January 19, 2002
Living On $200/Day
So, my latest mental project is to figure out how to convince a very large aggregate group of people to give me around $200/day, without me being sued, and without me working the entire time they're giving me the money.There's a variety of ways to break it down. The first is that that's just convincing 200 people to buy a $29.95/month membership. Which I could do if I had breasts and a webcam. And the willingness to use my webcam for my breasts. Unfortunately, that's largely out.
The other side is convincing 70,000 different people (every year) to just give me a buck. That's tipping. That's a whole ton of backbreaking work at marketing, or making my creativity viral somehow, like a song that automatically copies itself and merrily sings to people to give me money. I still like tipping, but...
There's also creating a service to enable people to move more of their own already-existing money-flow online, and then taking a cut. Although I'd probably get sued. Unless I can decentralize it somehow.
I have had the glimmerings of an idea for a "decentralized affiliate" service, but that's just a gleam in my eye right now. Hmm.
Any other ideas?
Posted by Curt at January 19, 2002 01:28 PM