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		<title>$100/Day: How to Find Your Own Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 2.5 years, I&#8217;ve posted lots of different ideas for making $100/day. If you&#8217;ve been following me for long, though, you know they can be few and far apart. Because of that, I wanted to let you know about a new source for ideas that&#8217;s actually an old source. Toby Clements has taken [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the past 2.5 years, I&#8217;ve posted lots of different ideas for <a href="http://www.askshane.org/daily-tips/free-business-ideas.php">making $100/day</a>. If you&#8217;ve been following me for long, though, you know they can be few and far apart. Because of that, I wanted to let you know about a new source for ideas that&#8217;s actually an old source.</p>
<p>Toby Clements has taken over Rick Latona&#8217;s Daily Domains Newsletter, and he&#8217;s doing a terrific job with it. It&#8217;s definitely worth <a href="http://tobyclements.com/">signing up for</a>. Every day you get a list of domains for sale &#8212; from just a few bucks to six figures or more.</p>
<p>Pair a good domain from Toby with my <a href="http://www.retireinfiveyears.com/">getting started guide</a>, and you&#8217;ll be well on your way!</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be a Dating Affiliate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you know what you&#8217;re doing, driving traffic to affiliate offers in the dating space pays huge. At the end of the day, though, you haven&#8217;t built any enterprise value; you have no equity to cash out. It&#8217;s strictly a short-term game. So instead of driving traffic to other companies&#8217; offers, drive traffic to your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you know what you&#8217;re doing, driving traffic to affiliate offers in the dating space pays <em>huge</em>. At the end of the day, though, you haven&#8217;t built any enterprise value; you have no equity to cash out. It&#8217;s strictly a short-term game.</p>
<p>So instead of driving traffic to other companies&#8217; offers, drive traffic to your <em>own</em> site. <a href="http://www.whitelabeldating.com/">White Label Dating</a> makes it easy, and they&#8217;re just now moving into the U.S.</p>
<p><em>Way</em> more potential here than $100/day.</p>
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		<title>$300M+ in Ski-Related Purchases</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even during 2009, the second year of the recession, Americans increased their spending on skis by 8.9% to $184M. Spending on snowboards decreased slightly, but was still a very strong $137M.  That&#8217;s $321M, and we haven&#8217;t even factored in related expenses: boots, bindings, clothing, lift tickets, travel, hotels&#8230; How easy would it be to make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trysil/4445524754/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1659" style="float: left; margin: 0 13px 0 0;" src="http://www.askshane.org/wp-content/uploads/family-skiing.jpg" alt="Family Skiing" width="245" height="200" /></a>Even during 2009, the second year of the recession, Americans increased their spending on skis by 8.9% to $184M. Spending on snowboards decreased slightly, but was still a very strong $137M.  That&#8217;s $321M, and we haven&#8217;t even factored in related expenses: boots, bindings, clothing, lift tickets, travel, hotels&#8230;</p>
<p>How easy would it be to make $100/day off a great content site focused on a particular aspect of the ski-conomy (boots, jackets, great backcountry areas, etc.)? There is an almost limitless source of content, AdSense would probably pay well, and there are <em>plenty</em> of affiliate revenue opportunities (ecommerce, travel, hotels, etc.).</p>
<p>If you like this vertical, it looks like a potential winner to me.</p>
<p>(Need help getting started with a content site? I wrote <a href="http://www.retireinfiveyears.com/">a fairly exhaustive guide</a>.)</p>
<p style="text-align: right; font-size: 10px;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trysil/">Skistar Trysil</a></p>
<hr /><small><em>This post in my <a href="../daily-tips/free-business-ideas.php">Free Business Ideas</a> series is only available in <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AskShane">the RSS feed</a> or <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=AskShane&amp;loc=en_US">via email</a>.</em></small></p>
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		<title>Why Everyone&#8217;s Starting a Groupon Clone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s why everyone&#8217;s starting a Groupon clone: It&#8217;s easy. Users do much of your marketing for you. It makes money. Here&#8217;s how to do it. Get a good domain name. There should be plenty of good .coms available to register since you can just add shopper, deals, dailydeals, coupons, or any number of modifiers to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s why <a href="http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2011/01/google-set-to-deal-groupon-some-competition-with-%e2%80%98offers%e2%80%99.html">everyone&#8217;s starting a Groupon clone</a>:</p>
<ol>
<li>It&#8217;s easy.</li>
<li>Users do much of your marketing for you.</li>
<li>It makes money.</li>
</ol>
<p>Here&#8217;s how to do it.</p>
<ol>
<li>Get a good domain name. There should be plenty of good .coms available to register since you can just add <em>shopper</em>, <em>deals</em>, <em>dailydeals</em>, <em>coupons</em>, or any number of modifiers to your locality (e.g. DailyDealsAtlanta.com).</li>
<li>Sign up with <a href="http://shoutback.com/">The Daily Deal</a> to get your own white-label website.</li>
<li>Start selling Groupon-type services to the businesses around you. (Groupon&#8217;s already done the hard work of educating the market, so you get to do the easy part.)</li>
<li>Add <a href="http://adamriemer.me/579/how-to-start-a-coupon-site">coupon feeds</a> to provide more value, more content and more revenue.</li>
<li>Profit.</li>
</ol>
<p>Sure, maybe Google never offers to buy you for $6 Billion, but can you make $100/day? I think so. Just start slow and work your way up as you figure out what model works best for you and in your area.</p>
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		<title>Make Money with Free TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who pay for TV are notoriously unhappy with the service they receive.  Whether it&#8217;s Comcast, DirecTV or Dish Network, it&#8217;s easy to find someone who has had an experience that just makes them loathe the company they used to pay for TV. Where&#8217;s there&#8217;s unhappiness and frustration, though, there&#8217;s usually opportunity. Getting TV for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1606" style="float: left; margin: 0 13px 13px 0;" src="http://www.askshane.org/wp-content/uploads/free-tv.png" alt="Free TV" width="160" height="160" />People who pay for TV are notoriously unhappy with the service they receive.  Whether it&#8217;s <a href="http://www.askshane.org/news-links/how-comcast-lost-me-as-a-customer-and-why-you-should-care.php">Comcast</a>, DirecTV or Dish Network, it&#8217;s easy to find someone who has had an experience that just makes them loathe the company they used to pay for TV.</p>
<p>Where&#8217;s there&#8217;s unhappiness and frustration, though, there&#8217;s usually opportunity.</p>
<p>Getting TV for free has never been easier or more satisfying &#8212; and it&#8217;s only going to get better.  I live a good 40 minutes from downtown Atlanta, but I still get more than 30 channels with just an antenna and most of them are in HD.  Plus, over the air (OTA) signals are often better quality than you&#8217;d get with cable or satellite.  In other words, I get better TV for <em>free</em>, and most of the people in the U.S. can do the same thing.</p>
<p>If it was easy, though, I wouldn&#8217;t be writing this.  Getting things set up is not for the feint of heart.  That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s money to be made in showing people exactly how to do it.</p>
<p>Set up a site that shows people exactly what to buy and exactly how to set it up.  If you can make it simple, they&#8217;ll follow your instructions (and use your affiliate links).</p>
<p>The great thing about this idea is that it has a) evergreen content, b) up-to-date content and c) plenty of high-dollar products to recommend.  You&#8217;re going to be recommending solutions that require about $500 in products (based on the situation) and Amazon will pay out 7% once you&#8217;re referring about one person/day.  Add in AdSense and another revenue channel or two, and you&#8217;re up to $100/day in no time.</p>
<p>Here are a couple of posts to get you started:</p>
<p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5515398/set-up-a-geeky-media-center-that-non+geeks-can-actually-use">Set Up a Geeky Media Center that Non-Geeks Can Actually Use</a></p>
<p><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5475091/how-can-i-ditch-cable-and-watch-my-tv-shows-and-movies-online">How Can I Ditch Cable and Watch My TV Shows and Movies Online?</a></p>
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		<title>Hyperlocal Social Media Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Urban Spoon, there are more than 40 non-chain eating establishments within a 2-mile radius of my house, and I can think of only one that has any clue about how to leverage social media.  Many of them probably want to have a clue, but it&#8217;s hard enough just to have all the tools [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to <a href="http://www.urbanspoon.com/">Urban Spoon</a>, there are more than 40 non-chain eating establishments within a 2-mile radius of my house, and I can think of only one that has any clue about how to leverage social media.  Many of them probably <em>want</em> to have a clue, but it&#8217;s hard enough just to have all the tools to run a successful restaurant &#8212; much less trying to master social media on <em>top</em> of all of that.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s where you come in.</p>
