VietNamNet Bridge – No need to have deep informatics knowledge and no need to have big initial investment capital, one still can earn tens of millions of dong by providing content on the websites for mobile phones.

Games, animated pictures can bring big money
Sending messages to download and use facilities on mobile phones, such as ringtones, mobile games, wallpaper or animations has been very popular for a long time. One just needs to send a SMS to the mobile network operators’ switchboards to be able use the services they want. And this is the lucrative soil for the wapsite (web for mobile) makers to exploit for money.

Viet Anh, the owner of a wapsite, said that it is not too difficult to earn money with a wapsite. “You just needs to spend one or two hours a day to update content for the wapsite, update new favorite apps together with some tricks to be able to earn 5-7 million dong a month,” Anh said.

At first, it’s necessary to generate a wapsite and upload apps there. It’s quite easy and free of charge to create a wapsite, since there are many websites available which can efficiently help build up a website for mobile, such as xtgem or wapego. Even blogger, wordpress can also be customized to turn into a wapsite.

The contents of the waps could be diversified. However, they most focus on games for mobile and other types of apps such as wall paper and animated pictures.

After creating a wapsite with contents, the owners of the wapsites can contact some service providers such as kichhoat.net, vda.vn, xalo – tinhvan, or k2tech.

After registering to use services at the websites, the applications on the wapsites would be granted codes, which forces people to send messages to switchboards when they want to use the apps. The money to be collected from the messages would be shares among the network operators, service providers and the owners of the wapsites.

On average, the sum of money collected from a message is 15,000 dong, of which wapsite owners can pocket 3800 dong. With the wapsites with good content, the owners would get 300,000-500,000 dong.

Especially, some well known wapsites such as coloa or waptai, which attract tens of visitors a day, have the turnover of no less than 50 million dong a month.

Originality is the key of the art of making money from wapsites

It’s very easy to create a wapsite, but it is very difficult to run and develop the wapsite. Therefore, the wapsites’ owners need to by dynamic and spend time and efforts to find the ways of their own to develop their business.

“I once created a wapsite and put it into operation for a short time. But then I gave up because of too few visitors. Especially, no one sent message to download apps,” said Khang, a third year student of the Industrial Technique University.

Wapsite owners can download games, ringtone apps from other sources free or charge and then upload to their wapsites. However, Phan, the owner of a wapsite with the monthly turnover of 10 million dong a month, said that such wapsites would not exist for long.

“The key in the wapsite business is to attract as many visitors as possible. In order to do that, you need to have a wapsite with original, new and interesting applications,” he explained.

“Most of the existing wapsites have similar contents, including games, animations, ringtons or wallpapers. You have to lure visitors with your specialties. It would be better to allow downloading popular apps, and only charge fee on original ones,” he said.

Quoc Dung