There’s a difference between creating a unique site or product and creating a demand for it. Use aggressive tactics to promote your site or idea – if you get x amount of traffic by next week, you’ll burn a $20 bill and put the video on youtube.
If you raise $300 in donations by next month, you’ll record yourself running around naked in a shopping centre…
These sort of techniques are great as they reward users with pure entertainment and novelty factor whilst catering to your financial needs.
The trick is to think outside the box and come up with something that will get people talking. The ‘Save Toby’ appeal worked a charm – where donations had to be made or Toby got killed (Toby being a cute fluffy rabbit!).
Then we had the guy who’s girlfriend promised him a threesome if his site got 1m hits. There’s also the guy who put his phone number on the web and tried to get as many calls as possible… All of these guys may not have made much cash directly from these ventures, but they are catapulted to e-celebrity status overnight and they can then go on and set up other sites with a huge following and major respect.
It’s important though to not actually kill a rabbit or chop your right arm off if you don’t receive what you’re looking for! If you do, you’re taking this making money thing a *little* too seriously.
