Online Business Ideas

10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas

By Maria!

That Made Someone Rich

How to get rich the smart way? Read what some

creative people did:

1. Million Dollar Homepage

1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the

dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible

come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with

the idea, is now a millionaire.

2.

Hire another person to think of a cool domain name for you?

No way people would pay for this. Actually, naming domain

names for others turned out a thriving business, especially,

when you make the entire process risk free. Picky Domains

currently has a waiting list of people who want to PAY the

service to come up with a snappy memorable domain name.

Picky Domains is expected to hit six figures this year.

3. Doggles

Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this

IS the dumbest idea for a business. How in the world did

they manage to become millionaires and have shops all

over the world with that one? Beyond me.

4. LaserMonks

LaserMonks.com is a for-profit subsidiary of the Cistercian

Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, an eight-monk monastery

in the hills of Monroe County, 90 miles northwest of Madison.

Yeah, real monks refilling your cartridges. Hallelujah! Their

2005 sales were $2.5 million! Praise the Lord.

5. AntennaBalls

You can’t sell antenna ball online. There is no way.

And surely it wouldn’t make you rich. But this is exactly

what Jason Wall did, and now he is now a millionaire.

6. FitDeck

Create a deck of cards featuring exercise routines, and sell

it online for $18.95. Sounds like a disaster idea to me.

But former Navy SEAL and fitness instructor Phil Black

reported last year sales of $4.7 million. Surely beats

what military pays.

7. Positives Dating.Com

How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive

person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that

someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV

positive folks last year. Projected 2006 sales are $110,000,

and the two hope to have 50,000 members by their

two-year mark.

8. Designer Diaper Bags

Christie Rein was tired of carrying diapers around in a freezer

bag. The 34-year-old mother of three found herself constantly

stuffing diapers for her infant son into freezer bags to keep

them from getting scrunched up in her purse. Rein wanted

something that was compact, sleek and stylish, so in

November 2004, she sat down with her husband, Marcus,

who helped her design a custom diaper bag that's big enough

to hold a travel pack of wipes and two to four diapers. With

more than $180,000 in sales for 2005, Christie's company,

Diapees & Wipees, has bags in 22 different styles, available

online and in 120 boutiques across the globe for $14.99.

9. SantaMail

Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal address

at North Pole, Alaska, pretend you are Santa Claus

and charge parents 10 bucks for every letter you send

to their kids? Well, Byron Reese sent over 200000 letters

since the start of the business in 2001, which makes him

a couple million dollars richer.

10. Lucky Wishbone Co.

Fake wishbones. Now, this stupid idea is just destined to flop.

Who in the world needs FAKE PLASTIC wishbones? A lot

of people, it turns out. Now producing 30,000 wishbones

daily (they retail for 3 bucks a pop) Ken Ahroni, the company

founder, expects 2006 sales to reach $1 million.