Start up Businesses -Turnkey Websites
It’s a great time to start a small business. One quick and easy way is to purchase a turnkey website using sites like Flippa.com (a site whose biz model is similar to Ebay, but that specializes in the buying and selling of websites for anywhere from the start-up rookie to the more experienced e-commerce business person).
I recently visited Flippa.com and went through the process of selecting and purchasing a website. For disclosure sake I want to tell you that I am not completely clueless about how internet businesses work, I would say I am just slightly above rookie status. That being said, I took some time to look through the Flippa.com site for easy, turn-key operations that I could control, and hopefully learn to monetize. I did purchase a site, fully set up, for $110 called TheRecipeNetwork.info. With the sellers assistance I was able to transfer the domain,transfer the site to my WordPress, and then in trying to transfer the hosting of the site to my hosting account I lost it and haven’t had the time to go find it. My intention was/is to find an attractive website that was fully functioning and to add advertising from Amazon, Clickbank and Adsense to it.
All of these easy advertising methods are free to use and come with pretty clear instructions about adding them to your site as well. My main intent was to drive traffic to the site so I could increase its value and hopefully collect some passive income from the advertising. Not to mention, I wanted to try it out before I wrote about it here.
As in any business venture, proceed carefully. Know how much money you have available to risk, ask a lot of questions, buy into a niche that interests you. No matter how easy it seems, e-commerce takes time, and depending on your experience, can involve a substantial learning curve. But I would advise taking a look at the site (or other sites like it) if you’d like to get your feet wet at an easy startup.
