[jaltucher]

- writing. plenty of places still paying for content.

- use software like tradestation or wealth-lab to build a workable trading system. trade from home.

- background checks. with rise in VC investment is also new needs for doing cheap background checks.

- penny auction arbitrage. there's a new startup in penny auctions every day. they start off unprofitable because not enough traffic. meaning, you can win cheap ipads for almost nothing and then sell on ebay.

- project management. people still need websites done. You can outsource to india using scriptlance or elance and do the project management from home.

- e-commerce. 1 idea: do a blog about living forever. when it starts to get traffic start selling a nutraceutical package on it.

- photography. do weddings cheap. you have to leave home but dont have to work as many days.

I'll think of more if people like these ideas.

[ig1]

Don't do cheap wedding photography.

Wedding photos are incredibly important to a lot of people. If you don't know what you're doing, then you could end up ruining someone's memory of the most important day of their life.

Look at wedding forums for photographer horror stories if you don't believe me.

[jaltucher]

- do a portal on class action lawsuits. almost everyone is applicable to win some class action (e.g. eat french fries from Mcdonalds 10 yrs ago? you won a class action. have an ipod in 2004, you won a class action, etc). High keyword spending there. No portals are good.

- buy up popular domain names with the words misspelled (e.g. www.eatingdsorders.com, etc) - then do appropriate content (scrape sites) and google ads. Put together a portfolio of these names for cheap and sell to Demand Media

- Write e-books. "100 Ways to Lose Weight". "40 stocks that can Double this year". Use simple google ads to sell them. Write 10 books / mo to make decent living and one might be a breakout. Traditional publishing dead. Get your friends to write e-books. You'll market, they write, split 50-50.

- Therapists charge over $150-200 /hr. Charge $10 / hr and offer to do therapy over skype.

More coming.

[cmontgomeryb]

Could you expand on your first suggestion, writing, please?

I would like to write more often, and though making money would be a bonus, having a topic to focus on would help greatly. Where can I look to get started?

Thanks!

[stop]

Wow. This is awesome. Some great ideas here. I'd love to hear more if you've got them.