What is an online business?

An online business is one conducted online. This involves the different processes of exchange of goods and services between individuals. These processes may involve purchase and delivery of goods and services.

Why you should start an online Business?

There are many reasons why you should start an online business. From them being easy to start, being plentiful, the fredom they give you to work from anywhere, to mention but a few. Consider the link below for more reasons you should start an online business.

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Online businesses to start in Uganda.

Online retailing.

Topping the list of online businesses to start in Uganda is Online retailing. It is the selling of goods and services online. Nowadays, this has been made easier with the creation of sites where different sellers can post and sell their products in Uganda. Some of these sites include Jiji Uganda, Jumia Uganda, Dondolo Uganda, and more. 

If you don’t mind and you have the finances to start big, you can start your online store, market it and make sales.

Advertising and Marketing.

Advertising and marketing is another of the online businesses to start in Uganda. Many people have businesses that need marketing both on social media and online. If you have the free time, then taking this on as a side hustle is worth it. All you need is social accounts with a good following so that when you post, a lot of people can view the information you are trying to put across. Some of the social sites you can try are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many more.

Data Entry Services.

This is one of the easiest side gigs you can do online and earn good money. All you need is a computer, internet connection, and fast typing skills. If you are not good at typing, that shouldn’t worry you as you’ll develop speed with time. When you have all the above, what next is signing up with the different freelance sites on the internet and you start. This side gig is good for people whose main job gives them a lot of free time. Some of the freelance sites you can try out are fiverr, kwork, upwork the list is long, you can find these online.

Blogging for Money.

Starting a blog today is easier than ever before with most hosting companies prioritizing numbers to help them achieve their target revenue hence this driving cost down. Now you can have a website up and running at as low as 3$ per month.

This has made blogging a Worthy venture especially for those that can find some time to write content or even hire someone to write content and be a manager. Don’t leave this to the dogs, give blogging a try as a side venture and earn from blog monetization.

Freelance Writing Jobs.

This is another easy-to-do side task. Blogging as stated above is a mother of this, but remember there are those individuals with blogs who can’t write content. This is your task here. Write content for their blogs, books, and whatever writing deals they have. You can find these jobs too on the freelance sites mentioned above.

Digital Photography.

Doing digital photography to produce images can be a source of side income. You can capture images in your free time and later Sell Your Photos on Stock Photography, start a Photography Blog or Do Freelance Photography Work for Magazines and newspapers. With photography, the options are vast. You can exploit the ones we’ve stated here and keep looking out for more opportunities.

Video Production and Editing.

This provides another opportunity to make side income in your chill time. Though for this, it requires a little more skill that you should acquaint yourself first. (Video production and editing skills). Though these aren’t impossible to get. Later you can look for work online for video editing on freelance sites or even Crete yourself a YouTube channel where you can keep these videos running and earn for that.

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Website Design and Development

This is easier than ever before today given the vast number of resources available to help one do the design themselves. Nevertheless, even with the available resources, it has never been easy to do website design for the first time yourself. For this reason, most people hire experts to do the work. If you can acquaint yourself the skills, you can then look out for these gigs of website design on freelance sites above and enjoy that side money.

Mobile Apps Development.

If you have programming skills and love it, then you can earn good money doing what you love to do. The digital trend is taking over the era and most businesses, companies, and institutions require apps to run their task, coordinate as a company and do many other company tasks. If you are good at this, then give it a try.

Conclusion

I hope this blog post has given you some new ideas on online businesses to start in Uganda. There are many different options out there, so take your time and think about what might work best for you. If any of the above suggestions sound interesting, feel free to contact us if you want help starting up your venture!