How to Successfully Start Small Business Online

With advancements in internet technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and most recently agentic Ais, it’s now easy and fast for any aspiring entrepreneur to start small business online successfully without any hassles. So, if you’re ambitious and determined to succeed, you can use available free and paid web tools to automate and simplify your daily business tasks and jobs without wearing yourself to death.

 

Whether you already have an existing offline business which you want to migrate to the internet or you’re thinking of starting an online business entirely, the basic steps of running and growing a business profitably remain the same. I’ll discuss these details shortly for clarity.

 

But first, you’re either going to create and sell a product or provide services to a targeted audience who has the need for it on the internet after you’ve done your due diligence and conducted market research satisfactorily to that effect. In the area of creating products to sell, it could be a physical product or digital product or both.

 

However, the most important take away is that you’ve to identify an audience who has pain points to solve, build trust and relationship with them and provide the needed solution for your target audience through a reliable platform.   

 

To make it easy for you to get clients or customers at scale, you’ve to demonstrate high level of expertise in your niche and gain trust from your ideal customers. This is why it’s important you’ve to prove yourself as a thought leader in your industry before you start promoting and selling products and services to your target market.

 

The other area which you’ve to closely look at is getting a platform to publish your content and/or showcase your products and services. More often than not, a lot of entrepreneurs want to make money online without a website. While it’s possible to do so but I must tell you that it’s not advisable if your business goal is for the long term.

 

The first step is for you to research online business ideas which you can start and choose one out of them after juxtaposing it with your experience, expertise, interest, or passion.

 

The second step is for you to investigate, study, identify and understand your ideal customers. This is where you’ve to draw up your basic ICP (ideal customer profile) for easy reference and guidance. You must understand the fact that you don’t have a business if there are no clients or customers to serve. So, having prospects and leads to prime for the sale is key to your online business success.

 

If it’s an existing business, it will be easy to find data of your best customers by simply looking at long-term customers, large accounts customers, or even affiliate marketers who have brought in large and constant sales for you from their independent promotions. This is where building email marketing list is vital to the success of your small business online.

 

You can make use of CRM automation systems, Google Analytics and market survey tools to come up with your ICP. For example, you can use SurveyMonkey or JotForm to ask questions, and elicit information about the pain points of your target audience if you are building and nurturing an email list of subscribers.

 

However, you’ll easily get better responses if you incentivize your list members with a complementary free PDF ebook, video or anything than can go for an ethical bribe.

 

I can assure you that it’s not expensive to start a small business online. With as little as $200, you can build a website, create a blog, and subscribe to reliable email marketing software for a start. Your website investment will include registering a domain name, buying web hosting, and subscribing to an email service provider (ESP). This will create a strong foundation for you to start and grow a profitable business.

 

Personally, before I start any business online, my first task is to make sure there is enough demand for what I want to do. This will involve me spending money to buy web hosting, create a blog for free, regularly publish content on my blog, consistently build email subscribers’ list, and religiously follow the engagement before taking any step further.

 

There is myriad of website tools which you can make use of to execute these tasks such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Google Keyword Planner. The good news is that they are free to use. It will help you to know the direction of your small online business before you go full throttle.

 

You’ve to understand that every step of your small business journey is important to your overall success. For instance, you have to write a business plan to guide you as work on your project. Also, if there is any need to get licenses and/or certificate of proficiency in your field, you’ve to sort that out as well.

 

In any case, the bulk of your regular tasks will involve consistently creating content and driving targeted traffic to your website or blog. You’ve to learn SEO (search engine optimization) if you want to invest less on paid adverts such as PPC (pay per click) advertising.

 

All in all, if you want to start small business online, simply invest in:

• Domain name registration,
• Buy web hosting,
• Create a blog,
• Regularly publish high quality content on your blog,
• Optimize your blog for search engines and AI overviews,
• Set up analytics to monitor traffic sources,
• Build an email list of subscribers,
• Monetize your blog accordingly, and
• Make improvements as you go.

