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This site will be the mother of all adsense sites.

Adsense is all the rage now, and there are so many different ways to make money from Adsense, but here is a method you’ve probably not tried and most people probably won’t as it does take effort and time.

 Most people seem to want to keep switching from automatic software generators to bombs to portal sites to directory listing sites, which is fine, but I have and always will stick to creating unique content that’s informative and of high quality.

 My method is not the only way to make money with Adsense, but I feel this is the best method for long term success, simply because it’s been working well for me in different ways since I began Internet marketing back in 2002.

 This is a business idea that I’m doing right now and I believe it will make me a fortune in the long run.

 What I’ve been doing is creating a site like Ehow.com. It’s a free site that shows people how to do a lot of different things. The best way to explain the site is just for you to go have a quick look now.

 They have thousands and thousands of pages of content on all sorts of subjects and the way they get traffic to their site is through the search engines, which is all well and good if you want to wait awhile, but this guide is all about making money quickly.

 Every page on their site has an adsense box on it and that’s how they make their money. They also have a Alexa traffic ranking of around 2000 which is great.

 Trying to write that much content before making any money would be difficult, you’d lose interest quickly and trying to write that much content or even buy that much content in one hit would be lunacy.

 I’ve always prefered to make money constantly even if the project is only half done or in progress. I find it gives me incentive to keep going.

 So this is what I’m doing, and no I’m not going to show you my site because I don’t want everyone copying it.

 I registered a catchy domain name, something like fiveminuteguides.com or learnitnow.com and I started writing little 500 to 750 word action plans on all sorts of topics and one happens to be on a favorite subject of mine, fly fishing.

So my fly fishing page looks something like http://www.fiveminuteguides.com/fly-fishing.html and it’s a small 750 check list on all things to do with fly fishing with 2 Adsense boxes, one in the middle and one of the right hand side.

When it comes to Adsense, you have to think like your website visitor. What is it they are looking to buy? There is no use putting something on my website about how to make money with your fly fishing passion because the advertisers with Adsense are selling fly fishing equipment not how to make money with fly fishing.

You need to make your content fit into the Adsense ad’s and I think that’s where a lot of people go wrong with Adsense.

Back to the business plan. Ok, so you’ve got your site up, you have a page up on a certain topic that had a fairly high search rate and Adsense payout rate, now what? How do you make money with this page.

 Write articles! For every one fly fishing type checklist write 10 to 20 articles on all sorts of subjects to do with your topic. I wrote close to 40 for mine and I havn’t become rich from it but if I can put up 500 similar checklists in the next year I will be earning a very nice income.

But how do you get people from reading your article to going to your website?

Well, not only would you mention your site within your article, (slip it in subtley) you also have your article byline you can use for that purpose.

For example

“For a complete checklist for your first fly fishing trip visit blah.com”

or

“For a complete step by step checklist for catching large Trout visit blah.com”

So not only will you make money instantly from your website, you will also build tons of quality content over time and you will have hundreds maybe even thousands of articles all over the Internet working for you around the clock and your site will do a heck of a lot better in the search engines due to all the incoming links!

This is a very rough outline, but you smart people out there will be able to run with it and add new ideas I haven’t even thought of. This is one of those money machines that will make you money on demand pretty much for the life of the Internet.

Ken Mathie

Prosperity With Integrity - Home Business Plans & Ideas

Part two.

?  Imagine how smoother life would be if you made an extra $15,000 this year.  But what kind of home business should you start?  And how?  And what if you start a home business that later you decide isn’t right for you?  What then?

“400+ Page Goldmine Of Easy Money-making Home Business Plans & Ideas!”

• Got a pair of scissors and a copy of your local newspaper?  Find out how you can get paid $100 each for a certain item cut out of your local newspapers.  Do 10 and you just pocketed $1,000. 

• Cash in on the overlooked pet toy industry.  Discover how you can make thousands if not millions from new pet toy ideas.

• How to make $5,000 a month with garage sales.  You’ll scratch your head wondering why you’ve never done this one.

• Purchase gift baskets at wholesale price, alter them and cash in.

• Now you can easily break into the lucrative vending business.  But there’s a twist to this one. Using this twist Raleigh, NC man gets 2,000 paying customers.  You can do the same and profit.

