Category Archives: Make Money
I Make Money Online: Selling eBooks
You may not know her name, but Amanda Hocking and others like her are riding the comet of digital publishing.
Fed up with attempts to find a traditional publisher for her young-adult paranormal novels, Hocking self-published last March and began selling her novels on online bookstores like Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com.
3 Reasons To Open A Bank Account Online
Personal banking is changing, and it is important to stay on top of these changes or you may find that you are paying unnecessary charges or that you are not getting all the benefits available. So if you have not already gone online, go and open a bank account online today.
You may be wondering why you need an online bank account. The answer is that you will be financially better off with one.
I’m Not That Kind of Girl, But I Should Be
I dislike reality shows. No, dislike is too mild of a word – I hate them. I absolutely hate reality shows. These shows have a way of find the bottom of the pond, scum feeding, classless dregs of humanity that are absolutely willing to auction off their dignity to win. How I envy them.
I don’t envy the skanky girls, or the egghead men. What I envy is their willingness to go -pardon the expression- balls out to get what they want. Yes, it typically amounts to 10 seconds of fame and a few thousand dollars, but how satisfied and fulfilled they must feel to have tried. How much farther in life could women be if we all did the same?
One Year On Prosper
With banks paying virtually nothing in interest on small accounts, I turned to Prosper.com last year to possibly increase my rate of return. It’s time to see how the initial loans that I made are doing one full year later.
Out of 11 loans, 5 are just about one year old. In the interest of fairness, we will look at just those five. I loaned $25 to each of the 5 borrowers for a total of $125, with an unweighted average interest rate of 9.12%.  I have received a total of $48.48 in principal and interest from these loans. Instead of writing this all down, why not review it all in chart form?
5 Dumb Ideas That Made Millions
Have you ever watched television and an As Seen On TV infomercial or commercial popped up with something for $19.95 or $9.95? Of course you have.  Did the commercial make you think that the product was the dumbest thing that you had ever seen? Did it then occur to you that someone would probably make millions of dollars from that one product?
I know that I have. One extra stupid commercial for the Bacon Wave got me thinking about some more dumb things that made people rich. I couldn’t resist putting together my own list of 5 dumb ideas that made people extra rich. Enjoy.
How to Make $50 With Cash Crate Right Now
I’ve already told you that you can make money with Cash Crate but to be honest, many of the offers are for under $1.00. I don’t waste my time with those since it takes too much time to make too little money. Cash Crate can be a decent way to add some extra money into your wallet every week if you use it correctly.
The fastest way to get to the $20 payout threshold is really by filling out trial offers. They are usually for $5.00 or more but you have to be diligent in remembering to cancel the trial offers. Most trials are for 7 days but some trial offers go for as long as 30 days. What I do when I sign up for these offers is set up a reminder on my calendar to cancel the trial offer at the same time that I am signing up. I usually let the service run for 4 days before canceling.
So now we’re on to how you can make $50 with less than an hour’s worth of effort.
Equifax
Sign-up for a 7 day free trial ($12)
You’re getting to check out your FICO score for free here. That’s always a nice thing to know.
Zendough
Sign-up for a 7 day free trial ($12)
You can check out your credit report for free. I know that you can do that on annualcreditreport.com but they’re going to pay you to do it here. In order to cancel you have to call them, but they do it right away.
GameFly
Sign-up for a 1 month free trial ($12)
If you have a video game console, you might even like testing out this service. I don’t have one so I could care less, but BF might enjoy testing out the games on his console for a bit. Just make sure you pry them out of his hands in time to cancel trial. BUT you don’t have to even request a game to get the credit. Just sign up, let it marinate for a day or so, then cancel.
Identity Lookout
Sign-up for a 30 day free trial ($10)
This is for credit monitor and your credit report from Experian this time. Technically they charge you $1 to verify that you are who you are so really you end up with $9 but I’m calling it $10.
GameHouse
Sign-up for a 7 day free trial ($4)
I might not play video games on a console, but I am a computer game freak and I love these kiddie games, so I absolutely loved this one. You get access to play a bunch of games like Diner Dash, Farm Mania, Sherlock Holmes etc. Loved it.
In order to see these offers click on “Complete Offers”—->Select “Trail Offers”—->Click “Go”.
Don’t have a Cash Crate account? When signing up for Cash Crate I suggest that you use an e-mail address where you just expect to receive SPAM. When filling out offers from Cash Crate use the same SPAM address that you signed up for Cash Crate with. If an offer requires a phone number I typically use my Google Voice number. It’s free and I can screen calls, block a particular number, or just forward everything directly to voicemail. Now that it’s open to the public you should consider getting one too.