 

The essence of starting a small business on the internet is to make money. Beyond that, you must be willing to put your best foot forward in researching problems and challenges your target market are facing and proffering spot-on solution to solve them.

Like I said earlier, building trust and credibility must be your priority when starting an online business. As a matter of fact, potential buyers are always wary of strangers who are looking for the gullible to fleece out of their hard-earned money.

 

Unless you can demonstrate it beyond every reasonable doubt that you are for real, making money online will be a mirage. I have spent months on this side hustle blog publishing content (even though by fits and starts) to gain traction before seriously monetizing it.

This is why as an entrepreneur you should not expect immediate ROI (return on investment) from your business without giving out value first.

Are AI Writing Tools Taking Freelance Writers Out of Business?

As a side hustler and freelance writer, I can tell you that the current online business terrain is ominous, bumpy, dry and hilly with the recent popularization of artificial intelligence (AI) in executing human tasks especially in the writing space. As things are unfolding, the hardest hit is the freelance writing business and outsourcing services industries!

 

But in all of these, I can assure you that there is a silver lining in the cloud. AI cannot take versatile freelance writers out of business because AI is a function of human intelligence. Although AI’s capacity to perform everyday tasks in business is gargantuan, it is still limited by scope and information fed by the tools’ developers. In short, AI tools lack emotion, empathy and foresight!

 

I know users of AI tools are constantly giving feedback to the developers for subsequent improvements and upgrade even from beta testing stage, but the truth is that the versatility and creative nature of human writers cannot be imitated. AI writing tool can be seen as an assistant or aid to digital content creators and not as a replacement. 

 

While AI tools and, most recently, agentic AI are all over the internet, there is the fear of plagiarism of original content of authors, publishers, and writers on the web without attributing due credit to the intellectual property owners.

 

This is why online business owners and webmasters who know their onions will still hire freelance writers who focus more on human writing than depending solely on an AI writing tool to do the job.

 

As more advancements in artificial intelligence technology are unfolding, I know it’s going to be a handy and useful tool in the writers’ arsenal especially those who know how to create spot-on prompts to elicit the right answers and information from the apps.

 

As a freelance writer, knowing how to work smarter and not harder will speed up the execution of writing jobs and tasks for self and clients. This is why you must take a second look at every AI writing tool in the marketplace such as Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, etc, and deploy it to your agency advantage.

 

But to remain relevant as a freelance content writer now, you need to understand how AI search and AI SEO work. Of a truth, artificial intelligence overview in the SERP (search engine results page) is taking over the search visibility at the moment. The era of zero-click has come to stay, and we must be ready to adapt and be visible to our leads and prospects. If you cannot beat them, you’ve to join them!

 

And the way forward is to learn digital skills as soon as possible so that you don’t lag behind in AI search visibility. If you cannot provide full-scale digital marketing services to your clients as a freelance writer, you may be out of writing jobs and clients, sooner or later.

In conclusion, you can take your side hustle or freelance writing business to the next level with AI tools available online. 

How to Start a Side Hustle and Quit Your Day Job

Do you know that you can start a side hustle and be able to quit your day job in a matter of months? With unfettered access to the World Wide Web, unabated technological advancements, and by dint of determination to succeed, you’ve what it takes to be your own boss. But you must not downplay on the sacrifice on your path which will make things to work for you.

 

Although the internet presents and promises a lot of goodies in terms of making money online, I’ll not advise you to quit your day job from day one without starting a side hustle that guarantees your future income each and every month. With easy access to advanced internet technologies, anyone can start a side hustle while working from home and make money.

 

Starting a side hustle is not complicated if you’ve bankable or viable business ideas that solve pain points which your target audience will be willing to pay for. The best way to get started is to create, manage and own a platform where you can continue to interact with your ideal customers, demonstrate your expertise, and build credibility with them before selling any product or service they need.

