For many, the beginning of their own business project is associated with a huge number of problems and tasks, this is a kind of challenge that the strongest can overcome. Others dream of independence, both financially and professionally, the ability to set their own goals and solve problems, work for their own pocket. Today I will try to share with you my vision on this issue.
For myself, I define business as an independent activity aimed at constant and sufficient profit. This activity should ideally not depend on the owner and guarantee a high and decent passive income. To do this, the product or service that you offer must be marginal, competitive, in demand by a wide range of people and / or on an ongoing basis. Finding and bringing to life a business idea is the most difficult and labor-intensive task. After all, this requires project work competencies, initial investments (sometimes huge), the availability of significant free time, systematic work to create and bring to life a product and service, their promotion, work with suppliers and contractors.
It would seem difficult, but in fact there are a huge number of opportunities that modern technologies and the open world give today. Namely, the emergence of various trading platforms provides an effective and convenient tool for promoting your own goods and services both within many regions and large cities of Russia, and in other countries. Examples of such platforms are: Aliexpress (incl. Tmall), Amazon, Ozon, Wildberries, Yandex.Market, SberMegaMarket, Avito. On these sites, tens of thousands of purchases are made daily, the list of available goods is simply off scale. So, in Q1 2021 Ozon sold goods for more than 74 billion rubles, the number of units sold exceeded 34 million.
We definitely have promotion opportunities, they are not limited and also include promotion of your site in search results and placement of advertising banners in Yandex and Google search engines, advance of goods and services through social networks. This only needs to be done systematically and permanently in order to ensure constant demand.
And another indisputable advantage is that by releasing a cool and interesting product, you can sell it all over the world. This opens up business immigration opportunities for you. In Russia, there are consulates and trade missions of all successful, stable developed countries, where you can apply for financial support for your project with a business visa (and subsequently a residence permit) to implement it outside our beautiful Russia.
In the next article we will take a closer look at the business niches that I consider promising and outline the range of tasks that should be kept in mind when starting. I continue publish articles about business development incl. digital and information technologies and also continue to engage in business consulting. If you are interested in articles on this topic, then subscribe to my Telegram channel: https://t.me/biz_in. If you need business consulting support, then I am waiting for you on my website: https://akonnov.ru/.