eBay You're Way to Financial Success

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You can get started making money by selling things around your home you no longer want or use. For instance, if you have a lot of Lia Sophia jewelry or Silpada jewelry you can take a picture of it and post it on eBay to make money.

You will need to join eBay and create a profile. You will post the photo of your item(s). It is best to take a couple of photos at different views of your item so customers can see different angles of the product. Take separate pictures of one item unless you plan on selling your items in lots (groupings). You will need to describe your item(s) honestly. If there is a scratch make sure you list that as your customers will rate each item and transaction that is done. You want to create a positive profile that is 100% positive so you can accumulate many customers.

Next, start the item(s) at a certain price. Choose a price that you will be satisfied with receiving in case you only get one bid on the item(s). Make sure you add enough shipping charge so you do not end up losing money. Let people start bidding on your items and start to make money.

You should open up a PayPal account so your customers can easily put money into your PayPal account. To join PayPal you will need to give a credit card number and a bank account number. With PayPal you can transfer the earned money to your bank account for free. Once you belong to PayPal and start to sell items on eBay you will watch your bank account flourish. You may choose to have a check sent to your home for a minimal fee.

If you enjoy selling on eBay, you can start to collect item(s) you think others will want to purchase. Movie collectables sell well such as Star Wars or the cult following of the Saw movies.
You can eBay your way to financial success by following these tips.

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College Kid Jobs--Dog Wash

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If your son or daughter is out of college for the summer and cannot find a job, dog washing is the perfect job. Every Friday your college kid can advertise a dog wash.

The dog wash can be outside at your house. Make the time from 8:00 a.m. till 6:00 p.m. Some people like to start their day early and get things done so they will want to drop their dog off at your house. While other people need to work all day and do not get home until 5:00 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. If your college kid stays open until 6:00 p.m. the customer still has a chance to make it to your house.

Your college kid can set up the backyard to use the hose and a few buckets of warm water. Also, for large dogs a small kiddie pool works fantastic to wash dogs. Make sure you have good dog shampoo for the dogs and you may even want to invest in whitening shampoo for white dogs. The shampoo does not have to be expensive. You can get good dog shampoo at discount stores such as Wal-Mart.

If you know how to sew, you can create small cute bandanas for the dogs once they are all fresh and clean. This is a nice added touch to give the dog back to the owner with.

Make sure you charge enough to make some money. You could charge $6.00 to $10.00 per dog wash depending on where you live. Check to see the prices with competitive groomers to see what they charge and fix your rate accordingly. You will want to charge less as you will not be trimming nails or cutting the dog’s hair.

To get started hand out brochures, tell your neighbors, and hang up signs at the local stores in your town.

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Prosper in the Economy--Spa Shows

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You can start your very own spa show traveling from house to house doing parties for people. After all, women love to relax after a long days work inside or outside of the home and get together to unwind.

First make a list of the items you want to offer at your spa show. You may want to include a few bottles of your favorite wines. Make sure you include both red and white wines, sweet to more of a dry taste.

Second, choose some of your favorite foot soaks or bubble bath. Include lotions that go with the foot soaks and/or bubble bath. Buy inflatable foot tubs online to take along to the in-home spa shows. You will need at least 10 to 15 small towels for the customers to dry their feet after their foot soak.

Purchase fingernail polish in your favorite colors. If it is fall make sure you buy darker colors to go with women’s outfits; if it is spring purchase lighter colors. A great investment is to purchase the French manicure nail polish as well. A superb brand of nail polish is OPI. Of course, you can choose whichever brand you like.

Next make up a brochure with the supplies you will be using. Take a photo of each item, name the items and write a short informative yet interesting description of each item. You will want to price each item above cost and have the products available for purchase at the spa shows.

Let your family and friends know you are starting up your own spa show business. Ask them to please invite their friends for a party so they can have fun and relax. Make sure you offer some free product and/or discounted product to the hostess for opening up her home to you so you can prosper in your spa business. You may want to advertise that you do wedding party spa parties so the guests can relax and get their fingernails and toenails beautiful for the wedding day.

Once you book your first show, you can take your items to the party. Offer everyone a glass of wine. You can fill each glass half full so each person can try all of the wine you have brought. This will get more people to taste the wine you brought and more sales.

Let the women smell the foot soaks, bubble bath and lotions.

Fill the inflatable tubs with warm water and add the bath soak and/or bubble bath that each customer has chosen. Let the customers enjoy their warm foot soak while sipping wine and laughing with their friends.

For an additional fee, you can offer to massage hands and feet, file nails and paint customer's fingernails and/or toenails.

Check with your state’s rules on serving wine at home parties and being able to file and paint nails. In some states, you may have to be certified to massage and paint customer’s hands, feet and nails.

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Fix Computers for Cash

Photo by Kelleys-Creations. Fix computers to make money.

If you are good with computers there is a load of money to be made. You can fix desktop computers, laptops and notebook computers. You can offer to upgrade hardware and software for people. You can also offer hardware and software replacements. Install new programs for people. You can also get rid of spyware and viruses for people.

To cover yourself you should get insured in case of a difficult customer. Or you may want to have the customers sign a form before you work on their computer. Make sure the form states that you will do the work but in case of an accident beyond your control, you are not responsible.

