Small online business growth has exploded as high unemployment and bleak economic growth forecasts all add up to a poor and spluttering economy. This has forced many people to look elsewhere for an opportunity and the internet is a fast growing solution. There are many different ways of earning income online with a small online business and I would like to name five of the hottest.

• Blogging small online business. With this option you set up numerous blogs each targeting different niches. There is cloning software available so once you have one configured you can easily build hundreds more. You just need to regularly ad fresh content to your blogs to still rank high in the search engines in the form of articles which you can outsource to article writers.

You can then configure these blogs with plugins and widgets so they manage themselves. With advertising and affiliate offers all over your blogs and with many blogs bringing in even a small income each the money ads up. Another term for this is called auto blogging.

• An article writing small online business. There are millions of blogs online and most of these need a fresh article updated at least weekly to maintain search ranking. You can start your new small online business that provides articles for blogs.

It doesn’t take much capital to start an article marketing business from home and if you like writing you can make a massive income from providing good content for bloggers.

• An affiliate marketing small online business. Selling other peoples products for a 50% commission or even more in many cases. There are low ticket items where by you need to sell many to make a descent commission and then there are top tier which is my favourite of all small online business methods where you only need to sell one or two products a month to make 5 figure a month commissions.

Most affiliates provide you with all the sales material or tools needed to make the sale. Another way of earning a good income is getting leads for companies where you get prospects to fill in a complete opt in form then you get paid. You can also earn money from just getting clicks.

• Social media manager small online business. There are many brick and mortar businesses today that realise that they need a social media site presence including a facebook fan page a Twitter account and even a Youtube channel. These business managers see the value of these sites but don’t know how to set them up or let alone manage them.

By providing this service your small online business will set these businesses up and update their sites with relevant content. There is still a lot of potential in this field and a lot of money to be made.

• A Flipping Website or Domain Name small online business.  This business is pretty self explanatory where you build a website for a niche get it well ranked with some good alexa statistics including page bounce or time spent on the site. You can then place it for sale on a blog auction site and sell it to the highest bidder. Blogs sell for anything between 4 to 7 figures.

The same goes for domain names. You can start a small online business buying and re-selling domain names by first purchasing domain names you think are valuable or have expired. You can easily offer these domains for sale again through the domain sites or market them strategically to those who have similar domains. People or companies will always pay a good price for the domain they want. These small online businesses don’t require much capital at all to start.