Also, I suggest that once you have signed up for the service you should take the tutorial.
Please click the link to sign up! I get referral credit if you join up using my link and if you join and send others your link, you can referral credit too.
Making Your Hobby Pay Off
I’ve been doing a decent job of evaluating secondary income streams since overtime at work is non-existent. I’ve sort of stumbled into a good one – building websites for people. Let me give you some background on this.
I first started building websites like everyone else – just tinkering here and there with no real plan. I really just wanted to learn about this whole internet thing. I built a website that was called the Premedical Student Guide which at one point ranked #1 in Google searched for the search term premed. I had NO clue what I was doing but I was getting lots of traffic and questions from people who visited my site. I wish I knew the potential gold mine that I was sitting on. That site went away when Geocities folded into Yahoo. I was too busy with school anyway.
Crazy Things That Make People Rich
Okay, I’m back and fully recovered. Let’s get back to the business of reducing my debt and chatting about the little green men we all love – money. I’m always talking about different ways to make money, but even I didn’t come up some of the outrageous ones where people actually make millions of dollars.
Maybe all that tinkering that you do in the garage can pay off some day. Now, if I can only come up with some product for $19.99 I’d be laying on the beach in Bora Bora sipping on a Mai Tai while getting a massage. Hey, a girl can dream.
Antenna Balls
You’ve seen them; maybe you even sport one on your car. Those ubiquitous, yellow smiley-faced balls perched atop antennas in parking lots nationwide have made Jason Wall a very wealthy man. Inspired in 1997 by a commercial for the fast food chain Jack in the Box, Wall created some antenna ball designs and began selling them locally through auto stores in California in 1998. Within a year, he had earned more than $1.15 million in sales and quickly won major accounts to sell his product through national chains, including Wal-Mart
Santa Mail
Every year, millions of children around the globe pen letters to Santa and hope for a response. Byron Reese realized the potential in this market. In 2002, he launched “Santa Mail,” a service that allows kids to send letters to the North Pole. Parents enclose a small fee of just $9.95, and little Johnny or Jane receives a personalized letter back from the “big man” himself. By 2009, Santa Mail had responded to nearly 300,000 children. At close to $10 a letter, well, you can do the math – needless to say, it was a little idea that has earned Reese a big return.
Million Dollar Home Page
In 2005, while brainstorming ideas on how to make money to pay his way through university, British youngster Alex Tew came up with the idea of creating a web page with a million pixels and charging a dollar a pixel to advertise on it. He called it the “million dollar homepage”. It’s an idea so simple that many might have thought of it but so successful many more now wish they had.
Pet Rock (WTF?!)
Anyone who was into the whole Pet Rocks fad in the 1970s fad will know just how crazy this one was. Conceived by Californian advertising executive Gary Dahl, the first Pet Rocks were ordinary grey stones bought at a builder’s yard and marketed as if they were live pets. The pet rocks “craze” only lasted about six months, but that was enough to make Dahl a millionaire.
Content Courtesy of MSN Money UK and Investopia .
Would You Pay For Work?
I just joined Guru.com. If you haven’t been following me for long, I’m trying to both reduce my consumption and increase my income. Increasing my income at my current job is impossible since overtime has been eliminated and there is a salary and bonus freeze. So no luck there. Anyway so I am trying to earn money elsewhere. I’ve earned a whole dollar through ads on this blog since January (argh) but Guru.com seems to have some potential for me. The drawback? You have to pay for a quarterly membership plus a percentage of fees.
So you’re curious about what it is. Guru matches freelancers (and people like me) with outsourcing companies looking for short term employees or virtual jobs. I just don’t know if I want to pay to play. I know you can’t get anyway of quality for free (or can you?) but paying for the potential to possibly land a short term assignment just seems a little like too much hedging to me. There is absolutely no guarantee that you will have a job or assignment after you pay. So would you do it? Would you pay for the possibility of landing an assignment? Pop on over the see for yourself. I am sitting on this one. I’d rather use the money for a snowflake payment but I can be wrong.
I did invest $1,500 in some new cell phones that I plan on reselling on Craig’s List. Funny how I’m willing to spend that much of my emergency money (yikes) in the phones but I won’t spend $30 on
Guru.com. I need to get my priorities straight. Anyway, I’ll let you know how the phones go.
