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Hello, I hope all is well. I am an 18 year old that is looking to start a business. I have dipped into the service providing area in July where I was supposed to make websites for people but I ended up doing a free trial creating videos for a possible client. I ended up stopping that. Wasn’t leading me to earning income.

My main question here is, what would you tell your 18 year old self to start? I truly like the idea of having an online business. I am in Computer Science at the moment for school and I was thinking of getting into saas. But I also see tons of different videos on different businesses to start. I just want to mention, I do not have shiny object syndrome. I am just interested in starting & getting advice from anyone.

Also, one thing I see often is, dropshipping, smma(which I tried to go in on), trading and Amazon fba. I see this everywhere. I don’t know if truly you can make a large sum of income from it or it’s just the courses that help them.

I started learning about business at 15 where I started a YouTube automation channel and later stopped that. Then got into cutting hair for others. And ever since I have turned 18 I have been learning a lot more on stocks, credit, as well as retirement plans. But truly retirement isn’t my end goal. I just like idea of working towards something.

So if anyone that is in the business areas I have mentioned I’d be open to hear your perspective from it and any perspective from others as well.

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[–] simplesmartbiz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I would have told my 18 year old self to start an email newsletter, especially if I was interested in anything tech or computer related?

Why a newsletter? Besides the obvious opportunity to share your growing knowledge and interest in a given topic, it’s a great springboard into other online biz related assets you could offer, whether affiliate marketing or creating your own products or services.

You can look at people like Minimalist Hustler who has turned his own passion for side hustles into a newsletter, products, services, and all kinds of things.

A quick glance at Email FYI which is my own passion project can show you just how easy it is to get something started - and really all you need to start is a great idea and an email address!

Wishing you lots of luck in your future pursuits. 🤘🏻