How I Learned To Love “Tiny Online Businesses”

Mark Thompson
5 min readJul 22, 2024

There’s Gold In The Small Stuff

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I had two options when I started in Online Marketing twenty years ago. Build websites and monetise them, or create courses and sell them.

(Courses came as DVDs or manuals in big boxes back then!)

I choose the website route.

The plan then was to build a network of blogs and get to $10,000 a month.

I got to $4K before Google slapped me hard!

By then, email marketing was becoming viable, and soon, 10K days were possible.

But these businesses were my sole focus. I didn’t have time or space for much else.

Being the sole focus when things got hard, I had nothing left to fall back on, and so over the years, I've adopted a different approach.

The Tiny Business, small independent “businesses”, side hustles or minimalist businesses, depending on what you want to call them. They are totally separate and do not rely on one single source of possible failure.

Below I’ve given you some ideas by listing some of the businesses that have generated income so far this month (and one I started last week)

Tiny Businesses Work

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Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit