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Voucher codes are a hidden gem of the internet.
More and more retailers are tempting savvy spenders with online voucher codes. These can be helpful not just in reducing your expenditure, but can be used when setting up your own home business. Here are a few that might be of use in doing just that:
10% Off Orders Over £79 and 15% off Orders over £129 at Euroffice
10% Discount off all Online Orders at Parcel Force Discount Code
50% off McAfee Total Protection Orders at McAfee Promotional Code
I found this new money making opportunity today; A way of earning money from writing tweets for advertisers.
Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform, owned by IZEA, that connects advertisers with Tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.
Your tweet price is based on many factors, like number of followers, number of tweeters you’re following, the age of your account, how often you tweet, etc.
Sponsored Tweets will give you a recommend price you should charge, but if you want to push the boundaries and have a following in a lucrative niche, you can set your own price and see what happens.
You may run the risk of losing some followers, but if you act intelligently, and write tweets that are directed to your niche you should be ok. If you can earn $5 per tweet that should only take a minute to write, it may be a much quicker and easier way of making money than trying to build affiliate sales.
You can find out about how to sign up here
I’m not sure that any of us really understand how much money is being spent on the Internet today. What used to be considered a risky place to pull out your credit card is now becoming more normal than getting in your car and driving to the shops.
This is very exciting if you create your own selling business from home. As the economy continues to falter around the world, successful Internet marketers are making more money than ever.
Here are five tips to keep in mind that can help you create more profit if you have your own home-based business.
1. Sell information products because you can sell them at a high profit margin.
Even if your business is not built around information products you can still make money selling them. There really isn’t an industry that does not have the chance to make money selling information. Affiliate marketing through merchants such as ClickBank is an easy way to find products to sell and make high margins on.
2. Concentrate on providing information products that offer a high value.
You will quickly find there are a lot of poor quality information products available online today. If you put your emphasis on selling quality products you can sell them for a higher price, and your repeat customer base will always be there. It makes sense to sell a good quality, higher priced product which will sell again and again than a p[oorly produced, cheap, shoddy one that may reflect badly on your reputation as a trustworthy business in the future.
3. Think big in terms of what your home business can do.
Regardless of the type of business you’re in right now you can grow it and be more profitable Even a retail outlet in a rural town can create a worldwide business thanks to the Internet. All you need to do is add more products to your product mix, and then market them all over the World Wide Web.
4. Don’t rest on your laurels.
On the Internet if you are standing still you are going backwards. This means you should be updating your business on a consistent basis. Adding new content to your website is extremely important when it comes to selling information products. Learning more ways to promote your work at home opportunity is another important way to create more profit. Once you have a stable of information products you are selling your profit will go up as you sell more, because you’re developmental costs will not increase.
5. Build a mailing list.
Once you have an established customer base is much easier to continue to sell products to them. Build an opt-in mailing list so that you can directly communicate with your customer base and offer them new products and opportunities.
These tips will help you create more profit for your home based business.
Any business can make more money on the Internet today if they follow these five tips.
I’ve found this book on money management which is available as a free download.
Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance on Just One Page
A 49 page downloadable book by Trent Hamm.
A great ‘foundational’ book, Hamm presents us with the basic elements of personal finance with some great suggestions you can apply today. The book is organized around the following five ideas:
The book finishes up with a list of suggest book recommendations and personal finance bloggers. At the very least you should check out this list of great personal finance bloggers.
Guest Post from Alex Jeffreys
How to Learn from Successful Marketers and Get Your Own Six Figure Salary
We all want to make money on the Internet in an ideal world, right?
But is there anything we can do to cut the steep learning curve and make money sooner rather then later?
The first thing we could do is get a mentor but I know the majority of the really good mentors charge fees that are off the scale for many just starting out.
If you can afford it go for it, as it would be an investment that would repay itself over and over. But if you can?t afford it, then you can learn from the masters in other ways.
Pick a marketer you really admire, you are bound to have a couple of their products already, so study those products, their style and define what it is you really like about the product.
Do this with their websites, newsletters and any information you can find on the net by doing a search on them. Learn as much as you can about them and take copious notes.
Now repeat this process with your own online business.
