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It just seems like every idea is taken and every area online is oversaturated with people trying the same thing. Face it. If it was easy to make money online everyone would do it? Has the time come and gone to even try an online profession? Seems like those who got involved with websites 3-5 years ago are the lucky ones.

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It is still possible to make a living online! But need more hard work.

Don`t think you can make money without any work.



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Every idea hasn`t been taken, but I bet every obvious one has.  I`d be willing to put money on the fact that 95% of the online businesses out there aren`t doing an adequate job of promoting themselves, developing valuable products, or growing their business.  There`s still room in almost any niche online.  What will differentiate you from the rest is your level of commitment, willingness to work hard, and your development of a product/service that`s unique (even in a small way). 

It just takes time.

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Hi,

Someone told be a while ago that it is not that you have to come up with a new idea, you can use an existing idea but you to do a better job at presenting it.  Good examples are google.com came after yahoo.com, myspace.com came after friendster.com and there are many more.

In a way it is better to work on something that you already know has demand, just do a better job then the way it is done currently.

 

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The trend today is not to build a big, far-reaching site, but to create a niche site. Pick a small, focused topic and build a site that becomes THE source of information on that topic. It could be something real small like sump pumps (http://www.sump-pump-info.com/) or something bigger such as LA Spas (http://www.wayspa.com/losangeles/). You could even have a few niche sites operating at once. Put some Adwords on there, add affiliate programs (like Amazon, Ebay, etc.), and maybe sell some products. If you market effectively, you will become the resource for information on your topic.

Doug

desmond... I understand your concern, but you (anyone, not necessarily you) can`t think of it as, "all the good ideas are taken." That`s defeatism. History has shown that there is always another idea to add to the pot. The good ones still rise to the top.

Look at it like this, business has been around for thousands of years... starting somewhere in the mesopotamia, or something like that. I am sure a historian (or a quick google search) can correct my time-line... My point is this, now, a thousand years later, businesses are still opening, profiting, and discovering. The Internet is merely 17 years old.... (Ok know it originated much earlier than that, but it wasn`t devised as a destination for the common person until what? Maybe the early 90`s.)

So, keep your chin up. There`s no better time to start your dream, like the present. Do you have a dream of owning and operating an online location? Get to it. Otherwise, in 10 years, when it`s even more difficult to be recognized, you will wish you did.

When I started Elusive Treasures I didn`t do it to make money. I bought the domain because I noticed all the good .com names being gobbled up. I had a feeling I would need a name of my own someday. I bought and held the name (without doing too much with it) for about a year before I started coming up with ideas on it`s use. It`s went through some changes since then, but had I not jumped in, the name itself would be gone. Whether my business fails or not... I have the name. I can always start again! The point is, I am there.

Start It Up!!


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One thing that has impressed me greatly about certain internet businesses is not how they came up with an original idea but how well they transfered an existing business to the web.  Netflix reinvented the movie rental biz by taking it to the internet.  Craigslist reinvented the classifieds.  Wikipedia reinvented the encyclopedia.  Ebay reinvented the public auction.  The list goes on.

But there are tons of niche industries which have not yet made it successfully to the internet.  Though there may be lots of sites for certain niches, they may not necessarily be successful ones.

My startup is going to take comic strips to the internet in a completely new way.  There are lots of comics sites out there but they suck.  I`m planning to change the industry, to bring the professionalism from newspaper comic strips to the internet - and make it a viable business.  I`m a cartoonist and this is a passion of mine.

What aspects of your life do you have a passion for?  How can you reinvent that industry by bringing it to the web in a better way than anyone else?

I personally don`t think it`s any easier or harder now than it was ten years ago, or than it will be in another decade.  The markets will change and there will simply be different challenges in creating an online business.  The web will be in a different place which will only mean new opportunities.  I think the fast pace of growth of web technology is a great advantage.  Now is a great time to be part of this frontier.

I remember back about 150,000 years ago, a friend of mine, we`ll call him "Glubbh." He was tossing rocks in a hole, complaining that all the good hunting grounds were taken.

Come on....people have complained that "everyone else is getting rich and I`m not, so therefore, it`s a closed market" forever.

The problem isn`t to look at what OTHER people are doing, and how everyone ELSE is doing better than you. It`s to look at your own life, your own ideas, your own inspirations. If they`re running slow at the moment, then what can you do about that?

What are your interests? What do you really like to do? Go out in the world and take a look at all the restaurants. Don`t you think that "all the good restaurant ideas have been taken?" Of course they have!! It isn`t about being the very first, totally unheard of, absolutely unique in the world.

I remember when Alta Vista was THE search engine, couldn`t be beat, and thoroughly dominated the entire world of searching the Internet. Google came along, ignoring the fact that everyone told them they were passe. Now nobody remembers Alta Vista. Did Google "invent" a new idea? Nope. They just did something better than what had been going on prior.

Instead, it`s about doing what you like, and trying to make some money while you`re doing it. What can you make, with your own hands? Anything? If you can, there`s possibly some ideas in all that. Otherwise, what things do you enjoy playing with? Can you sell some of them for someone else?

:-) Women often say that all the good men have been taken. And yet, somehow people keep meeting and getting married. Men say that all the good jobs have been taken, yet somehow people keep getting jobs.

The world is always changing. Everything has come around, and will come around again. History is filled with people who wanted something given to them, and when it didn`t come, complained that there wasn`t "enough left" from all the "other people who already had it."

One of the most dangerous propositions in today`s world is the idea of a "zero-sum economy." This proposes that there`s only so much money or resources in the world, and that "some people" have more than their fair share.

It`s utterly ridiculous, specious logic, and has no bearing whatsoever on the realities of economics and resources. Yet people who don`t want to learn about basic economics believe (and feel) it`s true. And that leads to the "it`s no fair!" cry, and the philosophy of victimhood.

Anyone can make money online, just like anyone can make money offline. You got to change the way you think first. There are new opportunities coming up everyday and there is no better time than now for a booming 7 Trillion Dollar Travel Industry. Have a look at www.thousand-dollar-commissions.com and you will know it’s not end of the road.