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I've had an idea. One that many people have had before me.
But when *I* have the idea, I trust it more than when the
others have it (even if it's the same idea ;)

If making money online is comparable to a casinò, I would
compare the various tables (poker, black jack) to various
websites selling stuff - in all the various ways stuff can be
sold. Example: a minisite selling an ebook is like the poker
table. It costs to mantain it, it can make you good money
(especially when you're the owner) and it generally works.

But what else do you have in your average casinò?
Slot Machines.

Sure, maybe people don't spend $100 (or 97 - lol) all at
once in a slot machine like they could do at a poker table...
But to mantain a poker table someone must constantly
work at it. A slot machine once it's on it's on, it doesn't
need anything else other than the occasional maintenance
and maybe an upgrade every now and then...

So if a minisite is like a poker table, what is just like a slot
machine??? You'd like to know that, wouldn't you?
And what if I told you that from my research it looks like
slot machines make up for a large portion of casinò income?
It would make it even more interesting, wouldn't it?

There is one thing that makes the dream a little less dreamy:
if you want to make money with slot machines instead of
poker tables you need volumes: You need LOTS of people
that spend small coins.
A poker table with one player could bring in well over a
thousand dollars in an evening. A slot machine with one
player will make a miserable profit in comparison.
That's why for slot machines you need volume. You need
a LOT of people. And a LOT of slot machines. So that makes
it a little more difficult than setting a profitable poker table
that could need even just one good customer...

But a part from the volume aspect, this "slot machines" idea
looks really profitable. So what is it that I think could compare
quite well to the offline casinò slot machines??

Pay per click traffic: this is the slot machine of internet
profits. Like casinò players spending millions in little coins,
a considerable amount of people clicking on your pay-per-click
links should build an interesting cash flow.

So this is what I'm going to focus on my next researches:
making money with LOTS of little coins - instead of setting
up a poker table I'm going to set up a huge number of
slot machines, and I'll tell you if it works... and maybe (if in
fact it does work) I'll tell you how I did it too ;)

Cheers,
Saul