Being a guy with a slight problem on concentrating on things, I tend to always come up with ideas – mostly when I’m supposed to be studying (like now); while they seem amazing at the time, a lot of them turn out to be total shite or involve a great deal of that thing called ‘work’ – something I’m not very good at.
. Here’s a small look at a few projects I wanted to start – but fell off or resigned to the scrap heap because I didn’t really have time. I’d estimate a good $500 or so lost on domains, hosting and stuff bought just for these sites – ah well. Here’s a few ideas – some of them are ongoing, some of them are future projects and some of them are totally dead.
1) ILoveIM clone
The guys who said they’d do it cheap/for free died, so I’m left with a few offerings of a price range anywhere between $1500 – $3000. Not chump change by any means; and with that amount of money going out, I want to be fully in control of everything – I’ll need a lot of time on my hands, which of course I don’t have with the fookin’ exams coming up. Something for the background, but if/when I get the time and the money, I’ll concentrate on it – the initial profits will not be high, which is why I want to not focus on it too much for now – it does have the potential to be a huge money spinner due to the lack of competition, but we’ll see.
2) Social Networking Website for Money Makers
I had two plans for this – the first one was an idea about having a young money making social network; I even bought the cheesy domain YoungCash.net, but later on decided that it might be better to expand it for all ages – basically a cross of MyBlogLog and Facebook. Now, the Agriya Facebook clone script costs $349 fresh, and it’s supposed to be a real b!tch to use – I’ll be looking into this in the future, but again – initial profits will not be that high, and until I have enough money to play with – this will be on the backburner.
3) An amazing proxy network
The proxy I was scammed out of was earning a stable $20 ish a day – my idea was build, say thirty of them and go wild. It doesn’t work out like that of course – I bought the 30 domains and paid for a dedicated server, but having not promoted most of them, only a couple are earning – I stand to make less off Adsense this month than I did last, but ah well; I’ll probably hire a few people to promote them – even if you get 30 sites at say $1 a day (with a couple of them hitting ‘big time’ with $10 a day) that’s some decent passive income
This is moving along, although not as fast as I’d like – I suppose we haven’t done enough promotion on it so it’s only us to blame. The content – mainly freebies will hopefully see an upgrade to more useful posts in the next few days – it has 13 RSS subscribers already, most of which from mine/Mark’s blog – pretty alright for a little promoted website, but nothing spectacular. More on that in the next month.
5) BUTTSECKS.tv
This was mainly an idea I had for a bit of a joke, but it could have gone viral – basically take all the LOLcat/Owl pictures and combine them into a slideshow of hilarity for people to watch. I even started looking for scripts and stuff, when I decided to type in the .COM version – a lovely porn website.
The domain (.TV) still isn’t registered, so if you want to have a go feel free; I’m thinking of doing that with a different name though – we’ll see.
6) Pay per install website
I read a shitty eBook on how you could use Zango and earn money every single time someone installed one of your screensavers/games/images – I even bought the domain Screensaverforme.com and planned to have a babe, cars etc subdomain (babe.screensaverforme.com) – I thought it would be pretty cool, but I decided not to go ahead with it a) because it involved a decent amount of startup work – with PAD files (and I still don’t know what the fook they are) and submitting to screensaver directories while b) Zango is also a spyware/adware program, and I know how annoying they are – wouldn’t really want people to install their toolbar, even if I was making money out of it.
7) Acne website
I had the eBook (PLR, of course), and setup a WordPress blog with a nice MFA template – the domain was BanAcne.com – it’s a dead shell though. Just didn’t have the knowledge about the articles and couldn’t be arsed to do research on probably one of the most boring topics around – it’s sitting, and if I ever find a decent, cheap content writer, I’ll set it up. Mainly something to flip, but it was more a long term thing if I wanted any serious profits – for now, creating + selling the PLR websites does just fine
SIGGL.com
This is actually going pretty well – it’s being coded at the moment, and once it is, it should be up in a couple of days. Most of the work has already been done – on a different domain, of course to avoid snoopers – it’s something that no one in the blogosphere has tried yet and I can envision it being a great success once it kicks off. Y’all will get a sneak preview before it launches of course, but bookmark the domain, and check it every so often – you might stumble across a little surprise.
9) My PR5 domain bought to sell blog posts
Still waiting on it – the seller had it transferred to Godaddy from a different registrar, so it’s in a ‘grace’ period – it will be ready (and mine, all mine
) on the 29th, at which point I will be gleefully offering blog posts in the Digital Point Link Sales section for pretty cheap (well, they’ll think it’s cheap, at least).
