All that is needed is originality and active promotion of a new idea to the masses. statesare earnedtodayon stupid, stupid and ridiculous ideas. Maybe grief and poverty really come from the mind? Maybe the dumber the better? Do you have wacky ideas like these...

1. Million Dollar Homepage

1000000 pixels, you have to pay one dollar per pixel is probably the dumbest online business idea that a person could think of. However, 21-year-old Alex Tew, who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

2.SantaMail

And now this is a good idea. Find a mailing address at the North Pole (city in Alaska), pretend you're Santa Claus and take $10 from your parents who want their children to receive a letter? And what do you think? Since starting his business in 2001, Byron Reese has sent over 200,000 letters, making him a couple of million dollars richer.

3. Doggles

Develop goggles for dogs and sell them? Dumbest business idea. And how could they become millionaires and be able to sell their developments around the world? That beats me.

4 Laser Monks

LaserMonks.com is a profile branch of the Cistercian Abbey of the Virgin Mary, a monastery of only 8 monks located in the hills of Monroe County 90 miles northwest of Madison. Yep, real monks refill your cartridges. Hallelujah! The level of sales for 2005 was 2.5 million dollars! Praise the Lord!

5. Antenna Balls

You can not sell antenna balls online. No way. And of course it won't make you rich. However, that is exactly what Jason Wall did and is now a millionaire.

6 FitDeck

Make a deck of cards with pictures of different exercise, and start selling them for $18.95. In my opinion, not an idea, but a disaster. However, former Navy SEAL and fitness instructor Phil Black posted a $4.7 million income last year. Of course, this is more than paid in military service.

7.PositivesDating.Com

Would you go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin decided that yes, they could, so last year they created dating site for HIV-infected people. Profit for 2006 amounted to 110 thousand dollars. They hope to have over 50,000 users on the site in the next two years.

8. Designer Diaper Bags

Christie Rein is tired of carrying diapers in a separate portable bag. The 34-year-old mother constantly suffered from the fact that she had to fill her bag with diapers for her young son so that they would not wrinkle in her handbag. Rain wanted something compact, pretty, and stylish, so in November 2004, she and her husband sat down and decided create a custom diaper bag, which would be roomy enough to fit the entire traveler's set and 2-4 diapers. With 2005 sales of over $180,000, Christie's Diapees & Wipees designs bags 22 various styles, which can be purchased online at 120 boutiques worldwide for $14.99.

9. PickyDomains

Hire another person to invent for you beautiful names domains? People will never pay for this. In fact, the process of looking up domain names for other people has become a booming business, especially when there is no risk involved. PickyDomains currently has a waiting list of people who want to PAY their hard-earned money for cool and easy to remember domain name. The company expects PickyDomains to hit six-figure sales this year.

10 Lucky Wishbone Co.

Fake plastic wishbones from chicken. Looks like this stupid idea is destined to fail. What sane person would buy FAKE CHICKEN BONES? As it turned out, a lot of people are ready to buy it. The firm currently produces 30,000 bones a day (they cost $3 each) and founder Ken Ahroni expects 2006 sales to hit the $1 million mark.

In the online business, as, indeed, in the usual one, a lot depends on the business idea. Some ideas are cut in the bud because they seem crazy and not profitable. Below we present 10 ideas that seemed unpromising to everyone except their authors. Only madmen could invest money in these projects. But, no matter how absurd these ideas initially seemed, their implementation made it possible to make fortunes.

1 place.

Milliondollarhomepage.com

There are 1,000,000 pixels on a website and each pixel costs $1 - this is probably the dumbest online business idea that a person could think of. However, 21-year-old Alex Tew, who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

2nd place.

SantaMail

And now this is a good idea. Find a postal address in the North Pole (a city in Alaska), pretend to be Santa Claus and charge $10 from parents who want their kids to receive a letter? And what do you think? Since starting his business in 2001, Byron Reese has sent over 200,000 letters, making him a couple of million dollars richer.

3rd place.
Doggles

What a fantasy you need to have to think of selling designer goggles for dogs.

