duhasteme wrote:Hello, I would like to enter into the web business. Which site makes quick and big money these days...like shopping sites....or dating sites...Which is the best one out there when it comes to monetary benefits ?
I'm afraid you'll want to hedge your bets and also try stuff. And it's not just that you can jump in and garner some kind of marketshare in a certain area. The way you implement something -- your style, flair, tenacity, performance, marketing -- a lot goes into that equation to make something a success. I also think you'll need to start small with smallish ideas and grow from there. I think I'm finding that large ideas do nothing but suck money away and implement too much risk because you waste a lot of time building them before you find out if something works or not. I think a lot of great ideas happen by accident, or by a smallish idea that goes big, such as Twitter or Reddit.
There are a lot of ways to make money on the Internet:
- advertising
- selling a physical inventory
- drop-shipping (pretending you have a physical inventory but then pulling stuff from other wholesalers or retailers and drop shipping)
- transactions (such as bringing up an eCommerce or CPC Network)
- digital revenue (Myspace/Facebook doodads, eBooks, WordPress themes, sounds, icons, etc.)
- digital subscriptions (classified listings, pr0n site access, forum access, etc.)
- MLM (unfortunately I have to include them)
- building content-based website, building them up with content and ad revenue and regular visitors, then flipping the sites for profit
- buying and selling other kinds of sites -- not just for content, such as purchasing a subscription site because you see more worth in it then perhaps the original development company
- buying and selling domains
- consulting
- being paid to rate/review one's site by multiple factors and give them a report
...and new ideas come up every day
A few good forums for learning more about this are:
- WickedFire.com (watch out -- rough crowd; they also mix with the adult ent. empire, so watch out; but good advice comes from there too)
- CashTactics.net (more friendly to noobs; less rowdy)
I also recommend finding an Affiliate Marketing workshop in your state, such as from Meetup.com or just keep Googling, and then pay like $250 or whatever to learn a lot from it.
A lot of people who start out do something called "Bum Marketing". They sign up on a CPC, CPA, or CPM Network and then start building landing pages or blogs to peddle someone else's stuff. For those web visitors who click through enough times, or actually make a purchase, they get a bit of the income like a penny here or there. That's why it's called Bum Marketing, because you're like standing there with a cup, in a sense, and not having to do that much. The trick in this game is to bring up lots and lots of sites or landing pages, know which keywords in the CPC/CPA/CPM Networks are worth venturing off with, and learning how to automate the process with Perl or PHP scripts. Eventually you're not just getting visitors from social networking and social bookmarking sites, but you're reinvesting that income by buying ad space in various places (especially search engines) to drive new traffic in. But anyway, this concept starts off cheap, but then gets pricey and sort of like gambling with your dollars every day. Some get really good at it. Some fail. And then there's also the fact that once you get this established, you can branch off into other efforts, such as financing some subscription websites, in order to scale up and move beyond Bum Marketing.
All and all, you need to try and get a passive income started. Google what passive income is. Then, begin an active income on the web on top of that.