Ten Quick Ways to Make Money
86Everyone could use some extra money, particularly in hard times. Perhaps the bills were a little more than you'd expected this month, or maybe you're trying to raise some starter cash for your own internet startup or business. As the first Hub in an ongoing series, here are ten handy ideas to bring in some extra money.
Donate blood
People often overlook this, but it's a good way to make money providing a desperately-needed service. Donating blood is traditionally done through the Red Cross on a volunteer basis, but many blood collection services will compensate donors for between $20 and $40 per donation... and donors can often donate twice a week. It's a good way to help out both you and your fellow man. You'll want to check in your Yellow Pages for blood banks and hospitals local to your area, and call around. Be aware that California does not allow financial compensation for blood, and seems to insist that doing the good deed of providing blood cannot involve enlightened self-interest in any way. Also take note that the FDA has forbidden people who it considers to be at a high risk of HIV from donating at any price whatsoever, and would-be donors who admit to having had male-male sexual intercourse since 1977 are rejected on the basis that they "might have been exposed to HIV" - despite the fact that being at risk is not limited to any one sexual orientation. I haven't spoken with any blood bank staff who agree with this policy, but they all seem to perpetuate it through their enforcement of it regardless. For many who find that desperate financial times require considering unconventional sources of raising money - particularly students, although increasingly anyone in the middle-class - donating blood on a paid basis is an approach that works.
If you donate, you will want to be sure to eat immediately beforehand and to drink lots of water - to replace that lost fluid. Donating too often can cause temporary physical weakness and exhaustion, and if it's done in the same place too frequently without enough time to rest up it can result in some scarring of veins around the withdrawl area. Rotating sites and giving your veins a chance to rest up is generally a good idea.
Donate bone marrow
While it hasn't yet gained as much noteriety as donating blood, many college students are finding that they can donate their bone marrow for quick cash. Over six thousand people seek bone marrow transplants each day, desperate for the marrow that could save their lives. A recipient can only accept marrow that matches their marrow type, and so the potential for donors decreases significantly for any one recipient bent on finding that matching donor. And donors aren't in high supply... yet. That won't be the case soon as this approach continues to grow in popularity.
Most people tend to think that donating bone marrow requires surgery, and this used to be the case. Today, it's done with a needle and an incision that's so small it doesn't even require stitches. Nor does it require a hospital stay - donors frequently drive themselves to their appointment, and drive themselves back home afterwards. Within seven to fourteen days, they're back to normal. Bone marrow generally goes for:
- $125 for 25 cubic centimeters,
- $200 for 50 cubic centimeters, and
- $450 for 100 cubic centimeters
Additionally, white blood cells can be donated for about $350 in a procedure that lasts approximately five hours. A longer process, involving daily injections to raise the white blood cell counts, takes three to four days and pays $750. Lidocain, a topical anasthaetic, is used to numb the pain of injection on the skin, although this does not affect the pain that occurs when the marrow is actually drawn out of the bone. One donor, a college student, described it as hurting "really frickin bad". He also described the pain as increasing with each withdrawal on a given day. Since 25 cubic centimeters of marrow are drawn into each syringe, there are two marrow draws each, from either side of the pelvic bone. General anaesthetic is available at the discretion of the doctor overseeing the process, and the donor maintains communication with the doctor throughout the procedure regarding the level of pain he is currently experiencing.
While certainly not the most pleasant means of raising money, marrow donation is one of the few legal means of raising over $100 dollars an hour over four hours. In increasingly desperate economic conditions more people are turning less-orthodox methods of making money, and the idea hasn't yet become as prevalently-known as blood donation.
Appallingly, many facilities who perform the procedures for bone marrow donation do not make that information widely-known, in order to prevent financially-desperate and, in their view, health-suspect donors, from donating marrow. This includes one facility I spoke with which had recently been documented as financially compensating a marrow donor in an article describing the procedure. They replied matter-of-factly that they do not compensate their donors, although the donor himself wrote his own article in a firsthand account, providing more information and even pictures of the procedure. Evidently, facilities take the view that it is better to let some people in dire financial situations die from being rejected from the procedure, than risk accepting donors who might be "at risk"... which, from the position of other authorities such as the FDA, is both unrealistic and subjectively-defined. Be aware of this problem if you attempt to donate bone marrow.
Do a few odd jobs through local online resources
Easier and more painless than these are doing odd jobs in your local area. Painting jobs, for example, can be very lucrative in a short span of time. Construction sites also need manpower, and many pay well. Folks who are advancing in years and finding it more difficult to do yardwork also often need assistance, and often receive significant retirement money from the government, resulting in levels of disposable income that are disproportionate to the rest of society. Some of them even require live-in care, not only to take care of them physically but also to attend to needs such as mere cooking and housekeeping. A live-in caretaking job can often be arranged that will eliminate rent expenses while providing a small amount of income for the caregiver at the same time. In-home caregiving is the fastest-growing job in America as many citizens reach retirement age, and in fact more Americans are retiring than are working. A live-in caregiving job can be ideal for people who also work online, since they can be on-site for the majority of the time.
All of these jobs and many more can be found in your local area through online sources like GenieTown and Craigslist. It's worth keeping an eye out for, and Craigslist even has an RSS feed for each of its areas, so keeping up with it is easy, right from your desktop if you'd prefer. Checking the classified ads in your local newspaper might be worthwhile as well.
Tap the unused potential of the homeless
While you're looking through the ads for people in your area who want services anyway, consider that there are people in dire circumstances whose work potential remains untapped - people who are homeless. Contrary to popular belief, many of those on the street desperately want to work, but do not have access to resources, like the internet or the ability to make phone calls, that are necessary to arrange it. Acting as a go-between for people on the street and painters or construction crews who need the manpower can be prosperous for all involved. Earning a finder's fee, or a percentage, from connecting them together yourself can be a mutually-beneficial relationship. You may even consider creating a housecleaning service using primarily homeless manpower to staff it, and advertising it for free in your local area on Craigslist. Or a carwash. These people could use the money, and have huge amounts of manpower collectively that is just going to waste because they cannot apply it effectively. You, however, can. Make money while creating something that will provide a constructive approach to solving the homeless problem in your area, and you will have two bites at the cherry. You will also have access to a resource, untapped manpower, that most people seeking ways to make money - and who are to some extent competing with you in the market - have not even considered. This will put you ahead of the game.
Connect with paid posting jobs online
You're probably on HubPages because you can write, because you enjoy writing, and because you'd like to get paid for it. In addition to paid articles from sites like HubPages, Helium and Triond, and even paid letter-writing sites like LetterRep and paid product review sites like epinions and ReviewStream, paid forum posting is a particularly interesting concept from a writer's perspective. The basis for forum posting is that with new websites springing up on a constant basis - and many wilting away to nothing just as quickly - it becomes difficult for the creators of those websites and forums to build a base of users. It's the ghost town phenomenon - and few will be inclined to join and return to a forum that has no users or activity yet. With no-one joining, this problem dashes the hopes of a typical website forum to get started. Forum creators all over the net with less-than-earthshattering premises for their websites and forums have started to pay people to start the ball rolling, through "pay per post" sites. These sites register new users, allow them to select a paying forum to post on, and collects commission for partnering writers willing to post with forum owners who need the activity to keep their sites alive. PostingDirect is one such site, and offers an advancing scale of 10 to 65 cents per post (depending on the user's feedback from previous jobs), for jobs consisting of 10 or 20 posts. These forum posts are not meant to be timeless works of literary skill, and naturally aren't expected to be as long as HubPages articles by any means. They are meant to inspire conversation and dialogue on inactive forums. The prospect of earning $1.30 for two short forum posts is certainly an attractive one, and the concept can get even better when combined with the next tip.
