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Over 50 Successful Online
Businesses You Can Learn
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Business #1
Membership Site -
AdventureJobGuide.com
This is something I wasn't sure if I was going to put in
this book because it's something I am actually doing now
and something that really interests me.
There are many millions of thrill seekers out there on
the Internet looking for an exciting way to earn a
living.
Everything from Snowboard instructor to Oil Rig worker,
but they don't know how to go about finding these jobs.
My idea was to create a membership site that charges a
monthly fee to subscribe to. The membership site would
be free to job advertisers and you would have a bulletin
board of job listings up for members to read.
I was also going to create a series of short reports
that would be included into the membership site....
like how to write a proper resume, what employee's are
looking for, what to expect to be doing when you get a
job and past examples of people who have already gotten
jobs in their chosen fields.
I would also write up a series of reports like "How to
make money with your love of Snowboarding" "How to make
money with your love of travel" etc.
This is a brilliant idea and I'm going to be doing it
soon if someone else doesnt jump on in.
Business #2
Information Product
Idea....SecretChess Moves.com
Everyone is in hoo-ha about public domain content and
how it's an easy way to create your own products, and I
couldn't agree more. I've sold more then my fair share
of public domain material, but I hardly sell it in ebook
form anymore.
Why? Well why would I?
I love ebooks, more then any other way to make money
online. Ebooks are great, but sometimes it's a good idea
to buck the trends.
Everyone is using public domain content and turning it
into digital content, but what I've been doing is using
various public domain texts and turning them into
massive physical products.
The next project I was about to create in this format
was a Chess product from text I found at Gutenberg.org.
There are 3 or 4 texts in the public domain that are
massive in size and as an avid Chess player, I found
fascinating, so I was going to create a massive bounded
physical product out of these texts.
This isn't hard to do and there are many ways to go
about it.
You could on the basic scale just print off the public
domain texts and put them into a 3 ring binder, you
could create an AUDIO CD set with the text or you could
create a tutorial DVD using the example chess moves they
give you in the text.
A DVD would go down real well and you could sell it for
big bucks.
****DISCLAIMER****
Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure
to check the copyright laws for your country before
downloading or redistributing ANY public domain content!
3 - Community Site -
SkiResortInformation.com
The idea for this website, Skiresortinformation.com is
for it to be the central hub for when people look for
information on ski resorts in the US and around the
world.
It will also be the place ski resorts will want to
advertise their services.
So what you will want to do is the following:
1) Create a free and paid directory listing for ski
resorts to advertise their services, like
buyincomeproperties.com does for their advertisers.
2) Create 5 to 10 digital ebooks on all areas of ski
resort information. You can find topics for ebooks by
going to Amazon.com and having a look at the type of
books people are selling based on ski resort and skiing
information.
3) A free forum/message board so people can post
questions and talk to each other. This builds a nice
little community on your site
4) Create 10 or so articles that you can put on your
site and send out to publishers for free traffic
5) Create an affiliate program so people can promote
your digital ebooks for you and drive massive traffic to
your site for free while making sales.
6) Setup a mailing list people can subscribe to, to get
information on ski resorts and things like that.
The idea of the business is to tap a niche market.
People are looking to go away for a skiing holiday, but
they are not sure where to go, or what to do. So if you
can create a site that has good information on skiing
and ski resort holidays, people will flock to your site,
and so will advertisers.
4-Service -ReprintRightsBroker.com
One of the hottest niche markets off the Internet
marketing field is reprint rights. Everyone wants to
have their own products without having to create them,
themselves.
Basically, reprint rights are products people have
created like ebooks or anything digital usually and they
allow people to buy rights to sell the product as their
own without having to give any money from the sales to
the original owner.
Reprint rights sell from as low as $17 to as high as
$15,000 and more.
The idea for this business is to be the middle man when
people are looking for reprint rights. You could create
a site that allows people to advertise the type of
reprint rights they are offering to their product and
you could charge them a set fee or take a percentage of
the sale.
This is sort of like the first business idea, the
difference really is the market.
You could even set it up as a membership site. I know I
would pay to join a site that had honest reviews on
reprint rights for sale. Become the central hub for
people looking for reprint rights and for people looking
to advertise their reprint rights.
5 - Membership Site - GoalLists.com
This is an awesome business idea and I got the idea from
a similar service called Mygoals.com.
