Bill Myers - January 15, 2010

Here's a good example of how using free tools, a unique idea, and viral marketing can turn a simple web site into a major profitable business in a matter of a few months

About 5 months ago, I posted a message in the discussion forum at bmyers.com, about a new web site that had funny photos of people who shopped at Walmart.

Nothing fancy about the site, just photos of people shopping and a comment about their attire.

But the site caught on, and now http://www.peopleofwalmart.com gets almost 4 million page views a day.

And with that many daily viewers, the site is able to generate more than $45,000 a month in paid advertising revenue.

Not bad - especially for a site created with free software, and using low cost hosting.

We were discussing this on our forum this week, and a member asked me if I would create a video showing how the site was created, so they could use that model for a similar idea.

So using Camtasia screen recorder software, I spent about 20 minutes, and created a short 4 minute video showing the step by step process to duplicate the http://www.peopleofwalmart.com web site, using free software and $7.95 monthly hosting.

This video can be found in the members area of our site.

The point of all this?

Sometimes, creating a web site that generates close to $50,000 can be pretty easy.

Just pick the right topic, use the right tools, and get the site launched.