What Type of Business Would You Start With $400?

Build and promote a website.

I did the same five years ago when i started my game site, and since then and after the site was well known, I have been getting large amount of money from the ads I placed on site.

Squeeze page and autoresponder rest on ppc traffic

There are hundreds of possible answers. I'll throw in the first one that comes to mind.

(Scratch that. Can't give first idea. We'll go with the second...)

-Domain
-Hosting
-Digital E-Book
-Apply to be an advertiser with a major affiliate network.
-Anything left over: Buy an ad spot on WF

Semi-passive income due to affiliate involvement.

I mean if you are trying to start your business online you wouldn't even need that much money if you know the best free sources of advertising.

If not then still that money won't come in handy because you won't know how to invest it correctly.

I think that money could come in handy when the business is somewhat established and by that I mean getting some traction and interest from other people.

Once that is in place you can then spend it on FB advertisement and with the existing traction/social proof you could get even more people to generate attention towards your business.

If starting over with $400 and he is your friend I would only have him spending money on the absolute essentials.

Hosting
Domain Name
$1 trial auto responder
Free trial gotowebinar
$1 trial instant teleseminar

I would let him interview you on instantteleseminar on a topic that you're good at.
I would then allow him to jump on gotowebinar and do a session of you explaining
The strategy in detail in video form.

Then work on creating a sales letter for the warriorforum.
Sell the interview as a front end product from anywhere from
$1 to $7 and the video version as an upsell anywhere from
$17 - $97.

I would then spend $200 on Wso fee's posting and bumping the thread
By then you should have earned back the $200 if not more.

So he would be building a customer list from day 1.

Then build out the funnel for sale outside of the warriorforum and start driving solo ads to it.

Rinse and Repeat.

Let him gets some results and create a product on how he obtained his results and start the process all over again.

Eventually he will have a suite of products and then can have a complete funnel where he can afford to go market just about anywhere online and make a profit.

curious to know how this turned out for your friend @affilionaire...

I will identify what I am good at and create some awesome stuff in my niche and start selling on some micro marketplaces like fiverr. Use those 400 bucks to drive highly targeted traffic to my gig

A domain and hosting can cost you only $15. Godaddy offers domains at $0.99 first year.
Aweber offers a first month trial at $0.00.

If I would not know anything about internet marketing, I'd start a new blog about something I have experience on and start blogging about that, I.E. giving tips and starting on capturing leads. Once my blog had enought traffic I'd monetize it with CPA offers or affiliate products.

I know a guy who did know how to make handmade icecream. Then he did a small video course and started to selling it. With a few marketing he started to sell it and earned hundreds per day.
Sometimes, you do not need to look around for something. You just need to recognize the worth of your knowledge and see how it can help people or how they can benefit from it.

Starting with $400 can be a huge bonus most people started with zero dollars, so my take would be:
Start promoting affiliate offers and use the money to fund promotion of the offers you have when you have more money you can then go into releasing you own products, also Email marketing works like a char, like they say "the money is in the list"

Perhaps he should find that guy on here with "Let Me Turn You Into An Xpert Marketer!" in his sig and ask him.

Oh, wait...

It takes much more then $400 to create great products and marketing.

I would just start with affiliate marketing...

1) Find a great affiliate offer/funnel to promote...
2) Start list-building
3) Promote the offer

Use the $400 on SOLO Ads & PPC & multiply it!

Definitely on PPC and start a list ASAP.

I think if you have some money in your hands then you can do better Vs. you have nothing in your hand. I suggest your friend to start blogging. Suggest him some good niche you already know. He needs money to buy domain+hosting.
Invest some bucks in some good keywords research tools like longtail pro or semrush or wordtracker. Learn how to find profitable keywords.
Suggest him to speed up the work by hiring professional writers to get high quality content.
He also needs to learn how to dive traffic to his new website.

I believe that he needs hard work more than money. But if he is doing hard work and spends money too, then goals will be achieved earlier.
good luck.

Hello. I advise you to build a web sit and promote it ..

Squeeze page, autoresponder, traffic.

Well if you can write good, build a blog, monazite it then flip it.

My #1 choice would be a self-publishing business focusing on the low cost options like Kindle, etc.

A close second would be building a list using solo ads.

For both reinvest all profits over and over until satisfied!

With $400 you can build an online business. You can create a authority site in whatever niche you choose. Thats enough to get yourself hosting, auto responder for building a list, and if you don't want to write your own content at first you can even buy a few articles with that to start yourself off. You can begin building traffic to your website using free tactis like social media marketing and prob still have enough to a buy some traffic to your site.

You're going to get a bunch of different ideas here, but what I would personally do is build a list and promote affiliate offers until I created my own product.

with $400 I would buy traffic and send it to a HIGH Ticket funnel offer.

That would give me the best chance of getting my $400 back plus some to buy more traffic.

I´d test 25 dollars a day on cpa campaigns, and scalete up the good ones and make profit from it.