Put your bookmarks to work!
If you've used sites like HubPages for a bit, you know that you can make money writing articles like this one online. But wouldn't it be nice to make money by turning people onto a cool website you've discovered, or that music video? As of this April, GemStorm has gone into public beta. There you can post a link to a website, game, video or just about anything else and, like HubPages, it will share Google AdSense revenue with you 50/50. This means that you can put your bookmarks to work, and they can be working for you just as your HubPages articles do - without the writing articles part! What's more, when you refer someone to GemStorm, you'll be getting 10% of their revenue as well... which means you can be paid just for spreading the word.
It works like this: You sign up for your GemStorm account. You enter your Google AdSense account number, just like with HubPages. And then you submit a few choice bookmarks. When other GemStorm users see them, they'll check them out and bump them up if they like them. When enough users bump up a submission it'll hit the front page of the site... where even more users will see it. The more users that see your submission, the greater the liklihood that someone will click on the Google ads. And that's easy money.
GemStorm also lets you create interest groups, either public or private, invite-only. This allows you to post links just for your friends, co-workers, or any small group. Links posted there will be seen by people who share that interest - meaning people who are more likely to click on the relevant Google ads.
Because it's just starting, few people have heard of GemStorm... yet. That means there's plenty of new territory to develop there, and it's easy to make referral revenue because the people you talk to about it won't have heard of it yet. And making money quickly and easily is something we're all interested in.
Promote hard-to-find goods and services online
Consider this: You're on HubPages, and perhaps Helium and Triond as well. You may even write paid posts on forums, as described above. You spend a lot of time writing, and your writing will be seen by many on the internet. What an opportunity for paid promotion, no?
I'm not advising that you compromise the value of your writing in order to make a few bucks; quite the opposite, in fact. Your work will reach many people, and until recently the only major intentional ad campaigns have been from big corporations through big media. As a result, people have become overly-familiar with big brands like McDonald's, because they have bought up a disproporationate amount of publicity. The internet is beginning to change all that and speaking frankly, it's certainly about time.
Not only is the internet producing more startups, websites, and forums more rapidly than society ever has before, it's also producing more good ideas than ever before because there's a faster flow of communication and anyone with a good idea can build a website to get it started. The problem today isn't getting it started, it's keeping it alive.
How does someone with a tremendously cool product or service that no-one's heard of promote it to people? People who don't know about it won't search for it. AdSense only works as a sometimes thing for new services, as the new terms for what they're doing haven't yet spread. If people don't hear about the idea, however good it is, it dies off through neglect. And few startups can pay conventional media to promote their sites, products, or services. How many people would love them, if only they heard about them?
And here you are, spending your time writing anyway. What an opportunity for a partnership, no? You could learn about new up-and-comers with great ideas in your field of interest, and you could mention them in your posts and articles because they deserve to be mentioned, and people will want to use them. Many of these starter ventures have affiliate and referral programs, so when you spread the word successfully you get compensated in some way. Usually, it's monetarily. Other times, it can be for perks or status within that site or community. But if it's a good service - and I don't mean the latest designer Viagra knockoff, but a worthwhile service - then you're providing additional value with your articles and posts, and spreading the word to people who need it to people who need to hear about it. And you're earning income from doing it. All the benefits of viral marketing, but planned and intentional. Planned viral marketing that works for everyone.
This is really just a matter of taking whatever motive you have for your writing, and dovetailing it nicely with another agenda - making money. You've already done this, if you've written a Hub and put ads on it. You can do it further by overlaying another agenda - promoting companies for referral bonuses, on top of that strategy, provided that you do it in a way that doesn't conflict with your other agendas. This means not compromising the quality of your writing by hyping the latest gimmicks instead of providing your readers with worthwhile information. But done correctly, it can actually be harmonized with those other objectives. For example, when people need to hear about a new idea in a field you're interested in, and you know of a new product, website or service in that area, people will be better off for having been presented with that information through your writing. You will have provided them with something of value. The fact that it's also a form of advertising does not diminish that. It has become a misperception that advertising must only serve the goals of the advertiser; in a functional world, someone would only do something that had value both to themselves and to the rest of the world. This is simply enlightened self-interest. It's a beautiful concept, and more importantly it's a concept that works for once, so I'd love to see it flourish in the world. So, ads aren't necessarily bad - provided that they contribute value, as they should. It's time to start spreading that idea itself, particularly in a world that tries to cram McDonald's food down our throat whether it's healthy for us or not, and tries to convince us that's all advertising can be.
While we're on the subject, it's worthwhile to note that we can also intentionally dovetail our writing with another agenda that isn't monetarily-based. We can use it to promote and reinforce positive social agendas by sneaking them into our writing where they're appropriate. In other words, we can promote not only products, websites and services, but approaches to a better world by increasing awareness and prominence of better alternatives. We have a media that tells us that fast food is normal, and that enlightened self-interest isn't. This is wrong, and it's the recipe for something that doesn't work. And now, for the first time, we can do something about that. We can promote social change through our work. We can champion causes. We can inspire action. We can share great ideas and solutions upon which that action can be based. We can marry our writing with the agenda of creating a better world, and in the process help to bring it about.
There are many affiliate and referral programs out there. I personally prefer to use clixGalore, because I've found larger networks like Commission Junction to be slow and unconcerned with the needs of their users. clixGalore is small enough to take their users seriously, and large enough to have an extensive network of affiliated merchants to choose from. If you know of other good affiliate programs, feel free to share them in the Comments area of this Hub. I'm sure Hub authors can put them to good use.
Offer freelance consultations
While you're writing online articles and posts, changing the world and promoting great new goods and services that are out there... have you considered promoting your own?
You're presumably writing about your own areas of expertise. Your readers are obviously interested in that area, which is why they're reading. They're usually not as knowledgable about the subject as you are, and they're gleaning what they can from what you've written. They are, in all liklihood, attempting to apply that information to their own lives and situations in some way, and must try to customize it to fit their needs. Traditionally, it hasn't been possible for them to go to a webpage and read up on something, and get answers specific to their own situation. But all of that changes with HubPages.
Part of the beauty of HubPages is that it has the ability to connect readers with knowledgable people in any field of interest. Unlike Google searches and Wikipedia entries, readers can click the Contact link and send the writer e-mail. Why not put that to good use, and offer your readers the benefit of your knowledge, advice and experience by offering them paid consultations? Whether what you know about is fashion, business, computers or construction, you can write articles based on your areas of skill and knowledge - presumably that's what you're already doing - and offer consultations by phone, VOIP, or over internet chat. Your reader can ask direct questions relevant to their situation, and get answers immediately. It allows them to get the exact solution they need, like a kind of Magic Internet Oracle. And it pays a lot more than promoting someone else's services through AdSense.
