Make Money Shipping Christmas Cookies

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Christmas is fast approaching and you can make money shipping Christmas cookies. There are many, many people who have no time to bake Christmas cookies.

To make money shipping Christmas cookies, start to make some of your favorite cookies. If you love making sugar cookies (a favorite of many people) get started now. Make a batch at home and decorate them as best as you can. You want to make sure your Christmas cookies are very eye appealing so people will buy them. People may be buying them for themselves or for Christmas gifts.

You can make sugar cookies that will fit types of businesses. Start with finding people shaped Christmas cookie cutters. (Purchase online.) You can bake Christmas cookie nurses, doctors, lawyers, people in yoga poses cookies, teachers and students, policemen and policewomen, dogs, cats, bowling pins/bowling balls, bats/baseball caps/baseballs and baseball players which works for other sports as well, fishermen/fisherwomen, hunters, etc.! The sky is the limit when it comes to Christmas cookies!

You can offer to personalize the Christmas cookies as well. Add an extra charge for this service.

To sell Christmas cookies make your own website. You can pay to have a website designed for you. Having someone professionally design a website for you is expensive. You may want to start with a free website like http://www.freewebs.com/. You can add photos of your Christmas cookies, the price, the description, describe you and your business and more. You can create pages on your website that you want to add. You may add a blog to keep readers interested in your cookies all year round. Don’t forget to add a shopping cart so people can buy from you.

Another place to get a lot of exposure and sell your Christmas cookies is http://www.etsy.com/. You can easily sign-up for free and list pictures, cost and a shopping cart to Etsy.com. For more
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Teach Creative Writing to Make Money

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Before you know it, summer will be here. Now is the time to plan to teach creative writing to make money in the summer time.

Many parents work and would be happy knowing that their children’s brains are still working while they are off of school for three months. Creative writing lets a person’s mind wander, be productive all the while creating a story, poem or letter.

You could have the children start with a page in their journal when they arrive at your house. This way if you have more than one child in your creative writing class, one child can get started while you both wait for the rest of the creative writing class to arrive.

You could have one big project for the children to learn. Such as a children’s book. With the children’s book do research on how many pages and lines of words the children should have. Next, let the children put the pages in order. If you have a computer you can let the children choose the type of font they want to use to type up their story.

Now let the children illustrate their book. You can give them the option of drawing the pictures or using the computer to create their pictures. If you have quite a few children, you will have to have them draw their own pictures or you won’t have time for each child to draw on one computer. You may let the kids create the pictures at their home as homework if they have a computer.

The next project could be a poem. Have the child write a poem about summer. Tell the child to write what the child feels and sees during the summer.

You can advertise by letting the school know ahead of time that you will offer a creative writing class over the summer. If the school allows, make up a lot of fliers so that the school can hand them out and send them home with the children. Advertise in the newspaper and at all local businesses.

You may want to plan on charging the same fee a babysitter in your area would. This way you will have the children for about two hours and the parents know that it is the same price as if their child or children were sitting in front of a TV at the babysitters. You will definitely get creative writing customers with this price.

Have each child bring loose leaf paper and a spiral notebook for their creative writing journal.

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Ways to Make Money on Twitter

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First of all, you will need to take at least a month to make friends on Twitter. So many people think you just post a comment with a link and then you will make a sale. This is not true. Think about it. In real life you will be able to sell to easier to people you know in real life because people know you and want to help you. So this is why you should take a month (or more) on Twitter and add friends. “Talk” to your friends. When they post a comment, reply to their comment. Get to know your online friends.

On Twitter you only have 140 characters for each comment you leave to your friends. The 140 characters are included in your Twitter private messages as well.

After you get to know your friends on Twitter, you can ask them to order from your business. Think of creative ways to make them look at your business link. Slowly tell them what you do. Show a picture here and there on your business.

Next, make sure you have your business online via a website. No matter what you sell, your friends are sure to check it out. Hopefully they will order from you.

If you want to, you can have discounts for friends only, sales before and after Christmas, spring sales, fall sales and anytime you choose to have a sale.

Make sure your website has a PayPal option, credit card option and list if you choose to accept checks. Your website should also include a shopping cart area. People should be able to easily order from you and pay. You do not want to make this part of your website a mystery as people are sure to cancel their order if they cannot figure out how to safely pay for the item(s).

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Design Your Own Baby Clothes & Sell Them

Watercolor photo copyright by http://www.francesmarywatercolors.com. Design your own baby clothes & sell them.

If you know how to sew you can design your own baby clothes and sell them. If you have great taste in baby clothing--you can make a fortune.

Make baby onesies, baby fleece blankets, baby car seat covers to keep the baby extra warm and block sunlight, baby dresses, baby ribbons, baby pants, baby t-shirts, baby sweatshirts, bassinette sheets, crib sheets, baptism outfits, etc.

You will need to buy material from a discount store such as Wal-Mart, a sewing store such as JoAnne Fabrics or online. Find fun colors and patterns to make the baby clothing.

You can let family and friends know of your new business adventure. To let folks see your items create a website online. This website is free to use. You can use http://www.freewebs.com/ to get started. Post the photos of your baby clothes on your website.

