We’ve talked about the possibility of being an affiliate for other websites and earning a percentage of every sale you refer to them. But have you ever considered doing it the other way around? The truth is that if you can get your own army of affiliates to bring in sales for you, you will cut your advertising costs considerably – and you could well make more money too. But how do you decide what subject to build your website around? And how do you supply the products so your affiliates have something to sell? Okay so you want to build a website and essentially get other people to advertise it for you, in exchange for a percentage of the profits from each sale. What do you think would be the easiest thing to sell? Simple – information. You can of course sell anything you like but information is the best thing to start with since you can automate everything. When someone buys a copy of your latest e-book (more about that in a moment) they pay you and the product can then be downloaded or sent to them automatically. Now I can hear you saying you are no good [...]

Some of us like to make money without too much effort involved in the process – and this is certainly one of those ways that works very much like this. Once you have the initial work done all you have to do is go about your daily business as normal! There are two ways you can go about this, but whichever way you decide on there are several things that are worth remembering. Firstly you will need to be out and about in your car quite often for it to be worth doing, and secondly you will need to keep your car or trailer looking as good as possible all the time. Selling advertising space on your car is a great way to bring in some extra money every month. Considering you are out and about anyway you are really getting paid to do something you already do. There are companies around that will sign you up to enable you to advertise for the people on their books, but there are a number of pointers you should be aware of. Firstly this is like any other job in the sense that you shouldn’t have to pay for the privilege of [...]

A lot of people think that they can’t have their own website selling all manner of things because they don’t have the money to buy the stock, let alone find room to store it all. But there is a way that you can sell stuff online without needing to touch a single item that you promote – and that is by dropshipping. Not only is this one of the best ways to make money online, it also gives you the freedom to be able to sell a lot more items than you would otherwise be able to. Interested? I thought you might be… So what exactly is dropshipping? Put simply, it’s a process whereby you promote a number of products that are sold by a specific company. You don’t stock them yourself though; what happens is that when someone places an order they pay you directly, and then you will generally place an order for that item through the company’s website. But you don’t pay the full price for the item, you simply pay the net price that the company charges you, plus the postage costs to send it direct to the customer. You also give them your customer’s name [...]

Would you consider paying someone to do the jobs you hate doing? You would certainly pay someone to do the jobs you cannot do yourself or find difficult to do, wouldn’t you? While you may find it easy to get your own groceries there are plenty of people who aren’t so lucky. In these situations they would gladly pay a little extra to have someone do their shopping for them and deliver it all to their home. Essentially you would be providing a smaller, more local and arguably friendlier version of the large scale services offered by some of the bigger stores. While you can certainly deliver groceries for people who find it hard to get out and about and carry heavy shopping home, you’ll also find a ready market in younger people who are pushed for time. This can influence how you promote your services as well, since you will want to be visible to the people who are most likely to use your delivery service. For example, younger people are far more likely to be connected to the internet, so it’s worth investing the money to get a website up and running that people can see. Incidentally there [...]

If you like getting out and about, this might be the opportunity you’ve been looking for. You’ll need your own transport and it can take a bit of creativity to set everything up, but in the end you can offer a great service to a lot of local people. A bit of creative thinking goes a long way here, and it can really set you apart from any competition as well. There are countless ways you can approach this business, but you’ll need to keep on reading to find out what they are. So you want to deliver food from local restaurants? Here is your first option. Some restaurants already offer takeaway options, but the customer has to come and get their food rather than relying on the restaurant to deliver it for them. If this is the case then you could step in and offer your services to people in your local area. Instead of them having to go out and collect their food, you will do it for them in return for a small payment. Logistically speaking you could soon become quite busy with this, and you might even find yourself picking up more than one order at [...]

If you love pets then this is a great way to meet more of them! There are lots of ways you could reap the rewards by setting up a business to help people with their pets. Depending on what you like doing you could provide one service in particular or a whole range of them. Your choice of pet business will also depend on what skills you have. After all if you are good at painting pictures of animals then you will no doubt earn more money doing that than you would taking dogs for a walk! If you are an animal lover then there is no better job than spending all day surrounded by them. The great part about setting up a pet services company is that you can work whatever hours you like, fitting it in around your existing commitments to suit you. Before you start, think about what kind of services you would like to offer. If you like going out for walks then a dog walking service would be a good bet. If you don’t mind having a change of scene from time to time then you might consider offering a pet sitting service for all [...]

Email gets into all our lives, and while we may sometimes wish we didn’t have it – as the deluge of junk mail gets ever larger – it is still one of the best ways to get information that we want sent directly to us. And this is where you come in. There are plenty of possibilities for running an email newsletter service which is either free or fee paying, and you can make a decent profit from either option. The key to success is to pick a topic that will attract the attention of a lot of people. If you can do that you could be sitting on a goldmine… Let’s start at the beginning here. A free newsletter? How can you make money with that? The answer is to provide something that is worthwhile and has plenty of unique content in it. You need to be reliable as well. A weekly or monthly newsletter is the best option, although weekly will certainly keep you in the mind of the subscriber more easily than a monthly one. A month can be a very long time online. If you already have a website then you could create a newsletter to [...]

You’ve probably heard the saying that you shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel, and that applies just as much to a business as anything else in life. If you are looking for a business which already has a proven template for you to follow – enabling you to set up your own business and taking away a lot of the worry about whether or not it will work in the first place – check out the many different franchises that are available. It could be just what you are looking for. Franchising is one of the best routes to fast business success if you want the reliability of a name that is already known. You’ll also benefit from not having to worry about creating a business plan, deciding what to stock, and all the other headaches that come from creating your own business from scratch. You’ll need to part with some cash though if you want to get involved; every franchise incurs a franchise fee to get you started, so be sure you look into all the requirements and the small print before you sign anything. You might also consider how well the franchise model you are thinking of will [...]

Starting your own gardening service might not be practical if you can’t tell a weed from a flower. But that doesn’t mean you can’t offer to help people with their gardens. One of the jobs that a lot of people don’t enjoy is mowing the lawn. It can take some time to do if the garden is a large one, and many people simply don’t have the time to do it themselves. Even if they do, a lot of them would rather be doing something else instead. So why not solve that problem for them? One of the best ways to make money is by helping other people out, and this particular opportunity has a lot of potential. Not only does a grass cutting service have the potential to net a lot of clients, it is also one of the easiest businesses to promote. All your customers will be in your local area, so the best thing to do is design a simple flyer on your computer (you can use some clip art to make it look more impressive) and get a lot of them printed up cheaply by a local printer. Make sure you get your cell phone number [...]

We have all got chores that we hate doing, and it’s not nice thinking that we have to do most of them when we could be out enjoying themselves. So if you quite enjoy cleaning the house on a regular basis, then why not offer that same service to someone else? Most people hate cleaning the house and would be more than happy to pay someone else to do it for them. If you are responsible and trustworthy, then why not set up a business doing just that? You might get more clients than you think… This is the type of business where you will get a lot of clients via word of mouth. Trust counts for a lot when you start cleaning people’s houses, as you may sometimes do it when they aren’t around. A good way to start is to offer your services to people you know – however remote that connection may be. It gives you the opportunity to build up some experience and you may even be able to obtain references from people to vouch for you when you approach people you don’t know in the future. The best way to charge for your services is [...]