Then you can do this with other favorite Internet Marketers and take the best of the best tactics and incorporate these in your offerings. Remember to put your own spin on things and not to copy word for word as this would be just plain wrong.
Internet Marketing forums are a great place to learn from successful marketers, many of these forums have a number of gurus participating, making it easier for you to contact them, interact with them and request their help.
Using forums is a good way of finding a potential mentor to help you through the good, the bad and ugly times. Using leverage you could request their help and they could get a cut of the profits when you are successful. After all they will help you make the money that keeps the Internet Marketing world go round and round.
Should you not be successful in finding a mentor quickly, don’t worry you still can do well by searching for accountability partners or Mastermind Groups.
An accountability partner would be someone that you stay in contact with regularly, preferably each week, so you can set tasks for each other and accomplish more with each others support as you are literally accountable to each other, hence the name.
Mastermind Groups, on the other hand, are a group of people supporting each other, bouncing ideas off each other, offering advice and finding solutions to problems. They usually have a mix of people from newbies to highly successful Internet entrepreneurs.
The best thing about them is you have a collective mindset rather than just your overloaded brain. Mastermind groups are also a breeding ground for potential joint venture partners, mentors and cyber friends for life.
Alex Jeffreys shares his secret formula of making a six figure income in the last year (that you can easily use yourself) in his free ebook found at here
The recession is hitting the pockets of Britons and it is thought that millions of people have been forced to take on a second job simply to make ends meet.
Getting some part-time work is one way to make some extra cash, but there are other ways, too. Here are 10 to start with.
1. ANSWER TEXT QUESTIONS
If you are an anorak for trivia, why not get paid for sharing your wealth of knowledge? There are several mobile phone text answering services that need more researchers to answer the thousands of questions they receive per day. The most popular ones are Texperts (www.text118118.com) and AQA (www.aqa.63336.com). It is flexible work and you just have to be a bit knowledgeable and quick at searching the internet. You can earn about £10 an hour on average. You need to be fluent in English, with excellent writing skills, but you can work from wherever you want, and you get paid for each question you answer.
2. BECOME A SIMULATED PATIENT
Medical schools across the country run communication skills workshops for their trainee doctors and require people to act as patients. A simulated patient is a person who plays the part of a real patient allowing medical students to learn by developing their communication skills and diagnostic abilities. For example, Bute Medical School at the University of St Andrews pays £6.97 per hour and sessions last between one and four hours.
3. RENT OUT YOUR DRIVEWAY
Rent your driveway, garage or secure parking space and earn £10 per day with cheap and easy parking
How much you can charge depends on factors such as location, proximity to train/tube stations, or the availability of parking in your area. For example, if there is a nearby car park or pay-and-display bay, you may want your price to be more competitive than the cost of either of these. It’s also worth doing a quick search to see what others are charging.
Keep in mind that these types of websites may charge a commission for their service. For example www.ParkatmyHouse.com, a similar website, charges an ongoing 15pc of the total amount of money received for successful rentals. However, www.yourparkingspace.co.uk is free to join.
4. GET A LODGER
Taking in a lodger is an easy way to bring in extra income. Advertise your extra room on house and flat-share website Spare Room (www.spareroom.co.uk). Listings are free, the only charge is if you want to highlight your listing and run it simultaneously on other property websites such as www.intoLondon.com and Globrix (www.globrix.com). Prices start at £7 for a seven-day listing. Keep in mind that you can earn up to £4,250 in any tax year and be exempt from income tax. If you earn more than £4,250 in a year, you can either pay tax on your whole profit, minus any expenses and capital allowances, or your profit minus £4,250. If you choose this option, however, you won’t be able to deduct any expenses or capital allowances. You can get your tax reliefs and allowances by filling in your Self Assessment tax return.
5. BECOME A MYSTERY SHOPPER
Go undercover and become a mystery shopper and earn £10-£15 per job.
This job requires you to judge customer service in shops, restaurants, hotels, banks, even on public transport and you might do this through store visits, telephone calls or even shopping online.
