn how to set up a Membership site on any topic you can think of. Also by Yaro Starak, there are 3 FREE resources to explore this business before you join the paid program and spend any money: Membership Site Masterplan, Blue Sky video, and the info Slideshow video plus case studies.
I hope you will explore an online business as a part of your future income portfolio. No one can afford to rely on the income from a single job or career anymore. The job market is too insecure.
Here’s to your online business success and to finding a new job as well!
Sherri Joubert
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