Top 6 Business Ideas With Low Investment And High Profit

If you want to start a business and make a high profit, you MUST invest in that business.

Whether that is time investment or money investment, there must still be some type of investment that you can offer to make your business work.

If you ask any business owner today, how much they spent on their business to get started, you would expect to hear thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But there are some businesses that have recently taken off, where the investment that you put in, is very small.

It is these type of businesses that I want to talk about today, to offer you some great business ideas with low investment and high profit.

Whilst a business does cost money, I do not want to make you believe that your expenses will be minimal. I want you to remember one thing – as you make money in your business, be prepared to reinvest it, to make more. 

If you have a vision to one day make a high profit from your business, but you really do not have sufficient funds to start, then check out the following businesses ideas that you can start with a low investment but get a high profit in return.

My Top 6 Business Ideas With Low Investment And High Profit

#1 Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is by far, the quickest and easiest way to start a business with low investment and make a liveable income.

In some cases, you can start an affiliate marketing business, with no money. For example, you can join an affiliate network and select affiliate products that you would like to promote. This action is free of charge to you.  

You may then want to begin promoting those products on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram or YouTube.

To learn how to start affiliate marketing with this method, you can read my blog post Affiliate Marketing for Beginners by clicking here. 

In other cases, it may cost you a little bit of money to get started, if you decided that you wanted to start affiliate marketing by building websites and promoting the affiliate products on those websites. 

Of course if you decided to take this step, then you will need to pay for a domain and web hosting. The good news however, is that this cost is typically less than $200 and covers you for a period of three years with some web host providers. So when you calculate it, it is less than $70 per year or less than $20 per month.

If this is something you are interested in, you may be interested in learning how to build niche affiliate websites. You can read more about that in my blog post Building A Niche Affiliate Website From Scratch by clicking here. 

Either way, you are likely to start making high profits within one to three years, depending on how much time you commit to it and the work you put in.

Don’t be concerned about the length of time it will take you to make a good profit. The main point you can takeaway from this, is that you are investing in an asset that is likely to pay you for years to come.

If affiliate marketing is a business idea you are interested in starting then check out my other related blog posts that will help you: 

Related Articles:

• The Super Affiliate System Review 
• Clickbank Affiliate Marketing Strategy
• 10 Step Blueprint For A Profitable Affiliate Marketing Campaign
• How To Do Affiliate Marketing Without A Website Or Blog

#2 E-commerce

We are currently in the digital age, where you can find most things online and many platforms have made it easy for the average user. They have even extended this to starting an online business, thus making the idea of starting a business, a low investment option.

Most online companies have pretty much given you all the tools you need to get started, so all you really have to do, is sign up, add whatever content you want and start promoting your business. 

Ecommerce is one of those business models that you can start with a low investment and high profit. That’s because, in today’s time, with the vast amount of technology available and the ability to easily communicate worldwide, it is simple to stock an eCommerce store, without holding inventory first.

Before now, if you wanted to create an eCommerce business, you had to worry about purchasing inventory upfront and perhaps holding that inventory in a warehouse. Before you even sold an item, you probably had to put out a lot of money. 

Well it’s very different today.

How much does it actually cost to start an eCommerce business? You can start an eCommerce business for less than $30 per month.

When I started my own eCommerce site last year, I was plagued with worrying about designing my website, collecting customers’ payment details, stocking inventory, shipping orders, responding to customer queries and other headaches.

I was actually surprised to find out that I did not have to do any of the heavy lifting. In fact there are websites like Shopify and Woocommerce that make everything so easy for you.

Shopify actually helped me earn $7.5k in revenue in one month alone and I knew NOTHING about eCommerce back then!

They take care of your website hosting, website design and collecting customer’s payment details.

If you are also anxious about the idea of stocking inventory and shipping orders, then you have little to worry about!

Drop-shipping has made it convenient for you to access products in your niche and have them sent to your customers on your behalf.