The payment for each job will vary depending on the amount of time the job will take and its complexity. Sign up with market research companies such as GFK NOP (www.gfknop.com), TNS Global (www.tnsglobal.com) or Consumer Intelligence (www.consumerintel.com) to start making money while you shop.
6. SELL YOUR BOOKS ON AMAZON
If you are a bit of a bookworm, you could have hundreds of pounds just sitting on your shelves. Sign up with www.Amazon.co.uk to sell your old novels, textbooks or DVDs and watch the sales roll in. Unlike eBay, Amazon sells at fixed prices and listings can last for months or years.
Just sign up for a seller’s account and search for your books by title, ISBN or UPC and choose a price. Postage is broken down by item category and is automatically added to your listing, so you needn’t bother with a set of scales. You will be notified by email when an item sells and just pop it in the post to complete the sale. Avoid Post Office queues and buy your postage online at www.royalmail.com Just print the label and glue it to the package and you are done. It really couldn’t be easier.
7. GET PAID TO PARTY
The home-shopping party is back and now there are more brands. If setting your own hours and selling to customers of your own choice appeals, this could be the type of job for you. Choose from The Body Shop at Home (www.thebodyshop.co.uk), The Pampered Chef (www.pamperedchef.co.uk) or Neal’s Yard Remedies at Home (www.nyrhome.com) and you get to set your own income level and are able to cash in on some great discounts on products.
For the Body shop at Home, you make 25pc profit on all your sales – so if you sell 10 bottles of shower gel at £5.85 each, you would make a £14.65 profit.
8. BECOME A TUTOR
If you are fluent in another language, good with maths or have mastered an instrument, get paid for teaching in spare time. Families will pay up to £25 an hour for tutors to coach children through key exams. To find local jobs, contact First Tutors (www.firsttutors.co.uk), UK Tutors (www.uktutors.com) or Tutor Hunt (www.tutorhunt.com).
9. HOST A FOREIGN STUDENT
If you have spare room, you could earn thousands each year by taking in an exchange student. You can host students for the academic year or a few weeks. For a list of schools in your area, visit the International Association of Language Centres (www.ialc.org). Students who stay in Brighton in Homestay (with a host), for instance, pay £109 a week.
10. WORK AS A FILM EXTRA
Being a film extra can be lucrative, with rates typically ranging from £80 to £100 a day. You can earn more if you provide your costume, or do overtime. Universal Extras specialises in finding film work for students, but also finds work for non-students. For more information, visit the website (www.universalextras.co.uk).
By Kara Gammell, Telegraph.co.uk
I found this funny video today; It’s made in a jokey style but the points are valid..
It’s pretty easy to get rid of useless clutter, like boot fair purchases you probably should have left where you found them, but what about your “collections”, the stuff that might have value? Declutter them with honest evaluation.
Once bitten by the decluttering bug, most people have little trouble getting rid of the crap they have piled up on or in their office desk, or the magazines they didn’t get around to reading. When it comes to digging into personal collections or memorabilia, however, people can be quite stubborn.
To help you evaluate your collection, you may want to consider the following questions:
One technique that can help when it comes time to get rid of collections is to photograph the items before getting rid of them. Storing a few pictures of some sentimental items is much easier than storing the bulky items themselves. A few pictures of great grandma’s old china are a lot easier to store than three crates of it in the attic.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au
Good quality and novelty or fashionable domain names can be turned into a nice passive income stream, when you consider their commercial value and relevance in todays marketplace.
In the early days of the internet, no one knew the potential value of domain names. As time passed and the internet grew over the years, people started identifying the potential value of good domain names. When the dot com bubble burst though, several millions of domain names suddenly became available. These were unfortunate times when millions of net entrepreneurs lost everything they had, and they did not even have enough money to renew those names.
However, there were a group of on the ball entrepreneurs, who anticipated and visualized the future prospects of holding all these expired domains. Soon there was a mini “goldrush”, with buyers racing against time to grab and buy expired domain names. A new form of business was born, and domain name traders grabbed millions of domains within days and months.
It seems that with the stabilization and maturity of internet and new online business opportunities, new buyers are always looking for good domains. Secondly, trading in expired domains provides profit making opportunities to sellers within a potentially short time.