Like AdSense, though, it's cumulative. With several Hubs providing information about things in your skill area, and offering your consulting services as well, more people are going to read your Hubs each day. Each time someone reads a Hub that also offers your consulting services, it's an opportunity for them to request them - right to your e-mail Inbox. Imagine a few months or years down the road, getting up in the morning, checking your Inbox and having a stack of consultation requests waiting for you to schedule them and call them. They'd all be things in your own area of expertise, so one day you might be giving phone consultations for fashion accessorizing and pet grooming tips, and the next you'd be telling people how to pull cable through their walls to wire their house for broadband, and telling others how to get their own website going. Sharing your experience and knowledge in an area by phone, and being able to do it for a living.
What you're actually doing is adding value to your Hubs, by offering your readers an option for individually-tailored solutions to their own situation. You're finding new ways to offer value to people, and as a result you're finding new ways to provide value to yourself as well. Everybody comes out a winner.
Sell your clutter on eBay
You're looking around for ways to make cash, and if you're like most people you have a ton of stuff that you don't actually use, cluttering up your living space. Too much stuff on one hand, and not enough cash on the other. Take a good look around your place at the stuff you have. How much of it do you actually use? Could you bear to part with any of it by selling it? If it's in your life and it's not working for you... get rid of it. (If it's a spouse, I suggest trying counselling first.)
Putting stuff up for sale on eBay is easy. You take a digital camera (chances are a friend has one) and you snap a few shots of what it is you're selling, all on its own. You put the image on your computer, sign into your eBay account, and upload the sucker when you put it up for sale. People who want your stuff will bid and outbid each other for it, and you'll make more and more money. They'll pay the shipping and handling, so don't worry about it.
You can also have a traditional yard sale. These can be fun, but you don't usually get much for them. You also have the added responsibility of sitting outside all day making sure you're available, and that your stuff doesn't get stolen. Freecycle is one alternative option, if you just want to get rid of the thing. You won't make any money out of it, but like putting an item up for free on Craigslist's free stuff you're practically guaranteed to get rid of it. Some of my readers mentioned Freecycle and yard sale as options, and I wanted to include them here because having options is always a good thing.
Personally though, I'm more for selling off your extra stuff online. You can easily turn your clutter into cash this way, because odds are someone wants the stuff you don't want anymore. Instead of a piled-up mess around your home, you can have money in the bank. Ah, how sweet it is.
Start recycling for cash
People usually overlook this option, particularly if they're not currently recycling or are giving it away to the city for pickup. But what you have is worth something, even if it's just the cans your soda came in. Tossing it into a separate bag when you throw it away and taking it to a recyclery every so often can not only bring you a fair chunk of cash, it can also reduce what you pay for your trash pickup. It naturally reduces your environmental impact as well, so it's an approach that's good for everyone.
Establish an area in your kitchen - a closet, perhaps, or under the sink - and have a place to put your metal, glass, paper and plastic. Think of how much that will reduce your trash output right there. You just throw them in there instead of the trash, and put full bags somewhere else and replace them. Once in a while, you take it all down to your local recyclery and they pay you per pound. Just be sure that your recyclables don't have food matter on them, because that can gum up a whole load when they try to recycle it - and so many recycleries have had to become choosy about what they take. I have a housemate, for example, who always tries to recycle his pizza boxes. I cannot seem to get it into his head that cardboard with melted cheese and grease on it cannot be recycled. The same goes for frozen dinner packages - run them through the dishwasher first, or just rinse them off briefly after you're done eating.
A lot of cities offer free recycling pickup. My, what a magnanimous gesture on their part! For free, they will pick up material from me that has value. Until they start deducting the value from my trash bill - or until I have the power that they do to implement my own taxes - I need that money far more than they do. So do you.
Do some freelance coding online
If you know how to program or how to create webpages, there are plenty of places online that will allow you to do that for money on a freelance basis. And if you don't know how to code, W3Schools will happily teach you online for free at your own pace. They have free online tutorials for essentially any web coding environment, and other sites offer the same thing for programming languages like C, Python, and so on. W3Schools makes its money only if you want to get certification for what you've learned. Once you've learned something, you can pay them about $60 and take their exam, consisting of 60 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes. When you pass it, they will send you your certification. If you don't, you have the option of paying again to take the exam again. As long as you have a working knowledge of the coding language you've learned, you can go on freelance coding sites and make offers on projects that are out there. PHP-Freelancers and PHPjobs.com, for example, are just a couple of the sites for PHP programmers. Additionally, GetAFreelancer.com has not only coding jobs, but paid proofreading and article writing as well. Jobs tend to range from simple $5 and $10 tasks, medium tasks for $100 - $200, and even large projects for $1,000 to $5,000. You can make money online rather easily, by learning how to program and doing it for those who need it. It's an ideal telecommuting job, and can be combined with live-in caregiving at the same time. This can be a great way to make money, particularly interspersed with article-writing and paid posting. The online world provides a wealth of new options out there, just waiting for you to find ways to integrate them into your life.
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I'd say you're getting the better part of the deal with the Guinness swap. There are probably more people looking for a willing Guinness donor than a blood donor. =)
I'm glad you found it worth your while. Thanks for commenting; positive feedback always leaves such a good feeling.
In England we only get a cup of tea for giving blood. I'd give a gallon if I was getting paid for it.
Great hub : D
Ah, but it's _good_ tea. -gryn-
Thanks for reading.
Very extensive and nice work!
I have quite different opinion about your topic:
Tap the unused potential of the homelessbased on London, UK experience, which wasn't positive at all. Some people earn quite a lot on the street and they really don't want to do anything else.
Thanks for your comment, solarshingles!
You're right, people on the street aren't always motivated. Like any other group of people, they can't be categorized across the board. Some of the people on the street in my area aren't motivated, and just want to beg for change or sell drugs. Some of them don't see any way out of their situation, or prefer it. But it varies; I know a lot of people on the street who are motivated. I was. Getting to know who's out there is important, because just like in any office environment or residential neighborhood people do vary. Done right, it can work, and it can make quite a bit of money connecting them with places to work.
Thanks again for reading. =)
Great hub! I don't think I can donate blood, I think I'm part alien or something like that. (No actually, my partner has HepC so I probably do too at this point.) But the rest of it sounds good. Honestly, you have lived quite the life, it's fascinating. You should write an autobiography. I'd read it. Thanks again!
Thanks for the note of support! I probably never will... I'm always encountering something that's about to kill me in the near future (right now it's cavities I can't afford to have treated - http://tinyurl.com/4kq6kk - that's what prompted me to write on HubPages actually) so I never wind up starting long projects like that. But I appreciate the interest. It's enough that this stuff is out there on the internet.
You might consider Reiki for HepC. I know it works for breast cancer - I had a friend who was diagnosed with an egg-sized lump of it and was told to come back in two weeks to begin her chemo. She's a Reiki master, so she Reiki'd it. When she went back in they were amazed, because it was the size of a pea and benign. I suspect it works for AIDS too, since there's already been one documented case of someone diagnosed with it who "spontaneously" recovered - they're still trying to find him now to find out what did it, but he's not coming forward. You might want to look into it.
Thanks again for your comments. =)
Well researched Article, Keep it up!
Excellent article full of useful information. I appreciate your time.
Nice one. Good and informative.
I appreciate all of your positive comments. I'm glad you found it worthwhile. Thanks for your readership. =)
I've checked craigslist so many times, but all I ever come up with is junk. I want to make some extra money on the side of my 9-5 job. Know of anything specific? My interest is personal finance.
