You're here because you're interested in starting an online business.

And you're not alone.

Interest in starting online businesses has steadily increased over the last decade but has absolutely exploded over the last two years. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that there's opportunities abound in the ecommerce/online business space.

Many six and seven figure earners have been made over the last 2 years because you can literally start a business online one day and be living a completely different lifestyle within just a few short months.

Of course that's not the norm, but it's definitely possible.

While some people seem to be born with a very clear idea of what type of online business to start, others - who want to start an online business - struggle figuring out what to sell.

So in this post, I'm going to break down what I think is the absolute best online business to start in 2022.

This will be based on a few criteria:

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As you may know by now, I started my career in ecommerce with a subscription box business that failed. My next crack at ecommerce was a dropshipping business that turned out to be a successful venture for me and taught me a whole lot of valuable lessons about running a business online.

Today, I was thinking about just how much I learned from dropshipping and how much I want to share that experience and that knowledge with you. I thought one great way to do that would be to tell you some of what I learned.

So here are 6 of the most valuable lessons dropshipping taught me about running an online business:

1. That mastering Facebook ads isn’t as easy as it looks.

One of the keys to my success in dropshipping was learning how to run Facebook ads effectively, and let me tell you, it wasn’t easy. It took a lot of trial and error, a lot of disappointment, and eventually me hiring a coach to teach me how to market my business effectively. 

I think that it’s...

So you really want to start an online business, but there’s one major problem. You don’t know what type of business you want to start.

Because it’s so easy to start a business online—you can literally do anything—it’s also really easy to be overwhelmed with all the ideas you come up with. To make this conversation easy, let’s narrow your choices down to two main categories.

We’ll use the two I mentioned in the How to Start Your Online Business with Virtually No Money episode of my podcast, Master Your Mission—Coaching and Dropshipping.

Now, remember, Coaching means you’ll be teaching other people something that you’re an expert at, like I do. Dropshipping means you’ll have an online shop or boutique where you sell products without ever buying or holding inventory—your wholesaler holds the products and ships them directly to your customers.

To help you determine which option is best for you, I came up with...

One of my favorite things to do in life is to travel. I’ve been able to visit some really cool places all over the world and I even plan to live abroad at some point in my life. 

Because of that, it’s a must that I earn a living online. So in 2017, I was looking for a way to start an ecommerce business, without a huge upfront investment, when I started to notice those YouTube videos where some super-hyper 20 year old kid, standing in front of an orange Lamborghini, claims that he just made $1 million and all he did was set up a website, add some products to it, and run some Facebook ads. Boom, bam, bing, cha-ching!

I thought that if there was a shortcut to success, this must be it! I grew super curious about dropshipping and decided to research what it is and how I could do it too. 

If you’ve never heard of dropshipping, I’ll explain what it is for you. Traditional (non-dropshipping) retail stores buy inventory, list that inventory on their website,...