If you’re looking to make an income on the move, here’s a few portable business ideas you can use. With the internet it’s easier than ever to build an income source from anywhere just with your laptop. There’s a few ways you can do this. Here are just a few ideas.
Portable Business Ideas – Freelancing
Freelancers earn income by offering their skills to other internet based businesses. With websites like Fiverr.com and upwork.com, you can offer your services to anyone globally and build a portfolio of work to showcase. Although online freelance services are competitive, there’s plenty of scope for earning through these kinds of sites. Freelancers on Fiverr offer a number of different services:
- Website design
- Logo creation
- Ebook covers
- Link building services
- Article writing
- Etc
So if you have a skill or service you can offer, look into becoming an freelancer on Upwork.com or Fiverr.com. If you don’t have a skill to sell, you can also get training from Fiverr through the many courses on offer there.
Portable Business Ideas – Blogging
If you’re more creative and want to generate an income from building something of your own, blogging might be the answer. Many bloggers make a passive income from their content, which they grow over a period of months and years.
Bloggers create content and monetise it either with affiliate marketing or through using paid marketing programs such as Adsense. One of the best ways to monetise a blog is through promoting products and services to your visitors. You can do this directly from your blog or by building an email list of subscribers. See the power of email marketing.
Portable Business Ideas – Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is one of the best portable business ideas I’ve found.. With affiliate marketing, anyone can earn money online through promoting other people’s products and services. They do this in various ways including:
- Blogging and website building
- Video blogging – YouTube (v’logging)
- Paid marketing – using the various paid marketing platforms
- Email marketing –
- Social media advertising
- etc.
There’s various affiliate products and services available online and you can join an affiliate or partner program in order to promote the various products. Learn more about affiliate marketing with this free video series.
Drop Shipping
Drop shipping is another business model similar to affiliate marketing. With drop shipping you partner up with a business which is already delivering a service. You get paid for referring sales and the “front end” of the business delivers the item.
Drop shipping and affiliate marketing are both referral marketing strategies whereby you earn money only when you refer a sale. But the advantage of these models is that you don’t need your own business. You don’t have to deal directly with customers in many cases, and simply refer website traffic to existing businesses. See also alternatives to drop shipping.
Access a free video series which explains a few different online business models by clicking on the image below.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense runs a program for content creators on the internet. With Adsense, you can connect your content with advertising and earn revenue when people click on advertising placed on your website or YouTube channel.
There’s many ways to get paid with Google Adsense and you can even build content on free platforms which let you upload your content without owning the site itself:
- YouTube
- Hubpages.com
- WordPress.com
- Blogger.com
However, it does take some dedication to earn a good living using only Adsense. You only get paid small amounts when people click on your content. So you’ll need a lot of content and visitors to make it worth your while.
Membership Sales
Selling membership products is a great portable business idea. With memberships you can earn recurring commissions so even a few sales can give you a regular source of income.
The best online membership products are those which offer huge value and often relate to online business owners. If you sell a product to someone which carries an ongoing membership, and pays you recurring commissions, you can benefit from it for years potentially. Especially if it’s a useful product which carries a lot of value.
See recurring income affiliate programs for more details.
It can take some time to learn the strategies to sell affiliate membership products. Start here and access a program which has a step by step (from scratch) course.
Sell High Ticket Digital Products Online
One of the most lucrative portable business ideas is to sell high ticket digital products. I know I’ve already mentioned affiliate marketing, but high ticket affiliate marketing deserves another mention. Most affiliate marketers start out selling items from Amazon, for example. but they only get paid from 1-11% commissions.
With digital products you can earn from 40-50% commissions. High ticket items carry much more value (and a higher price tag), so you stand to earn much more per sale than those low commission physical products.
High ticket products are things which cost over $1000. Here’s an example of a high ticket physical product (a submarine). (Click on the image for access to the free video series).
A high ticket physical product like this submarine will carry a much larger commission than a $100 product, for example. But with high ticket digital products you get the best of both worlds: large price tag and a larger commission. (Digital products typically pay 30-40% commission compared with 1-11% for physical products).