 

An easy route is to create a blog with self-hosted content management system like WordPress, optimize it for SEO (search engine optimization) and AI (artificial intelligence), and consistently publish content as solutions which should be related to the topics and pain points of your target market.

 

As you know, there are broadly two ways to serve any market of your choice. The first way is to create a product that solves a challenge, problem, or fill a gap in the marketplace. This could be a physical or digital product.

 

The second way is to provide a service based on your skill set or expertise. You can do this as a freelancer or broker where you’ll be paid based on the agreed fee charged by you and accepted by your hirer. Examples of service-based solutions are being a freelance writer, graphic designer, or web developer.

 

It’s easy to start a side hustle business these ways and become highly successful than waiting for an auspicious but elusive moment to quit your day job and start your own business in a big way. For example, I was still holding down my day job when I started an affiliate marketing business some years back.

 

As soon as I understood the nuts and bolts of promoting and selling affiliate products and services on the internet and consistently earning commissions thereof, I diversified into domaining and website flipping. It was then I realized that the secrets to every online business success is hinged mainly on determination, consistency, and the willingness to learn.

 

Today, I may not be able to make money online to build skyscrapers all over the world, but I’ve been able to achieve financial freedom of my dreams by being self-employed. I work from home every day, and I decide when to sleep and wake up. It has also offered me the opportunity to pursue my spiritual lifestyle without any hindrances of any kind.  

 

You must be able to allocate quality time to tend to your side hustles every week. You’ve to be religious about it. You’ve to show up in your internet business at least one hour a day. You’ve to study any online business model inside out which you want to start with. This is important so that you can quickly spot and avoid mistakes inimical to any business success.

 

At the barest minimum, you need to invest money to register a domain name, buy web hosting services, and set up an email marketing software to build an email list of subscribers. To make it easy for you to sell any product or service on the internet, you need people who know, like and trust you in any specific niche. So, list building is an integral part of every successful digital marketing system which you must not ignore for any reason.

 

I have written a step-by-step web hosting guide to help you sign up with HostGator with ease and get a free domain name from them to start your side hustle business seamlessly. With less than $200 as your out-of-pocket cash investment, you can start a blog and make money in any niche market of your passion in a matter of 90 days or less.

 

Creating digital products or services to sell, promoting affiliate products, blogging, freelancing, and so on, are some of the many ways to start side hustles and make money. While there is learning curve involved in all these models, it’s doable if you’re determined to succeed. Yes, anyone can learn it and make money on the internet!

 

When I was starting out, I told myself that I want to quit my 9 to 5 job within 365 days or less. To this end, I decided to write a business plan to guide me in every step of the way and everything I wanted to do.

 

Barring all unforeseen circumstances, I clearly spelt out all the details of what I want to do to quit my day job in record time, i.e. from business idea conception to creating a platform to monetize my content to online marketing strategies which I deployed, and so on.

If you don’t leave any stone unturned and you’re a stickler to details, there is no way you cannot make money online and quit your job sooner rather than later. As a digital publisher, you’ve what it takes to successfully build a small business from home without all the bells and whistles associated with brick-and-mortar world. 

Top 5 Secrets to Affiliate Marketing Success

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make passive income online and it’s also beginner friendly. But you’ve to uncover every secret which super affiliates is using to earn top dollars on the internet in order to hit a home run.

 

Frankly speaking, affiliate marketing business is not as easy as many gurus would want you to believe. It’s even getting harder by the day when you try to make money with affiliate marketing without building an email list of subscribers in the process because of cutthroat competition in every niche you may decide to venture into on the World Wide Web.

 

If you really want to experience affiliate marketing success on a large scale as soon as you get started, you’ve to take a close look at these top business secrets which I’ll be sharing with you shortly in this blog post. Over the years, I’ve been a fan and keen observer of so many affiliate marketers who know their onions and are consistently making money online, month in and month out.