Well, I _do_ give personalized consultations. =)
Really, if you e-mail me with more specific information I can give you more specific advice - I'm a freelancer. For the moment, I can think of offering people your money-management services over craigslist. Also, craigslist has an RSS feed, and you can throw it into a Sprout at Sproutbuilder.com and have a widget that updates automatically to show you the latest results. You can open a page, leave it open, and keep checking back on it throughout the day. You'll be able to keep up with offers as craigslist gets them, and you'll probably have first pick since you'll be one of the first to know. That's how we got our pool table.
Responding to "make money fast" offers is usually bad. Usually, the writer isn;t trying to show you how to make money fast, he's trying to do it himself. I do both.
You may consider writing Hubs on the subject, and then offering your services as a paid financial planner by phone. I mean, it seems to be what you want to do.
You may also want to look at how to put your interests together into a workable - and enjoyable - career plan. I've created a guide at:
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Create-Excellent-Mo
And do Contact me if you need to. When I know the specifics, I can usually wrack my brain and come up with several brilliant ideas on a given subject. And I'm used to thinking about problems like this.
Thanks for your readership.
Great hub. Looks like alot of thought has gone into this topic. Just a quick mention about another crowd that, like adsense, do not charge anything to join and actually pay you for your visitors. They pay weekly as well. Check it out.
Thanks for the heads-up, 1upon. I'm sure readers here could use it.
thanks, very nice article..
Rahul
Excellent information, as is so with all of your hubs.
Your fan, ST.
Great hub!
Really enjoyed reading your hub. Thanks
I always enjoy reading the positive comments that people share. I appreciate your readership, and I'm glad it could bring value to your lives. And a special thanks to those of you who have become my fans, whether now or earlier on. Here's to making our lives successful, amazing and remarkable.
Very Imformative. Great Job.
Thanky! =) With all of this readership and feedback, I may have to write Ten More Ways.
Nice hub Satori! The get rid of clutter is a good one, and one way in addition to ebay to do that would be to simply hold a yard sale. I don't think I saw that one anywhere. With Ebay, if you don't want or can't get your stuff up there on your own, there's a new service called zippi that can do it for you. Keep up the great work and I'll look forward to learning 10 more ways when you finish that hub! Cheers, Roland
Thanks Roland! And thanks for your idea of a yard sale, and Zippi. I may have to add them with a bit of a rewrite - I'm sure many readers would want to know. =)
Excellent Hub! This is very encouraging for people that need to earn extra money- and yes, there are alot of cash strapped people right now. Sometimes we just need to get "creative" with our finances.......Fantastic job! Great resources!
Thank you so much for the well written and concise information, Satori! This is extremely useful info - and the comments others make on it only add to it! In fact, I have two cents as well - I came across a website www.freecycle.com that doesn't actually get you money, but members trade or give useful items to others instead of throwing things out; one just has to be quick on the draw for the best items. This can *save* money - just as good as getting it!
Ooh, thanks people! Definately throw in your concepts here and I'll do a rewrite. I'd heard about freecycle but never used it. I'll have to put that in the "Sell your clutter on eBay" section, along with the yard sale and zippi suggestion. Otherwise, it would go in my Hub on ways to save money, listed at the end of the article. Do you actually mean .com, dorthela, or is it freecycle.org?
Absolutely awesome writing, Satori! Great info and detail with a variety of excellent money-making opportunities.
As to Freecycle....the site is freecycle.org. Have given many items away through Freecycle that otherwise would not have sold at a yard sale or on eBay. Great alternative to filling our dump sites.
Keep up the great writing!
That's tremendous, Writing Muse! I just joined up with them, so I'll see how they work. I'm writing Ten More Quick Ways to Make Money as we speak. I'll be sure to link folks here to it when it's published. I'm glad so many people are finding this information worthwhile. I appreciate your readership. =)
Nice hub, Keep it up!
Great tips. I enjoyed reading your page. With today's economy, one never knows what emergency is around the bend. We all can use extra dollars.
Thanks again.
Brilliant ideas! Well written in depth and breadth. Did not know about getting paid for donating blood or bone marrow.
Really Interesting Thanks!
Have to try some of those asap!
Your are correct, in California you cannot recieve compensation for donating blood. It is obvious to me that you do not understand the "why". It does sound sterotypical but blood supply from donors that donate their time and blood without wanting compensation in return tend to be a donor base that actually meets the requirements for blood to be transfued to a patient. Also it is recommended that you eat 1 to 4 hours before donating blood. Eating right before you donate can add to the vasel-vagel affect. Also blood donation is regulated by the FDA not by each individual blood center. To be able to donate blood (red cells) you are only eligible to donate every 8 weeks. The donation of Plasma for monetary compensation is a better idea. At least recovered plasma (plasma that is not used for transfusion) is used in medication that can actually help save a life.
Thanks for your more technically-oriented information; I'm sure readers here will appreciate it. I do, in fact, inderstand the "why" quite well - I just find the reasoning to be extremely over-reaching, applied to an extent that it doesn't need to be, and so everyone suffers as a result - both those who could use the money, and those who are in need of the blood. I think the mindset needs changing, because it involves a lot of skewed thinking-for-other-people where it often doesn't apply, and I think that's wrong.
Blood donation is as regulated by the individual blood center as it is by the FDA. The FDA may establish rules - and without lawful authority to do so, only "legal" authority which is commonly-accepted as lawful - but it's the individual blood banks that enforce them, even when they know they're wrong and admit it themselves. Those who enforce absurd regulations are just as much a part of them as those who create them. "Just following orders" is a rationalization that's a sure road to Hell, whether in an afterlife or here in the world.
As I understand it the frequency with which people are eligible to donate varies based upon location, especially world-wide. Some of my research has said twice weekly; others have said once every few weeks. You're right, it's not always twice weekly. Readers will want to check their local blood banks for information that's relevant to where they are.
Again, thanks for providing more technical information about blood donation. I appreciate your readership.
Interesting ideas, times are tough and you definitely have your head on straight.
Keep up the good work.
I agree with shipsuperstore. Times are tough and a freelance writer needs to use all his tools and you've explored several here
As a travel monkey do you have any tips on how I can make money online??
Well, I'm /not/ a travel monkey, actually. =) But I do offer personalized consultations; feel free to contact me using the Contact Satori link under my picture to set one up.
You may also be interested to check out the second article in this series for more ways to make money, many of them online:
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Ten-More-Quick-Ways-to
And I'm writing a third in the series now, which should be out soon.
Great hub , you give some really good points. expecially with the way most of use are dealing with having a lot of debt. It is always good to have a way to make some extra money. http://hubpages.com/hub/get-off-the-credit-treadmi .
Hey there
Well done!!!
My daddy needed 4 bags of blood last week, if NO donors
he would probably not be here with us, right?
Donating blood NOT ONLY helps people get cash but SAVE lives!
He was really bad and anemic!
Now he is back and rocking!
Awesome, Rio! Thanks for sharing that!
Yep, when people look for ways to help others when they try to help themselves, everybody wins. I love sharing ideas that work for _everyone._
I always appreciate the feedback and the readership, everyone. =)
very very informative. thank you for the info.
