Creativity is one way of doing business are boundless. Sometimes crazy ideas that actually make them dredge previously unimaginable success.
1. Web offers infidelity
Ashleymadison.com is a dating website with a difference, only accept people who are married, or someone who wants a date with a married person. This site slogan is "Life is short. Berselingkuhlah". The founder of the site is a former lawyer Noel Biderman. Although the mission can be perceived as very wrong, the fact that this site has 3.2 million members.
2. Businesses clean up dog
vanguard is Matthew Osborn, which administers web-Scooper.com Pooper. He never knew that this effort will make it one day a millionaire. Osborn started in 1987 when he opened Pet Butler in Columbus, Ohio. At that time, Osborn worked two full-time jobs and have income less than $ 6 per hour at each job. He has a wife and 2 children. He realizes that there are about 100,000 dogs in the 15 miles around his home. business slowly followed, and despite the dirty work, Osborn said he enjoyed satisfying customers and working outside the home in some of the best backyard in Ohio. Finally, Osborn employs seven people and has six trucks that serve about 700 customers.
3. Teens who sold millions of jam from his grandmother's recipe
Fraser Doherty build his empire in the traditional way. Fraser started making jam at age 14 from her grandmother's recipes in the kitchen in Scotland. SuperJam sells around 500,000 bottles per year, which currently controls about 10 percent of the UK butter market. Doherty shares are now worth $ 1 to 2 million.
4. Companies that sell sunglasses for dogs
Glasses for pet dogs? Sounds stupid right? But not if someone really start their businesses and make them into a million dollar business. This business has received the attention and coverage from CNN, the World Women, Friends, Reggie and Kelly, National Geographic and Animal Planet. They are now expanding their business into a variety of other accessories for their animals that includes Backpacks, Flotation Jackets, T Shirts, Caps, and Toys.
5. The man who became a millionaire producing plastic wishbones
Who would have thought that there would be a market for fake plastic wishbones? Well, there! Ken Ahroni frustrated that every year only two people who make wishes around the Thanksgiving table. So, he decided to make LuckyBreak, a company that would make synthetic wishbones with real sound and feel of dry turkey wishbones. Now the company makes 30,000 wishbones daily, selling custom designed, printed units for personal, corporate and promotional. their sales of more than $ 2.5 million per year.
6. The housewife who created the microwave pillow
Kim Levine, creating Wuvit, a small bag with a variety of patterns and deliver produce moist heat. Kim realizes that if he put the corn in the fabric, sew together and then put it in the microwave, a relaxing warm pillow will be created. He was rushed to create a simple product idea with her sewing machine and multi-million dollar empire was born! Initially, she thought the concept Wuvit ® will only be a great gift for children and for society in the local area. But soon he realized the idea had great potential. If local parents began to call her at midnight to ask another pillow calm because their kids can not sleep without ® Wuvit, he knows he has a tremendous opportunity. He started going to local retailers and craft shows, and then finally get a big break when the Saks Department Store decided to put Wuvit ® products in their stores! Now he's a millionaire and has even written a book about the retail business he is!
7. People who are selling pixels on a web page for $ 1 Million
Back in 2005, a 21-year student in England named Alex Tew launched the Million Dollar Homepage, where he sold pixel grid of 1000 × 1000 for $ 1 each. Although it's a very simple idea, a unique project attracted a large amount of press coverage, and finally get the $ 1,037,100 in a matter of months - the last slot on that page goes for $ 38,100. It also spawned many copycat websites that almost all failed, because the idea is not new anymore.
8. People who create a company that delivers letters excuse not to go to work
Do you need an excuse to miss work? A company has launched a reason for the absence of network services for employees and students of the U.S. that offers loads of reasons you can use to be absent from work. Absent Consumers Network provides all the reasons you need a letter for only $ 25 per excuse note. It can record that appear to come from doctors or hospitals professional and even a fake jury summons and original look with a funeral service program of poetry and pallbearers. founders started the business for $ 300 and now runs it from a laptop in a small Oklahoma town. This site gets about 15,000 hits a month.
9. The monk who sold more than 2.5 million printer cartridges
Father Bernard McCoy is CEO of LaserMonks.com, an Internet store that sells discount printer cartridges and other office supplies. Customers include individuals and churches, along with giants such as Morgan Stanley (Research) and U.S. Forest Service. This is a lucrative business. Sales have increased from $ 2,000 in 2002, the company's first full year of operation, to approximately $ 2.5 million in 2005. The idea for LaserMonks.com come to Father McCoy one day when his printer ran out of ink. He shopped around for a new ink cartridge but could not find one fairly cheap. In the early LaserMonks.com consists of several monks sitting around with black powder and empty plastic cartridges, filling a few orders a day. Today the monks say that they have served over 50,000 customers, and their processes 200-300 orders per day to various schools and offices.
10. The girl who earns 1.5 million by offering MySpace layout
A teenage girl who has a flair for the creative set up a site called WhateverLife to offer layouts for MySpace and free tutorials. it is now an impressive number. Girls drop out of school aged 17 years has produced more than $ 1 million. He produces as much as $ 70 thousand per month, and has a website that attracts more than 7 million monthly visitors and 60 million page views.
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