Tuesday, 9 April 2013

Ways to make money while sitting at your desk

Making money is on most people's minds.  This is especially true with the economy in a pinch.  No matter what trade a person is in, making money can be a difficult, yet necessary task.  Some people go out of the home to jobs, and that's okay.  However, many people desire to sit at home in their pajamas at a home office desk and make money.  This is alright too.  Many people will say the possibility of working from home is just an unattainable pipe dream.  It doesn't have to be unattainable.  There are several ways to sit behind a desk at home and make money.  Some require internet service and a computer.  However, not all of them do. Here are a few ideas:

1.  Ebay-With ebay, one can sell items with intent to make a profit.  To get started with ebay-clean out the closets and garage.  Sell anything you don't want or need on ebay.  Then, take the profit and use it to bid on cheap, ending auctions.  When these are won, resell for further profit.  Repeat this.  This will get an immediate start at money making from a desk.  One can also use dropshipping services such as Doba or SMC and sell their merchandise.  No inventory is needed for these.  One just lists their items, sells them, and these services ship them.  If someone has their own product, it can be sold via ebay as well.  Either way, ebay is a quick start for money making from home.

2.  Affiliate Websites-Many websites will pay for referrals or sign-ups to their sites.  They will pay commissions for their products that are sold online.  The marketing can be done online through several marketing sites.  These advertisement places include traffic exchanges, safelists, and free classifieds.  Commissions earned are paid by check or paypal usually.  A few of these affiliate websites that are reputable are Clickbank, SFI, Global Domains International, and Commission Junction.  These are all very easy to work with.  Some give affiliates advertising websites to use as marketing tools.  In a sense, they help the affiliate to succeed.   Some of these sites offer free start-up. Succeeding means making money.  Isn't that the primary goal?

3.  MLM's-Multi-level marketing can be done from the comfort of one's own home.  Amway, Avon, and GDI(Global Domains International) are all examples of MLM's.  These can all be advertised online through the same means as affiliate websites.  These products can even be advertised on facebook and other social networking sites for profit.  The more sales made, the more profit it made.  Multi-level marketing is very simple to get the hang of as well.  This is a little easier than most of the affiliate websites.  Most of these require a small start-up fee to get up and running with your own business.  The small start-up fees are well worth sitting at home working from a desk in pajamas, huh?

4.  Crafty?-Anyone who is crafty can make a profit from home.  Make hairbows?  Crochet?  Sewing?  These items can be made at home and sold at home.  They can be sold on ebay(at home).  They can also be sold on the etsy website.  Get crafting, and get to making that money!

5.  Writing-Have a talent at writing?  One can write books, poetry, or articles at home.  Get the books published and reap the royalties.  There are several writing websites online that will pay for articles.  These include Helium, Bukisa, and Associated Content.  Some of these offer writing contests for extra money potential.  Royalties are also made off of these articles everytime someone reads one of them.  This can add up if a significant amount of articles are published.  These are all free to start.
Several of these work from home ideas are very simple.  Many can be done at once to make even more money.  Most of these ways to make money from a desk at home are cheap or free to start.  Cheap and free business start up is priceless.

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Ten of the best ... ways to make money from your desk

Is money too tight to mention? Jasmine Birtles suggests some ways to earn extra readies in your lunchtime

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Use your time online to make money. Photograph: Corbis

1. Get paid to surf the net

You surf the net all the time so why not make money every time you click on "search"? Yahoo powers searches which pay a small amount every time you run one – it is willing to do so because it wants to break down Google's domination. There is a search at Moneymagpiesearch.com. If you recommend your friends you will also make commission on their searches. The payments are small but we know people who have made around £30 in two months by searching regularly. You can choose whether you receive your money through PayPal or by bank transfer.

2. Take part in online surveys


Again, this is pocket money while you're on the internet, but it can be fun too. It is simply a case of answering questions about a particular product or company, or about your shopping habits. Be careful which surveys you use – some are fraudulent. Among the best of the genuine ones is panelbase.net, which will pay between 50p and £3 a survey, Valued Opinions, which pays between £1 and £5 a survey, and Ciao-surveys.co.uk, which pays up to £5.

3. Get paid for social networking

You can make money by keeping in touch with friends, and making more friends, on social networking site Yuwie. Set up a profile, write a blog, upload photos and videos and do what you usually do with any networking site. The difference with Yuwie is that it pays you to do all these things using advertising revenue. The amount you get paid depends on the number of times you and your friends view your pages. If you have lots of friends the views mount up and you can make some worthwhile cash.

4. Recycle your mobile

Have you got a useless old mobile in your desk drawer? Most of us have at least one hanging around the office or house, so make money from yours. Send it to Mopay and make between £2.50 and £200 depending on its make and condition. Even rubbishy old battered models can be worth a few quid if they can be sold on for spare parts.

5. Sell adverts on your blog


If you are a regular blogger and have built up a bit of a following, you could make money selling advertising around your posts. You can make cash quickly by putting Google Adsense on it. If you get enough traffic you make money every time people click on the ads. Blogs are also great for selling any products you have, promoting your services (it could be anything from sales training to web development or maternity care) and selling eBooks you have created yourself.

6. Sell your photos


If you have a nice collection of digital photos you could sell them over and over again through online agencies. Send them in to one or more agencies and any they like they will upload to the site. When people buy them you get a commission; you could end up getting paid for years to come. Picturenation say many of their photographers make hundreds of pounds a month, and some are simply good amateurs. Also try Fotolia and iStockphoto.

7. Rent out your stuff


Everyone knows about selling stuff on eBay, but how about renting it and making money over and over again? Sites like RentNotBuy.co.uk and RentRino will let you advertise anything from a baby bath to a ball gown. It is a new phenomenon, so it could be a while before anyone rents your power tools or your DVD player, but if you have a spare minute upload your details and later on you could make some regular cash.

8. Complain to gain


We don't complain enough in this country, which is one of the reasons why service can be so bad. However, those who complain constructively have worked out they can even make money through it. A well-crafted, reasonable letter including a request for financial compensation can make you money. Write to a company's CEO explaining the problem and set out the amount you feel you should receive in compensation. If it is refused write again, and even write a third time if necessary. Usually by the second or third letter they cave in and give you about half of what you were asking for.

9. Answer text questions


If you're a bit of a trivia king or queen you could make money by answering people's text questions. It is flexible work and you just have to be a bit knowledgeable and quick at searching the net (make extra by following point 1 above). On average, question answerers make about £10 an hour. The questions vary enormously: you could get anything from "Where's the nearest pizza place?" to "Who won the 1962 world cup?" and "Will I ever find love?". Visit ansanow or Textperts to see if you are quick enough to be part of their teams of knowledge hunters.

10. Get cashback


If you use your lunch hour to buy essentials, make sure you get paid to do it. Shop around first to find the best deals, then look on cashback sites to see if you could get money back by buying through them. Start with sites that give you instant cash just by signing up, such as Rpoints, which gives you £5, Cashback Shopper, which gives you £5, and ecashback, which gives you £2.50 immediately.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/mar/12/make-money-on-the-internet