<p>You know social media.  You love social media.  You wish you could get paid for being on Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare all the time&#8230;and now you can.</p>
<p>As a social media consultant to one or more of your local restaurants, you manage their Twitter account, Facebook page, foursquare account, business center listings (Google, MSN, Yelp, etc.) and maybe even their website.  In return, they pay you a flat monthly fee.  Prove your worth, and you&#8217;ll have more business than you can handle from the businesses in your area.</p>
<p>This is a job, granted, but it is a <em>tremendous</em> way to learn not only how to leverage social media but also how business actually works in the real world.  You won&#8217;t retire early from this, but it could easily lay the foundation for a business from which you could.</p>
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		<title>This is the &#8220;Life&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good idea needs a good domain name.  Ever tried to just go and register a good domain name in the past few years, though?  It&#8217;s virtually impossible.  You either have to combine words or just make them up all together: Flickr, Tumblr, hoooka, Qoop &#8212; the list goes on and on. What about just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A good idea needs a good domain name.  Ever tried to just go and register a good domain name in the past few years, though?  It&#8217;s virtually impossible.  You either have to combine words or just make them up all together: Flickr, Tumblr, hoooka, Qoop &#8212; the list goes on and on.</p>
<p>What about just adding some life to your domain name, though?  Literally.  Could you just add &#8220;Life&#8221; to the end of the domain name you want and suddenly have a great, memorable domain name?</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you wanted to do a site about NASCAR, for example.  NASCARLife.com is just sitting there waiting to be registered.  Prefer open-wheel racing?  How about Formula1Life.com or OpenWheelLife.com?</p>
<p>Those domains are descriptive, memorable, and available &#8212; at least right now <img src='http://www.askshane.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>MANicure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t an online business idea, but it hit me today so I wanted to get it out there anyway.  I know not all of you are like me &#8212; content to sit in front of a computer screen all day &#8212; so it may be useful for you. Lots of guys get manicures &#8212; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This isn&#8217;t an <em>online</em> business idea, but it hit me today so I wanted to get it out there anyway.  I know not all of you are like me &#8212; content to sit in front of a computer screen all day &#8212; so it may be useful for you.</p>
<p><em>Lots </em>of guys get manicures &#8212; many more, obviously, than would admit it &#8212; and the ones who do totally swear by it.  Those of us who don&#8217;t are always told, &#8220;Man, if you tried it, you&#8217;d like it.&#8221;  Which is exactly the problem: I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re right.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s such a stigma attached to walking into one of those places, though, and not the least of it are the names of the places.  Here are some examples of actual nail places near me:</p>
<ul>
<li>Foxy Nails</li>
<li>Golden Nail Salon</li>
<li>Solara Sol Nail Salon&#8206;</li>
<li>Nails Mignon</li>
<li>VV Nails</li>
<li>Luxe Nail Spa</li>
<li>Just For You Nails</li>
</ul>
<p>What guy is going to walk into a place like that with head held high?  Not many.</p>
<p>What if there was a place that specialized in <em><strong>man</strong></em>icures, though?  Sort of a <a href="http://www.sportclips.com/">Sport Clips</a>, but for manicures and pedicures.  There&#8217;s a nail place in every strip mall that goes up around here &#8212; 17 different places within a two-mile radius of my house.  Surely someone could use a way to differentiate themselves.</p>
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		<title>Paintball Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Domain Name News reported last night that PaintballGuns.com is for sale on eBay right now.  Auction closes Monday night at 7 PM PT.  See their write-up for full details on the opportunity in this space.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Domain Name News reported last night that PaintballGuns.com is for sale on eBay right now.  Auction closes Monday night at 7 PM PT.  See <a href="http://www.domainnamenews.com/domain-sales-alert/paintballgunscom-listed-auction-ebay/4527">their write-up</a> for full details on the opportunity in this space.</p>
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		<title>Local Affiliate Marketing Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are very few things I consider a must-read, but ShoeMoney&#8217;s new Local Affiliate Marketing Guide is absolutely one.  He just released it about 30 minutes ago after months of hard work, and it is phenomenal.]]></description>
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