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As the Internet becomes more of a fixture in peoples' everyday lives, it offers everyone the chance to become a small business owner with more ease and less capital investment than ever before. For example, if your friends all tell you that you make the most amazing spaghetti sauce and that you should turn it into a business, you can start right away by building an online presence for your business and its products, before you've even actually produced one jar of sauce.
One question remains, though, after you decide to create your business online. What business model will you use? While you might decide that it's best to make a product, such as your winning spaghetti sauce, this is one option, though certainly not the only one.
Take the time to consider the best business model for your new idea and you will dramatically increase your odds of success.
Which Business Model Fits?
There are three basic business models for online businesses, and you can choose the one that best fits your vision. You can:
- Sell a physical product.
- Sell a service.
- Sell a digital information product.
If you don't want to deal with the manufacturing, storage or shipping of a physical product, and you don't want to provide a service, you can try another form of business that has become very popular online, which is affiliate marketing.
The following walks through each of these models in more detail.
Selling Physical Products Online
This is often the first model that comes to mind for many people. Create a shippable, physical product and market it online. It could be sold via your own e-commerce storefront, an auction site, or you can sell your products on a third-party site, like Amazon.com.
Benefits of selling physical products online: Compared to selling from a physical location, there are several benefits to selling your goods online. First of all, customers can check out your product offering without having to go to your physical location (if you even have one).
