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Sensible ideas for making a bit of spare cash?
Sensible ideas for making a bit of spare cash?
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Nice one brassneck
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correction=line 3 should read "you now have 2 yellow roses"but you know what I mean,ten offcuts of a rose will produce ten new roses,your business will expand and expand and you can sell at rock bottom prices.employing thousands and thousands of people looking after your billions ,and your raw product will never cost with sales men paying their own way ,all YOU need is one quid per rose.
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Twitter @MatchYourBets
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Rent out a room in your house tax free cash (nap)
Make sure you let it out to young eastern bints (nb) |
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MY IDEA IS THE BEST,i can see it now a large box of chocs and a dozen Torquemada roses for Kathy in the payments department on VALINTINES DAY
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I read the guy who invented the selfie stick is a millionaire.
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yes,and I just noticed that MA and Da are at the back of the name Torquemada,what a brilliant name to start a business,already I am tuning into the next Dragons DEN,Peter="I will offer the full 200 grand for 20% of the business and I am the dragon that can supply the best transport system for distributing the TORQUEMADA ROSE across the east coast of the United States of AMERICA
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Matched Betting but I think that's beyond the capabilities of most Chit Chatters.
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Duncan="Scotland is the best climate for growing roses ,so I will offer the full 200 grand for 15% of the Torquemada company .And not only that I will throw in a few hundred acres of land I own in the highlands for you to grow your Torquemada roses,so I am the most suitable Dragon to your company"
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No probs, mate. I'll write some stuff about self-employment tomorrow.
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Torquemada, here are some ideas about part-time self-employment from home.
Book Formatting Everyone and his brother is publishing a Kindle book, mainly because it's free to do. Many of the writers don't know how to format a book for the Kindle and that's where you come in. You need a (very) little knowledge of HTML because ebooks are built from HTML. Amazon and Smashwords explain exactly what needs to be done but people will still pay you £30 to do it for them. It will take you two or three hours tops. Your client sends you a text file and you format it in HTML using a basic editor (Notepad++ is free). When you've got it to your liking when viewed in a browser, you convert it to the next stage, an epub document. Calibre, another free program, automates the process for you. Produce an epub file for Kobo, Nook and so on and a mobi file for Amazon Kindle. Test your files on a downloadable free reader emulator and you're done. If the budding author also wants a paperback, which are printed free on demand by Createspace, an Amazon company, get a PDF outline from Createspace and off you go again. Paper pages aren't centred, the left page is offset to the left and the right page, well you get the idea. That's why you need the free PDF outline. Use Word or one of the free Word clones to build the book from the text file. Book Covers Even ebooks need a cover. This is the only thing that has a small outlay. Talk to your client and give them what they want. Download some stock photos (not too dear) and cut and paste characters and items to build a picture. A city background, perhaps, with closeups of a man, a girl and a gun. Charge about £50 a cover. About four hours work, including talking to the client on Skype or by email. Paperback books require a back cover and a spine. Simply run the front background around to the back and get the client to write the blurb for the back. Be sure to leave room for the ISBN box. Createspace will give you some free mock-ups on PDF to play with. Paperback covers should be paid for at £100 a pop. Get your first clients from Upwork or even Fiverr or Tenrr. Fivesquid is British. Once you get known, move to Gigbucks where you can charge much more. I've heard good things about Task Army. Offer your services on writers' groups. Always charge at least minimum wage plus a pound extra. You can attract new clients by offering a discount if they'll let you put "Formatting and Cover Design by Example.com" in the front matter. That's the page with the copyright notice. Writing Articles If you feel you can write website articles, have a go with Upwork or Textbroker.co.uk. Textbroker pays very well and gets better as you build up your own client list. All the above take time to build up a client list but you should easily hit your original target of £100 a week in the first month. I prefer these types of jobs because I can work an hour here and an hour there. Mystery Shopping If you want to go outside, you know - out there where the weird people go - you could try mystery shopping. You can select the assignments. Try uk.marketforce.com. You get paid to buy stuff and sometimes they let you keep it. (Especially if you've eaten it.) If none of the above appeals, you can advertise your services locally on Google. How about gardening, decorating, something like that? One last thing, have a look here: . http://blogstash.com/sites-like-fiverr-12-fiverr-alternatives-websites/ Good luck! |
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Brilliant Gallivaner!!!!!!
Bang on the money and exactly the sort of advice I was after. I'm very grateful. Thank you. |