A Bang On The Head, A Kangaroo And An Entrepreneur, What Happened Next?

If you are always on look out for a money spinner, sometimes you'll find them pop up in most unlikely of places.

A Herd Of 45,000 Website Visitors That Didn't Cost Anything...

In September 2003 an amazing turn of events led to a massive flood of media coverage, which in turn sent a stampeding herd of free visitors to a brand new website.

Leonard Richard is a 52 year old farmer living down under in Victoria, Australia. He was out and about on his farm not too far from his house, when a branch fell and hit him hard on his head.

Leonard estimates that he must of been out cold for at least half an hour and was in a really bad way.

As luck would have it, Leonard's pet kangaroo called Lulu, discovered him and helped to raise alarm. I didn't realize this myself, but kangaroo's can make a kind of barking noise. The persistent and somewhat out of character barks from Lulu eventually managed to alert Leonard's family in his house nearby.

It's uncertain but Leonard thinks that Lulu may have also turned him on his side to keep his airway clear, although I'm not sure whether I believe that bit. Leonard was airlifted by helicopter to nearest hospital.

Lulu was credited with saving Leonard's life. The news of Lulu 'life saving' kangaroo soon spread. The RSPCA decided to give Lulu a very rare bravery award which resulted in a lot of media interest.

A Quick Thinking Entrepreneur...

On other side of Australia, a quick thinking entrepreneur and website designer by name of John (sorry that's all I could get), got in touch with Richard's family and offered to set up a website for them free of charge.

They would then be able to share their story across globe. The website didn't go live until April this year, just before RSPCA officially announced award. This was when media frenzy whipped up a real pace and website was literally flooded with visitors. So many, that they had to shut site down and upgrade servers. You can view site here:

http://www.luluthekangaroo.com.au/

An Opportunity To Bring In Some Cash

If you look at site, they've managed to take advantage of all this traffic by adding a few money spinners on site.

- They've got a small banner for GoDaddy website hosting, and they also adapted it to feature a picture of Lulu as part of banner animation (nice touch).

- They're selling T-shirts with a picture of Lulu on them promoting world peace.

- They have put together an ebook detailing all events up to and after accident.

Create your own website using budget software

The question asked by everyone who wants to produce a website whether it is for his or her own personal page or for a new business must be " how much is it going to cost? ".

The general view is that a web design package is expensive and for many years that view was indeed correct.

This cost for a person without aspirations of large site ownership and without technical knowledge of HTML (the programming language used in web page design) will put off many people.
These people who are indeed creative enough to fulfil requirements needed for a really good, informative website which has potential to be a success may never realise their idea.

Nowadays however cost implication has been removed and this short article will tell you where you can get these programs for very affordable prices and also point you in direction of some resources you can use.

The first site is a new site specifically made for people on a budget and is 10 dollardownloads.com, which as name implies sells programs for $10 dollars each.

The aim of site is to provide all software you will need to produce a professional looking site in a relatively short amount of time and even points you in direction of owning your very own free web space.

The programs available begin with over 200 ready-made website templates where all you have to do is make a few changes and you are ready to open your own online store or personal page to public.
To compliment these templates are lots of JavaScript programmes to further enhance your pages.
The fact that these scripts are ready to go into your pages with no programming knowledge required makes a huge difference both in time and ease of use.
Along with search engine submission software and a lots of cheap “how to market your website” ebooks this site really does deliver goods and make owning your own website for next to no money very possible.
Almost any program you can think of for designing your own website and getting it seen can be found here making price of a website about $40 dollars (professional designers can charge in excess of $1000 dollars so this is not a bad deal is it?