People now understand the commercial and search engine importance of buying good domain names. With a sustained market for useful names, and the demand for good domain name is slowly increasing. A good domain can cost you under $20 to buy and register, but it is possible to sell the same domain for many times more, using the tried and tested domain auction process to sell.
If you have a series of vacant domains at your disposal, you can earn some decent income by using the power of the domain name auction market. One of the best ways to earn a simple income is to sell it quickly to an interested buyer. But, with this option, you may not maximise the value. You need to devise a strategy that will provide you an opportunity to earn more income, and one of the best ways is to park it with a parking service, while you look for a buyer, or wait for an auction to run.
It is possible to automate this system when using a service such as Sedo. When you set up an account you can repoint your domains and Sedo will automatically park the domain and create ads for your holding page. If those ads are clicked you will recieve income, just like using Adsense.
You can also use a good expired domain name to build a web site, develop it with good content and later sell them at a better price than for an empty domain.
My method for doing this is to use Wordpress, as my hosting account enables me to install the basic blog with one click on a chosen domain. It is then just a process of adding content, plugins, and improving the design with a new theme. It is always easier to sell a blog or website with a proven traffic flow, and the prices are higher too.
These are some of the relatively easy methods that allow you to use the power of domain names to make a decent passive income stream over time.
Using Your Home
While only 1pc of Which? members are renting a room to make extra cash, there are other innovative ways to put your home to work.
Rent Your Space
If you have a spare room, garage or storage space that you are not using, you might be able to rent it to someone who needs it. Spareground.com carries adverts for all sorts of spare space.
If you rent out a room, any income you make up to £4,250 is tax-free. Average monthly rent is £289. If you don’t want to commit to a full-time lodger, consider renting a room out during term times to foreign students.
Parking Places
If you live in a place where people need to park (for example, near a key station, sporting venue or airport), you can make money by renting out your parking space. The amount you can make varies depending on the area. You can make around £30 per week for a parking space (more in central London). Try Cheap and Easy Parking to rent out your parking space
Location, Location
You can consider renting out your whole house, either as a location for filming or as accommodation if you live near a sports or festival venue.
Which?’s survey found that 6pc of members were doing overtime or additional work of some sort to supplement their income. Here are some options for making extra money.
Completing Surveys
Many research agencies pay a small amount to people who complete surveys online for them (starting at 10p, depending on length of survey).
You have to register with them and provide some details. They contact you when a survey fitting your profile is available. You accumulate your rewards in an account which are then paid in cash or vouchers when they reach a certain limit.
Market Research
You can get paid for taking part in focus groups – around £30 as a rough guide. Contact market research agencies to find out more.
Dog Walking
There is money to be made if you’re prepared to take responsibility for other people’s dogs. You can find yourself a market through local advertising or word of mouth. Pay varies by area but a rough guide is £10 for a half-hour walk (and you can take more than one dog).
House-Sitting
It’s best to do this through agencies such as www.housecarers.com that take care of insurance and paperwork. People pay for other people to mind their homes and tend their pets and plants while they are away for an extended time, or to be there for a day to wait for a tradesman.
You might earn around £25-£30 per day plus transport costs, and you earn a bit more for each pet you look after.
Babysitting
This is not just for cash-strapped teenagers. If you are patient and comfortable around children, you can earn around £8 per hour.
Selling Your Photos
You can send your digital photos to online photo agencies and you will get paid if your photos are used. If you’re interested in doing this, there are tips online on how to increase the chances of your photos being used. There are many sites out there but you could try www.alamy.com or www.en.fotolia.com.
Growing Your Own
If you’ve got green fingers and grow more than you need, you could sell to friends and neighbours or even to a local shop. Local farmers’ markets are also springing up all over the place and may be worth trying. You can sell plants on eBay.
Selling Your Crafts
If you’re particularly good at baking, knitting or sewing etc, you could consider selling what you make. Arts and crafts online store www.etsy.com exists to sell home crafts. It’s US-based but operates internationally. You can also sell your goods on eBay.
Life Modelling
If you’re happy sitting for hours with no clothes on, you could be a life model. Contact your local art college. As a rough guide you might earn £15 per hour.