 

So, I’ve decided to spill the beans and distill every information you need to make money online by simply promoting merchants’ products and services for affiliate commissions. Come with me and learn one or two online business success secrets which you can take to the bank any day and at any time without breaking a sweat.

 

Secret #1: Use, Show and Tell Your Readers About an Affiliate Product

 

In today’s marketplace, it’s no longer business as usual. Every potential buyer or prospect is getting wiser and wiser by the day when they read product reviews by fake affiliate marketers and snake oil salesmen and women who are promoting products and services they have never used or tested or know little or nothing about its efficacy.

 

Buyers are very wary now and they only want to identify with affiliate product promoters who can prove the efficacy or otherwise of a product they are promoting. The only way to get this done is to use the product yourself, prove its usefulness or otherwise and then go ahead to promote it “as is”.

 

I simply tag this system of promoting affiliate products to prospects and leads as “use, show and tell” to your readers the benefits of what you are selling on behalf of your vendors and merchants. Let’s consider a personal example. My money sites, blogs and niche websites are hosted with HostGator web hosting services.

 

Because I’ve been using HostGator hosting for a long period of time to host my blog websites, I can tell a lot about them to my subscribers and even show them my invoices from HostGator if need be.

 

This way, any aspiring blogger or online entrepreneur who wants to build a website or create a blog will be convinced of what I’m saying or writing about HostGator website hosting company. Gone are the days of selling affiliate products from the sidelines with strong copywriting skills and then cleverly making money online without anything about the product or service.

 

Even till this present day, Pat Flynn who is the owner of SmartPassiveIncome.com blog uses this method of using an affiliate product or service before promoting it and he has been successful at it. He used this method to promote CovertKit affiliate product so well that he has been making tidy sum of affiliate commissions from it over the years.

 

Personally, I’ve only used GetResponse email marketing software and not ConvertKit to build an email list of subscribers. So, it will be out of the way for me if I’m trying to promote ConvertKit on my blog and writing product review about it when I’ve never subscribed to it. This is how to make money with affiliate marketing business with peace of mind.

 

The question now is, “Must you buy or use every affiliate product before promoting it?” The answer is yes and no, and I’ll explain it to you for clarity. Using before promoting every product places you in pole position to sell that product with confidence.

 

Imagine yourself selling an affiliate product such as an ebook on personal finance. If you’ve bought and used it, you can write a product review and refer to specific pages in the PDF ebook for emphasis. For example, you can say in page 50 of the electronic book, the author clearly outlined 10 tips to pay off your debt without borrowing.

 

From making use of an affiliate product, you’ll be able to understand the strengths and weaknesses inside out of the product or service which can be a guide, ebook, video, app, software, e-course, and so on. The essence is telling the “true and fair view” of any product or service without any hype or bogus claims.

 

From your personal experience of using a product or service, you’ll be able to know the pros and cons of it. This way, your product review will not be filled with vain philosophies, abstract commentaries, or fiction narrations.

 

This is why the Federal Trade Commission which is a federal agency in the United Staes of America is aggressively scouting for online businesses using deceptive marketing tactics of any kind or type to fleecing the unsuspecting consumers.

 

Secret #2: Create a Blog to Promote an Affiliate Product

 

An easy way to promote an affiliate product and make money on the internet is to create a blog and use it to sell complementary products and services from time to time. Your big break will come from building a niche blog around complementary affiliate products and services you’ve used, signing up with merchants and vendors who own these products as an affiliate publisher, and then promoting and selling these products on their behalf to earn affiliate commissions.

 

It’s very easy to achieve success this way because potential buyers and users want to hear your personal story about the product or service before they buy because they don’t want to take a leap in the dark. And as a matter of fact, you’ll never be short of blog post ideas to create content targeting these affiliate products you are promoting because it will become a second nature and your forte. 

