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The bubble has burst for big dotcom companies who raised tons of start up money but never showed a profit. But according to a study by ActivMedia Research, small online companies are far more likely to show a profit than the big ones! Here are a number of successful websites for you to model and a few bad examples for you to avoid.

Unique Online Business for Ugly People Finds Success Here is a great idea. It's a unique online service for "ugly" people. Think no one would admit they were ugly? You're wrong and in fact they even submit their picture. You wouldn't believe how many "ugly" people became customers in just the first week. Read what this is all about and learn other niches you could provide a similar service for. (Entire Article)		Couple Goes From Scraping By to a Life of Luxury How does a couple go from barely making ends meet to becoming millionaires in two short years? Ask Matt and Amanda. Four years ago they decided to risk it all and start a business together. With hardly any no-how and a little sacrifice they are now living a life that anyone would envy. Find out how you can live the life you've always dreamed of from your spare bedroom-no office needed! (Entire Article)

Couple Lives the Dream Life With Their Internet Business Jim and Kelli had a dream to be able to stay home together. Instead of settling to be away from each other at their separate jobs, they decided to turn their hobby into a business. They have made their dream a reality by running a successful business from their home. You won't believe how quick and easy a business like this is to start and how anyone can do it! (Entire Article)		24 Year Old Immigrant Creates Multi-Million Dollar Website That Gets 40 Million Visitors Daily! At age 16, Milun a young immigrant, tried to look up song lyrics on the internet. What he found discouraged and frustrated him! He decided to handle the problem himself. The result? A huge success! Milum now runs a multi-million dollar enterprise. (Entire Article)

Upset Young Father Creates a Smart Product for Fed-Up Motorists John’s wife was in labor. He drove her to the hospital where he parked on the street and hurried inside for the most memorable moment of his life. When he returned to his car he not only had a beautiful baby girl but a parking ticket as well. That’s when he got fed up and created a unique product that every motorist needs. (Entire Article)		Crafty Mom Funds College Educations, Vacations and More Dee Ann admits she’s a crafty person. When she saw something that sparked her interest she knew she could do it. And she did! She made it even bigger and better than before. Using the internet to easily sell and market her idea this mom has enjoyed it all. (Entire Article)

New Mother Discovers Business Idea While on Vacation This new mom stumbled into this brilliant idea while vacationing in a tropical paradise. She decided to start her business in her spare time by working at home. She’s has found a way to compete in her market with her niche target and is watching her business grow year after year after year. (Entire Article)		An Unusual Passion for a Common Item At the tender age of 10, Efferem developed a very unusual passion. Now an adult he has taken his passion and turned it into a business. He has never had so much fun in his life. (Entire Article)

A New Spin on the Flipping-the-Bird Gesture What will they think of next? This entrepreneur has come up with a creative solution to a blood boiling situation. (Entire Article)		Going Against the Latest and Greatest While most of us try to be cutting edge or keep up with the latest technology, Dean S. has based his business on being just the opposite. Dean has carved out a successful niche business selling what others can’t find anymore and what most kids today have never seen. (Entire Article)

Former Auditor Makes a Childhood Hobby a Successful Business Steve’s life was suddenly changed when his highly paying, high stress job started taking a toll on his health. After reevaluating his life, he decided to use the internet the sell one of his favorite pass times from his childhood. (Entire Article)		Etsy.com Sarah Jane enjoys the thrill of having customers in Japan and Germany and still being at home to play with her kids. And Sarah manages it all from a spare bedroom! (Entire Article)

Now Stay-At-Home Mom Creates: Polk-A-Dot-Tot Katie who wanted to be a Stay-At-Home mom wasn't able to be until this hobby turned business made it possible for her. She is succeeding in a heavily saturated market using the internet and is doing very well at it. (Entire Article)		$250,000 from Helping the Clueless Michelle could have chosen to give her Romeo the cold shoulder when he flat out failed on what should have been a special day but instead of getting mad, she started a business to clue in the clueless. (Entire Article)

Granddaughter Learns Power of Ebay When faced with a dilemma about her grandmother's growing medical costs, Lynn decided to give eBay a try. She isn't just another eBay dabbler, she is considered an eBay "power seller." Lynn enjoys helping others learn how they can be successful online too. You could apply her simple techniques to do the same thing. (Entire Article)		An Usual Twist On A Very Common Food Frank and Steve are finding yummy success in a heavily saturated market. They have found a unique way to make a very ordinary dinner item special. Could your next big success be lurking right under your nose? (Entire Article)

