Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost?

Some say yes, some say no. In my opinion, it depends on how you define the word "entrepreneurship".

Those with a bigger vision call starting a company and employing a group of employees entrepreneurship; those with a smaller vision call selling products in the circle of friends or setting up a roadside stall entrepreneurship. Obviously, the former cannot be stingy, as the venue and salary alone are an insurmountable hurdle, but the latter is not necessarily the case.

Below I will give you some of my/my friends' personal experience and reliable 0-cost "startup" projects

01. Zhihu Good Things

It costs nothing to write content on Zhihu, right?

When the content you write gets enough traffic, naturally, you will make money with traffic! After the Zhihu Good Products Promotion is launched, the answerer can insert Taobao product links and JD product links in the answers and articles on Zhihu. If someone enters the landing page through the link and buys the product, the answerer can obtain corresponding commission income.

As shown below: You can search "What are some delicious snacks?" on Zhihu to experience the good stuff on Zhihu~

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

Zhihu Good Things Activation Conditions:

1. Creator level ≥ Level 4

2. Account registration time ≥ 90 days

3. No violation of the Zhihu Community Management Regulations in the past 90 days

4. Only personal accounts are allowed to apply, institutional accounts are not supported

Does Zhihu make money?

Make money. Many of my friends are doing this and making good profits. You can think of Zhihu's recommendations as "self-media Taobao agents"

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

Making money on the Internet is nothing more than selling advertisements, services, and products.

Zhihu Haowu sells products by writing content. The most common way to sell advertisements is the platform’s own advertising alliance, which charges by clicks, such as Toutiao. Selling services is even more common. Most of those who show off their income on Zhihu are selling services, attracting you to pay for XXXX courses and join XXX communities.

How to play Zhihu Good Things?

1. Understand the platform rules, search for more information in this area, extract effective information from it and practice more

2. Write good content. Zhihu is a content platform, and good content is king. Some people have over 300,000 fans after writing four or five articles, while others have only 3,000 fans after writing four or five hundred articles. High-quality content is king. User experience is particularly important for the platform! What is User Experience? High-quality content is user experience!

02. WeChat business/Taobao

There is no cost to do Wechat business or Taobao Affiliate, right?

The Zhihu product recommendations mentioned above are a type of Taobao agent. There are many types of Taobao agents, including self-media Taobao agents, robot Taobao agents, and app Taobao agents.

Many people don’t know what Taoke is, so let me briefly explain it here:

To put it simply, Taobao agents exist to help merchants sell goods. As a reward, merchants will set a certain percentage of commission for Taobao agents. For example, if the official price of a product is 100 yuan, then the user will pay 100 yuan to buy it on the official platform. However, in order to attract Taobao agents to help them sell this product, merchants will set a 30% commission for Taobao agents. That is to say, when Taobao agents sell this product through various channels (websites, groups, Zhihu good things...), Taobao agents can earn 30 yuan!

①. We-media Taobao: Zhihu’s product recommendations are we-media Taobao, but the scope of we-media Taobao is wider, including many other platforms. Simply put, those who sell goods by writing content are called we-media Taobao.

②. Robot Taoke: This type of Taoke is actually hit hardest. They create groups in batches, pull users into a group, and then set up order-issuing robots in the group to continuously push rebate products.

③. App Taoke: This is a model that emerged in 2017. It integrates the characteristics of distribution. It is generally a two-level distribution. Agents who shop through the App Taoke platform as promoters can obtain a certain percentage of income, a few cents or a few dollars, but a small amount can add up to a lot and be very considerable!

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

Can I still do Taoke through apps?

As long as you have traffic, you can have fun. Many people think that the bonus is over. Everyone knows about this type of platform and it is no longer new.

Many people like to judge things based on their subjective ideas. It is true that app Taoke is not new to us, but there are always newcomers coming in batches! Every year there are a large number of newcomers who have never been exposed to this type of platform! Just like the income I mentioned above, I stopped caring about it after 2019, but I still get income today...