Greeting Cards
Submitted by Connie H.

My business idea is to send greeting cards for people. Clients could be busy business men who do not remember anniversaries and birthdays. They will never be yelled at again for forgetting. Also, sending cards to their clients on holidays shows the business cares. You could have a nice selection of cards on hand. Your price would include keeping their list, dates, and postage.

Many senior citizens no longer send cards because of their eyesight or handwriting. They would be glad to pay to have someone do this for them. You must be organized enough to know how long it takes the mail to reach destinations and make sure it is the right type of card. Each client would have to provide a list of friends and relatives along with correct addresses and dates to remember. Prices could go by the type of cards or the number of cards sent in a years time. Greeting cards can be bought in bulk to keep your costs down.

Romance Rendezvous
Submitted by C.M. Lewis

The Romance Concierge would rent a hotel room in a nice hotel, upon request. He or she would then ’set the mood’ for the type of event that the client requests. (i.e., Anniversary, Honeymoon, Birthday, Valentine’s Day, etc.) The client would be billed for total expenses incurred, plus an additional fee for the concierge’s services.

The client could also give some personal items to the Concierce in advance, to be ‘placed’ in the room prior to the ‘guest’s’ arrival. Also, the client could pay for additional items to be placed in the room, upon request. Such items could include chilled champagne, roses, soft music, rose petals strewn on the floor and bed, chocolates, balloons, and appetizers. The list is endless. Upon setting the room up, the concierge would then depart the room before the client and their guest arrives for the evening.

The client and their ‘guest’ would then go to the hotel room to spend the evening or the entire night to celebrate the important event.

Just imagine the look of astonishment and delight on the ‘honored’ guest’s face when he or she enters the hotel room amid chocolates, appetizers, soft candlelight, jazz music, chilled champange, balloons and rose petals floating around in the jacuzzi filled with scented water.

Nostalgic Ads
Submitted by Rob G.

Here is a very unique and easy business you start start for practically nothing. You can get old magazines off Ebay that contain a lot of nostalgic advertisements… stuff like old coke ads, automobile ads, even department store that have gone out of business. What you do is remove each individual ad, mount and sell it as framed artwork. Some old magazines like Colliers, New Yorkers, House Beautiful, etc, contain 10 - 20 full color ads in each issue.

For the last couple of years now I have been creating what I call Software Cards.These are just cards I create and print from my computer and cut out.(Two cards per sheet of card stock.)In side the card I put a 31/2 disk with a small software program or some interesting utility I find that’s free online and download it to the disk. I give them as Christmas cards or Birthday cards,etc; Everyone seems to really enjoy the idea of getting a card with a gift. I sell the Software Cards for $6.50 . Simple proccess-Someone buys a card for sombody’s birthday and they get the gift at the same time included. Hence the name Software Cards.I only download the totaly FREE software.NO shareware stuff. I use mostly programs that everyone would use such as 1-system Lock [ locks your desktop so nobody can use your computer while your away ] 2- Candy Clock [ A colorful & highly configurable desktop clock program ,the clock face can have any picture you have on your computer.Great program ] 3- VCatch [ a virus checking program that will check all files sent or downloaded to your computer. ]

There are 1000’s of these small wonderful programs that can be used in the Software Cards.Most of them can be used by anyone with a computer.

Get Paid for Giving Directions
Submitted by Deborah R.

Most cities have informational services but who do you call when you get lost and can’t find your way?

If you have a computer you can use Map Quest to chart where the customer is now and where he wants to go. You may use the map on the screen to tell the customer where to go and how to get there.

You may charge a modest fee per call by credit card. You may list yourself with the visitor bureau as well as yellow pages and have local restraurants to pay a fee to you for advertisement. When people visit they need someone to recommend a good place to eat:)

Look up current newsletter publishers and inquired about offering your services to change them over to an e-newsletter format. Of course, the subscribers would have to submit their e-mail addresses and they all would also have to be online…. but maybe there would be a few publishers that would welcome an online format and in turn offer a cheaper price to their subscribers…. So the consultant who is changing over to the online format would not have to produce the content, just put it online and send it out for a monthly fee. Or if a publisher doesn’t want to change the newsletter over to online, they could send out, between publish dates, the updates to the newsletter via a short e-newsletter…

Sue also included an additional idea that, coincidentally, I have been working on myself:

Handicapped Parking Cop
Submitted by Jo Graeber

Being permitted to park in a handicapped parking space, I find it very irritable when others without permits are parked there. In my city, we have a posted fine of $100. (Where I used to live, it was $500!) But, it seems, there are not enough law enforcement officers to spend their days writing tickets for such things. So, it is totally ignored and unenforced!

