It’s all too easy to try and think of a really clever “big idea” when starting a business yet sometimes there’s good money to be made by just simply doing something that takes time, for those that have more money than time, and thats the case with this story I came across today:

How One New Yorker Makes $100,000 A Year Uploading CDs To iPods For Other People which says:

Catherine Keane, 24, who started her business, HungryPod, shortly after an acquaintance offered her $500 to load his CD collection onto his iPod.

Thanks in part to a small story in The New York Times, Keane’s advertising efforts on Craigslist and word-of-mouth, HungryPod has expanded to three employees and four computers, and has annual sales that exceed $100,000. Now others want to get involved, so Keane has hired a marketing/sales employee and hopes to start HungryPod centers nationwide in the near future.

When I think about how long it’s taken to get all my CDs onto my iPod I can see why this works. Given the storage capacity of such devices is increasing rapidly and our ability to fill it with not just MP3 but also video is increasing as more and more content becomes available there’s probably a good bit of mileage in the idea for many years yet.

She’s even carefully though out some added value extras to upsell including DVD backup and a personal music shopper.

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