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Sales: Have a look around your
house and loft. Is there a load of stuff that you
don't want anymore? Try not to be too sentimental
about this and do not dismiss stuff as 'rubbish'
- you could earn several hundred doing a few car
boot sales with it.
Old
videos and CDs are popular items and you can
fetch £2 or £3 for them. Books are quite good
sellers too (though check Amazon Marketplace or eBay
below first - you could probably get more for
them there unless very tatty) - asking prices
seem to be around 50p for paperbacks and £1 for
hardcovers. Toys are popular too - children will
lead their parents over to your stall! Hideous
(very) clocks, pictures, vases and ornaments will
sell fast and people may even fight over them! If
you grow plants these will sell also at around
50p each.
Obviously
you make more money at the bigger regular car
boot sales especially if you are willing to brave
the cold. Summer weather means you will have a
lot of competition. Watch out for the large group
of resellers (sometimes fondly referred to as
vultures) who will descend on your boot as soon
as it is opened - it is good to have someone with
you - one of you to unload and one to watch the
clientelle!
eBay.co.uk and Amazon
Marketplace are good online places to sell
off your unwanted books, videos, CDs etc. (and in the case of eBay just about anything else as well!!) Both are easy to sign up for - make sure you give accurate descriptions of your goods and package things up carefully with bubble wrap to avoid unhappy customers and negative feedback. About once a month eBay have free listing days - worth looking out for.
Online Surveys and Market Research:
There are a variety of companies offering various incentives, vouchers and sometimes cash for survey participation - you're not going to make your fortune but a few pounds here and there or the odd freebie can make a difference.
UK Residents! Get Paid between 4 and 25 Pounds for each movie and product survey you complete! - GoZing - one of the best paid networks.
- prize draws, special offers and rewards in return for survey completion.
- free flights, money off vouchers etc. for short surveys.
- earn points that can exchanged for goods.
American Consumer Opinion - pay cash and do accept UK users - send you a cheque in UK Sterling once you reach about £5.
If you should see a banner anywhere for Pinecone Research, they are well worth signing up for - you have to go through a banner though. They pay £4 in luncheon vouchers (redeemable at all sorts of places including off your groceries at Tesco, asda and Safeway) for each survey you do.
Cashback for shopping etc.
- gives cash rebates for online shopping and sometimes other things like entering competitions.
MyCashback - offer cashback for online shopping with over 500 shops including Tesco, Argos and eBay - you get £5 for joining.
Free to Enter Competition Sites:
MyOffers
Loquax - detail lots of UK competitions.
UK Competitions - usually listing over 1000 UK competitions.
Making
Money from Your Website:
This
is possible but it takes a lot of work initially
if it's going to take off. You may build a
beautiful website but unfortunately the 'if you
build it they will come' thing doesn't work here!
Getting listed in the main search engines is
important - especially the DMOZ (listing
is free but make sure you choose the most
specific category for your site) as this will
ensure you get into the Google Directory. You
will need to get lots of other sites linking to
you to rank well in searches - we do have a 'readers sites' section on our links page -
if you have a site let us know! A great webhost
is oneandone.co.uk who sell
domains cheaply (free website addresses do not do so well in the search engines), have hosting packages starting
at about £2 a month though for about £5 you can
have as many domains as you like hosted on the
same package - they also have a free
website-creator so even if you don't know html
you can build a good site. There is also B-one below who are the cheapest in Europe at the moment.
There are some good affiliate sites that have many different advertisers to choose from:
Paid On Results
AffiliateWindow.com
There
are one or two other ways to have a small website
without being able to build one (but these will
still need heavily promoting to do much):
CafePress
(based in America but ship everywhere) will
create an online store for you free and they
manufacture and send everything too - you design
the logos and pictures to go on the t-shirts,
mugs, mousemats...check out our own little Frugal Living in the UK shop to see how it works!
Then
there is - slightly different European
company where you can design your own t-shirt.
You can also sign up as an associate and then
open a 'gadget shop' selling your designs.
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