Stupid ideas sometimes make a lot of money
You have probably some stories of someone who came up with some weird invention or something so simple that you said “I thought of that” but you never did anything with it.
This happens over and over again, right now there’s someone out there who’s about to make a killing with something so stupid you would think that a 3 year old came up with it. However sometimes these simple inventions make a killing. I’ll give you an example, there’s a website that actually sells custom messages on potatoes and mails it to people. Not kidding, basically you pay $10 to have your message sent anonymously to someone anywhere on a potato. Why would people pay for something like this? Well, there are people who are watch the video below:
Yes, he is making $10,000 per month for something very simple… not so stupid now right?
Many marketing experts like Mark from publicidad en miami says that these type of businesses that come from something most people would never thought to do is usually why they work. That doesn’t mean that this is a business that will last 10-20 years, it could be just a trend that last for a few months or so but in that time the owner would have already made some very serious money.
But he is not the only one capitalizing in these weird industry, there are other people who are also making good money with stupid ideas: