Unusual Business Ideas

Some few months ago I wrote a post „Big business on new generation toys: Webkinz” about sensational success of Webkinz corporation. Lately I decided to check how they are doing this year and found out that Webkinz position is stronger then ever. Retailers say that demand for Webkinz is skyrocketing at a rate not seen since the Beenie Babies craze of the late 1990s. And analysts say the toys are expected to be one of the hottest items of the upcoming holiday shopping season. Webkinz sure has a phenomenal success, but actually it enriches not only the owners of corporation, but also hundreds and thousands of shifty entrepreneurs who invented ways of parasitizing on this business.

First business idea which is based on Webkinz popularity is making websites with all kind of webkinz cheats, free codes, recipes and other stuff. Such theme guarantee high traffic and you can easily earn on Google AdWords, AdSence, affiliate programs and on selling advertising links. There are already hundreds of sites like webkinz-cheat.net, webkinz-cheats.com, mywebkinzcheats.com etc. which successfuly use this business idea.

The other way of getting your part of profit from Webkinz world is to resell webkinz toys on ebay. There are already numerous websites selling reports on „How to buy Webkinz for $11 and sell them for over $30” - $10 for such manual might not seem too much for many Internet users in search of their „million dollars business idea”.

And last but not least – more and more companies are looking to duplicate the success of „Webkinz stuffed animals that come alive online”. The world’s second-largest toy maker Hasbro decided to beat its smaller rival with Littlest Pet Shop Virtual Interactive Pets, which will debut in the New York market in mid-October, while launching globally early next year. Hasbro is plowing ahead with the $14.99 VIP’s, which feature five animals including a dog, cat, turtle, penguin and panda. Like Webkinz, VIP’s come with a special code on their collars that unlocks a virtual world - littlestpetshop.com, where players interact with each other and aim to keep their pets healthy and happy. Lets wait till October and see if this company will also enter a syndicate of entrepreneurs making money on Webkinz phenomena.