Low Work, High Profit Online Business Models
Many men and women have been introduced to the online entrepreneurial career in a way that was deceptive. They were promised a push button process with unlimited earnings overnight.
While this is not a true representation of how Internet marketing works, there are business models you can adopt where you can tweak the processes to allow you to have a more hands off experience, while still generating a good deal of profits.
The goal with many careers, unless you have a specific passion to do something, is to work the least amount possible and still reap the financial rewards. You can do that with many different business models, if you have a little bit of money to invest or you are willing to do some work up front so that it will eliminate future work you have to do, while still pulling in profits.
There are also tools at your disposal, as well as specific products you can buy at a low cost, that will shortcut your success and make the job an easy one. You just have to be willing to create a process that works best for you.
Below, you will find 8 different business models you can look into that will either involve minimal effort on your part from the very beginning, or allow you to set the business up initially and let it run virtually on autopilot from that point on.
Memberships with Monthly Passive Income
Memberships have the potential to funnel a lot of profits into your account with annual, quarterly or monthly subscriptions. There are many different types of membership programs you can launch as an online entrepreneur.
You might have it listed as a course where people are continually taught new methods to help them achieve a goal. It might be product-based, such as private label rights they get access to content on a regular basis, or something else.
There are tools and platforms you can use to host and deliver your membership. One of the most prevalent ones is aMember. Using a tool like this, you can sell access to your membership or even sell one-off products if you want.
It has an affiliate program, built into it, so once you have the membership set up, you can allow other successful online entrepreneurs to promote it for you. Ideally, in order to do less work over time, you want to develop a membership program that s evergreen.
For example, you could create or outsource the creation of a year s worth of marketing tips. But you wouldn t want tips that are subject to change. You d want to be teaching long-term strategies, like how to engage your list or review a product.
If you chose to do a topic like SEO (search engine optimization), you might run into a snag where the strategy became outdated and your automated membership would be teaching people the wrong thing.
You can outsource the content creation and design to someone else. You can hire an affiliate manager to recruit top-converting affiliates to send traffic to your offer. And you can have ad campaigns set up to spend a certain amount per day to send visitors to your sales page.
Once the content is up and traffic is coming from affiliates or ads, all you d have to do is handle customer service issues and even that can be outsourced if you re willing to invest in a virtual assistant for a few hours per week.
Because of the payment plans with memberships, you have the ability to put your earnings on autopilot. Subscriptions will be steady as long as the product they re accessing each month continues to be of high quality.
You can even have someone take the monthly lessons and turn them into one-time product purchases for people who may want to buy one of the topics, but not all of them, allowing you to repurpose your existing work into something else that will turn a profit.
You can use tools to extract the audio or transcript from your video membership course and turn it into a PDF or podcast without much work on your behalf. Or, take the written text and hand it over to someone on Fiverr who can turn it into an audio file for you to use as a video course if you re repurposing it the other way.
Content-Based Ad-Generated Revenue
If you want to implement a low work, high profit potential business model, you might want to consider becoming an AdSense marketer. This is a strategy where you will build a website that is heavy on good content, so that you can strategically insert code that will show ads from Google’s AdSense program.
Other marketers have paid a specific price to have their ads shown on relevant content sites. All you will have to do in the very beginning is set up your blog and your AdSense account.
From that point on, your goal will be to grow the site into a large database of good information about a specific niche topic. It would be a lot of work if you had to do that content all on your own.
However, there are several ways you can shortcut the process and beef up your website without having to sit down and write a ton of content day after day. The obvious method you could use is to outsource the content to someone else.
Depending on who you hire, this may cost you anywhere from $7 per page to $20 per page and up. That may not be a viable solution for you, considering the amount of content you need for a website to excel as an AdSense earner.
Instead, you might want to start investing in private label rights. This content can be as low as $0.50 per page if purchased during a launch period. Even at full price, you shouldn’t be spending more than $1 per page or per piece of content.
You don’t want to have a site that has identical content to someone else, so private label rights can serve as a wonderful shortcut and springboard that allows you to quickly tweak the content so that it appears to be more unique.
You can also combine pieces of private label rights to make new articles that you can place on your blog. One thing you’ll find when buying this type of content is that many eBooks and reports are sold for people to use as lead magnets and info products.
However, while most of the buyers use it for its intended purpose, vendors usually give you the freedom to break up these longer pieces and use them on your blog as articles. Because most others will be using them as reports and eBooks, you may not have to do as much tweaking before using the content because others won’t be using it in this format.
You can even automate the publishing process by queuing up the blog posts once or twice a month so that it drips out onto your blog on a regular basis. This keeps search bots returning for fresh content, which reflects well on you as a result they would want to show to their users.
This is also a task that you can hand over to a virtual assistant. All they would need to do is take the content and paste it into the blog before scheduling it to go live at a certain time on a certain date.
Minimal Effort Affiliate Marketing
One thing you want to make sure of if you start a career as an affiliate marketer and you are hoping for minimal work with maximum results, is you want to choose top quality products that are evergreen.
Whenever you review digital and tangible products for your niche, you want the content that is published with your hyperlink to be able to generate profits for months and years to come.
Reviewing products can be a daunting and time-consuming task. You have to first select the products you want to review, research the benefits and features, and convey to the consumer why you feel it would be in their best interest to own the product.
There are different ways you can approach this for a low work goal. One of the easiest methods is to purchase private label rights product reviews. You can find many of these in different niches, such as survival, pets, weight loss, and more.
All you have to do is use the content with your personal affiliate link embedded in it. Your involvement will then be to simply generate traffic to the content, which you can do using search engine optimization or paid ads.
Another thing you can do is use readymade content or ghostwritten content to develop an authority site where you can build a list of subscribers who appreciate the value you have to give.
Once you have a substantial list of subscribers, you can monetize your affiliate marketing business by simply positioning yourself as the middleman. Instead of giving in depth reviews, you can simply introduce products to your subscribers and send them to the sales page so that the vendor can handle the conversions and details.
Make sure you take the initial product review you have created and repurpose it into multimedia formats. If the original review was in text, turn it into a video as well as an infographic Before sharing it on other social media profiles.
There are also many tools, such as plugins, that you can use for your blog where you simply insert your platform details and allow the plugin to publish posts on your site that highlight and promote certain products.
These are designed to pull in some of the specific details and showcase the items using strategies such as a carousel display, where the products are rotated so that they consumer can click on the one that interests them the most.
App Development and Ad Revenue
Chances are, if you look at your smart phone right now, you would see dozens of apps you have downloaded. Some are for major corporations such as Facebook, your banking institution, airline apps and more.
But you might have others you use such as an app for your gym membership, for your fitness and nutrition goals, for tracking your cycle (if you re a woman), for video or photo editing, smart phone games, etc.
Many people come up with ideas for things they wish they had an app for. Or there s a similar app on the market, but it just doesn t quite meet their needs. You can become an app developer without having any of the technical skills or knowledge to do it.
There are companies and freelancers who will develop your app for you. Then you can list it on the marketplace for people to download. You ll need to give them details about what you want the app to do.
Make sure you have a logo designs for the app and come up with a good name for your creation. You ll want to test it before it does to market so that you can have any bugs ironed out.
Many people like to build their own app, and that s a great option, too. Even if you don t know coding, you can use tools like Appy Pie to create and build apps in their cloud. You then publish it on Google Play or iTunes, and it s all drag and drop, so it s easy to use.
The work (or outsourcing) is done up front. From that point on, you ll have a mostly hands-off experience as you earn from your endeavors. As for earning, there are many different ways this will pay off for you.
First and foremost, you could charge a nominal fee for the app. Anything under $5 a month, many people won t balk at. But you can also offer a free version with a premium upgrade that s a paid subscription.
Another way entrepreneurs profit from their app development is to have in-app purchases. Think about gaming apps you may have played you can level up or buy items in the app that will help you with game play.
You can also have advertising in the app. Sponsors will pay to have their ads run. If the app is free, users often expect to see things like ads for a few seconds before they can resume using it or even banners strategically placed at the top of the app.
If you have specific programs that you re signed up as an affiliate for, you can even put the links and ads to these products inside the app so that whenever a user clicks on and purchases the item, you earn a commission.
You might even generate merch for your app. If it becomes a popular app, such as Angry Birds or Candy Crush, where people enjoy chatting about it and joking about their addiction, you can create print on demand items like t-shirts and coffee mugs to sell on the app.
You can create an app in any type of category. Maybe you want to do something for mental health, or entertainment. Some create apps for health improvements and to manage your time better.
Many apps make anywhere between $3,500 and $82,000 a day. It varies by category, too. Gaming apps make way more than other entertainment apps. It gives people a mental break from their day, whether they re at the office or just chilling on the couch after a long day.
Info Product Vendor
Many people think that becoming an info product creator means you ll be taking on an enormous work burden for years to come. But it s actually a fantastic passive income earner, once you have it set up.
Info products are popular in many different niches. You have evergreen courses you can create for niches like pet care, survival, weight loss, wedding planning, self help and personal development and more.
Then you have other niches where the information sometimes changes, so you would need to update anything outdated, but they re still popular in anti-aging and other health issues, marketing, where things like SEO rules can become outdated and more.
This is a business model where you can do a lot of outsourcing. You can hire a freelance ghostwriter to create all of the components you need from the eBook itself to the sales copy.
You can also hire a freelance graphics designer on Fiverr or elsewhere to create the product graphics you want for your item. They can even create the sales page graphics for you as well as any affiliate tools like banner ads.
If you want to stop there, you can handle the uploading of the finished course and the few launch tasks yourself. That will take an hour or less. But you can also outsource that task to a virtual assistant.
If you re already networking with other marketers, you might be able to just bring them onboard for your launch. But if you want an even more hands-off approach, just work with an affiliate manager who can reach out to these people on your behalf.
The great thing about info product development, even if you do all of the work yourself, is that once it s up and running, you can sit back and earn from it for as long as the content is relevant.
You can queue up emails to drip out to new subscribers that will promote your entire line of info products. So it s important to make your products as evergreen as possible, even if the niche itself has the potential to evolve with new information.
Create both broad and drilled down info products. For example, some might be broad weight loss eBooks like how to lose weight and feel great. Others might be more narrow, like how to lose 2-4 pounds a week on a calorie deficit.
You can even shortcut your process by having things like templates for your sales copy, where you know exactly where the headlines, storyline, bulletpoints, call to action and other elements go.
Another shortcut you can take that is super inexpensive and will give you a readymade info product without having to wait is to invest in private label rights eBooks and video courses.
You can find these in many different niche markets. Steve Dougherty and Charles Harper both create excellent video course PLR products. You can find full eBooks and reports that you can turn into instant PDF courses by going to sellers like Sharyn Sheldon, JR Lang, Justin Popovic, Arun Chandran and more.
These PLR bundles don t just give you the info product itself. You also often get the sales copy and pages fully made, along with a thank you or download page to allow you to hit the ground running.
And if you buy it during a launch period, you ll pay as little as $0.50 per piece of content. Even at full price, it ll only cost you $50 for a 50-page eBook, which you can then bring to market that same day and begin earning from your initial investment.
Private Label Rights Seller
We ve talked about using PLR to help you automate more of your business. This is exactly why this business model of selling PLR is in such high demand. You have many entrepreneurs who lack the time, talent or passion to create content themselves.
It s not just for info products. They buy content for their blog posts, email autoresponders, social networking profiles, and more. You can sell PLR and grow a massive store where people land on your site and stock up their cart with hundreds of dollars in readymade content.
You can outsource this task of creating the content to a ghostwriter. It s important that you find someone who knows how to research and create quality content, because if you get a reputation for subpar content, you won t make any sales.
You can also purchase resell rights PLR that you can then sell as your own private label rights bundles. A resell rights license allows you to put your name on the content and sell it to people who need PLR for their own use.
