Each method is summarised in a single small para so appreciate it's not thecomplete unabridged version. And, no, I haven't tried each one so out of the 101business models here 102 may be completely dud. But, I do intend expanding - indue course - on some of the ideas that worked for me.More disclaimers will come when people sue me (suing can make you money, see #66)Finding business ideas:1. Spend all day browsing Site For Sale forums (like the list we have here) forthe myriad ways people earn money. People looking to sell their sites actuallytell you how they make money! Pick one that suits you. Research it a bit, and awayand start your own business.2. Use a search engine to find ways to make money online. It seems to Finding somethings - like nuclear bunkers - is easier than othersbe so easy that it's almostimpossible to find someone who doesn't know how to do it. (But why stop at onesearch engine (SE)? Most people get to less than 1% of the top qualify infothey're seeking because they use just one SE like Google, don't have the vaguestof ideas of the advanced search features available, and don't know the benefits tobe had using specialised SEs, local SEs etc. )3. Bundle the two above to tell other people how to make money online. They alwayswant to know. It doesn't matter if you don't know yourself, you can still chargethem for it. I obviously don't have a clue as I'm giving it all away. You can nowignore everything else I say. But don't go spending money on internet conspromising to make you a millionaire and here's how to spot them.4. Be more inventive with your search. Look for small business franchisenewsletters. Or for home jobs in your particular niche or hobby. (And check point#2 above for those specialised SEs). You can also go through the appropriate DMOZcategories (examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)Domains5. The dot com gold rush made many millionaires but there's still plenty of moneyin domain real estate and still some good catches available. A good dot com may bedifficult to find now. But there are a lot of gTLDs and ccTLDs from the .info to.eu to .tv to .co.in and they all present opportunities being discussed in severalgood forums. Put your thinking hat on, buy a famous word domain for a few dollarsand put it up on the domain selling sites.6. Lost your thinking hat? Hang out at SEDO. DNForurms, Afternics and other placeswhere domains are bought and sold. Provided you learn enough about the market torecognise bargains you could make a living from just buying existing domains andreselling them.7. If you're smart you'll run dictionary checks against available domain names andauto-check them against search volumes (using OST, Wordtracker etc.) for that termand Pay Per Click (PPC) rates in the major ad networks (example) to work out whichones are likely to be more profitable. If you can pick up the domain for aprofitable term that's searched for often you can use a domain parking program. Orpost a little bit of relevant content and get a link or two ... and the searchengines will start sending you traffic. If the phrase people are typing incoincides exactly with your domain name it gives you a great head start with SEs.

8. If you're smart AND a linguist you'd be doing that in multiple languages. Andnot paying for any domain till you've tried it free for five days to see if itdoes indeed get any type-in traffic (and how well that traffic converts). Afteryou've tried it for five days and dropped it there's nothing to stop youimmediately picking it up again for another five day trial. Strange, but true.It's not kiting, it's legal.9. Misspellings. Massive opportunities still exist in the misspelling/typo market.People trying to get elsewhere land on your site instead ... and you sell themstuff (or use the domain parking idea). Some even tempt fate by making PPCopportunties out of typosquatting on trademarks. Finding typos has never beeneasier. There are many tools that will find misspellings for you. How easy can itget?10. Domain parking and type-in traffic: People sometimesThe witch has spoken guessat URLs. If they want a plumber they may try plumber.com though they've never usedthat site themselves. Find terms that people may be typing in (I will provide adetailed guide to this when I get a chance), buy the domain and populate it withads. There are several ad programs to monetise your parked domains. Or combinethis with the previous idea to buy plummer.com or similar typo domains.11. Drop catches. People sometimes forget to renew their domains and these expire.Picking them up will give you some remnant traffic from sites that link to thisdomain/people who've bookmarked it etc. In some cases the traffic can be prettyhigh. Provided you're fast enough to replace the copyrighted content that wasthere with something else you can make quite a profitable business from doingnothing else but this.12. A variation on the above. Sell the domain back to the previous owners. Notethat you may want to tread carefully and get familiar with the rules for