The food industry is one industry that has positions for everyone with diverse food ideas that can serve as a source of income. So, for people who are contemplating starting a food-related business online with little capital, here are some viable ideas to choose from.
Tips on How to Make Online Food Business in Nigeria:
1. Cookbook and Recipes
Learning to cook different meals is the dream of almost everyone who loves to cook, and people make money just by selling different recipes through their websites, books, and online or offline training classes.
Cookbooks can attract customers willing to pay for your knowledge, as many people are now turning to the internet and social media platforms to find the latest recipes. Some of the information can be free, while other advance recipes, cooking methods, and services are monetized.
Another means of making money here is through the sale of advert spaces on your website.
2. Online Health Guide
People want to eat better, exercise more, and live a healthier lifestyle. They are willing to learn more about healthy living due to the devastating effects of communicable diseases that are encountered every day.
In order to generate revenue, your site can recommend and provide links to health-related products that are available online and money can be earned through affiliate program revenue from these e-commerce sites. This type of site can also generate revenue from selling targeted online advertising to businesses involved in health and fitness.
You could develop a health site for diabetic and hypertensive patients or a site that caters for infant and child nutrition, or a site for pregnant and nursing mothers.
3. A Dining Guide
A dining guide provides an opportunity for people to make reservations or make orders to be delivered. It is a database for locally available restaurants and eateries that features the full menus offered by these restaurants and eateries.
It will provide links to the website where customers can easily make reservations and order for their desired meals. For instance, someone who loves the cuisine, local restaurants can submit their business menu and have it reviewed on the website.
Just ensure that the content on the site is current, and primary revenue will be from advertising local restaurants and eateries that want to be featured within the guide. Your dining guide may be a quickly searchable dining database in your local area or a detailed menu page that will be updated on a regular basis.
4. Online Food Delivery Services
There is a high demand for food delivery services since people rarely have the time to cook and love to get food delivered in their comfort zones. You can start an online food delivery service with a fair amount of capital. Thereby making a large number of restaurants happy by providing them with delivery services at minimal costs as well as helping them reach a wider audience. Here are the diverse money-making opportunities here:
- You can charge a fee to the restaurants you will be offering your services. The more a restaurant pays the better it’s positioning on your platform.
- You can ask for a share of every order placed through your food delivery system from the restaurant.
- You can charge your customer’s delivery fee or convenience charges and also place ads on your platform to generate extra income.
5. Food Blogger
It’s no secret that food blogging is a phenomenon for food lovers and has been probably for at least more than five years but nevertheless, it’s still very popular and people are starting new food blogs every day. It’s one of the fastest and easiest ways of making money in an online food business, unlike other food businesses that are under special regulation, a food blog doesn’t have special food rules since you ain’t selling the food items.
You can earn income through a variety of other options such as affiliate marketing and advertising.
The online food business is a promising arm in the food industry that has been enhanced with innovative technology.
