50 Successful Online Businesses

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 doesn’t jump on in.

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.

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.

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.

****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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1) You could run a live Internet radio station and tell people to tune in at certain times,

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.

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.

Just like business idea #9 just changes High School dropouts to College drop outs.

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 haven’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.

Well, not only would you mention your site within your article, (slip it in subtlety) you also have your article byline you can use for that purpose.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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