This stupid business idea was implemented by the creators of the site Goggles.com and within a year it turned into a multi-million dollar business.

4 Place.
Laser Monks

LaserMonks.com is a profile branch of the Cistercian Abbey of the Virgin Mary, a monastery of only 8 monks located in the hills of Monroe County 90 miles northwest of Madison. Now these slackers can refill and light, for a modest fee, your printer cartridges! Hallelujah! And according to reports for 2005, the monks sent $ 2.5 million. Praise the Lord!

5th place.

Antenna Balls

What could be dumber than making and selling balls that cling to car antennas? Who will buy them?

But strange as it may seem, they are bought, and how! This stupid idea belongs to Jason Wall and now he is a millionaire.

6 Place.

Make a deck of exercise cards and start selling them for $18.95 a deck. In my opinion, not an idea, but a disaster. However, former Navy SEAL and fitness instructor Phil Black posted a $4.7 million income last year. Of course, this is more than paid in military service.

7 Place.
PositivesDating.Com

Would you go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin decided yes, they could, so they created an HIV dating site last year. Profit for 2006 amounted to 110 thousand dollars. They hope to have over 50,000 registered users on the site in the next two years.

8 Place.

Designer Diaper Bags

Christie Rein - The 34-year-old mother suffered constantly from the fact that she had to stuff diapers for her young son in a separate bag so that they would not crumple in her handbag. Reine wanted something compact, pretty and stylish, so in November 2004 she and her husband decided to create a special diaper bag that was big enough to fit the entire travel kit and 2-4 diapers. With 2005 sales of over $180,000, Christie's Diapees & Wipees designs bags in 22 different styles that can be purchased online at 120 boutiques worldwide for $14.99.

9 Place.

PickyDomains
Hire an outsider to come up with pretty domain names for you? Yes, people will never pay for it! In fact, the process of looking up domain names for other people has become a booming business, especially when there is no risk involved. PickyDomains currently has a waiting list of people willing to pay their hard-earned money for a cool and catchy domain name. The company expects PickyDomains to hit six-figure sales this year.

10 Place.

Lucky Wishbone Co.

Fake plastic chicken wishbones. Looks like this stupid idea is destined to fail. What sane person would buy fake chicken bones? As it turned out, a lot of people are ready to buy it. The company currently produces 30,000 bones daily (they cost $3 each). This unusual idea comes from Ken Achronin, who literally made his first million on chicken bones in 2006.

How often do you come up with "brilliant" ideas on which you can earn a lot of money? How about a glow-in-the-dark tennis ball or a dog headlamp?

Does it sound stupid? Don't rush to say that until you read about ten really stupid ideas that brought millions to those who came up with them.

For now, let's look at an idea that's more annoying than stupid: the smiley face. In the 1960s, a commercial artist from Wurster, Massachusetts named Harvey Ball designed a smiley face for a local insurance company that was running a "friendship action." For 10 minutes of work, he received $ 45, BUT he did not register copyright for his creation. In the 1970s, two brothers from Philadelphia, Bernard and Murray Spain, created the same emoji and came up with the slogan "Have a nice day!" (English Have a nice day!). They profited from the sale of "smiling" T-shirts and coffee mugs with their own wishes. But most of all on the "happy face" earned a London company with a telling name Smiley Faces ("Smileys"). They, unlike their predecessors, registered ownership of trademark in the form of a bright yellow smiling face in more than 100 countries around the world. Representatives of the Wal Mart company tried to challenge this, but lost. Smiley Faces made $167 million in 2012...

1. Wuvit pillow

Kim Levin was an ordinary housewife and mother of two small children. One day, she was watching her husband feed deer in the backyard with grain from a linen bag, and at that moment she had an unusual idea - to sew a pillow stuffed with corn and heat it in the microwave. After conducting such a mini-experiment, Kim found out that corn kernels can retain heat for a long time. And voila: a beautiful warm pillow with which, instead of a toy, you can sleep hugging small children, is ready. At first, Levin sold her pillows in local stores and at arts and crafts fairs. After she concluded with the network shopping centers Saks Fifth Avenue is a lucrative contract that brought her a lot of money. Kim has written a book called "Millionaire Mom" ​​and launched a website where you can find "profitable ideas" thought up by people from all over the world.

