I am asked all the time by people that want to make money with their own website, their own business. And that’s great because having your own website is having your own small business.

I say to these people, start with the website and write about what you know well.

Do you collect stamps? Enjoy gardening? Write fictional love stories? Then start creating a website right now!
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I will give you an example of one way to use the last suggestion, writing fictional love stories, to make some money.

Now then, every website needs a theme, and a design so once you’ve decided on those, you’re ready to write. Again, Business-Domain-Names had put together all the design stuff so you can concentrate not on design but content.

You can write an ongoing story (my personal favorite) or a whole story at once. Select a couple of non-obtrusive ads to go along with your design, maybe posted on the right side, or at the bottom of the page.
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Your romance/love stories can easily tie into the Ashley Madison dating service and that is an effective ad that can bring in a lot of revenue even if you don’t get hundreds of people visiting your website every day.

Writing the story as a serial novel will keep people coming back for more and this allows you to promote your website and your stories using RSS feeds, desktop widgets and even publishing a feed to the itunes/ipad store. While I would suggest giving your stories available as a free product once you have several stories there’s no reason why you couldn’t start charging a few dollars and make money selling your stories as a pdf ebook too.

Simple as pie! If you need any additional ideas at this point, just leave a comment and I’ll get back to you quickly.

Let’s make some $$$ together!