50 Successful Online Businesses

I've always wanted to create a huge travel portal with loads of content but never had the time really.

This will probably set you back a bit of money and a fair bit of time before you really see any profits in return, so you may want to skip this idea if that’s a problem.

Think of this like a Fiveminuteguide.com site but purely about travel. Travel keywords always pay well with adsense and while the competition can be fierce for hotly contested phrases and keywords, there are thousands of little keywords you can target as well.

My dream was to have a mini guide for every destination in the world, and while this would probably take me years to compile, I would then have one of the largest content sites on travel on the Internet, so the rewards are there.

There are many ways you can do this business idea, it just depends on how much time you have to spend on one project.

Here's a simple business idea you can start right now. A friend of mine who owns Private-Label-Resell-Rights.com did the exact same thing I had in mind.

He basically purchased the private label rights to 8 ebooks for under $1500, packaged them all as a business opportunity and has made an absolute killing by doing very little work.

All he did was change the books around a bit, get really well written sales letters and graphics made and that's it, a brand new product he can sell for $297 a pop.

Just be careful who you buy private label rights off. Make sure everything is legal and they have the right to offer you the private label rights to these products.

Make sure you can change the content in the books in anyway you want. This way you can turn other people’s hard work into your own work with very little effort.

Clearly this business idea isn’t for everyone, but it's a simple ebook you can create in a couple of hours with a huge demand.

Don't worry if you're a little fuzzy on the subject matter, there are plenty of free guides on all subjects to do with female pleasure.

This is the perfect type of product to offer on Clickbank and market thru Clickbank with affiliates.

Once you have the book created, go find a bunch of other websites selling similar topic ebooks and propose a joint venture to sell your product to their list.

This is a great keyword to build a content site around. There are so many different types of allergies and so many different types of products for sale via adsense.

Of course there is nothing stopping you from creating a content site around an affiliate program you might have found at Clickbank.com either.

Think all things allergy and you will come up with thousands of keywords to use.

It's the great American dream to write a novel or a biography or a history book or a children’s book or a.... well you get the idea.

People will pay just about any price if you can make their dreams come true, but without them having to do any of the hard work.

Everyone wants to write that great novel, but people lose interest quickly. If you can come up with a product idea that either motivates them daily to get their book written or can somehow write the book for them with some sort of software or I don't know how, you will make a fortune.

In the mean time however, you can capitalize on this craze by writing a few short guides on all different aspects of writing.

This is one of those nice, non cut throat adsense keywords that won't make you rich, but will turn over a nice little profit day in day out.

Go to Nichebot.com and enter the term "Violin" and you will get a nice keyword list you can start using straight away to create your content site.

If you've ever dreamt about being a super affiliate and wondered how people make any money promoting products that pay them measly commissions, this is the chapter for you

The real secret to affiliate commissions is promoting high end products. In this chapter I'm going to show you where to find these products and how to promote them.

Google has recently launched a new service called Froogle which you can find at http://www.froogle.com.

This service allows you to find all sorts of products people are selling. I guess you would call it the worlds largest online shopping directory.

This is how the Google people describe their new service
"Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information about products for sale online.

By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle applies the power of Google's search technology to a very specific task: locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can make a purchase."

If you know anything about affiliate programs you know it's HARD to find good products to sell that nobody else is selling and Froogle.com will allow you to do that. The best part is it allows you to search for products by price range.

So if you wanted to find and promote products that sell for over $100,000 you can do that!

Ok, let's move onto the next step. Selling $100,000 + products on the Internet. How do you do it? Do people actually buy products that sell for this price online?

The type of products in this price range could be jewellery, car's, holidays, real estate and even boats.

The best way to sell these types of products would be to become the leader in the field on the Internet. So when someone thinks about buying a luxury car or holiday, your name will come up.

By becoming the expert in the field! You want to be first in the search engines, you want to be in their face when they read articles about the subject at hand, you want to be first when they go to message boards and ask questions. You want your name and website to be there.

(I talk more about all the different types of free advertising in another chapter in this book.)

Selling large products like this isn't going to be like selling $25 ebooks online, you're going to have to put in the hard work.

That site is totally dedicated to Tractors and it pulls in a fortune. Why? Because when someone says I want to buy a tractor online or want more information about a certain type of tractor, that's the place that comes up every time they ask those questions.

Another common complaint amongst marketers is they don't want to write sales letters themselves but don't want to pay thousands of dollars to get someone to do it for them.

What I've come to realize is people don't want master pieces from you when writing a sales letter, they just want something they can work with. A complete sales letter for under $100 they can then tinker with themselves if need be.

Let's say you take on 2 sales letter clients a day at $97 a pop. That's nearly $1500 a week, which isn't bad money in anyone’s language.

Of course you would have to have some knowledge in copywriting. If you are serious about this, I suggest finding all the copywriting books you can and read everything you can on copywriting, and practice!

I didn't create this guide yet because I can't really determine if there is a market for it or not. I know it would be a fun book to write or even create a hard copy course out of.

I was going to create an ebook on how to brew beer, then create a home study guide that arrives in the mail. I would then create a sales letter, a few follow-up autoresponder emails and whatever else is needed and sell the lot as a complete turnkey business.

There is plenty of free information floating around the Internet on how to brew beer from home, but no real course that I can see, so I think a lot of people would be interested in this.

This is another service marketers are dying to get a hold of. With the big buzz about Name Squeeze, marketers are looking for cheap ways to create mini courses or e courses that are sent out via autoresponder when someone requests more free information.

