The Best, Easiest, Ultimate Part-Time Online Business?

The weak economy can be made less harsh if you do something today. Choose a business you can start part-time online. Who knows, maybe it takes off and you decide next year to make it a full-time effort. Maybe next year you’re working for yourself instead of tied to a job where someone pays you – you pay yourself.

If you made a couple hundred dollars per month for spending some time getting your online business going – would that be something that makes sense? How would $300 or $600 per month extra take care of some important needs you have right now?

There are some part-time online businesses that are relatively easy to start and get up and running. Probably you won’t choose one of these businesses I list below – but maybe they’ll give you an idea for your own online business.

Here is an opportunity you should consider:

Sell Information – right now the information market is booming. There are websites offering “how-to” booklets for many topics – but, guess what? There are thousands more NOT being made. Find a need and create a how-to book for that niche and you can charge $4.95 to $14.95 for an eBook on that topic. Do you know how to teach someone to play the harmonica? Ukulele? Use some software program? Know how to shoot video? Can you write about some area that you can’t find information on? Do you have tips for saving money? Fishing tips? A fishing guide to your local area? The possibilities are almost endless. Chances are you know something you can write about.

Don’t worry about not being a PhD in the subject. Don’t worry about not knowing everything – study the topic even more and become an expert. Learning makes you an expert.

If you want, you can even interview an expert to create your e-book. You could interview a group of experts. You could amass a collection of articles and facts about a topic from many different publications and put it together as the ultimate guide to something. Selling information for your part-time business site is probably the easiest way to get started online and get some income. How much you build it up depends on how serious you are about marketing it. Adam Short is one young entrepreneur that has 90 websites selling information guides. He makes a couple hundred to a couple thousand per month. Per site. He’s making good six-figure income per year this way. Best part is – once it’s setup he does very little – the business runs itself. It’s one of the few businesses that are truly hands-off once finished.

Briefly this is how it works:

You build a small website – use Google’s “Site” to create them if you wish. You add a lot of information about the small niche that you’re targeting. Say it’s “Betta fish”. Adam Short did this exact topic. Give away a lot of basic information about betta fish. But, on every page allude to the fact that you have the ultimate guide on betta fish that nobody else has. You have THE authoritative guide on betta’s. You’ll sell it on the site for just $14.95, or, more importantly – you’ll give them 10-14 days of tips about betta fish if they join your email newsletter.

Your email newsletter, automated by Aweber.com, sends them a tip per day – and about every three days – also has a hard sell on your ebook contained in the email. This is an awesome way to create sales. Giving free information and building credibility and trust and then asking for a sale for the ultimate product.

Summary
Take advantage of the fact that about 92% of surfers go online looking for information. Many will pay for information about a small topic they can’t get anywhere else. If you only had a customer each day – and made $10 per day – that’s $300 per month.

Sounds nice, doesn’t it?