Making Money With Web-Based Products

1. You could create a private members' site. People pay to get access to a password-protected area of the site. The member's site could contain downloads (check you have permission to distribute them of course!), business information, diet info, recipes, etc., or it could work as a club or society. For some ideas see Starting A Paid Membership Site.
   
    
2. You could build a web site where people can send free Electronic Greeting Cards. You Earn Money by selling advertising, from affiliate programs, creating a profitable ezine or by selling co-registrations collected from the card senders.
   
    
3. You could provide free email accounts based on your domain (it helps if you have a cool domain name that people would like as their email address). You Earn Money by selling advertising, from affiliate programs, or by selling co-registrations collected when people sign-up for email accounts.
   
    
4. You could start an online dating site, see Earn Money With Dating-Romance Websites.
   
    
5. You could start a search engine where people pay you for listings and/or clicks. You could use Smart Search's CGI script to implement this. Of course, you will need to have some method to get a lot of people searching if you want to make a significant amount of money.