You can even buy master resell rights licenses that allow you to sell resell rights of the content to other PLR producers so they can then sell the PLR to consumers. It s a hierarchy of investments that trickles down with what s allowed by the buyer.
As you begin growing your stock of PLR content, you can do minimal work to create an influx of income in short bursts. For example, you can package up 25 bundles of PLR and have a launch for this big, discount deal.
You don t have to do more writing (or outsourcing). All you have to do is clone your sale page and put the details of the launch bundle in there and get it listed. Affiliates will love promoting these big deals for you because their customers will appreciate it.
High Ticket Coaching and Mastermind Programs
You d think that being a coach would mean you have a lot of tasks to do on a regular basis. But actually, the opposite is true. You only need to come up with your initial coaching program and check in with buyers a couple of times per week.
With high ticket coaching, you can charge amounts like $5,000-$10,000 and up not the small $27 fee they d pay for a simple eBook download, where they re left on their own to learn and implement the information.
You ll be putting your students on the right path and giving them step-by-step instructions on what to do to achieve a desired goal. Because it s high ticket, you need to have a lot of guidance, but this can all be prepared ahead of time.
You want to make sure they have homework to implement, action steps to take, and when you do log on to interact with them, that you give them a personalized analysis of their progress, along with any support they may need to improve or cross the finish line.
Students don t expect to have never-ending access to you (and if they do, set boundaries with them), but you should plan on having a certain number of coaching calls with them.
These can be individual or group calls, depending on how you ve positioned the high ticket coaching or mastermind. Have a set goal you can help people with and a plan that helps them get there.
Webinars are also something you can create from your coaching program, and all you have to do is present it once and record it so that you can sell access to it later, almost like an info product.
FBA, Dropshipping and Print on Demand
Amazon has created a fantastic product that allows you to do minimal work for maximum pay. They will pick, pack and ship your orders for you. All you have to is source products and have them sent to Amazon s warehouse.
Many marketers source items at wholesale prices from places like Alibaba and then put a markup on the item on Amazon. For example, you might find some type of popular electronic gadget that you can buy a pallet of and then mark up by anywhere from 15-50%.
Dropshipping is another low work, high profit option. With this, you re simply the middleman who connects buyers and sellers, taking the payment and then sending it to the vendor so they can ship it out.
You ll have an online store that showcases the company s product and when an order comes in, you send the money (less your fee) to the supplier s they can ship it to the customer.
There are many different niches where you can become a dropshipper. For example, weddings, beauty, survival supplies, pets, fashion, health, sports, electronics and more. You don t even have to create lots of content because it ll be a storefront rather than an in-depth blog.
Print on demand is another low work, high profit option for you. Print on demand content is usually sold on Etsy or Spotify. These are things where very little content is needed These are things like trackers, planner pages, journals, calendars, stickers and more.
The buyer can download the item and then either use it digitally or as a printable. You can create things like business files, personal planning content, or even homeschool pages where kids can learn subjects like history or color as they learn their numbers and alphabet.
Again, there are PLR sellers out there who sell readymade low content products for this on sites like Warrior Plus. That way, you can download the content, tweak it and put your name on it, and then sell it on your own Etsy store.
Keep in mind that no matter what business model you choose, there may be a short period of time where you first launch your business and have to do a bit more work or invest a bit more than you will later on.
Sometimes, you have to get to know the ins and outs of the business so that you know exactly what goes into a task and you can appropriately outsource it at the right price or even invest in the right shortcut tools to help you work less and earn more.
Make sure you implement tactics like buying and using automation tools to free up your time, outsourcing to the right freelance individuals, and purchasing readymade products you can turn around and sell as your own.
There s nothing wrong with wanting to do less and earn more. It s easy to accomplish with templates and a systemized and structured process to run your business. As your business grows, reinvest a bit of the profits to make it run even more seamlessly so that it delivers more profits and more personal satisfaction to you.
Learn from others so that you have insight into how the competition automates their business, too. There are always new strategies and tools being launched to help shortcut your success online!