Has anyone got a 'kick-ass' idea for making money out of the Olympics?

How about setting up a Fish n Chip stall nearby? We'll be millionaires like Lord Alan Sugar then get fired after the 2 weeks.

But seriously anyone with any food stalls will make a killing as all the guests around the world will want to taste the different foods available in the UK or even becoming a tourist guide. You just need a car, cards and time. Show our guests the real London.

Operate vans that zip around town as traveling bordellos.

Other than that, I'm drawing a blank.

A site to match up people willing to rent a room in their home with visitors who need a place to stay. This was big bucks during the Vancouver Olympics.

My uncle is driving buses for the athletes. Maybe I should send him a few business cards to distribute? WOM advertising??

How about creating a site that streams all the events that are playing and put a content locker on it?

I see you live in the UK! as was mentioned above its a little late to start thinking about it now, however if you live near london then the opportunities are endless!

1000's of different events, 1000's of different niches! for example there are thousands of people going to watch the Equestrian events, I bet 80% of these spectators are horse lovers, and we all know (horsey) people are quite passionate!!! find a good horse related company offering an affiliate programe, or ebooks on the rules, do's and don'ts of all things related to equestrian! print up flyers and distribute outside the venue! the same with cycling, swimming, rowing, shooting, archery etc etc all those targeted people in one small area!!!! gold!

Ok, this ones a little outside the box, but again using Equestrian as an example, think about how many visitors would love a little momento from their day! again create a simple squeeze page for people to visit to submit their emails and name! advertise your site again on leaflets as a way to remember your day! after the event itself there will be tons of images and photos all over the net, tons you can get for free! grab all these images together and using some free cam software such as camtasia or something, put together a slide show to music of all the related photos! sell these for a couple of dollars each as a memento for their day! again your advertising would be leaflets handed out around the equestrian centre!

I'm sure there is something similar to be done using CPA too!

Start looking at who might be a possible upset winner in one of the event and interview them. They will be less popular and perhaps easier to get.

Use them to drive traffic to your site, where you will have Olympics related offers. Google and Amazon. If you can get accepted, Ebay works too.

CT

Yup, trying to get into the "Olympic Bandwagon" is far too late. This should have been planned right after the bidding was done...

If you want to monetize the olympics, maybe it's time to start getting articles written about every athlete. One of them is bound to be a star, might as well start ranking for their name.

Bearing in mind that Euro 2012 and the Queen's
Diamond Jubilee are also happening shortly, you
could consider selling Union Jack and St.George
flags on eBay.

Can't imagine you would make a 'killing' but there
might be a few quid in it.

If someone put a gun to my head and told me to make $25,000 off the olympics, I would talk about online betting. If I had the site hosted in the UK, I would push a couple of UK betting sites and talk about the events that I know most.

Someone mentioned equestrian earlier. I had no idea that was related to the olympics. People love to bet on horses. Forget the e-books. Tell people how to make money betting. People love betting and they love the idea of easy money.

I am not much into sports but when we had the 2010 soccer here in SA a week before the end I registered whoisgoingtowin.co.za and had people subscribing to win a price of they could guess the winner of the semi finals and final. I build a small list this way and also monetized it with adsense. The click were prime so made a few good $ in that short time.

Was going to continue doing it but lost interest and dropped the domain. I see whoisgoingtowin.co.uk is available and as there are more sport option select a few and you will make money with adsense especially if you have a list to start it off with

Everybody like to win something so you list can be for any niche and they will enter.

I also at the same time registered worldfootballbetting.com and it is about to exspire in a few days if anybody want it for free. It is with godaddy and I will push it to your account.

You can't put adsense on there but I am dropping it. The front page of the site is hacked but easy to fix as I lost interest in the domain and that niche

If you in London it is easier as you can take pics and generate traffic with pininterest etc.

You want everyone to share their ideas but you're not willing to share yours?

But one sided if you ask me.

James Scholes

* Offering a place to stay - hotels are already booked out
* Private tours in London maybe by bicyle - traffic is going to be a BIG challenge
* Put up a LED screen / Beamer to show the games
* Offer food & drinks (esp. water if it's going to be hot) - I remember paying 7 € for 0.5L water in Paris, crazy
* Mechandising

Plaster a whole bunch of posters with your URL on telephone poles at intersections. Kidding.

Anything web related, ie streaming, could have serious implications.

As an aside, I was listening to sports radio one day, they were talking about all time best slam dunks in Basketball. The best was when Vince Carter jumped over a guy in Australia I believe. Due to the Olympic content rules or whatever, the Olympics own that material, and networks, cannot even show that in a highlight reel. Go figure.

You want to make money at the Olympics?

Here's a very old mail-order scam from way back, yes they did have sailing ships still!

Advertise "miniature portraits of the Queen for £50 each" and just send them a postage stamp!

I used to live in London as a kid. You get to learn all the short cuts and ways to get around. But for visitors it is a complete maze.
If you know your geography and can get around London then you could be a guide for visitors. Overseas visitors will want to see all the famous sites and if you are organised you can see many of them in one day.
KenJ

Just go and do what everyone else in London does and pick a few pockets!

That is called ticket scalping and the practice has been cracked down on by the sports and entertainment industries, not to mention doing so automatically voids the ticket.

High fine for scalping Olympics tickets - UPI.com

If caught, it is a $32K fine.

Paypal and other business such as ebay won't process funds or allow such sales.

And as far as setting up your own website to do it, wouldn't take long before the cease and desist letters start rolling in.

Depending where you live, engaging in this practice could be potentially illegal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_resale

-Chris

If I could invent and sell a 'wake me up when it's over' device, I think I'd make a killing. Mind you, I should have got that sorted before the Queen's Jubilee to really get the best out of it.

Was thinking about this the other day pondering over the idea of earning money online doing something with it. Couldn't come up with anything though :p

Stand on the corner and sell some flags

Regardless of any good ideas, it's too late to just now be starting on it. Should have made this thread 6 months ago.

Sell T-shirts from out of the back of your van. Lol...

We have a great one but I'm only going to show you mine if you show me yours!!!

Not going to use this one, but I would if I had more time: Set up a twitter account especially for the Olympics. Hire people to write jokes about Olympic news and tweet every hour or two. You'd get followers and retweets really fast because you're posting humor related to current trends. Then promote Olympic-related products to the followers.

elastic wristbands like those they use for charities and ****.

Make em the Olympic colors and or the great briton color (white/blue/red).

Buy em for like £0.15 each, sell em for £1 a pop. You can sell em all day and be on the move and make a nice little buck!

Exactly how I made money in 2004 while on a 2 year "working" holiday in London.

At one stage, I did security work at a large distribution warehouse which was right opposite a Football stadium. My friend and I worked on Sundays when the warehouse was closed for business and most Sundays there was a match at the stadium and the people BEGGED us to park in our 400 car lot because there was a lack of parking (like almost everywhere in London).

We did a deal with the manager of the warehouse and then rented the parking spaces for 10 quid per car and we made an absolute bundle every Sunday.

I bought a 4x4 Toyota Hilux D4D Double Cab upon my return, CASH, from my "Parking Money".

Great times those.... back when 1 GBP (British Pound) was worth 18 ZAR (South African Rand).

Parking is BIG, if you can rent space and sell it per hour, you will do great, I've spent some time in Russia recently where a parking space for a single car can go for $100,000 (nothing fancy, just a big parking lot with a tin roof and a fence around it)

Sam