7 Ideas For Small Businesses In 2019
seven ideas for small businesses in 2019
In my life I’ve tried two types of businesses the first one is when you master a skill you build a community around it you’ll learn how to sell your skill and you just scale and the good example is youtube I started youtube I
scaled it I build a community around it.
I realized that I know how to build a scalable channel and it just launched my course and this is how I can make money and that will be enough for me and my
family to make a living.
the second type of business is when you build a platform that allows other
people to make money and a great example is window Express.
real-time and this way I allowed native speakers to make money and I sold the
problem sub build a platform and yes,
because we had a tech team because we knew how to build those products we did
it pretty fast like three or four months but we’ve built a platform before the
platform we were trip and I think the second type of business is when you can
target like billions of dollars uber is the platform where you come in my
YouTube it’s a platform where creators can create Instagram like all in the
social media all kinds of marketplaces.
is that kind of business but I would always advise people to start with
business number one like mastering skills scaling it and then go into the
second type of business cuz it’s crucial to try doing something yourself first
okay idea number one I’m gonna talk from my own experience I already mentioned.
that I’ve launched a course I launched
it in 2018 so I went back to Russia to visit my family and I met a couple
bloggers like Russian loggers 100,000 subscribers in Instagram and I’m asking
them how do you guys make money and the
girl answer is oh you know I teach
people how to start an Instagram.
I’m like but you only have a hundred case
she’s like whatever there is so many people who wanted to become a blogger so
I just teach them that and I’m like how
much money do you make if you don’t mind
me asking she’s like um five thousand dollars of course and I’m like how many
courses are you doing.
then she’s like minimum two and I’m like
wow that’s a lot of money so listen to her and I’m surprised that people take
so much money on just like online tutoring and I’m like why don’t I launch a three-hour webinar on how to start YouTube and it made a lot of money like
basically ten thousand dollars or more and I’m like wow this is a huge niche
even if you don’t have a little following because I only launched that
course and my Instagram so I only announce it to the public on my
Instagram I was still able to make that
much money so idea number one if you’ve
mastered a skill already and you are
willing to share it with other people
start an online course there’s so many
resources out there that you can use so
go ahead and do it number two you’re
like Burley marinas gonna just talk
about blogging no I’m gonna talk about
things you can do tomorrow it’s actually
a huge market and it’s growing because
people have less and less time to take
care of their homes and the skills
called cleaning like it took me a month
to find a good cleaner here in San
Francisco and I finally found a girl
who’s really good a really professional
she charges 120 dollars to clean it
2-bedroom apartment and it takes her
three hours to do that so she charges
like 40 dollars an hour which is like a
developer charges that money and we used
to have a start-up a cold homejoy where
you could hire people online to clean
your apartment or office but they shut
down so there is so much demand for a
good cleaner and I keep hearing people
asking for that so this is something
where you can start make some initial
capital and then decide whether you want
to grow there and start your own company
like help people find cleaners or maybe
just go and switch activity but with
initial capital which is great business
number three also one of my friends is
doing that you’ve probably seen me
wearing a golden moisturizing mask on my
Instagram this is done by my friend
who’s actually in tech he’s not an
Amazon professional but this is what
he’s done he went to South Korea visited
some factories where he’s found really
good moisturizing face masks and bought
them for like a dollar and then he came
back to America has shipped all of the
masks
and he’s selling them for him like $16 a
mask on Amazon and what’s cool about
selling on Amazon you don’t have to have
your own garage where you store
everything and you don’t have to ship
everything you just send it to Amazon
and they do the rest and your task is
just to sell and collect reviews that’s
it and yeah he’s making a lot of money
on those masks he’s still doing he’s
been doing that for over a year
he’s pretty successful it’s like a good
business because he’s running a tech
company and this is something you could
totally try the next business meal trap
and delivery oh my god again huge
problem here in San Francisco huge
problem anywhere I missed homemade food
I cannot make my mom come prima st.
Petersburg to San Francisco and cook for
me but I miss homemade food a lot and I
would love to invite a person to come to
my place every three days to cook me a
big pot of soup and maybe like fry some
meat or whatever there’s just no such
service so you could start again you
could start in your own do some cooking
and then grow your network grow your
network cooker is growing network of
clients and build something on top of
that I think it’s a great idea with a
lot of potential I can people don’t have
time to even go to a restaurant because
you have to wait the next one is
surprising but it’s actually trending
like crazy here in Silicon Valley which
means it’s gonna trend all over the
place it’s bike rentals and scooters the
scooter business started in 2018 they
had a lot of problems with law and
regulations but two companies survived
they have both acquired I think they’ve
got a quiet for like over a billion
dollars and they raised like 200 million
acquired by like taxi companies but
guess what if you’re setting like a
small shop renting out scooters or
branding of bikes the market itself has
grown 73 percent in the last 10 years so
if you have two options in the future
you either grow profitable business
which is growing or second you get
acquired by the company which is also a
great option you get your money and
you’re free another business personal
trainers and instructors and again with
online you have so many opportunities to
train people all over the world and
this marathon I baked like $49 for it
which is like a but marathon I’m
training every day for like half an hour
and the girl was doing that she just
pre-recorded all the courses she’s not
even there I’m just switching on her
videos and she recorded like 35 videos
and I love to Train like that because I
choose my own time we have a gym here at
home and this is a huge future for all
of your fitness trainers chimra is a
great company which does all of the
pre-recorded courses and it’s a huge
trend here in Silicon Valley as well
because people don’t have time to come
into their fitness they just do a quick
workout in the morning at home using a
screen so fitness instructors yes you
can build your audience with like real
life training but you can also go online
and do your own course and make a lot of
money and the last but not the least cpa
accounting i cannot do my books while i
could potentially but i know i’m gonna
make so many mistakes and probably miss
some things that would allow me to save
on taxes so i’ve been shopping for a CPA
for a couple of weeks in 2018 my
assistant helped me a lot and we found a
guy who’s working with creators but
that’s a huge market it doesn’t matter
that there’s so much software out there
that helps you optimize and divide your
expenses by categories because real CPA
knows all of the laws that will help you
save on taxes and that’s why there is a
huge demand for CPAs but no matter what
you do no matter what kind of business
you choose to start in 2019 what you
really really need is your leadership
skills because it doesn’t matter how
profitable the niche is if you cannot
convince your buyers that you’re the
best seller if you cannot convince
people that you’re a real expert then
nothing’s gonna work you have to show
credibility you have to create a great
product and you have to talk in a way
that people want to buy from you and
I’ve found a great course we just called
influencer mastering life’s most
powerful skill and I agree with it so so
much it is started by a PhD by a real
American I think
Americans are the best at influencing
people just you know all of the movies
that we see if probably from Hollywood
all the music that we love is stuff like
mostly from America so Americans are
really good at influencing people and I
think the best place to learn influences
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like basic economics course cuz yes you
can do all the business but I have
economics background I did my bachelor’s
if you haven’t done that I would highly
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acquainted what is market economy out of
how do things work and finance is a
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it for me for today guys please let me
know what do you think is the most
valuable skill for an entrepreneur in my
case I think its sales and marketing
because the rest you’re gonna hire
people but it’s really tough to hire a
marketer who would sell your vision cuz
you’re the vision there let me know down.
