Making Money With Mediocre Software
Taking a lame software program and making money with it is something many smaller developers and entrepreneurial individuals do. It can be a great way to make money often costing very little money to produce mediocre software programs. These programs can in turn be spun off with resell rights to other individuals in a legitimate software distribution software program.
Another great way to make money selling mediocre software is add advertising third party programs which are installed upon accepting the user agreement. A variety of media distribution channels can be used to make money from the transferal and distribution of your software endeavors.
Some of the major ways of making money through distributing mediocre products include using programs such as eBay to list and sell copies, listing on download sites like downloads.com, and making your mediocre products available on a slick looking web page. Even relatively useless software such as get-rich-quick programs and ebook software can be successfully sold for money through good layout and well written product presentation.
These software programs promise money to consumers in exchange for a modest money investment. They can be wonderful software tools in the arsenal of a software developer who is determined to earn money from easily persuaded users.
Additionally, money making opportunities abound when using clever techniques to sell mediocre products. In addition to resell rights with the eBay approach, software developers can often sell these software programs with a slick cover in flea markets, in local stores, and if willing to invest in the necessary time, even through large chains such as the dollar tree company.
Money can be made through bundling software with other products. Nearly all long term internet users can recall the “gator password manager” which acted like a sweet little password management tool bar, all the while delivering demographic information on its users to companies that pay for user shopping trends and other consumer research.
Money can also be made through software that offers paid advertisement ware. One classic example, AllAdvantage, at one point in time was making serious money not only for the top tier users, but also rewarded those who installed its tool bar with somewhere on the order of fifty cents each hour.
Alladvantage’s software tool bar was a fairly mediocre software program that made everyone money and it was the allure of making money to do what you would already normally be doing that allowed it a great level of success. Unfortunately the money driving online advertising dried up.
Money can even be and is made every day through the use of money-generating web software. All of these portals and internet community sites such as Myspace and Facebook rely on consumers to take advantage of mediocre services in exchange for targeted advertising opportunities.
But, the failures of past money making programs can be a great launching point for new software projects. Even if online advertising and demographic information is now selling for less, it is still selling. Free online RPGS and even simple games like those found on yahoo could be utilized as part of a bundled in adware approach. Adware provides additional income to supplement any software registration options.
By further delving into making money with mediocre software, a determined software publisher could easily look at what has been done. From what has been done, improvements can be made, and historic software company downfalls can be avoided allowing developers to once again make great sums of money from users, advertisers, and even money hungry pay-per-download content sites.
As a result of the modest money investments in programming costs, there is a huge reservoir of untapped money out there awaiting the right software programs to present just enough to hook users.
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