If you only had $30 to start an online business........

thank you that's great

 

Has someone mentioned Forex? Otherwise, use this $30 to buy a membership plan on one of the free lance websites to start working and earning more.

 

It all depends on what you want to achieve, how much time you have on your hands. If you're interested in a hands off - passive income type business, then I would make niche blogs. If you have a lot of time then you could offer some kind of service like logo design, article writing etc.

 

If you're paying for memberships on freelance sites, you're using the wrong freelance sites. The ones that work don't charge the workers for doing the job, at least not up front.

 

Or you can pay me $10 bucks for a sure win roulette strategy which you can use the other $20 for.

 

$30 to start a business? I'll try to be creative and not go with the obvious blog/info product route.

Use free tools to provide research type services to get funds coming in. Cost: $0

Start working on Fiverr and use your current funds to advertise your gig. Cost: $30

Register with Clickbank and use your funds to market your links. Cost: $30

Buy a membership in a good forum, or buy a BST thread on a forum and post an advertisement about your strongest service. Cost: $10-$30

Do some In-Game work. Farm some Gold. Cost: $30

Provide On-Page SEO Audit. Cost: $0

Provide Content Editing/Proofreading. Cost: $0-$10

 

I don't see $30 getting you very far. There's plenty you can do that doesn't involve investment. Guest blogging and using aff links in your text, Squidoo or Hubpage page creation. Any online platform that offers a profit share for content would work.

Try to make it so that your content has some longevity and is not reliant on 'flash in the pan' search phrases.

 

I'd buy lunch

 

1: Choose a niche. I'd choose a microniche and 3 exact-match keywords with roughly ~30,000 searches (via Google's Keyword tool)

2: Find & Write at least 10 articles. Each title would have 1 of 3 keywords included, then repeat the keyword maybe once or twice. Each article would include quality content and wouldn't be pushing people to buy anything. It would just be informative.

3: Buy a domain, preferably a .com & start up my blog.

4: Post 1 article every 1-2 days, roughly 3 articles a week. My blog would have a simple, attractive design and a maximum of two ads. Preferably one banner and one small,
simple text ad.

5: I would find amazon, clickbank, ebay or whatever products to promote: A max of 3.

6: Start posting quality feedback on other people's blogs: and the link to my blog would be my name, not some keyword I want to target.

7: Locate some guest bloggers and allow them one link to promote their product and one link for their blog. I would do this by privately contacting blog owners of blogs that I
actually like. I would tell them what about their blog I like and ask for a specific spin for my blog.

8: SEO work! Make a twitter and, depending on the niche, a facebook page. Submit to 10+ directory per day until I ran out of directories.

9: Run a contest: an actual contest with an actual winner. Something like retweet this message, follow us, and like our page for a chance to win [a $20 item relevant to my
niche]

10: After all 10 articles have been posted and preferably a guest post or two, write more articles! This time I would include review articles on products I'm promoting with honest reviews, including any perceived negatives. If using digital products, I would contact the seller as an affiliate to see if I could have a free review. I would link them to the site I'd be using to promote.

Hopefully this is profitable! If it isn't, I'd sell the domain and content for at least $30--but preferably more.

 

Definitely a blog and start writing some original content which you can share with article submissions

 

OP probably spent his $30 bucks on beer already after reading these depressing ideas.

 

Start a website making tutorials of something I'm good at and then make money off the ads!

 

Don't even $30, and start using Squidoo, write content and post regularly, you would start earning money.

 

with 30$, do some research on online poker (for about one month), the next month start playing

Once you have 1000$ look into the online business side, but don't forget the online poker

 

i would start an information selling business, quick and easy to set up

 

Buy a domain and purchase for some articles.

 

It is better to buy a domain that has a good and a relevant keyword that sells fast.

 

you can make money with no money in IM.. not that easy.. but you can.. built and market on a free platform first..Then later use the money to finance some traffic for your website..

 

Personally, I would start off doing some good keyword research, then register a domain name for $5 from godaddy using their coupon code, then use 000webhost.com for free hosting, install wordpress and a nice free theme. set-up paypal and set-up the theme to resell fiverr gigs for a profit, plenty of things on fiverr that can be re-sold for a good profit, video testimonials, SEO reports, Logos, graphics, etc... Promote website on forums and social networking sites....

Use the profits for new online ventures....

Total amount spent = $5.

 

Just buy some beer and cigar, sit down on the beach and start thinking the idea :d, stop dreaming start action