So you really need not hold any inventory. The supplier of the drop-shipping company does that for you AND also fulfils the order for you.

So how can you get started with eCommerce?

Well Shopify is one of the easiest platforms to work with. They have a 14-day free trial then it is under $80 for their recommended package.

There is also Woocommerce, which is a WordPress plugin. Perhaps you already have a website and want to integrate a store on it? Well Woocommerce is your better option. 

Are you interested in learning how eCommerce is one of those business ideas with low investment and high profit? Here are some of my related blog posts that you can refer to: 

Related Articles:

• How To Start An Online Clothing Store
• The Ultimate Ecom Startup Guide 
• Best Ecommerce Solutions For Small Businesses
• How To Increase Conversions In Your Ecommerce Store

Recommended Ecommerce Courses: 

• Sellosity Labs  

#3 Network Marketing

Network marketing is also known as multilevel marketing and is similar to affiliate marketing. You are promoting another company’s products in exchange for a commission after a sale.

The difference is, the network marketer relies on a network of people or a team to grow their business. 

With network marketing, under this type of business model, you are responsible for getting customers and distributors or consultants, in order to earn money.

Whilst you can earn money from the sale of products alone, you earn a bigger income when you grow a network, making this option a highly profitable business idea you can start.

Therefore, if you are a people person and like the idea of training, motivating and managing a team; then this is one of the business ideas with low investment and high profit that I recommend you consider. 

There are many network marketing companies that you can find on the internet. All you need to do, is do a Google search and you will find them.

Most companies are free to join and also cost no more than $100 to start.

I find that most companies are in the weight loss industry, like It Works Global, Forever Living Products or Juice Plus.

There are also cosmetic network marketing companies like Younique, Mary Kay or Avon.

Whatever your passion, there is bound to be a network marketing company for you to join and I will give you these tips when selecting a company:

• Join a company in a niche that you’re passionate about
• Try the products first as a customer and if you like it become a distributor; it will be easier to sell the product this way.
• Study the policies and conditions of the company before you start promoting the brand

If you do decide to join network marketing as your first business opportunity, then the following related blog posts will help you out:

Related Articles:

• The Ultimate Guide To Network Marketing 
• How To Succeed In Network Marketing Fast 
• 5 Simple Ways To Grow Your Direct Sales Business Without Parties 
• 10 Network Marketing Tips For Guaranteed Success

Recommended Network Marketing Ebook:

• Network Marketing Secrets

#4 Freelancing

Freelancing is where you provide a service to individuals as a self-employed person, without the requirement to make any commitment to that individual long-term.

Anyone can be a freelancer and the great thing about this business idea is that in some cases you do not need experience. In other cases a bit of experience is required to prove that you can do the job. 

There are many different freelance business ideas that I can think of, that you can start right now. Some of those business ideas with low investment and high profit are as follows: 

• Freelance graphic designer 
• Freelance website designer 
• Freelance proofreader 
• Freelance writer 
• Freelance proofreader 
• Freelance transcriptionist 
• Freelance book-keeper
• Freelance personal or virtual assistant
• Freelance web developer 

As a freelancer however, whilst it is an enticing business opportunity, since the investment to start your business is quite low, there is typically the concern about attracting clients.

Most people who decide to start a freelance business, know that they can be good at freelancing, but do not know where they will find their clients.

There are many places that you can find clients. For example, you can find clients on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. You can find clients at your local chamber of commerce. You can also visit your local businesses and pitch your services. Then there’s the internet where you can create a website and learn how to be found through search engine optimisation or running ad campaigns. 

There are countless ways to find clients. You only need to be creative when deciding where the best place is to find those clients. 

