- Introduction
- Spending money the "Right way"
- Earning extra cash by investing more time
- Saving money on your yourself
- Best Beauty Buys
- Saving money on your kids
- Brilliant links for free stuff
- Baby and kid stuff for sale
- Crafting for yourself & with your kids
- Help and support for single parents
- Parenting Problems
- Parenting Problems - 2
- Getting back into the job market
- Court Procedures and how to handle it
- My single Mummy blog
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Mystery Shopping
Now this is for people who work part-time or stay at home Mums because generally you will get an e-mail telling you about work and many people log on, before you know it the jobs are gone. You could do the odd job at weekends or later at nights but this is quite rare. Again you will not earn a fortune but every little adds up!
Here are some sites - really does depend where you live and what you are able to do, who you bank with or are a customer of already.
www.insightmarketresearch.co.uk
http://www.gapcentral.gapbuster.com/mysteryshop/
http://www.retaileyes.co.uk/
http://www.retailactive.com/
http://www.oldenough2drink.co.uk/
http://www.ukims.co.uk/recruitment/field-team-application/
Here are some sites - really does depend where you live and what you are able to do, who you bank with or are a customer of already.
www.insightmarketresearch.co.uk
http://www.gapcentral.gapbuster.com/mysteryshop/
http://www.retaileyes.co.uk/
http://www.retailactive.com/
http://www.oldenough2drink.co.uk/
http://www.ukims.co.uk/recruitment/field-team-application/
Blogging
Blogs have been around 10 years or so. The word actually stands for ’web log’ and they’re like an on-line diary. Anyone can set one up, that’s the easy part. Thinking of something interesting to say each time you blog is the hardest part!
If you don’t understand about writing websites in code, you’re probably best off looking at one of the sites that offers free blogging. A couple of the more popular are Wordpress, LiveJournal and Blogger. Others are available too.
These will offer you a free blog site with its own address – so it becomes, for example, http://www.yourblog.blogsite.com. This is the address you give friends who might want to take a look.
Not that I have ever made any money from blogging I really have never had the time to do it but I know that money can be made from it. I will update this when I find out more as I want to write this website from my own experience rather than using someone else's words.
If you don’t understand about writing websites in code, you’re probably best off looking at one of the sites that offers free blogging. A couple of the more popular are Wordpress, LiveJournal and Blogger. Others are available too.
These will offer you a free blog site with its own address – so it becomes, for example, http://www.yourblog.blogsite.com. This is the address you give friends who might want to take a look.
Not that I have ever made any money from blogging I really have never had the time to do it but I know that money can be made from it. I will update this when I find out more as I want to write this website from my own experience rather than using someone else's words.
Ebay
Anyone heard the saying "one person's junk is another person's treasure". This is what Ebay is all about. If you have anything in your house that you don't want then literally my advice is:
1. Take a good picture. At least an 8mb camera & try to do it in good daylight with a plain background. When editing it do not make any major adjustments as that would be mis selling. Make sure you include any faults in your listing so that people know exactly what they are getting and won't give bad feedback if they receive something damaged.
2. Write a good description, explain why you are selling and what are the pro points of the item - never lie. his will bite you on the bum!!
3. To build up a good Ebay presence then you may have to buy a few small items first to get your rating up, do what you say you will, pay on time and always rate people to ensure a rating back.
4. Offer a returns facility - I put a disclaimer on my item so the customer can buy in confidence. If it is not as listed then they may return.
5. Try to list items seasonally - swimsuits in the summer and coats in the Winter etc. You know what I mean.
6. Yes it is pretty boring wrapping and packing but make sure you get a receipt at the post office for proof of purchase. All in all worthwhile but very time consuming.
1. Take a good picture. At least an 8mb camera & try to do it in good daylight with a plain background. When editing it do not make any major adjustments as that would be mis selling. Make sure you include any faults in your listing so that people know exactly what they are getting and won't give bad feedback if they receive something damaged.
2. Write a good description, explain why you are selling and what are the pro points of the item - never lie. his will bite you on the bum!!
3. To build up a good Ebay presence then you may have to buy a few small items first to get your rating up, do what you say you will, pay on time and always rate people to ensure a rating back.
4. Offer a returns facility - I put a disclaimer on my item so the customer can buy in confidence. If it is not as listed then they may return.
5. Try to list items seasonally - swimsuits in the summer and coats in the Winter etc. You know what I mean.
6. Yes it is pretty boring wrapping and packing but make sure you get a receipt at the post office for proof of purchase. All in all worthwhile but very time consuming.
Disclaimer: Can I just point out the fact that if you are on income support or certain other benefits you cannot earn over £20 a week and you must declare this to your Local Job Centre. Anything over that & it will be taken from your benefits.
Building website: This is a way of getting extra business to your off-line business or selling things that you make.
I will talk about this more later and building traffic but the below is a good start
Try this link to create extra traffic to your own website:
Building website: This is a way of getting extra business to your off-line business or selling things that you make.
I will talk about this more later and building traffic but the below is a good start
Try this link to create extra traffic to your own website:
a href="http://www.linkreferral.com/adwel.pl?oldrefid=360116">
The link below 'Sidetick' is a "Social Network" where you get paid for your friends joining - a bit like a pyramid scheme. I'm going to give it a go so will leave the link on here for now & review it in time & let you know!! Feel free to sign up, each friend is worth a dollar....can you actually put a value on friendship?? ;-)