Challenge: Could You Make $100 on the Internet?

I’ve been making money on the Internet for a while now, editing resumes, coaching people for interviews and writing articles. A lot of my friends tell me that their dream is to launch a blog, quit their job and do some freelancing while traveling around the world.

I know that’s not so easy so I always challenge them with “ok, so how would you make $100 on the internet?”

And that’s the exact same question I want to ask you guys today.

If you had to do it what would you create? A blog? A fundraising web site? A free lancing business?

 

I'm currently working on some apps that would actually help make the world a better place, notably in the prevention of rape/assault. Progress is limited because of a few factors, I can't get any backers because I couldn't morally justify selling it, such a sensitive topic could backfire horribly on me and get me into hot water with my company if something goes wrong (and I still need to earn a crust). But I'm getting there.

I'd like to develop apps specifically for businesses, outsourcing most of the coding to a team of trusted developers, and dedicate 20% of my resources (time and money) to building social apps that can help the world.

 

e to the bay

1) Find people who can't fill the auction forms properly

2) Purchase at a low price

3) Resell

4) Profit

"Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old"
 

Freelance web consulting. SEO, design, etc. You can charge up the wall for that shit. I've done gigs that are $25/hr for mockups (read: no real work). Four hours later, $100 in the bank.

Currently: future neurologist, current psychotherapist Previously: investor relations (top consulting firm), M&A consulting (Big 4), M&A banking (MM)
 

I'd register a bunch of domains, get some articles written ($1/100 words) and throw them up.

Then I'd make 20 web 2.0 properties each (e.g. wordpress, tumblr, squidoo, etc) and post up hand spun variations of the articles I had written and link them to my money sites.

Then I'd hire a bunch of indian VAs to social bookmark each of those web 2.0 properties and submit them to some directories.

 

Craigslist Classifieds.

Just kidding. I wrote a handful of published articles for a major financial website as an undergrad and made a couple hundred bucks every couple months based on their $10/1,000 page views business model. It wasn't much, and I could have chosen to make a lot more $$ if I dumbed down my content/quality and tried to simply pump out articles just to get clicks. I stopped writing for them this summer after they rejected my last 3 submissions- Two on Groupthink within Central Banks (primarily the Fed) and the last one was about the importance of investors making a point to sift through the "noise" which they (the editors) obviously did not like because their website was a major contributor to said noise.

 

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