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Showing posts with label MONEY MAKING. Show all posts
9 Creative Ways to Save Money
Looking to save money? What small business isn’t? Here are some creative ways to trim your expenses today.
Ask for a discount. Whether it’s your Internet provider or your credit card vendor, most vendors have quantity discounts for good customers. Even if they don’t, it pays to ask. If you’ve been a loyal customer, call your vendors and simply ask them what they can do to cut your bill. Some vendors are authorized to offer up on-the-spot discounts depending on the situation.
Cut phone costs. If you use your cellphone more than your landline, consider getting rid of the landline and having all calls forwarded to your cellphone. Take advantage of Skype, a software program that allows you to make phone calls via the Internet. The basic service is free and can be used for local, long distance and international calls which will help to cut your phone bill. Skype is also hands-free, so you can type notes on your computer and chat at the same time. Also, configure your office computers to send and receive faxes.
Use virtual samples. While many distributors are accustomed to using samples as a way to appeal to buyers and prospects, they’re not always necessary to make a sale. A great way to cut costs is to start using virtual samples, which show customers exactly what the product will look like with their logo on it.
Hire interns. For a small business, this is an ideal way to get low-cost, yet highly motivated workers. Contact your local schools and universities to get in touch with program coordinators. Just make sure you offer meaningful work that will be helpful to college students. Give the job an appealing title (like “customer service coordinator”) to attract potential candidates.
Go Green. Is your office as environmentally friendly as it could be? By adopting eco-friendly measures, like installing energy-saving blubs and putting timers on your lights and thermostats, you can save money while also doing your part to help the environment.
Eliminate memberships. When’s the last time you attended your local networking club? If you’re paying fees to organizations that you’re just not involved in, withdraw your membership. Consider expanding your virtual networking efforts instead. For example, you might increase your LinkedIn contacts and begin posting case studies and articles that might interest your contacts.
Pay down/off credit cards. Do what you can to pay off high-interest credit cards and avoid making new purchases if you can’t pay cash. Don’t cancel your cards—they help build credit. Just don’t use them.
Go paperless. Stop printing out everything. Aim toward a paperless office, and do as much as you can (including paying your bills) online.
Get free software. Visit Download.com to try all kinds of helpful software products for free via trial downloads and limited versions of full products.
source:- ASI
How to Make More Money from Home This Winter
1. Target end-of-year honors. The end of the year is a big time for organizations to reward their top performers. Whether providing custom awards or simple thank-yous, this period offers lots of selling opportunities.
2. Promote new beginnings. Whether with a simple calendar for customers or a more elaborate “welcome back” gift for employees, getting clients to think about ways to promote an optimistic message and a fresh start in 2011 can inspire sales.
3. Add value to an item. Look for ways to tie in a discount or offer that can bring a customer back later in the year. Tom Kaufman, president of Kaufman Promo (asi/239350), is working with a convenience-store client to include a coupon in each of the hot-drink mugs it sells to customers in the early months of the year.
4. Play the long game. Developing awards that can be collected from one year to the next is a great way to ensure the same client returns over time. “We try to emphasize continuity programs,” says Kami Arnold, manager of Arnolds for Awards (asi/124160). “It can be bookmarks, ornaments or a series of porcelain plates, but make it a set.”
5. Let the cold weather get customers (re)thinking. Sometimes the freeze of the winter can get customers to order things they otherwise wouldn’t. “You may have a difficult time selling caps to some customers during the year, but the same people who won’t buy caps from you will buy stocking caps and mufflers in the winter,” says Philip Davis, president of Your Extra Specialties (asi/365375). He has found that the winter gives him an opening to sell smaller apparel items to these customers throughout the year.
source:- ASI
7 Ways for Students to Make Money Online
This article has seven ways that a student may make money online. Sadly, in this world, at this time, every one of these methods can also get a student swindled. There are lots of people out there who are willing to swindle people in whatever way possible. That is why every item has a beware warning underneath. If you know that there are risks to making money online--then at least you can go part way to protect yourself against it.
1 - Selling stuff on eBay
Sell your unwanted goods on eBay. Pay the fees and work out how much profit you actually
made. Keep 20% of the profit and put 80% into buying new stock wherever you can find a
bargain. You then go back to eBay and try to sell the items for a profit. You must then repeat
the process again and again until you have loads of cash.
