Greetings!
If you go on ebay and search for “money making websites” or “website bundles” you will get many choices. Some of the bundles have thousands of websites for you to choose from, for under $20.
Then you select the websites to try. I like ones where the customers pay monthly, rather than single product sales, although there is really big money in selling ebooks. One of our businesses is selling ebooks, although that one is not fully automated. We sell one ebook per month, advertised nationally. We always exceed our goal of selling 1,000 in a month. Our ebooks are priced between $9.95-$39.95 depending on content. We pay someone off Fiverr $20/mo to promote them. Our hosting for multiple sites costs $20/mo. Originally I did the promotions myself, but got much better response by outsourcing it.
My outsourced website maintenance website is nationwide, my classified ad board, job board, and housing board are just for the town I was in at the time, because I felt they were filling a need. Craigslist didn’t really cover that town, and there were no employment agencies or help for easily finding housing. These all simply run themselves once set up, and you just pay someone else to promote them.
Many services are in constant need, people needing websites made, repaired, updated, etc. Businesses and websites need advertising & promotion. Websites need hosting. SEO & backlinks etc. People like to learn new skills, how to make money, or save money. Business directory websites can be a goldmine. Imagine a few hundred businesses paying you $20/mo. My home services directory for a big city has nearly 500 people paying me monthly. My healthcare board for the same city has over 100 doctors, dentists, & more paying me monthly, even though there are several others for the city. I just added new categories to mine, in home health care, and nursing home locator.
The possibility’s are nearly endless, and we don’t need to reinvent wheels, just use them to our advantage. I don’t worry about competition, many of my advertisers have their ads in all the other directories as well.
A friend runs a garage sale board for a major city, and is making big bucks from it, supporting his whole family with a single website. He says there’s half a dozen others in his area doing the same thing. He promotes his on Craigslist.
Perhaps the key here is to concentrate on self running websites, that way you can have many, without taking up your valuable time. We only have so much time in a day, but if we can make money while we’re doing something else, that’s a win.
Cheers!
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