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101 Ways to Make Money Online
(part time or full time, and working at home)
Disclaimers
There's no catch and I'm not trying to sell you an ebook. Or anything
(read
Some ideas here are nice and have halos, others smell of dog urine ... but all these methods allegedly
generate lotso dosho, and every single one is legal at least somewhere.
There's overlap in everything so some ideas may be repeated (and some may
not be covered at all) but I'm still maintaining there are 101 ways to
make money online,
partly because it makes a good headline. No, solely because it makes a
good headline. It sucked YOU in, didn't it No, you won't get anything for nothing but there are a lot
of things you can get for nearly nothing. Like getting to pick holes in my
list. Go ahead. Pick holes and then link back here to show people how
stupid I am. I've put together a lot of these ideas from thousands of hours
discussing businesses for sale with their owners. They've shared with me
how their businesses operate, how they make money online, how they built their
businesses up etc. They've given me access to their traffic stats, their
earnings and accounts and tax figures. Many even gave me access to their
Adsense or other "main earner" accounts. Some of those businesses were so
irresistible that I bought them. And sold them. And bought others. It's a
game. I love it. Most of these business ideas can be run from anywhere in the world,
even the United States, Australia and other non-English speaking countries. For
consistency sake all figures are quoted in US dollars. Each method is summarised in a single small para so appreciate it's not
the complete unabridged version. And, no, I haven't tried each one so out
of the 101 business models to make money online 102
may be completely dud. But, I do intend expanding - in due course - on
some of the money-making ideas that worked for me. More disclaimers will come when people sue me (suing can make you
money, see #66)
Finding business ideas: 1. Spend all day browsing Site For Sale forums (like the
list we have here) for the myriad ways people earn money online. People
looking to sell their sites actually tell you how they make money! Pick
one that suits you. Research it a bit, and away and start your own
business. Or use a search engine to find
ways to make money online. It seems to
be so easy that it's almost
impossible to find someone who doesn't know how to do it. (But why
stop at one search engine (SE) Most people get to less than 1% of the top
qualify info they're seeking because they use just one SE like Google,
don't have the vaguest of ideas of the
available, and don't know the benefits to be had using
specialised SEs, local SEs etc. ) 2. Bundle the two above to tell other people how to
. They always want to know. It doesn't matter if you don't know
yourself, you can still charge them for it. I obviously don't have a clue as I'm giving it
all away. You can now ignore everything else I say. But don't go spending
money on internet cons promising to make you a millionaire and . 3. Be more inventive with your search. Look for
small business franchise newsletters. Or for home jobs in your
particular niche or hobby. (And check point #2 above for those
specialised SEs). You can also go through the appropriate
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12) But using "search" is just the start of the game. There are simply
so, so many ways. We hope you hang around to find out. 4. Like the guy you can pay to
stick a message in a bottle for you and throw it into the sea. He's
made tens of thousands of dollars already. And there are
like him in all parts of the world. Do you live near a sea or
river Or
of those
bottles and get your council to contribute.
Domains 5. The dot com gold rush made many millionaires but there's still plenty
of money in domain real estate and still some good catches available. A
good dot com may be difficult to find now. But there are a lot of
discussed in several good
forums. Put your thinking hat on, buy a famous word domain for a few dollars and put it up on the domain selling sites. 6. Lost your thinking hat Hang out at
SEDO.
DNForurms,
7. If you're smart you'll run
against available domain
names and auto-check them against search volumes (using
OST, . Or post a little bit of relevant content and
get a link or two ... and the search engines will start sending you
traffic. If the phrase people are typing in coincides exactly with your
domain name it gives you a great head start with SEs.
8. If you're smart AND a linguist you'd be doing that in
multiple languages. And not paying for any domain till you've
tried it free for five days to see if it does indeed get any type-in
traffic (and how well that traffic converts). After you've tried it for
five days and dropped it there's nothing to stop you immediately picking
it up again for another five day trial. Strange, but true. It's not
9. Misspellings. Massive opportunities still exist in the misspelling/typo
market. People trying to get elsewhere land on your site instead ... and
you sell them stuff (or use the
domain parking idea). Some even tempt fate by making
find misspellings for you. How easy can it get 10. Domain parking and
: People sometimes guess at URLs. If they want a plumber
they may try though they've never used that site themselves.
Find terms that people may be typing in (I will provide a detailed guide
to this when I get a chance), buy the domain and populate it
with ads. There are several ad programs to
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Or combine this with the previous idea to buy or similar typo domains
to make money online. 12. A variation on the above. Sell the domain back to the previous owners.
Note that you may want to tread carefully and get familiar with the rules
for that
13. Run a domain management service. Hundreds of thousands of
webmasters (or more) have a large portfolio of domains. A lot of them would like the boring
bit taken out of their domain management. You can run their
14. Start a directory to list domains for sale. That's what people like
15. If you're running a service putting buyers and sellers of
domains/sites in touch with one another you could get money for add on services (like
providing escrow
facilities). For ideas have a look at what existing domain intermediaries
offer. 16. Run a domain research service. Wonder what happens when a manufacturer
is looking to name a new model car Or starting a new range of
clothing They need trademark and patent research but now they also need
some domain research. Which of the literally thousands of combinations and
misspellings (+) are taken and which do they need to
buy With a few of the free domain tools discussed on this page,
here, and one or
two more - like
free DNS tools - and a little time you could provide them a service
they'd pay a lot of money for. 17. Start your own country: Whoa! yes, you're reading it right. If you've
heard of ) you'll know that starting your own country is not that far
fetched. Once you have your own WhackyCountry you can apply for a .wc
(yuk) TLD. Sell millions of domains. Keep some for yourself. Ever wanted
a 18. Perform domain services for businesses and then send them a proforma
(even if they've never heard of you). Explain that it's free this time
but you'll gladly keep acting for them for a small fee. For example,
there are thousands of big businesses whose half-wit
webmasters/ developers didn't put in a redirect from the non-www to the
www versions of their sites (or vice-versa). One entrepreneur made a few thousands just
from pointing out to businesses how they were losing hundreds of
customers every year who were landing on