Warning
There are people who are going to pay you, and when you have delivered it, they will claim it
never arrived and get a full refund. Even if you try to fight the case through PayPal or eBay, you
will lose. The only way you can win is if you pay extra for tracked mail and get proof of postage.
However, if you do this, you will have to pay more postage fees, which means you will have to
charge bigger postage fees. This is often not possible because there are so many people who
are charging cheap postage. This means that your items would never sell, because everyone
else is cheaper.
2 - Answering surveys
There are online companies that will offer to pay you for answering surveys. They do take a
long time to answer and do have trick questions to make sure that you are not just clicking
random boxes. The pay rates differ but this is a method of making a little bit of money online if
you have a lot of free time.
Warning
A lot of these companies are con-merchants and will simply rob you of your money. What
happens is that there may be a website that legitimately pays people for filling in surveys. So
con merchants will copy their surveys and give them to you with the promise of lots of money.
You fill in the survey; they submit it and keep the money. Some of them will be awful about it
and will offer to pay you monthly, which means you do a month worth of surveys for nothing.
There are also some that will only pay you if you do $20 worth of surveys per month, but only
let you have access to $15 worth of surveys per month.
3 - Blogging
If you are a student, do not start a blog unless it is a blog about your chosen discipline/
qualification. Any time you spend writing a blog about anything else will be time removed from
your studies, unless you integrate your studies into your blog. Blogging makes money through
affiliate adverts. Your traffic can visit the blog and click on the adverts. When they click on the
adverts, you will be paid a few cents.
Warning
The potential return for blogging is pitiful. You must use your blog as a way of keeping your
studies fresh in your mind, so that any money you make from it is just a happy bi-product.
4 - Be an audio transcript writer
People record their meetings, memos and pod casts. They want people to transcribe their
words into text, so you are tasked with putting their words to paper (so to speak) and they pay
you for the service.
Warning
You need to do some very deep and detailed research into how to protect yourself if you do
this, because there is nothing stopping people from taking your work and not paying you. You
cannot insist that you are paid before you hand over the work, because nobody will agree to
such conditions. Therefore, you must find a way to protect yourself and your work.
5 - Be an audio/text translator
This is very similar to above, but translators of one text to another, from one spoken language
to another, or one written language into another spoken--is far better paid.
Warning
This is the same as point four--there is nothing stopping people from taking your work and not
paying you.
6 - Be a freelance programmer
These are in great demand, thanks to mobile apps, online tools and other computerized
applications. If you are good at what you do, and can provide the solution that an employer is
looking for, then you can set some very high prices.
Warning
Just like point four and five, you are going to have to do a lot of research into finding ways to
protect your work. There are lots of people who are willing to steal your months of work, so
you need to mitigate the risk, and set up as many safeguards as possible.
7 - Invest in low cost shares
They are known as penny shares. You take some of your hard-earned cash and invest it in
penny shares. There are online banks such as HSBC that allow you to pay a one off fee, every
time you buy or sell. The rest of the money you invest will then go on the shares. So for
example you may save up $200. $30 of it goes on buying your shares, leaving $170. The shares
you pick cost only 0.71c per share. You purchase 23,943 shares. The price of the share goes up
in three weeks to 0.99c per share and you sell your 23,943 shares to get $237, minus a selling
fee, that is a profit of $7 for nothing. If you are lucky--those same shares may go up to 1.5c per
share, which would pay you $359. The great/terrible thing about penny shares is that they may
bounce up and down in price for a week, and then stay the same for two years. If you catch
them at a time when they take a temporary peak, you can make a nice profit.
Warning
Your shares broker will tell you the same, “Shares may go down as well as up.” The downside to
penny shares is that the company behind them is often new and unstable, so they may go out
of business, which will mean you lose your money.
Author’s bio:
My name is Sonia Jackson. I represent the web-site writing-research-papers.org.
We’ll help you to solve all problems with writing different essays and research papers in a short
time; we’ll answer all your questions and give you useful advice.
1 - Selling stuff on eBay
Sell your unwanted goods on eBay. Pay the fees and work out how much profit you actually
made. Keep 20% of the profit and put 80% into buying new stock wherever you can find a
bargain. You then go back to eBay and try to sell the items for a profit. You must then repeat
the process again and again until you have loads of cash.
