The economy is off the rails. Extra money is just not easy to find. I’ve been there more times than I care to admit. You know how the month ends way after the money did? Well, I’ve listed below some easy ways to put some dollars back in your account.
Take inventory of all your stuff. Put aside each item that you can part with. Look for stuff that you can replace later when your finances pick up but aren’t doing you any good right now. You need to be pretty severe with your choices. Beg or borrow a digital camera and start taking pictures of each individual item and list them for sale on eBay. You want a really large assortment of things to sell, because they won’t all sell, you’ll more than likely have some duds.
Even if you’ve never sold anything online before, you can use this experience and perform this service for others. Find the local bulletin boards and offer your services. Include your email address and phone number (if you’re comfortable giving that info out). Decide whether you will take a percentage of each sale or collect a straight fee for each item listed.
I’ve said it on other pages here but it bears repeating. Write. Simple, well written 350 word articles written about a popular subject can pull in $5+ each at Associated Content. It’s possible to crank out ten to fifteen of them in a day. Those articles can then be recycled as blog posts or website pages.
If you can afford it, buy a domain name and hosting for your site. That way, if your site does start making money, you can offer it for sale. Those free sites belong to the owner of the site (although I have heard of squidoo lenses being ‘transferred’ for a fee).
Sign up with clickbank.com and promote their products as an affiliate. If you can’t afford your own site, use free sites like blogger and squidoo. Build those blogs or pages with your previously sold articles (remember to keep the rights to your articles when you sell them) and set up AdSense on them if its allowed by the site owners’ terms of service.
You only need to rewrite about 30% of the article in order for the search engines to think it is ‘unique.’ You can easily hit 30% by rewording the introduction and conclusion and maybe one other paragraph. Then, you can submit the ‘new’ articles to free article directories linking back to your site to drive traffic. You can raise the popularity of your site and your articles with web 2.0 sites like digg and stumbleupon for more traffic.
It doesn’t take a lot of work to set up a few simple websites and use free traffic generating methods to get visitors who will click on ads or buy products from your site. Use the resources quoted above and get started. Just be very wary of any sales pitch that promises you riches overnight. Those ‘programs’ usually only make the owner richer and you poorer.
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