So, here’s my idea:

Nowadays, many people have digital cameras. Why not take a picture of the offending car - a shot of the car parked in the illegal space, a shot of the license plate, a shot of the front of the car showing NO permit hanging from the mirror or on the dashboard. Minimum 3 shots. (If you have a zoom, you could even get a shot of the driver getting into or out of the car.) You should not have to get out of your car if you’re in a good place. If you do have to get out of your car, take the pictures and leave immediately to avoid any confrontation from any people around who are wondering what you’re up to.

You have NO confrontation with the driver. The pictures are the proof. With most (if not all) digitals you can see immediately if you have a clear picture or if you need to take another. No flash should be needed that might gain attention. All is done like a “spy”! (Didn’t you always want to be a spy?)

Now, the illegal parker gets a fine of $100 (or whatever your fine is). Perhaps your city will pay half to you and they keep half. You both profit! And, the illegal handicapped parkers will become less (or hopefully not!). It won’t cost the city a dime, as you get paid when the ticket is paid. You pay would depend entirely on how many illegal parkers you can find.

First person to turn in the picture gets the reward. (If destination was the same.)

The post office is a great place! Shopping centers, malls, courthouse … the list is almost endless! Find a good place to park and sit and watch. They’ll just come to you.

Perhaps this can be extended to parking in fire lanes, parking within 10 feet of fire hydrants, double parking … anything in your city that is illegal and requires a fine.

Anyone should be able to do this - older folks, teens, anyone with a digital camera. Perhaps a Polaroid or regular camera would work as well, but it would be more costly.

My digital uses a regular floppy disk which is terrific for just handing over the pictures. You could upload your pictures to your computer and put them onto a floppy or perhaps email them directly to the appropriate office of your city.

The handicapped can “get even” with those who abuse their spaces! and make money, to boot!

And many more…

Chances are, since you’ve read this far, you’re itching to get out of the rat race and into a profitable home business.  But let me ask you this question.  If you don’t download my “Undergound Plans, Projects & Ideas” ebook, then what?  Why pay outrageous start up fees for a network marketing distributorship or a business opportunity?  I’m sure you can imagine you’d be out of luck if that didn’t work out. If that happened, imagine the troubles both you and your family would face. 

Editor: Ken Mathie
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Prosperity With Integrity - Home Business Plans & Ideas

Could you get excited about… a business that was easy to start? All of these businesses are so simple to begin you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of them before.

Can you see yourself… running a business from your home, full or part time, that can make you an extra $100, $300 or $500 per week?

Bookmark this site and return each week as I reveal more easy to setup, low cost-high profit, home business ideas and plans that you can duplicate and start making money working from home.

Roving M/C
Submitted by James Y.
 
How about this for a business idea? Roving M/C in shopping centres. Stand at the front of shops using a microphone to advertise specials. Talked to a guy at a shopping centre today who makes very good money. He owns the portable PA system with a radio microphone and contracts to individual shop owners in malls and indoor centres. Need permission from the shopping centre manager in some cases. Attributes? Good voice with variable pitch. Ability to deliver good strong sales messages. No real dress code other than smart casual. Rates are negotiable but usually by the hour or half-day. Can sell to other shops and sometimes can move from one show to the next!

Editor’s Comments: What a neat and unusual idea. I can see this being done at a different mall or shopping centers each week so as to not “wear thin” the uniqueness of it. You could probably make $200.00 — $300.00 per appearence. Another idea would be to incorporate jugglers, magicians, camedians, etc into the act to create more of a fun interactive atmosphere. 
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Computer Dictionary
Submitted by Chris

I am thinking that somebody should do a computer dictionary with all the terms and explanations of terms such as search engines, ezines, popups, paypal, and all the jargon used in computer correspondence. I am sure there are many computer illiterate people out there just like myself.

