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The last time I got fired, I realized I was dumb. I went crazy looking for jobs. Then I saw the smarter ones has smarter ways to make money. Here's some of the more feasible and viable options to start your own thingy.
- Sell a site: Build a good blog or a site and then sell it. Or buy and sell domains especially the misspelled ones.
- Copywriting and proofreading: This comes natural to many.
- Webdesign: You need a little experience for this but there are computer based trainings and free tutorials which are good enough to make you a pro.
- Content Creation: Just write paid posts for bloggers
- Website maintenance: Update the information for sites still running on plain-ol HTML pages.
- Start a directory service: Collect informative links to useful sites and services online, categorize them and publish online. All you'll need is Adsense which runs in the sidebar.
- Niche Blogging: Share your expertise and establish your authority. Collect all those eyeballs and get big advertisers to advertise on your blog.
- Sell logos: And web design templates, flash animations, Wordpress Themes, Drupal themes, icons and more. If you can't do them, get them done for free by your sister-in-law or your younger brother, sell them and give them their cut.
- (Re)sell Web hosting: All major web hosts sell reseller accounts. Get one, put up your site and resell hosting for a better price.
- Sell Photographs: Take your point and shoot. Learn photography in a day. Shoot like crazy and delete the crappy ones. Sell the rest to iStockPhoto.
- Sell stuff on eBay: Your 2year old DSLR that went obsolete by the Nikon D3, anyone will buy it - DSLRs are just that.
- Setup a Web-Proxy: Employees harassed by their bosses and made to sit behind a firewall being denied to view the more beautiful sites… set up a php proxy, run some advertising and provide it as a free service.
- Become a Digg or StumbleUpon power-user: And charge bloggers to submit their articles.
- Start a Blog Network: If you have a very popular blog, get other bloggers to join you and create a big community. You can all thrive on each others' success and works and grow faster and richer. Or if you have multiple blogs that don't have more than 100 subscribers each, form a network and pitch it to the other bloggers. You'll grow either ways.
- Sell an eBook: Start a one page website, use a 36px font-size in bloody-red color and pitch "Become a millionaire in a night - like the way I did". Many will fall for it. But you can do better, honestly write your own survival story and sell it for fair prices.
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I agree with some of these statements, however, web design isn't as easy as you make out. Okay, you can get templates and modify them, however, web design is an art. It is more than place some pages together.
A majority of things require some level of skill.
Your right website design is Not an easy thing to get into, after all when was the last time anyone just picked something like that up and done it well?
Now with that said, Ebay takes alot more too, my sister sells on Ebay
which I've helped with occasionally - there's more to it than you think.
Nothing really comes easy in this world!
You both bring up good points.
In my experience, if you want to do an honest business these are some of the easier things to do. It's just a balance of skill and returns (money) and the above 15 points have been arrived at keeping that in mind. There are easier things you can do like blogging with bots and run Adsense but those pay peanuts. Or you can invest into something big and slog a few months before arriving at something substantial.
Take a look at W3 Schools or a few CBTs from Linda.com, create a free Wordpress theme, do two pro-bono projects and you are good to go as a Web Designer.
Again your mileage may vary, I don't think you can make a living off any one of these one-at-a-time initially.
I think you are trying to say in your post, creating a website, and building an audience for your site. Again, my friend, that will take time and determination. Best thing to do, is work on something that you are passionate about turn your hobby into a business.
Creating a wordpress theme, will increase leads, this will be a great turn around to build leads to your website. Networking is a great tool to have. Why not offer something free to your target audience? This will help you build some trust, plus they will benefit. Over time you will be able to build some trust and a good relationship. Plus marketing your website both online and offline is a big concept, however, anyone brave enough to step up to the plate will get there if they want it bad enough.
I agree, you have to give to receive!
as with anything in life.
I agree with#11 Sell Stuff on eBay there's millions of dollars changing hands every day on eBay and it's just as easy to become a power seller as it is to sell stuff for small change. And with the right conections you can be a power seller to. This is a great way to add another stream of income.
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