You may want to take special orders. Offer to make matching outfits for boy/girl twins, boy/boy twins and girl/girl twins. Who knows, you may get an order for triplets or more!

You may want to take special orders for family members. Sometimes a family wants to have all of the same color clothing on in a photo, especially a professional photo to hang up in their home or for Christmas cards. Not necessarily where the clothing has to match perfectly, but one person has on a white shirt with a plaid tie and black pants, a little girl has on a white shirt and a plaid skirt with black tights, baby boy is wearing plaid pants with a white shirt and a black belt and black shoes, mom has on a plaid vest, white shirt and black pants, etc.

You could ask friends and family members to host parties for you. This way you can take your clothing to different homes and their friends and family members can see your adorable clothing in person. You will want to offer a free outfit per how much money is spent at the party. After all, this person is helping you to advertise your designed baby clothes and sell your baby clothing.

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Teach Yoga to Make Extra Money

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Do you enjoy doing yoga alone? If you have been doing yoga and have knowledge in yoga, you can teach yoga to make extra money.

To get started do a little research on yoga. Find out where yoga originated, why people enjoy participating in yoga, what to wear when performing yoga, etc. Plus, this way when you are teaching the class you can give your clients interesting tidbits regarding yoga. This will help to keep your clients interested in coming back for more yoga lessons. You never know if a client will have a question about yoga as well. If you do not know the answer, let the client know you will find the information out for him or her. Then at the next lesson you can inform the client of the answer. Or if he or she really wants to know as soon as possible you can offer to call him or her.

Once you feel confident that you can teach yoga, call your local Park & Rec and school. Talk to the person in charge and ask if you can teach yoga in their building. Most likely teaching yoga to the local parents and young adults will be a welcome addition to the area you live in. When people get involved in their communities and socialize, this makes for a more enjoyable town or city to live in. People feel closer and get to know each other better. Your town or city will become safer as people know who is who and can help each other against crime.

Once you have an established class or two you may want to offer to sell comfortable yet fashionable clothing for people to wear. This is another way to make extra money teaching yoga.

For more information on how to teach yoga to make extra money, please visit http://www.preparednessmentor.com/.

So You Think You Want to be a Zookeeper

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Maybe it has been a child long dream to become a zookeeper. Perhaps you want to make extra money by becoming a zookeeper. If you absolutely have your heart set on it, than make a go of it. Here are some up-to-date facts on becoming a zookeeper:

The average pay is between $10.75 and $11.89 per hour. This is not a big chunk of change when you will need to go to college for two years to become a zookeeper. If the wages do not make a difference to you, than start making your college plans!

Money is not everything. As long as you can survive with shelter, food and items you and your family need you are good to go. If you think you will love your job even if it is not a high paying job, go for it.

When you become a zookeeper you will take care of wild animals in zoos and/or animal parks. You will feed the animals, clean their living spaces, and work to keep them healthy. You will look for signs and symptoms to make sure the animals are not ill. You must keep a log on the animals so you can let the animal’s veterinarian know of any changes.

Some fun things zookeepers get to do with the animals is give them safe toys to play with. You can hide the toys and food so that the animals enjoy playing and move around more. Usually a zookeeper does not get to play or pet the wild animals as it is quite dangerous.

If you have been at the zoo and watched a show, that is another part of the zookeeper’s job. The zookeeper is the person that will also answer any questions guests may have. You may also have the task to train the animals. For example, you may teach the elephants to lift their large feet. In doing so, you will immensely help the veterinarian when it is check up time.

You may be required to work weekends and/or holidays as animals still need care. When a person enjoys their job a lot, this will not matter to you. You most likely will think of the animal’s as your second family as you will come to know and love them.

Although the pay is not that high, a lot of people want to become zookeepers. This makes competition stiff. I hope this has helped you make your decision on becoming a zookeeper.

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Make Money Raking or Mulching Leaves

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You can make a great amount of money raking or mulching leaves. Before the winter months hit your state get out and advertise your new business. There are many people that are just too busy to rake and mulch their leaves. There are elderly people that want to stay living in their homes and cannot do their yard preparation before the winter months hit.

All you will need is a rake, a leaf blower if you prefer to use one, an extension cord if needed for the leaf blower and if you already have a riding lawnmower with the mulching option you will get through the jobs in a matter of minutes! If you have the lawnmower make sure you bring extra gasoline cans of gas in case you have acres of lawn to mulch. You do not want to be right in the middle of a job and have to run to the gas station to get more gas. It would be a huge bummer if you were out in the boonies and you ran out of gas. You would waste money having to search for the closest gas station.

You may want to offer gift certificates for people to purchase so people can get your service for birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, Christmas gifts, etc. With Christmas coming, now is the perfect time to advertise your raking and mulching of leaves.

Advertise your business by making an eye catching sign to hang up at your local grocery store, discount stores, gas stations, Laundromat, etc. Make up business cards so you can hand them out at a moments notice.

Once you land your first two jobs and do a fantastic job, before you know it you will most likely have loads of jobs from word of mouth.

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