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    Default want to start a website to make small $

    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.

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    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!

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    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,


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    Quote Originally Posted by GamerGripz View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Every Tom, Dick and harry want to make money writing blogs and getting adsense revenue. The reality is that you probably won't make much, they're just words and unless you're a fantastic writer with a true passion for the subject/subjects you are writing about you will not be successful.

    What you should be doing instead is looking forward. Just like people in the year 2000 were out there buying up domain names with the anticipation of where the internet would be in 2010 - look ahead. What do you see for 2015/20?

    Here's what I see -

    *Mobile/Tablet devices
    *Higher resolution devices
    *Special effects/transitions/animations on pages.

    The fact is that so many of these "money generators" are going to completley drop dead unless they revamp their entire website layout and design. Look at tabbing interfaces, and using buttons to hide/show content, because by 2015 most people will be accessing the internet via a tablet, and not a traditional web browser.

    There are so many useless blogs and sites that juist won't render on an iPhone, iPad or tablet.
    Look at developing ads or web applications that run on these platforms, stop living in the past.


    It's amazing to think that by 2020, even the poorest of poor people will be tapping on an iPad, most likely at a public library, but the cost will have come down so much that it will be a new standard, so get learning now.



    When I go to work on the traina nd take al ook around, justa bout everyone has the same phone - the iPhone. This is a huge opportunity, if you download and play around with the 'jQUERY' mobile framework, you'll find you can build mobile friendly websites very, very easily. If you could build an easy to use, simple app-style site, that was easy to navigate on one of these devices, you could work in ads yourself.

    An even bigger opportunity would be to do what all the guys in 2000 did and start your own mobile phone advertising company now, and sign up with websites. If you capture a market share early, you might be bought out at a later date, especially once mobile websites are the norm.

    Don't do what everyone else is doing, or you'll end up where they are, nowhere.

    Think ahead, don't giev up, and remember that if you don't know how, you can ALWAYS learn.

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