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July 15, 2008 One of my favorite occupations as I stroll the streets of the city is to tear down notices that promise “make hundreds of $$$ a day working from home!” -- they’re generally placed by pyramid schemers and the only money that’s likely to be changing hands is from you to them.
The truth is that there are far more people trying to make money from you than those who want to help you make a living. Perhaps that’s obvious but the guys who write the books on “How to Become a Millionaire” are still doing a good business. What you do is you publish a book for $20 on how to get rich and then sell 50,000 copies…
Still, today I jumped out of bed at the crack of noon, made some coffee and then pulled out my laptop while still in bed to check my website income from the day before. I was on course to make $1,000 for the month. I went back to sleep for a while and then hit the beach. Another productive working day.
In the future we’ll probably divide people between those who remember life before the Internet and those who have a hard time believing that people used to walk down to the post office to send mail. Generations to come will laugh at the idea that people used to pay to talk to each other on the phone and will be revolted by the idea that all media was once in the hands of greedy publishing, music and television companies.
Just wants to be freeThe Internet has made information free. Naturally, it took the world a long time to wake up to this new paradigm and in the beginning there were a lot of people trying to charge for access to websites. Surfers just shrugged and hit the back button and moved on to a site that didn’t ask for a credit card. Information is still the most valuable commodity in the world but the economic model changed.
Dig it, you’re not paying to read this article but that doesn’t mean there’s no money being made here…
Last summer I decided to take a six-month-long holiday and hung around camp fires at some hippie festivals with not a cell phone -- much less an electric socket -- in sight. In between banging out hopelessly off-key Bob Dylan songs on my guitar, I explained to my incredulous dreadlocked friends that I’d made $30 that day before waking up. Okay, it was no fortune but the cash was coming in without me lifting a finger and kept me in a good supply of guitar strings and patchouli oil.
Running your own niche website is like cultivating a money tree. You plant the seed of a good idea, tend and cultivate the sapling for a year or so without any reward and then, as your website comes into maturity, you sit back and collect the fruit as it drops, just doing a bit of pruning here or there.
Unless you’re a really driven type and want to plant a whole orchard of niche websites and secure a long-term revenue stream that will beat most pension plans…
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By now your eyes are probably rolling. That’s all very well, you say but you’re not a computer geek. The web is already full of millions of sites on every conceivable topic and anyway, how can anyone make money by giving information away for freeI used to say the same things. Then an old friend told me that his collection of niche websites were bringing in 500,000 people a month. That was more than many magazines that I could think of. I checked out his sites and saw that far from using any complicated programs he’d made them all in Notepad. He’d learnt about 10 little symbols that he needed to make the pages and although there was no design to speak of, the information was clear and accessible.
If you already send email and watch videos on YouTube then you’re probably capable of learning how to set up and code your own website in a day. Just do a Google search for “html tutorials” and you’ll be on your way. Use a program like Dreamweaver that does the code for you and it gets even easier. And if you plan to make a more complicated site that needs some tricky code, you can find an Indian tech wizard though
