Top 5 Businesses You Can Start As Early As Today
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): TomKin Consulting LLC.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2020
Businesses come and go, which is natural. So it is with the ideas of a profitable organization. Most businesses, by dint of their venture, will fail. But that’s fun, the risk. A risk in possible failure, but also a chance for potential success.
Businesses should be fun because they will be hard. A hardness only capable of being overcome through the nature of a creative endeavour. You can start a blog, create a website, found an online fashion company, become a marketer, or a maker.
The Blog
A blogger is a writer. Personally, I frame this that way. Because a blogger gets framed as a poor writer, implicitly. I don’t like it. If they type, and if they write, then they are a “writer,” as in someone who puts text to paper or electronic text to screen.
To start a blog, the most important part is to frame it. What are yo going to write about here? The idea is to find something that can drive you. Something of a passion project as a business. This is the best bet.
Wherein, any use of the blogging platform should reflect this chosen frame or topic or theme. This theme reflective of an interest, if not a deep interest, for you. From there, something to produce a wide range of content within those bounds.
One of the best parts about blogging or writing is that it’s an inexhaustible resource. There is a – literal – infinite number of interpretations of the world. This infinity means a the possible to dig, and dig and dig, a theme forever.
The main part of blogging is the continual writing of relevant to the theme quality content. If you can do this, then you can become a master of a trade. A trade that is merchantable. Which is to say, something worth some finances. You can sell it.
But it has to be something relevant to an audience and in the innumerable ways the audience requires the information. You have to be convinced of the relevance of the content and be convincing in the written materials. Then, over time, you can garner an audience and make the materials monetisable.
The Website
This is one of the most straightforward ideas in the world of modern communications technology. It’s something most people in the industrial societies have more and more. Websites are a sign of a modern person, not better, but a high technology person.
Whether you’re working for the Department of Defense in South Korea watching out for suspicious activities of a nuclear State, such as North Korea, or have a fashion company, websites are a business in and of themselves. Also, they make businesses.
Here’s how: Businesses need representatives. This representation can be automated. One of its core successes is its generality. It can be used for a personal business. So, something to generate income individually as a website on whatever business comes to mind.
On another level, it can be a way to garner finances through creation for others. Those mass of “modern” people talked about before. If they have a business, personal or otherwise, they will need a platform to display their excellent products and services to others.
Your business venture can be – and even starting right now – the generation of websites for other businesses. Those businesses’ websites can come from the basic skills of web construction. With this, and over time, you can develop a mini-marketing platform to have a substantive income.
Your platform, in a sense, becomes the representation of the collection of other businesses using your skills and talents. Those talents in the generation of websites as a business model for other businesses. And make not mistake, websites are difficult for a lay person, so a highly sought after commodity is someone who can make them.
The Fashion Company
To make a fashion statement, it’s all about aesthetics. It’s about visual appeal to even a non-fashionista or fashionisto. It’s about colour, contours, and form, and suitability to event. Fashion designers are all over the world. Same with fashion companies.
A sense of the fashionable built into a company is difficult. However, as I found through Trusted Clothes interviews, there is a huge cohort of online businesses via fashion companies. It’s about the capacity, here, to present this online for them.
As I learned in talking with fashion designers, there is a large market for micro, small, and medium businesses in terms of selling aesthetic appeal online. A fashion company can run entirely online.
You will need to know about fabrics, fashion style for your industry, and then garnering a capable factory floor for production. However, in terms of sales and distribution, this could be – and can be – done entirely online.
If you have an interest in fashion and starting a business solo, you can found a website. Not in a general sense as before, it’s about a general market and sale for the company. A company devoted to fashion, or a particular fashion style rather, and then marketing this via a website.
The marketing, naturally, would be towards a target audience interested in the specific type of fashion. Then this could be presented, sold, and distributed, through an online platform built into the website for the company.
The Marketer
Any business will require a person who can sell the business either directly, a sales representative, or indirectly, a marketer. A sales representative is someone who is the literal face of the company.
Think of Steve Harvey for the Steve Harvey brand, or the referee-like outfit of a footlocker manager in D.C., this is different than the other one. A marketer is someone who designed a brand’s outreach via its very essence, how it looks and comes as an experience.
A marketer is someone who, once they know about the target audience, knows how to make a comprehensive sales package. Something to be played out over time and, so, sold to the target audience of the company.
If you want to become a marketer, it will take some effort. However, you will be able to start today because you can begin to develop the skill-set of a marketer at any time. This is something important to consider.
Because, maybe, fashion isn’t your thing, or making websites aren’t your thing. But the overall design and appeal of a company presented and sold to the target audience can be your thing. Where, you assess a target audience, have companies or businesses come to you, and the you develop a marketing strategy for them.
It’s a good gig. Because from the small store to the international corporations, all have a marketing team, so need good marketing. If you’ll find a niche and develop marketing skills, and sensibilities, as in reading a company’s target audience, you’ll always be employable.
The Maker
The last one for today is a maker. These are the general individual entrepreneurs who flourish in the chaos of individual entrepreneurship. If you have a skill, whatever it may be, even YouTubing crocheting, or livestreaming Call of Duty, you can be a maker.
You are someone making something. In this sense, your digital or physical product is what you make, so – ahem – makes you a maker. One of the only catches for this one is that you’ll need to be exceptionally good to make a mark.
Because the competition for the makers’ markets is fierce. You can monetize on YouTube, on a website, or other platforms, even Patreon. So, the key takeaway about the makers’ industry is to focus on the craft.
Are you providing the highest quality made product or service – physical or digital – for the audience? You’ll need to practice all the time to have this become a reality. Because a high quality craft, no matter the talent, requires honing and persistence.
That persistence can more likely make this become a reality. Because you will need time to both build the backdrop of successes for monetization of the made materials, and to have a sufficient audience to make a living off the made products
Questions to Consider
What makes a business a true business?
Why are you selecting this type of business in particular?
How can you monetize this endeavour to create a steady income over the long term?
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