Fresh from 2005.. here were my ideas.
i tend to scribble when i drink, a few martinis in me and im rambling about something...
Top 10 Ideas to Make Money in Our Sleep
My brother jokes about finding ways to make money in our sleep. A simple idea really, many people do it, why can’t we eh? What better topic for a drunken martini ramble.
1. Special Interest Videos, ie: porn, gator facts and fun and or research. Basically make a tape, dvd and sell it. Hey I worked in animation, this works really. You make a video that someone wants and you sell it. Lots of them! So what do you make? Sure porn is a basic route to possible success though you may not like who you turn into in the end. Probably not, but we had to add that for fun. Gator Dave fun facts about gators? Maybe, animal videos could be a market. Research videos, I work in research, we always talk about research vids, and there are some out there, but not many, we could hit the market!!
2. Write a Novel, Screenplay, tv series. Dave and I concieved and wrote (roughtly) a 12 episode series one day in Don Pablos awhile back, Gator Nation, by far our greatest adventure in drunken screenplay/tv series rambling writing. It could happen ya know. I like to write, maybe I could do that. Always wanted to write a book and publish it really.
3. Tiki Bar Supplies, Trendy, ok we were sitting at the bar.. so yes this one may seem slightly obvious. But bar trends, whos drinkin what, whats happening where and whats popular. This sorta got us into our discussion on trend spotting, and trend cashing. HA!
4. Game Development, ever since my dealings with Ritual back in the days of creating the Sin anime with ADV, and basically spear heading that discovery project I’ve had this notion in my head about game development. It could be really fun, and really profitable, yet really really risky. Initally I think about a basic quake engine modification really. Or getting my hands on some dungeon siege tech, finding the captial of course will be hard. So go rogue, go old, go old school tech, like early quake or something and do something new or something “they” missed. But again this falls into, you created it, you create the market, its not as small as you think really, yer just a clone of someone else ya know.
5. Ebay Exchange, rare items, 1 day sales, and sex toys. Now let me clarify the bartender suggested “sex toys” not us. Several people I know do the ebay exchange to make money in their sleep. So this is really a proven, possible route to take just takes time. Dave suggested the 1 day sales, quoting that “people love the stuff thats moving now” basically.
6. Stock Trading. Need to get back to that, risky, yes, but whats moving, gotta put yer eye to the wallstreet there and then look at trends, again we were getting closer to trend spotting which is where our conversation sorta ended up.
7. Exploit Future Accessibility, Hacks for Paranoia Protection. Here is where I dropped off the edge of reason probably. At this point my one napkin mantra of whimscal wonder wisked off into the void of several napkins and ramblings on trend spotting/cashing. The basic idea here however is that there is opportunity in our future connectedness / accessibility. We go wifi, wheres the market, we go bluetooth, wheres the market, we go.. what next? Exploit the future of what is to be. Who am I in 2010, what do I do, what do I wear, what do I drive, how do I connect, how do I live, what do I cherrish, what do I want our of a connected reality? So where are some opportunies, and lets just say it honestly, where is the cash? The cash is in sms? text messaging? Hello Dodgeball meets Google, who’d ever thing that’d happen? A trend unfolds out of curiosity and presto someone takes notice. Open your mind up to the aspect of noticing. Have you noticed lately? Anything?
8. Digital Signage, Miniority Report Today. Its coming really. Despite the folks that tell me otherwise, there are some things that coccur to me that are crystal clear. I love the crystal clear sparks in my head. Actually I love hate them, love cause I feel like I can see the future, hate cause I hate it when they arrive and I didnt get a chance to cash in. Not just simple digital signage, but ads that know you, talk to you, know you via yer wifi, yer bluetooth, yer phone gives you away, ads that make the connection, ads that approach and inform, and advise. You wanna step into the future? Go watch some anime. Yep, and not the new stuff. Go watch the old stuff. Old Macross, old robotech will show you what the future will be and its arriving now. Its funny really. I love seeing something in a cartoon made in the early 80’s arriving now in my local store. One thing I like is advertising really, always have, and this idea of digital signage is just the tip of a whole new ball of wax hitting the scene. RFID is a start, so is bluetooth and phones that cash in the aspect of something like the reccently talked about, blogged about Nokia Sensor technology. I blogged about a startup from MIT last year that was doing the same thing. I even talked about the idea of smart buildings that know your preferences for climate control, audiable control, imagine walking into a starbucks and the music at yer table is low, or even another tune, or that you like wamer side of the climate control around you. User preference, more so consumer preference, cashing in on the consumer optional preference. I could write a good word on this ramble, already have I see.
9. Blog Voice, Future Trends. As Time magazine finally catches up the rest of the population as to what a blog is and what it means for the future, you cant help but smile knowing you were sitting on that newness trend for quite sometime before it really hit. Yet did you cash it? First aspect of cashin was the development side of it, then the google ads, then the API glory of it, and now the voice of it. Paid to blog thats a new reality hitting the streets. Paid to speak, paid to ramble on. Make a blog, get a voice, cash it. Granted you have something valid to say. Or just review something, still value is needed, yet as the blogosphere grows and grows, value gets mixed up in the presence of other blogs really, the responsibility of offering sole value is not on your shoulders any more, its a collective value, so “join” wisely.
10. Trends. Here is where the martinis arrived in the bloodstream and informed me what my ramble was really all about. Trends. What are the trends now, tomorrow.
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