I recently read that there are now 1.000.000.000 people online, which makes it an enormous market. I also read that many people expect that online shops will eventually replace all “real” shops.

The online shops are so numerous that a new layer of Web sites is born. The meta e-business layer. This layer consist out of Web sites that compare items on many shops, for example lowest price, catalogues of discount codes and so on.

Coupon Chief is a Web site that contains hundreds of discount codes of all kinds of e-shops.

I do not know if you have ever bought something online. In many cases there is a textbox, in the shopping-cart “paying area”, which allows you to enter a “discount code”. If you are like me, you never fill it in because uhm… I don’t have one. At the same time it could save me $10, $20 or more if I had one.

Here is where coupon chief comes in, where Blogsvertise gave me a chance to write about.

Coupon Chief does the thing you need when you shopping online: It collects discount codes and promotions. You can browse by store and by category such as apparal for men and electronics which makes it a great start for shopping saturday.

I am someone who really buys a lot of stuff online. So I really enjoyed surfing through all these different kinds of shops, each of them containing another mix of interesting items.

If you are in the shopping mood, or if you just want to browse shops, or if you are looking for a specific discount for specific products, drop on by at the Coupon Chief, great site.

Here is another nice business opportunity for the moment: selling  Sunglasses. Somehow this product is always good for a good sale. In whatever sunny country I have been on holiday, on thing is always the same: people selling replica Sunglasses.

What do customers want? Cheap replica’s of designer sunglasses, to name a few: Gucci, Diesel, Armani, Versace, Vogue, Adidas,  Dolce & Gabanna, Ralph Lauren, Locs, Revo, Anarchy and more.

Where do you buy them? First of all a supplier that delivers them dirt cheap e.g. Wholesale Sunglasses where you can get a dozen Sunglasses for around the $20-$30. Meaning one pair of sunglasses will cost you about $2.50. 

How do you sell them? To your friends, on the markt or ofcourse… online! Try e-bay, marktplaats, or even your own websites. What I would do is sell them for about 500%. So charge $10 for a pair of replica Gucci sunglasses. You will make gold. If you would buy more dozens you get ofcourse volume  discounts so you could even improve your margin on this one. In average you make $8.25 profit per pair of Sunglasses.

Isnt this illegal? No, since the sunglasses are not exact copies its allowed. See the FAQ.

Hmm….but I would also need a nice stand with a mirror and such… Wholesale Sunglasses sells lots of stands too, starting from $20.

Hmm…but I think I would to like my customers to have the boxes and cords and such to go along with the Sunglasses… Check out the accesoires section, you will find cases, cords, sunglass repair kits, visor clips and sunglass straps.

Hmm… but I also want non designer Sunglasses… sure! what about Kid’s sunglasses (maybe for your Kid’s website), poker sunglasses, polarized ones, sport sunglasses, plastic sunglasses, exclusive own design sunglasses, you name it, you have all the options.

Don’t tell me I didn’t tell you!

Everyone has a mailbox (and I mean the physical one, you nerd). That’s funny isn’t it? Have you ever just sat down and thought about “mailboxes”? When did they become invented? Did the neanderthalers had mailboxes in their caves? When did the Postal Services became so mixed in all of our lives that having a mailbox is somehow so essential that without it you are non-existent to the country you live in?

And so what you would expect is that “the mailbox” is a concept in itself. And also that there exist a wide variety of mailboxes and that even some mailboxes will tell something about the owner (either the company or the person). It’s a business on it’s own.

So…which one do YOU have? For me, A boring little rectangle hole in my door…sigh… Time to look for something special! What is the “rolex”, the “Weber” or the “rolls royce” under the mailboxes? What would be “me”?

So (ofcourse) I went to the Mailbox Exchange since they have over 1500 mailboxes and curbside decor products from dozens of manufacturers. I scrolled through the many mailboxes on the site since I was thinking myself on placing one of these in our garden. The list is amazing! To indicate to you on what I am talking about I will discuss some of the mailboxes.

The one you see on the left is called the Curbvault High Security box. Holy cow… this is the most coolest mailboxes I have ever seen in my life. When you click the link you get to see the movie(!). There are 32 patents on this mailbox and this thing absolutely 100% secures your e-mail mail from the moment that it is delivered to you, it is undestructable! How jealous can I make someone when this beast is in my garden? Will the postman pray to me when he walks by? Will he be happy and have a smile when he starts his day because he has a chance to operate the Curbvault High Security box?

The one to the top right is the Mayne & Salsbury Black Signature Plus Mailbox which is very nice because you combine it with flowers! On the page there is a nice instruction on how to “plant” it in your garden. I think this is a very very nice mailbox for in the front garden. It just blends in with the flowers.

Herunder are some more options I thought about, under each picture of the mailboxes I placed the link to the productpage on which you can find much more background information. 

And some more I was thinking about since they are SO beautiful:

Well…I am not finished with my selection, if you are looking for some nice models or ideas for your own place then check the mailbox exchange like I did.