 

You’ve to know that investing money, time and effort in affiliate marketing business is real. It’s not a business of getting rich quick, or Pyramid or Ponzi schemes of any type. Creating a blog or building a website will cost you money, learning digital skills, time, and effort to succeed.

 

For instance, you’ve to know how to register a domain name and be able to set up name servers to point to your web hosting servers when you buy web hosting and set up your blog or build your website on your domain from your cPanel account dashboard, and so on.

 

However, with less than $100 budget for a start, you can successfully build an affiliate website and make money on the internet. Although there are no hard and fast rules on how to start affiliate marketing business and make money, it’s still important you approach it professionally and treat it as a real business even if it is your side hustle.

 

Promoting affiliate products without a website is possible but not sustainable. If you want to learn how to make passive income online without breaking a sweat, get web hosting services in place, create a WordPress blog on your domain name, consistently create and publish high quality blog posts and monetize your blog with affiliate product links. You’ll thank me later.

 

Secret #3: Build an Email List of Subscribers

 

If you regularly hear webmasters, marketers and bloggers saying that money is in the list, there is good reasons for it. Getting attention on the internet as a business owner is a matter of building relationship that lasts. And the best way to build relationships with your prospects is to set up a list building system.

 

You can do this with reliable email marketing software. There are lots of email marketing automations which you can subscribe to, but some are better than others in terms of pricing, ease of use, reliability, and so on.

 

If you are working on a shoestring budget and you need reliable list building software, you can start with GetResponse email marketing software from this link. There is a free trial for a period of 30 days for you to get things running smoothly.

 

Secret #4: Become an Influencer in Your Niche

 

Believe it or not, influence sells. Influencer marketing is the rave of the moment now because a lot of online shoppers follow the bandwagon effect. Becoming an influencer and using it as a veritable springboard to promote affiliate products and services is a big winner.

 

As a matter of fact, there are many benefits that will accrue to you as an influencer. You can use your social influence to sell any product you endorse as long as it meets the needs of your target audience.

 

Firstly, you’ll be privy to new product launches because vendors will be well disposed to enlisting you as their pioneer promoter and endorser. This will facilitate your effort of selling more copies of the affiliate product.  

 

Secret #5: Create Great Content for Your Target Audience

 

Great content is what makes the internet thick. Majority of internet users pass links around to their family and friends when they watch video or read article that is educative, entertaining, or informational. If you are good at creating stellar content that resonates with your target audience, you’re in for a great ride.

 

You’ve to research and know your audience and where they are on the customer journey so that you can tailor your blog posts, videos, ebooks, etc, to their needs. You’ve to also understand the search intent funnel such as informational, commercial, transactional, local or navigational.

 

You can continue to use your constant content to nurture your followers and fans. When you publish high-quality content always, it will be easy for you to use it to back your affiliate product recommend without looking too salesy.

 

Having a mix of different types of web content will bring in more targeted traffic to your website on a consistent basis. The types of content you should consider will include how to articles, tutorials, ebooks, videos, guides and blueprints, special reports, product reviews, listicles, products comparison, case studies, social media content, landing page content, email messages, and so on.

 

In conclusion, adopting and using these my top five secrets to affiliate marketing success will obviously catapult your side hustle income to greater heights without fail.

Top 5 Ways to Grow Email List Online

I must admit it, learning and mastering how to grow email list for your online business is a Herculean task to execute especially for beginners, webmasters, and bloggers who are just starting out; but it’s doable. So, this blog article will focus on simple ways to grow email list without breaking the bank or breaking a sweat.

 

You already know that “money is in the list” which has become a common saying. But the hardest part is that it requires a lot of hard work upfront to make it successful. An internet business without list building system in place is really hanging in the balance. Its life and earning capacity will always depend on third party algorithms which is not so good for any business that wants to scale up and grow on the World Wide Web.

 

Having an online business backed up with a list of email subscribers that are very targeted is like having an ATM card in your wallet. As long as you have good product or service to promote to your list members and they always trust you for your recommendations, the world is your oyster in making money online.

