Sunday 27 December 2009

Improving and advertising one's website can seriously boost one's income

Black text on white background,images can help,not white on blue or yellow or green.
Asking for details like date of birth or other information can be off putting to customers.

Friday 18 December 2009

Leaseback property investment

In france,the government gives incentives for leaseback properties.

Wednesday 9 December 2009

Internet income detective

This is by Jonathan street.

Friday 4 December 2009

Making money from music

http://www.ooizit.com/ lets bands stream and sell their songs for a small monthy fee(£9.97.

http://www.peoplesmusicstore.com/
you can set up your own mp3 store and sell music from the site's own catalogue.

http://www.slicethepie.com/ may help you make money by rating music

Saturday 31 October 2009

Making money from winking

Feelunique.com, an online beauty retailer,says it will give you 10p per wink on a pay-per-wink(PPW)basis up to a maxumim of 1,000 winks(£100)FOR SPORTING ITS LOGO ON YOUR EYELIDS.

They  want photographic proof of the winks.

Tuesday 25 August 2009

Wayleave payments

This is where an electricity company pays for a pole or pylon to be/or that is on your land.

Payment might be £20 0r £220.

Contact the wayleave department of the energy company concerned.

More information from cla and nfu

Saturday 22 August 2009

Making money from flea markets and car boot sales

One would need to study(write down in a notebook) what things are being sold and how well items sell.

If you do sell,you will need a stall or something siniliar to put the items on.

You may be able to source products to sell.

Car boot sales may work on a siniliar basis.

Tuesday 18 August 2009

Leaflet distribution

This business can be started by say, asking takeaways if they would you to leaflet an area.
Normally,takeways have their own leaflets and menus to deliver,so you don't normally have to mess around designing and printing leaflets.

Saturday 15 August 2009

child minders,babysiters.nannies or au pairs

The above can advertise free on www.Findababysitter.com .

You may have to be registered to be any of the above.

Thursday 13 August 2009

Profiting from tourism

If you live in a touristic area eg scottish highlands, new forest etc you could set up a bed and breakfast establishment.
(You may need planning permission).

Own a cottage?
Cottage letting agency etc could help

Monday 27 July 2009

Learning another language

I see from looking on language job websites when researching for http://languagejoblink.blogspot.com/ that such jobs can earn £20,000 to £50,000.

Sounds like those jobs can seriously improve your earning power.

Attending your local language course can be a first step to that well paid career.

Saturday 25 July 2009

Fitness training for the elderly

You could set up a fitness for retirement/retired people,its a massive market potentially worth millions.

Potential customers include retirement homes,which you could contact with a brochure.

Potential earnings could be £3-4,000 a month.

You will need to employ teachers for which you can advertise.

Monday 29 June 2009

Could your 20p/pence be worth £50?

Due to a Royal Mint error when making 20p/pences,they may be worth £50.

The error was not puting the date when minted on the queen's side of the coin.

Up to 200,000 are estimated to be in circulation, one in four coin or person may have this error.

(They are still valid tender)

One of these coins has been sold on ebay for £5,000

Friday 19 June 2009

Rewards for information

rEWARdS FOR INfORMATION can be for information solving a crime or for information like who created the conficker worm being offered by microsoft.

Rewards for information on businesses using illegally copied/pirated software can be as high as £10,000.
contact the business software alliance or bsa.org.
Search Amazon.com for business software alliance
Utility companies are offering rewards for information leading to the recovery of metal,usually copper, which has been stolen from their installations(electricity substations etc).
Rewards range from £1,000 by BT openreach to $5,000 offered by some US utility companies.

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Thursday 23 April 2009

Internet domain parking and flipping

If you buy the right domain name,you can sell it on later for a good sum.

sedo.com gives more details.

Sitepointc

It is possile to earn a living by either adding some articles with adsense(see google.com/adsense for further etails) thrown in or by selling advertising/link(s) space on the domains.

Sunday 19 April 2009

Selling your mobile phone etc

Omio.com is a mobile-phone recycling comparision site.

http://www.sellmymobile.com/
this site compares the best prices mobile phone recylers will give you.

A HTC Touch diamond will get £119 at mobileexchange.co.uk

Saturday 11 April 2009

Selling your gold or jewellry items

There are firms that will value and pay for such items.

http://www.yourgoldforcash/

Cashmygold

cash4gold

Gold-traders

postalgold

postyourgold.com

Tuesday 24 March 2009

Computer training can boost your earnings

Training for something like web developer or SAP(appear to be in short supply) could seriously increase your earnings.

http://computeranditjoblink.blogspot.com give details of some computer/IT jobs.

Tuesday 17 March 2009

Some interestings ideas on how to increase business takings

Free buses/coach services could bring extra customers.

Food firms could do foods called fatbusters,cholesterolbusters.

Someone could think of an alternative form of paper eg plastics or something else.

A drug companies could develop drugs that target`channel' and/or parts of bacterias/viruses that could prevent changes developing in those organisms that lead to resistance.

Business referral networks like business network international(mostly uk),never heard of them before.

Inboxdollars.com

This websites has links to paid surveys etc
definately worth looking at,in my opinion

Friday 6 March 2009

Social networking and profile etc websites

These can be used to find potential business partners or promote your skills to potential employers.

Yesterday, I created a Google Profile via the My account button on my blogger dashboard.

Other potential social networking websites that might be helpful are:

bebo
Facebook
Linedin
myspace
Twitter
xing

Sunday 1 March 2009

Gumtree.com, peopleperhour.com and people4business

Gumtree.com; offers your skills on the site.

Peopleperhour.com is a website where you sell your skills.

Users offer everything from accountancy services,it skills to legal services.

The site charges 10%/£15 for what you charge for your services.

People4business;people can sell their skills on this website.

Products testing

Websites etc that can help include;

Toluna

Hope to add more details later

Sunday 22 February 2009

Best Interest rates and ISA

You have until April to put £3,600? in an ISA
Nationwide or halifax has best rate
see also mysupermarket.com

Over 50s accounts
West bromwich,coventry or ipswich building society

ICICI has some of the best rates around.

Unsure if any of these banks etc are safe.invest at own risk.

Friday 13 February 2009

Selling dvds and cds

Music magpie, will buy a minimum of five cds or dvds.
Type in barcode,and you will be given a price.

Sunday 1 February 2009

Avon represtative

Becoming an Avon represtative could be profitable.

www.avon.com gives more details

Thursday 22 January 2009

Income boosting ideas for students

http://www.sudentcashpoint.co.uk/ has about 1,600 sources of funding, bursaries,grants and loans etc.

studentgems.com is where students can offer their freelance skills,like photography and web design, to employers.

http://www.grantsnet.org/

One student started a pixel ad website to fund his education.

Income boosting ideas for farmers

A microarray chip has been developed containing 54,000 SNPs, so that farmers can chose cows more likely to sire good milk producing calves.

The Arthur Rank centre, England has a fund that can help farmers.

Tuesday 20 January 2009

Selling on Ebay

Finding the right niche can be profitable.

One suggestion is to buy from 1 pound shops or charity shops.

Books appears to sell well.

Saturday 17 January 2009

Getmyjobsdone.co.uk and oddjobspages.com

You can bid on a job to earn extra cash on the above website.

Thursday 1 January 2009

Paid to surf the internet

Some websites pay you to surf the internet.

some are

myhomepagesfriends@myhpf.co.uk