Here’s a great idea for a home-based online business:

Invite four friends with $25 each to come to your house. Collect the $25 from each of them and put it in an envelope and set out three chairs. Instruct your guests to walk around the chairs while you play some music, and when you stop the music, they each go for a chair. The guest who doesn’t get to a chair is eliminated. Then take out one chair and repeat until only one guest remains.

Next, ceremoniously give the last guest the envelope containing $100 and pronouce him/her a “Success!”

Write a pdf document decribing the process and call it a manifesto or a report, entitled “How to make $100 in less than an hour with passion and fun.” Launch a blog and post something at least twice a week on variations of musical chairs. When you have compiled a suitable amount of material, write an ebook and sell it to the community/network you have built around your manifesto and blog. Sell it for $39 and set up an affiliate program that pays 50%.

If you are successful, you can repeat the whole process again and again, except you can drop the musical chairs part — you can tell people they just have to figure out their own version of musical chairs.