Long gone are the days when launching a website was an exotic undertaking. The opportunities to make money through a website have gotten more diverse. If you plan to launch a site, deciding upon which exact site it will be might be a challenge for some entrepreneurs.
Here are some creative website ideas to explore that will actually work in 2020. You can’t expect to make it big in the online space with the same old ideas. If you are looking for some unique money making website ideas to get success in 2020, you can find some here. Whether you are looking for ways on how to make money online in Kenya, Africa or any other location most of the ideas below are practically achievable universally.
This article doesn’t tell you how to create a website or anything like that. What you will find here is – the perfect idea for your next website. Web development is ever evolving and so is our skill set. Our team is capable and willing to offer you web development services that will help you achieve any of the ideas below.
How to settle on an idea
You may not have a 100% certainty what idea will be the best and bring money. To start with, you need to consider what will make your website different from the rest – content, strategy, prices (if it is an online shop), design, or something else. As a rule, a project created to solve a particular problem or fill the gap on the market has higher chances for success.
The key concept needs to be interesting for you or one that is within your current scope of operations. It is important to estimate the opportunities for development and the audience reasonably to make sure you have potential readers. The rest depends on your team, strategy, and proper investment.
#1 Personal blog
This is arguably the easiest website idea. If you lead an interesting life, have some tips and ideas to share, or you are simply a good writer, launch a blog. People love personalized content and reading about real-life experiences, fashion, preferences e.t.c Blogging can become quite profitable once you are familiar with how to market your site. Revenue sources for most blogs include, adverts placing, product endorsements, affiliate marketing among others depending on your strategy.
#2 Your Company Website
If you already have a physical company or business, you should immediately create a website for it, even just for information purpose. Your online presence will be a major boost to your corporate image consequently increasing your leads.
#3 E-commerce Website
Creating and running an online shopping website is now easier than it ever was. Most of the users are preferring to buy stuff online rather than in stores. We can deliver an ecommerce platform for your single business, whether you sell clothes, shoes, bags… or many different items with features like WhatsApp icon on every products, Mobile Money checkout e.t.c.
#4 Shopping Delivery Website
This is a goldmine. You can make a good fortune by receiving Shopping Lists from people and shopping for them at their preferred shops/ supermarkets/ e.t.c.. then delivering to their locations or putting it ready for them to pick and go! We can develop such a site for you.
#5 Product reviews Website
If you like trying and testing new things, this is the best idea ever. Write about your new car, smartphone, about a new chair you got last week, about anything you have bought or received as a present, used for a while and come up with a conclusion about it. A reviews website will have product endorsements, affiliate marketing e.t.c. as the sources of income. Affiliate marketing is where you have links to products on a partnering site. Then when a reader buys that product through your link, you will receive a commission.
#6 Consulting Website
Most of us have at one time laid awake at night wondering about something we just had to have an answer for. If you have the answers that someone else needs, set up a site to answer them. This could be something as simple as your audience using email, comments, or online chatting to ask for the answer to that burning question. After they register and pay. Some questions require more than an answer that is comprised of a few sentences. Complex questions and topics may require a one-to-one private consultation of an hour or even multiple sessions.
#7 Virtual Assistant Website
If you are great at planning and organization, then becoming a Virtual Assistant could work for you. The market and need for VAs is exploding. A Virtual Assistant could be responsible for a wide range of tasks. For example, you could do general Book Keeping, Data Entry, Email Management, Research and a lot more.
#8 Resell Web Hosting
Reseller Web Hosting is another great way to make money online. In fact, we offer this service. The basic idea of reseller hosting is providing server space, which you can use to build your very own web hosting brand. It allows you to:
- Create cPanel-powered web hosting accounts;
- Set custom resource limits (disk space, bandwidth, email accounts, etc);
- Conveniently manage all accounts using WHM.
If you’re familiar with how web hosting works, reselling it will be a walk in the park. Who knows, you may become one of the web hosting giants if you put enough effort! We can help you setup a fully customized web hosting website.
#9 Job Board Website
You can easily make money online with a job listing website. Job boards can be a pretty lucrative way to earn a living with your website. People looking to hire someone in a specific niche will post a job listing on your site and your visitors will apply for the job. You can either charge people to post job listings. Or, you could charge your visitors a monthly membership fee to access the job board.
#10 An Online Directory Website
Online directories can still be profitable though not as popular as they used to. They work in a similar fashion to the job board above. But, instead of people paying to post jobs, or get access to the job board, they’ll pay you a monthly fee for a directory listing. If you have an authoritative site or get a lot of traffic, then these listings are pretty valuable.
#11 Stock Trading Website
If you have any interest and experience in stock and forex trading, you can earn good money by starting the service through your own website.
#12 Online School or Classes Website
If you are an expert at something, whether it is Finance Management, cooking a meal, plaiting hair e.t.c, don’t keep that knowledge only for yourself forever. Your experiences can be helpful to others. It is a nice website idea for senior students and teachers or persons excited by a newly acquired skill who want to share their knowledge with more people and earn money through that.
#13 Gifts Website
Be it New Year, Christmas or Valentine, people love to exchange gifts. You can give them a simple website platform to select, buy and deliver gifts (and flowers) online.
#14 Second-hand products Website
Old products like books, furniture, vehicles, etc. are ever on demand. You can have a platform to buy and sell old products.
#15 Fashion on Rent Website
Some users will want to live the moment in a classy and luxurious way. You could have a website where users can rent fashion items, dresses, shoes, wedding jewelry, etc. on rent from other users.
#16 Event Management Website
Event making and management is an evergreen business. You can take your event management skills to a new height by creating a website online.
#17 Hotel/ Lodgings Booking Website
People are looking for rooms/ lodgings to spend their nights in towns and cities. You make money by posting hotels and earning a commission on every reservations done on your platform or charging a subscription fee.
#18 Property Rent/Buy Website
This is one of those ideas that will never be outdated. Owners or managers/agents of properties like houses for rent or sale, Offices, Hostels, Land e.t.c can list them on your website so as to help those looking for them get quickly. Site owner makes money by earning a commission on every customer they deliver or a subscription fee for every ad that goes online. Also agents can pay ad fees to make their property appear top on searches.
#19 Photography Website
This is among the most popular website ideas that becomes more and more popular with each coming year as the quality of available cameras improves and prices for them go down. These market trends fuel the general interest of people towards everything about photography. So, photography website is a good website idea for this year. On your photography website you can show off your own photographs and your talents as a photographer, demonstrate how to take better family or vacation photos or share tips about how to take the best photos. With so many people owning smartphones and tablets that can take remarkable pictures, your audience is now the world. You can make money through selling your work, partner marketing or teaching courses on photography.
#20 Motivation website
If you manage to stay positive regardless of what is happening around and you are ready to support the others, cheer up the strangers. Post motivational quotes, images, stories, encourage users to support each other.
Conclusion
There are literally a million ideas on what website to make. Even the silliest ones, could potentially be a great idea.
First off, if you haven’t already, check out what you need to consider when looking for a Website Design Company. Here you will find considerations you need to make when choosing a designer for your website.
Second, You’re going to want to think of a good domain name that isn’t already taken. Here’s a few tips on choosing a good domain name.
Third, book and secure that domain name! We also offer domain name registration and web hosting services.
Good luck, and remember, we are here to answer any of your questions, concerns or anything you may want to know regarding developing websites.