My Top 10 Worst Business Ideas

[breck]

http://www.shoemoney.com/2006/09/04/my-top-10-worst-ideas-to-make-money/

[aasarava]

I'm not sure I agree that #9 (BabyCalc / automated baby progress emails) would have been a flop in and of itself; it just sounds like he had a personal reason to fold the business.

BabyCenter.com right now is hugely popular among soon-to-be parents. What's one of the key things that gets parents to sign up in the first place -- almost immediately after they find out they're going to have a baby? Weekly emails detailing the pregnancy's latest progress.

[azharcs]

His pic with that 6 figure check from Google Adsense is kinda huge with webmasters. shoemoney is kinda legend among webmasters.

[steveplace → azharcs]

In the circles I run in, he's not well-respected.

[azharcs → steveplace]

why is that, the webmasters i know say he is smart and knows how to make money. I personally don't know much about him.

[steveplace → azharcs]

It depends which webmasters you talk to. If you run around on digitalPoint, people think he's an internet god. If you go to wickedfire, you see a completely different opinion.

[isaacewing]

I really like the article about the Facebook ads; that website has a lot of good articles!

[delano]

Most of these aren't business ideas. They're features.

[brk]

These were great!

I think we all have a notebook full of these.

[breck → brk]

Agreed. What was sad/amusing is that I had a similar idea to his #1. Like his #1, it was very original, very funny, and so outrageous that it just might work...It didn't though...As soon as I have a big success I promise to make my own top 10 list of worst ideas...Actually, I'll probably make it a top 20 as narrowing it down to 10 would be hard.

[brk → breck]

Yeah, some of those gave me deja vu. I hadn't thought about the girls in the Ferrari though, I might pursue that one.

[breck → brk]

A friend of mine actually was working on something similar for a year(may still be working on it, gotta check in with him).

It's funny, I thought it might work because of its originality. My opinion has changed now.

[Tichy → breck]

Does it really take one year to get two topless chicks into a Ferrari? Then again, others work their whole life for it.

[brk → breck]

I could care less if it works and makes money. It just sounds like a helluva lotta fun!!