Everybody has goals they want to achieve but sometimes
they don't know exactly how to get there or they lose
their motivation quickly. I know I do sometimes,
everyone does.
The business idea here is to sell people access to a
membership that shows them exactly how to achieve their
goals and then gives them the motivation to do it.
Let's say someone wanted to write a novel, but didn't
really know how to get started and they also know they
would lose motivation along the way, this is what I
would do.
I would give them a complete day by day checklist of
things they had to do that day and have completed by
that night and so on, until you had a whole week of
checklists for them to use for everyday of the week.
People want things done for them and while you can't
write their novel for them, you can practically hold
them by the hand and tell them what needed to be done to
get to their goals.
There are a million and one ideas you could do with this
one, I just mentioned one idea.
6 - Service - PayPerClickDating.com
This is one of the business ideas which I think has the
highest potential to make you a million dollars, it's
also the one with the most risks and the probably the
most costly to start up compared to the other business
ideas I've suggested.
The idea is based around two of the most popular
services on the Internet to date, dating and pay per
click search engines.
The idea of the business is to start your own pay per
click dating site. There is nothing like this anywhere
on the Internet, and it will no doubt make the person
who can make this work a lot of money.
The way I see this business going is as follows. The
site will be a pay per click search engine, but instead
of search results for websites, people will search for
profiles of people looking for dates online.
The person with the profile on the site will pay so much
per click to be listed under certain categories just
like a normal pay per click search engine. For instance,
if someone is from Texas and has brown hair they could
bid to be in that category.
All the people have to do who are searching for dates is
select the categories they want to look under and the
all the people who wish to have their profile listed on
the site have to do is bid for positions in categories
they want to be listed under just like any normal pay
per click search engine.
I would also charge a small fee to enter the site for
people who haven’t put a profile on the site but are
browsing. This way the people who have a profile on the
site won't just be getting clicks from freebie seekers.
The only problem would be getting everything setup with
the site. It will take some programming knowledge, but
that can all be hired from Elance.com.
What I would do is buy an existing pay per click search
engine script, which you can find on google.com and get
someone on elance to modify it so its exactly what you
want.
7-Short Reports/eBooks - TakeAShortBreak.com
Everybody wants to get away for a weekend or long
weekend every once and a while but no one really knows
where to go or what to do....
and by the time they figure out what their plan is, they
have usually run out of time and decide to do it at a
later date.
This is where you come in. This business idea is all
about selling easy to create ebooks about travel
destinations that are close to home.
This is very easy to setup. The first thing you would
need to do is find out where Americans like to spend
their free time. These would be the places you write
about.
For instance, here are a few book titles you could use.
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Romantic weekends for 2
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The
best skiing holidays for the whole family on a
budget
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48
hours in Houston
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The
complete guide to 3 day cruises, Etc....
Basically all you have to do is find out the hottest
destinations people who are travelling to for short
breaks, write guides for them all, setup a simple
website and affiliate program, something like
http://www.fabjob.com and you're set.
8-Niche Service - NicheOnlineRadio.com
This idea is probably going to set you back a few quid I
admit it, but I think the long term forecast for this
business will make up for that initial spending of
money.
Internet radio has really never taken off big time and
that's a shame because it has real potential.
The business idea here is, is to target small niche
markets, profitable niche markets that could use an
Internet radio station broadcast.
But here's the kicker and where the idea really takes
off and will make you the most money.
Instead of just going after one niche market, you go
after hundreds! For every niche market you create a
couple of hours a week content for your radio station.
There are two ways this could work.
1) You could run a live Internet radio station and tell
people to tune in at certain times, or...
2) You could create the online content and run it
continually until you create more content.
This way the content would have a chance to be heard at
anytime and your advertisers would get more bang for
their buck.
If you don't have advertisers, register an easy to
remember domain name and plug a few affiliate programs
in there as well.
9 - Membership Site -
HighPayingCareersForHigh
SchoolDropouts.com
You really need an open mind for this business, but if
you can think outside the box, I really believe this
idea is a winner.
This an idea I had for a membership a few months back
after seeing a news report on high school drop outs
looking for new career paths and training.
In this membership site you would tell people about what
kind of jobs they can go for without needing a degree or
even a high school certificate.
You'd be surprised at what jobs are out there and are
willing to train employee's and pay rather large amounts
of money to do so.
