Want to know how to make money online? Stop thinking so hard.
The other day I was wrapping up a new website for the Fredericton Meals on Wheels organization, it was a charity gig that I happily donated my time on (thanks again for the support everybody) which led me to work with a well known local community activist, John Carty. He’s the new director of the MOW program and a man who’s master the art of giving to the community, funny thing was that he said something hilarious one day when I was on the phone with him and it’s brilliant advice for web entrepreneurs.
Everybody loves pets.
What he actually said what that everybody loves animals, he used to be the head of the Fredericton SPCA so he’s a man who knows about animals. During another chapter of his life he ran for local office and he discovered that most people had a pet in the house when they came to the door. I hope John doesn’t mind me sharing this story, but the point is pretty simple … people love animals. So what’s this got to do with making money online?
i can has cheezburger if I tell you? Honest to Google, while the rest of us are killing ourselves building complex social networking engines, marketing tools, SEO optimization mechanisms and writing content on everything from how to make money blogging to Google in your TV … these guys are making a mint doing nothing more than putting funny captions on pictures.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/ may seem like a joke at first glance but this cheesy little website stacks up like this:
Basic Traffic Statistics
Alexa Traffic Ranking: 2,780
Google PageRank: 7
Average of 709,717 backlinks from major search engines.
You read that right … a PageRank of 7 and over 700,000 backlinks to a website with cute pictures of kittens and some funny text. Their website’s estimated worth (for the domain name, not the business) … $2,202,868.
I’m not knocking icanhascheezburger.com, honestly I’m just jealous that I didn’t think of it first. The website is a WordPress.com hosted website powered by the greatest tool ever, it also means that there was basically no startup costs to put it together. Basically a domain name and a free account.
My point I suppose (if I indeed have one) is that much like my recent article So You Lost Your Job, Now it’s Time to Live., and How make money online? the only obstacle between you and making money online is your own desire to start doing it.
Well … I think there’s only one thing for me to do then …
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Thats a great iiea to make money online, Making money online used to pretty much require you to have your own Web site, products to sell and some marketing savvy. But a new generation of dot-coms have arisen that will pay you for what you know and who you know without you having to be a web designer or a marketing genius.
Great post. As always. The simpliest ideas are usually the best ideas.
Yea, the trick is to think of something that nobody else is doing. Doing what’s hot now isn’t going to make you money, but a simple idea that hasn’t been seen before can catch on and really drive visitors to your site.
I always am amazed by these sites that become super successful which, when you get down to it, are nothing all that complicated.
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Excellent post.
The simpliest ideas are usually the best ideas, but it can be difficult to think of something new and simple these days.
They even create network now. Looks like there will be more similar sites with so good stats too.
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Yup, icanhascheezburger.com made it the top 10 world’s 50 most powerful blogs.
It’s amazing how a simple idea could viral that BIG and in fact, according to the owner, “Actually, dogs are much more interesting…”
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lol, wow, that’s truly a great picture of you (?)
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I think that in hard times the life becomes more simple and simple ideas do gain popularity very quickly.
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It’s true, anyone can make a lot of money online with a little creativity – something I just don’t seem to have a lot of.
Making pictures is easy but make a funny pictures is something. and I am jealous too!
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I dont think its hard to make money online. You have to just solve the problem and charge money for it.
It’s funny really, I run a few micro sites in my spare time but nothing will ever be as big as icanhaz, and it’s such a painfully simple concept.
I find internet marketing the same as marketing a product in the real world. In real marketing one really has to go through different means to promote a brand and product. Same tasks are applied in internet marketing but this can also be done at the comfort of one’s bedroom.
Nice article .Thank.
Why not keep going? I got a laugh out of the first photo you posted. Think of the rest of the market out there that doen’t like cats?
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LOL! That’s a hilarious picture! But I think your post shows an important think: A lot of websites that pulls in good money, was started as a hobby or just for fun. It’s a good idea to have a model on how to build up your blog /website to make money, but at first just DO it, and have fun :)
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Hi. I’m having trouble with your blog. I can’t see the images. Is anyone else having this problem? I have been having trouble with my notebook lately, so I’m not sure if its my Internet connection or if its your website. Thanks!
Well this post certainly hit home…
I got a message saying my domain (which I’ve done nothing with for a couple of years now had just expired) Ironically the domain is http://www.comicalpix.com :)
Think I might just head over to Dynadot and see about renewing it…