Hey, the online casino biz took a big hit when the US made it difficult for their citizens to gamble online recently!
Most profitable areas are where you pluck something out of your head and sell it - a design for an MP3 player, an advertising concept, a logo, a painting ... but the real art is finding someone to market those ideas for you without letting them rip you off. Even the really big-time artists only get 50% of the sale price of their work - the rest goes to the gallery owner.
There is still money in music ... but the money comes from advert jingles and incidental music. Repeat fees can really build up into good money. Every time I hear those crummy guitar riffs they use on Hollyoaks, I think someone is laughing all the way to the bank.
Again, appearing in an advert can be very lucrative - a mate of mine got a 6 second appearance in a TV commercial. It was two hours of work, and he was paid a couple of hundred at the time. He was gobsmacked when, six months later, a cheque for £7k dropped through the letterbox - repeat fees!
Last edited by Baxthorpe; 17-10-2007 at 01:28 PM..
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