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The Funniest Benefits of Hot Online Business Ideas

This is an article that spawned from my post here explaining in detail how I actually home up with headlines and content for my site. So I figured why not actually write one of these online business ideas for articles here?

The following are some really funny things that actually happened. When I created these posts they actually went viral. Remember writing with a plan is definitely a good thing but sometimes a spontaneous article here or there can go far.

The Steve Jobs “incident” :The first funny thing that ever happened was years ago I wrote a very short post that asked Is Jerry Yang at Yahoo The New Steve Jobs at Apple? The next thing you know the fake Steve Jobs did a short post about me titled This headline made me puke. This was my FIRST big link from another blog. And at the time I was on vacation with my wife in San Antonio. When I checked my stats low and behold I had like 4000 hits in ONE day (laughing). What you don’t see in this article is that they called everything but a child of God. I guess he lost the comment section when he changed servers. Now at first I was insulted of course but after some thought I was like “cooooll” after all how many times does a legendary blog link to you?

The Scratch Your Butt and Sniff “Incident”: Another thing I did was to make fun of all of the “get paid 1 Million Dollars online business ideas”. So I wrote Get Paid 1 Million Dollars to Scratch Your Butt and Sniff. And before my permalinks changed thus turning my tweetmeme to zero I had like 100 something retweets. I even talk about it in a guest post I wrote here.

I created twitterhug and it went viral: Again don’t judge by dumb old tweetmeme who zeroed out ALL of my retweet records after I changed my permalink structure. But before that I had a lot of retweets plus it still is viral today look on twitter. People I don’t even know (some I don’t want to know LOL) are using that around the world.

The benefits of all three is that of course I received a combined 50,000 in traffic . But another under the radar fact is that these posts led to business via purchases (yes I asked customers what brought them to me).

You never know who is watching.

02 Apr

10 Online Business Ideas for Salons

If your a salon owner do you realize how much money you are missing online? Oh I am not talking about that standard get advertising sponsor bull. I am talking about you building a mini online empire! The irony is that the guy writing this (me) is losing his hair (laughing out loud). But I am more than happy to share online business ideas with you.

Salons involve fashion, gossip, and men (yeah guys they talk about us). And the more interesting part is that they break down into sub micro niches. No two hair salons (even if they look like it) are actually alike. People in the salon industry are very particular about what they do, want, and sell. And as all of us seasoned vets online know that is actually a GOOD combination for any online business.

1. Online Entrepreneurs offer local Salons the following services: hey many salon owners may need help setting up their business. I explained this online business opportunity for online entrepreneurs in a similar post about restaurants.

2. Create a localized geo targeted TMZ part to your website: Hey if there is anyplace that would be better why not have a TMZ section or something similar to it? The purpose is to generate traffic so you can possibly sell products and schedule appointments.

3. Print out copies to the TMZ section of your website to give to your salon patrons. Let the people see what your doing as well as those magazines they are flipping through. The BEST part is that unlike the magazines they can walkout with your printouts.

4. Create a online fashion section from head to toe: cover all areas of fashion and see if you can get some affiliate links to fashion products.

5. Create a sexy men online calendar: Hey ladies would come to your site often if you talked it up a week or two before the release. Use cafepress to get them printed up. Besides you can get a lot of public domain photos as well. You could give them to customers for FREE. Also give them away at any expos you attend.

6. Create a info product line like “Inside Sister Secrets to Hair Care” guide for sale and download. You could sell through e-junkie.

7. Create online scheduling. And offer discounts for prepayments. Hey remember money now is always better than money later.

8. Create a online incentive program to get them purchasing from you online. An example would be “buy anything online and get a FREE shampoo.” My fellow Third Tribe brother Derek has some great online business ideas for developing online customer loyalty.

9. Get your product supplier to fund your online web development and growth: WARNING this is only AFTER you build up the ideas I mentioned earlier. The other online business ideas in this article have to be executed. Not all but you have to do something. That way you can show you are bringing traffic. Get them to for instance pa for your printing of your gossip section or a newsletter all together.

10. Get a SEO expert to help you get local area ranking in one of those salon 10 or 1 box maps in Google search engines. Here is an example of what I am talking about.

Somebody should start a blog targeted at helping salon owners become bloggers and web owners themselves. Your money is waiting on you.

22 Jan

3 Business Ideas for TV and Film

3 Business Ideas for TV and Film because they need it badly. Almost a hundred years ago when silent films existed, stars like Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford flourished as silent film actors. Until the late twenties when the business idea of sound (talkies) were introduced. Many big actors and actresses lost their jobs due to the inability to keep their audience. Some actors didn’t have the voice for talkies. Others who acted for a cinematographic effect in silent films were interpreted to the moviegoers as over-actors in the sound era.

They were told by the studios that it was nothing personal “just business.” For almost a hundred years studios have controlled both the film business and later TV. Talented actors and writers have always received the small piece of the pie and thus the beginning of a long history of writers strikes.

A while ago I received several forwarded emails with links to this website I thought it was one of the more interesting online business ideas I have seen. You can view movies for free via a third party used source. They made money through affiliate links for other stuff.

I was truly intrigued by both the business ideas I was getting from the site to use for other things. And I was also intrigued by the negative reactions from five people who were also copied on these same emails was interesting.

The main argument and or issue that the five respondents had was that this site was taking money from the writers and actors. So under that analogy if I was getting a free pair of shoes made in a third world country I would actually be hurting the child labor market? If in the 1800′s I found a way to get free cotton then I was putting a dent in the slavery racket? Get it? I am not defending, advocating nor condoning the free downloads or watching of movies, film, and music.

However I just think many focus on pennies in a futile effort to solve million dollar problems. Lets step back to my silent film example. the silent film stars needed to grow with technology. Those actors that didn’t adapt became obsolete.

The studios (like some companies in the music business) skill sets have become obsolete. They are now the “silent film stars” who refuse to go silently in the night. Refusing to adapt to today’s “talkies” which in fact are “freebies.” The day of the free download is here. Even the ghetto bootlegs have gone digital where you can watch movies on Yahoo, Google, MySpace and hear the people eating popcorn in the background.

If the studios learn anything from history it should be to adapt. It is no longer a question of who the 30 most powerful people are in Hollywood. It is who are the 30 smartest people. The person with the smartest business ideas are the ones who are going to lead that industry.

Instead of hiring writers and actors they should emulate silicon valley where they partner with them. This would KILL the unions, strikes, bring greater creativity, and prosperity.

Also TV should embrace the web mediums. Remember that TV stands for Tele-vision. The greatest tool that teleports visions is on the web not TV. TV has gone digital. They should market their shows in the same fashion.

3 Business Ideas for TV and Film

1. Greater broadcasting over the web.

2. Exclusive mini shows by indie producers, writers, and actors who they begin to partner with on these exclusives.

3. Marketing that embraces the change instead of reacting negatively to it. Yes pursue the copyright/trademark infringement but lead the charge for change not charge the leadership of change. Marketing departments of Music, Radio, film and TV should be empowered to be proactive in the Open Social era.

Remember Wal Mart became the biggest retailer because they marketed small towns in the America where the giants like Sears, and K Mart refused to go. Through their Open Social approach they were able to build a larger network than any retailer in the history of the world.

Free TV? Free Film? One of the smartest online business ideas is for television and film professionals, to make the original idea greater than it ever was.