Selling Twitter services was an extremely hot market last year. I suppose it may still be, but I was a little surprised to see that a business like get twitters was still up and running. Some time ago Twitter went on the offensive and tried to deflate the thousands of businesses on their periphery. However, many companies like gettwitters.com are still in business selling a service that automatically adds new twitter followers to your account. The obvious benefit for the end user is that they now have a larger audience to tweet (or market) to.

GetTwitters makes about $1,500 – $2,000 per month fairly passively. The site is extremely well designed and would be fairly easy to set up yourself. All that you really need is a script which automatically logs into a users account and then seeks out other accounts to add as a follower. The script only executes so many requests per day in an attempt avoid detection from Twitter. I am sure that today there are a fairly good number of scripts which would offer this entire business in a box.

I would imagine that just about every enterprising webmaster has considering outsourcing content creation as a business model. OrderArticlesNow.com is one example out of the 7 zillion content writing businesses that typically last for about 3 months on the web.

If you know where to look you can most likely lock down a half decent writer for about $3.00 per300 word article. The hardest part is usually just finding one that can write a coherent sentence in English. What we see here is someone making a few hundred extra dollars per month by charging 5 dollars for something that costs them 3 dollars. However, once you factor in their PPC costs they probably aren’t even justifying the time it takes them to take orders and pass them on to the writer.

It generally doesn’t take people long to figure out that this business model…. sucks.

ProWPSetup charges $199 to handle the wordpress installation for others. Considering all I would need is FileZilla and access to a database I would absolutely handle this for 200 bucks a pop. This site is beautifully built out and offers a few value adds that make it a more attractive to potential customers. The setup fee includes the implementation of a premium theme from vendors like Woo Themes in addition to the most common and popular modules.

Of course, you could probably find some foreign labor to outsource the actual setup process to, but I see a few looming issues associated with this business model. If someone is willing to pay almost $200 for a WordPress install then they are most likely going to hound you will stupid questions. I don’t know about you, but I would probably need a service contract to go along with that install. I am not about to spend my days telling some old lady in Nevada how to add pictures of her cat to the site. Additionally I would have absolutely have to build in some hosting to the program. This would be necessary for a few reasons 1) You can give them a few months free and then start to bill them monthly and 2) It’s way easier to manage the install process when you know exactly what CPanel and database you need to be connecting to. Doing this would allow you a small profit on the front end with additional benefit of effectively building up a hosting reseller business.