 

Starting an online business and integrating email marketing system have the highest potential of increasing ROI (return on investment) and improving the bottom line of your business positively. From my research, I’m yet to find a sustainable web business without consistently and actively building an email list of subscribers. You need dependable and specific audience you can always reach out to when you publish high quality content on your web property or have products and services to promote and recommend.

 

Also, statistics show that a highly targeted email list is worth $1 per subscriber per month to the online business owner. In other words, if you have about 1,000 subscribers in your list and you’re able to nurture them with stellar content consistently, you can make $1,000 a month online through various monetization models which you may decide to make use of.

 

Beyond making money on the internet, growing email list of subscribers will continue to create brand awareness for your business as well as build relationships and credibility over time. In the long run, this will help you to work less and earn more.

 

So, I’m going to give you five solid ways to grow email list fast on the internet without breaking a sweat. But you’ve to make sure you consistently take action to get measurable results which you can be proud of.

 

Method #1: Double Down on Content Marketing

 

Because of the work involved in constantly planning, creating, publishing and marketing content on the web, a lot of webmasters, bloggers and content marketers are always in a fix on how to sustain the tempo of reaching out to readers with constant content. But you should not forget the fact that content is king on the internet; be it white paper, ebook, podcast, webinar, email message, video, audio, and so on.

 

To compound the case of this onerous task, content marketing is not a case of instant gratification. You’ll not immediately see traffic, leads and sales to your website or blog within few months of starting it like paid advertising is. You’ve to wait until 6-12 months of constant grinding to be able to know what exactly you’re doing.

 

To this in end, you’ve to double down on your content marketing efforts by constantly writing content and distributing same to your target audience at places where they usually hang out and congregate even if you’re not seeing the result of your marketing efforts yet. Before you know it, you’ll start to notice a tipping point in your content marketing campaigns through increased targeted traffic to your website, growing sign ups and sales on your website.

 

But approaching content creation and distribution on the web without targeting specific keyword phrases in your industry or niche will amount to wasted efforts. Information seekers type words or phrases that best describe what they are looking for to find content online using search engines or search boxes from their favorite websites.

 

If you focus on these keywords, whether they are informational, navigational or transactional, you’ve a high chance of attracting the right prospects, leads and customers to your website. You really must be intentional in your content marketing campaigns to gain traction.

 

To make it effective, you should always target one keyword phrase per blog post or article. For example, I discovered that people are searching for information on “ways to grow email list.” Because I’ve been there, I simply targeted this keyword phrase and created this blog post which serves as the answer to your search query.

 

However, when creating content, you should take the buyer’s journey into consideration so that you can directly tailor your content to their specific needs or pain points in each phase of the journey i.e. BOFU (bottom of the funnel), MOFU (middle of the funnel), or TOFU (top of the funnel).  

 

There are several online channels where you can publish your content and gain traction and attention including Facebook page, LinkedIn, PDF distribution sites, video streaming sites, questions and answers (Q&A) sites, niche forums related to your topic, and so on.

 

Method #2: Landing Page with Compelling Lead Magnet

 

Take it or leave it, majority of online shoppers and information seekers love freebies and freemium products usually as a taste of the pudding i.e. to have a foretaste of your main offerings. If you’re confident in your space, you can create a lead magnet and use it as an incentive to grow email list fast making use of dedicated landing page with opt-in form embedded on your blog website. With a good and reliable email marketing software, you’ll be able to set up everything seamlessly.

 

This is the most potent way to build an email list of subscribers from scratch whom you can continue to nurture with content down the road. But you’ve to invest in domain name registration and reliable web hosting to create a blog and set up an opt-in form.

 

Your free lead magnet should be able to answer specific or lots of questions which your ideal readers are asking and searching solution for. You’ve to create it as a solution to their pain points. For example, a beginning affiliate marketer who wants to start an online business may be looking for cheap web hosting and domain name registration website that is popular and reliable. If you know a good domain names registrar whom you have used, this will be the best opportunity to recommend them in your free ebook, checklist, cheat sheet, video, and so forth.

