Fast Making Money Ideas

Layoffs, meltdowns, rising mortgage payments. It’s bad news all over. But the important part isn’t THE economy it’s YOUR economy. When the money runs out well before the end of the month does, you’ll need a couple of ways to earn extra money. Here are a few

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.

Use some of the money you earn from writing to buy a domain name and get a host for your new site (or blog). Drop a few affiliate links or some advertising on it (check Google’s AdSense program). If it starts to earn money, that’s gravy, ’cause you already got paid from the sites listed above. You can then sell it for a profit, usually about ten times its monthly average income.

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.

Re-write your articles with a new introduction and conclusion. Reword the middle paragraphs a bit and submit them to free article directories with links back to your free blogs where you have your affiliate links and advertising. Use social bookmarking and networking to create more links and traffic.

A couple of afternoons’ of writing can turn into a long term money maker. You’ll get paid for your articles up front and then over and over again as they generate advertising revenue or lead to sales of affiliate products. You can start simply with these resources while you check out all the other offers you’ll see about ‘making money overnight.

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