Great hub article. It was nice to read something more than the same "top 10" lists that clog the net already. Thanks for thinking outside the box.
Hi How are I want to know are you interested in making money online expressing your opinion
Hi,
I'm new to hub pages, I use triond at the moment!
Nice article, do all hubs need to be this long and aproximately how much has this hub earned!
Thanks
Thanks for all of your positive comments! =)
Beautyloveleycutti, there are lots of options available for making money online. I'm primarily interested in offline concepts, or concepts that are new to the internet. I may or may not put together a few Hubs that involve online make-money-fast approaches that are already in vogue, but I feel that there's more value in introducing readers to the newer stuff that isn't currently widespread. Feel free to create Hubs on the subject, though, and most of those who read it will doubtless be very interested in the topic.
Winter14, Hubs don't need to be this long. I put extra time and effort into developing Hubs that I feel are of greater quality and value, and that meet my own standards. I've found that readers appreciate this; indeed, many of them e-mail links to my articles to their friends, so it's good to know that I'm providing worthwhile value and content for people. While my own financial numbers are private, I will share with you that these articles are on their way into a book which will resell both in hardcopy and in purchasable download. There is a lot of opportunity for content writers to be very successful, particularly if you decide to collaborate with other authors and publish an article each, compiled into a book on a subject. My next Hub in this series goes into more depth on that. Be well! =)
Execellent Research article.. Thanks and keep up the good work..
Great job you got there. Very iformative and with a lot of sense! I really enjoyed reading your hub and learned a lot.
A WONDERFUL HUB!!!
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"Tap the unused potential of the homeless"What a brilliant suggestion... THANKS Satori!
~~Mary K
Not bad! Be careful hiring strangers on the street, though! ANd please PLEASE do not consult about things you have no knowledge about :(
You raise a good point, esocial. I personally don't offer information I don't have to people, but it could be a problem for some. Using a reputation feedback system like PeopleTrusted.com or iKarma.com would probably be a good idea; there are many such websites out there.
Thanks for your comments!
Bravo, Satori! A hub about making money that includes a section on selling clutter!! Yes - sell clutter on e-bay, craigslist, garage sale... any way, just let it go. Your readers will find that releasing clutter will allow experiences more appropriate to who they are now to flow into their lives. Clutter is sticky and tends to want to hold us where we are. If we are in a place requiring money, it's best to let go of that which no longer serves us making room for something better. In Feng Shui space is opportunity.
A wonderful Hub. Many thanks!
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I am particularly intrigued by getting paid to write for forums, blogs, etc.
I am going to make a note of the sites you mentioned.
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Thanks for the comments! I'd like to stay away from traditional internet-make-money-fast approaches for the most part, because they're usually scammy or underhanded. But I'm approving them in comments for this Hub, because they're on-topic. Readers can make up their own minds about it.
I just Denied a comment from one of my readers that was nearly two screens long about a PayPal pyramid scheme. Anyone interested in it can send Satin 123 a message and ask about it. Please keep your money-making Comments reasonable, and with a focus on providing value rather than trying to Get Rich Quick by breaking the economic system structure - it doesn't work. Only politicians can do that.
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Thanks for the W3Schools link. I've been wanting to learn more about web development, and this seems like a pretty go way to go.
Hi,
Very informative!! I'm totally new to the hub and blogs. Not sure if I'm doing everything right and stil learning about the different posting rules. But I'm reading a lot everyday online and trying to learn as much as I can. Maybe you can give me some guidance after you review my blog. Thanks!!http://hubpages.com/hub/nicbrothers
NicBrothers, I'm glad you enjoyed my Hub. This series of Hubs will provide you with a lot of information you can use. Feel free to click the Contact Satori link under my user picture at the top of the page to e-mail me for advice and assistance - I do freelance consulting work, and can give you direct assistance through e-mail. Be sure to have some idea of what you'd like to do - and if you don't have one, this series will give you plenty of ideas. I look forward to hearing from you. =)
I found all ten of your tips extremely helpful They all seem sort of obvious after I read them because most of your suggestions are ideas i have had in the past and never pursued. None the less, I may have had the idea but not all the information I needed to go any further. Thanks for the great hub!!
I'm glad you found it worthwhile - great minds think alike! You may want to check the other Hubs in this series for twenty (at the moment) other ideas - odds are that most will be new. =)
Thanks for your readership, and your comment. =)
Another one is donating plasma. Most places will pay $50 per time and you can go twice a week.
Awesom Hub!
I want so much to undersand all you have written and have been trying to start my own business not only to have the freedom of oppression that I get from workingfor someone, but to also be able to show what a real employer should be.I keep racking my brain on what the maket is really into now and how I can make enough to get it on its feet.Hiring people that have a hard time working because of obligations and transportation and disabilities is my dream.
So everything you have offered above can maybe give me the money to open that door.how do I find theses places to go fr blood and marrow?
Thanks moralsethics1960
These are great ideas. I did have a question about the donation of blood, though. I'm assuming as you are based out of the USA you can get compensation down there for donating? Only reason I ask is that up here in Canada, they don't pay for giving blood. Perhaps I should hop over the border one weekend and drop a couple of pints...lol. All round good ideas in the hub though... :)
Cheers,
Pete
Yep Pete, they pay for blood in the States. I'm finding from my readers that this isn't the case in most countries - and in California it isn't the case even here. I suppose people in other countries could talk to their representatives in government, but that's more involved than it would probably be worth - at least in the short-term. Thanks for your readership and feedback, Pete. Glad you're enjoying this series. =)
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very helpful hub. I read in the news that there are some Asian countries even donates kidney for money. I feel bad for these people doing anything just for money.
It's almost sorted out, Beachbum. The internet is quickly equalizing the economic situation in all the countries - for good or ill. Then we can make the world better for everyone. Thanks for reading.
Hey Satori! All I wanted to say was that you did/doing a great job. Keep doing it and thumbs up for ya!
beachbum_gabby: I really don't think donating kidneys is such a great ideea. It affects your entire afterward life, and It doesn't worth. People, don't try that at home :)
Thanks again Satori, keep it up :)
Sorry, double post. I always screw up something ;)
Thanks MarketerX! I appreciate it. =)
MoralsEthics, I'd missed your Comment and only now saw it - this Hub is getting huge! I think those are very positive goals, and with the internet opporunities opening up (as you'll see in the rest of this series), there's plenty of room for people to do things better.
I had to scope around for some bone marrow donation sites using Google, and when I contacted them they denied it - despite the fact that it had been reported on, and the donor's blog had pictures and a full account. You'll need to find someone in your area who does it (I believe for me it was UC Berkeley), and contact them. Hope it goes well for you; let us know how it goes!
Wow, I liked your article! These are all good deals - and not only for us (eg recycling).
These are definatley novel ways that I had not thought about.
Fantastic article. Thanks for all the usefull tips, many of which are quite simple but easy to overlook.
Here I was ready to donate my eggs when all I had to do was give up a little bone marrow. Well researched and very interesting!
Nice article. thanks for the tips.
Hey, that's no fair. I give my blood away for free every few months! I didn't know they paid for that kind of stuff. <grin> I think you can sell other types of bodily fluids as well for decent cash (if you're of the right attributes). But I digress.
Great post!
