$5 Website/Business idea

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$5 Website/Business idea

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Come up with good business or website idea.

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Jan 31, 2020

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For a while I've been meaning to make some sort of reference website but it takes so long to write everything that I just can't be bothered to start. The good news: it requires very little up-front capital and very little coding knowledge, if any.

Essentially all you're doing is making a static website which explains everything about a certain topic. I know of a guy who made one about Berlin, but you could do mountain biking, or Minecraft servers or basically anything. What's important is that you have a few dozen pages of useful content that you can slap on a Wordpress theme, or even your own website if you have a passable knowledge of HTML/CSS. Since all it really is is words on a page, you won't need to worry about making things dynamic with JavaScript. And the fact that it's a reference website you barely even need to update it once you're done.

Once you're done with writing a decent amount of content, you can monetise it through Google ads, affiliate links and SEO. These are all pretty easy to learn about if you're dedicated to the idea, and definitely manageable for one person. After that you can pretty much leave it. Obviously it's a good idea to keep these things up to date but a lot of the time you can just release the same article year after year - top 10 restaurants in X 2018, 2019, 2020 et cetera. You'll be making a passive income for very little work.

The catch, of course, is that you need to write a hell of a lot, and you need to be good at it. You can get around this by hiring writers, but that costs money that you don't have. You've also got to find a decent niche to minimise potential competitors, and after that you've got to make sure that you're better than them.

If you can make it work, though, it can be really lucrative. I'd totally do it if I didn't hate writing SEO copy so much, lol.
 
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