Don’t conduct a boring contest

As far as Internet business ideas though, having a contest online has been done so much — so often — that people may not respond at all to it unless you make it really different. I believe the best types of contests to hold online are the kind that require input from your visitors or customers. For example, have your customers try to come up with an idea: the “best way to ——” have them fill in the blank, so to speak, with ideas that they might come up with. If, for example, you are introducing a new software tool, you might ask your customers to come up with the best ways to use it effectively — and a reward can be given to the person with the most creative ideas. In the process, of course, they will obviously have to purchase and download your software tool — which means that you’ll make a sale.