200 - How easy it can be to set up an online business

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It's stupidly easy to set up an online business. Subscribe:ITUNES | ANDROID | STITCHER | RSS FEED Scribbled Shownotes P.S. I semi-scripted today's episode: here's the script. When you’re stuck in a rut It’s easier to look and see that the grass is greener on the other side Today, I’m here to tell you that it is And I’m here to show you how easy How unbelievably, ridiculously easy it is To set up an online business Today, right now. Seriously, you’re not going to believe how easy this is. BREAK I don’t care how much you know right now Even if the only thing you can do is open your email Within a couple of hours, you could make a website If I look back 15 years ago to when I started this website stuff You used to have to make them yourself Well, sort of. I made my first website in something called Dreamweaver Which was really just an upgraded FrontPage And if you remember that, you’re an old sad geek like me. Back then, websites would take a couple of hours just to make something basic Now, you can go to something like WordPress.com Or squarespace Or Wix, or a million other things like that, and have a website online in 20 minutes No kidding, no exergerating. I could teach my dad to do this stuff. I could teach my dad to make a website in 20 minutes. And with a website, comes a business. Or at least, a potential business. There’s loads of ways to setup on online business. You’ve got the obvious ones like e-commerce Selling a product online, then shipping it and stuff like that Then you’ve got less obvious ones Like being an online personal assistant for people Which are sometimes called virtual assistants And then there’s things like SEO consultants Business coaching Social media And stuff like I do, selling websites We started Genius Division with nothing more than a couple of computers and desks And a website, obviously From that website we sold our services But we never really directly sold from the internet as such We sold through contacts we already knew and the network we’d built up But we did, and still do, sell websites And in some way, ours is an online business As I’ve been banging on all week, it pains me so much to see people not realising this Not realising the potential of the internet, and all the crazy different businesses you can setup on it SO EASILY If there’s any takeaway from this week of the power of the internet episodes its simply this The internet is massive And you could be making money from it as well If you’re stuck in a job you hate or you want to change I’ve got thousands of people who I could show you who make money purely through the internet At all levels, from making a couple of quid a month through to making millions The internet is really damn powerful And I hope you can realise that in some small way, and start to take advantage of it too I’ve linked to an article in today’s show notes that talks about online business ideas. It’s here http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4572-online-business-ideas.html There’s all sorts of crazy stuff in there And I hope you find something that might suit you. Support Ask a Designer Anything Ask a Designer Anything Website Twitter (@craigburgess) Ask a Designer Anything on Facebook Leave me a review on iTunes