• Infopreneur. An Infopreneur is someone whose primary business is gathering and selling electronic information. You don’t need a product or service to market and it can be a low maintenance route to a profitable business.• Hard Goods Seller. If you don’t have your own product, you need to find products to sell and suppliers. You should also consider drop-shipping as a convenient option instead of incurring the cost and inconvenience of stocking your own inventory.
• Affiliate Business. This is a program that allows other companies, or individuals, to market a company's products or services for a commission or fee per item sold. This is a low cost type of business and no inventories are needed. Click here for more information on affiliate income opportunities.
• Service Businesses. Your site can be a great vehicle for starting up a service business or expanding your existing one.
• Local Offline Businesses. If you have an offline or bricks and mortar business, you can use your website to increase foot traffic.
• E-goods Seller. This term is used to describe any products that are stored, delivered and used in electronic format. Digital goods are transferred electronically to the customer through e-mail or downloaded from the Internet. Benefits include low cost operation and no inventory stocking. Some examples are software, music files and e-books. You can create your own or sell someone else’s products.
• Referrers/Finders. Become a referral agent – a lead generator. Refer your website traffic to other service or goods providers and collect a finders fee.
• Internet Auction Sellers. An auction is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the winning highest bidder.
• MLM or Network Marketing. Multilevel marketing (MLM) plans are a way of selling goods or services through distributors. These plans promise that if you sign up as a distributor, you will receive commissions — for both your sales of the plan’s goods or services and those of other people you recruit to sell the goods of the distributor.
• Sales and Rental Agents. No matter what product or service you represent as a sales representative or agent, you can find ways to increase your sales and profits with an online presence.
• Existing E-businesses. If you already have an online store or business, you can create a website to direct traffic to it to increase your profits.
• AdSense and/or Other Ad Approaches. Think of using your site to generate ad income using Google Adsense or other sources of ad revenue. Pay per click (PPC) programs are very popular today.
The above business categories/ideas should help you find products that you can sell. Additional information on these and other ideas can be found here.