2.Icanhascheezburger.com

Do you want to create your own Internet project, but don't know where to start? Launch a website, post a picture of a funny cat with the words "I can has cheezburgers" and invite people to share their own pictures with funny animals and comments with other users. This is exactly what Erika Nakagavi and Kari Unebeasami did in 2007. The site rapidly gained popularity; the number of page views reached 10 million per month. Ultimately, it was sold to a group of investors for $2,000,000.

Today, Icanhascheezburger gets around 100 million page views every month and is one of the most popular websites in the world.

3. Balls for car antennas

Balls for car antennas first appeared in the 1960s thanks to the Canadian company Union Gas. In 1991, Disney released Mickey Mouse antenna balls, and since then has developed hundreds of other types of these unusual gizmos. In 1995, the American fast food chain Jack in the Box launched a campaign to create antenna smiley balls: with deer antlers for Christmas, and in protective helmets for the start of the football season. Then they sold more than 17 million cute circles. Even Wal Mart has its own line of car antenna balls.

4. Milliondollarhomepage.com

Imagine that the year is 2005. You are a young man from Wiltshire (England) who wants to earn money for his college education. What to do? Get a job at McDonalds? Ask your parents? Alex Tew found a better way. He launched the website Milliondollarhomepage.com, whose homepage is a 1 million pixel image. The idea was simple. Anyone could purchase a block on the site ( minimum size- 10x10) at one dollar per pixel and place a tiny picture in it with a link to own resource. Sounds stupid? Maybe. But in the end, Milliondollarhomepage.com made $1 million for its founder.

5. Pet Rock

This was in the 1970s. Account manager for one advertising agencies California Gary Dahl was talking with his friends about which pet is the most unpretentious and easy to care for. One of them jokingly said: "Stone is a pet." There was loud laughter among those present. However, Dahl took the idea seriously and found a couple of investors willing to lend a hand. financial support in its implementation. The development of the project lasted several weeks. The result was not just a stone, but a real creature with a box-house and a training manual, which explained how to teach a pet to "sit" or "shake hands."

The pet stone remained at the peak of popularity for only six months, but this was enough to bring Gary Dahl a million-dollar profit and fleeting fame acquired through television and public appearances.

6. Wacky Wall Walker toy

In the early 1980s, Ken Hakuta, a Washington resident, took some soft, stretchy material (elastomer) and made something that looked like an octopus out of it. When an object was thrown against a wall, it slowly "slid" down. Hakuta decided to set up the production of cute little octopuses, which quickly won the sympathy of both children and adults. Sales were stunning; in just a few months, Hakuta's wealth grew by $80 million.

7. Billy the Big Mouth Bass

Billy is a plastic fish that can turn its head and sing "Don't Worry, Be Happy" and "Take Me to the River" in an obnoxious voice. The employees of the stores where the Largemouth Bass entered went crazy at the end of the first day of sales. The singing fish, invented in 2000 by Joe Pelletiere, a salesman for Brass Pro Shops, brought the manufacturer, the American company Gemmys, a lot of money.

8. Flowbee

The Flowbee is a hair clipper connected to a vacuum cleaner by a hose. It was created and patented in 1987 by California carpenter Rick Hunts. At first, he demonstrated his invention at fairs, and then switched to commercials. By 2000, Hunts had sold about 2 million of these machines.

9. iFart

IFart is an iPhone app that plays various "fart" sounds that annoy everyone around. Developed by Infomedia, iFart was the most popular app of 2008.

10. Wishbones - plastic "bones for making wishes"

In 1999, Ken Aroney, sitting at the Thanksgiving dinner table with his family, watched his sisters argue over who would get a single turkey thymus bone. And then an unusual idea came to his mind: why not create such bones out of plastic? This is how Lucky Break Wishbones was born. As Aroni himself said, everyone needs luck. It took him several years to create the perfect plastic forks that would break in right place.

