subject: Self Employment Idea - Zero Investment [print this page] With the current economic troubles growing by the day and lots of people realizing that their once secure job no longer is, it's not surprising that the idea of becoming self employed appeals. One problem normally could be start-up capital but with internet businesses that could be reduced - to zero.
Raising the actual capital to start a traditional business has always been a problem. You just have to make investments so much of your own and sometimes borrowed money and you run the risk of losing it should you chose a business that turns out to be a real lemon.
I learned the hard way a long time ago with a traditional business venture that turned sour and I can still taste it! All my efforts couldn't turn it to profit and finally I had to pull the plug on the whole thing and lost a lot of money.
Eventually though, it was worth it since I moved on to establishing several online ventures and they have been much more successful. A very important thing is that your only real investment is your own time and effort. Should you ever find that you're sucking on that lemon, it is possible to just spit it out without any financial loss and move on.
I now devote a large part of my time in the affiliate marketing business. That just means I offer other peoples stuff and get a commission. It's a simple idea but it took me quite some time to determine the best methods to go about it before I was successful. That really is the secret of affiliate marketing. The know-how.
Many affiliate marketers do spend large sums of money every month attempting to drum up interest in their websites and hopefully make sales but for the beginner, spending money is the quickest road to total failure there is.
Take the text advertisements seen on Google and many websites. These cost the advertisers money each time someone clicks on them regardless if a sale is made. If you get it wrong you can be out of pocket by a considerable amount with no income. That's a very depressing situation to be in.