 

You should not create a lead magnet haphazardly simply because it is going to be a free giveaway. First impression lasts. You want to put your best foot forward to wow your target audience that you are a thought leader and expert in your niche. Beyond this, you also want your readers to pass this lead magnet around to their colleagues, family and friends. Yes, you’ve to make your lead magnet worth sharing and linking to on your blog.

 

A good strategy is to create a valuable lead magnet and monetize it in a way that will continually generate targeted traffic, leads, sales and revenue for your business. Because you’ll be asking strangers to give you their email addresses in exchange for your freebie, the best practice is to put together an irresistible offer or incentive which they cannot afford to pass up.

 

If you run a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can easily integrate an opt-in form on the sidebar to make it visible for leads to sign up, or on a dedicated landing page, or simply embed signup form in a blog post content or even in third-party websites such as on your Facebook page.

 

Method #3: Guest Blogging

 

Guest blogging or guest posting is a strategy where you research related, popular and authority blogs in your industry or niche and send a proposal to write a blog post on a topic for them in exchange for an author bio which will probably include a link back to your website.

 

Getting accepted to write for well-known blogs is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But if you can research and find a unique pattern in content publications of a blog, discover gaps you can fill and send the blog post ideas that will benefit their readers or audience, you’ll get an approval to write for them.

 

Guest posting is a veritable way to tap into other people’s network and audience and use it to build credibility, trust and exposure for yourself, brand and business. You can use a simple Google search to locate blogs to write for using search operators below:

 

Keyword + “write for us’

Keyword + “guest post”

Keyword + “submit blog post”

Keyword + “suggest a post”

 

You’ve to replace the keyword above with your niche keyword (i.e. self-help, personal finance, productivity, etc). But for you to get accepted for guest posting proposals, you’ve to first gain traction for your blog or website. It will give you and your business a lot of credence before asking for favor or opportunity from popular bloggers. You want to portray a mutually beneficial relationship and not a lopsided one.  

 

As you may already know, popular bloggers are influencers in their spaces. They receive avalanche of guest blogging requests on a daily basis. So, you’ve to stand out from the crowd to get their attention by proposing unique and relevant blog post ideas that cannot be ignored by any blog owner who is worth his salt.

 

Method #4: Joint Venture (JV) and Affiliate Programs

 

Joint ventures and affiliate programs are one of the best ways to grow email list in any niche market. The leads and subscribers from JV and affiliate programs are prequalified customers or clients and highly targeted.  

 

The first thing to do, however, is to create a digital product or service which meets desperate needs in the marketplace. This will attract high number of affiliate marketers and publishers to sign up for your program. You can find reputable affiliate networks online using Google. Some of these affiliate network programs are:

 

• JVZoo.com
• Clickbank.com
• CJ.com
• Impact.com
• Etc

 

You should use low-ticket offers to get as many sign ups as you can.

 

Method #5: Social Media Platforms

 

One of the best ways to grow email list for your side hustle business is to become very active in relevant social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, X (formerly Twitter), etc, and constantly use it to engage with your target audience before sending them to your website or blog.

 

On your blog website, you should have created a compelling free offer to give away and set up landing page with an opt-in form in place. You’ve to make sure that your sign-up form is above the fold, it has conspicuous CTA (call to action) and the benefits of the offer are tersely stated in bullet points.

 

You should always bear in mind that having a catchy headline reinforced by a sub headline loaded with an outstanding benefit is the first attraction of a converting landing page.

 

If you’re a very busy online entrepreneur, making use of freelancers and virtual assistants can relieve you of a lot of stress associated with constant digital marketing campaigns. But don’t forget to optimize your social media profiles, bio, website URL, etc, in order to get found easily for relevant keywords related to your brand, product or service.