that TLDbefore you start sending off ransom notes. For example, with ICANN (domains thatend in .com, for example) the moment you send the previous owners an email sayingyou've got their domain and you'll give it back for $10K... you've lost. It can'tlook like a ransom demand. Be reasonable and read the small print of the UDRP. NoUDRP required if you're sitting hostage on myspace.com/theircompanyname or theequivalent at blogger, mybloglog, or other big destinations. LOL, watch them kickthemselves and sack their web advisors who told them about taking the "dot info"but omitted to mention the importance of protecting the brand by owning theassociated myspace directory (and others)! And it costs you nothing!13. Run a domain management service. Hundreds of thousands of webmasters (or more)have a large portfolio of domains. A lot of them would like the boring bit takenout of their domain management. You can run their DNSes or just a servicereminding them when each domain comes up for renewal. Or an automated monitoringservice to tell them when one of their domains/sites is inaccessible.14. Start a directory to list domains for sale. That's what people like SEDO do.You can get money just for allowing domains to be listed in your directory.15. If you're running a service putting buyers and sellers of domains/sites intouch with one another you could get money for add on services (like providingescrow facilities). For ideas have a look at what existing domain intermediariesoffer.16. Run a domain research service. Wonder what happens when a manufacturer islooking to name a new model car? Or starting a new range of clothing? They needtrademark and patent research but now they also need some domain research. Whichof the literally thousands of combinations and misspellings (+

<brandname>sucks.com) are taken and which do they need to buy? With a few of thefree domain tools discussed on this page and one or two more - like free DNS tools- and a little time you could provide them a service they'd pay a lot of moneyfor.17. Start your own country: Whoa! yes, you're reading it right. If you've heard ofSealand (what is Sealand) you'll know that starting your own country is not thatfar fetched. Once you have your own WhackyCountry you can apply for a .wc (yuk)TLD. Sell millions of domains. Keep some for yourself. Ever wanted a Google.___?18. Perform domain services for businesses and then send them a proforma (even ifthey've never heard of you). Explain that it's free this time but you'll gladlykeep acting for them for a small fee. For example, there are thousands of bigbusinesses whose half-wit webmasters/ developers didn't put in a redirect from thenon-www to the www versions of their sites (or vice-versa). One entrepreneur madea few thousands just from pointing out to businesses how they were losing hundredsof customers every year who were landing on http://xxx-companyname.com and findingnothing there.I'll talk about domain opportunities some more on this page when I get a chance. Buying and selling internet businesses19. Many sites runs on "auto-pilot". A common price these sell for in site-for-sale forums is 12-24 months' worth of net earnings (silly price, but it's true).Provided you don't mess the site up you can recover your capital in as little as12 months and then ... sell the site to recover your capital again. Double yourcapital every year. 100% return. Sack your stockbrokers. It really is a crazyworld!20. Site flipping doesn't require as much capital and expertise as many peoplebelieve. Like property flipping, Buffalo Walking Service - why do only dogs get tohave fun?you buy one that needs a bit of TLC. Do it up, then sell it on for awhacking great profit. And, the beauty is you never have to deal with tenants!21. How about cornering a little market? There are DMOZ categories withgrandfathered sites (sites that have been listed for many years) which aren'tbeing updated. If you can pick up a few sites in the same category and merge theircontent suddenly you "own" that niche. That opens a lot of possibilities.Actual work22. Several jobs exist on a pay per hour basis but the better paid ones areprobably contract jobs. Some examples of both: Copywriting; proofreading of webcontent/ebooks/newsletters etc. (elance, guru, rentacoder, graphicdesign).23. Email or phone answering: Be one of the first line support staff manning acompany's phone or email answering service. Filter out the easy questions bypointing the user to relevant sections of his manual and escalate those that seemgenuine problems. You are saving the company's engineers' time and providing avaluable service - that they pay for. A variation of this is chat help where youactually sit at your PC and text chat to users who've reached a firm's website andclicked the help button. Sometimes a bit of training is involved.24. Good at web design, HTML, CSS? Create designs (templates) and flog them. Youcan sell each one multiple times to webmasters who don't have the time or patienceto get familiar with the intricacies and quirks.