Discover 5 Unusual Online Business Ideas That Will Put Money In Your Pocket

If you are marketing online, tell yourself that competition is good. I really mean that. Competition has the ability to drive you to become more creative, and to excel at thinking outside the box. Never mind, that sometimes you just have to survive because of unplanned competition. These online business ideas can help you stay ahead of the competition and win more business. Let us take a quick peak at them.

1. Ask people to find a hidden link in your ad copy. When you send out a news letter or update a blog, you can ask your readers to find special links, words, or phrases in your copy and send you the answer. Once they do that, reward the first one or two persons who write in with something special. They will love the idea and so will the rest of your readers. This will increase the chance of making a sale because they will read your entire ad copy.

2. Start a member's only web site with a difference. Do not just do what everyone else is doing. Your membership site may have the same kinds of stuff that other people have but you can change some things and really make it stand out. For one thing, you can put a cap on the lifespan of your membership site. Who says that your site has to last forever? Your site could be for 6 months only, or a year. You could then charge a one-time access fee to enter. This sounds like a great value to me. Try it and find out what your subscribers think.

3. Want a popular blog? This online business idea is really cool. This is how you could go about setting this up. Once you set up a blog, you can run a competition among your readers or subscribers to have them post quality comments on your blog. You then offer a reward to the person with the highest number of posts over a month or so. You could give away a free product or service to any person that posts 15 or more messages on your blog in a month. Think of other creative prizes that you could give away.

4. Share your article directory with your visitors. Show your visitors how they can instantly add a free article directory to their web site by linking to yours. Then place your ad or banner on top of the article directory for your main product or service. You provide a valuable service to your visitors by allowing them to give their site visitors quick access to an article directory, and you get that extra traffic to your website. All those links can add up to a large amount of qualified traffic for your web site.

5. Re-design your website into a web book. This is a different approach to website design and an unusual online business idea that can help you make more sales. Here is how to approach it. There a millions of web sites on the internet and most of them look similar. Why not market your website as a free web book? Design your web site with a title page, table of contents, chapters, etc. Just place your ad or banner for your product or service on the top of each web page. I am sure you can come up with other ways of making this idea stand out and create more appeal to your visitors.