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I've no Idea of what to Sell and I'm Broke

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Now there's a profound title if ever I saw one. Suppose you don't have an idea in your head. Then what? Let's throw out another gem. Make money with no money. En passant, as our French friends would say, both statements are really rather ridiculous.

Years ago, before the Internet turned the world on its head, if you wanted to make some money, perhaps run a business of your own, the place to go was the library.

There, you could search through newspapers, periodicals, books on subjects that interested you. (Surely you were interested in something).

I remember that 25 or 30 years ago, mail order was the great thing. Problem was, you mostly had to buy stuff for resale, but not always. There were the huge mail order firms that sold everything including the kitchen sink.

They'd drop ship for you, but really you needed a niche, in just the same way that you do today on the Internet. Even then, although they'd drop ship, you still needed to buy samples of whatever you were selling. Simply to flash catalogs at people never really worked.

So now we're in the age of the Internet. From my very limited experience of this medium, it seems to me that there are two ways you may go.

You can find a niche market. This is fine, but there's a little more to it than random choice, or going along with an idea promoted by other people. Sometimes they work. The trouble is that lots of other people read the same thing and saturate the market.

The great advantage of selling something like E-books is that it won't cost you anything, until it comes to advertising. But there are other ways you may go.

Article marketing is excellent and if you find something without too much competition, yet with a definite market, you could be onto a winner.

The other way is to find a large corporation and tie yourself to them. The problem here is that it can cost a lot of money initially. That's the big drawback.

But on the plus side, if you find an outfit that deals ethically with its members, then they give excellent coaching and you're underneath their umbrella of expertise.

Both these methods, selling a niche product and allying yourself to a big corporation, are both affiliate marketing - tying yourself in with someone else to sell their product(s).

There is a third way, and that's to sell your own product. This is fine, but of course you're responsible for everything; any shipping that may be involved, customer complaints, taking payments and paying your own affiliates if you have any.

Personally, I prefer the affiliate side of things, and a bit of both; joining a big corporation and also becoming an affiliate for a single product.

The big businesses can set you up with one or more websites to market their products so that you don't have to worry about that side of things, and as I've mentioned previously, some, but not all, give you excellent training.

Once you recover from the shock of the original outlay, this is a good way to go. Equally, however, there are some very good companies out there that give you the wherewithall to build your website for nothing, and you're led by the hand in so doing.

These days, there really is something for everyone. Unless you simply don't like the idea of web marketing, in which case you wouldn't be attempting it in any case, there's most certainly something out there waiting for you.

The big businesses can set you up with one or more websites to market their products so that you don't have to worry about that side of things, and as I've mentioned previously, some, but not all, give you excellent training. http://www.mbizosrich.com

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