Actually you could do it in the form of a newsletter and in each newsletter add a new word and explanation. It could be something with a very minimalcost however if there are a lot of people out there that don’t understand a lot of this they wouldn’t mind paying a little bit for it.

Editor’s Comments: Not a bad idea for an information product. I know of a lot of newbie ebooks being sold that deal with specific topics (such as ebay, paypal, clickbank) but I cant’s think of one that incorporates them all into one ebook. That together with a comprehensive glossary of terms could be a great product for newbie internet users. At the very least it would make a great free giveaway book that you could use to sell other products such as hosting service, merchant accounts, autoresponders, etc. 
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E-book Creator/Coordinator
Submitted by Joseph M.

Contact web site owners and offer to write an original e-book that they can sell on their web site, to their existing and prospective customers. You can charge the owner a flat fee to write the e-book or you can spltthe commission with them for every e-book they sell. To obtain your content for the e-book, simply ask the web site owner what subject they’d like their e-book to be about. Then, simply research the subject online, go to your local library, or ask the web site owner a series of questions to obtain your content. When people place orders, the e-book can be e-mailed to them, you can send them a hard copy through “snail mail”, or both. You can process payments for the e-book through paypal (free) and simply add a paypal order button to the owner’s site. Using a 3rd party order processor like paypal is an especially good choice if you’re doing a commission split on e-book sales, because it allows you and the owner to monitor sales from a neutral source. If you’re working strictly off a commission split, make sure the web site owner agrees in writing to offer your e-book on their web site and/or to their mailing list. You wouldn’t want to invest your time into writing an e-book for free without being guaranteed specific marketing and exposure by the site owner. In return, you should guarantee the site owner will have ample opportunity to proof and request changes to the e-book before offering it on their site.

Writing just a few e-books for just a few web sites with large followings can result in a significant number of sales. This opportunity will allow you to profit off of the existing relationships that web site owners have with their customers and web site visitors. All of the selling is done by the owners of the sites you write e-books for.

Editor’s Comments: I think Joseph has really hit on a great idea here: Go to the people who already have an established market andcreate a product specifically for their customers. You could also use ClickBank to process the orders. 

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Resume Lead Broker
Submitted by Joseph M.
 
Sell contact info. (i.e. name, phone number, address, etc.) of resumes that employers are interested in.

As opposed to “head hunters” or “employment recruiters” who only make money if and when one of their clients get placed in a job, you can charge employers $5-$100 up front, by selling them the identity and contact information of resumes that meet their criteria for employment. You can set your price based on the starting salary of the position. You would initially provide employers with “anonymous” resumes (no contact information).

Even if you were to charge $100 per name, you’d still save employers a great deal of money as compared to what they’d normally pay a headhunter (typically 20%-30% of the job’s first year salary!) you can sell the contact information for one resume to as many employers as you’d like. Your only job would be to collect resumes and fax them to interested in employers with your rate sheet. Resumes can easily be collected by placing a few inexpensive classified ads in the help wanted section and by posting some flyers around your area’s college campus. You can also sell your contacts to traditional employment recruiters in bulk.

A good add-on to this business would be a resume writing service which can be started by simply obtaining some inexpensive (or free) resume writing software.
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Dog Toenail Clipping
Submitted by Mary D.  

Here’s something I wish someone would do for me: Dog toenail clipping is a 2 person job for my dogs and I’d gladly pay someone $5-10 to drop by my house and help me every couple of months. For a warm hearted dog lover that’s good at doggie cosmetic duties this might be a nice little part time endeavor. (and check ears for ear mites too!)-

Editor’s Comments: I have the same problem with my dog. She hates 2 things: Baths and Toenail Clippings. Why not combine the 2 andstart a Mobile House Call Doggie Wash and Manicure service?
Here is a related idea for infants:
 

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Baby Bubbles
Submitted by Deborah R.

We have salons (grooming services) that are mobile for pets, how about a service that provides bathing and massages for newborns? May have one central location or perhaps make appointments to visit. Carefully file nails, give a gentle soothing bath, wash the hair, supply a pert little bow or neat hair style. May supply a tshirt with your company logo once the bath is done. Warm moist baby lotion is applied after the bath is done. And if that is too much to imagine maybe supply a gift basket with baby supplies for such a bath to do at home with information on infant massage.

