Great Income from Cartoonist or Joke Writer Business Opportunity

There are many options available for you on internet if you have a natural ability for humor or cartoon sketching. A fundamental trend found across humor website is the inclu­sion of an opt-in mail list-a joke of the day, quote of the week, or something similiar. Many website make their revenue by permitting other companies to sponsor their mail list or newsletter based on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis. These website also often sell banner advertizing opportunities as well. Some of these sites will permit copy of the cartoons or jokes they develop for a fee. As a freelance artist, you have the choice of doing custom work for other companies that they could then include in their media. Depending on your purpose, you may wish to develop your services to include Web icon design, gifts, cards, advertising, and apparel.

Skill Needed: well-developed artistic or written skills, mixed with a natural ability for humor. Web development and promotion costs will play a role in your start-up budget. Investment in equipment to develop the creative side of the business will also have to be incurred if you do not already own items such as a scanner or graphic editing software. Expect budget to run between $3,000 and $6,000.

This is a one-person business. This business can begin as a part-time endeavor. International potential exists, but only if the foreign culture is similar to your own. What you may find funny, others may not. Also, if you are focusing on current occurrences, these occurrences may not be of great interest to foreign countries.
Copyright issues need to be addressed. If you are charging for the use of your sketches, ensure that your contracts are very clear in the usage rights you are granting. Make it very clear whether the client has the exclusive rights, unlim­ited usage, or single usage rights.

For online marketing techniques, cooperate with popular e-zines to include your businesses jokes with their online e-zine distribution, identifying you as the source and providing a link to your Web site.
Join in newsgroups and discussion forums related to online ad­vertising or the industries that your ad network targets. Online press release distribution and routine contributions to peri­odicals and publications will be a great asset when promoting your business. Develop a sponsored listings campaign to bid on appropriate phrases with the popular search engines. Develop links from as many comedy- or joke-related Web sites, meta­indexes, and directories as possible.

You can earn additional income by developing your own line of merchandise that describes your comedic material and then selling it online or offline at local events, fairs, flea markets, and so on.

Online example, Funnyjokes.com http://www.funnyjokes.com, A site containing clean humor, dirty jokes, tasteless cartoons, comic strips, greet­ing cards, free downloads, and a large daily mailing list.
Joke-of-the-Day.com http://www.joke-of-the-day.com, all kinds of humor can be found here, including a few large mail lists. Their Joke-of-the-Day mail list has over a million subscribers.