Online business ideas for the taking

DrewClement said:
Fair points to say the least. Also had a bit more of a think on it, and realized that the [FONT=Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial] other issue is that the cost of maintaining gps accuracy through differential gps is costly.

Even with d-gps you get accuracy within 10cm. I dont know about everyone else, but I would get super pissed off by a 10cm strip of lawn that wasn't cut....[/FONT]
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To be honest you could lay an underground sensor around the perimeter of the lawn easily - just a wire that a sensor on the mower can identify. That would be cheap and easy. I was a gardener for years and objects in the grass would be a major problem liability and otherwise. That and the power needed to ensure the grass shoot never clogs - definitely need to improve on the clogging and then there's the emptying of the bag. If no bag then you are back to increased liability for potential projectiles, all the ones that are typically caught in a bag.



As for an online business I still believe someone could make a serious run at the social media aspect of catching fugitives like what I put in a thread the other day.

http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/155001-social-media-big-brother-rewards-profit.html

The ad dollars would dwarf the reward money.
 


The whole idea of 'two different ideas having sex' came to mind when reading this story:

Chinese farmer takes to the road in wind powered car | Metro.co.uk

Think about it, millions of dollars spent in R&D and this guy just creates something that is as 'simple' as marrying two ideas. Will it revolutionary that industry? More then likely not...

However... who knows, it could also spur a whole lot of new development... Example: What about mounting one of those fans on the back, so that you can use the wind power that you are displacing to charge the battery as well?
 
be able to adjust heating of your home through the internet or an app so you can turn it on off while your away would be cool, alert you if its too cold or warm and watch the temperature?. Would also be good if your looking after elderly people so it could alert you if its too cold for them or warm so you could adjust accordingly.

A social network for your pet, share photos with other pet owners.

siri but for your car so you can tell it to turn the temperature up, change radio, find directions.
 
Johnathan said:
A quick search on Google reveals a ton of free content and Youtube. Who would pay for craft tutorials? (Serious Question)
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Depends on how you package em. If you packaged them as a series, and offered a Q&A service when people screwed up, they'd pay.

I do the same in another niche where there is a lot of free info around. People pay because they want me to tell them 1 way to solve a problem, not give them 30,000 options. Then if it doesn't work, they can ask me for help.
 
amateursurgeon said:
I do the same in another niche where there is a lot of free info around. People pay because they want me to tell them 1 way to solve a problem, not give them 30,000 options. Then if it doesn't work, they can ask me for help.
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Want to thank you for that! Just made me reconsider some advice I'm handing out for a product that I've been working on for about 5 months now.

SIMPLIFY! - really needed to hear that!
 
Gertex said:
The whole idea of 'two different ideas having sex' came to mind when reading this story:

Chinese farmer takes to the road in wind powered car | Metro.co.uk

Think about it, millions of dollars spent in R&D and this guy just creates something that is as 'simple' as marrying two ideas. Will it revolutionary that industry? More then likely not...

However... who knows, it could also spur a whole lot of new development... Example: What about mounting one of those fans on the back, so that you can use the wind power that you are displacing to charge the battery as well?
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I had a similar idea a couple of years ago, but instead of plain fans I was thinking about something like cone shaped vents in front of the car that would tunnel the air to a couple of Tesla turbines, but then I figured that the extra drag it would create would null out the extra energy gained..
 
amateursurgeon said:
Depends on how you package em. If you packaged them as a series, and offered a Q&A service when people screwed up, they'd pay.

I do the same in another niche where there is a lot of free info around. People pay because they want me to tell them 1 way to solve a problem, not give them 30,000 options. Then if it doesn't work, they can ask me for help.
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I do hope you're not telling people how to perform operations, and giving them a Q&A service when they fuck up. :p
 
Here's maybe a crap idea that I know I won't get around to.

A free kindle books website that links to all the out-of-copyright books on Amazon and also the weekly free e-books that they release. Get it ranking for 'free kindle books', it doesn't seem too competitive.

Have a mailing list and mail out once a week.

Money will come from the Amazon cookie if they buy paid stuff. I don't even know if it works like that, I've never been an Amazon affiliate.
 
Bump.

Nothing solid, but here's an idea up for grabs: local speed networking. Everyone is hungry for social capital now; Website that organizes speed networking in every city, sorted by interests. Not as much work as it seems and you can crowdsource most of the organisational stuff

good luck bros
 
BUUUUUUMP

Don't have the time for this and doubt profit would be huge but a Spotify premium reseller for countries with no Spotify like Italy and Japan. If you've a premium account you can use it from any country so it works as long as you use your credit card from an approved country. So user pays you the €30 plus a few euro extra.

There's loads selling on Ebay but no websites that I can see. The profitability of this all depends on if you can get Adwords ads going. I can see no competition so hopefully CPCs are low.
 
This one's probably a bit to socialist for y'all, but..

There is an opportunity to take advantage of all the protests about large corporates not paying taxes, hiring third world labour etc. Start a directory / membership scheme of 'ethical' businesses, do some basic vetting, and charge them a membership fee. Promote them on the site, and give them stickers, etc etc to use in their shop windows.
 
CitizenSmif said:
This isn't my idea, it was originally posted by someone on here and I thought it was pretty good.

Buy a few 'kiosks', essentially just a PC with the keyboard fitted into some sort of exterior. Something like this

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See if you can make an agreement with Cash4Gold/Pawn Shops/scummy sort of places to allow you to place the kiosk in their shop for a monthly fee or a % of earnings. Have the screen display only a payday loan offer with your aff ID and have a sign basically saying "Payday Loans, instant decision" or something like that. People would be far more likely to trust something like this in a shop than going to a random webpage.
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I've seen Education Connection lead gen kiosks that aren't manned at all.

I may set up the first free trial kiosk in a mall for nutra. lol
 
amateursurgeon said:
This one's probably a bit to socialist for y'all
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It's not socialist to promote ethical business. It's socialist to promote ethical business using the violence of the state.

Socialists like getting other people to do their dirty work for them, which is why most hide in Academe and Government, rather than run successful outfits in the private sector.
 
Tax consultants / lawyers in the US probably aren't complaining right now.

Round up a few professionals in each state, form an association, market the hell out of it via a central website, and take a cut of all services rendered.

EDIT: Perfect timing too, because everyone is scared of the fiscal cliff, Obama, taxes, regulations, and blah, blah... fear sells.
 
guerilla said:
It's not socialist to promote ethical business. It's socialist to promote ethical business using the violence of the state.

Socialists like getting other people to do their dirty work for them, which is why most hide in Academe and Government, rather than run successful outfits in the private sector.
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Ok, fair point :)
 
Gertex said:
The whole idea of 'two different ideas having sex' came to mind when reading this story:

Chinese farmer takes to the road in wind powered car | Metro.co.uk

Think about it, millions of dollars spent in R&D and this guy just creates something that is as 'simple' as marrying two ideas. Will it revolutionary that industry? More then likely not...

However... who knows, it could also spur a whole lot of new development... Example: What about mounting one of those fans on the back, so that you can use the wind power that you are displacing to charge the battery as well?
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That is some troll science. Don't you know anything about the law of conservation of energy?
 
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