If you have a skill and you think you will be good at it by offering freelancing services, the following blog posts will help you get to where you need to be: 

Related Articles:

• How To Make Money Online With Freelance Marketplaces
• How To Start An Online Business With Fiverr 
• How To Get Personal Training Clients With Sales Funnels 
• How To Get Clients As A Freelance Life Coach Or Consultant
• How To Get Web Design Clients As A Freelancer

Recommended Freelance Courses:

• The 42-Minute Freelancer Roadmap – Bootstrap A Highly Profitable Freelance Business

#5 Blogging

Blogging is another one of my favourite business ideas that you can start with low investment and have a high profit.

There are so many bloggers in the world that are finding success from the weirdest niches that you can think of, that I would say that anyone can start a blog in any niche.

In order to make blogging a high profit business, you should think about ways that you can help people solve a problem and then create a resource that they can turn to, your blog, to help them find information to solve those problems.

You can literally start a blog in any niche but if you want to first consider profitable niches then my blog post here will give you a starting guide.

One thing you should remember, is that the most profitable niches however can be competitive.

For less competitive blog niches, first do research to find out whether there are many people who have a problem that needs to be solved, then create a blog around solving those problems.

Some less competitive, smaller but highly profitable blog niche ideas are:

• Sailing niche
• Wedding planning niche
• Bikepacking niche
• Treehouse niche
• Treasure hunting niche
• Nerf gun niche

These are just some of the low competition niche ideas that my friend Ben Adler over at Affiliate Niche Builders shares with his readers. He shares many more, so if you are stuck for ideas, check out his list here.

You can start a blog using free or paid platforms, but I would recommend starting a blog with a paid platform, if it is something that you are serious about doing long term. When I started this blog it cost me less than $200.

Blogging is a great business idea with low investment and high profit, so if this is something that you have thought about and would like to start then here are a few resources that will help you:

Related Articles :

• The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Starting A Blog
• The Ultimate Blogging Strategy For Beginners – 90 Days to Blogging Success
• 25 Blog Tips For New Bloggers
• How To Get Your First 1000 Pageviews On Your New Blog

Recommended Blogging Courses:

• Profit With Blogging 5-Day Blog Course
• Pinterest Traffic Avalanche (Learn how to get bucket loads of traffic to your blog)

#6 Digital Product Creation

As a compliment to blogging, many blog owners go on to create digital products to sell on their blogs.

However you do not need a blog to start a digital product business. If you have a skill that you feel the world needs to know about, or you have information that you would like to share, then you can easily create a digital product and sell it to an audience.

In fact, the number of digital product creators that I have seen emerge recently is untypically large compared to ten years ago.

The fact that you can easily package a skill or idea and sell it, with the number of marketing tools available to you, I would say that this is a great business idea with low investment and high profit.

If you know how to sell a product online, then you can sell your digital products and go on to make four, five or six figures, profitably.

To create a digital product, there are a few tools you will need and it depends on the type of digital product that you want to create.

Some popular digital products are:

• Ebooks
• Video courses
• Audio courses
• Web-based applications
• Photography/art/website themes
• Documents/PDFs

The likely tools that you will need are:

• Design software like Canva or PicMonkey
• Landing page builder like LeadPages or Clickfunnels
• Video and audio hosting software like Vimeo, Wistia or YouTube
• Document hosting platform like WordPress or Amazon S3

Selling digital products as a business is a great business idea, that most people these days are turning to, to share their ideas with the world. The great thing about it, is it requires a very low investment but the potential for a large income is so great.

Take Action And Be Consistent

So those are my top six business ideas with low investment and high profit that works today.

Once you have decided on the business model, what to do next?

Well, take action! That’s it.

I have given you the resources that you can use to get started. I hope they are helpful. I also hope that you do really take action because I see so many people continuously learn but never implement.

That is the only thing that will get you anywhere.

These are six online business ideas that you can start for under $200. Choose one.

Then stick to it and master it until you’re successful – the consistent part.

This is exactly how I was able to quit my job and build a solid income online, because I chose the one that was right for me and I mastered that one.

Thanks for reading,

P.S Are there any other business ideas with low investment and high profit that you have taken up? Leave them in the comment section below. 

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