This is some great information! I used to be homeless my self due to some serious bad luck, but, By finding bottles on the street, which I exchanged for very small cash, I was able to slowly but surely make it back to normal life. I saved up enough cash to be able to go to an internet cafe, do research on internet marketing, and four months flat later, I managed to make EURO 4000! Now, far from being homeless, I say, it can be done. thanks for all the great information here.
Nice hub, thanks
LOL.. I doubt people really want homeless people cleaning their homes though. Who would feel safe hiring them?
You'd be surprised, actually. As with everywhere else in life, people vary. Some people on the street are down-and-outers, and some are really fun, capable, trustworthy and high-functioning. Distrusting someone just because they don't have a house may be an attitude you want to take a look at. There isn't a lot of disparity between housed people and homeless people... particularly anymore, with the economy being what it is. Someone who's housed today could easily be homeless tomorrow, so the old notion of thinking badly of someone just because they don't have a place to live is antiquated and deserves to be ash-canned.
For example, I'm on the street because I can't accept official employment. I can't accept it because they'd withhold federal taxes - which are illegal - and that would fund lovely things like treason, human torture, slavery, and a bunch of other stuff that you'd know about if you researched what politicians are up to these days. So I work under the table, for reasons of conscience. And I'm on the streets, for reasons of conscience. I find it tough not to laugh when people who spend a third of their yearly income to pay for war atrocities and all sorts of criminal acts look down their nose at someone who's homeless, because it's pure hypocrisy. Sure, you pay for corrupt politicians, then complain about them, and then look askance at people who refuse to be part of that behavior. To me, that's just absurd. Time for society to re-evaluate what it's doing, no? If everybody did what I'm doing, refusing to pay taxes until government shaped up... we wouldn't have these problems, because they would have to shape up.
Thanks for your comments.
Good ideas Satori!
I'll pass on the donations though... I'm a bit needle phobic :)
I'm loving it!Very insightful and surprsingly indepth. I would have more to say but, I'm going to read part 2.
Excellent hub. In UK we don't get paid for donating blood, or bone marrow...they want it for free!
Excellent Article! Keep it Up.
Nice and infortmative. I just have one thing to add; in California you can donate plasma and be paid for it. At least ten years ago you could. I had a friend who did it a few times a month for $15 bucks a pop. Again, this was 10 years ago. If theyre still doing it, Im guessing the price went up.
How strange, to "donate" blood and get paid for it! At least I get cookies for it :) And they let you do it twice a week? Yeesh! I have to wait every 2 months!
number 11 could be, dont move to San Diego CA. its expensive as hell here. and the job market sucks. TONS of homeless though.
like some of the ideas.
This is a great hubs. The ideas are thought provoking.
Dude, you ROCK!! Very imformative and interesting. I will put some of those into practice ASAP! Not sure I have the guts for the marrow selling thing though as it sounds waay too painful.
hey I am so new to the site so any easy suggestions to turn my blogging into money making
My suggestion would be to avoid it, personally. It generally involves turning your blog into a big commercial, and that strikes me as unethical - or just tacky - as well as demeaning to your friends who read your blog. It could be done tastefully, but since you'd be promoting based on those you've signed up with rather than who you actually want to promote yourself, you're heart wouldn't really be in it. And thus, it would be artificial. Whether on- or off-line, the choices we make say a lot about who we think we are, and they affect the rest of our lives because they affect us internally.
So I'd be the wrong person to ask about this. Google will gladly give you tons of search results on the subject - but very little in the way of advice on how to be happier and more successful in life as a person by making your choices worthwhile. =)
Thanks for your readership. I hope you find what you want and need.
Many ideas you gave were not even thought by people like us. Thanks
I recently deliver baby girl and now at home to take care of her. I think i can contribute (financially) to my home by going through some of these ideas. Thaks for nice article.
After reading your first 2 suggestions, I was afraid what body parts I would be selling by number 10. Great Hub!
Great article, though here in Canada we only get a cookie and glass of juice in exchange for blood. Hey, if you're hungry, it's a good deal.
I really like how you came up with new ideas that aren't commonly found in these types of articles.
Thx for sharing these with us.
In India too we get biscuits and juice for donating blood, moreover "donating" blood should be free... that is why it is called donating!! Or else it should be selling blood!
I'm glad so many people have found this information useful! Thank you all for your wonderful comments.
Thomas, you may be right. But what do you call it when corporations widen their profit margins immensely, banks make a killing with service charges, and citizens in the US end up paying a third of what they make to pay off their government in taxes? The economy becomes more unbalanced as the major structures in "the system" drain out peoples' lifeblood and reduce the average person to poverty level. As people become more desperate, and people are dying due to a lack of blood available at blood banks, cash makes a tremendous incentive to for people to provide that blood. And ultimately, what you have is a system where the draining of everyone by the large structures takes on a literal form, as ordinary, poverty-stricken individuals sell their own blood to get by, just to mitigate what the rich have done to them. Jack up the interest rates and everything, and people are literally give their blood just to get by - the rich may as well be drinking it directly from a brandy snifter.
I understand that India's economy is doing quite well at the moment, with all kinds of telecommuting and IT jobs. This is in large part due to the fact that corporations are taking the jobs overseas because the labor is comparatively cheaper there. But where you're probably getting accustomed to easier living, over here we're feeling the pinch. So it may be a little more difficult for you to see the reasoning behind selling blood - particularly when one can't get by otherwise.
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
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Nice article. thanks for sharing
Great ideas Satori! especially the one about tapping into the unused potential of the homeless. Some of them just need and desparately want an opportunity IF given the chance - without being judged. You never know what people are faced with in this life, everyone is not bad or scum of the earth, let's all remember that sometimes Bad things happen to good people.
This is an excellent Hub. Great advice. Very interesting and well thought out.
Thank you!
Cool stuff! This is really cool - fantastic idea !
I really need money, and i am trying to use youre advice, but is difficult to me... But i can not work something else becouse i am pregnant... so i try to do my best... I am glad that you now the easy ways and you advice them to others...:)
donate blood for money I never heard anything of the kind
Your information will be very useful for everyone about quick ways to make money. Here is an easy way about loans & mortgages http://hubpages.com/hub/MortgageCalculator
Excellent hub. I really enjoyed the variety of your ideas, and your social consciousness.
Just a thought about your cavities situation -- some dental schools offer dentistry at greatly reduced prices. Someone I know had work done at the one in San Francisco, and was pleased with the experience. Infections in the mouth are close to the brain and heart, so it's crucial to deal with. Take care, Trent
Hi Hikeguy - thanks for your comment!
I get pretty frustrated when it comes to the social consciousness level of the average person... we have to find ways to live that don't harm others, and hopefully look for opportunities that are mutually beneficial. When we don't, the world just doesn't work. So I guess I just take it as part of life, and when most people don't I can't really comprehend it. But thanks for noticing. =)
I also appreciate your information on the cavities. At this point even reduced prices won't help me, but there is a free clinic in Berkeley that offers filling work done on a lottery-based system. Because it isn't first-come, first-served there's no guarantee I'll be seen when I go up for the day, so I'm trying to get an opening at the men's shelter in Berkeley. It's been difficult so far, but good looking out! Thanks again.
Be well,
- Satori
This is a great resource.
Thank you!