To advertise to fix computers for cash, advertise in your hometown area’s small newspaper. You can put your e-mail address for people to contact you. Make sure you give your phone number, too, as a lot of people are in need of a computer “geek” to fix their computer when it is too late and their computer is no longer working. You can also advertise online. Make sure you use search engine optimization on your website to help get your website on page one of search engines such as Google or Yahoo to get noticed. You can achieve this by back linking in blogs, social book marking on many sites and posting keyword rich articles that you or a freelance writer have written advertising your business.

You may want to offer to do in-home service to fix computers. You can charge more for having to add mileage to your vehicle. By driving to the customer’s house, this will make things much more convenient for your customers. Also, customers will know that after you leave, most likely their computer will be upgraded and/or fixed. Happy customer, happy you with more cash.
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Cigar of the Month Website to Make Money

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Many men (and some women) like a good cigar. He can relax after a day of hard work and unwind with a cigar and a good book or a glass of scotch.

Father’s Day is approaching and what better time than right now to open an online store of fine cigars. You can have a wonderful variety of cigars offered. Cigars will sell during peek holiday times such as Christmas and Valentine’s Day. Birthdays are a special time to give cigars as well as Bosses Day.

Each month offer to send a Cigar of the Month for people to give as gifts or to treat themselves.
Do a little research and find out which cigars are the best. Ask your friends and family which cigars they like. Perhaps you live near a cigar shop or a store that sells fine cigars. Ask the employee which cigars are popular and why people like them.

You may want to offer to send two cigars per month or a cigar pack per month for a higher cost. This will give buyer’s the choice on how much they want to spend.

If you are a cigar smoker yourself you will have an even better idea on what cigars you would like to sell. Make sure you add a variety of cigars to your merchandise stock.

To get started set up an easy to navigate website or have someone do it for you. Make sure you include pictures of the cigars you will be offering to make your website more appealing. Use a cart check-out system to make it easier for your customers to pay.

To help your website stay at the top page in Google add three blogs per week with your website link posted. You can write about different types of cigars, post photos of cigars, history of cigars, famous celebrities who smoke cigars such as George Burns, etc.

You will need to purchase boxes to ship the cigars, shipping labels, packing tape and packing material so as not to crush the cigars.

Save all receipts for tax time on your business.

As customers order from your website make sure you save their name and address in your computer and have shipping labels for twelve months ready ahead of time to make it easier for you.

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Ways to Save Money on Your Wedding

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You can save money on your wedding with good planning and creative ideas. For instance, you can spend a fortune on table decorations and wedding favors. Why spend a lot when you can creatively make unique wedding favors that will dress up your dinner tables?

You can easily make bath salt packs for each guest to take home as a wedding favor. You can buy all of the items to make the wedding favors online or at a discount store. Choose the color of bath salts that match your wedding and buy in a large quantity to save money. You will also want to purchase mesh and ribbon that will look nice with your chosen color of bath salts. Cut the mesh 5 inches by 5 inches. Fill the mesh with bath salts and tie with a ribbon. Add some candles in the center of the table for ambiance during dinner and while dancing. You now have pretty table decorations and a wedding favor for each guest specially made by you.

Another way to save money on your wedding is to make your own wedding invitations. Use your computer and print out unique wedding cards. You can use pictures of the two of you. A cute idea would be to put both of your pictures as children on the cover. Scan the photos and you may want to make the photos in black and white. In a creative program such as PhotoShop draw a heart on each child’s picture. Make each heart red. The contrast of the black and white photos of the children each with a red heart will be endearing to all who receive your wedding invitation. Choose your favorite font and wedding color when printing out the invitation information.

Purchase envelopes online or at a discount store. If you have set your wedding date for the future, be sure to buy Forever stamps now in case of stamp price increase later.

There are many ways to save money on your wedding. For more information please visit: http://www.preparednessmentor.com/.

Work at Home --Virtual Assistant

Enjoy the freedom of being a work-at-home virtual assistant. Photo copyright by Nik.

Make great money while you work at home as a virtual assistant. A few qualities to ask yourself before becoming a virtual assistant is:

Am I organized?
Am I an accurate typist?
Am I a quick typist?
Do I like talking on the telephone?
Do I work well independently?

If the answer is “yes” to all of these questions, you may make great money while you work at home as a virtual assistant.

Your duties as a virtual assistant may include talking to customers and your boss on the telephone. Make sure you have a cell phone plan with a lot of minutes as most likely you will be in a different state than your boss and most of your customers. You will probably have a lot of data entry to type into the computer so being an accurate and quick typist is very helpful. Being organized is imperative. If you were to work in an office you would need to be organized. Organization and working independently will help with getting the job done correctly and prioritize what needs to be taken care of first.

To find work at home virtual assistant jobs you can look online. Use a search engine to find jobs when you type in “virtual assistant.” Or a popular online company is elance.com. On elance you can bid on jobs after reading information on what the client wants. To join elance you will have to take a test to make sure you understand how the online company works. It is free to join elance, but you will pay a fee of around 6.75% to 8.75% per wages of each job you accept.

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