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Hi fellow webmasters,
Having spent now over five years working on various websites i just feel that you cant re-invent the wheel - most of the best ideas have already been done on the net and anything else is just window dressing on top of an idea already done!
Sure you can improve on other sites offered on the net but on the face of it making very good money on the net falls into one of three areas as i see it:-
1) Affiliate sites
2) ecommerce sites that act as the online sales shop for some kind of retail product thats popular
3) A unique idea like, friendsreunited, myspace, google etc
Most of the money on the internet currently is made imo from a) affiliates however, this is real hard work, you are continually chasing a moving google algo and you need massive traffic levels from a range of good established sites that take you years to create!. Anyway, i think affiliates are possibly on borrowed time in the future as the net evolves and google gets smarter at weeding out mfa sites or sites with a high content of affiliate adverts
With b) retail sales you need a dam good product and one imo that you can mail out or ship easy, unles you have some sort of ebay type advertising where you can clear a lot of small high profit transactions.
And with C) a unique idea, well thats like trying to invent something and with the internet you need to move fast before someone coppies it and makes a big inpact with your new idea because they have a massive marketing budget behind them.
All in all, i feel frustrated at times - Am i missing something here or do others agree?
Rich
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