We want to make money!

If you’re a make-money reader, then chances are you got your first taste for wheeling and dealing the same way I did: playing Monopoly(TM). There is just no other game that captures the imagination and pulls you into the thrill of the deal at such a young age. But even something as traditional as Monopoly must eventual move with the times - innovate or get out of the way as they say - and Monopoly chose to innovate by dropping the cash and adopting a charge card for players to make their payments — the world may never be the same again.

Sometimes the smart way to make money is to be a little dumb. That is if dumb means listening to yourself when others might scoff at your idea. Hey you’ll probably go down the tubes, but just maybe you’ll hit big like the folks on this list: Top 10 Dumbest Online Business Ideas That Made It Big Time.

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If you read this blog, then you are probably a bargain hunter. Saving money and making money just seem to go hand in hand. So without further ado, here is a very cool website for the frugal: www.DealsPl.us. It combines bargain shopping with a Digg-like ability for the community to rate bargains.

Bob Parsons that is. You know the big daddy behind Go Daddy, the Internet’s largest domain registration site. Well Bob is an entrepreneur, a true self-made man. From humble beginnings he has worked his butt off to build a web phenomenon. On his blog today he shares the 16 rules that he tries to live by and that he feels have been a large part of his success. Check it out, great stuff.

Well there is more than one way to make a buck out there, and it looks like satire might be one of them. To understand what I’m talking about you have to check out Lasik@home. First off, the site is hilarious, but it is also a clever bit of marketing if you look at it as a site intended to promote ad revenue. Think about it this way - because the site is funny, weird, and has that slight feeling of “it just might be real” a lot of people are spreading the url around to friends so they can check it out too and share a laugh - basic viral marketing. But notice, the site sports Google Adsense ads, which of course are contextually relevant so they are therefore ads for legit Lasik Surgery practices. These are generally fairly premium ads with price-per-click going as high as $59 or more according to some sources, although average cost per click is probably much lower. Anyone stumbling on the site looking for legitimate Lasik is highly likely click on one of those ads, a nice bonus for making a cool tongue-in-cheek website.

So what do you do when you make some money? When you’re feeling flush? When you’re in the pink? You spend it of course! Well you SHOULD save it, but my new favorite place to spend it is at Kokopink. You see my girlfriend likes the color pink. Actually, she loves the color pink! If she could only take one color to a desert island it would be pink.

Kokopink is all about pink. They sell pink jewelry, pink clothing, pink electronics, pink kitchenware, even pink Nintendos. So where does all this pink goodness come from? Well from Amazon of course. The site is actually a storefront that uses Amazon’s associate program. All purchases are really just a referred sale to Amazon, the price is the same to the consumer, but the value comes in the niche. If you’re a pink-a-holic it is a lot easier to find what you want at Kokopink than surfing through the whole amazon catalog. Maybe you should open your own ecommerce affiliate store. The competition is tough, but the investment is low. If you find the right angle you might be able to make a little side income.