Warning
There are people who are going to pay you, and when you have delivered it, they will claim it
never arrived and get a full refund. Even if you try to fight the case through PayPal or eBay, you
will lose. The only way you can win is if you pay extra for tracked mail and get proof of postage.
However, if you do this, you will have to pay more postage fees, which means you will have to
charge bigger postage fees. This is often not possible because there are so many people who
are charging cheap postage. This means that your items would never sell, because everyone
else is cheaper.
2 - Answering surveys
There are online companies that will offer to pay you for answering surveys. They do take a
long time to answer and do have trick questions to make sure that you are not just clicking
random boxes. The pay rates differ but this is a method of making a little bit of money online if
you have a lot of free time.
Warning
A lot of these companies are con-merchants and will simply rob you of your money. What
happens is that there may be a website that legitimately pays people for filling in surveys. So
con merchants will copy their surveys and give them to you with the promise of lots of money.
You fill in the survey; they submit it and keep the money. Some of them will be awful about it
and will offer to pay you monthly, which means you do a month worth of surveys for nothing.
There are also some that will only pay you if you do $20 worth of surveys per month, but only
let you have access to $15 worth of surveys per month.
3 - Blogging
If you are a student, do not start a blog unless it is a blog about your chosen discipline/
qualification. Any time you spend writing a blog about anything else will be time removed from
your studies, unless you integrate your studies into your blog. Blogging makes money through
affiliate adverts. Your traffic can visit the blog and click on the adverts. When they click on the
adverts, you will be paid a few cents.
Warning
The potential return for blogging is pitiful. You must use your blog as a way of keeping your
studies fresh in your mind, so that any money you make from it is just a happy bi-product.
4 - Be an audio transcript writer
People record their meetings, memos and pod casts. They want people to transcribe their
words into text, so you are tasked with putting their words to paper (so to speak) and they pay
you for the service.
Warning
You need to do some very deep and detailed research into how to protect yourself if you do
this, because there is nothing stopping people from taking your work and not paying you. You
cannot insist that you are paid before you hand over the work, because nobody will agree to
such conditions. Therefore, you must find a way to protect yourself and your work.
5 - Be an audio/text translator
This is very similar to above, but translators of one text to another, from one spoken language
to another, or one written language into another spoken--is far better paid.
Warning
This is the same as point four--there is nothing stopping people from taking your work and not
paying you.
6 - Be a freelance programmer
These are in great demand, thanks to mobile apps, online tools and other computerized
applications. If you are good at what you do, and can provide the solution that an employer is
looking for, then you can set some very high prices.
Warning
Just like point four and five, you are going to have to do a lot of research into finding ways to
protect your work. There are lots of people who are willing to steal your months of work, so
you need to mitigate the risk, and set up as many safeguards as possible.
7 - Invest in low cost shares
They are known as penny shares. You take some of your hard-earned cash and invest it in
penny shares. There are online banks such as HSBC that allow you to pay a one off fee, every
time you buy or sell. The rest of the money you invest will then go on the shares. So for
example you may save up $200. $30 of it goes on buying your shares, leaving $170. The shares
you pick cost only 0.71c per share. You purchase 23,943 shares. The price of the share goes up
in three weeks to 0.99c per share and you sell your 23,943 shares to get $237, minus a selling
fee, that is a profit of $7 for nothing. If you are lucky--those same shares may go up to 1.5c per
share, which would pay you $359. The great/terrible thing about penny shares is that they may
bounce up and down in price for a week, and then stay the same for two years. If you catch
them at a time when they take a temporary peak, you can make a nice profit.
Warning
Your shares broker will tell you the same, “Shares may go down as well as up.” The downside to
penny shares is that the company behind them is often new and unstable, so they may go out
of business, which will mean you lose your money.
Author’s bio:
My name is Sonia Jackson. I represent the web-site writing-research-papers.org.
We’ll help you to solve all problems with writing different essays and research papers in a short
time; we’ll answer all your questions and give you useful advice.
Make Money Online With PayPal
Most of you might be well aware of PayPal. For those who have no knowledge about it, it is a global business which allows payments and transfers through the World Wide Web. PayPal works well for people who do online jobs, as they can get their money immediately and can enjoy 100% profit within seconds. PayPal has made things easier and earning money is no more a tedious task.
