A few months back I had created about ten fake myspace accounts with the intent of promoting a few teen-oriented websites I had. The promotions didn’t go that great. But who cares, I didn’t lose anything.

Today when I was listing a few items for sale on craigslist I saw some guy buying myspace accounts. I emailed him and he told me he would pay me $0.02 per friend.

I sold him three accounts for a total of $60. One account had 2000 friends so that sold for $40. The other 2 accounts had just under 500 friends, so I got $10 each for those.

This is a great way to make some money off of myspace accounts you no longer need.

I can dream up the craziest crap (pun intended) sometimes. So today I was reading some blogs and I came across this article about offline marketing.

Now let me tell you a story. When I read this article I remembered hearing about a guy sometime back who did some experimentation with offline marketing. I unfortunately don’t remember where I read this anymore so if you know please leave a comment and tell me. What he did was printed stickers from his inkjet, the kind you can get for cheap at Wal-mart. He put some dumb tag line such as “Hate your job - me too” and then put an easy-to-remember URL on the sticker too. He then placed these stickers on NYC subway train doors where people stare at it all day. The stickers would be removed within a couple days so he would just put a new one up the next day. The earnings at the end of every day exceeded $50 for a site that just had 2 paragraphs and 2 google adsense ads. This method may not be exactly within the terms of google adsense but if he put some real content up (or a product) he could have some serious cash.

This got me thinking. Where would I put a sticker where people stare all day? Oh, I know! Bathroom Doors! So poop4cash.com was born. Who wouldn’t go to a website where you can make money for pooping? I would.

I just registered it today. I will be posting my success or failure with this idea on this blog - so keep checking to stay updated.

This guy got a tattoo for digitalpoint and shoemoney to show his mad love for those sites. Shoemoney has already blogged about him and I’m sure it’s traveling at light speed through the blogosphere as you read this. Anyway here are the pictures:

 John Chow is holding a blogger competition where he is giving away a signed copy of the 4-hour work week and a 24″ LCD Monitor. I signed up for a Million Dollar Wiki Page for the John Chow $90 Special - So that gives me five chances to win. And I am bloggin about it now - That is an additional two chances. I have seven chances to win this 24″ monitor, so wish me luck.

The page is got for the Million Dollar Wiki is Web Games. Since I have so many game websites I figured this would be the perfect way to promote them all. And I wanted to grab the phrase before someone else scooped it up.

Did you know that in your adwords account you can make your ad match the exact phrase the user types in? Sounds great, huh? Unfortunatly I though it would be an amazing way to get more signups. When you display your ad with the exact same phrase they typed in it also displays your ad in bold. The problem is people click on the ad who have no intention of buying any of what you offer. They click it because it is bold, and just used to seeing good results in bold.

If you have some kind of crazy niche that could profit from this here is how you do it:

• Log into your Adwords account.
• Go to your campaign stats and view your Ads.
• Create a new ‘text ad’.
• In the first line of your text ad type {KeyWord:Your Alternative Text Goes Here}
• The ‘Your Alternative Text Goes Here’ part can say whatever you like. This is an alernate keyword/keyphrase that will show if the persons search terms are longer than 25 characters.
• Now fill out the rest of the ad how you normally would.
• Save your ad and wait a few minutes until your campaign has updated with the new ad.

A bit of a warning though: this drained my daily budget in about 1 hour, with absolutly no conversions.