Thursday, August 5, 2010

How to Start an Internet Business without Capital

I often meet new Internet marketers on various forums and they aspire to earn the big bucks like some of the well-known personas out there, such as Yanik Silver and Bryan Kumar. However, most of these new marketers have only the slightest ideas on where to start, and a lot of them are not willing or able to invest a startup capital in their online business. However, it is almost impossible to start an Internet business without spending some money on basic infrastructure such as web hosting, domain names and so on. Hence, here is a rough guide on how to build an Internet business starting with $0.

The first and most important thing to do is to list out all your skills. What skills do you have? You may have picked up these skills through daily life (for example languages), through your job (hands-on knowledge on a specific niche) or from your hobbies (for example fishing). It is most vital to list down skills or knowledge that you have and might be in demand elsewhere. For example, you love fly-fishing and you do it every day after work. You may build your Internet business upon this: writing an instructional guide on fly-fishing, teaching people how to do it, etc. Best of all, you do not need to spend money to acquire this knowledge: you already have it.

So, the very first option, if you have no money to start off your online business, is to earn some capital using your already existing skills or knowledge. You can give tuition to students on your dominant subject in college, you can teach stuff about your hobby to people who are interested, you can write guides on knowledge or skills you picked up through experience and cannot be found in theoretical books.

Okay, let's say if you just can't think of any skills or knowledge that people might be interested in. Then, it's most important that you locate a workable business model and focus on that alone. You can obtain almost everything you need through bartering, web hosting, domain name or credit card processing, to name a few in exchange for your product (if you own one) or services like copywriting, ghostwriting and website designs. There is always some mundane job that people don't want to do, and you can do that for those people in exchange for things you need. You just need to ask for it!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

How do I begin?

Now, where do we start? What shall I write on. Of course I'm here to share my experience
with the IM world. Actually I got involved in IM due to my passion and love for surfing the net.
I spend a lot of my free time surfing the net, looking for articles, reading news and keeping
in touch with what's happening around the world. Always like to be the first to know so to
speak.

I was doing a lot of google search and start seeing people advertising and promoting
their products on the internet. Then I start asking myself, do these people really make money?
I mean can they really make money on the internet?

I did a little search and came across this interesting article which I'll share it with you all on my next posting. I think it was something to do with how to start internet business without capital. This would be interesting especially to majority of us who want to do business, but don't have the capital to do so.

Ok, see you in my next posting.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Ariffin Online

Hey everyone!

Nice to see you all. I set up this blog with a few things in mind.
* to establish networking and friendship from all over
* to share with you guys my ideas on internet marketing especially email marketing
* to update and exchange information

I've been involved in the IM since 2007 and along the ways have picked up a couple of interesting things which I would like to share with you all.

So do come back and be ready to share my experiences as well as yours. Who knows along the way, we may picked up few valuable pointers that may help us to improve our IM venture.

Thanks for visiting.

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." Malcolm Gladwell