Ridiculous ideas that made millions to their owners

Ridiculous ideas that made millions to their owners

Ridiculous ideas that made millions to their owners

Ridiculous ideas
Ridiculous ideas

Why do silly ideas trend?

Feelings and emotions are not controlled by anyone, but how many times did you laugh at his ridiculous jokes?, But the problem for everyone is, how does he succeed like this. Although everything he says is absolutely absurd, this reason raises our minds a perplexing question: What are the silly ideas that have made millions? Do you want to know the secret behind the success of these ideas?

The secret lies in insisting on absurdity, and with time and constant insistence, silly things sometimes turn into right things that can convince people of them, and even with a little effort you will convince yourself as well, and this is how silly ideas succeed and become ideas that bring millions.

A list of silly ideas that made millions in record time

Most entrepreneurs believe that they must find an exceptional idea in order to be able to achieve rapid growth and move into the world of millions and fame, and this is not true in all cases, how a great idea can succeed, as well as an ordinary and repetitive idea, and it is strange that it can succeed Silly idea too.

Since there are a lot of companies that are built on silly ideas that have made millions for their owners, no brain can imagine that they succeeded in a very record time, it was necessary to review this phenomenon.

  • Here is a list of the most ridiculous companies that still made millions:

1- A one-page website with a million dollars

In 2005, a young British man created a website with only one page, million dollar homepage, which was divided into a million small squares, and wrote a headline that was clearly going to sell the ad unit for .$1 because of school fees. Young Briton Tew Alex has succeeded in this: Read his bio

It is strange that many around the world paid the dollar as a kind of simple assistance to this young man, and within one year the young man had sold the million parts and got the million dollars. Although it is a ridiculous and illogical idea, it was presented in a very attractive way to the mind, and that is why it won the admiration and sympathy of everyone.

2- A silly idea of ​​a yellow face smiling at you constantly

Many silly ideas may pass you by, but you should stop at this idea a little. After one of the insurance companies acquired another competing company in 1963, they tried to run a publicity campaign to gain the confidence of the new employees, and in order to raise their morale. They were concentrating in their search for a simple idea in industry and cost, so Harvey Ball helped them design an icon in the form of a yellow smiling face, which did not cost him to draw more than 10 minutes at the time, and he got 45 dollars in return.

The company’s officials were impressed by the new design. They produced this yellow face and affixed it to doors, desks, cups, buttons, suit pins, and the company’s publications of papers, pens, etc., as if it had turned into the mascot of the place. It was a good experience and its difference on the psyche of the staff who cherished this face and considered it an icon to improve the daily mood.

Seven years later, the smiley face started appearing outside the company due to the lack of copyright in the drawing by Harvey Ball, which helped the Bernard brothers and Murray Spane put this yellow smiley face on their line of clothes and hats with the phrase “Have a nice day.” In less than two years, nearly 50 million yellow-faced items were sold, which helped them achieve a huge fortune. This is how some silly ideas that won millions were made?

And the matter did not stop there, as the yellow face is still without property rights, and here appeared the Frenchman, Franklin Louvran, who was aware of the value of owning intellectual rights. And he established a company called the icon of his new luck, and is marketing the yellow face everywhere in the world to generate income of more than 100 million dollars. As for Harvey, he justified his lack of regret, saying, "I came up with a ridiculous idea that wasn't worth more than $45."

3- Sticky octopus game

A very popular game in the early 80's, Wacky Wall Walker is an octopus-shaped sticky elastomer toy. When it is thrown against the wall, it gradually begins to descend like an octopus due to the sticky substance it contains.

Image source: Wikipedia

It all started when Ken Hakuta mother sent that toy to her grandchildren from her trip in China. for $100,000, and then began marketing it to the capital, New York. Sales of the game slowly grew until a Washington Post reporter stumbled upon it and decided to write an article to like it. In less than a few months, Octopus had sold more than $240 million.

4- Ridiculous ideas about cats that bring in millions

In 2007, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Onibasami decided to.. Ican has cheezburger created a site for funny cat pictures and videos, and with the beginning of the site's attraction to some users, they added commercial ads on the site's pages, while allowing users to create special accounts that allow them to upload pictures and videos that they see funny.

Strangely enough, less than a year after the launch of the site, the popularity and spread of the cats site was beyond all tradition at the time, which prompted some investors to submit an offer of $ 2 million to take over the site completely, and then they transformed the site into a huge network of more than 6 humor sites And laughter is no longer limited to cats only. In 2010, the site had more than 35 million visits per month, and huge profits from advertising.

5- Blanket sleeves your new gift

Snohey introduced a blanket designed to have sleeves so that it is easy to wear around the house or outdoors without feeling embarrassed, especially while attending sports competitions in the stadium on winter days. The blanket used to be promoted under different names with different sizes and colours, but it was always the same design.

Although the idea is not new, it was previously seen in the market, but the way of marketing for the Sinuhe blanket was different and intense until it became a registered brand that people demand by name. So much so that the blanket was given as gifts, and in its first year alone, the company was able to sell more than 4 million blankets. Within less than two years, Sinuhe's blanket was achieving extraordinary profits that amounted to more than 200 million dollars, then in the following two years sales doubled and reached more than 500 million dollars, which are numbers and unprecedented growth for any company in the same field.

6- The game of flapping bird and silly ideas for free

One of the very simple games, and so repetitive in the idea that you would classify it as a very silly idea if it came to your mind. But Vietnamese game developer Dong Negyen in 2013. The game is a bird fluttering in the air and is controlled by the players, trying to pass between columns of green pipes without touching them.

The game spread on all websites in an unprecedented way, and achieved an abnormal success in relation to the number of downloads through the Apple Play Store, to the extent that the game developer was earning more than 50 thousand dollars per day through the income of in-game ads.

One day, Dong read an article that spoke negatively about his game and how it was a waste of time, when he was psychologically affected by these words and wrote on his Twitter account that he would delete the game within 24 hours. Indeed, he implemented his strange decision. But the strangest thing is that on the eBay site, iPhone phones were promoted that they had a game of flapping bird on it before it was deleted from the store, but the most strange thing is that the price of one phone was sold at 22 thousand dollars.

7- Tamagotchi game

It's a silly idea but people loved it and attached themselves to it. In 1996, Aki Mina designed a new game in the form of a digital pet, and the strange thing is that the game has sold 70 million games. The game was a digital pet with three buttons with different characteristics: a. Feed the game, b. The start of the game c. Clear game droppings. With the great success of the game, a movie and an anime series for the game were released.

In the end :It's true, there are silly ideas that have already made millions. Are you still not convinced? I think you should review yourself and not waste time searching for great and useful ideas, so why not try your luck with a silly idea.. will you try now?

اسمي محمد عبد الهادي | أنا مصمم جرافيك ومدون. أنا متحمس لمشاركة معرفتي وخبراتي في التصميم والتدوين والتسويق الرقمي مع قرائي وغيرهم من المتحمسين للإبداع.

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