“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus” – Bruce Lee.
With the explosive rise in ecommerce, more than a third of the world (2.64 billion people) shops online.
If you have a business, any business, you better have a presence on the internet. People “google” to get information online first, before going out or online to purchase.
Even if your business cannot be digital (e.g. a furniture store, or a plumbing service), you should still have an online presence to notify and engage your customer community.
Setting up a digital business has another huge advantage. You can reach people beyond your territorial limitation.
If you are looking for ideas, here are 3 business with massive scale on offer.
- Build a WordPress plug-in:
WordPress has over 800 million sites. About 500 sites are created each day on WordPress. There are more than 55,000 plug-ins for WordPress. Once you have your own site, you will find some issues that are unique to your situation, and do not have the a good plug-in. That is your requirement to build one. Or, find out areas where the good plug-ins do not perform as expected and you can improve on those.
Cost of building a plug-in is not too high. WordPress developers average $30 – $50 an hour. And now with Ai tools such as ChatGPT you can get it to write or review code.
2. Set up a consulting/coaching business:
For a third grader, a fourth grader is God. A fourth grader can teach them something they don’t know. I read this in “Anything You Want” by Derek Sivers. So you only have to find appropriate third graders to teach them what you know. It could be gardening, baseball, plumbing, or anything.
That’s it. You have a business.
Set up your website, and build your digital products.
Products could be: guides, coaching sessions, webinars, courses, speaking engagements, etc.
Your website should contain your story, a privacy policy, your products and a blog.
You should set up an email list, integrate with a payment provider (Paypal, Stripe) and manage your customers.
3. Have a dropship store:
What better than to sell other well-known brands from your own store? You can set up your drop-ship site on Shopify, Squarespace, etc. Drop-ship means exactly that. You take customer orders and the manufacturer will drop the shipment at the customer’s doorstep. You don’t have to handle the product or returns.
You have to set up the store, list the products and manage customers and marketing.
More details here.
Nearly 650 million people made a purchase from a Shopify store in 2022.
You can also buy a store that is already set up.
The internet and explosion of ecommerce has made it very easy to set up a business. Even finding products, shipping them and collecting them is a piece of cake.
The difficult part is pulling in customers and engaging them. That you can only do with a solid online presence and putting out compelling and engaging content consistently.
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