There are also many people who think that WeChat business is outdated. I had a drink with a big V on Zhihu a few days ago. He said that his monthly income is 350,000 to 80,000 yuan. Do you think it’s a lot? His wife earns tens of millions of dollars a year in micro-business and drives a Rolls-Royce. The Rolls-Royce was not taken at a 4S store, but by an offline friend.

03. Short videos

There’s no cost to make short videos, right?

Tik Tok, Kuaishou, Bilibili...

Short videos are popular, and there are many things you can do with them, such as using book list accounts to generate traffic and sell books. The key is persistence, and the key is to continue researching and exploring .

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

In addition to selling goods, Douyin can also display mini-programs. For some test mini-programs, users can get a certain percentage of commission after paying for the test. Distribution is also set up. In addition to monetizing the test mini-programs, Douyin can also make money by displaying game links.

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

How to play Tik Tok?

①. Generate traffic

②. Make money by hanging products, hanging test applets, hanging game links

③. Attract fans and traffic to sell advertisements, services, and products to make money

To get traffic: understand the platform rules + persistence + research

Monetization: hang products, hang links, hang games, large quantities will create miracles, how to do it specifically? Follow 50 high-quality peers, watch and think about them every day, and you will understand how to play!

04. Live broadcast

Live streaming costs nothing, right?

Although live streaming does not require much cost, the threshold is still relatively high. In the past, there were many offline stores, but now live streaming is more like moving offline stores one by one onto the platform, such as makeup artists, manicurists, barbers... .

The quality of offline store traffic is largely determined by the store’s geographical location and whether the products are good! The online live streaming platform has no requirements for geographical location, as long as you understand the platform rules and as long as you have good content!

What is good content?

People themselves are good content. They are good-looking, distinctive, and have voices.

Is the content of the live broadcast room attractive? Is the product attractive? These are the contents

As shown below: Although her products all come with 1 yuan discounts, I used a third-party software to check her sales in the past 30 days and found that her sales were nearly 90 million! According to the commission rate of 30% to 70% of Douyin, her income from live broadcast is about 27 million to 63 million...

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

Many people have a misunderstanding that they make short videos first to accumulate fans before starting to broadcast.

You have to understand here that Tik Tok is a decentralized platform. The number of fans is not absolute. It is more of a content recommendation platform. If you have good content, you will naturally get more traffic.

Let me tell you a recent case. A beauty anchor with 40,000 fans, born in 1979, studied in a makeup school for 3 months, and then started live streaming on Douyin in October last year. The content of the live broadcast is very simple, just reproducing the makeup content learned in the makeup school, but the personality is very well built, exquisite life, single woman, 40-year-old temperament...

Monthly income of 50,000 to 80,000! Before May this year, she was a personal anchor. After that, she cooperated with the MCN agency and had better packaging. Did she spend any money? Let me tell you, I spent 100 yuan to invest in Dou+...

05. Store Group

There is no cost for a store group, right?

What is a store group?

①. Open a Taobao store, JD.com store, or Pinduoduo store by yourself, look for products that have "Taobao affiliate " commissions on Taobao, JD.com, and Pinduoduo , and move the products to your own store.

②. Through your own store optimization methods + batch copying of the number of stores, you can obtain natural traffic from the platform and drive the sales of the store.

③. Place orders for items sold in your own store at the store that you move from, and earn the price difference and commission from them

Is it possible to start a business with 0 cost? 5 zero-cost side hustle projects! Each one is regular and long-lasting

We call it the no-source store group project.

There is usually a threshold for store groups, ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands. But in my opinion, any training is not as good as practicing on your own. Solve problems when you encounter them, and spend money on problems that cannot be solved. First, open a store yourself and see how much time, energy, cost, and income it takes for Feng Chao to make a profit from a store. If the model works, we can replicate it and open more stores.

It's a very simple logic. If one store earns 2,000 yuan a month, then if you open 10 stores, the monthly income will be 20,000 yuan...

The above are five zero-cost entrepreneurial projects that I shared.

These five projects are regular and long-term, worth holding for a long time, and long-term accumulation is beneficial to long-term development...