Basically you would be providing people with information
on high paying jobs they can go for without needing any
formal education at all. You could also have a job
notice board in your site as well where employers post
job ad's.
10 - Membership Site - HighPayingCareersFor
CollegeDropOuts.com
Just like business idea #9 just changes High School
dropouts to College drop outs.
11 -
Content Site - FiveMinuteGuides.com
This site will be the mother of all adsense sites.
Adsense is all the rage now, and there are so many
different ways to make money from Adsense, but here is a
method you've probably not tried and most people
probably won't as it does take effort and time.
Most people seem to want to keep switching from
automatic software generators to bombs to portal sites
to directory listing sites, which is fine, but I have
and always will stick to creating unique content that's
informative and of high quality.
My method is not the only way to make money with
Adsense, but I feel this is the best method for long
term success, simply because it's been working well for
me in different ways since I began Internet marketing
back in 1998.
This is a business idea that I'm doing right now and I
believe it will make me a fortune in the long run.
What I've been doing is creating a site like Ehow.com.
It's a free site that shows people how to do a lot of
different things. The best way to explain the site is
just for you to go have a quick look now.
They have thousands and thousands of pages of content on
all sorts of subjects and the way they get traffic to
their site is through the search engines, which is all
well and good if you want to wait awhile, but this guide
is all about making money quickly.
Every page on their site has an adsense box on it and
that's how they make their money. They also have an
Alexa traffic ranking of around 2000 which is great.
Trying to write that much content before making any
money would be difficult, you'd lose interest quickly
and trying to write that much content or even buy that
much content in one hit would be lunacy.
I've always preferred to make money constantly even if
the project is only half done or in progress. I find it
gives me incentive to keep going.
So this is what I'm doing, and no I'm not going to show
you my site because I don't want everyone copying it.
I registered a catchy domain name, something like
fiveminuteguides.com or learnitnow.com and I started
writing little 500 to 750 word action plans on all sorts
of topics and one happens to be on a favorite subject of
mine, fly fishing.
So my fly fishing page looks something like
http://www.fiveminuteguides.com/
fly-fishing.html and it's a small 750 check list on all
things to do with fly fishing with 2 Adsense boxes, one
in the middle and one of the right hand side.
When it comes to Adsense, you have to think like your
website visitor. What is it they are looking to buy?
There is no use putting something on my website about
how to make money with your fly fishing passion because
the advertisers with Adsense are selling fly fishing
equipment not how to make money with fly fishing.
You need to make your content fit into the Adsense ads
and I think that's where a lot of people go wrong with
Adsense.
Back to the business plan. Ok, so you've got your site
up, you have a page up on a certain topic that had a
fairly high search rate and Adsense payout rate, now
what? How do you make money with this page.
Write articles! For every one fly fishing type checklist
write 10 to 20 articles on all sorts of subjects to do
with your topic. I wrote close to 40 for mine and I
havn't become rich from it but if I can put up 500
similar checklists in the next year I will be earning a
very nice income.
But how do you get people from reading your article to
going to your website?
Well, not only would you mention your site within your
article, (slip it in subtley) you also have your article
byline you can use for that purpose.
For example
"For a complete checklist for your first fly fishing
trip visit blah.com"
Or...
"For a complete step by step checklist for catching
large Trout visit blah.com"
So not only will you make money instantly from your
website, you will also build tons of quality content
over time and you will have hundreds maybe even
thousands of articles all over the Internet working for
you around the clock and your site will do a heck of a
lot better in the search engines due to all the incoming
links!
This is a very rough outline, but you smart people out
there will be able to run with it and add new ideas I
haven't even thought of. This is one of those money
machines that will make you money on demand pretty much
for the life of the Internet.
12 - Information Product Idea - BecomeAFighterPilot.com
The phrase "Fighter Pilot" gets searched for nearly 9000
times a month. Whether that relates to people wanting
information on being a fighter pilot, I don't know, but
I sure as hell know I want this information.
A good way to get content for this information product
would be to interview either ex fighter pilots or pilots
still currently employed within the armed services.
I honestly had no thoughts of even marketing this
product, I was solely going to create it to sell to
another company like Fabjob.com, who buy ebooks from
people.
13 - Information Product Idea
-ClickbankBestSellersList.com
This is something I was going to create and market
myself today while writing this book, but I thought no,
I want to give my customers a chance to start their own
profitable business right now.
