Money Making Idea Part 2

Now that you've seen a perfect example of what brainstorming is like, let's continue to explore the many ways one can go about making money online. Remember, these are CREATIVE ideas. Some you may have to put a little extra thought into.


# 34 - Start a Shopping Network: Sites like Shop.com,Buy.com and Shopzilla.com make great fortunes aggregating different products and charging the advertiser a cost-per-click.

# 35 - Trade Stocks With Online Investment Sites: Create accounts at E-Trade or Scottrade and hit the exchange! The Internet has made trading stocks easy without being a stockbroker. You may lose your clothes, but it's still worth a shot. 
# 36 - Join a Community Challenge: Thirty Day Challenge encourages you to make your first dollar online...this is a community project spurring online entrepreneurship.
# 37 - Get Free Stuff and Auction It: Believe it or not Craigs List has a free section. In most metropolitan areas, people just leave stuff beside the curb. Grab it and start an eBay auction. There are other auction sites out there too... check out UBid.
# 38 - Start a Forum: You ever find yourself asking Google tough tech questions? In most cases someone else has ran into the same problem...and you found the answer on a forum. Start your own, build a following and sell ad space.

# 39 - Become a Dropshipper: Act as the middle man between buyer and seller for sites like eBay.Dropping shipping is used my some of the worlds largest retailers.

# 40 - Travel The World: If you really want to get creative, take off for the high seas, start a blog and watch lurkers flock to your site. Everyone likes a good travel story. One good site to get some ideas from is, Where The Hell Is Matt. Not saying you should copy him...but people like this kind of stuff.

# 41 - Help Others Make Money: If you think this list is dumb and you already know the art of making money online...earn an income helping other people. Start your own consulting service and charge out the wazoo.

# 42 - Start a Blog Network: Start one blog, wait 6 months, and start another one. Once you build up traffic to your site, start one in a similar niche and watch your own little web of blogs form.

# 43 - Start an Online Directory: Everyone wants to get listed in DMOZ. Buy a directory creation software such as eSyndicat, start adding links and watch your directory grow. They even have a function to accept payments via Pay Pal.

# 44 - Start a Care Press Store: Care Press allows you to create custom t-shirts with your own logo. Get photos of Flickr, which can be used under Create Common Licensing. Pick some far out creatives and start selling!
# 45 - Build a Niche Focused Store: Think you have an idea no one has ever thought of? Chances are they haven't. Pick a domain name you like (trust me, there are some crazy ones out there). Yahoo Merchant Solutions will get you started for less than 40 bucks.

# 46 - Sell Your Contacts: Think you have a Rolodex worth millions? See if Jigsaw things so...this directory of business contacts will buy them from you.
# 46 - Get Paid to Blog: Weblogs, arguably one of the largest blog networks, will pay you to blog on of their hundreds of blogs. Also, check out b5Media. They have job postings updated regularly.
# 47 - Become a Paid Shopper - Yes, there are plenty of scams in this industry...but you can make money "mystery shopping." Intellishop is a good place to start.
# 48 - Join a Focus Group: Think your opinion matters? Well, there are people willing to listen...and pay you for it! I've done this, it's fun. Companies like Focus Pointe Global hold regular focus groups around the country. For instance, movie and TV product companies hold focus groups combined of "regular" people to get an idea of how their latest shows and movies will do. Just another example of polling.
# 49 - Get Paid to Tutor: As long as colleges are up an running...tutors will always have a job. Do it the Web 2.0 way and earn extra income through  a cool site called Tutor.
# 50 - Try Your Hand (or throat) at Voice Overs: Do you have a voice made for radio? Well, find out and get paid for voice overs through Opuzz Voice. You might be surprised how fun this can be. Voice personalities are paid starting at $75 / session.
# 51 - Get Paid to Search...not Surf: Don't just get paid for surfing the net...get paid to perform searches on Web 2.0 search engines such as Slash My Search.
# 52 - Create a Free Report: Think you know what makes the world spin...start a free column or report and build a loyal following. Make it an e-mail newsletter and send out affiliate offers.

# 53 - Develop Online Games: Games for kids, teens or adults...it really doesn't matter. There will always be a market for developers in the online gaming industry. If you're a programmer and still have the inner kid - this may be "right up your alley." Develop your own site to market the game.

# 54 - Record Music and Sell It: You might not be the next Lennon or McCartney, but everyone carries a tune. There are cheap ways to record quality original music. Check out online stores such as Musicians Friend to get your gear. Once you have it fine tuned, go to a site like TAXI and get it in front of the right people. Better yet, just do it yourself.

# 55 - Sell Your Unused CPU Cycles: Want to help create the worlds first super computer...and make money doing it? Sell your unused CPU shares on....CPU Shares.
# 56 - Start an Online Ratings Website: Purchase the Word Press Review Site plugin and rate products on your blog. Watch the world join right in. Add links to affiliate products an earn commissions.

# 57 - Place Ads In Your RSS Feeds: Sites like Pheedo offer a number of RSS feed advertising solutions. They offer robust ways to monitor traffic and measure your results. Many top Fortune 500 companies use their service. It's worth taking a look at.
# 58 - Start Your Own Podcast: We've covered this topic before in previous posts. Starting your own podcast can result in great income. Just start talking about what interests you. It really doesn't matter. Either pull in affiliate offers or direct ads...there is huge earning potential in both avenues.

# 69 - Build an Amazon Store: Place Amazon products on top of your existing web site, especially during the holiday season is a great way to make money online. Amazon offers competitive commissions which has placed them as one of the original and top affiliate programs on the net.

# 60 - Become a Google Adwords Professional: Study for your Adwords professional exam, past the test and manage Google Adwords account for other people. Charge a straight up management fee or charge a percent of ad spend. It's up to you.

# 61 - Park Misspelled Domains: Using the Alexa Global Top 500 see if misspellings of top websites are available. This can result in good traffic for Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher ads.

# 62 - Sell SEO Services: If you have experience getting your own site to the top of Google, offer to do it for someone else. For a fee of course.

# 63 - Someone Copy Your Idea? Sue Them: If you really get hard up for making money, find someone who you think has stolen your "intellectual" property and just flat out sue em'. Why do you think Googleget's sued all the time? If done right, there can be good money in this. Talk about creative.

# 64 - Domain Brokering: Don't buy or sell the name...just find someone who wants to sell, and another who is willing to buy. Find a buyer for the seller and charge a brokerage fee.