10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas - That Made Someone Rich!

10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas – That Made Someone Rich!

Before I show the list, the site from which I’ve lifted them (www.NicheGeek.com) has more than just The List by way of outside-the-square business ideas. So it would be a good site to spend some time on just to break down the walls of any old paradigms which may be blocking your view of the “next great thing” in your industry (just there, so near, that you don’t see now because of the old blinkers).

OK, so each of these ideas made someone rich (for details, check the NicheGeek site):

10 Stupid Business Ideas – that Worked
1. Million Dollar Homepage: Create a homepage and sell each of the 1 million pixels on it for $1 each. $1,000,000
2. SantaMail: Purchase a postal address at North Pole, Alaska and charge parents $10 for every letter you send to their kids? $2,000,000
3. Doggles: Create goggles for dogs and sell them online?
4. LaserMonks: Real monks refilling your cartridges. Hallelujah! $2,500,000
5. AntennaBalls: Whatha? Balls you put on your car aerial?
6. FitDeck: Card deck featuring exercise routines sold online for $18.95. Last year’s sales $4,700,000
7. PositivesDating.Com: HIV positive dating? It’s got to fail, right? Wrong. $110,000 year one.
8. Designer Diaper Bags: Diapees & Wipees has bags in 22 different styles, available online and in 120 boutiques across the globe for $14.99.
9. PickyDomains: Hire someone to come up with a memorable domain name for you.
10. Lucky Wishbone Co: Fake PLASTIC wishbones. $1,000,000+

To see other businesses in the same vein visit Dmitry Davydov’s site Uncommon Business Blog.

Peter Rowe