At the end of this book you will find a chapter called
Bonus Chapter 2. Here I give you a list of all the ebook
topics I saw selling well in the clickbank.com
marketplace.
Here is what I would do with that list. Register the
domain name above, go to CBmall.com (where I made this
list) and go find all the sites I mentioned in that list
and write down the URLs, what type of product is being
sold, how it is being sold and how your customers can
improve on it.
Tell them how to make money in that market with their
own products.
The sales letter would be easy to write for this
product. The product really sells itself. You could
charge anywhere from $97 to $197 for this type of
product. It's like a blueprint to success.
14 - Community Site/Information Product Idea -
ExtremeSportsLovers.com
Extreme Sports are becoming huge business, especially in
the US and Europe. What this site is about is creating
small guides that you sell on all sorts of Extreme
Sports.
In other words, for every possible Extreme Sport out
there, create a small guide on how to get started in
that sport.
You could sell these for anywhere from $9.95 to $29.95
Want a list of just about every Extreme Sport out there?
http://www.extremedreams.co.uk/partners.htm
A great way to get free traffic to your website would be
to start a free forum on all things Extreme Sports.
Another idea if you wanted to target people already
started in these Extreme Sports would be to interview
top athletes in these Extreme Sports and get them to
give your readers a more detailed look at each sport.
You could either do this via text or audio or even
video. You could sell a DVD on any Extreme Sport on that
list above with an expert showing you how it’s done.
I can tell you now this has not been done anywhere. The
possibilities are endless.
15 -
Site/Information Product Idea - RetireIn.com
People want to retire, but they are not sure where.
People want to retire but they need help deciding where
to retire to, to enjoy the rest of their days in
comfort.
There are so many different types of people, which means
there are so many different types of retirement
choices.
In this site I would create a bunch of short reports
that you can sell on all the different retirement
choices people have.
You
could write a report on retiring in Mexico.
You
could write a report on retiring in Costa Rica.
You
could write a report on retiring and travelling
around the US in an RV
You
could write a report on retiring in Florida
The list goes on and on.
Want to know where to find a great source of content for
this type of site?
AARP.org/boards/
This is the largest 50+ forum on the Internet. All day
50+ couples, Men and Women are asking questions about
retirement. All you have to do is tap in on this market.
16 - Content Site- OutdoorPatioFurnitureGuide.com
I've already started creating this site but I got
distracted by other business ideas. I never realised
just how deep you could go with keywords for this
market.
There are thousands and thousands of keywords you could
target in this niche.
Put "patio furniture" into Nichebot.com and see what you
can find. I really recommend you get a subscription to
Wordtracker.com for all of the content site ideas I give
you in this book.
You will find keywords you didn’t even know existed but
are really profitable.
Who knew Patio Heaters are big business.
17 - Membership Site - HobbyIn2Cash.com
This is my favourite business idea of them all. Just
about everyone has a favourite hobby yah? And we all
wish we could turn this hobby into a full time income
right?
Well this is what you would teach people in this
membership site
How to make money with their love of....
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How to make money with your love of golf
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How to make money with your love of scrap booking
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How to make money with your love of baseball
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How to make money with your love knitting
you could do is setup a membership site called
Hobbyin2Cash.com that teaches people how to make money
with their chosen hobby.
The best way to go about this would be to have different
categories in your membership for different hobbies.
You could then update your membership site every month
with articles specifically for that hobby.
So for instance you could have 2 articles written about
making money with scrapbooking, and to keep your members
coming back paying month after month, you would add new
articles every month on how to make even more money with
their love of scrapbooking.
You could do this with just about every hobby known to
man, and in 1 or 2 years have one of the largest paid
content sites on the Internet.
You could easily charge anywhere from $29.95 a month for
this information. You would only need 1000 subscribers
and you would be earning nearly $30,000 a month!
18 - Membership Site - BeeKeepingForProfits.com
This is something I was going to do for fun but ran out
of time. I'm not sure if this idea would be profitable
or not, but it would cost next to nothing to start.
Again, people will pay for information in an organized
fashion. Bee Keeping is a pretty serious business and
people looking to get started with it need good solid
information.
You could probably write an ebook on Bee Keeping and
sell quite a few copies, but I'd prefer to start a small
membership site and sell access to it for $9.95 a
month.
You can find lots of content to use, research and
re-write by typing "Bee Keeping FAQ" into Google.com
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