Lucky Break Wishbones are $9 a pack. During the holidays, Americans buy them in the millions, bringing Ken Aroni incredible income.

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Each of us sometimes come up with some business ideas, but few dare to implement them. But you know, since some people are making $10,000 a month just mailing potatoes to others, maybe we should give it a try?

website collected examples of absurd businesses, which, however, allow their creators to exist quite comfortably.

Mom for hire

Mom of two adult sons, New Yorker Nina Kenelli for $ 40 an hour can temporarily become your mother. She will cook your favorite cake, chat with you over a cup of tea, sympathize if necessary, watch a movie with you or advise a good doctor if you are sick, that is, she will do everything that a real mother would do. But Nina says that she is devoid of the shortcomings of her own mother: she will not criticize your hairstyle, compare it with more successful children of friends, or talk on the phone about family squabbles for 40 minutes. And although many consider such a business to be rather cynical - a kind of surrogate warm relationship without problems, but for the money, Nina's services are very popular.

Potato Postal Service

In the US, there are services that send messages written on potatoes by mail - MusteryPotato and Potato Parcel. Both are wildly popular. You can order a small inscription - congratulations, confession or words of support - or a picture that will be applied to the potato and sent to the addressee, if you want, anonymously. Threats and insults cannot be sent. The price of one potato depends on the size and starts from $10.

Hairpieces for horse tails

Horse tails are made longer and thicker with hair extensions and hairpieces. This service is used by owners of horses participating in exhibitions, competitions and races. False tails are made from natural horse hair and cost $50-400.

Sunglasses for dogs

One day, Roni di Lullo was playing frisbee with her dog, but the sunlight prevented the dog from catching the “plate”. Then she came up with the idea of ​​sunglasses for dogs. Now her company produces not only glasses, but also other accessories for animals: backpacks, toys and swimming vests. Business turnover - about $ 3 million per year.

Dirt from Ireland

Irish-Americans Pat Burke and Alan Jenkins sell "Official Irish Mud". It's a plastic bag of earth that starts at $10 for a small package. The product is popular with Irish people who emigrated to other countries and are nostalgic for their abandoned homeland. They buy land in order to throw a handful of it on the grave of deceased relatives or to make a flower bed. There are those who buy "Irish dirt" in huge quantities in order to build a house on their native land. In the first six months of the business, Burke and Jenkins became millionaires.

Tattoos on the teeth

Doody Calls is a dog waste cleaning service that can be bought for any period, for example, for six months. Employees of the company regularly clean private and public areas: yards, parks and recreation areas. Started in 1999, married couple Jacob and Susan D'Aniello have grown the business to the point where they sell franchises across America, with turnover in excess of $1 million a year.

What weird business ideas have you come up with? Share them in the comments, and perhaps you will find those who are ready to become your client in the future.

At a certain stage of their development, many understand that working for hire until retirement is not their way, that it is time to organize their own business. And the first question that future entrepreneurs ask themselves is what to do, what to produce, what services to provide? We discussed these issues in the article " How to find a business idea where you can get a lot of useful tips for beginner traders. Today I propose to talk about a separate category of business ideas that we would call stupid, ridiculous, absurd. But, oddly enough, many of them bring their owners a considerable income.

Why should we discuss someone's stupid ideas - you ask? Perhaps I'll start from afar. For some, a tangible result in the form of financial growth is more important - such entrepreneurs choose well-known and working business ideas. This path has been trodden by thousands of businessmen before them, guaranteeing customer attention and profit. But he also has a downside - a huge competition that crushes many newcomers. For another category of businessmen (usually creative and ambitious individuals), this path is not suitable - they want something new and interesting, they dream of creating original business that no one else has. Of course, they will know the bitterness of trial and error, but if they find their gold mine, they will be out of competition.

It is the most stupid ideas for businesses that seem unviable, sometimes become not just successful, but ingenious. Judge - who would have thought that the production of sunglasses for dogs would be a profitable business, bringing millions to its owners? Yes, now Doggles products are popular in a dozen and a half countries of the world, the company produces not only glasses, but also jewelry, outfits and accessories for dogs.