22-Year-Old Entrepreneur Thinks Outside the Box Richard, ready to embark on a new adventure of starting his own business, could have let this major obstacle get in his way but instead of getting down, he got creative. (Entire Article)		Female Entrepreneur Puts Glamorous Twist On An Old Product It has nothing to do with selling Tupperware, make-up or candles. You won’t believe how truly simple and unique this product is. Ladies, you’ll wonder why you didn’t come up with this first!! (Entire Article)

Bad Hair Day = Niche Product Success Instead of just getting mad about his hair, this young entrepreneur started running this Internet based business out of his student housing 1 bedroom apartment. Now he is running this successful business from his own two bedroom home. (Entire Article)		Two Former Ski Buddies Create Million Dollar Business What’s more is that they have virtually no competition. This type of business is very easy to run—with no products to manage and could be run from a spare room. It’s a simple idea and could easily be adapted to fill a need in your area. . . (Entire Article)

A Twist On Traditional Anniversary Gifts Mark, a shop owner, had many people requesting a specific type of gift from his shop. When he realized he didn't have anything to fill the demand, he got busy. . . (Entire Article)		Niche Market =Large Possibilites Here is a little known market that is just bursting with possibilities. It has nothing to do with selling candles, make-up or jewelry from a catalog! (Entire Article)

FakeYourSpace.com We aren’t sure if this is one big publicity stunt or not but it's a worthy read. (Entire Article)		Cranky.com Idea Generator: Meet Jeff. His “old” twist on a new idea is unique. It’s a simple idea that markets to a specific group often forgotten by marketers. (Entire Article)

Business Uses Clever Marketing Tool to Attract Repeat Customers Here's a very old type of business (our grandparents used it) that is using a new marketing tool and it's giving business a boost. You won't believe how this simple idea is working and how it is making it easier for customers to spend more money! This marketing tool uses no mail order, door to door selling or phone calling. (Entire Article)		From Hungry to Online Business Success Here's a great business idea. Lillien's creative and fun approach is helping her gain ground (100,000 subscribers strong!) in a highly competitive and evergreen market. It's a simple business model that could be adapted to you. . . (Entire Article)

Groom Gets a Wife and New Business Here's an online business that is currently grossing six figures annually. It targets a market that some would say is saturated, but this proves once again that there is room for more if you know what you are doing. (Entire Article)		23-Year-Old Female Creates a Way for Doctor's to Get Out of the "Stone Age" It all started when Rebecca moved into a new town. She was frustrated with the process of finding a new doctor. (Entire Article)

Will it Blend? Find out how this company is getting great publicity at little cost using the internet. (Entire Article)		New Mom Finds Success Her boss thought she was crazy for quitting, but this mom is proving otherwise with the success of her novelty children's item. (Entire Article)

A Clean Business Woman refines her product after consulting with "experts" on the internet. Learn from her experience by trial and error and how the internet can help you with your product. (Entire Article)		Panty Lines Create Million Dollar Business Learn about this young woman behind this product and how her humble beginnings and determination have made her into a huge success. After reading this you won't limit yourself again... (Entire Article)

Bringing Back Audrey Hepburn Elegance Michaella Lawson was frustrated not being able to find any dresses to wear that weren't spaghetti straps, had plunging necklines or short skirts. So what did she do? This self starter designed her own line without any knowledge of the fashion industry. Read about her success and what she says about having this against the mainstream business. (Entire Article)		Real Estate Out of this World This man is selling Real Estate without a license! Read about his unique businesses and how much fun he has selling his novelty items. (Entire Article)

Make Money on the Internet Without Selling Learn how this woman went from loosing her home in a fire to having her mortgage paid for with this fun internet business. (Entire Article)		Earning Money With Good News Learn all about this truly unique website that's giving everyone a lift and going to the public for $torie$. This website pays citizen journalists and gives readers bit of good news. Too good be true? (Entire Article)

How this 21-year-old Earned $1,000,000 for College in 4 Months! Tew's desperation and creativity landed him with a million dollars in the bank. This is a great example of thinking out of the box and earning lots of cash. (Entire Article)		From Pizza and Video To Internet Success This business owner found the fast lane in his business when he found the tricks to being successful on the information highway. (Entire Article)

More On Earning Money With Screen Savers Here are more ways to earn money with screen savers. (Entire Article)		Confessions of a Screensaver Thousandaire Here is a very simple (and old) product that is still bringing in good money for the people doing it. What's nice about it is it doesn't take long to create and you can sell it over and over and over... (Entire Article)

