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4 Online Business Methods That Are Still Working In 2018

Whether if you’re trying to escape your boring 9 to 5 routine or if you want to get some extra pocket money, online-based side incomes have become more and more popular lately. With many different avenues and models that you can follow, it’s safe to say that online businesses and fast-scaling stores are still a relevant topic. Let’s break down the absolute best ones that you can start right now.

Drop Shipping

The good old Drop Shipping method is still a big thing and it has become even easier than it was a couple of years ago. With many tools like Shopify and Oberlo, to create and manage a store, the entire process is pretty easy, especially if you’re a creative person with a solid business sense. Drop shipping focuses on selling products that are already listed on another site, therefore without physically owning them. Although many successful ones decided to use Chinese sites like Aliexpress, DHgate and Taobao, the avenues are pretty much infinite, as long as you’re able to apply a branding process to the product you’ve chosen.

Digital Marketing Consultancy

Strictly connected to drop shipping and many other forms of e-commerce, digital marketing is something that heavily affects every single online-based professional who wants to become successful. If you’re a successful marketer, with a technical knowledge of SEO, PPC and everything in between, you should keep in mind the fact that presenting these strategies to a client is something that must include tangible results: presenting ROI, combined with CTR and CRO graphs, is what will separate you from a medium level digital marketer.

Tech Development

Let’s state the fact that, even if your business has a strong brand name and a powerful marketing plan of action, it could be technically limited by bugs on your site, content optimisation, SEO and everything in between. That’s why, even if you’re running a simple drop shipping store, you should have a minimal (but strong) technical knowledge of HTML, CMS (in general) and everything that stands in between, given the fact that maintenance for this kind of businesses is expensive and incredibly long to do (if you’re not doing it by yourself).

Business Avenues

In the near future, we will see the evolution of these matters in a more B2B way: instead of drop shipping products, the entire drop shipping world will move towards providing services such as insurance, bridging loans and many more. It’s important to keep these in mind, especially because these businesses have high search volumes and they will definitely help you if you want to approach the matter.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by UK Bridging Loans .