Donate Blood to make money? Why not donate your left eye for $250,000 ? That is cool quarter million you never had.
cool page but the one with the poor thats so wrong
Dan - Not a bad idea, actually. Blood regenerates and eyes don't, but if the economy gets bad enough we'll probably be selling our organs to the rich just to get by.
dinospecies - Glad you liked it! I dunno that the one with the poor is wrong though... I'm in that situation myself, and know many others who are as well. Enlightened self-interest can be a beautiful thing, when people pool their resources and work together fairly.
Thanks for your comments!
This is a great hub! fresh ideas!
donate blood? I do that for free... :)
Thanks for the usefull tips , how about selling on eBay?
Is that also a quick way to make money online?
I found this lens http://www.squidoo.com/salehoo-opinion that talk about how to buy cheap products or something, But thank you so much for the valublae info!
Hey, LuckyStriker!
That's also another quick way to make money online. In fact, I tackle it in my next Hub in this series:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Ten-More-Quick-Ways-to-Mak
The problem with eBay reselling tends to be that, well, you're a reseller. You're limited by the available merch you can get and what it takes to get it on one side, and how much people are willing to pay on the other - and on eBay, that isn't a lot. Chances are, someone you'd be getting your merch from is a reseller themselves, so your price won't be competitive anyway. And with everyone reselling on eBay, the prices go up, up, up - but what consumers are willing to pay doesn't. Have a look at my next Hub in this series to learn how to beat that problem and come out ahead.
Thanks for your readership, and your feedback!
Be well,
- Satori
Hi Satori, Great Work ! Very Nice Hub. Keep it up.
Great Hub. Very good suggestion... I wouldn't use the first two... just because I hate needles... The others are fine! Thanks for sharing this info.
Very good info. here!
This is awesome and went straight to my favorites.
I love this comment: "If it's in your life and it's not working for you... get rid of it. (If it's a spouse, I suggest trying counseling first.)"
Great hub, thanks!
good article. lots of infos. thanks!
Hello Satori,
I appreciate the excellent article. You put a great deal of effort & time to present this information for our benefit. I found it to be of great value & useful. Thank you Satori for the brilliant article. I really appreciate knowing this because I resently got put on call on my regular job instead regular part time. So, this could prove very helpful.
Great hub packed with information. I like the fact that you have looked at things on and offline which has got to be the way ahead. I was extremely interested in you focus on the people on the streets and getting them into work. That my friend is a great idea.
Thanks for a very informative hub that has generayed lots of feedback for you.
Thanks for this hub. The information is amazing. I can't wait to look over your other hubs and pick them clean. :) As a relatively new hubber, I'm looking forward to experimenting with some of your ideas after I make a more firm footprint here on HubPages and on Helium. Thanks again!
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Great resouce and cool stuff. Different ways are useful for all the people.
Great informative hub! I'm doing about 5 of those myself. Gotta get it where you can! Especially in this economy.
Great informative hub,I can donat blood to save life not for sale
Very good article :) but there's only one problem with it :D . It's not for long term I mean u can't do these things all the time over and over again to make a living cause u'd be just an average joe. U can't keep giving blood cause eventually u'll end up in needing for some blood yourself :)) I think the best way of making fast money nowadays is on the internet. The only problem for most people is that they're to lazy to put the time and energy to learn those skills that they need in order to succeed. Well anyway, your hub seemed very interesting, I can't wait to see your other hubs :) Cheers!
Thanks for your comment, razvan_razvan.
You're right, these tips aren't meant for the long-term. They're meant to be quick ways to make money. This was quite intentional on my part. Solutions that are quick generally aren't long-term solutions, they're Band-Aids. Stopgaps. If people genuinely chose to overcome their money woes, it would involve some major political and economic work directly from the People themselves, and very quickly. I think that's important to do - but I'm in the extreme minority, from all available evidence. In the States, we're about three inches away from martial law but people don't want to acknowledge it. Their concern is just that they're short of money Right Now, and so they look for quick, convenient, temporary solutions. I can't change people's choices - I just write to their needs as they're willing to recognize them.
For slightly more long-term means of making money, see the next Hub in this series. I share ten money-making approaches that can be used individually, or combined together in many creative ways for something very effective... at least within the scope of making money without solving the larger problems that are making us broke.
There are definitely ways to make money on the internet. But even programming or coding jobs tend to go to the lowest bidder, who usually ends up being from somewhere in Outer Barbaria, a country with little to no economic infrastructure, and someone in a more developed country can't get enough from it to live on. And of course being "qualified" means opting into the same social and political systems that are rapidly collapsing. Anymore, to live you must either do something totally unethical, or subsidize something totally unethical with your taxes, or both. This will continue in this world until people decide to step up to the plate and solve the underlying problems they're currently contributing to.
Probably the best way to make money is to go rogue, go outside the system, and solve common problems many people have. Fill a need. These days, most people need to make money. You can create a website that allows them to do that, or provide people with information on how they can do it. That's what I'm doing - both of them, actually. =)
Thanks again for your comment, and your readership!
Great Tips!! Blood and Bone marrow seem a little extreme.
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you forgot to mention one of the better scams, that is entering a 'drug' study test on humans. almost all major medical universities offer prinmary and secondary studies on drugs that want to get approved by the DEA. most of the good studies the doctors and nurses grab before anyone hears of them, it is everything from deodorant, to mouthwash to antacids, millions of them. some require strict supervision, so you are 'locked' into a hospital for a few weeks, but, what the heck, the room and board is free,
if you feel very adventerous, you can find these institutes in all major european cities also. and you never know, you may be the lucky one who gets a placebo. i've known people who have travelled the world through this method. definately not recommended for everyone
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I agree with all other options on how to earn money quickly expect donating blood and bone marrow. LOLs. I'm just afraid to do it.
Great hub and LOTS of content. Very nice and original:)
I would say I agree with the rest of the comments left on this article - excellent thoughts - easy to read - very enjoyable. The adsense comment you made is a very easy way to get some quick cash (starts slow but quickly gains speed). Get a little money for the content you publish. The more you start to see come in the more ways you find to get another source of revenue entering your savings account besides your 9 to 5. Excellent
Great and informative hub and thinking definitely outside of the box- Kudos ;-)
Here's another way to generate cash.
donating blood, bone marrow!!!!! couldn't find much wireder way to earn money lol!!
Oh, there are weirder. Check out another Hub in this series.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Ten-Neat-Ways-to-Make-Mone
Thanks for your comment!
You can make a lot of money by bringing in your previously loved clothing to consignment shops instead of donating to thrift shops.
Good tips.I especially like eBay when you can just empty your attic and sell the stuff.Makes for great extra income.
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Satori, this is a great informative hub,
I like the idea of using those who are homeless, many forget that the word homeless means a person does not have their own HOME, so if you have relatives who are living in a shelter, staying with parents, friends, boyfriend, girlfriend, sleeping in their car, couch surfing, hobo/traveler, musician, artist or staying in a hotel or motel they are considered HOMELESS, but this does not mean that they are unemployable, many do work, are self-employed, have been recently laid off as contractors, on-call, temporary positions, seasonal work, or work for low wages that does not cover rising rents. The idea of being a live-in caregiver is a great solution.
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Sites like ReferEarns, Zyoin, Who Do You Know For Dough?, Bohire and WiseStepp connect employers with prospective employees, earn referral fees of $50 to several thousand dollars.
