Start a Wellness Business For Under $500

Have you ever thought about starting a wellness business? Part-time work But you didn’t know what to do?

Boy, can I understand this?

I finally figured out this entrepreneurship thing. At this point, I may even care more about entrepreneurship than wellness.

Let’s call it a draw.

Either way, you probably want to know how to start a wellness business because you’re considering trying it.

What if I told you that you can start a wellness business (or an online business of any kind) and run it for less than $500 a year? Even less, depending on the type of wellness business you want to start.

You can. I did it. I will do it. And I’ll tell you how I did it.

Here you will find exactly the things you need to do:

I don’t know about you, but I have no idea how to program. However, I know how to use a mouse and type. And these days, you can create a professional website without any coding experience.

​There are various websites that allow you to simply drag and drop your content onto the page. I forget what they all are. I’ve tried most of them and I’m pretty happy with my choice: Weebly.

I recommend starting with a free Weebly Website. You can create your entire website for free by simply dragging and dropping elements onto the page. It’s super easy.

The entire website you are on was built with Weebly. Not bad, right?

Start-up costs: Free

Then you only pay once you have selected your domain name.

You can buy domain names cheaply, but I’m not an expert so I just bought my domain name there Weebly after creating my website. I think we only had about ten pages at the time. We now have hundreds of pages.

Cost: ~$20 per year.

If you’re considering starting a wellness business offering coaching, consulting, or other services that you personally provide, this is all you really need to start your wellness business.

And selling some type of wellness service is the easiest way to get started. Because when people get to know you and your wellness business, they are more likely to want to work with you.

You can attract potential customers in person, over the phone or online. By “lead,” I simply mean getting to know your prospects and showing them what you can do for them.

When I first started, I would go to meetups to meet people in person. This was probably the most effective approach, but it was very time consuming. Then I started prospecting by phone, email or Skype.

Cost: Free (to start)

After starting my wellness business, I gave up on price for a long time. I continued to use my Gmail email account for maybe a year, but it ended up looking cheesy.

When I purchased an email address with my website name, my wellness business seemed much more credible. (People thought it was a really big deal, even though it was just me and a few contractors involved.).
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I was able to purchase my email address from Weebly and it links directly to my website. And I can even create a series of aliases to know what each message is about.

​For example, I have an email for “Contact” and for “Advice” and one with my name. I approach each of these emails differently.

Cost: $70 per year. (This has increased recently)

At some point I decided to sell wellness products (you can use ours). DPP Products also in your own business) as part of my wellness activity. A lot of my consulting work involves helping other wellness companies develop digital products and programs, so yes, I love developing products :-). You can know everything PLR products here.

If you want to make and sell products, you definitely need to use e-commerce tools.

An easy way to start selling physical products or subscriptions is to use Paypal. Paypal is completely free for businesses, but they charge around 3% on everything you sell.

I find square Costs about the same. That’s why I use both and let my customers choose when they check out on my Weebly website.

You can easily create and add products and descriptions anywhere on your website Paypal buttons.

Cost: 3% of sales (I think)

In addition to the Paypal buttons, I use Weebly’s built-in store because it automatically offers eBooks, digital programs, downloads, and other digital products.

I’m not really sure if this is the best choice, but when I was looking for alternatives, it seemed difficult to integrate other options into my website (remember, I don’t know how to code).

I also hear good things about it Shopifybut I haven’t used it myself. I decided against it because it can end up costing you a lot of money to enjoy its great features.

Cost: Weebly Business ~$250 per year; Shopify (varied)

Oh man, did I screw up this whole email collection thing? At first I tried to collect too many emails on too many lists. Then I never had enough information or time to stay in touch with everyone.

If people just stay on your list, they will forget who you are and everything will be in vain.

So start with a mailing list.

​I started my mailing list with Mailchimp. I used Mailchimp for free for years because my email list grew slowly at first. I spend most of my time AdviceThat’s why I let the emails collect themselves.

HAS Mailchimp You can automatically collect emails from your website and then simply send a group message to everyone at once, which makes things much easier.

If you Join my mailing list You will see how mine works. You can also easily embed registration forms directly on your website.

In recent years, I’ve learned that I struggle to stay in regular contact with people, so now I’m paying the price. Mailchimp so I can set up automated emails. Then I install them all and they come out regularly.

Cost: Free for up to 2,000 subscribers (I find). I buy credits and pay a fraction of a cent per email.

It’s difficult to sell wellness products and services through a blog, but it’s good to at least have content on your website so people know what your wellness business is about.

So at least create some content. Articles, videos, photos, everything. or take ours Business Growth Toolkit and publish our wellness content on your website.

Make sure your articles are attractive and professional. You can go there Pixabay.com for free images for commercial use.

I could literally spend all day looking at her images to find images for my wellness business. I love it!

When creating videos I use Screencast-o-matic to take screen recordings. Free too since they put their logo in the corner. Without a logo, it only costs $15 per year (which is pretty cheap).

Cost: Free.

I tend to hate social media. So I use More boo. With Hootsuite, you can easily write a few quick notes and share them across all your social media platforms.

​I’m still not sure if using Hootusite is worth my time or money. But I’m going to stick with it a little longer and test it.

Update: I stopped using Hootsuite because I wasn’t attracting many new readers or customers through social media.

Cost: ~$120 per year.

Well, what do you think? Are you ready to start a wellness business?

If so, check out ours OUR Business Growth Toolkit for great tools that make starting a wellness business easier.