Each visit at home could cost $30 an hour and the same may be charged for the do-it at home gift basket.

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Top Secret Recipes
Submitted by Bill M.  

Here is a business I thought up myself. I thought it would be good for your contest.

The idea is to teach a cooking class. But not just any cooking class. In this class, students will learn how to cook versions of dishes from their favorite restaurants.

They’ll make dishes like Boston Market Meatloaf, Chili’s Chicken Enchilada Soup, IHOP Pumpkin Pancakes, Lone Star Steakhouse Chili, Outback Steakhouse Bushman Bread, Tony Roma’s Baked Potato Soup, and even the Soup Nazi’s Mexican Chicken Chili! (Remember the Seinfeld episode with the Soup Nazi?).

They’ll make sauces like TGIFriday’s Jack Daniel’s Grill Glaze, Arby’s Sauce, and Big Mac Sauce. They’ll make desserts like Mrs. Field’s Chocolate Chip cookies, Nestle’s Baby Ruth Candy Bar, and Girl Scout Cookies Thin Mints.

You can get a lot of recipes for free from:

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/

http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/recipes.htm

The website owner, Todd Wilbur, has a number of Top Secret Recipe books out as well. http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/thebooks.htm

The draw for the class should be large with the Top Secret angle and the fact that you will be making restaurant favorites. People love secrets! Put an ad in the local paper mentioning that the class will be making Soup Nazi soups. People will love it! (By the way, I made a couple of the Soup Nazi soups, and they were amazing! And I’m no cook…)

At the end of the class, you could have everyone make a dish on their own time, and have a feast at the last class.

If the class is really popular (it should be) you can either take on more students, or raise the prices higher to fit the demand.
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Trash Can Transporter
Submitted by James Jenner

Being 16, I needed a means to earn money that would not interfere with my school work and extra activities but would give me spending money for school supplies and other activities. In our neighborhood we have wheeled trash cans to place trash in for weekly pickup. The city law requires that they must be put out at the curb no sooner than 7pm the night before pickup and taken back in by 7pm the day of pickup. The homeowner is subject to a $200 fine if they are out too soon or left out too late.

Since many people were not getting them put up, I started offering a service where I would pull the can from the curb back up beside their house for $5/month. I printed flyers out on the computer and placed them on doors where the cans were still at the curb when I came home one day.

Right now most of my customers live between where I get off the school bus to home, so I simply do it as I walk home. At the end of the month I will leave a reminder with a preaddressedenvelope where they can send the next months payment.

One customer, who works third shift, has even offered me $15 to put out and pick his up each week. With only 20 customers, I can make enough to pay for what I need each month, and my 2 sisters are picking up people who call from different parts of the neighborhood to be their customers. And the best part was it didn’t cost anything to get started anda pack of envelopes has been my only expense.

Editor’s Comments: I asked James a couple of followup questions:
How many customers do you have?
Do you have any trouble getting paid?

His reply: I started with 10 homes the first day of signups but just by word of mouth it was up to 20 at the start of my first full month of service and this is in just 5 blocks (from bus stop to home). Since I am starting to get questions from other parts of the neighborhood, my sisters are going to divide them up and start their own ‘routes’.
I haven’t had any problems on getting paid because of keeping the price low enough that anyone can afford my service. I put out the envelopes to send payment on the pickup day before the end of the month, so far all have arrived within the 2 weeks I allow (If it isn’t here by the 2nd pickup week then their cart will remain on the street.)

I actually came up with the idea on a rainy day that my mom was complaining about having to dodge all the trash cans that were floating down the street!
 
I really like James’ idea. In fact, in the area I live we have the same problem. If we don’t get our trash cans wheeled back by a certain time we are subject to a $175.00 fine. James does this as a was to make some part-time money. But, in my neighborhood there are probably 1000 houses within about a 2 square mile area that use the roll out containers. You could probably get 100 or so of them to pay $10.00 a month for such a service. That’s $1000.00 a month for work you only have to do once a week. You could also earn extra money by charging $5.00 — $10.00 to clean, sanitize and deoderize the cans.

Editor: Ken Mathie
Beat The Economic Recession!
Click here - Discover the goldmine hiding in your own neighborhood…
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