I remember back in the early 2000’s, when I first got internet. I had already been self-employed in sales for years, and was quickly pulled to the possibilities that were everywhere. Resell rights to Ebooks were huge back then, as of course was EBay. The nature of those Ebooks was genius, until the market became flooded with them. Branded Ebooks others would distribute for you, either outright selling them or using them as an enticement to collect email addresses.
A lot has changed since then, but the concepts are the same. I noticed several years ago that there was a new push for the website in a box idea. For low money they would sell you an already coded website. Sometimes they would rent you the hosting, usually using their domain with an identifier code in the url. I ran one briefly myself that was Libertarian themed, with the program pulling relevant news articles from around the web. It didn’t do that well I am sad to say. I didn’t understand SEO, I didn’t understand hosting speeds (it loaded very slowly).
The business in a box concept is a good one, and one that I am surprised I have not seen some of the programmers here at Steem using. This series will outline some different business models that a programmer could target, basically creating box websites that would incorporate the Steem chain. It could tie into Steemconnect, or other sources. To enable these businesses I will be writing on to sign up their clients/users, the website could become an affiliate for Steem Ninja and earn commissions for those within its customer/user base who sign up for an account.
https://steem.ninja/buy-account.html
How This Could Prove Lucrative For Programmers
The beauty of writing code is similar to self-publishing. You do the work once and then can begin earning a residual income from it. In the case of these prebuilt (just needing some tweaks to personalize) websites that are targeted for specific industries, once you had the base website for those industries, you could do the following:
Host the site for them for a fee.
Charge a fee for maintenance of the site.
Offer referral fees to your clients to help expand your customer base.
Choose to partner yourself with Steem Ninja and keep all the commissions for their signups.
Obviously these are just a few of the many ways one could begin earning residuals off their coding skills, as well as bring many new users to the Steem block chain.
In the coming weeks I will be sharing some large markets that could potentially offer so many customers that many programmers could utilize these ideas and barely tap the market. I am hopeful that some of you will think over these ideas, as I believe the tools to make this one of the top chains in the eyes of the world is doable, they just have to see what is possible and can be done.
Thank you for reading, and part two will be out in the next day or two.