Prepare to make ridiculous money

Prepare to make ridiculous money, if you are intellectual and detail oriented. Best of all, you can see your ideas actually impact the world for the better. Innocentive.com is an open source intellectual property website, where companies and foundations that have a need can let the every day internet user (that’s you) come up with solutions. For example, a company needs a way to detect certain proteins in oils, or another company that needs to know what type of water issues impact third world countries with a solution, or how about Relay for Life, who needs a bio marker to record progress on Lou Gehrig's Disease treatments. That last one, by the way, carries a prize of $1,000,000.00, though the majority of the challenges range from $1,000.00 on up. Yes there is a bit of competition, so you need to be a smart person, as well as professional, but still, there is nothing out there that I have seen to rival this in sheer dollars earned if your solution gets chosen. I should mention that the company has been around for quite some time, and already has a $3.5 million payout history. Click here and make a difference (and some money).

Content is King

Online content is a huge selling tool for all blogs and many other sites as well. If you can capitalize on the content craze or provide useful information, you can make a good deal of passive income. Here are a few sites that I recommend:

eHow.com - So far one of the better revenue sharing sites out there. Short how to articles are the key here, so write about what you know and keep it brief but interesting and informative.

Bukisa.com - An eHow clone, but the great thing here is to put your eHow content here as well and get double exposure for your articles.

Triond.com - this site distributes your work to tons of different sites, and the best thing here is that you can do pretty much whatever style of writing you like from poetry, to short stories, to news.