 If you click this video I'm guessing you want to start an online business in 2023 and beyond with as little money upfront as possible. So pay attention because today I'm going to show you five online business ideas that you can start right now for a hundred dollars or less. I'll share what the model is, pros and cons to each, the starting costs and earning potential, and a real-life example from each of these five business ideas. Now if you're new here my name is Sean Anthony and on this channel I share lessons from generating millions in online sales through my various online businesses. A few of which are actually on this list that I'm going to share with you today. So stick around and watch this video until the end and let's jump straight into these five online business ideas that you can start for a hundred dollars or less. Number one is a content repurposing agency. Now what you're doing here is you're finding creators who have longer form content. This could be podcasts, interviews, YouTube videos, and you are taking it, you're chopping it up, you're editing it, and you're reposting it across short form video channels like Shorts, TikToks, and Reels. Now the pros to this business model is it's in high demand right now because short form content is in high demand. I actually just recently hired someone to help me with this. The other thing is you can charge a high ticket four figure per month retainer and this is a recurring retainer to do this as a service. So the person I hired I'm paying them around two thousand dollars a month and they are editing my short form content as well as some of my YouTube videos. Cons of this business model is there is high demand but there's also a ton of competition. So every day I'm getting multiple DMs from people on Twitter and emails from people offering to run this as a service to me. So they all look the same and it's in high demand but there's a lot of people offering this exact same service. And so because of all this competition you're going to need to have some skills to stand out or you're going to need to work with someone who does have those skills or you're going to need to tailor the service to a specific industry or a specific niche. Now the starting costs for this business model are probably just website hosting so that people can see what you do and then also a business email or a business domain. Those will run you combine probably around ten dollars a month or so and so it's pretty cheap it's pretty lean to start this and get it going. As far as earning potential it's definitely a six figure plus earning potential. I've seen people on Twitter who went from zero dollars to 10k plus a month in just three to four months offering this as a service so I'm not saying you're going to do it that quick but there is potential there to get this going to six figures plus fairly quickly. Now an example of this business model I'll share two. Number one is a company called Repurpose House and they're more like an agency. There's multiple people on the team that take your your longer form content and can slice it up across multiple different short form channels. Another person that I started talking to on Twitter I haven't hired him but I've heard good things his name is Jordan and he's I think he's a one person army and he does this as a service for agency owners and coaches and so those are two examples of people offering this as a service and running a content repurposing agency or service. Number two is a YouTuber. This one's pretty straightforward it's exactly what I'm doing now and all you're doing as a YouTuber is posting videos on a certain niche or a certain topic and you're growing an audience and you're monetizing your audience through things like products, AdSense revenue, sponsorships and selling affiliate products. Now the reason I say YouTube and not any other platform is YouTube is unique in that it has both long and short form content so you have YouTube shorts which is kind of like TikToks and reels and then you have the standard YouTube videos which are a lot longer and the upside with YouTube is it's like a search engine. I have videos from two years ago that are still getting views and you can't do that on any of these other platforms like Facebook or Instagram and so YouTube has this organic search traffic that can go on for years and years and years. Now the pros of being a YouTuber and having this as your business model is if you can stick to this long term there are tons of opportunities to monetize and create relationships with other people and also having a loyal audience is like a cheat code it makes everything else you do easier. If you want to start a new business you can go back to your existing audience and tell them more about that and I'm sure a big portion of those people would want to sign up to your new thing and if you want to start selling let's say you have informational products or online courses you want to start selling maybe merchandise you can easily go to your audience and do that so having an audience long term is like a cheat code for anything that you want to do in your life or business. The cons of being a YouTuber is it takes time this is one model that takes a lot longer than the others it could be 6, 12, 24 months before you start to see real money coming in and so it takes a long time you have to be patient you have to think long term. Now the starting cost for this model to be a YouTuber is really just having a camera and you can use your smartphone you can use an iPhone or Android to get started and I'd also recommend a cheap microphone so I have a lavalier mic this is not a lavalier mic this is more higher end mic but you can find one on Amazon for 20 to 50 bucks and it doesn't cost very much for you to get a high quality mic so video audio once you got that covered you can become a YouTuber all you got to do is start going out and posting content. Now an example of a YouTuber is you can look at my channel on a smaller scale there's another guy who's named Nate O'Brien he talks about online business and personal finance and productivity so similar topics to mine and I don't think he sells any products but he makes money through AdSense revenue and sponsorship deals from what I've seen and affiliate products so those are a couple examples my channel Nate O'Brien of this YouTuber business idea. The third online business idea is a digital product creator this one goes hand in hand with being a YouTuber or having an audience because what you're doing here is you're posting content teaching your audience something and you're selling digital products to help them achieve a certain result now what is a digital product to me it's any product that can be delivered and sold digitally so examples are tools templates online courses even coaching and consulting programs. Pros to this business model is it's extremely high profit it could even be a hundred percent potentially and the reason why is it doesn't cost you anything to sell a digital product when you're selling a physical product you got to pay for the inventory you got to ship it out and so there's extra costs involved when you're selling a digital product there's no extra cost because it's digital so you can sell it over and over and over again and it doesn't cost you extra to deliver that product to a customer you're also making your customer and clients lives better by helping them achieve a certain result by selling a digital product that solves a problem for them the cons to this business model is you need an audience so you're going to have to have at least a small audience somewhere it doesn't have to be YouTube it could be on any platform so Instagram LinkedIn Twitter whatever platform that you choose you have to have an audience because those are the people who are going to buy your digital products so this is why I said it goes hand in hand with the youtuber because once you go and build up your audience you'll have something to sell them so it can be combined with that the starting cost for this business model as a digital product creator is zero dollars so you can you can pay as you go so you can use a platform like gumroad to host and sell your digital products and if you want to have