I am always trying to come up with a few extra ways to bring in some money to help support my family. I guess I have some kind of crazy survival insticnt that takes over at times. In this post I will list five websites that can be used to make some extra money. You still have to be creative in coming up with some skills to post to these sites, but browse through them and get some ideas on where you can .
1) www.fiverr.com
On fiverr poeple post gigs that they will do for $5. The list is very long from editing photos, doing website scripts, getting social media exposure, singing messages, editing ebooks or articles, etc. The list is truly endless of what you can do. Fiverr is the biggest player when it comes to gig sites.
2) www.justafive.com
Again a site like fiverr, but this one has gigs for $5, $10, and $20.
3) www.fittytown.com
This is the same concept as the others, but the gigs can go as high as $50. This is more of a high dollar place.
4) gigbucks.com
These are gigs from $5-$50.
5) www.nettradr.com
This is the same concept with variable prices. You have more flexibility to set your prices for your gigs.
As with anything that you want to sell, you will have to build a reputation as a reliable and dependable person. There are reviews for each gig, they can be positive or negative. Fiver appears to be embracing a "super seller" program. This link also gives you a little instruction on how to become a good fiverr seller.
Let us now in the comments below any experience you have had with these sites or sites like them. More extra income posts are coming in the future!
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Extra Income Update---Part1
I read a post the other day from Tyler Tervooren. It was a fine motivating piece. It does not directly relate to large families, but it does relate to finances. Long ago in the dark ages, I studied Entrepreneurship in college, so I have always been interested in starting a side business. I know many of you are interested in getting a little extra money to help care for your family. So I am starting a series on earning extra income. This is the first part in this series.
I have taken advice like Tyler's. I have been working on some extra income options that have low to no start up costs. This will be my first update. The concept that Tyler discusses is starting a side business that does not cost more than $100. If it cost more, you don't do it. It is a great little article, you can check out his website here. The article I am referring to is located here. I think it is an excellent article. I highly recommend read it. Also, be sure to check out part two.
Photography is a hobby of mine, so I decided to try to make some money from it. I already own a digital camera, no cost there, so I really only have my time in this. Here is what I have been doing.
I went out and signed up for accounts on Dreamstime and iStockphoto. I uploaded several photos and even had some approved. Here are my profiles/galleries:
Dreamstime
iStockPhoto
I have actually done better than I expected from these two sites. If I had the discipline to spend more time taking and submitting photos, I could probably do OK making a few extra bucks. I decided I would try to go with a theme that i was interested in. So I chose football. Here is my top selling image on both sites:
10 Yard Line
Honestly, I had no idea that this image would sell like it has. I even sold an extended license to this photo, which resulted in a single $12+ sale.
All in all, I have made at least $200 in microstock photography by only putting half an effort in it. Maybe I should try a little harder at this and see out it works out. Really when you look at the small amount of time I spent doing this it is not too bad. The beauty of microstock is that it is residual. In other words, you can sell the same image over and over again without really doing anything. Now, you could always go back into the image and add new keywords to keep it fresh in the list, but it is not required. I need to come up with a few more themed ideas. Do you guys have any ideas? Please add them to the comments below.
If you wish to get started in microstock selling, I would suggest you start at Dreamstime. They have a community base that is very helpful with ideas and help. Also, I think they were a little easier to get accepted. If you do decide to try it, I would appreciate you using my banner link below using me as a referral. Also, don't forget, please add me to your Google+ circle....
I have taken advice like Tyler's. I have been working on some extra income options that have low to no start up costs. This will be my first update. The concept that Tyler discusses is starting a side business that does not cost more than $100. If it cost more, you don't do it. It is a great little article, you can check out his website here. The article I am referring to is located here. I think it is an excellent article. I highly recommend read it. Also, be sure to check out part two.
Photography is a hobby of mine, so I decided to try to make some money from it. I already own a digital camera, no cost there, so I really only have my time in this. Here is what I have been doing.
I went out and signed up for accounts on Dreamstime and iStockphoto. I uploaded several photos and even had some approved. Here are my profiles/galleries:
Dreamstime
iStockPhoto
I have actually done better than I expected from these two sites. If I had the discipline to spend more time taking and submitting photos, I could probably do OK making a few extra bucks. I decided I would try to go with a theme that i was interested in. So I chose football. Here is my top selling image on both sites:
10 Yard Line
Honestly, I had no idea that this image would sell like it has. I even sold an extended license to this photo, which resulted in a single $12+ sale.
All in all, I have made at least $200 in microstock photography by only putting half an effort in it. Maybe I should try a little harder at this and see out it works out. Really when you look at the small amount of time I spent doing this it is not too bad. The beauty of microstock is that it is residual. In other words, you can sell the same image over and over again without really doing anything. Now, you could always go back into the image and add new keywords to keep it fresh in the list, but it is not required. I need to come up with a few more themed ideas. Do you guys have any ideas? Please add them to the comments below.
If you wish to get started in microstock selling, I would suggest you start at Dreamstime. They have a community base that is very helpful with ideas and help. Also, I think they were a little easier to get accepted. If you do decide to try it, I would appreciate you using my banner link below using me as a referral. Also, don't forget, please add me to your Google+ circle....
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