Another unexpected business idea is protecting golf courses from geese. Thirty years ago, David Marks was working on a golf course and noticed that large wild birds annoy the players. He also noticed that his dog perfectly disperses uninvited feathered guests with his bark. With a bit of savvy, David hired a few dogs and began offering his services to owners of golf courses, private parks, and other recreational areas. Now he is the owner of a stable and successful business bringing in $2 million annually.

How often do you say that it would be nice to buy a second sock mobile phone to call him? For those who regularly lose socks, Black Socks has developed an application that allows you not only to find a pair, but also to determine which sock is in front of you - right or left. There are other functions: sorting by shade of black, counting the number of washings, determining the age and place of purchase. True, such a pleasure costs almost two hundred dollars. And the most interesting thing is that it is popular.

The offer looks like ten pairs of socks, each with a chip embedded in it. Accordingly, a scanner is attached to them. The application is installed on the iPhone, with which the sock communicates via Bluetooth. This makes one think that in the event of a revolt of the machines, there is a possibility of being captured by their own socks ...

Now people often make money on what is right under their noses - they post photos, videos or stories about their pets, relatives and children on popular social networks. Business ideas are taken directly from life itself (on the site http://biz911.ru/ you can find many ideas for business), and playful pastime becomes a profitable business.

For example, someone turns family troubles into business ideas. Justin Halpern has long endured his father's caustic underwear. Unfortunately or fortunately, daddy was quite rich vocabulary, and he spoke real pearls, which the son eventually began to record and post on Twitter. Very soon, Justin became the hero of a popular program, wrote a book and a script for a comedy series.

American Kevin Kotter also found himself in an unpleasant family history and was able to capitalize on it. After a divorce from his beloved wife, for a long time he could not figure out where to put her wedding dress. In the end, he decided to connect humor and have fun. Kevin began to look for ways to use the dress - it was used as a hammock, and as a rug at the door, and replaced the curtain in the shower, and even went fishing as a net. The abandoned husband took a whole series of photographs that he posted on his blog. They instantly gained popularity and dispersed on the Internet, Kevin wrote a humorous book, where he gave 101 ways to use his ex-wife's dress. But that's not all. After some thought, he decided that the joke could well become a business idea. After that, he began to buy the wedding dresses of their ex-wives from grief-stricken husbands and make designer crafts out of them. So that.

Speaking of breakups, it is this part of human relations that the creators of The Breakup Shop decided to make the basis of their service. For a certain amount, the text of the letter is written to the client, in which he informs about the break in relations, they are drawn up in the form beautiful postcard or even a gift. There is also a service for a personal visit to the “victim” by a service employee, and explanations can also be ordered by phone. Imagine: the doorbell rings, you open it, and there is a pretty representative of the opposite sex with a bouquet of flowers and a mournful mine on his face. “You were asked to convey that everything is over between you. My condolences. But don't be discouraged, you are young and the world is full of opportunities! Thank you, please sign for the service rendered…” Original! And it is in demand.

Well, these stupid business ideas at least involve the provision of services ... But sometimes enterprising inventors manage to sell the most ordinary nothing for good money. Among such working ideas are the sale of air and ghosts. Daniela Dorrer from Germany offered residents of gassed megacities to buy rural air. The clean air, flavored with farm animals, is sold in hermetically sealed packages and delights customers. Are on sale in a network and jars with air of the known cities - Paris, London, Berlin. Well, now we can safely twist the saying: "Smell Paris and die!"

The founders of Ghost in a Bottle make good money selling beautifully designed bottles. Inside - well, of course, a ghost. By the way, suppliers do not recommend opening or breaking the container, since they do not provide services for catching released ghosts.

Naturally, not every stupid idea can be the beginning of a successful business - many of them remain in thoughts, others fail at the very beginning. In order to implement such an idea, you need to be on the same wavelength with the consumer, to understand how this new product will be to the taste of other people. And the preferences of the crowd are sometimes quite bizarre - and you and I know this very well.

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