10) This will remain a secret
I’m working on a pretty big project – only maybe an hour a day for now, but once exams are over, I’ll put in some serious time into this – I’ve spoken it over with a couple people and the estimate is that it will generate around $10,000+ a month – startup. Obviously that will be split between partners, but at the moment it’s just me and someone else – $5000 a month still sounds good, and that’s just the money start up – the potential is so, so much more.
I will fill you in on details eventually.
11) Aweber – email list building
Most of the pros have email lists; I’ve really got to start one, because the people who can be arsed to signup – that’s half the work right there. Obviously this is good to spam get people to buy my products – because everyone (well, not really – but let’s pretend they do) knows that those who buy from you once are pretty likely to do so again
Anyways, that’s all (well, all the ones I could be arsed to write about) the ideas I’ve implemented over the last month or so – what about you, how many dead ideas do you have lying around?
Talk later – study time!



December 26th, 2007 at 10:15 am
SIGGL project looks promising!.. and yeah builiding aweber email list is good idea to sell your stuffs at discount if so i ll be your first member
remember the discount thingy for EXCLUSIVE members?
December 26th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I thought the design was pretty clean myself – we’ll see how it works out.
As for the email list – I’ll offer discounts to subscribers – probably a free eBook (of mine, of course) thrown in as well.
December 26th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Awesome ideas. Waiting till after my Mexico vacation trip for New Years to start a couple projects of my own
. Spent 16 hours straight yesterday on one site that was generation traffic yet not monetized properly. Hopefully stats this week will be promising !
December 26th, 2007 at 11:05 am
**generating woops
December 26th, 2007 at 11:37 am
So Sammy…
How do you ‘generate woops’ ?
December 26th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Lol… ***generating, woops!
December 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
so when are you gonna tell me what the SIGGl project is? along with secret number 10?
December 26th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I would love to know the secret project,it sounds intriguing and it seems pretty cool if it would generate that much money in such a short time.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Yes, the SIGGL project is really promising. I just can’t wait to see what it is! Oh yeah, I’m building it.
)
Guess you guys will just have to wait a little longer… Here’s a hint… It has absolutely nothing to do with Siggl’s, whatever they may be.
December 26th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Ok.. the way you make number 10 sound.. it is like you’re getting ready to get a few hostages for ransom
that’s a good idea b.t.w ^
Anyway, nice arsed ideas you got there Jason…
And yeah, I’d love a sneak peak at SIGGL design.. will get in touch with ya via YM!
December 27th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I’m a bit like you Jason, have a lot of projects on the go, but don’t have time/can’t be arsed to keep on top of them all.
Hopefully will have only three main projects on the go in the New Year that I can put all my time into
Some of your sites look promising, hope they work out for you
December 27th, 2007 at 5:58 am
I have the problem… to many ideas, not enough time or motivation to do them.
December 27th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
I hope that the big project goes well for you and your partner. Sorry to hear about your proxy experience and the Zango one, too. I hate Zango due to the spyware on it. If you are still looking for a payperinstall, there are a few decent ones. Anyway, sounds a bit like me. I have about 13 inactive (non-proxy) domains now, just waiting for expiration pretty much.
December 27th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
You could always sell those domains on DP, make a bit of change.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Looks like you are doing fairly well. Great for a 16 year old. I will contact you later on today on msn. I’ve been busy lately with birthday & Christmas parties.
December 28th, 2007 at 7:12 am
I have lots of great ideas, but that is all they are at this point. Damn full time job seems to get in the way of getting anything done…
December 28th, 2007 at 9:39 am
@Egk – Well, like you, I’m busy. However, instead of with a job, it is with University. UC Berkley is really competitive and I have rigorous classes. I am 19 so I got about a year or two more of general, compulsory classes (English, Math, etc…). Having some trouble with multivariable calculus…anyone have any good resources to help?
Anyway, I would like to help you make your ideas become something. If you have msn or aim, provide it to me. Thanks.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Btw, I got 1000th comment
December 28th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Hit me up on Yahoo/MSN and I will ask you for all the details
December 28th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Thanks for the info.
December 28th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I have started my blog around 2 weeks ago and receive a number of visitor but did not get much comment. Well i update my blog almost everyday and sometimes more than 2 post.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:41 am
@David Chew – Maybe you should do a contest.