My First Big Idea

Back in ’99 I had this big idea and here’s how it started, when I was younger I used to be very imaginative and sometimes these imaginations would become short stories, which I would sometimes write down. I went to a supermarket one day and saw this girl whom I really fancied driving away in a very expensive car, my imagination started running riot and a short story developed from there.
The summary of the short story was that the lead character in the story also fancied a girl who was driving a nice car. This character knew where the girl shopped regularly and stalked her for a few days until he devised a plan to get her attention. The plan was to deflate one of her tyres then hang around until she showed up. As soon as she noticed that she had a flat tyre this character would appear from his hiding place and help her change her tyres. Wicked!
Unfortunately for my character, while deflating the tyre on the day he chose some other shoppers noticed him, called the Police and he was arrested. Yeah, you can imagine what the girl he fancied thought of him as he was being led away by the Police.
No, the moral of the story is not important but an Internet business idea developed from it and I promptly registered a domain name, which I never used until it expired. The idea was really simple, invite people to submit true life stories about their unusual dating experiences, the disastrous ones and the ones that were not so disastrous. The object would have been to create fun. Humour would have been the primary focus.
I think I went about it the wrong way however, I was looking for celebrity endorsement. I was hoping to get a celebrity to submit a story and boost the popularity of the site. Needless to say I did not get any celebrity endorsement and I thought that without that I couldn’t get a head start.
Like I mentioned in my earlier post, Google was still at its infancy then and I didn’t know that all I had to do was submit the site to the search engines. I had never heard about Search Engine Optimization and PPC campaigns.
I’m not saying that my idea would have been the next big thing on the Internet but that I never even went beyond registering the domain name. I was banking on getting a celebrity to endorse the site. I was looking for instant traffic the wrong way. If you are lucky enough to get a celebrity endorse your site, please go for it but if not there are so may other ways of marketing your site. Besides, the fact that a celebrity endorses your site is no guarantee that you will receive constant and consistent traffic.
I will tell you about my next big idea in my next blog and why that failed too.

Let's Get Serious

I guess I made it through the night. LOL

Have you ever wanted to work from the comfort of your home or move closer to a relative but cannot do so because of your work? How about the school runs? How more inconvenient could it be when you have to juggle between so many things at once simply because of that monster of a job you’ve got? A lot of you dream about being able to work from your homes or the ability to take your work wherever you go. This is your opportunity, join my team and it’s free to do that. I don’t want to over-emphasise the fact that there is no application form to complete or joining fee to pay. I guess that’s obvious. The word ‘free’ is being abused on the Internet everyday. Pardon me, did I say, ‘my team’ the other time? I prefer to see it as ‘the team’. This is not a ‘One man show’.

Let me whet your appetite with some facts about making money on the Internet. The writers of the One Minute Millionaire, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen believe that there are only four major ways of becoming a millionaire. The four areas are, Investments, Real Estate, business and yes, Internet. To buttress their point, in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2008, twenty five Internet (Multi) Millionaires made the list. The minimum requirement to make the list is a net worth of at least £80 Million.
Two of the richest fifty people in the whole world made their money from the Internet. I’m sure you know who the two are, the google brothers. (They are not biological brothers but that’s what I like to call them).

Out of the four listed in their book would you agree with me that the one that requires the least start-up capital is the Internet? I read of so many people who have spent so much money buying books and attending seminars and courses that have yielded no results. If you are one of these people and you want to share your experiences because you don’t want others to go through what you have gone through then join the team.

Even if all you want is to be able to pay your mortgage and other bills from a little income earned from the Internet, believe me, this is very possible.

I’m also going to tell you some of the mistakes I’ve made in the past so that you can avoid them and I’ll be letting you into every secret I have discovered in my research into making money on the Internet. You will not believe how much free stuff is available on the Internet and where you can get them from.

I have developed a genuine off-line marketing technique and I’m going to try it out if it doesn’t work you’ll be the first to know.

How to join the team? Read my blogs, drop your comments and if you’re really interested I will invite you to write on my blog space.