Alright, my brother Eric told me about a new site that he is using to make a few extra dollars a month. Now let me preface this post by saying you are not going to get rich on Amazon's Mechanical Turk site, however, you can make some extra cash. My plan is to make about $50 a month and then use that to make extra payments on my home mortgage. So what is this funny sounding Mechanical Turk website? The actual site is http://www.mturk.com and it is run by Amazon. Mechanical turk allows you to sign up as a worker and perform HITS - "Human Intelligence Tasks." These tasks range from answering surveys to classifying job descriptions to writing short product reviews. I would recommend signing up for a free email [+]
eBay is a huge worldwide marketplace. There are lots of buyers and also lots of sellers on the site. Whereas Craigslist is perfect for selling larger items to your local marketplace, eBay is better suited to selling items that are easier (and cheaper) to ship and perhaps of more value. Unlike Craigslist, it will cost you money to both list your product for sale and then when you sell you item there will be a final value fee. In addition, eBay really pushes their PayPal payment option which will also cost you a small percentage of the total take, but will allow a person buying your item to pay by credit card. You will have to complete a relatively simple registration for a user account for eBay and for PayPal. I recommend setting up a [+]
So we cleaned up our space and got organized. Today we are going to discuss selling some of the stuff that we are no longer using, need, want, etc. This will help us in our pursuit of extra income and also help us to think clearer. Remember a cluttered environment can be a huge contributor to procrastination! One of the best online marketplaces is Craigslist.com. The site gets an impressive amount of visitor traffic, it is fairly well organized into categories and most important it is FREE to list items for sale! Craigslist allows you to target your local marketplace so it is really great for selling larger items that would be problematic to ship. (Example - This week I am putting a 30 gallon fish tank and an antique Singer Sewing machine [+]
Money goes all too quickly these days. Everyday living is just getting more and more expensive. The purpose of this blog is to explore how we can make money say Hello! (Hopefully hang out and stay awhile too!) We will primarily explore ways to make extra money. Most of us are still employed. However, a lot of us are worried if that will still be the case tomorrow. Wouldn't it be great to generate another ADDITIONAL income? You could use it to pay down debt, to take a family vacation or just to save and start to build the security your family deserves. The internet provides abundant opportunities for the motivated to generate some extra cash. In the coming days, weeks and months, we will explore Affiliate Marketing and discuss what works and what does not work. We will review affiliate marketing [+]