Thanks, Research Analyst! That was definitely a value-packed comment!
I've tried to stay away from Make-Money-Fast-On-the-Internets approaches for the most part, because so many of them just don't work, people are all looking for ways to quit their jobs and sit around on the internet reaping riches so competition is fierce, and because internet quantities of money don't usually come close to paying real-world bills. But every so often, there are some sites that work. I appreciate your sharing them.
What I've been learning about real-world moneymaking versus internet moneymaking, is that, by and large, money is made in the real world. And information is best traded on the internet. Trying to trade information offline - or ethically pull in truckloads of cash sitting around on the internet - are strategies that almost never work. For cash, you usually need value... and value doesn't often come from sitting around. The real world is where stuff gets done, made, built, and so on. But once it's built, what then? It just sits there, if nobody knows about it. Real-world stuff with no information exchange involved is about as useless as trying to buy a condo by sitting around. You nearly always need one part tangible, one part intangible to make it happen. So the internet is terrific for, say, letting people know about your product. Connecting people to the things they actually want, and letting them invest real assets into getting it. That seems to be the direction things are going in, and it's a good trend to spot.
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What an informative hub, Satori! It's inspiring to read a hub that is kind to the homeless. Thanks for your great writing!
These are great ideas! I'm not sure about donating bone marrow yet though. :)
I just joined hubpages a few hours ago and this is the very first article that i've read. this is very informative and very useful. good work satori!
Extremely informative especially the piece on freelance coding
thumbs uo dude.. most things here are i am hearing for the first time.. great job
Well from all the posts you have gotten you can tell this is a great article! So simple yet makes very much sense and can make people some money in this tough economy.
very informative. i like the suggestion on paid posting online. thank you for sharing. :-)
this is a great hub, very informative. this is the first time i have heard of an online site that teaches coding. thanks
My brother in law used Gumtree and sold a bunch of stuff the first day.
i found a cool way to get money that has worked for me, everyone take a look it might work for you too.
Good Hub. I find the link to w3Schools to be priceless. At the moment I don't need to be certified to do my own stuff. $60 for a certification is a great deal. Thank you very much!
Good tips on making money. I liked the read.
Great article! Always knew about these little ways, but never thought of them as something that could actually work!
Of course, I make a fair amount of money freelancing as a writer on the net through freelancing websites, but this article makes it sound so much fun.
As for the selling of blood and bone marrow for profit, I am not really for it - it should be purely voluntary. My real brother set himself up as a lab guinea pig for once when he was really hard up, but i wouldn't recommend it to anyone - we were scared for weeks after we learnt about it, and several strange behaviours of my brother could be attributed to those experiments.
Very informative article.
Nice article. Not sure if i could give blood though
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There are all kinds of things you can do to make a quick buck. Think of your skills and try and come up with ways to utilize them.
I read both of your articles about making extra money. Good job. I checked out Reviewstream and it looks pretty good.
This helped me out a lot, thanks!
Very good article expect the first two items.
Thanks
wow. you are good at being yourself. very elaborate.
Dude, are u serious? Donating blood and bone marror for cash? Come on... that's like selling your body. What's next? Sperm donation? Egg donation? Surrogacy? How about selling a kidney?
Sure man, or how about organ harvesting? =)
In all seriousness, people these days are looking for quick ways to make money. They want ways to make money easily - and those two things, "quick" and "easy", almost never go together hand-in-hand. If it's quick, it's usually not going to be easy, and if it's easy, it's probably not going to be quick. Other wise everybody would be doing it, the supply would exceed the demand for whatever it is, and it wouldn't pay very much. Which is why stuff that's both quick and easy usually doesn't. So I've given people Quick ways to make money, but they're not always easy. They /can/ help you make emergency rent money, though, if someone's in a tight spot. My not-so-quick (but probably more lucrative and enjoyable) approaches to making money are outlined in a few of my other Hubs in this series. I think you'd like 'em, actually.
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Hi! I was very touched by your comment about helping to hook up the homeless with jobs. This is a concept that I have never heard mentioned on the Internet or on TV. I suggest you expand on this subject in other hubs and make a submission to CNN iReports. Very heroic indeed.
one other way too make money, is buy 400 dollars worth of coke then get 800 back, good way too start, or just cook up rocks
Good article. It's packed with ideas.
Incredibly helpful, thanks. I especially liked PostingDirect. Looking into GenieTown now.
Great stuff Satori! I just joined GemStorm thru your link so we'll see how it goes... Also I like Clixgalore affiliate network as well. They have been around a while and offer a lot of programs to promote.
P.S. haha just realized I commented on this hub already a while back LOL I guess that shows how useful it for me to be here reading it again!
Thanks for the lead on GemStorm. I had never heard of them and it definitely interests me.
I'm checking out GenieTown and GemStorm links, simply because they are new to me, I've never heard of them.
Thanks for sharing this info, Satori.
Oops, I have to take part of that back. I have seen GenieTown before, I didn't recognize the name until I landed on the site. Okay, going to check the other now.
GemStorm sounds like Twitter, except you make AdSense earnings, along with getting more traffic. How perfect is that?!? I'll be signing up under your link, Satori.
Great ideas! If you look around, there are plenty of ways that a person can make some money. It may take some time and work, but it is possible to make a quick buck when you need it.
I hate to donate blood. Ouch :D
The list you given is nice.
The blood donation can't make much more money in india and there is risk of HIV.
There are many more online ways to make money as like google adsense,affiliate marketing,selling our own stuff,etc.
Great hub!!!
I have so much more to donate but not my blood. Come on. :D
Thank you for all the info! I'd never heard of GenieTown or Gemstorm. I appreciate the tips.
Satori i no nothing about promoting my cd or where to start with that,or even how to approch a record lable.I no my music could make money but need the right people to do this any ideas? Cheers!
Hey, Grant! While I don't know a lot about getting signed, I do know that the internet is allowing people to bypass the whole traditional record label signing approach itself. You may want to record (if you haven't already), then upload it to Lulu.com where you can design an audio CD product out of it (for free, mind you). You turn it into a saleable product on Lulu, and they'll only print, ship, and charge you for it when someone actually buys a copy. This makes it essentially free to do, since the manufacturing costs are paid by the customer. Then, all you need to do is promote your new album(s). This doesn't have to be a chore - I've recently discovered that you can take a product like that and put it on affiliate marketing sites - you know, people trying to earn sales commission online by promoting everything from websites to vacuum cleaners - and let internet marketing do your promotion for you. As far as labels go, they aren't a bad idea - but you may want to find a little indie publisher somewhere online and e-mail them to get signed. You may want to shop around for indie labels, until you find one that's into exactly the kind of music you make. Then, not only can you make beautiful music together, your fanbase will spill over into theirs, and vice-versa. This is a very good thing.
Incidentally, the next Hub in this series deals with approaches like making your own saleable products and marketing them. You may want to continue with this series; the next one is Ten More Quick Ways to Make Money and it deals a lot with the kind of situation you're talking about.
http://www.hubpages.com/hub/Ten-More-Quick-Ways-to
Be well,
- Satori
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This is a superb article and I can't understand why nobody else has written about it - I hope they will. I would love to live in a country where they pay you for your blood! At least in Ireland you get a free pint of Guinness! I also found your sction about Paid posting jobs online very useful. A huge well done and thumbs up.