Case Study How Father & Son Built Super Sucessful Online Business In a Tough Market Here's a great of example of how to take a traditional business and find success with it online... (Entire Article)		Retro Craze Brings In 3,000 Orders/Month Have you ever wished you could find a product you used to enjoy as a kid? Here's how one women turned her wished into an online business that is now bringing in over 3,000 orders per month... Here's a great example of someone who couldn't finda (Entire Article)

Make Money Watching TV Here's an example of one person who is making good money from the ideas he gets from watching popular television shows. Anyone can do this... (Entire Article)		Veils for Profits-From Hobby to $500,000 Year Business Here's a couple who took a hobby and turned it into a $500,000/yr business. See what they did right and wrong and the amazing amount they are investing in PPC traffic... (Entire Article)

Success With Online Communities 08-18-2003 Here is another example of people creating successful community websites with a twist you probably never thought of. Study these models for your own success.. (Entire Article)		From Zero to Success in 3 Weeks-Scot Dantzers Latest Case Study Here's a fascinating look at Scot's unique method he used to find a product and sell a ton of them all within 3 weeks! No, he didn't become an affiliate, it's not multi level marketing and the product has nothing to do with making money... (Entire Article)

Online School's-Recipe for Success Do you have a skill you can teach others? As we've mentioned in the past, the internet brings up fantastic opportunities for reaching niche markets. Here's how some people are doing it and you can too! (Entire Article)		$450/ Day Selling 1 Piece of Paper! What could be better than earning $450 per day selling a piece of paper? How about the fact that you don't even need to mail the piece of paper out…the buyers download it automatically after they buy? It's true! Here is how one person is doing it and how you can sell your own "special piece of paper" all day long.. (Entire Article)

How To Really Earn $100,000/yr With a Paid Ezine/Members Website Writing this article changed my life...I first wrote it almost 2 years ago. This article and the research I did in preparing it was the seed that started this membership website (Entire Article)		Duplicatible Website Bringing in $2,500/month Here's a website that is bringing in about $2500/month. This idea could be easily duplicated in this or other niches and you don't even have to handle any inventory! (Entire Article)

Success Selling "How to Beat the System" Information You won't believe the information this guy is successfully selling (500 ebooks so far) on his website. Here are some ideas that you could probably successfully sell using this same model. (Entire Article)		Flawed eBay Business Model Jay and Marie Senese of Sierra Madre, California, entrepreneur team earn a nice living by selling used CDs from their home but WHY YOU SHOULDN'T FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE! (Entire Article)

Two Examples of Products Tied to Current Events Here are two current examples of how publicity can work for you or against you, but it will get you noticed either way when it's tied to current events. (Entire Article)		25-40 Sales Per Day Through Clickbank Here's someone who is making a good income with system he has on "autopilot." Study this and use it as model for your own online "selling system" (Entire Article)

$93,608 In Sales The First 6 Weeks! Here's a great model of someone making a ton of money with a "current event" product. Study this one carefully! (Entire Article)		Buy Low/Sell High eBay Strategy Here is a fascinating way to make some good money on eBay using an old strategy (Entire Article)

The Chocolate Farm Next time you think you can't do something because you are waiting for someone else to "anoint you" that you have enough experience to do it, look what this 9 year old little girl started.... (Entire Article)		Hot Business! Think you need to create your own original recipe to succeed in the food business? Think again. Just look at what this woman did (Entire Article)

Young Success What do you do when you have a great idea for a business but aren't old enough to have a checking account? (Entire Article)		$50,000 In Business the First Week! Attorney Steve C. came up with an idea he thought could earn him an extra few thousand dollars a month without having to bill by the hour, but it was so successfully he shut it down. (leave it to an attorney :-) You might be able to model this idea. (Entire Article)

Profiting From Selling Other Peoples Products In contrast to the idea of creating your own unique product or service is the idea of selling someone else's product. Of course doing so has it's pluses and minuses. Here's a story of someone making a fortune doing this! (Entire Article)		Million Dollar Dating Service Ideas Here's a story about a million dollar dating service plus 20 niche markets that could be ripe for a similar dating service you could start! (Entire Article)

Single $250,000 Sale From His Website! Here is a great online success story about friend and newsletter contributor, Kirt Christensen. For those of you who don't know Kirt, he is a super copywriter, marketer, and entrepreneur. Here's the story how he sold a $250,000 product from one of his websites . . . (Entire Article)		Joke a Day Do you like a good joke? In 1997 Ray O. decided to see if he could get people to pay him money to receive a joke in their email box each day (Entire Article)

College at Home You don't have to be a creative genius to put together a book and earn a lot of money online. Just look at what this guy does.. (Entire Article)