If you have dreams of making it big online, one of the best things you can do is create, build and sell your very own online business. To succeed at this, you need a great idea. 
You need a business that will not only generate a lot of attention, but it needs to be sustainable. Your business must have a way of making money, lots of money if you hope to generate lots of buying attention, and, most importantly, you need to leverage that business so that you can get as much out of it as possible at auction or selling time. Are you ready to get started? Let’s begin with our big online business idea.
Common Problems Need Solutions
If you hope to create a business that people will want to buy, you are going to have to find a problem that a lot of people need solving. The trick is to find a niche where there’s a lot of people searching for solutions, but one where there’s not a lot of competition in the solutions department. For instance, everyone wants to lose weight these days. Starting a weight loss company has the potential to make a lot of money, but you are going to have to deal with a lot of competition if you ever hope to get ahead. The bottom line is that weight loss companies, whether you’re selling supplements, exercise machines, weights or programs, are a dime a dozen. You’re better off picking a company that’s a little less competitive but that still has a lot of people looking for solutions. You can find this business idea by using several free tools on the Internet.
Research The Competition
Another great way to find businesses that will generate a lot of buying attention is to check business auction sites. Flippa.com is a good example. Flippa.com is a site where entire websites and online businesses are bought and sold daily. Take a look at the sites that recently sold and you’ll soon get some ideas of what’s hot and what’s not.
Another good one is BizBuySell.com where you can find actual businesses for sale. Bars, restaurants, clubs, you name it. There are also Internet businesses. This can give you great ideas as far as your own business idea is concerned.
You might want to bookmark Flippa and BizBuySell because we are going to come back to them when it’s time to sell our online business for big bucks.
Building A Sustainable Online Business
Once you have your great idea, you will want to make sure you are well-versed on what it takes to run that business. This requires lots of research. To help you gain as much knowledge as possible, search for popular forums, create threads on those forums asking lots of pertinent questions, use social media to survey your potential audience to see if the business idea is viable and, finally, use LinkedIn to get in touch with, interview or otherwise engage experts in your field.
Once you know what to do, you will want to start slowly. For instance, if yours is an online business selling affiliate products, 
you will want to take your time with plenty of keyword research, you will want to spend extra time making sure your website colors and themes mesh with your audience and you will spend extra time crafting quality content your audience will respond to.
Learning the basics and building upon those basics slowly is the only way to create a solid foundation. Just like building a house or any type of long-lasting structure, the foundation must be built first. Never try to cut corners or take shortcuts. While you may receive some results early on, the sustainable results will forever be beyond your grasp if try to take the easy way out.
Go slow, take your time and never stop learning. Most of all, take daily action. If you are truly serious about building a sustainable business, you will need to set daily, weekly and monthly goals. Never stop vying for your goals and your business will soon take off.
Your business doesn’t need to be a groundbreaking success in order for you to sell and command big bucks for it, but it helps. You can sell your website as a baby, but you’ll get much more for it if it’s established (at least a year or more) and actually monetized. That is, it’s bringing in ad revenue, e-book sales, paid webinar invites, or anything else that’s generating an income.
If you’ve done everything correctly and you’ve developed a foundation for your online business, you will have no problem listing that business on Flippa.com or BizBuySell.com for big bucks. Remember to really sell your business, let the person know just what they’ll get out of buying your business (Think Big!) and you’ll soon see why creating, building and selling online businesses over the Internet is so darned lucrative.