People are now realizing the value of a good autoresponder sales message, and this is where you come in.

Create a service where you create autoresponder messages for people’s products for a certain flat fee.

I personally would charge $67 for a 5 part email follow-up and $97 for a 10 part email follow-up.

One of the hottest topics on the Internet right now is that of people learning how to create digital products, like ebooks and software that they can sell online and make either a full time or part time income with.

People are looking for ways to make money online, either because they have or fear they might lost their jobs, or they are sick of working 9-5 and constantly hear about people who are able to work from home.

This business idea is all about teaching people how to create digital products, easily and quickly. Like most people who get into this sort of business, I would be staying away from the "Internet marketing" crowd big time and I would try and target people who are new to the Internet and the business in general.

Not only does this make you stand out in the crowd, it will also make things easier when it comes to creating the business itself.

You're probably thinking how can I create a business about creating digital products if I've never done anything like that before, and that is a good question, but I have a very good answer.

Some of the best products I've ever brought on the Internet were not created by the owner of the business, they either got someone to create the product for them or they brought in experts and interviewed them and turned their knowledge into a product.

The best way to get started in this business is to hire an expert in the field of product development and use their knowledge to create your own products.

For instance, for $19.95, you could sell an ebook on getting started in product development, for $47 you could see a download video showing steps on how to create your own digital products, for $97 you could sell a cd set with a comprehensive guide to creating and selling your own digital products, for $297 you could sell a complete set of dvd's with 1 or 2 hours of consultation on product development and for over $500 you could even do a seminar.

This is a simple business idea. Create an ebook around the topic of making money with your love of Golf.

Show people how to make money with their passion for Golf and they will pay you whatever you want.

This is something I've been meaning to do for quite a while as well but instead I put it into a book, this book!

I was going to create a membership site where every month you get a list of profitable business ideas you can steal as your own.

Humans are lazy, we want everything done for us, and even tho I give you this business ideas that you can just steal, you would still rather if I just gave you the business to take over, and that was my idea.

I was (and probably still will) going to create this membership site and charge a small monthly fee $9.95 to attract a lot of members, and every month they would get a list of business ideas just like what you are reading now.

But on the backend I was going to offer them the chance to buy the business already made from me.

For instance, let's say I wrote about QualityReprintRights.com in my membership site.

What I would do is create 7 or 8 ebooks myself, put the site up and sell it to one of my members exclusively for say $1495.

I don't know about you, but I would pay $1495 for 8 ebooks that I own the full rights to, no one else and a complete turnkey business ready to run.

Everyone loves a bargain and mothers are no different. I've always wanted to create a membership site that showed people not only how to save money on everything from groceries and fuel, but to be able to offer discounts to products from the membership site.

Sort of like an online coupon, but instead you pay a flat monthly fee and become a member of a membership site, with articles, forums, etc.... and you get discounts on selected products.

This has become a really hot topic lately, with more parents worried about the schooling system then ever before.

Many parents want to home school their children, but are not sure how, and many know how, but lack the resources to do so.

You will have to do a lot of research to make this site happen as a membership site, but I believe it will be worth it.

Depending on how much content you offer, you could charge $100's a month to your membership site. You could be the one stop shop for information and products on home schooling.

Parents will want everything they need to start home schooling their children, and if you can offer that in one place, they will be willing to pay pretty much anything you want within reason.

When I was studying for college, I was constantly on the search for a guide on how to study more effectively, and I found it for free at Gutenberg.

Type in "study" in their online search and find all the products you can on effective study habits.

Normally I would tell you to create a hard copy product out of this content, but what I was going to do is create a membership site out of all the content.

Students don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on information guides, but they do have $9.95 or $19.95 to learn how to get their studying done quicker, so they can have more fun.

And this is how you should market the membership site. Don't make it sound boring, make it sound like it will help them have more fun in college, spend less time studying while still getting better grades.

The membership site doesn't have to be anything fancy, you can buy membership scripts for under $100.

This is something that everyone is dying for but can't seem to find a reputable service.

People want hundreds, even thousands of articles written for them for Adsense websites, but they don't want to pay an arm and leg for them and they want them to be quality.

I know, I know, tough crowd, but the money is there if you are willing to put in the hard work.

Personally I would charge around $4.50 per article with a minimum of 10 articles required for a purchase.

The articles would usually be around 350 to 500 words in length each and would be based around the keywords they supply you.

You could easily pull in $500 to $700 a day working 14 hours a day with no outlay on your end apart from domain name registration and hosting.

Marketing would be free, just let people know in marketing forums you have this service and people will swarm all over you.

I found another text at Gutenberg with over 10,000 dreams interpreted that you can use as your own product.

Imagine the product you could create with that? That would make a massive 3 ring binder product that you could sell for a pretty penny. I love public domain works!

There are literally tens of millions of people with an EBay account that shop periodically for everything from clothing to information. So why not create a business around EBay!

You already have millions of customers at your disposal, so why not make EBay work even harder for you?

I've used this method with some success. It's not my favourite method, but it's so easy and it's quick cash in your pockets.

The problem with selling physical products on EBay is that it's a hard business to sell onto someone else. Inventory, shipping is a pain in the butt, so I decided to create a business that was virtual and a product that could be downloaded instantly.

Of course I'm talking about an ebook here, but you can create just about anything.

Most people don't associate EBay with digital products, but people are willing to buy them if you know where to look.

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