a website and email list which can help you to sell your products more and tell people about it you can use a platform like sub-stack which is also pay as you go so you can get started for zero dollars and this is a potential seven to eight figure business on the higher end now an example of this business model is this is something that I do I sell digital products of my own so you can look at my channel and how I do that another channel that I enjoy is a guy named Tech Lead and so he's also a youtuber he sells programs and trainings on how to grow a youtube audience and how to help people with coding and getting jobs at big companies like Google and Facebook and so he has digital products and courses to help people with that so those are two examples of digital product creators and I love this model I love helping people with my products and helping them solve the problem and achieve a result and if you enjoy solving problems too and you have an audience this is a great business model for you the fourth business idea is an organic drop shipping store my first business that helped me to quit my job back in 2016 was actually a drop shipping store I was selling these alternative fashion products and I would run Facebook ads to sell the products and advertise it and when someone would buy I would ship it out or my supplier would ship it out to the customer but what we're talking about here is organic drop shipping so I used to spend a lot of money on Facebook ads now with the short form content platforms that we have now like TikTok you can grow an organic e-commerce business and drop shipping store using just organic and free methods so what you're going to do here is find a trending physical product you can create a video potential viral video that goes on a platform like YouTube shorts or TikTok or reels or all of the above and rack up views that way rack up attention and you can sell your product and as soon as someone buys then it's shipped out directly to your customer so you don't have to hold any inventory the pros to this business model is it's a lot higher profit because you're not spending money on ads like Facebook ads or Instagram ads or YouTube ads you're also able to launch an e-commerce business without spending much money up front and you don't have to carry any inventory because as a drop shipping model the supplier ships it out to your customer only when they buy the cons to this model is you need to find a good product to sell and you also will need to be a little more patient because organic traffic can take a little longer than using paid methods like Facebook ads the starting cost for this model is around $29 a month if you're using a platform like Shopify to host your products and the earning potential easily in the six to seven figures my e-commerce business was doing well into the seven figures and you can use organic strategies like we have today with tiktok and and these viral platforms to get to that six to seven figure level two an example of this is a company that i found on tiktok called the stretchy bar on one of their videos just one single video they have 52.4 million views now you do the math let's just say that 10% of people click over to their site that's still 5.24 million or so views and if you say 5% of people buy or let's just cut that in half two and a half percent of people buy i think their product is around $59 you do the math that's a lot of money for one single video so the potential with this is is pretty big if you find a good product and it goes viral with your video if i were to get back into e-commerce and start a new store from scratch this is exactly what i would do i didn't have short form content and short form viral videos in this capacity back when i was running this business and this makes it a lot easier to get started and make a lot of money in this business without spending much upfront the fifth and final business idea that you can start for $100 or less is an email list manager what you're doing here is you're working with successful business owners who have an email list and you're writing emails on their behalf to their list to sell their products and services you get paid a monthly recurring fee or a monthly recurring retainer which could be in the four to five figures if you're good and or you can get paid a percentage of sales that you bring in now the pros to this business model are it's a highly desirable service what you're really selling is money at a discount what you're doing is you're generating them five bucks and you're asking for one to two dollars in return so you're selling money at a discount and this is a highly desirable service for any business that wants to make more money which of course is every business you're also getting paid to learn a money-making skill and this is a skill that you can apply and use for the rest of your career across any business or venture that you get into it doesn't matter what it is if you're selling a product or service and you are doing any kind of writing this is going to be a skill that you can use for the rest of your life the rest of your career the cons to this business model which aren't really cons it just takes a little while to learn the skill it could take a couple months the other con is it's difficult to get your first client it's probably the hardest part but once you get your first client you get them a result it's a lot easier to get client two three four five plus the startup costs for this are just five dollars or so for website hosting and another five dollars a month to have a business domain so you can reach out to potential clients and you also look professional because you have an actual website domain the earning potential if you're operating solo which is totally fine as a freelancer easily six figures or more i know many different people who are doing six figures or more as an email list manager and if you run an agency it could be seven figures plus a couple examples of this business model if you go to growthresponse.io that's my service it's it's like an email list manager service it's a hundred percent performance base so i'm only paid on a percentage of the sales i bring in and i operate i consider myself solo i do have some help their virtual assistants but i'm not running an agency i'm doing most if not all of the writing and the sales an agency example is a guy named Troy Erickson and if you just type his name i think his company is called the email paramedic he runs an email agency an email list management agency so he works with seven to eight to nine figure companies and he manages their email list and he has copywriters that are trained up on his team as well and he does well into the seven figures so if i were starting from scratch again the email list manager is probably the service that i would pick because it sets you up nicely in the long term it gives you skills you're getting paid to learn and you're networking with these successful business owners that you can talk about potentially for starting a youtube channel and to start creating your and selling your own digital products too so becoming an email list manager and becoming skilled in this position and in this business model will set you up nicely for every other thing that i talked about on this list so those were the five online business ideas that you can start in 2023 with a hundred dollars or less to launch these businesses you'll need skills and things like creating content marketing and sales getting clients writing emails those are just a few of the skills luckily you have my channel where i talk about a lot of these things and i'm going to continue to put out more content to help you with these now if you're interested in learning more about writing emails that sell which is mainly what i do across all my different businesses i'll have a link to one of my free playlists on this channel called the email marketing rain makers which will teach you a lot more about how to write emails that sell and how to get paid to do it for clients so check that out it'll be linked to somewhere in this video if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit the like and subscribe button and i'll see you in the next one take it easy