Are you ready to earn some cash directly in to your PayPal account? If yes, you must check if you have the basic English skills. You must have sound knowledge of basic English grammar. Are you wondering what it is all about? It is merely writing articles online. If you have no knowledge on a particular subject, you have the liberty to do a research on it and then start writing in your own words without grammatical errors. Keep the language simple and sophisticated. Any reader should be able to understand the subject and most likely complete reading the article. The first thing you will have to do is locate and visit websites online where you can sell articles of 500 words or which accommodate half a page or one page.
If you are totally new to online writing, you can refer GAF, which provides several ideas to write. People post specific job types on this site which can be bid for. When you complete the work on the same day, your PayPal account is updated immediately. It sounds thrilling and exciting. This is a good time to make more money as you might have plenty of expenses for Christmas.
Keep in mind that your article should have unique content with no typos and grammatical errors. Google rates a website based on its unique content, which is the whole purpose of writing articles. Appearing on the first page when a Google search is made is the main goal of any website. If you are badly in need of more money, you can sell a pack of articles on a particular topic. Each article has to be unique with a word count ranging from 400-500. This is the best way to earn more money on a single day.
There are also a few sites online which pay you every day in PayPal and also pay you on a monthly basis.The monthly pay is based on the number of page views that your article attracts. There are certain sites online which pay you more for the articles you write. These genuine sites can be trusted as they have earned a good reputation. You can be assured that you will be paid the money that you deserve. For example: AssociatedContent.com. At the same time, they might expect articles of a little higher standard than the others.
You can also try your hand at online surveys. All you have to do is join the online survey sites which are free. Start taking surveys and get paid for it. The money that you earn through online surveys is 100% profitable as you do not have to spend a single dime for joining these sites.
The two methods that I have mentioned above require a little of your time and concentration. Just by
sitting at home, in your leisure time, you can earn money. These two methods are popularly used by
people to earn money online with PayPal. With no second thought, start your work right away.
Heather Protz, a freelance writer for USAheadlines.com - offers full home security to help protect your family, assets from burglary and other crimes. usaheadlines.com
Are you ready to earn some cash directly in to your PayPal account? If yes, you must check if you have the basic English skills. You must have sound knowledge of basic English grammar. Are you wondering what it is all about? It is merely writing articles online. If you have no knowledge on a particular subject, you have the liberty to do a research on it and then start writing in your own words without grammatical errors. Keep the language simple and sophisticated. Any reader should be able to understand the subject and most likely complete reading the article. The first thing you will have to do is locate and visit websites online where you can sell articles of 500 words or which accommodate half a page or one page.
If you are totally new to online writing, you can refer GAF, which provides several ideas to write. People post specific job types on this site which can be bid for. When you complete the work on the same day, your PayPal account is updated immediately. It sounds thrilling and exciting. This is a good time to make more money as you might have plenty of expenses for Christmas.
Keep in mind that your article should have unique content with no typos and grammatical errors. Google rates a website based on its unique content, which is the whole purpose of writing articles. Appearing on the first page when a Google search is made is the main goal of any website. If you are badly in need of more money, you can sell a pack of articles on a particular topic. Each article has to be unique with a word count ranging from 400-500. This is the best way to earn more money on a single day.
There are also a few sites online which pay you every day in PayPal and also pay you on a monthly basis.The monthly pay is based on the number of page views that your article attracts. There are certain sites online which pay you more for the articles you write. These genuine sites can be trusted as they have earned a good reputation. You can be assured that you will be paid the money that you deserve. For example: AssociatedContent.com. At the same time, they might expect articles of a little higher standard than the others.
You can also try your hand at online surveys. All you have to do is join the online survey sites which are free. Start taking surveys and get paid for it. The money that you earn through online surveys is 100% profitable as you do not have to spend a single dime for joining these sites.
The two methods that I have mentioned above require a little of your time and concentration. Just by
sitting at home, in your leisure time, you can earn money. These two methods are popularly used by
people to earn money online with PayPal. With no second thought, start your work right away.
Heather Protz, a freelance writer for USAheadlines.com - offers full home security to help protect your family, assets from burglary and other crimes. usaheadlines.com