Thread: want to start a website to make small $

There are a lot of threads like this so just do a search, you will find a lot of useful information. Sounds like your ideas come from passion which as MJ talked about in his books, aren't always the best route. There are a ton, as seen on here if you search, people who like cars and gaming. Some of the new people have tried building sites around those ideas and fail. Not saying you can't be successful, but you need to find a need to deal with if you want to make money. Don't just make a car or video game website for the sake to make it because you like it.

I did the same thing when I started, now I look back and can't believe I was that stupid and selfish. My current project I figured out a few months ago and has a specific need that I will solve, can be scaled, has barriers to entry, and more that I am drawing a blank since its late. lol.

Not sure if you read MJ's book yet but if you haven't, I would suggest doing that. Best of luck!

Take it from me, Google is just not going to accept these cheap, small sites with little upkeep anymore. I don't know if you have been in the loop or what-not but a lot of internet marketers got slammed very hard today. I know guys who lost all their income and have families to support.

I did my own experimenting with this for the last 2-3 months because I am just about to graduate while working on a start-up, but man it's just not worth it.

Honestly, to get even 200-300, you will need to put in a bunch of work especially at the beginning. I know guys who bloat about making good money e-whoring and spamming e-mails, but at the end of the day they put in so much work but don't learn any skills nor do they offer value.

Yeah, you can arbitrage the system, but what about the big picture? You see what I am saying.

To answer your question... you probably won't have an easy time even getting 200-300/month. (Know it will take some work, probably more than you were thinking) - trust me I have been down this road lol


As for the t-shirts idea: 1st) you say that you know they will sell no problem, my first question is how do you know? did you test it? If no, then truly you can't know, so just don't make the mistake of loosing money for no reason.

2nd) You could get some mock-ups of the t-shirts and see if anyone would buy them. If people do want to buy them then just have a page saying sorry but we are out of stock or something. This way you will know you have demand and you can get the production and actual design done. You might loose a bit of money but you will know if you have a market or not. (The 4 HR work week has excellent examples on this exact issue)


Hope that helps,


Cheers

Originally Posted by GamerGripz

I am 16 and am in the middle of starting up a small company so once we get off the ground i wont have a ton of time to deal with another website but i would like a small amount of income maybe $200-300 a month so i could pay off payments for the car my dad bought me and then he would actually let it be mine and let me do whatever i want to it.

I did start and run a car forum but it wasnt too successful as it was my first attempt at a website and had a lot to learn. so i am more experienced now and ready to take on another site.

Because i wont have much time i would like to have a site that doesnt take much upkeep; i do my own SEO so thats not a problem i think its fun I just need something that will basically run its self for the most part and bring me in a small amount of money each month.

I am very interested in cars and used to be a competitive gamer and my current company is a gaming company so those are a few of my interests.

So does anybody have any ideas for me? Also i would like it to be pretty cheap to get off the ground, talking no more than a couple hundred dollars at the most. I thought about creating custom car tshirts and selling them on a site and on specific car forums but it would cost me to get a designer to design the shirts and then to produce the shirts. though i do not think selling the shirts will be a problem at all.

i am a member of a few car forums and friend of mine from one of the forums designed a t shirt for a certain car and posted it on the forums, people loved it and he sold out within two weeks or so. He hasnt experiemented with any other cars or designs yet and im not sure he will. he plans on increasing his blog and then growing a store to sell apparel designed for his site.